An all-round good novel however the pacing and power levels are terrible in my opinion. The author writes scenes well, with interesting descriptions, but they just go on for way too long. His journey to start his training literally takes nearly 100 chapters, and he only uses a crossbow and hope as his weapon before that, mostly after aswell. The system is honestly a curse rather than a blessing, since he can't really grow his stats organically past a normal human, and to put the stats into perspective, normal human is 5, he is 10 after becoming a witcher, normal/most witchers are mid 20s/30s. This is a problem because he gets 1 stat point per level up, and past level 4, it would take about 150 drowners/10 leshen to level up once, which doesn't happen much with the pacing, and only gets worse. At chapter 300 he is still only about level 7/8, which is just kinda ridiculous. To make it clear, I think slow pacing can be okay, but to pull that off, the author would've had to start the story about 20/30 years earlier, to make the power system work, however the MC is only 5 or so years older than Ciri, which really highlights my issues with the power system. In conclusion I think the author has some good ideas, and writes well, but some of his idea's clash in this novel, ruining an otherwise fulfilling novel. Thanks for reading
