The Magic Academy’s Physicist Chapter Completed Discussion

I don't usually write reviews but man I enjoyed this a lot and I feel like more people should be talking about this. Our main character is thrown into a fantasy world after peer reviewing what appears to be a nonsensical paper about the relationship between magic and physics. Now in the body of a golden-eyed: people who cannot naturally cast magic but are instead given extremely calculative minds, she must learn how every single known magic works in order to return home. As usual, things don't go as planned.

The magic system is very interesting with actual links to rather complicated physics that quite frankly I do not understand but it is very refreshing nonetheless compared to most other novels where they shout some magic words and some magic magic comes out. The spells in this world are quite similar to electronic circuits, with magic stones being used like components.

The plot is compelling, with significant twists and it has a lot more to offer than simply learning every spell. It starts off relatively slow but once the ball gets rolling it never really stops. Slight spoiler for the story: Spoiler

It's very rare to see a story where it's someone else who has prior knowledge of the game/novel, rather than the protagonist and I wish it was something that was done more often.

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The characters are also fantastic, each with their own motivations and the characters develop a lot over the course of the novel. Spoiler

I especially love Klais' role in the story: at first they are unlikeable and we wish for their downfall but by the end I think I can safely say they earned their redemption, even if it took a few hundred chapters hahaha.

[collapse] There is no romance in the story which I think is a real shame because there was a lot of potential in my opinion for something really nice. Oh well.

Overall, this is one of my favourite novels I've read and I really can't recommend this enough. There's a lot of amazing turning points that I really want to talk about but that includes extreme spoilers so I'll leave them for now, but trust me if you stick around it gets really good.

"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."