Sokushi to Hametsu no Saijaku Majutsushi - Ch. 4 - Chapter 4

[Dragonbolt03]

Still can't get over how they keep calling INSTANTLY KILL SOMEBODY MAGIC a useless skill. It's just so baffling every time

 

[throwaway4ccount]

So according to the setting there's other people with the same skill as MC so... Odds that will come up ever? None right?

Would be kinda cool if MC made a guild of instant death users and started abusing that shit on a larger scale, rather than just himself going "oh I'm such a cool OP protagonist" like every other story.

Unfortunately, this would probably be a really bad idea, and the reason why would also be a great reason for why they tell everybody it is such a trash skill.

Unless somewhere in the chain there is a skill that provides immunity to instant death skills, then training everybody that gets the skill on how to use it would cause major problems. After enough use, the MC would become the most powerful person on the earth, unless there is another user that has used it to gain even more stats. But that means, if he trained others on how to do it, and one of them was a bit unsavory, they could just use the skill on him, on other powerful instant death skill users, and on other top adventurers to become the most powerful immediately.

The MC obviously wouldn't use it that way, but he would have to be worried about others using it that way. Even somebody that didn't want to use it, but realized others could, might find themselves using it "preemptively" against other skill users to avoid being killed by somebody else with the skill.

So, if there was a powerful user of it in the past, two explanations for it being seen as trash are: 1) That user was defeated by a lot of top adventurers at great cost, and they decided to label it a trash skill to keep anybody else from using it and becoming a big threat; and 2) That user became a shadow ruler, and wants it labeled trash in order to prevent anybody else from learning about it and becoming a threat to him. In both instances, though, there should also be a Guild report system, to notify the person/people in charge to try to deal with the threat before the user gets too strong. If so, there could be stories about how these adventurers "tried to go adventuring anyway and got killed by weak monsters at the start" to deter others from trying.

 

[Valve]

Unfortunately, this would probably be a really bad idea, and the reason why would also be a great reason for why they tell everybody it is such a trash skill.
-rant

Ah yes the old "nothing can ever happen because bad guy x".

The stats boosting part of the skill is quite unclear in the story, but even if it could kill the MC and so on, what would prevent the same happening to that person? The only reason MC is the only one to "figure out" how the skill works is because author bullshit, so if the story "ended" with someone not MC going OP with the skill, that would mean that author isn't focusing on MC anymore so everyone else would be free to mash two braincells together and "discover" how to use the skill on their own.

Also fearing unprovoked murder is about as pointless as fearing a meteor crashing on your head. Unless you're like, in a war zone, or a really really dark alley.

About the mastermind behind everything... So why isn't MC dead or soon to be dead? There's no point in author writing the story.

 

[throwaway4ccount]

Ah yes the old "nothing can ever happen because bad guy x".

The stats boosting part of the skill is quite unclear in the story, but even if it could kill the MC and so on, what would prevent the same happening to that person? The only reason MC is the only one to "figure out" how the skill works is because author bullshit, so if the story "ended" with someone not MC going OP with the skill, that would mean that author isn't focusing on MC anymore so everyone else would be free to mash two braincells together and "discover" how to use the skill on their own.

Also fearing unprovoked murder is about as pointless as fearing a meteor crashing on your head. Unless you're like, in a war zone, or a really really dark alley.

About the mastermind behind everything... So why isn't MC dead or soon to be dead? There's no point in author writing the story.

It isn't just the old "nothing can ever happen because bad guy x" when the skill is literally "instant death". It's not the same as saying that some bad guys use swords, so no good guys should ever use swords, or some bad guys use magic, so no good guys should use magic. I'm not even saying the MC shouldn't use it. I'm simply saying that there is a good reason not to train a bunch of people with it.

It is a super powerful skill, and as a result, if there are many users, the odds that some of them would try to abuse it would be very high. Look at how many powerful individuals in real life, or in most stories, are corrupt and don't care about harming others to get ahead. A couple of those in the group, and the group could die quickly. Also, your question about what would prevent others from using instant death on a user that uses it on others is why that user would then seek to eradicate all other instant death users (which supports my point). If it is used once, that also leads to why others would be afraid of it, as once it is used on you, you can't respond and they then have to be wary of any other users they don't completely trust.

Fearing unprovoked murder being as pointless as fearing a meteor crashing on your head only applies if you are teaching a lot of people how to summon meteors onto monsters' heads. I would disagree with somebody using preemptive instant death against other users, just because of being afraid they might use it on them, but there are overly cautious types, and if one of them had seen people betrayed by companions in the past, they might fear that in the future, and act to prevent that.

I actually think it more likely that there isn't a mastermind, by the way. There didn't seem to be any indication of reporting it. I just said the problems with training a bunch of users "would be a great reason" not that it was the reason it is called a trash skill. If there was a powerful user in the past, I think the more likely scenario would be that he is already dead (either of old age, or because of being taken down by a bunch of heroes), and the treating it like a trash skill is a remnant from preventative measures to cover it up. If heroes are monitoring it, they may still not want to kill potentially innocent users, and thus just try to prevent them from adventuring by calling it trash.

Another possibility I didn't mention before, is that he only managed to unlock its strengths because of getting so many points from a powerful monster, and that almost everybody else that still tried to adventure would try to use it from a distance and keep failing, or on weak opponents up close and get killed before they got enough skill points to get stats and get stronger because they didn't have enough defense. It just seems at least a couple others would have lucked into it like he did at some point, and gotten stronger, so then the question of why it is considered trash makes a cover-up a decent possibility.

(It could be the author didn't think too much about it, though, and just picked a cool skill and decided in this world it is trash, because that is a popular version of fantasy, now.)