There are two main fighting methods that appear in "Mushoku Tensei". They are swordsmanship and magic. The Beast Tribe are skilled in wild martial arts, but top-notch characters such as Ghyslaine are also skilled in swordsmanship, and in the world of "Mushoku Tensei", fighting with swordsmanship and magic is the norm. Among them, the main character Rudeus is skilled in magic! Blessed with a talent for magic since childhood, Rudeus learns magic from his master Roxy and grows as a person. So, this time we will introduce the magic that appears in the work! We will introduce everything from simple magic to elaborate grand magic!
Magic Ranking
First of all, magic is divided into a total of seven ranks. Starting from beginner, the hierarchy is made up of intermediate, advanced, holy, king, emperor, and god-class magic, but if you can use magic up to intermediate level, you are fully qualified. At the holy level, it is said that you have the ability to fight with 1000 soldiers, and at the king level or above, you are considered one of the world's greatest geniuses. Among them, the god-class is the most outstanding, and it is said that if you fight seriously, the topography of the world will change. By the way, the main character, Rudeus, became a holy class at the age of 5.
Six Basic Types of Magic
At the Magic University, there are six basic types of magic, and students are taught the "six basic types" of magic, which are frequently used: fire, water, earth, wind, healing, and detoxification. From this, various types of attributes are born, such as lightning being classified as a wind type. In anime that uses magic types, magic with the attributes of "light and darkness" almost always appears, but as of volume 13 of the manga, there is "curse" and "light sword" in swordsmanship, but light and dark magic do not appear in the work.
Normal Magic and Chantless Magic
Rudeus basically uses magic without chanting, except for healing. Normal magic requires longer chanting as the scale of magic increases, but Rudeus can skip chanting if it is beginner-level magic, and he often fights without chanting. By using magic without chanting, it is possible to cast magic more quickly than usual. In addition, new magic can be created by combining magic. However, since god-level magic requires long chants and magic circles, it cannot be used without chanting. Chanting is an advanced technique, but it seems to be relatively easy to use if you train from childhood.
Healing
"God's power is mellow food. "To those who have lost their strength, I will give them the strength to rise again." The first magic spell in "Mushoku Tensei" that was released with this chant was not a flashy explosion... but a recovery spell called Healing. In the first episode, Rudeus' mother Zenith used Healing to treat the scraped knee of a young child Rudeus after falling.
Healing doesn't just heal the human body
Basically in any game or manga, "heal" is a recovery spell used to treat injuries, but in this work, healing is effective not only on humans and animals, but also on plants. When Roxy was teaching Rudeus magic, she broke a branch of a tree that Zenith treasured, but she used Healing to restore the branch to its original state. Incidentally, the chant used at that time was exactly the same.
There are even more advanced healing magic
There are two types of healing magic: ex healing, which is a higher level of healing magic, and shine healing, which is even higher. Ex healing is considered an intermediate level of healing magic, and can heal external injuries such as burns and broken bones, but cannot heal damage to internal organs. In contrast, shine healing, which is an advanced healing magic, can heal even fatal injuries. However, it cannot heal missing parts such as a torn arm. Rudeus is not very good at healing magic, so he did not know much about it, but when he was healed after Orsted pierced his chest and stopped breathing, he learned that there is "advanced healing magic or even higher"
Water Ball
"May the great water's blessing be where you seek──the refreshing babbling stream is here now──" The first water magic Rudeus learned was Water Ball. It creates a sphere made of water and attacks by throwing it at the target. It is an elementary level of water magic, and is the first technique used in Roxy's class to test. It doesn't look like it has much power, but when Rudeus uses it as a child, it has enough power to destroy the trunk of a tree.
Water Cannon Technique
The first intermediate magic Rudeus used. Rudeus can cast magic without chanting, and just muttering "Water Cannon Technique" causes the magic to explode. The force of the spell is enough to break through the wall of the house, and a torrent of water is released in a straight line outside. (Even though he was still a child, it was so powerful that it nearly drained Rudeus's magical powers.) Zenith was convinced that Rudeus had the potential to become a great magician after using this magic, so she immediately called for a tutor to have him study magic.
Cymuro Nimbus
After learning various things from Roxy as his tutor, the assignment for his final exam was the water Saint-class attack magic Kymuro Nimbus. Its effect is to gather clouds in the sky and bring down heavy rain accompanied by thunder. Not only in "Mushoku Tensei", but in many cases, magic that controls the weather is used as a fairly advanced magic, but in this work, there is a record of a Saint-class magician who can use this magic, which is even higher than advanced, holding back 1,000 soldiers by himself, making him truly a man of a thousand. The graduation exam task was to keep the rain falling for an hour, but Rudeus improved the magic and came up with a way to maintain it by using updrafts. This made Rudeus a Saint-class magician.
Heat Hand
There was no depiction of Heat Hand being used alone, but it is a magic that he used to wash Sylphy's dirty head when he saved her from bullies. He created a water ball with one hand, heated his hand with Heat Hand, and turned the water into hot water to wash Sylphy's head. At first glance, it may seem like a simple magic, but it is a high-level magic that uses two magic elements together.
Ice Pillar
Ice Pillar appeared one year after meeting Silphy. It creates a sharp pillar of ice from the ground. It is about the same size as Silphy's height when she was 6 years old, so it is about 1m tall. In the original work, Silphy is the first to use it, but since she learned magic from Rudeus, Rudeus can definitely use it as well. It is the most basic of magic, but with training, the power of the downward thrust becomes incredible, and if used by a magician of Roxy's level, it has the power to defeat the demon beast "Deathclaw Tiger" in one blow, which is said to have taken a group of S-class adventurers to defeat.
Stone Cannon
The Stone Cannon is one of the most frequently used magic spells used by Rudeus in the story. It is a beginner's earth magic that creates a giant rock from the palm of the hand, but Rudeus often uses this magic because it is easy to use. However, it does not seem to be very lethal, as even a not-so-strong opponent can avoid it by cutting the rock in half. There is also a wind magic called Sonic Boom that creates a wind blade in the palm of the hand, and a fire attribute fireball, but these are not used much.
Stone Bullet
While Stone Burst creates a giant rock, Stone Bullet creates a large amount of small stones and fires them all at once. The power of each blow is reduced, but it is possible to attack a wide area. Rudeus never used it, but it seems that Roxy taught it to Shirone's soldiers as a countermeasure against magic. Incidentally, the stone bullets fired by the soldiers were blocked by Rudeus' air burst.
Other useful earth magic
In addition to the Stone Cannon, Rudeus also uses earth magic, such as "Quagmire", which is a mixed magic with water attribute that sinks the enemy's feet into a quagmire to disable them, and creating a huge wall about 5 meters long that blocks the enemy's path. There are powerful earth magic spells that do not have names. In particular, the quagmire is one of the tactics he created to fight and win against his father Paul, and it is believed that he used it quite a lot during the two years he was an adventurer that were cut from the story, and he later became known by the nickname "Rudeus of the Quagmire".
Transfer Magic
When Rudeus was about to show Roxy and Ghyslaine holy-level magic as a tutor, a light suddenly appeared from the sky and the Fittoa Territory disappeared as if it had been caught in an explosion. This was later called the "Fitoa Territory Transfer Incident" and it was revealed that the cause occurred when a certain person was summoned to this world. In other words, this incident was a "transfer magic" that occurred as a side effect of a "summoning magic" performed to summon someone, and the transfer magic transferred everything in the Fittoa Territory, including the people, buildings, and even plants, to somewhere in the world. Those who were transferred to the ground like Rudeus and his friends were still okay, but many were transferred to the air or sea, and many people lost their lives due to the transfer.
Heavy Rain (Squall)
A smuggling organization appeared in the Great Forest where the Beast Tribe lived, and set fires to kidnap the Beast Tribe. This water-element magic instantly put out the fires. As the name suggests, it can create huge rain clouds in the sky and bring heavy rain. Unlike when using Cymuro Nimbus, which also controls the weather, it was activated without chanting, so the difficulty level of the magic is probably advanced or intermediate. It is thought to be a lower level magic than the Saint-class Kymuro Nimbus.
Air Burst
This technique was also used by Rudeus, but it was used in the biggest battle when Fitz fought an assassin called Night Eyes Crow. By the way, this woman called "Night Eyes Crow" is a skilled assassin who is said to be known by everyone in the underworld. Night Eyes Crow suddenly appeared and threw several knives at him at once, and he used Air Burst to blow them away. He holds both hands at his waist to gather his strength, thrusts his arms forward, and creates wind, knocking all the knives down with the wind pressure. He can also use air bursts on his feet to accelerate with the wind pressure.
Sonic Blast
During the battle with the Night Eyes Crow, Fitz used wind magic while the two were falling from the top floor of the castle. He was probably teleported to the sky with teleportation magic, and the magic he used on the spot while falling was also sonic blast. The details of the technique are not described, but it seems to be a technique that releases compressed wind into the palm of his hand. He fires a sonic blast at the Night Eyes Crow's head, and the recoil from the impact of the fall allows him to avoid the impact and he is almost unharmed. Instead, the Night Eyes Crow is slammed into the ground with force and his body is torn apart. In a flashback scene, there is a depiction of Fitz's hair color changing when he uses this magic, so it may be related to the change in Fitz's hair color.
Disstab Magic
Disstab Magic is a magic that cancels out the magic used by the Dragon God Orsted. Instead of canceling out the magic that has been activated, you counteract it by hitting it with your own magic before it is activated. When Orsted activated it, it was depicted as chains, and something like a seal was placed on the arm that was about to use the magic. Since Rudeus activated the magic with his other hand immediately afterwards, it is believed that the effect is limited to the arm that was about to be activated. Later, when Rudeus used Distave Magic, there was no depiction of the chains, so it seems that it was a depiction unique to Orsted, and it doesn't seem like the chains are particularly drawn.
Howl Magic
Voice magic that the Dorudia tribe is good at. It has the ability to seal the opponent's movements by howling. Although it was a surprise attack, Rudeus was immobilized and thrown into a prison by an opponent who was considered inferior. Although it is basically a magic unique to the Dorudia tribe, it seems that other races can use it as long as they understand the principle. (As of volume 13 of the comics, only the Dorudia tribe uses it)
Summary of magic that appears in the story
So far, we have introduced the magic that appears in the story. This work also features powerful magic that can change the terrain, but in fact, even as the story progresses, basic magic learned in the beginning continues to be useful. There are still many mysterious magics in the original comics, such as summoning magic, but it will be exciting to see how this magic will be portrayed in the anime!
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