haha. so did the civilization of magic.....stagger?

Suddenly become dumb

Is this a trend now? MCs getting reincarnated in the future, and then finding out that the overall combat strength in the world has degraded?

I'm gonna stick to this for a while since the beginning shows that the author can write.

Well... I guess he already accomplished his dream of being "sekai saikyou" lol

@plastic_sludge that's the basic story of the movie Idiocracy.

This character is really really dumb.

When going to the future, there is always two possibilities. Regress and progress.

Recognizing those two shouldn't be too difficult.

Nooooooooooo

Making a weak character stronger by making the whole world weaker is a terrible way to do power fantasy.

Imagine a character whose whole problem is that he is not very smart. He works hard at it, trying to match up to smarter people, but then suddenly he is transported to a world where everyone is an idiot. Oh wait. That's every other isekai. Nevermind.

This is fine.

I can't believe the world changed that much in 400 years, that it isn't the same as before I was reincarnated. *sarcasm*

That's a dumb way to do some exposition.

@Solaz I mean it's technically possible that he does have a different affinity... but yeah, also he's just strictly better at the normal shit than everyone else on top of that.

Despite that lack of affinity in the normal ones, which is kinda boring generic isekai stuff but is what it is.

Man I was hoping it was going to be that he was another element outside of the standard 4 instead of just being smart and everyone else dumb after being reincarnated

is this the "subjugation dude" rip-off?..

Can we named him mathias 2?

thanks for translation '-'7

@Woodfolk : it likely happened over multiple generations, with benefits at first, then they slowly started dropping basics to focus more on developing their aptitudes. Though as soon as they start having lost arts the should have gone back and looked at how training had changed to recover what was lost, but instead lets it degrade further to the point what looks to have been basics previously is now considered high level.

The loss occurring and NOT being undone only makes sense if the schools did the standard idiocy of not writing things down properly. Heck the MC's first life being without aptitude and achieving what he did should be enough for them to have not gone aptitude is everything like they did, so that was likely erased.

Yay powerful mc! dropped!

@sjmcc13

agree, maybe other emperor didn't expected that coming cuz regression go on with slow pace

@Seink , @Woodfolk : my guess is the focusing on their aptitudes cost them fundamentals basics and habits that are learned from studying all elements that are needed for the higher tier spells. Only taking the easiest path causing them to not be able to advance beyond the point you aptitude covers for them.

well yeah something isn't right
your mom is fkin hot milf like that and your dad prefer the other wife, that isn't right!

This story is similar to how phones keep getting bigger over the years instead of smaller. 400 years later we will be driving big rigs around and calling those "Mobile Phones"