Ochikobore “1” Mahou Tsukai wa, Kyou mo Muishiki ni Cheat wo Tsukau
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With a title like that how can I resist giving this a 1 star
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With the presence of the number "1" and the word "チート" in the title, I feel justified to prophesy that the MC will soon get a surprisingly dumbfounding reveal about his 12 or something st★rs, or 999, or even ∞ st★rs because why not take it to the extreme when the isekai author could just do it™ √
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i kind of hope its something realy underrated and extraordinary like your suggestion
but that would mean those stars blessings are about the number of skills they are blessed with... 1 star meaning 1 skill
which makes that whole 3 star and above requirement kind of fucking stupid because they build their ranking system upon the theory that all blessings are equal without assessing them first.
keypoint being without assessing them first
i kind of hope its something realy underrated and extraordinary like your suggestion
but that would mean those stars blessings are about the number of skills they are blessed with... 1 star meaning 1 skill
which makes that whole 3 star and above requirement kind of fucking stupid because they build their ranking system upon the theory that all blessings are equal without assessing them first.
keypoint being without assessing them first
@Roadrunner9000 I kinda noticed that there is a number behind his skill. like that paralyze 1 and sleep 1 this somehow matched with his number of star. so maybe the number of star would affecting the skill level or something along those lines and not about the number of skills that someone can acquire.
so his chantless magic imo is quite suitable as a cheat. I mean the star blessing wouldn't mean a thing if they got knocked out without even have a chance to use their magic.
so his chantless magic imo is quite suitable as a cheat. I mean the star blessing wouldn't mean a thing if they got knocked out without even have a chance to use their magic.
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is there something particular about Alphapolis making it hard to use? I've never seen the site before, but a quick browse and the chapters seem accessible enough. Same deal of Copy/Paste into google translate or DeepL if trying to MTL
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anyway, what is his cheat exactly? it is just being skilled/smart?
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I saw the group that had been doing this say it was dropped because it got licensed... But for the life of me, I can't find anything about an English release anywhere.
Edit - This was said in the comments thread for the last chapter. I reread the chapters and saw they had said they dropped it did to lack of interest.
Either way, I hope someone else picks this up, as it has been a fun read so far.
Edit - This was said in the comments thread for the last chapter. I reread the chapters and saw they had said they dropped it did to lack of interest.
Either way, I hope someone else picks this up, as it has been a fun read so far.
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The author's explanation of his ability/cheat is crap (a cryptic two panels about math formulae vs math operators). Basically, most mages in this world are like computer users. They can only use a dozen or so pre-made apps which are already installed on their computer. They can use only a dozen or so spells they were gifted with upon coming of age. And those dozen spells are all they can use for their entire lives. They can improve the spells' power as they grow, but they can't learn new ones.
MC is more like a computer programmer. He can use as many apps (spells) as he wants. And with a little work, he can create a new one if he feels the need for it. It's later revealed that his unique ability can copy other mages' magic that he sees. So not only can he make his own spells, he can now add anyone else's spells to his repertoire. His chantless casting doesn't seem to be a unique ability, as it's mentioned he's teaching it to one of his party members.
This one actually looks promising. MC is not overtly OP at the beginning (he has yet to build up a massive library of spells). He's saddled with a pretty huge disability (rampant discrimination against 1-stars). And we have yet to see what happens when he hits the lower level cap of a 1-star. So this one at least has a chance of distinguishing itself from the quagmire of OP MC manga.
The main problems I see are that MC has annoyingly low self-esteem and is excessively self-deprecating. So much so that it actually causes relationship problems (i.e. his attempts to be nice and considerate actually creates problems, instead of smoothing over them). It is very frustrating to watch, and I don't read manga to get frustrated. And the translation quality drops a lot after about a half dozen chapters. (The English is readable so a native English speaker went over it. But the things characters are saying don't really mesh together, like there was no Japanese translator on staff and this was machine translated.)
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