Slime wa Saikyoutaru Kanousei wo Himete iru - Ch. 2

[Kurovah]

I wonder if fio will be able to speak later

 

[Chawder25]

Not only do we tok de tok, we also wok de tok

 

[Wolvenworks]

I love how low-octane this is. Guy was never in a power trip, nor is actively looking for one.

 

[YourDeadNanForever]

You are comparing potatoes with oranges.
Stories with "adventurers" usually feature "S-rank adventurers" that can level mountains, and more than not, we can see the guild-leader piss at nobles, all the way to the king.
When a commoner can get THAT STRONG, in both authority and in personal might -- it doesn't make sense for the ruling body to allow it.

P.S: I am also pretty sure "being a mercenary" is nothing like "being an adventurer".
A merc afaik, is a sword-hire, not a freelancer that is up to snuff on whatever, and has a convenient merc-ID, with an organization to back them up.

What's stopping some munchkin in a village from slicing down mountains anyway? You're acting as if Adventuring is a gateway to that level of strength, when most of the time, the people in those series are just built different. Isn't better to have them known and under some governing body at least, instead of them walking around practically unchecked?
You're also ignoring that most of the time, the royal family or ruling body also tend to have their own mountain cleavers that they can rely on.
How many series are there, that has some forgotten prince who ends up strong enough to make the entire continent kneel.
You're bunching up a bunch of tropes done by both good and bad authors and casting sweeping judgement on everything as a whole.

Some other guy went through real life examples, but in short you're looking at one aspect of the world and hyperfixating on it, when the majority of the time, you'd see that royal family has not only a cooperative relationship with the guilds but their own big guns they can fall back on.

 

[KLGChaos]

A boy and his blob.

 

[ThatNaiGuy]

Why didn't he just show the boss that his slime can eat garbage rapidly?

Cause you never show all your cards right away. Doubly so if you're making sure that the cards you currently have are actually the ones you think they are.

 

[Arkuses]

Dang what a sweet dude
Giving his slime tea and even now he gave him half of his food

 

[Arkuses]

why is mc getting tired he hasnt done shit other than carry the slime around lmao

He's a weak kid that came from poverty
No parents from the looks of things too
So his physical strength is likely very low because of malnutrition.
He likely had to go to multiple places too

 

[Solipsist]

The White Company had a reputation and uniforms (which can work as ID), and they weren't all hired at once. Like people make quests, nobles and villages would hire these mercenary companies to do things that involved armed forces. Although I doubt individual contracts were popular, some free knights would roam around and take jobs alone or in small teams, not belonging to any group. Samurai for hire were also hired to do stuff like guard caravans/merchants.

I raise you this article talking about the White Company that is literally titled:

The White Company, Freelancers of the 14th Century​

While ‘freelancer’ today means independent contract workers, the original term referred to free knights like the mercenaries of the White Company or the ones that went around solo/in small teams.
To clarify tho, I'm not saying The White Company is the same as an Adventurer's Guild, just the closest we had IRL because "killing monsters" and "random odd jobs like cleaning the sewers" were either non-existent or done by people who did them as their profession.

In a world full of monsters, it makes sense for people to make Adventurer's Guilds, and when they do defy nobles/kings, they tend to be international so they can easily threaten to leave their country and let them deal with the monsters themselves.

About the "a Commoner being that strong" part, that's just fantasy, but it's not like the people in charge of the kingdom would know if a random person went to the mountains or go into a crypt and got super strong, and its better for the super strong person to be happy with you than angry at you.
And, in those worlds where 1 person can destroy a mountain, normally there are also monsters that can do the same or worse

Took a while for me to respond to yer post --
Nice data, though I don't quite think you quite understand what I was going with here, the other guy who replied to me, as well.
I was not saying that we, in reality, didn't had have companies of mercs who had gained some measure of authority and or power (The White Company seem to have grown specifically within the 100 years war, so -- not exactly in time of normalcy) -- I am saying, in a world where magic exists, it's beyond crazy to not regulate that power. That's literally it.
Imagine in a world like Harry Potter, you wouldn't have a policing of wizards and their arts. One crazy wizard is enough to kill thousands, if not more. And in a medieval-esque world (where most of these stories take place), where kings and nobles control the flow of goods and services under their domain, strictly due to their monopoly of force -- because they offer "protection".
Why would anyone need "protection", if it's extremely normal to be nomadic, due to the fact that being a magical nuke is rather common place, and even encouraged to grow into? (Adventurer guild --> strict methodology to grow in ranks --> grow in power, actual power).

Having that much actual literal might, under the hands of few people, yet not regulate that power -- is something that those in power do not wish to have.
It'd make sense that it'd be near impossible to go from a commoner --> to an "S-rank adventurer", since the methods to grow so much in personal might, would be a national secret, only inherited by royalty, or noble families.

TLDR: All I'm saying, is that those in power have all the incentive in the world to maintain their monopoly on force, and that it'd be very hard, near to impossible, for those who were born in poverty, to become a walking nuke -- even if reality allows it. Otherwise, why would you even have nobility?

 

[Solipsist]

What's stopping some munchkin in a village from slicing down mountains anyway? You're acting as if Adventuring is a gateway to that level of strength, when most of the time, the people in those series are just built different. Isn't better to have them known and under some governing body at least, instead of them walking around practically unchecked?
You're also ignoring that most of the time, the royal family or ruling body also tend to have their own mountain cleavers that they can rely on.
How many series are there, that has some forgotten prince who ends up strong enough to make the entire continent kneel.
You're bunching up a bunch of tropes done by both good and bad authors and casting sweeping judgement on everything as a whole.

Some other guy went through real life examples, but in short you're looking at one aspect of the world and hyperfixating on it, when the majority of the time, you'd see that royal family has not only a cooperative relationship with the guilds but their own big guns they can fall back on.

Like I wrote to the other guy, my main point was that -- in most of these stories -- even with an "adventurer's guild" to "Regulate their mercs", they are not actually being regulated, but merely employed, and nurtured.
I.E: In 99% of these type of stories, the catch-phrase of being an adventurer means "absolute freedom, go wherever you want, do whatever you want, you are your own man, you're responsible for your own destiny."
...In a world where Serfs might exist? Why would anyone want that type of industry to exist, not to mention prosper? More than not, the AG swears loyalty to noone, and server noone but themselves, yet they are a recognized industry that promoted individualism.

I.E: A hotpot of trouble for the ruling class, a group that teaches commoners how to fight, how to potentially rebel.
But as you said, it makes sense that if some commoner can slice a mountain, there will be a nobleman who'd be able to slice the heavens apart -- but that's rarely the case with these stories. We're talking about the same authors who have "Magic schools" that mix commoners and nobles, the suspension of disbelief required to read these stories is immense, and hence my original comment...

 

[namingwrongs]

isekai 118 my review? better that 52 percent of isekais ive seen, because it starts out cozy for a bit, but because of the title im not confident that it will stay this quailty for long, my guess is by about capter 5-10 the slime gets op

It's not isekai. The guy has always lived in this world. Sure, it happens to be a world different from ours, but the genre of isekai involves a character moving from one world to another. Without that it's just fantasy.

 

[riflow]

This seems very sweet, so glad to have stumbled across it.

 

[Kampfarsch]

This is infinitely less awful than the title suggests

Why didn't he just show the boss that his slime can eat garbage rapidly?

Oh yeah great plan to get your legs broken and slime stolen

 

[HirunaSachiro]

Thanks for the translation!

So it definitely gives me Weakest Tamer Collects Trash vibes, so i went ahead and located the source WN.

Yeah. So these two manga chapters covered about 9 WN chapters... the current chapter count is over 1100 . So yeah. Have fun!

 

[Rift-]

It's not isekai. The guy has always lived in this world. Sure, it happens to be a world different from ours, but the genre of isekai involves a character moving from one world to another. Without that it's just fantasy.

Oh yeah my bad. I just read so much if this stuff I just associate anything like isekais even if they aren't at all isekais as isekais.

Why did I just say isekai 3 times

 

[TheOriginalShock]

The lower power-level slime is really nice.
It makes the story pacing tame, it's a breath of fresh air.

By chapter 2 most reincarnation manga reach the set up for "able to kill a man with his bare hands" power levels before hitting puberty or if not that then just nepotism with some random plot mixed in

Instead we have this guy being a janaitor and stuff to feed himself and his pet slime

 

[multithrust]

I love eating delicious garbage (isekai manga) just like Fios!

 

[Jstar338]

Wait, is the slime getting stronger from eating? I feel like it should be it, since it's essentially condensing itself each time

 

[Tairo]

isekai 118 my review? better that 52 percent of isekais ive seen, because it starts out cozy for a bit, but because of the title im not confident that it will stay this quailty for long, my guess is by about capter 5-10 the slime gets op

I mean, it's the same slime from the future, so it's probably like 60 years old. I'd be shocked if it didn't have a few tricks by now.

 

[Rift-]

I mean, it's the same slime from the future, so it's probably like 60 years old. I'd be shocked if it didn't have a few tricks by now.

Well we don't know that, all we know is that It is the slime the dude used, we don't have any factual proof that the slime came from the future