Around 40 Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki

Alafor Sage's Journal in Another World (アラフォー賢者の異世界生活日記, Arafoo Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki) is a Japanese light novel series written by Yasukiyo Kotobuki. Originally published via the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in October 2015, the series was later acquired by MF Books (KADOKAWA), which began publishing the series in print with illustrations by Johndee. 2.2 million copies of the series have been sold as of March 2022. A manga adaptation, illustrated by 888, began serialization in the "ComicWalker" (KADOKAWA) since April 25, 2018.

In addition "Around 40 Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki: Kimama na Isekai Kyoushi Life (アラフォー賢者の異世界生活日記～気ままな異世界教師ライフ～, The Diary of a Middle-Aged Teacher's Carefree Life in Another World)", a comicalized version by Maneki & Nishino Ryuu has been serialized in "Manga UP!" (Square Enix) since October 16, 2018.

Around 40 Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki
40-year-old unemployed Satoshi Osako who is restructuring the company and is absorbed in the VRRPG "Sword and Sorcery". In the game, he called himself Zeros Merlin and climbed to the top player, but he died in an accident while logging in. However, Osako was in a large forest that he had never seen before. The goddess of another world who caused the accident informed me that she was reincarnated in another world with the status of the game as it was.

Around 40 Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki: Kimana na Isekai Kyoushi Raifu
Satoshi Osako was a player of the VRRPG 『Sword and Sorcery』 who defeated the Evil God and died for his troubles. When he awoke again he found himself in a strange unknown forest. Furthermore, he possessed his avatar’s body and abilities. In other words, he was a cheat. Can a 40 year old DT, live peacefully in this world?

Let his Isekai adventure begin...

Light Novel
written by Yasukiyo Kotobuki. Originally published via the novel posting website Shōsetsuka ni Narō in October 2015, the series was later acquired by MF Books (KADOKAWA), which began publishing the series in print with illustrations by Johndee.

Manga
A manga adaptation, illustrated by 888, began serialization in the "ComicWalker" (KADOKAWA) since April 25, 2018.

Character
"It's a big mistake to think that God can do everything for us! God is basically a bystander and can't do anything for us. No matter how miraculous it looks, or how low the odds are, as long as there is a possibility out there Sex, what can happen is what happens. But people call it a miracle and worship it, so that’s the trouble."

- Zeros [Book 1]

VR-RPG 【Sword And Sorcery】. It was the popular full immersion game released for the 【Dreamworks】 Gaming system. The game itself was currently on its seventh expansion and the number of enthusiastic users was on a constant rise. The sensory synchronization system created through synaptic and electronic inputs simply outdid any other company’s gaming system. All five senses could be experienced in the virtual world, which grabbed the attention of thrill-seeking gamers and insured that people would constantly return to the game world. Osako Satoshi is one such gamer, who went by 【Zeros Merlin】 While enjoying his time in the virtual world. His avatar had bangs that covered one of his eyes, a stubble and a figure that wasn’t anything special. While he wore first-class equipment, it was all unified by a design scheme that favored inconspicuousness. Many people didn’t suspect that the medium-sized man in the dirty grey cloak was actually one of the game’s top five players.

Moreover, he was one of the best destroyers in the world. In this game, combat damage was determined by skill level and player level. The elements that attracted the most attention, however, were the equipment and item creation, and the ability to craft your own spells. Magic functioned in this virtual world by stacking 56 basic symbols and 10 numbers in a unique order. The 【Spell Circuits 】system allowed the player to remodel the initial spell’s power and effects by hand, resulting in situations where the power and magic power consumption of a spell could be lowered (for some reason magic power decreased with a spell’s strength). Even in cases where the damage calculation should have resulted in zero damage, it was common for a unique effect to be attached to the spell, leading multiple players in investigating the modifiers available for each spell. The system was so confusing at first that the game was labeled kusoge (a shitty game) early on. After countless hours in the field, it was eventually discovered that if you primed your avatar’s magic beforehand it was possible to create optimal spell conditions. However, since most magic didn’t have any numerical values it was necessary to guess how much magical power was required to prime a spell. The 【Spell Circuits 】 caused quite the commotion at launch because there were no hints that spells could be modified, and it was only discovered purely by chance. The ‘setting’ behind this was that players were able to find clues by exploring dungeons and the game world, but it was up to them to inspect or ignore those hints. Although the game offered a tremendous amount of freedom, only those who truly immersed themselves in its mechanics took advantage of the system, while other players used the standard magic. The time-consuming trial of creating magic was viewed as too restrictive for those who enjoyed the exploration. However, depending on the skill of the player it was possible to create spells with no cast- or cooldown-time. As a committed hobbyist, Satoshi spent his free time crafting high-powered spells that conserved energy and were renowned as a famous magician for his efforts. Well, infamous magician… He’d set up a party with friends of a similar level and they would constantly tackle difficult high-level quests. Currently, he and his companions were fighting an evil god from the story mode.

He didn’t know how long they’d been fighting. He just knew that they’ve come this far to defeat the last boss. The five of them had managed to force the ominous evil god into its third form. They were equipped with various magical weapons and had been overwhelming the evil god with their firepower since the start. Several years had passed since the game’s release, but they have always monopolized the highest player rankings. A major contributor to that was Satoshi’s magic, which was classified as some of the strongest and most effective magic in the world. Satoshi threw his everything into this world as it was the only place where he could relax. Once upon a time, he’d been a programming technician for a top corporation, but he was laid off for some reason and now lived a lonely rural life. He’d spend every day playing the game. In other words, he was socially withdrawn. In this fictitious world, he was an influential 【Sage】 and the envy that his status generated only pulled him deeper into it. He was a bachelor over 40 and he had no family besides an older sister, so it could be said that the virtual world is the only place where he could be himself. Incidentally, he was a wizard in real life as well. The evil god directed it anger towards him as it threw all of its power into a curse. The surroundings were drowned in a strange light. On that, the power all across Japan went out. The corpses of several unidentified people were discovered a few days later, but the cause of death was never discovered. On that day, Osako Satoshi quietly passed away in a rural Japanese village. And his journey will start in the middle of the forest.....

Abilities
"Only those who keep struggling can get ahead, and there's no shame in being weak."

- Zeros

After the incident in Japan, The Goddess Freya of the New World saves Osako Satoshi and Reborn in Another World, he grants him all his game avatar specs. He is very knowledgeable in magic and even the code on it he can able to decipher the magic spell on it, and even he can conduct a new spell on his own arsenal of magic spells.

 MAGIC CONCEPT :

 ANNIHILATOR :
 * The magic structure in the magic formula, magic circle, and magic scroll is composed of 56 magic words and 10 magic numbers. A single word or number has no meaning. It needs to be correctly combined to make sense. The activation of magic requires magic formulas, corresponding imagery and knowledge, and appropriate magic power. It will be better to use it after writing the magic formula/magic circle into the subconscious field. With the skill of "manipulating magic power", you can omit the chant, and use "control magic" to compress the magic power. If it is not written in the subconscious mind, activate Magic has to gather imagery, knowledge, and magic power while chanting, and it will fail if you are not careful. "External magic power" and "natural magic power" are sources of magic power other than the human body. Mixing magic power sources in magic spells can reduce the consumption of human magic power and enhance magic power in a timely manner. "Magic Book" is a magic formula written on magic paper with special ink, and the content can be rewritten by manipulating magic power.


 * As a group in "Sword and Sorcery", the members are all avid gamers with one block, many of the magic and equipment used are self-made, and a lot of effort is devoted to creating things. The occupation of all members is "Great Sage". For a while, in order to annihilate PK players, an activity was initiated to protect new players on the surface, but in fact, they were used as bait to attract PK players. Later, this activity continued and helped many new players, so the annihilates have a lot in the hearts of players. High status, Elise has also been helped.

Zeros are good at commanding and training everyone, it has the knowledge equivalent to making troops as determined as soldiers who know they are going to die, thus they will fight unto their deaths and until their lives are exhausted. His method of training and commanding was based on the game that he played the method is through experience and training to overcome death and any outcome. He can maximize the power of allied troops as an army, including himself and he can grasp and analyze the situation, correct advice can be given to one's allies.

Related
Daisuke Iwakura of 『Da Vinci NEWS』 stated, "This work conveys the dreams and sorrows of Around 40 who are struggling in the rough and tumble of society, and I am sure that slightly tired old men of the same age will be able to relate to it."

Trivia
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