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Drug Eating Genius Mage
https://mangakatana.com/manga/drug-eating-genius-mage.26802

it's probably magic development. He used a new spell against the golem. He also finished the research of 3 spells that aren't foundationally researched. Concepts outside attack magic were finished off which broadened his understanding of magic. It's like running. Anyone can run, but to run professionally, you need hydration, diet, muscle, breathing, form, endurance, ect. Even lacking in one area can hold you back. I assume magic has a similar concept.

Of course, it could have the stupid setup of 7th circle being akin to god and therefor requires divinity.

Right... But writing FMC becomes redundant if you write it correctly to begin with. The MC being main character, FL being Female Lead, ML being Male Lead.

Why would people write FMC when they aren't a Main. Before you can say it can stand for FeMale Character, I'm going to point out that the "M" can't be existent in only some cases. You either abbreviate the M in female or not. But I never see "FC", only "FL" or "FMC". However, nobody uses "ML".

It just bugs me because it's weird and I happened to notice it.

only when a bun is in the oven

You wouldn't Write MMC when it's a Male MC, so why the "F"mc?

Also... The dude is CLEARLY not the MAIN character. He's a LEAD, not a MAIN. The story takes 0 effort to cover him. He only appears as a support to help the story along with a focus on relationship ties TO the MC.

Why is it that this happens all the time?

It's about nobility. Peasants and nobility don't belong with each other. Only in a position where they serve the superior are they accepted in society. However, once a commoner obtains great merit, the nobility will ride the coattails of their servants by backdating events to say they "greatly cared" for them. All to make it seem like the merits achieved would have been impossible without their support, thus stealing the honor for themselves.

A room? Food? A place to practice?
Yeah

But there are so many ways to abuse someone in private. And judging by what's said, it was harsh. Just because you are housed and fed doesn't mean great environment or people would line up to go to jail.

if we consider the fact that salvos killed the first summoned demon when he was ~68 when she was ~37, an evolution plus levels doesn't really qualify as impossible since 40 was evolution.
She's nearly to the next evolution at 70 (she's 63). It all depends on the breed of demon. However, for her senses to trigger it'd have to be over the next evolution (100).

This is more than enough to kill that pipsqueek fairy, while not necessarily being "leagues above". Evolution"s" above, but not unreachable.

I've been waiting since a cultist was found.

1st, we know mindreapers were solitary beings. Initially, I thought it was the work of something much higher or a fairy queen.

2nd, we found the cultist. It made me think the fairy queen was pissed humans defiled their land.

3rd, we saw a fairy get captured. This immediately made me rule out fairy being the antagonist. It led me to believe they were being targeted to summon something larger. Curses fall within dark magic so I assumed either a demon or 100+ dark cultist being the cause.

4th, we saw cultists asleep. This rules out cultists leaving just a demon since cultist generally seem to have solidarity.

5th, we saw sacrifices. It's easy to understand at this point. Anyone with half a brain would understand.

they kinda reminded me of the nipple headed demon in "Little Nicky"

it's both.

Space is an affinity from the way it's explained. Much like how salvos (MC) learned fire manipulation, then qualified to become a zealot/Imp. As a prerequisite for being Fire Fiend and Imp is fire affinity, space is brought up as an expansion to affinities available.

But this also means that while matching classes/evolutions to affinity, you get a bonus to knowledge. The best example here would be when she changed to a midday changeling, something else that had a magic affinity prerequisite, and received advanced versions of fire spells without having to "study".

At least this is a version of possible rules the world building has established. Although murky because of a lack of direct information (tedious, long-winded text boxes that no one reads) or examples, it does have merit from what we've read so far.

yes. It does contain "That Village" and "That Mountain"

😂🤣😂

Nope. Reaffirming mental cases in the US is why we have so many now. If you don't tell them "that's not normal", they grow up thinking it is.

Whether it hurts mentally isn't our problem. We need to go back to a time where people know how to critically think.

you do realize that daniel, the hero, was summoned from Earth.

It checks out

The moral of stealing isn't the moral taught here. It's "The Ends Justify the Means". The company is well known for hoarding and not guarding dangerous dungeons. In this specific case, she and her dead comrades were supposed to employ espionage to track down the dungeon and release it to the public. Unfortunately, in an attempt to level up fast to deal with the threat while also investigating the dungeon, the map was stolen.

In this case, though it's wrong to steal, it's also morally wrong to leave a high level dungeons unguarded, especially near towns not equipped to deal with the fallout. Just like it's wrong for terrorists to kill each other, it's also a plague on the surface gone as an outcome. Pirates are bad, but before iron ships, it was impossible to stop them since they'd sail into different territories stopping naval soldiers from pursuing in lieu of diplomatic issues. So instead of pursuing, many nations openly traded with contracts in an attempt to control them.

It's teaching that vigilantism is optimal when the law can't step in.

Btw, that map wasn't "hard work". It was a map of the region with a marker to show approximate position. Mc and team had to map the dungeon themselves. Someone more than likely stumbled on the location during a mission and reported back. Just based on the leadership, it doesn't sound like they'd have all members periodically mass scan for dungeons since they don't guard it, nor do they have the brains to cut them off by traveling ahead. Basically the only thing that guild has is mass people to report findings.

So to even call it "hard work" is a real long stretch. I'd even understand them keeping it to themselves if they guarded it, but they didn't. That was the reason it was even made public, which is why the guild didn't pursue the theft I'm assuming.

figured if the guy was gonna make baseless claims that more people agreed with him (which you can't upvote yourself and he had way less upvotes), and 1 guy who flew out in left field to ragebait, I'd just add fuel to a nicely lit bonfire 😭😂🤣😂

Idk how people can be so dumb to call others gay as an insult, but show that they watch that stuff "in the closet" (figured I'd put quotes around it so Mr 3rd language knew it was another idiom).

If we look at the whole story,
The mc held off a lesser demon as a infant demon. This is an evolution bonus + ~5 levels.
Then, at around level 16 and 10, two lesser demons held off a level 42 Djinn (a whole evolution + many levels) with 1 escaping. Meaning the advanced pathing made even a level 42 have a hard to over-power them without killing. Not saying killing wouldn't be easy, but capturing both extremely hard.

Now, the highest human we saw was an errand runner at level 45 who went against a Demon Djinn clearly specializing towards melee at level 42. The rest were around 18~22.

Are the humans really so weak, or is it jobs/class being over-powered and the MC only facing enemies within acceptable level range.

This is a dumb argument. Dude calls you gay because maybe you are submissive? Or even a beta?

But even that is pushing the envelope. Futanari ≠ Boss and/or OP Female

Based on the implication from the projection of twisted reality (that "masculine females" are ALL strap-on wearing dominatrixes), I'd go out on a limb and say that <Nvm> hasn't actually met strong women (mental or physically). This would imply that this distorted view comes from fictional sources. The only fictional sources that suggest strong female leads using things that could be construed as gay would be futanari (genre classification of chicks with dicks).

All coming down to <Nvm> watches a lot of "Futanari". Most would call THAT gay... But to each their own lol

first, thank you for the pointers

2nd
If we consider the various demons based on evolutions (based on moral alignment, some species are considered their own species or demonic):
Spiders/Snakes/Centipede/Bugs
Pixies/Faeries/Elves
Gnomes/Dwarves
Orcs/Goblins
Fiend/Devil/Vampire
Ect

Those that are human-like don't really make sense to evolve from others. Like it makes sense for a spider to evolve into a humanoid spider, but it doesn't make sense for a species switch. An example would be a spider becoming a dragon. Although snakes can become dragons because they have relation, other species have their version of high ranking, equivalent powered, mutations.

With that being said, if she chose an imp (a magical being known for its wisdom, magic, stature, and pranks), I wouldn't know what the previous form would be that isn't humanoid shaped. Most demonic species are humanoid, with higher mutations becoming closer to humans in size, shape, strength, intelligence, ect.

To me, this isn't a huge problem. Maybe they could have not beautified the race as first evolution, but humanoid isn't wrong. Then again female imps are also known to be closer to succubi so I can't really make up my mind.

right. If we go over why she got the paths

• Fiend
- appears to be the standard evolution

• Fire Fiend
- qualifies to those who get fire affinity

• Hellhound
- qualifies to those who upgrade AGI by ≥#X

• Imp
- qualifies to those who upgrade WIS by ≥#X
- fire affinity

• Zealot Imp
- qualifies to imp
- must kill enemy above own level by #X

Explained poorly, but it was there in description.

based on the fact they bothered to identify gender, and how he pointed to his lower part instead of chest, I got the same feeling. However, it's not like mangas will come out and say it since its target audience (from kids to adults) is generally wider than its novel counterpart.

Generally speaking.

pretty sure the brother got jealous and killed the sister, then blamed it on Lidersis