Discussion The Water Magician

Episodes: 12 | Source: Light Novel | Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Isekai, Reincarnation
Synopsis
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After getting caught up in an accident, Ryou Mihara is reincarnated in the world of Phi as a water magician. Waking up in a remote forest, he sets out to achieve his ideal slow life by living off monsters and refining his magic. Unbeknownst to Ryou, in his second life he has gained the hidden trait "Eternal Youth."

One day, Ryou stumbles across a shipwrecked adventurer named Abel. As Abel requests Ryou to accompany him to the town of Lune, they embark on a journey through mountains infested with monsters. Upon arriving at the town and registering as an adventurer, Ryou's powerful water magic and equipment are unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. Although his prowess piques the interest of many, Ryou is eager to begin his own adventure and hone his magic even further!

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

 

Episode 1 was good. Ryo Mihara died in his own world and was reincarnated while not having any specific "quest" to have to do, like slay the demon lord, etc. During his time with who is akin to an angel, he wished to have a slow and relaxing life and was given water magic to use. He was sent to "Phi" where 20% of humans can cast spells and more specifically a house with a monster repelling barrier and 2 months of supplies, in the Forest of Rondo. Interestingly, he also has an unknown gift which is eternal youth.

Ryo did well starting out, practicing magic to be able to use water magic offensively, and also using his knowledge of chemistry to turn water into ice, and also heat water. With the ice, he can use it as a weapon, or in another use turning it into a magnifying glass basically to use to create fire.

The first monster he took out was a lesser boar. The next monster he had a run in with was an assassin hawk which fled due to him taking its eye. A Dullahan randomly appeared and started to sort of train him before giving him a weapon. The assassin hawk returned evolved and they fought. Ryo won and slayed it before a dragon speaking with telepathy appeared, Lewin. Lewin was looking for the assassin hawk, and was impressed with Ryo defeating it. I guess the Dullahan was related to the Fairy King, as the sword is the sword of the Fairy King.

 

Episode 2 was good. Ryo came across a ship wreck when he visted the beach to get some seafood. He happened to find a lone survivor, so helped them. Turns out Abel was on a ship of smugglers, so he wasn't concerned with them being dead. Makes sense that Ryo is in rags basically, because he's got not cloth or threat to mend them.

I wonder if the point about 50% of people in the central provinces being able to use magic is relevant given the "angel" said only 20% could use it, or if it's more about using magic with a staff, vs without is like Ryo can do. Or, maybe it's some areas just have a higher percentage of magic users.

Ryo is now accompanying Abel at his request to the town of Lune located in the Kingdom of Knightley to try and find his friends, which seems to be far north. As a parting gift, the Dullahan gave him an attire. Wonder if it has special properties like the sword.

Seems that Ryo's magic is indeed different from the normal, at least what Abel is familiar with. Seems like he is very high level. They encountered some rock golems which were a little different from the generic humanoid shapes often used. Ryo quickly defeated them using a huge block of ice and physics dropping it on them. They got a magic stone from one golem.

A behemoth and seem wyverns faced off, with the behemoth taking them out without effort. Seems the roar of it nullified their magic. The Behemoth is massive. Looks like they will go through a dungeon in the future, and one is in Lune. They came across some more wyverns crossing the mountains and took them out getting some more magic stones.

 

Episode 3 was good. Ryo and Abel made it to the town of Kailadi without further incident. Abel had to be Ryo's guarantor for his entry due to the lack of ID, so that is something he will get when registering with the guild. They plan on selling the monster materials as they would need to be an alchemist to make use of it otherwise. Ryo seems interested, so he might take that route. Ryo was elated to get curry with rice, he thought it would be a struggle to find.

Soon after, they made it to the town of Lune finally, and more specifically the adventurer's guild. Everyone was happy to see Abel back, seems he's quite popular. Abel did a "Rank-up" registration for Ryo, due to being above B rank and with the skills witnessed, which pushed Ryo straight to D rank instead of F rank. Ryo also had a run in with an elf, and she was interested in him, especially due to the Fairy King's attire he had.

The Guild Master was impressed with the amount of magic stones they got from monsters, and surprised at the volume, given it would usually take many people to take out Wyverns. Abel's team doubts Ryo's abilities, which is understandable given the way he uses magic is apparently basically impossible. I'm sure they will see in the future!

They had a nice celebratory event to welcome Abel back but more specifically in Ryo's honour for helping him. Ryo was assigned to a room with two existing guys Nils and Eto and another new guy Amon. Seems like everyone is pinning after the clerk Nina.

 

Episode 4 was good. Ryo has attended class for a while now and learnt the ropes of dungeons theoretically, so he and Amon along with the rest of the class will be venturing into a Dungeon. Ryo queried about teleportation within dungeons, but it isn't too common seemingly, and not in Lune's dungeon.

The dungeon should be fairly safe given it's the top floor. Ryo and Amon took out a soldier ant, which is just a little bigger than usual. The soldier ants seem to be unusual on the first floor, but according to Abel, they can just dig tunnels to the first floor. The room mates were excited to meet Abel.

On their next dungeon endeavour, Ryo and Amon encountered some wolf monsters. While Abel struggled a little and exerted a lot of effort, it was fine for Ryo.

Later when Ryo was alone, an eclipse occurred and he was attacked by an Akuma, and she seems powerful allegedly as strong as a behemoth or griffon. Even still, Ryo held out on his own, although it seems his attire saved him from being badly injured. Her name is Leonore Urraca Alburquerque and she seemingly had fun fighting him and seemed to know a bit about his gear being connected to the Spirit King. She departed given her time was up. I guess they can only appear during an eclipse. After this, Ryo helped his room mates who were being picked on by Dan and his posse, but they were chased off.