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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
really cool but i think the main character rubbed me kinda weirdly or something. so i’m not super keen on continuing it.
I read up to chapter 342/530 in 2 days.
I give the start 3 stars since I liked it, but everything after 100-200 chapters is just ok.
It is a good story with good character development.
There are two major flaws that become apparent after chapter ~150:
(1) Lack of character development. It becomes a chronicle of the main character doing cool stuff with zero character growth. Hypothetically at this point the character is fighting some sort of 'inner demon power' thing, but that is hardly mentioned and the way the main character deals with it is by getting better at magic. The story, around chapter 100, devolves into "Main character goes here, defeats these enemies, does this thing with the people, and goes home for 2 days before setting out again." There is little to no growth, thus the story becomes meaningless. If I were allowed some speculation, I think that this is caused by the trap of patreon, where the author feels the need to keep putting out content to keep the money coming. The author even said that the story was only planned for a hundred chapters, which kind of explains the drop in quality and significance, since pre-planned stories have a higher chance of having a cohesive story and plan for growth of characters.
(2) Slow, meaningless fight scenes. I believe that all scenes need to be developing the character, world, or story for the reader in some way. It doesn't have to be drastic, but there needs to be purpose to scenes. I'm fine with a lengthy tea party scene, as long as we are finding out new things, or growing closer to characters. However, the fight scenes in this book are frequent and useless. The author will spend thousands of words and up to 5 chapters just detailing how the main character defeats random enemies that will be dead at the end anyway. Of course, the enemies are sometimes important, but the good information and development only happens at the introduction and there is no need for the protracted battles. This is a matter of personal preference, and doesn't mean the book is bad. It just means that people who share my opinion on this kind of 'filler' should watch out. This boringness is probably caused by the inability to end the story due to Patreon and the difficulty of creating actual story content, compounded by the author's ambitious 5 chapters a week, which is almost unheard of in the better webnovels.
(small 3) There are many typos and unclear/impossible to understand sentences in the chapters after 200, once again probably due to the author prioritizing chapter output over quality. That or the editor took a 5 month vacation.
I give the start 3 stars since I liked it, but everything after 100-200 chapters is just ok.
It is a good story with good character development.
There are two major flaws that become apparent after chapter ~150:
(1) Lack of character development. It becomes a chronicle of the main character doing cool stuff with zero character growth. Hypothetically at this point the character is fighting some sort of 'inner demon power' thing, but that is hardly mentioned and the way the main character deals with it is by getting better at magic. The story, around chapter 100, devolves into "Main character goes here, defeats these enemies, does this thing with the people, and goes home for 2 days before setting out again." There is little to no growth, thus the story becomes meaningless. If I were allowed some speculation, I think that this is caused by the trap of patreon, where the author feels the need to keep putting out content to keep the money coming. The author even said that the story was only planned for a hundred chapters, which kind of explains the drop in quality and significance, since pre-planned stories have a higher chance of having a cohesive story and plan for growth of characters.
(2) Slow, meaningless fight scenes. I believe that all scenes need to be developing the character, world, or story for the reader in some way. It doesn't have to be drastic, but there needs to be purpose to scenes. I'm fine with a lengthy tea party scene, as long as we are finding out new things, or growing closer to characters. However, the fight scenes in this book are frequent and useless. The author will spend thousands of words and up to 5 chapters just detailing how the main character defeats random enemies that will be dead at the end anyway. Of course, the enemies are sometimes important, but the good information and development only happens at the introduction and there is no need for the protracted battles. This is a matter of personal preference, and doesn't mean the book is bad. It just means that people who share my opinion on this kind of 'filler' should watch out. This boringness is probably caused by the inability to end the story due to Patreon and the difficulty of creating actual story content, compounded by the author's ambitious 5 chapters a week, which is almost unheard of in the better webnovels.
(small 3) There are many typos and unclear/impossible to understand sentences in the chapters after 200, once again probably due to the author prioritizing chapter output over quality. That or the editor took a 5 month vacation.
adventurous
medium-paced
One of my favorite stories from RoyalRoad. Expect the series to continue getting better and better.