Those are natural dead trees, that grow in demon lands and other evil territories to properly give them the adequate evil and desolate feel.(in case this isn't obvious: this is a joke)

About? I would say he already did.

It hasn't been plotholey (especially since how much time pass, and how much accelerated time affect the recovery can be a bit vague), but it still has been rather convenient at times. Having to "waste" a cicada activation with no worthy crisis in sight would have been a completely plausible outcome.

My entire point are that entirely public auction are completely moronic with the way that world work, because nobody with more than two brain cells would spend money on them when it's just worse than being on the murder-and-rob squad, and most people with less than two brain cells won't live to be strong enough.

Why do the auction has to be entirely public? If things are well setup it wouldn't be hard to make it so that nobody would know who got what items absent collusion with the auction house.

They serve at not painting a target on your back to all the greedy murderhobos out there. Withoit such things, who would ever spend money on those auctions?

But corrupting their younger siblings is exactly what the job of the eldest should be?

If it was a limited time opportunity it's not that senseless.

It's probably a lot harder to awaken a second element compared to leveling up a new one.

They would have level appropriate gear though, so in stats while she wouldn't be completely outclassed she would still be inferior. They might also have additional class skills, which make for more capabilities.

In a world where post-auction robbery are a common thing, you would think private rooms to be a standard thing that would be offered at least to anybody with enough money to buy the good stuff.

I actually considered that at first, but it doesn't fits with the broken mana link. If the Hero did go out of his way to do that before killing her, you would think she would have mentioned it by now.

She probably avoided as much monsters as possible to focus on killing the boss faster after the first run.

Yes. Cannibalism is the way to go for monster reincarnation stories after all.

Let's just say she's thinking of some similar drug from her previous life and it's translated for the sake of the readers.

Good, most male leads in those stories are complete trash that make the novel worse just by existing. The few that aren't still too often have that "protagonist uselessness aura" to force bad romance advancement.

The permanent side effects for occasional use of potions can't be too significant, otherwise people would have noticed and stopped using them outside of emergencies. Using them for an occasional raid should be fine, significant permanent issue should only come up when you consume tons of them regularly.

Sure, but healer are already pretty rare. And since Grand Healer is a valuable class, factions would presumably poach them and power-level them in higher-tier areas, so they would be rarer in low level area like New York.

D rank goes up to level 50. Without actually testing her combat skill, D- is pretty reasonable.

FY : Stop flattering me so much.