Clearing an Isekai with the Zero-Believers Goddess – The Weakest Mage among the Classmates (WN) Chapter 263 Discussion

it's quite good actually

the protagonist makoto, is super weak, he need compatible environment, relying on luck, and help from other people to fight, his first party member lucy, have a lot of mana, and high rank skill but can't control it properly because of her demon blood

so at the beginning, the story focus on improving their combat ability, it's easier for lucy to improve her strength because she just need to improve her magic control, but it's different for the protagonist, because of his low stat, he take a lot of times just to become averagely strong, I think around 150 chapter he still need to relying on the environment to fight, and I think he can't win against the other heroes in a serious 1 vs 1 battle, because his magic is more like an area attack magic by using spirits, if there is no water or spirits in that place, the other heroes can just dash, stab, and he'll die.

Spoiler

at least in the later story makoto can use spiritfication to transform his right hand as a spirits and can keep up with the other heroes

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but for me, I think that handicap in the beginning make the story interesting, it's fun watching makoto getting stronger, he need to train everyday just to keep up with others, it's like reading naruto but the protagonist is rock lee, rock lee can't use ninjutsu and genjutsu, but just focus on taijutsu and can use the 8 gates opening in the later story, it's the same with makoto in this story.

for the main story, I think it's quite simple, "defeat the great demon king" & "rescue goddess noah in deep sea temple", so it's easy to follow. I already read till the latest chapter in syosetsu, there is some mysteries, but it's not that much, the mysteries is quite bland and not giving you that much wow effect. Maybe the author already fix this in the light novel version, from what I see, they're kinda different. I want to read the light novel version next to compare it.

for the level system, the author is not explaining it that much, "the protagonist not getting much stat when levelling up", it's only saying that, the author not even tell you how much an average person can get a stat when they level up, and how much the protagonist get when he level up, is it 0? Or 1?, or can your mana increase after levelling up?, the author not even tell you that, for a mage, magic control is important, you can use big spell if your control is good and have high rank magic skill, to increase your control you just have to "train" using magic, and not "levelling up", so what's the point including it in the story then? The only time the author explain about the level system a little bit is when sasaki aya, another member from the protagonist party train, to increase her strength she have to level up, does that mean level up only increase your strength? And does that mean for a mage level up is not that important? The author not even tell you that.

i think even without level system the story can progress normally, I don't know why the author even bother include it in the story, it's just confusing at this point, in tensura they don't have level system, but skill, and I think that's better.

but so far it's a good novel, there are lots of worst isekai novel out there, but for me this one is good, it's not the best but it's quite good, i'll include it on my favorite list and keep following it on syosetsu.