Thanatonium
VIP
a year ago
Not recommended
Review at 174 chapters, a bit of spoilers moreso on overall concept rather than any specific plot points.
The story is an unashamedly a power fantasy. If you want to watch an MC jump around with only plot armor and nothing else, then this is probably a great novel for you. The MC will just charge forward to kill everything he doesn't like and power up at the same time.
We all know that most novels of this nature are just some sort of power fantasy that we can guess the ending is a god mc with his harem. There's nothing wrong with that. The entire story is in the journey, but this one is horrifically bland and stale. There aren't any particular redeeming points to this novel.
I think at my point in the story, it's maybe been like a month in total (in the story's time), if even that much time has passed. The same MC vs the world has already repeated twice and is in the process a third time with frankly not much actual variation aside from a change in names, places, and level. The first place got tore up in like 3 days, the second maybe a week? I don't think it been a week at the third place yet, but I've already lost interest. You get the female interest for the arc, a couple of supporters of the MC, and the rest of the world disliking him until they progressively want him dead at all cost but by then the MC is too strong. After that brief introduction, queue the MC getting a few power spikes until now he overpowers everyone else in the world, until we move on to the next area where the process repeats. Seeing it twice was enough, and midway through the third time I'm no longer interested. I'm pretty sure it might have foreshadowed repeating that process a fourth time, but I certainly won't stick around for it.
It's formulaic in a bad way. It doesn't help that the plot is paper thin and there's not much suspense to speak of. There's a little bit of build up, but it's underwhelming for the story and it's hard to be invested in any of the characters. It doesn't particularly have any interesting aspects that help distinguish it from other novels. It's just a bland power fantasy moving at a fast rate to recycle the same story beats it used with minor variation in the details. If you want to watch a story parade the MC in plot armor and nothing else, I think this is what you get. There isn't much allure to the world, and the process of the MC powering up is very boring. At least when I read other litrpg's, they put some effort into making a world and characters to distinguish themselves from other works. I feel like the author tried to cut down as much of the plot, characters and story in order to streamline the process of the MC going somewhere and finding some enemies to kill and power up. There just isn't any fluff or spice in the story to make it more substantial, no particularly interesting plot points or schemes.
I feel like if I asked ChatGPT to give me a bare bones cultivation power fantasy with tidbits of face slapping, this is what it would spit out.
The story is an unashamedly a power fantasy. If you want to watch an MC jump around with only plot armor and nothing else, then this is probably a great novel for you. The MC will just charge forward to kill everything he doesn't like and power up at the same time.
We all know that most novels of this nature are just some sort of power fantasy that we can guess the ending is a god mc with his harem. There's nothing wrong with that. The entire story is in the journey, but this one is horrifically bland and stale. There aren't any particular redeeming points to this novel.
I think at my point in the story, it's maybe been like a month in total (in the story's time), if even that much time has passed. The same MC vs the world has already repeated twice and is in the process a third time with frankly not much actual variation aside from a change in names, places, and level. The first place got tore up in like 3 days, the second maybe a week? I don't think it been a week at the third place yet, but I've already lost interest. You get the female interest for the arc, a couple of supporters of the MC, and the rest of the world disliking him until they progressively want him dead at all cost but by then the MC is too strong. After that brief introduction, queue the MC getting a few power spikes until now he overpowers everyone else in the world, until we move on to the next area where the process repeats. Seeing it twice was enough, and midway through the third time I'm no longer interested. I'm pretty sure it might have foreshadowed repeating that process a fourth time, but I certainly won't stick around for it.
It's formulaic in a bad way. It doesn't help that the plot is paper thin and there's not much suspense to speak of. There's a little bit of build up, but it's underwhelming for the story and it's hard to be invested in any of the characters. It doesn't particularly have any interesting aspects that help distinguish it from other novels. It's just a bland power fantasy moving at a fast rate to recycle the same story beats it used with minor variation in the details. If you want to watch a story parade the MC in plot armor and nothing else, I think this is what you get. There isn't much allure to the world, and the process of the MC powering up is very boring. At least when I read other litrpg's, they put some effort into making a world and characters to distinguish themselves from other works. I feel like the author tried to cut down as much of the plot, characters and story in order to streamline the process of the MC going somewhere and finding some enemies to kill and power up. There just isn't any fluff or spice in the story to make it more substantial, no particularly interesting plot points or schemes.
I feel like if I asked ChatGPT to give me a bare bones cultivation power fantasy with tidbits of face slapping, this is what it would spit out.