Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Vol. 16 by Rifujin Na Magonote

Author:Rifujin Na Magonote [Magonote, Rifujin na]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: light novel
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Published: 2022-03-15T07:00:00+00:00

After reading his diary, Ariel was so shocked that she spent half a day slumped over, doing nothing. Even now she leaned against one of the shelves with her legs pulled to her chest, her expression dark as she mumbled to herself, “Is this it? Is this the kind of king that Lord Perugius is searching for?”

Luke and Sylphie were trying to help her regain her composure, but even their voices were strained from the shock at discovering what kind of person Gaunis really was.

Personally…great king or not, Gaunis was a human being first and foremost, so his behavior wasn’t all that surprising to me. If anything, it made him easier to relate to.

Though I have to admit that his behavior isn’t very kingly.

In spite of that, Perugius had seen fit to support someone like Gaunis. So perhaps Gaunis being a garbage human being might actually be a hint. Thus, I continued my search, and it was then that I found a deeply intriguing book on Blessed Children.

This tome covered which Blessed Children had been discovered at the time, what powers they possessed, and what kind of people they were. None of it seemed to have anything to do with Gaunis. At least not until I came upon an article that described the “Powerless Blessed Child.” The title alone made me imagine the opposite of Zanoba, who boasted inhuman strength. Powerless suggested this person was frail and wimpy.

Despite my impressions, the power described was deemed extremely dangerous, enough that the text emphasized that anyone possessing it should be killed immediately. A Powerless Blessed Child could disable other Blessed Children’s powers.

I had seen this pattern pretty often in light novels with superpowers. In most cases, the person with the ability to disable the powers of others had no other abilities of their own. This often put them at a disadvantage and others looked down on them. But in these series, the majority of the central characters possessed super powers, like ninety percent of them, so the ability to nullify their abilities was game-changing. Naturally, the person possessing this rare gift was typically the main protagonist.

Blessed Children were so rare in this world, however, that there were probably only a handful of them in existence. Being able to nullify their abilities didn’t seem all that potent. If anything, it seemed extremely useless to me. It would be way better to have a Sword God-style warrior on your side than someone like that.

That said, other Blessed Children tended to be authority figures in their respective countries. They could create miracles with their powers that one normally couldn’t bring about through ordinary magic. For that very reason, it would be a huge disadvantage to a country if their Blessed Child’s power was snuffed out. Other countries would see a Powerless Blessed Child as a nuisance, while their own country would deem them as a worthless liability that only put them under foreign scrutiny. Thus, it was advised to kill such a child immediately.

The power described, however, did catch my interest.

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