Around 40 Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki

Around 40 Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki (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 Kotobuki, Yasukiyo and Illustrate by Johndee.

Synopsis
40-year-old unemployed Satoshi Osako who is restructuring the company and is absorbed in the VRRPG "Sword and Sorceris". 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.

Media

 * Manga
 * Light Novel

External Link

 * Official Link

Character
VR-RPG 【Sword And Sorcery】. It was the popular full immersion game released for the 【Dream Works】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 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 was 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:
After the incident in Japan, The Goddess Freya of the New world save Osako Satoshi and Reborn in Another World, he grant him all his game avatar specs.

System:

 * Inventory
 * 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).
 * Magic manipulation
 * Mana Control
 * Mana Consumption Reduction

Magic Spell:

 * Multilayered spell it able to cast without consuming too much mana.
 * Wings of the Dark Crow was a flight magic It invented by Satoshi/Zeros’.
 * Discretion was a One hit kill any weapon projectile.
 * Dark Judgment the super gravity magic and annihilation magic that basically created a black hole that was moments away from going critical and randomly releasing its energy.
 * Blooming Forest was a ice magic that instant freeze the opponent when it cast in certain area.
 * Dark Lightning a Jet-black bullets penetrated their bodies and struck them with the force of a thunderbolt from within.
 * Devil’s Blessing was one of Zeros’ self-made spells that gave a massive boost to magic attack.
 * Manacles of Steel a magic strip of binding magic skill that made of different formulas to get more stronger the opponent struggle.
 * Create Golem: Mud Golem had stats equal to those of a level three monster.
 * God’s Silver Shell is a barrier that can change its shape at the caster’s discretion. The silver shell was an incredibly versatile weapon in the right hands. The mana consumption was relatively small, and it was a fantastic counter to energy-based magic. It is a original magic that made by Zeros’.
 * Gai Control
 * Stone wall
 * Phantom Rush
 * Heavenly Arrow of Judgement: the user shoots a shining arrow towards the sky with his high mana concentration bow. The arrow splits in the air countless of times transforming into a swarm of rock arrows, flying at such high speeds that they gathered the surrounding dust, and then, they rained down to the opponent.
 * Dark Chain
 * Thunder bullet
 * Blink
 * Body Enhancement
 * Blessings of the Great Gods it's a body strengthening magic able to enhance basic attack.
 * Spear of the Lighting Emperor a produced of a lighting spear from the palms of the user, and it's readily hurls it towards.
 * Bind Break, a skill that wards off the effects of binding and restraining magics.
 * Shadow Javelin Countless jet-black spears emerged from the shadows and pierced to the enemy.
 * Roaring Lightning of the Thunder God A skill that towards off the effect unleashing bolt of lightning to the nearest opponent.
 * Scattering Silver Frost Ranged attack magic, [Scattering Silver Frost], it’s a remodeled version of the ice magic [Diamond Dust] that freezes and vanishes the enemies.
 * Rock Forming
 * Plasma Bind
 * Tearing Flower Zephyr A gale of wind blows through the opponent, the wind itself can decapitate or disassemble part of the body of the opponent.
 * Arrow of the Hunting God The dust floating around instantly condenses forming an arrow capable of piercing through steel, which is then released towards the direction of the optical distortion.
 * Area Paralyze A ball of light is formed in Zeros’ left hand, who then proceeds to shoot it towards the opponents.
 * Air Protection It can deflect arrows for a fixed period of time.
 * Wings of the Dark Bird It’s the flight magic that will responding, the user starts to levitate in the air.
 * Black Lightning A jet-black thunder is emitted around the caster.
 * Scorching Purgatory Flames an ultra-high temperature flame. The fire reached ten thousand degrees [Celsius] in an instant, and true to its name of purgatory flames, the magic propelled an enormous shockwave into the surroundings.
 * Absolute Zero Barrier Fifty layered barrier.
 * Cocytus The surrounding area was cooled down by continuously shooting the wide-range freezing magic, and as the air temperature rapidly declines.
 * Calamity Cyclone
 * Flare Bird
 * Air burst
 * Plasma Burst Distraction
 * Wings of the Black Bird a upgraded version of flight magic that fly high in the air… at a tremendous speed.
 * Chain Bind As a magic circle suddenly emerges beneath the opponent, countless chains spring forth and restraining it.
 * Prominence Flame a flame-type incineration magic form of incandescent fire ball that turning the opponent into ash.
 * Railgun, a super-electromagnetic cannon. The only way to defend against it was to deploy a conical barrier pointed towards it to deflect the shot.
 * High Heal

Equipment's:

 * Ring: ring of Zero's acts of as a medium to cast any magic spell.
 * Magic Paper: Magic Paper  into vertical pieces, and started writing magic characters with a pen on them. It’s 【Magic Note Arcana】 but the characters written were terribly precise, and current magicians couldn’t even hope to decipher them.
 * Able to use as summoning a familiar, At the moment the chant was finished, the magic note started absorbing the mana in the surroundings and condensing it in the form of an eagle. Ex: [Flap your wings and become my eyes, Artificial Feng]