@chaos86
What even is the point talking about human limits and all if they just ended up giving MC the power to surpass that limit? what's stopping the MC from outright killing the threat he was supposed to kill? what was the point of training him in the art of assassination specific to the isekai world if the MC already had the strongest magic in the world before training? I thought this was supposed to be about a mere human, armed with special skills, trying to outsmart and kill the OP enemy. Just make it an outright isekai trash if you're going to make MC the strongest human there is anyway.
I more or less agree with you in the fact that the MC is straying from a true assassin path. I mean, I’m ok with him creating rifles & whatnot because even in IRL assassin make use of them, but if he want to kill the hero using a fucking cannon then just give up being considered an assassin. It’s a bit too blatant for me.
I’d like he’d use more real assassination tecniques, like poison, critical hits in a weak point, ecc...
It would make him a more unique MC than just creating a powerful magic like every other MC out there would do.
I mean, why not trying to create a “poison mist” using magic. It’s AOE so it’s difficult to avoid and maybe super effective against opponents who are physically resilient like the one in ch 9.
That said, I want to point out that he is ACTUALLY using his past knowledge as an assassin to outsmart is opponent. As of now he hasn’t used a really powerful magic like a real magician would.
With “powerful magic” I mean a magic that it is so just because it’s magic (like create tornados to shred the enemies into pieces, or create trillion of liter of water to crush or drown them, etc...).
And he probably cannot use magic like that, because he previously stated (I don’t remember the exact chapter number) that even thought he has a large mana capacity, he has a low mana output.
So, he cannot cast a powerful magic who require a high output (ie. evoke thunderstorms, plasma ray, or all the OP magic other MCs usually use).
As of now the magics the MC used are very “simple” (as simple as magic can be) and very reliant on how physic works.
i.e. he create firearms and shot bullets using fire magic, but the fact that the bullets are deadly relies on physics application (the fact that a bullet is made from tungsten and it is being made to rotate by the rifling gaining high-speed and stable trajectory it’s what make it deadly).
He is not simply creating a mass of tungsten and firing it using a high output of magical power (that is what probably a OP version of “rock bullet” would do).
Also in ch.9 he relies almost totally on physics. Not on a OP power. The only magic he used more or less is the “simple” anti-gravity magic (which can be assumed require a lot of mana to keep it active but using a low output).
To be noted that anti-gravity was invented by Dia and not by the MC.
Maybe he couldn’t even create it alone.
Another common OP MC would have directly launched the spear into space using arm strength (maybe coupled with reinforcement magic, or using a high output magic, etc...) without relying on anti-gravity at all.
Also, a common MC usually say things like “ OMG, magic is like a programming language” and then in 2 weeks of studies they became magic experts (as if being a programmer was that easy).
To make it short, I don’t think the MC has truly strayed from the assassin path he is supposed to walk to became a common trashy MC who only relies on brute force.
At least as of now. For future chapters I can’t say.