Yajin Tensei: Karate Survivor in Another World - Vol. 10 Ch. 64 - Phantom Fox

[MangaDex]

 

[The_Lamb]

In this episode, Fox-Fu vs Karate!

Next chapter will drop quite soon, the Brazilians already overtook me.

 

[Doomer]

so not a super elemental wizard but rather an illusion wizard, if all it's attacks are fake and the real attacks invisible then close your eyes and focus on your hearing to locate it and avoid it's illusion damage.

 

[Kingosharks]

Smart monsters are always a rough time. Smart vindictive monsters are a whole other can of worms.

 

[hsun]

"Yajin uses Taunts"
"It's super effective!"

 

[HDMI1]

 

[Kaarme]

so not a super elemental wizard but rather an illusion wizard, if all it's attacks are fake and the real attacks invisible then close your eyes and focus on your hearing to locate it and avoid it's illusion damage.

He can't avoid the illusion damage because it affects the brain, making him feel the pain. That pain keeps distracting him. There's also no reason to believe the adult phantom fox isn't a competent fighter and in perfect control of its powers. That's why Yajin chose the strategy to make it enraged and thus possibly get careless enough to grant him a single chance. Because he already noticed the fox is too good at what it specialises in to allow Yajin to catch it.

 

[vannn]

Yajin villain arc, he’s cutting down the whole family tree.

 

[outinthegardener]

Hey Fox! Your father was a hamster, and your mother smelled of elderberries!

 

[Med1um]

so not a super elemental wizard but rather an illusion wizard, if all it's attacks are fake and the real attacks invisible then close your eyes and focus on your hearing to locate it and avoid it's illusion damage.

He just said that it targets his brain directly, producing a sense of pain. Your method would work only if that fox is just bending the light to produce mirages, but it is actually kind of a mind magic, messing around with nervous system, rather than with your sight.

 

[moneng85]

Another Hard Fight huh,
not saying I want another OP Brainless Isekai Protagonist, but give this man a break

 

[Baelgun]

Another Hard Fight huh,
not saying I want another OP Brainless Isekai Protagonist, but give this man a break

Yeah can we have an arc where he just hangs around a city of decent people ?

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Fucking hyped

 

[jaklcide]

In the scenario where:

Yajin beats the Fox.
He brings it back to the guild triumphantly.
(Some short crapsack world bullshit later.)
He's on the run again penniless and desperate (w/puppy) and no better off than where he started.

I will hurl my PC out the damn window.

 

[Kurofune]

Yeah can we have an arc where he just hangs around a city of decent people ?

The author's theme seems to be thinking, "if you take a mundane medieval world and throw in monsters and levels, how would society realistically develop?" And his answer is, "A tiny few will use their wealth and/or political standing to monopolize experience and equipment, solidify their rule, and the common folk will struggle to eke out an existence and fight one another for the scraps. Adventurers would just be disposable gofers for the moneyed classes."

He seems to be a deeply cynical guy.

[eta] At any rate, the few changes from the WN suggest him taking it in a less gritty direction. WN Yajin became a caporegime under Emden rather than how the manga has him try to keep his distance. The order of events is shuffled around a bit, but we're basically caught up, so who knows what happens from here.

 

[nobody2002]

I was half right. It does use illusion magic not just to camouflage itself, but also casts illusion magic spells. Still OP magic, though.

Thanks for the upload.

 

[the_Bear_from_Bearcave]

The author's theme seems to be thinking, "if you take a mundane medieval world and throw in monsters and levels, how would society realistically develop?" And his answer is, "A tiny few will use their wealth and/or political standing to monopolize experience and equipment, solidify their rule, and the common folk will struggle to eke out an existence and fight one another for the scraps. Adventurers would just be disposable gofers for the moneyed classes."

He seems to be a deeply cynical guy.

[eta] At any rate, the few changes from the WN suggest him taking it in a less gritty direction. WN Yajin became a caporegime under Emden rather than how the manga has him try to keep his distance. The order of events is shuffled around a bit, but we're basically caught up, so who knows what happens from here.

To be fair, MC is also outsider, and kinda-medieval life sucked for outsiders. That's why people back then put so much importance into family bonds - even though family backstabbing happened sometimes, most of the time family stuck together to protect the family wealth and power against other families. This is also why life sucked so much for orphans, unless they managed to band together in street gang and support one another - and those gangs wouldn't trust any non-orphan outsider as well.

People also put much importance into credibility, because if people knew you are know to keep your word, they also knew you have something to lose if you break it. MC is unknown for locals, so he can easily scam or betray them and disappear, which makes most of prudent people not want to rely on him in the first place, or at most use him before he uses them.

It's a vicious circle, with his only exit to rise up in power and respect, until people treat him as reliable - except he's wanted criminal, so he can't actually rise up enough to bring wider attention. He doesn't have bonds, so he can't create them. He almost had some back with his healer friend and comrades from party, but all that went to shit, again, due to being wanted criminal. Maybe if he'd fled to a different country?

 

[nobody2002]

In the scenario where:

Yajin beats the Fox.
He brings it back to the guild triumphantly.
(Some short crapsack world bullshit later.)
He's on the run again penniless and desperate (w/puppy) and no better off than where he started.

I will hurl my PC out the damn window.

Isekai Hobo can't catch a break. At least he has puppy now.

 

[Chizan]

Isekai Hobo can't catch a break. At least he has puppy now.

Modus operandi of the author; Yajin miserable, his life gets easier, author; can't have that; shit happens, Yajin miserable again.
So I suspect to come; Puppy, Yajin happy => something horrible happens to Puppy, Yajin miserable again.