WM – Chapter 239: Takatsuki Makoto meets the Holy Dragon

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• Hmm wait? They need lifespan to use mana? Why? Maybe it already explained somewhere but i forget it. Could someone please tell me?

  Anyways it's good that makoto finally can master one desteny magic. I expect someday makoto can stop the time in the world (and maybe master timetravel magic too)

  Those dragon didnt know that when 5 undine appeared it was the time that they will fucked up

  • Makoto has almost no mana, so he uses sacrificial magic to convert lifespan into mana.

    • Wait, Why would makoto need his own mana to cast a spell ? Can he just ask undine to borrow the infinite mana of the spirit? Maybe sacrificing your lifespan was the condition for the spirit to lend their mana to its user

      • The Undines can cast magic using their own mana. The problem is the summoning ones. My guess is, essentially, like any summoner in RPG tropes, summoning an entity cost mana. After that entity summoned, they do their bidding using their own power.

        And since Makoto's mana is so low, it's automatically convert his live span into mana. This is akin to sacrificial magic like time travel thing done by the demon side (like those devilkin of Snake Church). They need huge amount of mana, and to supply that need, they offer living beings.

  • It's probably the sacrificial magic/technique where they use lifespan to replace for the mana needed to cast the spell they need.

    • Seconded, I think it's this too. That Dia being probably unable to differentiate lifespan from mana probably means that she did it without thinking too.

      I mean, is it possible that if you keep trying to exert Mana despite running on empty would cause you to burn lifespan instead, and automatically? Would explain how naturally she just took his lifespan.

  • This girl didn’t take my mana but my lifespan.
    Or more like, the mana and lifespan of Spirits is infinite.
    I am sure Dia sees both of them as the same.

    So based on this line. Spirits cannot tell the difference between mana and lifespan cause you know. The spirit are alive as long as their water and water can be considered mana for undine and their lifespan. So undine is both mana and lifespan. So that's why it takes makotos lifespan as compensation for mana

• Well I guess he can just continue sacrificing demons to water goddess to get more lifespan so I guess it doesn't really matter too much.... Water kingdom might be really strong in the future though so ganbatte Iris in trying to correct for time paradoxes here.

  Thanks for the chapter!

• “Hey, Dia, how much of my lifespan did you use for the summoning of your little sisters?” (Makoto)
  “Eh?” (Dia)
  Dia made a shocked expression.
  This girl didn’t take my mana but my lifespan.
  Or more like, the mana and lifespan of Spirits is infinite.
  I am sure Dia sees both of them as the same.
  “Uhm…let’s see…around 10 years worth of mana?” (Dia)

  I thought it was free, buy one (dia) take all ( sisters). 😂 The payment of a spirit harem is his lifespan. 😂. Thats kinda scary

  • Having a large harem really takes a toll on your stamina (lifespan).
    He should drink some potions that could increase his stamina, else he will not survive from a sevensome (Lucy, Aya, Sofia, Furiae, Momo, Dia).

    • Considering makoto is a walking womanizer, i think he needs a Godly stamina potion. Just in case he have unconsciously make a girl fall for him. Decides to follow him. 😂 A normal potion made in the mortal world is not enough. Even sakurai is having trouble in 20 girls, how much more on makoto when girls is stronger than him( i mean, Physical strength) 😂.

    • Poor Janet got left out

    • Hmm, wouldn't Dia be able to use Water Magic based healing magic? Infinite mana too! Also don't forget Janet, Sun Magic has heals in it, would help her train her proficiency too! (Bonus!) And Momo has also shown proficiency in healing. Really, it'd probably be more a case of "wanting to die but can't".

      • "wanting to die but can't", Last time I envy him, now i pity him🙃

  • It's an investment! Remember that one Undine was enough for Makoto to incapacitate Shuri for the kill. IIRC she's worth 15 years, so a 13 years profit!

• I was rereading the novel again and I think I found a flag on chapter 62.
  I won’t say what it is but if anyone has the time to read it go ahead.

  • The fridge stuff? I think I mentioned that too in an earlier chapter's comment. If that's not a red herring, then we might already know where someone is in the "present". They've likely gone a long way since their catfight days. The question is if there's anyone else in there, which may explain the relative peace.

• ......NICE!

  Without Noah around, we didn't really have anything to sacrifice lifespan to. We're probably going to earn more than the human limit, after all, so it basically is a mana bar. Well, more like an ammo bar?
  Tee hee, Dia couldn't tell them apart.

  Well, these lizards picked a fight. Mama doesn't have any right to complain at the consequences at this point.
  "Why should I help?"
  "Because I spared your children."

  • Isn't there a lifespan limit per species? I think 100 years was the limit for humans. So no ammo bar

    • He can use saved up lifespan then replenish from demons. Kinda like an ammo bar but with a limit of 100 years.

    • The lifespan limit is an upper limit to how long a particular species can live. I don't think there's actually any limit to the lifespan measured by the Soul Book though. So basically, I think it's more like you can probably still have a total of 1000 years in your Soul Book even as a human, but you still die even when there's still 900 years left because human. But those 900 years you can still spend freely on sacrificial techniques. Or maybe the soul book also has a limit, until something is said about that, it's conjectures.

  • If it really is limited to how long his natural lifespan is, then it'd be a pretty shitty ammo bar with diminishing capacity wouldn't it? A fifty years old Makoto would only have 50 years cap since that's the longest time he has left.

    I'm personally leaning to interpreting the Soul Book display and natural lifespan limit as two separate thing. Once you're at the end of your natural lifespan, no matter how much lifespan is displayed in your Soul Book you die. Conversely, that would also mean there's no real limit to the recorded lifespan you can stock up and use for Sacrificial Technique. Or something like that.

• Thanks for the chapter

  Lifespan huh

• Ah. So the reason the dragons left the place was because of a past Makoto experience? Thanks for the chapter

• 10 years! It shaved 10 years of his lifespan...
  A fitting price, but still... I really think that Clear Mind skill is messing with Makoto's judgement.

  • I think it's probably caused by RPG player

  • Not like Makoto's judgment will make any difference. He found out about the ten years cost after the fact, so the only thing he can do now is make the best use of it. The only thing he can do with the information is to make informed decision about it later.

• Whe he used time magic I honestly got really excited, even if it was something little, it's still feel good. That now that I'm talking about this, what happened with his charm magic and the cat? He haven't futher developed the charm to high heights, yeas is still there and can have a grteat effect if the other part like Makoto, but I still want something more, and the mystery of the cat is still there.

  • If he tries to master his charm magic, his harem will look at him with cold eyes lol.
    The potency of his charm is really weak. Even if he trains it, I don't think that it will make a huge difference.

    • Yeah, but still is a bit unsatisfactory that his only Dark Magic is at that level, but meh.

  • The charm magic is also limited by his mana capacity. Really when we're talking about Makoto and magic other than Water (and Ice) that's the big issue. He has all the fine control to make delicate carvings with a nuke equivalent, but all the magical muscle of a quadriplegic equivalent. So for him to accomplish big things, he'd need to hook up to an outside power source, the proverbial nuke as it were. Depending on his proficiency, if he were to sync with Furiae now he'd probably be able to charm Shuri (which Furi failed to do earlier) based on that fine control alone. But if he were to try it with his own mana he'd probably pass out long before it shows any effect. Really, the point of that charm magic on its own is mainly to attract Great Spirits (thus now rather obsolete with Dia around).

    The cat though..., yeah makes you wonder what's the deal with it huh?

  • I still think that his charm magic works like pokemon's HM. To progress the plot and your adventure. Since fate/destiny magic have many applications even though it's a beginner level skill, maybe the one that'll be relegated to such status will be his sun magic instead.

    • Well, the Sun Magic control electricity and light itself, light aside, if he combine his water with electricity the result should be pretty dangerous, even light should have various things it could do.

• Thanks for the chapter ☺️.

  I say thank you but I felt that the chapter was too short.