An Exclusive Mage Who Broke up With His Alchemist Childhood Friend, Wants to Lead a Slow Life in a Remote Town Chapter 9 Discussion

The story is pretty much par for the course for these sorts of novels... which means as always it also has the fundamental issue these stories always have.

Which is the often ludicrous or braindead explanation for how no one apparently realises that the MCs obviously strong powers are strong until it's too late. Like I get why it's a plot point, under appreciated MC gains his deserved recognition in his new environment... but if it's at the expense of any logic then it just makes it frustrating.

for example

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The MC literally uses master level magic to kill something really early on, only to describe himself as being incompetent at magic and then in the very next chapter explains that master is literally the top tier of magic. If your MC can't spot the logical inconsistency in that, then they have the intelligence of a toddler

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Other than that it's a pretty standard affair if you like the whole "previously hated character turns out to (somehow) be secretly the most powerful person in existence" sorta story.