Embracing Magic Chapter 52 Discussion

Honestly, I wanted to like it, but the MC's reasoning at many points in the story just doesn't make sense. It's silly.

Let me elaborate.

The MC decides early on in the story to not reveal his entire power. This is sensible, if others don't know his limits, he can display more power than they expect at critical moments and that might save him from danger.

Spoiler

But soon after reaching 5th circle mage rank he just blurts it out because he found that he had read all the books that had been made available to him until then. And he was frustrated about it so in a smoothbrain moment he blurted out his main strength.

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Seriously silly.

The war s*ave facility MC is in is controlled by 5 main people, called the committee. They are 3 5th-rank mages and 2 5th-rank knights. It's a significant force, but most of these folks have gotten used to a decadent lifestyle, haven't kept up with training and are completely out of shape.

But the MC is absurdly cautious of them. Like he comes up with ridiculous scenarios that are hard to take seriously. He thinks that if they (the ens*aved war-s*aves) run away directly without a good coverup, then they will become lifelong fugitives and will always be chased. It's genuinely a silly idea. This world has a large number of countries and a very large landmass. The country they are in is a relatively mediocre one. And it's facing a chaotic war situation. Does he seriously think these knights/mages in the committee who are used to a decadent lifestyle and have significant property and estates of their own will drop everything and chase him to the ends of the Earth? Does that make any sense? Unless he has mu*dered their entire family, putting this much effort into catching/killing an escaping s*ave during wartime where your entire estate might gets destroyed is ridiculous. What they would be most focused on would probably be avoiding the flames of war and escaping with most of their property intact to a different country. How could they bother to care about an escaped s*ave.

Not to mention MC is also a 5th rank mage by then. And he is far more competent when it comes to combat. It's just ridiculous how he thinks and behaves.

Spoiler

Later, a friend of his gets sent out on an assassination mission, his friend manages to obtain the device that controls his s*ave mark (The device, called a s*ave rod can be used to explode the s*ave mark embedded in a s*ave's head by breaking the rod). The assasination mission is one in which there is no chance of returning from. But after his friend retrieves his own s*ave rod, MC still tells him to carry out the assasination mission on the f*cking Chancellor of the kingdom they are in because otherwise the committe will chase his friend. Seriously? You are worried about the committee chasing your friend and not the f*cking kingdom for mu*dering the Chancellor? A Marquis level noble?

Plainly ridiculous.

It's like agreeing to mu*der the president of a country to avoid being chased by a gang that raised you. Bro, why the hell do you think the country's forces wouldn't chase you for killing the president? Why the hell would you think the country's forces would be less scary or capable than some gang's. A country has FAR more capability to chase you to the ends of the earth. And the crime is far more serious. For the gang, the crime they might chase you for would be desertion. The country meanwhile would be chasing you for mu*dering it's most significant figure. The severity is on a completely different level.

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