The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time Chapter v8 haracter part1 Discussion

This is an amazing story, most of the low ratings are from people who either did not give the story a chance, or are bringing in their own biases and expectations to a story where they have no place.

To many people need to remember that if something is not listed in the description/summary it is not likely a major part of the story, why do I say this because there are to many "reviews" complaining about the lack of a revenge aspect. Problem is this is not a revenge story, and never was.

The key part of the summary to understanding the story is the last paragraph :[QUOTE]Hiroto was reborn once more as a half-Vampire, half-Dark Elf. A Dhampir. Not wanting a fourth life, he is determined to live this third life with the only things remaining from his previous lives—death-attribute magic and his enormous Mana pool.[/QUOTE]

The MC is focused on living his life to the fullest, not revenge or seeking trouble as those are thing that reduce life expectancy. There are people he seeks revenge on, but other then the town at the beginning (and what he did to them is crueler then killing everyone, by a wide margin, considering how backwards and explorative the world is) pretty much every time he kills someone they are a direct threat to him or his subordinates. His experiences and desire to not die again have lead to Van being to cautions to risk himself on a revenge spree. Spoiler

At one point he basically admits that if Heinz, one of the main antagonists and a leading cause in Darcia's death, were to flee and take up a peaceful life where he was no longer a threat to Van's people, well empire at that point, Van would not bother to hunt him down. Heinz being Heinz does not take that option though

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Though some aspects might not make sense to people, that is if you forget 2 key aspects of the story. First Van is insane, very insane. He is effectively so insane he loops back around to clarity. But he is still nuts and does not always act as a normal person would as a result.

He is also VERY traumatized, and much of the early story arcs involve parts of that trauma slowly healing. It never goes fully away, but it is still there. He is also obsessed with "Luxury" due to his first life's experiences, the quotations are due to how his evil uncle used the term to include things like pencils that even the poor kids have, but only when it came to Van.

The story is about an overpowered (but more in OP potential as he still needs to put the work in, which he does in spades) extremely cautious MC seeking a better life slowly building a vast empire in the process, partly due to his extreme black companies look on in envy and jealousy work-a-holic nature, and piece by piece removing the obstacles to his log term huis long term happiness.

The world is very well fleshed out, with a thought out backstory. One thing it actually does that most stories ignore is it gives a solid reason for the medieval stasis. Some can not accept it, but it is a justification that works through shifting the cost-reward of development to a non-tech method, that is pretty much as maxed out in the world as it can be without corner cases like Van around to throw off the variables, which is one of the few ways to create the effect believably.

The Villains are not all one note, they all have rational and reasons for how they act, and many either want to or do seem themselves as good and in the right, the problem is hose all start from a flawed assumption or position that undermines their beliefs and means they are actually on the wrong and spreading evil.

For example the god from he summary has understandable goals, but does not put in the work to pull them off right, and pretty much always takes the immediately simplest solution. He is all band-aid measures and does not address the real problems or take the effort to make sure he does things right. Spoiler

One example is in the first chapter he calls everyone by name to give them gifts for their re-incarnations but 2 people have the same name with different spellings. He notices the spelling differences and proceeds to give both sets of gifts tot he same person, rather then putting in minimal effort and make sure that there is not a 2nd individual there. This piece of laziness is what leads to the MC suffering in his 2nd life. The idiot God then decides to rather then make it up to the MC in his 3rd life, craft new gifts for him, or do anything else to make amends for the 20 years of torture, he will simply slap some curses on the MC to drive him to su*cide so MC can not negatively affect his plans for everyone's 3rd life. curses that without an actual divine intervention would have driven MC to su*cide at and early age...

To make matters worse, his plan was doomed to failure since he took what he heard from others (I assume other gods) what works and blindly copied that, without checking to see if it would work first. The world of the story is one where not only would it not work, but it would be violently opposed.

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