SPELLCRAFT: Reincarnation Of A Magic Scholar by Magecrafter

Great way to read about how a lot of the things in your life is useless and worthless especially wasting years on absolutely nothing that someone has been through. Insane amount of writing just for academic arc and feels like was shoved down my throat that it had to happen while mc lost his brain cells and became a kid there to the point all his memories are basically poof and everyone in the novel has almost a mentality of a child/teen/youngster. It had good potential but wasted too much of it that I feel like at this point I cant describe that story is just too full of things that we do not really need perhaps in the future but still I can see that this is going to be a short story of about 600 chapters if its only this world so yeah… wasted so much time on the academic arc that I feel like it was dragging out. Story dumbed down

You know an author is shit when they make someone who is supposed to be an old man act like a immature teenager.

The display in the chapter list is not correct. There's a jumble from 320++ until latest chapters. Would be nice if it can be fixed as readers such as myself cant see the correct sequence of the chapters.

trash level 7

The author forgot that the MC is a reincarnated Great Sage of Magic. The MC is a boy with a huge ego and a knowledge of magic, he is not a Great Sage of Magic.
The MC's biggest idiocy is going to school!!! He is rich! It was enough to hire teachers for practical classes. Why waste time with children? The whole arc of the academy is very forced.

Sorry if my English is bad.

Beginning of the story rather correct, with an MC possessing great knowledge in magic theory following his previous life. Now our protagonist has a magic talent with which he can evolve along the story. With his knowledge, he will take a path taken by no other mage before. Seeing the MC develop his own magical techniques is the highlight of the novel. However, this will quickly be ruined by a completely useless story arc for character growth.

But before continuing my review... why? I really want to know why the author created an academic arc? It's a real question! I don't understand... Some will say that our protagonist just wants to update himself in terms of magical theory, and that's the excuse the author uses, but between us, the MC doesn't need it . In 500 years, no one has reached the theoretical level in magic of the ancient identity of the MC. Certainly the protagonist had no magic in his previous life and therefore could not continue his research without testing his theories himself. But in 500 years, no one has tried to expand the research either. This means logically that in 500 years, magic has not evolved much. Moreover, with the powerful position of his family, nothing prevents our MC from using connections to obtain knowledge. Especially since he has mages in his family. The knowledge of our protagonist coupled with the position of nobility of his family should have been more than enough for the MC to develop this discreetly and without many events preventing him from doing his research. Because of all these details, the academic arc comes too forced. Add to that the loose caste system in the academy which further unnecessarily hampers the MC and you have a boring arc with protagonist progression slowed by the need to slap arrogant nobles.

It just feels like the author wanted to see his protagonist slap the others with his unknown talent because the premise is cool. No it's not cool unless it's well written and introduced. But here this is not the case. Presence of the academic arc illogical in view of the passive of the MC, and the caste system introduced in a too forced way, giving the impression that it exists only to piss off the MC. It breaks the immersion of the story.

Too bad, the novel starts rather well. I would also like to point out that this is only my personal opinion, I advise you to read it yourself to form an opinion. On that, enjoy your reading.

before i read, how long is the academy arc?

It start with a good pace. The mc got a lot of knowledge in his old life since he's also a legend. He make a lot of theory just to cover his flaw.

However, in his current life. He only use the mana core theory in the beginning. After that, he's almost the same as the others. The story turn boring.

His soul is an old man, yet he act like immature child. F**k you author for making my expectations high in this novel.

Up to ch83.
Conclusion so far? Novel should be renamed to Re: Face Slapping Ancestor.

It started out with some good potential, especially some interesting intrigue, but instead it took the route of circuitously plotted face slapping. The MC clearly stated his goals and the inscrutable passion he had to teach them.....and then he promptly took the longest, most troublesome and wasteful path to achieve it.