The Magic Academy’s Physicist Chapter 9 Discussion

This novel tells the story of Aether, a graduate student who unfortunately got reincarnated into a novel script after they had given a bad review. It's not those "I know everything so I shall exploit everything" type situations because they didn't even finish reading the title of the novel before giving it a review.

Anyways, they suddenly went from graduate student status (which is overworked but still held some status and dignity) to official s*ave overnight. They were purchased by a rich lady and then the author really went overkill on how this rich lady continuously exploited her s*ave over the past 3 years. But then they went on and added some stuff that just really did not make sense

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Basically this rich lady is a powerful mage with a duke title, she graduated top of her class blah blah but the battlefield took her friend's lives, limbs and eyes blah blah that really wounded her heart and now she's researching to make new magic to make a world a better place blah blah in her eyes status doesn't matter even though she's a Duke blah blah

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And then she bought a s*ave (our protag right here). Apparently status doesn't matter if the person is not a person at all, she treats our protagonist like cattle and although the author explained in later chapters that this rich lady cherished our protag, the orders she dished out really show the opposite of what's in her mind. To me, she just wants our protag to just die already.

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And also, this rich lady (although the author said she favours her but hadn't realised) decided to let the 2nd prince of the country, known for banging servants and commoners left and right and then throwing them out like tr*sh, have a go at Aether for money. Yup, I'm fully convinced that this lady doesn't see status, she sees everyone around her as cattle.

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Luckily the protagonist is smart, and with the opportunity provided by another professor, she gets a chance to study at the academy and potentially escape her s*ave status.

All in all it's a 4-star. It's not a 5-star because of that 1 specific character I hate, the author seems to be setting her up for redemption but if the set-up itself is half-assed then the redemption will be half-assed too. I wished the author could've made her a complete villain, and then the redemption arc instead of creating sympathy for the character so early in the novel. It's a shame but it's still a good novel. Definitely recommended.