My Glasses Will Be Able to Conquer the Whole World, I Suppose Chapter 250 Discussion

I like it. MC's motivations seem to morph over time with no clear set goal, but that's how it works in real life too.

Initially: He wants to live a simple life and eat meat.

Later: He wants to get strong enough to deal with any possible monster threat that might affect his village as well.

After that: Getting stronger solely for the sake of it? I guess he enjoys being the most competent person in a crowd, even if he doesn't show it or want praise.

To be clear, there's no level system in this series. Getting stronger is all about (relatively) normal training. I'm not even sure if this is one of those worlds where exhausting your MP pool is a method of growing it. If a "Talent" has combat effectiveness, it could be about improving that as well. But given how limited some Talents are in scope ("Baking more delicious bread"), I would think there'd be at least a few adventurers/hunters/assassins with Talents that were completely useless for combat/intelligence gathering, who manage just by being very competent in their fields. But so far there haven't been.

Main complaint:

MC too OP, please nerf? Time for some spoiler text.

Eil's Glasses: Initial ability: improves vision.Spoiler

For apparently anyone with bad vision that uses them? Lens prescription doesn't matter when glasses are materialized from magic, despite Eil initially thinking it might. Also, he can use them both as sunglasses, glasses that make night time appear day time, and thermal vision. Also, mentioned in chapter 3, but never mentioned again, his glasses work as mana batteries for himself. Also, as of the stalled translations (ch 10), numbers appear above people's heads, soon, it's explained that these numbers represent his chance of victory against that person/animal/magic beast. Also, he can parasite vision any other pairs of glasses that he's created, he only used this ability once unconsciously, and never sought to use it again. (Edit: Turns out, he used it again in 254.)

But why "Conquer the World, Probably"? Everyone else in the series is limited to the one, or rarely, multiple Talents they have. Training a second Talent is tough, because most people don't have one, they're not revealed by the testing, making them difficult to know/train. Eil's glasses let him see other people's Talents, with some conditions (I think they need to use it in front of him.) At which point, they're logged by his ability, and he can use a diminished version of them. He can only set 3 Talents at a time, but that's still hugely useful. Also, by placing glasses on a person/magic beast, he can forcefully reveal their Talent, giving himself access to that ability. He's also limited that a lot of abilities aren't nearly as useful in their initial raw state, without training in their usage or evolution through usage.

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