My Trash Skill 'Appraisal' Awakened into 'Inheritance' — Now I Wield the Power of Heroes and Stand Unmatched! - Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[stfuad]

Lol wtf appraisal just keeps becoming more and more op.

 

[LavSingh]

man this is just slop at this point.

 

[pandatime]

sounds like it would be rather a bother to have the insticts of like 6 ppl in you like its bad enough to already have one persons worth
imagine having like 6.
well they was good ppl so its fine i guess but yikes man

 

[Shmeep]

I'm fine with a character who's efforts haven't been rewarded getting a leg up through some luck, but six heroes worth of bullshit and a preassembled variety of women worshipping him within chapter 1 is a bit much. Maybe just two worshippers?

 

[Kaldin]

It's interesting for sure. Inheriting skills and knowledge from the heroes of the past has always been something that I liked, but the implementation of it tends to vary.

I look forward to seeing how this one ends up.

 

[Kendrakirai]

So he's got all the experiences of three women in there, nice~

 

[Chizan]

So he's got all the experiences of three women in there, nice~

Question is, how much and how detailed the memories he got are. Well, they're women so can't be too bad for his mental state. On the other hand, if he gets the vivid memories of some male hero leaning the 'other' way?...

 

[Kucai]

How to become OP in fantasy settings 101
-Have a "Trash" skill
-Gets fired/kicked/expel from party or such
-Trash skills is actually OP after being expel/kick/fired
-Rescue female adventurer/slave/hero
-OP isekai MC is born

In all seriousness...this genre is getting more and more garbage...

 

[Kendrakirai]

How to become OP in fantasy settings 101
-Have a "Trash" skill
-Gets fired/kicked/expel from party or such
-Trash skills is actually OP after being expel/kick/fired
-Rescue female adventurer/slave/hero
-OP isekai MC is born

In all seriousness...this genre is getting more and more garbage...

Well, in this case his skill as it was actually was garbage for an adventurer, and he wasnt in any party long enough to find a way to be useful. He basically had a degree in oceanography yet insisted on working in the desert where his skills would be the least useful.

His appraisal skill just got force-evolved into something entirely new.

It's still trash but not in the way you're implying.

 

[Rafalga]

I mean if you inherit 6 people's worth of life time memories and experiences, there is no way you stay the same after coming out from the other side. Unlike this dude i guess.

 

[jean-chuck]

tf, bro spammed skill for just some small fries

 

[ScryedParadox]

Eh... I expect this to just be another trash story.
Also Appraisal evolving into Inheritance is a bit of an asspull and leap of logic, but I can think of a way where you can argue it goes from there.

You appraise something, you obtain knowledge, that knowledge is what you hand over to other people, therefore that knowledge is an inheritance.

Bit of an asspull/leap to go from Appraisal to Inheritance but fine.

Although I am more entertained by a possible head canon I can make for myself. Which is that since the item is called the "Crystal of Truth" and he shattered it. What actually happens is that he has permanently destroyed the truth for himself, and now he is living in a constant delusion and lies because he has destroyed the truth and can no longer witness it.

And so, while the harsh truth is that he is indeed a useless adventurer who should be taking the job of a merchant, because he has shattered the truth and can no longer reach it, he is now stuck living a lie of being overpowered. This does not deny the ability for the rest of the world to live in truth, and while we go on this massive trash journey where he is this overpowered hero who gets a harem and eventually saves the world, we still have that doubt in the back of our mind that since he shattered the truth, the reality is that he's just this useless mob sleeping in this inn while the rest of the world moves on, and he's just delusional, eventually kicked out into the street and catatonic because he is stuck in his world of lies.

A small edit just to add something that came to mind.

Spoiler: Mind you, Spoilers for Jojo Part 5

 

[ScryedParadox]

I mean if you inherit 6 people's worth of life time memories and experiences, there is no way you stay the same after coming out from the other side. Unlike this dude i guess.

If we assume they all died heroically, then he should have a total of about 120 years of experience. Let's be kind and say half of them lived until they died of old age, so 60 + (80 x 3). So with that assumption he has 300 years of memories.

His sense of self should be completely shattered. The combined total of memories that he has taken in far outweighs his own and their burdens and whatnot collectively should also outweigh his own. His mission in life should also be drastically altered now because of six additional perspective.

And I'm still also mulling over the head canon I built for myself about him destroying the truth and being stuck in a lie because he destroyed the Crystal of Truth. And now I'm getting peeved at a missed opportunity where you could pepper a more malevolent idea that the MC is indeed living a lie and that he risks losing it all if the truth becomes uncovered.

And where the six additional lives restructuring his personality, his self and his abilities also makes him doubt his own existence due to the confusion of having so many lifetimes suddenly combined together in one entity. There is so much potential drama and psychological screwery that is being left untapped. I'm actually getting more irritated the more I think about it because I expect it to just be another power fantasy trash to read for empty carbs, but looking at the setup, this could have actually genuinely be set up for something actually great where you could end up questioning not just the MC's powers, the intent of the person behind the Crystal of Truth if you made him more shadowy of a character, the ramification of destroying an artifact centered around the Truth, and the tension of the potential shattering of the MC's life if the truth is restored and what that may entail for the world if, say, in the future he saves the world through his powers, but that saved world is a lie. Would you restore the truth if it meant that you shatter a peaceful lie, eliminate the MC's abilities but restore his true self and return him to a world of strife?

 

[Reina4444]

the goblin mages with their caps. best npc antagonists.

 

[Wyrm]

Contrary to some above, I don't think that the new skill is totally unrelated to his initial one.
In his setting, both "appraisal" and "inheritance" can simply be seen as levels of psychometry.
One tells you a little about the item, the other conveys the memories of the owner. To the extreme of transmitting the whole life experience of that previous owner.

That being said, this is still a common "instant OP" story that gives little meaning to the rest of the story until he encounters some world ending calamity that actually requires the combined power of multiple legendary heroes.

As some have underlined above, I also agree that assimilating 100+ years of memories should not leave the subject all up and ready to travel like nothing. One would expect a mental burden to sort out his memories, get over decades of emotions and traumas, and adjust the skills he learned to his own body.
Instead, he just slept for a week as he assimilated the memories, and there he is instantly OP.

Page 39, he talks about a "heavy price". I actually find it quite cheap.

 

[Sam_Lingdis]

Merlin!?
What are you doing here? Go back to Avalon.