Shikkaku Mon no Saikyou Kenja - Sekai Saikyou no Kenja ga Sara ni Tsuyoku naru Tame ni Tensei Shimashita - Vol. 9 Ch. 27 - The Strongest Sage, Uses a…

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the houses in the dungeon city are really fragile ain't it?
no foundation or framework for the houses, is it like a stone cupboard houses?
 
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@firosahoge it seems that in the course of devolving human magic technology, the demons devolved themselves too to such basic moves
 
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@Fortis99 ahh that nation when you want to nail something on your wall but all of the wall crumble instead
wasn't they build foundation too for their houses?
 
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the demons must have somehow taught them how to build houses, because i can't think of anything else of why they would built their houses without so much a foundation
we can't underestimate the demons
 
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I can assure you that paper would be completely burnt if it was thrown into a burning fireplace. It's pretty obvious that the fireplace had been burning because of the charred wood and singed paper. Also, paper burns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyX81t2k66E

I was not complaining about him making a mistake. I was complaining that he conveniently always know a method better than what architecture and engineering would would suggest (See the moving houses) and that he made his first mistake after a complete 27 chapters. I'm fine with smart MC's, actuallly I prefer smarter MC's, but they have to be at least somewhat reasonable to be "relatable". I personally believe an MC like Kumoko is extremely well made.
 
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Oh, I know it burns, I'm just remembering the days when I would throw the paper into a fire, have it land underneath the fire, and then get real disappointed it didn't even catch for like fifteen seconds (mind you I was like 6 at the time and not very smart).
Also, we know that the fireplace had a fire due to the materials, but not when the paper was thrown into said fire. Keep in mind that this guy is...not the most competent villain (given how his introduction and his defeat filled all of like, five pages). Also apparently magic is involved when it comes to the making of this paper somehow, so... I dunno how magic burns, man. Maybe they made the paper from demon trees and it gets like a +1 defense against fireplaces.

Let's be honest here. Matty isn't smart by any stretch of the imagination: he's just experienced. Experienced to a point where you kind of have to suspend your disbelief and keep going, because this world runs on so many rules of cool and rules of convenience that it's honestly not worth trying to justify every little damn thing, because since everything is explained in a hand-wavy way, you can always find a reasonable enough explanation of things.

For example: Matty's building-movement magic moves "buildings", and the basement of a building would therefore be a part of a "building" and would move along with the rest of the structure, much like how the submerged hull of a ship isn't somehow different just because it was submerged.

The position I maintain is that this is basically one-punch-man but with comparatively far less thought placed into world building. It's still fun, don't get me wrong, but the rather soft magic system it uses means that trying to logic it is pointless. Alternatively, you can always go a little beyond the impossible, since Matty's apparent end goal involves fighting literal Space Monsters in his far future.

Like...the fact that Matty's conveniently hypercompetent is the framing device that lets the author show off the neat shit he/she/they want to do with magic. I'm pretty ok with that.
 

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