The Death Mage Who Doesn’t Want a Fourth Time Chapter 81 Discussion

This is a very good example of a novel taking a cliche premise and doing its best to build a novel idea around it. I would say as of where I am in the novel, it has both succeeded and failed.

There is one and only blemish on this novel, and it is its original setup. If it were not for this one problem that is never explained in any way to the audience how one man can be this dumb and be put in such a high and mighty position, this novel would be probably my favorite without any doubt.

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The story seems like your average reincarnation story of a heroic but self hating MC, who lived a fairly tragic and sad life bordering on almost constant child ab*se and neglect, dying while attempting to save others. Unfortunately when he and the rest of the group picked up by this "God" are being divvied up their shares of good luck, our MC gets snubbed because of a clerical error and gets nothing, which would be fine if that meant only not getting unnaturally lucky or cheat powers, but it also meant that anything bad could and did happen to him in his reincarnated life. He lives that Life and dies in the most tragic ways possible in that sate and when he gets back to god of middle management, Rodcorte, he is rightfully angry. But instead of apologizing, that god decides it is a better idea to double down on his mistakes while refusing to acknowledge that he is right to be angry at being literally and absolutely not figuratively tortured for the full length of his short life and finally mu*dered by people who hoped and expected to be his friends, and forcefully reincarnate our MC again in yet another world, but this time, he not only gets no luck or blessing, but is instead cursed by that god because reasons.

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and all this happens because god doesn't know how to read. The worst part is that he truly does not see how it is his fault. When others are explained the story, he tells it truthfully without missing any points in it and expects that others would obviously side with him on the matter. As long as you can get through the set up of this novel, which I would say is the first 5 or so chapters of getting the MC to his "Starting point" of his journey, it is a great read. Somewhat long chapters, beautiful world building, many characters, both complex, and extreme one notes. And a main character who seems like the normal extra kind iseki MC, but has an interesting thought process and character progression.