Clearing an Isekai with the Zero-Believers Goddess – The Weakest Mage among the Classmates (WN) Chapter 266 Discussion

This is a good novel, not perfect, but I can say that giving less the 3 out of 5 to this novel it's being unfair.

I think the things I liked most about the novel are the fast pace of the story and the simple yet great story.

The MC is OP and extremely weak at the same time. The main "power" of the MC is the abnormally high Proficency stat caused by the fact that he ALWAYS trains (even while sleeping). All his skills and power revolve around the Proficency stat.

He can use it with his spirit skill in order to borrow power from spirits (with many conditions and restrictions) or he can synchronize himself with other people to use their power. The MC basically use mainly the power of others individuals. (but don't worry because later on starts to develop his own shit)

There is also is unique skill RPG Player. This skill at the beginning seems to be useless and even after 266 chapters is not known how much influence have. It does help the MC sometime later in the story when he start to understand the logic of the choices that the skill gives to him. At the beginning is useless but it probably a ultra cheat skill from what we can speculate:

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Nobody can see the fate of the MC even the goddess of destiny. Nobody can see the fate threads of the MC that link him with people. Like a game he probably can chose his destiny or something like that, probably

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The characters and their development is not the best but it's not really bad either. The MC doesn't change much during the story, he is dense and a coward from relationship point of view (he says it as well) but fearless when he fights, he lives his life in this new world litterally like playing a game and he has a lot of girls around but needs a lot of time to get bold enough to do something a little meaningful with them. Some characters around Makoto change thanks to him, for example (light spoilers) :

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-Lucy start to gain confidence in herself little by little, her psychological complex about being half-elf and half-demon sart to fade away and she start to be more friendly to others thanks to Aya and Makoto.

-Sofia changes from an icy personality to a more soft one. She rely upon Makoto in order to share her burden of making Water Country a better and safe place and her strict character change to a much easygoing one.

-Furiae develop as well. In her past is hated an feared cause of the Moon Oracle history and all this sh*t brings her to be an outcast. After she starts to travel with Makoto, Lucy and Aya, she understands that the world is not that bad and even if she doesn't really change in the way she acts, in the POV chapters, all the negative thoughts start to fade away.

There are also others that go through minor changes like Geralt or Sakuraki

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You are following the story of the MC from his prospective but sometime the author switch the point of view to other characters in order to understand their thoughts and their view of the MC. This make you understand them better and give you the possibility to understand that the MC is wierder than you think. (not light spoiler)

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like Furiae Pov in which she describes the crepy smiling Makoto using sacrificial technic on the Demon Lord

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The world building it's a little bit of "meh". Even after 266 chapters we know only general informations about the structure of the world. Don't get me wrong, it's not bad that the author gives only basic informations but maybe a little bit more attention to ecology would add points (for example the different types of monsters in the countries or races or something along those lines). The author gives scenary or characters appearance only the needed space in terms of description which gives the story a really good pace. (the author doesn't spend 30 lines for food description thank god).

The harem is good NOW. I don't want to say too much about it, but I think that the author is going overboard with numbers. Isn't the harem starting to become too crowded? We are only in the west continent you know? There seems to be also other continents, other worlds and probably something like a God land. I don't know how much the author want to tell in the story but there are many interesting things mentioned in the story which can give birthh to some narratve arcs... There are already at least 4 girls in the ""official"" harem, plus I don't know how many others trying to get in the bus. If things go in the same way in the others continets, in the end we have like 20+ girls...

Now, the most interesting thing of this novel are the Gods/Goddesses and the plot. At the beginning of the story the impression of them is mostly good, but the more you read the more you start to think there is something fishy about them. There is always the impression of them scheming something through Makoto. The plot after chapter 220 starts to take an unexpected route, but this is the moment of the story in which many things start to make more sense. The more you read after chapter 220 the more you start to think "that's why it was like that... that's why he/she said or ask that...". There are questions, relationships and sentences that start to have a different meaning. You will start to see even chapter 1 in a different way. It's that type of thing that can bring you back to read the past chapters in a different light.

i have tried my best to give only light spoilers... So in the end, I think you should give it a try if you are searching something light and funny