Return of The Martial King Chapter 50 Discussion

the story is quite uniquely done, at the very least compared to other similar stories. I think it's pretty decent, not to the point of a masterpiece, but still quite good.

the beginning is about MC regressing as his enemy who kills him, which is not really new. but there are two things to point out about this story.

1. regarding mc

basically, MC is a 10th-circle mage, who got regressed in the body of a martial artist. you see, there are a lot of stories where MC possesses another body with excellent quality, where MC who normally has an average brain ends up becoming able to understand various kinds of subjects easily after possessing an excellent body. you can think MC in this story has a backward compatibility to that.

in the past live, MC is like someone who has a supercomputer-level brain. with that, he became a 10th-circle mage. but after reincarnation, MC completely lost that brain and has a below-average brain, because of that the magic that can be used in an instant in the past life, became magic that takes a lot of time to use and that's unusable in battle.

you see, in this world, using magic is like solving really hard mathematical problems/questions. Even in real life, there are things that would take less than a day to solve with a computer, but if you have to solve them manually without any aid, it might take days, weeks, months, or maybe years. such as finding prime numbers in tens/hundreds/or maybe thousands of digits among all numbers...

Moreover, mc's body has a low amount of mana making it not suitable for using magic. so basically since MC has the knowledge of them, he can use any magic he has in his past life but it would take too long, making them useless in battle where MC fights, and so fight until ch 50 is in fact only compromised of fighting as martial arts.

2. regarding lore/background story

so basically it's a world dominated by humans. apparently, in the past, humans especially the upper echelon ones were afraid the nonhuman race would rebel, so they forbade teaching any useful knowledge to the nonhuman race. and after generations of humans passed, humans take it for granted that nonhuman races are s*upid and incapable of learning anything. but even if they cannot learn anything, they are also dangerous because they can harm humans.

in the past live, MC was the only one aware of it and made a country made only with nonhuman races. and the humans who don't know the truth think that MC uses some kind of magic to make all nonhuman races follow him. The humans are afraid that after MC dies those nonhuman races will wreak havoc and destroy humans, that's why humanity makes war which leads to killing MC.

to summarize the perspective of people in this world, just like how nobles look down on commoners and think they are not much different from animals, most humans, including commoners look down on nonhuman race and think they are not much different from animals. and MC in this life intends to change that very perspective from humans.