How to Survive as the Academy’s Villain Chapter 57 Discussion

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Pushover MC with large amounts of plot armor.

MC is a whinning teen, complaining how the world is out to get him while doing nothing to improve himself. He could study to learn magic or combat but all he does is say that he wants to stay in his dorm room and do nothing. He could just leave the academy but is afraid of being killed by unseen forces. Wants to stay at the academy but doesn't want to study. Wants to have money to buy stuff and pay tuition but doesn't want to work and complains when the debts are due.

He goes out to adventure because the plot forces him with the excuse:"get this artifact or you'll die" twice in a row, until I had enough of this boring mess. He doesn't use magic because of mana channel blockage or something similar which is also the reason he's always dead unless a new mcguffin is found. Still, when challenges appear that he can't win, even without any skills, there's some deux ex machina to solve his problems, like a switch to flood the room where he's losing a battle, or a strong character holding a mana drain artifact until he passes out instead of just dropping the thing.

The MC also can't use magic, sucks at theory, which is a mix of hard math and physics, but somewhat was able to cast advanced magic at once when needed. The magical blockaged was fixed by the mcguffin orb but the MC's ignorance and lack of proper magical knowledge was not.

The previous guy might be a villain but at least he put a minimum amount of effort in anything, which this lazy and boring MC has not.

There is no plot in over 60+ chaps except "MC will die without Mcguffin and he must get it while everyone hates him". Most characters are cliche, unlikeable with one-trait personalities and no motivations. The magic system has been non existent so far, with it's only explanation being "hard physics and math" while the author pastes gibberish equations to 'explain' how hard it is.

This is a bad copy of "The Extra's Academy Survival Guide" but without the hardworking MC, the interesting characters and no mention at all of the original game/novel plot.
 
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Awesome book didn't want it to end, would definitely read again
 
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