How Strong Is Rudeus Greyrat? MUSHOKU TENSEI – Rudeus’ True Power & Magic EXPLAINED

rudius greyrat is one of the more unique isakai protagonists not particularly in the way his character is portrayed but more so in the way that he's developed what i mean is that every aspect of his power has some form of explanation to it he's not overpowered just for the sake of being overpowered but instead we get to understand how exactly it is he obtains every bit of power he has it's a much more grounded approach to the power scaling aspect of isekai that we usually don't ever get to see especially if you compare it to other isekai where the scale typically starts at the top so let's kick off this season of mushoku tensei explained videos and take a look at how strong rudees has become up to where he is at the end of episode 11. let's get started the origins of roude's power all stem from that very first textbook he found a textbook of magic that we know taught him the basics there were the three types of magic the innate magical power required to use magic the two main ways in which that magic was cast and finally the supposed fact that one's level of magical power was inherited the last was of course proven to be a misconception but it is widely believed that the amount of magical powers someone has is pretty much determined at birth so with these being the fundamentals it's the way that rudeaus approaches them that makes his rise to powers somewhat different you see he didn't start out with these amazing skills or abilities like how rimro rhines did no instead he taught himself various powerful techniques by applying these fundamentals of magic in ways that could only be possible due to his modern knowledge of science from his past life that's the key thing that differentiates rudais from everyone else by not being limited by the common preconceptions of the people of this new world not only can rudeaus investigate things for himself but he can also test numerous different hypotheses and possibilities most of which we get to see through his proficiency with elemental magic before we get to what those spells are though the core of roude's power mostly comes from things he'd taught himself while he was an infant it's not so much something that can be attributed to the skills and spells he'd learned along the way but more so the path and methods he took to develop himself so rather than focus on his individual spells and abilities i think what's more important to focus on here is his techniques the first of which was the extremely rare act of voiceless incantation by placing himself into a state of mind that allows him to envision the spell that he wants rudees found he was able to manipulate mana into almost any form imaginable of course it wasn't something he could do instantly right from the get-go but by practicing the same spell over and over rudees slowly learned to remember the sensations he felt while doing so once those feelings were ingrained into his mind and body all that was left was to replicate them whenever that spell was needed imitating those same sensations throughout his mind and body allowed roudeus to connect himself to the aspect of reality that he was trying to manipulate pretty much in the exact same way that an incantation or magic circle did after that the final steps were to simply decide on the spell's size shape and strength so it's an inherently different method of casting that doesn't require a magic circular incantation instead the medium that manipulates the mana is simply the caster's mind and body now while this is the fastest method of casting magic it's not necessarily the most efficient yes it does appear strong in comparison to the lengthy chants that are normally used but at the same time it also requires a high level of focus and sometimes significantly more mana should a mage attempt to silently cast magic without an extensive mana capacity similar to rudace's then it's likely they would find their mana reserves severely depleted after only a single spell reason being that modifications of size shape and speed that would normally be handled by the incantation or magic circle would now require additional mana from the caster regardless of whether they're making a water ball smaller or bigger just the action of changing its default size still requires that additional bit of magical energy so the more intricate a spell becomes with regards to its modifications the more mana it requires to cast it that's why it's sometimes better to just rely on an incantation especially if you're a mage who doesn't have the same extensive supply of mana that rudius does as for why that's such a big deal well when it comes to magic mana capacity is pretty much everything you see a mage in combat who doesn't have any mana is essentially the same thing as having aqua as your support they're completely useless and utterly unreliable so because rudees had spent the majority of his youth exhausting his own mana supply he was able to increase its total capacity to a level that's around 40 to 50 times greater than that of an advanced magician making this yet another one of the core aspects of magic that make him so powerful not only does this allow him to cast way more spells than what's normal but it also means he can pump more mana into them to make them more potent it's one of the most crucial aspects of his overall ability now some of the initial spells that brudeau said started with were the beginner level water spells like water ball water shield and water arrow each requiring different amounts of magical energy depending on their application there were also the spells of ice smash and iceblade but rudees quickly determined that he wasn't only limited to those two by tweaking the creation process for a spell like waterball rudees found that he could freeze it into an ice ball thus introducing him to a whole new world of experimentation by the time he was three rudes had exemplified his intermediate level skills with the spell water cannon and it was during his subsequent training with roxy that he could no longer reach the bottom of his mana supply even after spending an entire half of a day using magic at no point did rodeos feel exhausted from significant mana depletion it was only one year later that rudays had to become proficient in advanced level spells a lot of which were ranged attacks from each of the different branches of magic and all of which could be cast without using an incantation then the final concept he'd learned after that was the ever-growing field of melted magic this was the ability to cast spells from different schools in quick succession thus resulting in the creation of a new phenomena it was during his study of this topic that we learned rudeas could use the aoe spells of heat island and icicle field the former essentially heated up the surrounding area while the latter did the opposite and froze it combine these two with a constant cast of waterfall and what you get is a combined magic spell that creates mist in any case that's pretty much the essence of how rudeus likes to approach his attack magic well not those two spells specifically but the ability to combine several ones together to create something new he's always looking for new ways to increase both the efficiency and potency of his magic part of which comes from experimenting with new combinations of different spells now one of the spells that i do want to focus on is the water saint level attack magic known as kimilo olympus reason being that this is a prime example of what exactly it is that's required from a saint level magician casting saint level magic so despite this just looking like a spell that creates thunder and causes rain the way it works is actually a little bit more complicated one thing to note before going further though is that the whole point of the test was to see if rudy could keep the spell active for at least an hour of course he could just stand their hands above his head and to maintain the spell manually but that wasn't what rodeos thought roxy was looking for instead he believed that she was looking for him to use some form of combined magic to keep it going automatically so once the clouds had been formed a series of complex motions were then used to turn them into thunderclouds it was at this point that a constant influx of magic would be needed to prevent the clouds from dissipating unless rudy kept funneling magic to keep it going the spell would disappear and he would fail so that's when roude has thought to use some combined magic with a little bit of science since he knew thunderstorms formed when warm moist air rises in the cold air rudys conjured a horizontal whirlwind then heated the air beneath it the result of which was an updraft that he could then cool using the air above it once he increased the speed to add that little nudge of instability all the ingredients were now there to create a naturally occurring thunderstorm the only thing left was to simply sit back and hope the storm would last for at least an hour this was the feat that had granted brudes the title of water saint unlike how rudees had thought though roxy really just wanted to see if he could maintain a saint level spell for over an hour but the instant she saw that he didn't even need to that's when she knew that he was more than competent enough to pass but anyway this is the type of mana manipulation that's required to be a saint level magician it's not so much the type of spells that you can cast but more so the extent to which you're capable of manipulating mana that's what differentiates a powerful mage from a weak one moving on to when rudees was six all his skills and attack magic were still at the advanced level except for water his healing magic was split between intermediate and beginner then his swordsmanship was stuck at beginner for both sword god and water god style as i said before this superior proficiency with elemental magic mostly comes from his modern understanding of scientific principles had he had the knowledge of a doctor then rudeaus believed it's likely his healing magic would be at that same advanced level as well but because his understanding in this particular area was significantly lacking healing without an incantation was actually incredibly difficult for him when it came to anything else though so long as it was a visible and understandable phenomenon of the world then rudees felt he would be able to reproduce it with magic for example at the age of seven rudees could now distinguish the different elements in the air around him if he focused hard enough then he felt he could sense and potentially manipulate the individual particles so say he wanted to melt a rock using only the air around him then rudius believed all he needed to do was simply pump oxygen and hydrogen into it that way the continuous heat from the ongoing chemical reaction would constantly increase until the rock itself would start to melt he could also just create lava with the advanced combined spell of magma gusher but the first option was the more scientific solution in any case these were the types of tweaks that brudeaus would apply to his spells to make them more powerful by manipulating individual components and elements of a single spell he found that he could increase the potency or power of whatever output he was going for it really just depended on the type of spell that he was working with aside from that though this was the limit to what rudees's past life could provide for him anything beyond these slight modifications from his own personal knowledge was completely out of reach since there was no one to teach him his 34 years of mostly wasted life could only get him so far here and this was the wall that brudeaus realized he had arrived at now if he wanted to improve any further then that meant he would need to understand this new world a little bit more a feat that was only possible by leaving the small little village that he was isolated in so if we skip ahead to rudy's his time as a tutor the first thing we get to see is the extent of his healing magic both basic healing and ex-healing are available to him so long as he uses an incantation then out of all the various types of elemental magic we saw him use during episode 5 the majority of it was simple applications of elemental manipulation the wall was nothing more than a basic earth spell and the fireball was actually just two different types of fireballs combined together now something we didn't get to see in the anime was ruday's concurrent use of two different spells to rescue errors in his right hand rudees had cast the intermediate wind magic sonic boom and in his left he had cast the intermediate earth magic stone cannon while sonic boom cut the arm off of the man who was holding heiress stone cannon kept the other one busy enough for aerys to be rescued the rest was the same clever applications of elemental magic that we saw in the anime now something interesting to note about this is that gillane believed this level of combat instinct to be nothing short of genius well at least for someone his age anyway the fact that he was able to overwhelm an advanced level north god style swordsman was more than enough proof to show his unique fighting style was actually quite useful yes he did drop his guard towards the end but to initiate and win a fight with someone from over 100 meters away was a feat that not even galen thought that she could pull off as the years went on the only true practice rudeau has ever gotten magic was through the creation of his figures he would use stone cannon as the base for the spell then adjust its speed to zero and focus solely on configuration this may seem like a difficult way to measure improvement but rudees found that over time his figures were becoming more and more detailed so perhaps that meant his proficiency with earth magic was actually increasing at the very least it did show he was making his mental vision into reality a lot better since there was nothing else to learn in the way of magic though rudays hadn't gained a single new spell in all the years he'd been there instead the only thing worth mentioning is the gift of aquahartia a magic staff that serves to increase the potency of any type of magic being cast with the wood coming from an a-rank elder treant who could manipulate water magic and the crystal being an a-rank dropped from a wayward sea dragon it's clear this staff was designed specifically to increase the potency of rudes's water magic resulting in it being capable of amplifying it by a factor of five what this meant in terms of numbers was that if a spell usually cost 10 mana and had a power of 5 then the same spell with the staff would now have a power of 25 if he wanted that spell to have a power of 5 again then by using the staff the mana cost would only be two so not only did aqua hartius scale his offensive power upward but it could also scale the mana cost of the same level power spells downward making this a truly special gift that greatly increased his magic proficiency moving on to the events in the demon continent now there's not much to highlight other than a few powerful spells here and there i mean it's not like rudez could properly train since depleting his mana would put himself at a significant disadvantage so of the ones we did see there was a powerful iteration of stone cannon in which roudeus didn't hold back on the output he had optimized the projectile's shape into a snub-nosed bullet with grooves then sent it flying with a maximum rotation speed and velocity the result of which was an impact that literally exploded the stone treonty was fighting then the attack he used while fighting the red hood cobra was an interesting bit of melded magic between stone cannon and a little bit of fire by creating a hollow wedge-shaped rock then filling it with concentrated fire magic the projectile was now an explosive bullet that would detonate on impact leaving a gaping hole through anyone unlucky enough to get hit by it but other than that that's pretty much everything we know about true is his power so far it's hard to say just how strong he is in comparison to everyone else since the only other mages he's ever met are really roxy and selfie so the only things we really know he has going for him are his vast reserves of mana and unique approach to elemental magic i'm sure we'll figure that out soon enough but until then there's a whole bunch of other topics that i want to talk about first so if you want to see more mushoku tensei videos similar to these then be sure to leave a like and comment letting me know now before i go i do want to thank victor from the mushoku tensei subreddit for helping me out with this if you want to read up on certain aspects from the novel then you should definitely check out his extensive form of explanation threads i've also started streaming a lot more on twitch so if you want to watch me rage at video games or even take part in some community tournaments then feel free to follow me at twitch.tv any news underscore but anyway as always thank you so much for watching and if you enjoyed this type of anime content then you already know what to do so until next time ciao

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Id: CE-6hRFuoFI

Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 09 2021

Reddit Comments

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Hey, that's neat, he even mentioned this sub right at the end for his sources

[u/spoodleman43]

Thank you Zictor42 for helping. As always nice video.

[u/Naccarat]

Great video, very in-depth. I learned some things I didn't know, even though I read the entire WN.

[u/Th3_B0B]

Yeah, aninews does amazing in-depth analysis, and really good descriptions of cut content and the sole reason I started reading LNs.