Magecrafter
I will have to agree to disagree, there have been a great number of magus/magic users throughout fantasy that pursuit magic to it's highest levels, at some point most of them end up alone. Merlin and Morgana. Merlin seals himself away after Arthur dies. Morgana dies in her attempt to rule over Camelot. Raistlin Majere of Dragonlance dies alone after forsaking his twin brother. Albus Dumbledore dies killed by his own machina via Snape. He has no lover and no children, nor is he close to anyone in his personal life. You described your main character as a magic lover, magic is a cruel mistress who does not believe in sharing. If he intends to travel to the heights of magic he should built up thicker skin, colder mindset, unwavering heart, and unrelenting spirit.
1. due to low mana, they destroyed his dream to be a magician 2. alphonse is arrogant, you do not scold them before you teach them that magic can harm. As a teacher, he should have thought his pupil the dangers of magic, as it is the most basic knowledge before even performing magic, in which as a teacher, failed to do so. 3. a match with an adult is stupd. they are just showing MC to throw away his hopes and forcing him to become a magic scholar. imagine him not having memories, and creating multiple mana cores, he will be defeated and then plunge himself in thr darkness. they are creating a villain. u say that Alphonse is holding back? a match of someone on the MCs age does not move like that. Alphonse was so nimble and evading the attacks. A magician of the same age would have already been beaten. 4. his parents on his first life was better. at least they did not destroy his dreams and supported him. 5. Alphonse could have apologized. As an adult, he could have know that it was half his responsibility, this relates to teaching the dangers of magic. 6. Hey, instead of a duel, why would you not try hunting a bear instead?
Hahahaha, ok that was funny. The last two chapters were a failure, that's a fact. Regardless of the moral itself, or how it affected the main character, the execution of growth itself was terrible. It was forced and inappropriate. What you're trying to do is "frieren beyond journey's end" but it doesn't work. I don't want to hurt your fragile ego, but learn to take constructive criticism.
IWell I am one who don’t mind spending hundreds on book who are entertaining to me.. but this one is not it… it is a well written story grammatically speaking but so far none of the plot development I see was necessary… me I like mc that know what they want and is capable of doing most thing to achieve it.. whenever I read book about reincarnation I always expect the me to be level headed cause regardless of what excuse u may give a lifetime of experience can’t just disappear.. if I was to be reborn with all my thinking and experiences are still this alone should make my thinking different…
Why is everyone talking in exclamation points! It can actually get quite obnoxious to read after a while! Also, this entire bet sequence seems pointless. It’s like if your teacher thinks you’d be a good engineer and you act insulted making a bet with them so that they have to say you’d be a good writer. Like what does it matter? Put your head down and work to be a writer. Getting the approval from a literal rando is irrelevant (maybe it’s revealed he’s someone important later but we, and by extension the mc, don’t know that yet). I could see a child acting like this but we’ve been told many, many times that he should be mentally mature. And I don’t believe for a second that this is all him trying to act like a kid to hide his actual age.