Tensei Kenja no Isekai Life: Daini no Shokugyou o Ete, Sekai Saikyou ni Narimashita - Vol. 25 Ch. 73.1 - The Burned Ground Was Too Hot

[MangaDex]

 

[karappo]

And the enemy gets away scot free... worst arc ever

 

[remote_red]

fucking god this whole arc was stupid. BBEG of course gets away too 😮‍💨

 

[Yoyojor]

same goal but the means are too extreme

 

[notAKAI_]

thanks for the chapter!

 

[Tds-PdV]

Wow, if Teaf is dead that’s something. Wonder how Yuuji will explain his disappearance.

 

[lesseffective]

same goal but the means are too extreme

He's making the mother of all omelettes...

 

[MontDilanus1343]

JP authors with "villians that mysteriously run away (even though the power creep logic violates their own universe's rules)" is a bit disgusting. Feels like Power Rangers, more than Ringworld. Or kindergarten kids playing make-believe, not military record.

It's not even power creep. It's sheer plot armor. Escaping requires preparation and labor, potentially losses if the operation is botched.

Instead, we get this "Team Rocket Is Blasting Off Again" nonsense. The in-fiction universe would have evolved completely differently if such "instantaneous escape" power existed. Like counter-spells, detectors, tracing technology. Or military tactics surrounding that. (See: "The Gospel of Mr. Henderson" WN for good example, based on D&D and "kill on first sight" strategies.)

Whoever this "mysterious villain" was can resurrect the dead, enslave saints, manipulate souls, summon world-ending dragons, avoid the most powerful spells in their universe, and also teleport at will. There's a limit to disbelief.

 

[ciera]

Thank you

 

[BusWindow]

I mean, at least one person in the church knows the summoning was a success.

 

[Kireato]

That guy really has a lot of knowledge on magic. He could manipulate the lifeforce of countless people, resurrect someone, use a drone like magic for surveillance and now burn all the other people in the lab and escape through some form of teleportation.

I'm confused by his morals though. He states he doesn't kill for his own experiments but literally sacrificed Teaf and was consuming the magic power of a city's worth of people, which was killing them, for his experiment on determining if the new hero was more powerful than the resurrected hero. I guess he means that he has a purpose of saving the world justifying the sacrificed lives while I guess other lab members only have the purpose of doing more research. I mean sure, you could say that it's similar to being willing to mobilise soldiers to fight, and die, to defend the country against a threat and it's not like the true dragon is something you can negotiate with, but he's quite extreme and he's embraced the methods of the labs which involve harvesting human life indiscriminately.

 

[jaes9898]

wth is with all the contradictions for this villain? "I want to see who's stronger, old hero or current hero" to "Imma boost old hero lol" then "I'm different who use people for their own experiment" but used Teal for old hero along with whole town being held hostage for curse of regeneration.

 

[Timewaster_zoltar]

author why did you give the villain the plot armor and not Teaf?!

god i hate this arc so much!

 

[Diamona]

Ok, BBEG is gone. Time to resurrect Teaf due to public outcry and genre reasons.

 

[CountryMage]

JP authors with "villians that mysteriously run away (even though the power creep logic violates their own universe's rules)" is a bit disgusting. Feels like Power Rangers, more than Ringworld. Or kindergarten kids playing make-believe, not military record.

It's not even power creep. It's sheer plot armor. Escaping requires preparation and labor, potentially losses if the operation is botched.

Instead, we get this "Team Rocket Is Blasting Off Again" nonsense. The in-fiction universe would have evolved completely differently if such "instantaneous escape" power existed. Like counter-spells, detectors, tracing technology. Or military tactics surrounding that. (See: "The Gospel of Mr. Henderson" WN for good example, based on D&D and "kill on first sight" strategies.)

Whoever this "mysterious villain" was can resurrect the dead, enslave saints, manipulate souls, summon world-ending dragons, avoid the most powerful spells in their universe, and also teleport at will. There's a limit to disbelief.

All of MC's magical knowhow is a thousand years out of date, and even the Sage that existed back then knew things Yuji couldn't conceive of like tracking lifeforce. This Lab is basically the Institute from Fallout, they've just been in the background amassing knowledge and experimenting to advance technology for so long that they completely lost sight of their goals. That's thousands of years of preparation, and no Team Rocket gets blasted off by Ash, or the authorities, no attacks got near this mastermind.

 

[Jachinz]

 

[popinloopy]

Thank you for the update! I really did not like this whole arc that was essentially "deus ex machina: the manga"

 

[Aichan]

What a nice guy, dumping all these exposition before yeeting himself away.

 

[lswgamer]

That guy really has a lot of knowledge on magic. He could manipulate the lifeforce of countless people, resurrect someone, use a drone like magic for surveillance and now burn all the other people in the lab and escape through some form of teleportation.

I'm confused by his morals though. He states he doesn't kill for his own experiments but literally sacrificed Teaf and was consuming the magic power of a city's worth of people, which was killing them, for his experiment on determining if the new hero was more powerful than the resurrected hero. I guess he means that he has a purpose of saving the world justifying the sacrificed lives while I guess other lab members only have the purpose of doing more research. I mean sure, you could say that it's similar to being willing to mobilise soldiers to fight, and die, to defend the country against a threat and it's not like the true dragon is something you can negotiate with, but he's quite extreme and he's embraced the methods of the labs which involve harvesting human life indiscriminately.

This guy treats people as necessary sacrifices to save the world, while the rest of the lab sees them as lab rats for their research.
The end result is the same, but one can be justified under a utilitarian lens if you're willing to be generous and callous, while the others are just evil for the sake of evil.

 

[EchoGirl]

RIP Teaf? wonder how long it'll take to bring down the 'evil organization(s)'

(tho if mc never appeared or summoned after wards, would this have been a post apocalyptic story)