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 Fairy 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.

 

Episode 5 was good. Eto, Nils and Amon went into the dungeon again and came across some goblins on the 5th layer, which is highly unusual. So much so, that once the clerk Nina was alerted of it, she reported it to the guild master who feared it was another Great Tidal Bore event, so made plans to counter it if needed with help of the regional knights, and gathered the Crimson Sword lead by Abel and White Brigade lead by Phelps to investigate for signs of it. Despite Abel and Phelps apparently being childhood friends, their relationship is a little awkward.

The magic user from Abel's party Lyn continues to struggle to find any information on magic that exists like Ryo is able to use, so continues to not really believe it.

Ryo tried using his water magic to propel himself at high speed, which ended up being a dud, so he went off to the library to look more into Akuma and alchemy. At the library, Ryo ran into the elf lady again, Sera. She is intimately familiar with the library books, and specifically what he was after isn't available but she was helping him find some useful books.

The parties lead by the guild master went to investigate the dungeon, but Abel had Lyn Probe it before entering which confirmed that the Great Tidal Bore was already upon them, so they evacuated and the adventurers and arranged knights fought off hordes of goblins. With the majority of the goblins defeated, The Crimson Sword and White Brigade descended to take down the rest and then the three Goblin Generals before the Goblin King came out. Although it was extremely strong, thanks to planning, Abel's team took it out. Ryo missed the whole thing by being at the library lol. Some strange black void door is within the dungeon.

 

Episode 6 was good. Ryo returned to the guild all celebrating their victory over the goblins. The poor guild master isn't having anywhere near as fun with the bunch of paperwork he has to do as a result of it. The Royal Capital is also sending researchers to investigate what happened, even with the dungeon sealed off for a month. Lyn was happy to meet Ryo and asked about if he really could use magic in the way Abel described and seemed to just believe it because he said yes lol. Not sure why she doesn't just ask for a demonstration. She also found out about Ryo not really needing to use incantations which is obviously also out of the ordinary.

With the dungeon closed, there's no jobs left for Nils, Eto and Amon. In that case, Ryo offered to hire them and pay them a good amount of gold, in exchange for collecting some magic copper ore outside of the dungeon.

Interestingly, Dan who was douche defended a girl from some lecherous knights sexually harassing her. Ryo did help with his magic from afar, but Phelps ended up stepping in. Turns out he is of nobility, more specifically the next heir of House Heinlein, and the former commander of the royal knights' son. Later the same knights tried ambushing Phelps but were all killed by the woman, Shenna who uses fire magic.

Abel requested Ryo's help at night to gather up some less than noble knights on behalf of one of the investigators dispatched to Lune, who's an old acquaintance of his. They had a run in with some sketchy looking adventurers who targeted them, but were defeated. They left it to the town guard to take care of them.

After some back and forward, the investigators and guild master came to agreement about the terms for investigating the dungeon. They would be accompanied by Abel's squad with others to follow. Seems like trouble, apparently in the last Great Tidal Bore a group of A ranks lead by an S rank never returned so no one knows what goes on there after the Great Tidal Bore.

The investigators encountered that strange black void-like door and when trying to gauge the mana density beyond it, they all vanished likely teleported away. That left the water mage girl Natalie Schwartzkoff as the sole person remaining, so she will presumably get help from Ryo who helped her deliver a message to Abel, given Abel said to go to Ryo if she even needed help again.

 

Episode 7 was good. So the teleported people most likely ended up on the 40th level, as that's where a reading appeared for a moment, at least from what Natalie's group could gather. They passed the message on to the guild master via Nina. The guild master requested all of the adventurers be kept in the dark while he gets more info on what occurred. The guild master and Christopher agreed they couldn't send anyone else in, so they just pray for their safety lol. RIP.

When Abel's group gathered their baring, Abel had Lyn use probe and she found around 1000 humans and a group of 50 unknown life forms. The humans were Clive and the others teleported with them, and the other creatures were devils, said to be immune to all magic.

The group of investigators was getting slaughtered by the devils, except the few in the barrier. Abel's group then engaged the devils and had success killing them with group attacks of magic. Once the magic users were unable to cast more, they engaged in melee combat and took out more devils.

An anomaly was amongst the devils, a demon prince who apparently only heroes can defeat. Only four can exist at once and they evolve into a demon lord. Abel attempted to combat it, but was outmatched. As I thought, Ryo arrived just in time to save him. He took out some devils without effort and will now fight the demon prince. Although, he thinks it's a joke because it's weak.

 

Episode 8 was good. Ryo cleaned house. First he decapitated the demon prince, only for it to reattach its head. As a result, Ryo used a bunch of water jets to basically slice it to dust, and the mana stone, which killed it. Abel was very grateful and offered him a week of food for the save, although Ryo was content with a single meal. Unfortunately, the rest of the people died on that floor, so the only survivors were the Crimson Sword members and Arthur. They did find survivors on another floor, likely the ones Clive's group hired and collected a broken orb.

I do wonder though, if those are really the devils they are referred to, or if the Akuma are the actual devils. This lines up with Arthur revealing speculation of them using space-time magic which seems like was actually what Leonore used.

Off with Leonore, she come out of a portal and before a party, one of whom was allegedly a hero, Roman. For some reason tried to summon the Demon Lord using the alter, so Roman could slay it, thinking he could. Interestingly, she isn't the demon lord and easily defeated them. She lamented that Ryo is like 10000 times stronger but the most interesting thing was that she thought that group could actually probably kill the current demon lord if they worked together. She also took the black orb thing, which is what opened the portal, and also like the broken one that Arthur and the others collected.

Ryo was reprimanded a bit by the guild master for ignoring the guards and going into the dungeon when it was closed. Thankfully, Arthur cleared up what happened with the guild master. If it wasn't for Ryo, they would've all died. He urged them to not make an enemy of Ryo.

Ryo ran off to a curry place he was showed to and met Sera again. She challenged him to a spar, and she won, although I think that Ryo wasn't going out. Elves are half fairies kind of, so it's how she knew he was trained by the Fairy King.

As punishment, the guild master gave Ryo a non-dungeon job. He's to leave rune and accompanying some merchants to Whitnash.

 

Episode 9 was good. Nils' hometown the village of Abali put up a hunting request, and he asked Ryo for his help, as they aren't a high enough rank to take it as it's D rank. The request involves hunting goblins and skeletons which has Ryo excited as a "fantasy trope" so he accepted.

Other adventurers in Kailadi tried a team of D and E rank, but neither could complete it hence the request was forwarded to Lune. Apparently the people chased out the adventurers, which seems strange. The village was happy to welcome Nils back. Boulan the mayor was happy to have Nils and the others deal with it. Turns out the reason they chased the other adventurers out was because the danger of the eastern woods. They took the fighting too far there and spilled blood.

The villagers' custom is to avoid that place, and has been for generations. After Nils got approval from the village and council, he revealed that the village has two special things. One being in the eastern woods is a guardian beast which his why the villages chased the adventurers out. Ryo assumes it's possessed or something. The other thing special in the village is the shrine.

The group encountered goblins first and took them out before being having to deal with a goblin general. Ryo dealt with restraining it and let Nils finish it off. They met with the village elder Mistress Nasu after that. she lead them to the guardian beast. Interestingly, she seems to indicate not all magic needs incantations, at least those that worship the Earth Goddess. She doesn't know when all people started to think that all spells need incantations. The guardian beast is a Fenrir and was very happy to meet Ryo due to the link between the Fairies and his species. They were lead to the shrine where the skeletons were along with the stronger arch skeleton that was restrained. In the shrine was a statue holding one of those orbs which is cracked, which links back to the dungeon incident.

Some new characters were introduced, seemingly an army and the lieutenant and commander are going to Whitnash so will likely cross paths with Abel who was also sent there by the guild master. The lieutenant is the Inferno Magician.

 

Episode 10 was good. The group of Ryo, Amon, Nils and Eto went off for Whitnash, all on the same quest. They also wanted their party to be called Room 10. It's a 9 day venture there because of the festival there. After arriving, they were free to participate in the festival so went around trying the food.

So, turns out the commander of the knights is actually the younger Princess Fiona. The lieutenant Oscar speculates the princess was sent to Whitnash so the King could clean up some traitors. Prince Conrad, Fiona's brother was also in attendance. They're kind of polar opposites. Conrad is fine keeping up with noble etiquette while Fiona struggles and hates it.

Ryo's group ran into Abel's group, along with seeing Abel as the temporary stand in for the guild master. They also saw the princess too. Rihya and Lyn had a lot of good things to say about Oscar, praising his strength. He and Ryo also had a run in where they almost bumped into each other, but Ryo avoided him with his speed. I wonder how they compare. Oscar and another were stuck getting food for Princess Fiona too.

There was some more participation in some festival activities. Eto, Nils and Abel gave their hand at archery, well, Abel knocked it out of the part as expected. There was also some row boating activity, which just ended with Dan and Nils fighting.

Sera visited the guild to try and pass on some information to Ryo about what he was looking into. She was devastated to learn he would be away for a few days.

During the evening there is another social event. A planned attack takes place with the magic barrier going out too. Not good. I wonder if the target is the Princess.