That poor normal mage out there reading a book every time he wants to cast some weak fireball.

Then Rudeus just casually conjures a fire nuke without saying a word.

You can rationalize it all you want, at the end of the day when you say crackpipe there’s only one thing that comes to mind.

I’m just imaging a conversation at work talking about a new game, and someone saying they haven’t picked it up yet and a colleague overhearing their co-worker say “just hit the crackpipe”.