Duke_Karl

230 chapters in, and I'm just frustrated and disappointed. It feels like every important development, character and plot point was suddenly, abruptly discarded in order to start the "Second Game". Jayden needing a beating for being an ingrate asshole who took things for granted and abandoned Edward to die? Who cares? Just let him think with his dick and ignore it completely. Alfred deserving an even worse beating for what he did to Layla? Let's forget about him, I guess... Aurora and the whole history with her? It doesn't matter anymore, so just whore her off to some prince in Arvatra... Milleia? Who's that? Never heard of her... Huh? Hidden motives? Oh no, that's concerning - or not... anyway... Simon... nevermind, he's useless now. Brandon is an major antagonist? Nah, more like a side dish... Kleah? Just stuff some random girl inside her who was suddenly brought into existence after literally 0 mentions of her previously. That should get her out of the way. Elona might as well be any random street b*tch from the way the was treated in chapter 217. The author wanted rampage fuel for the MC, and she conveniently started looking very disposable, I guess... Look, I got past that wingman arc, past Louisa's death being of no weight whatsoever and the terribly mishandled Enigma Dungeon event. I don't even mind Mary and Jarvis, really. I have nothing personally against the death of minor/major characters, eating a major loss and having struggles to overcome, but only when they make sense. If I had to put my finger onto it, I'd say the author was probably very excited to start the second game's plot. Maybe he started writing that before finishing with the first - as that would make a looot of sense -, who knows. What I'm pretty sure of is that he wanted to burn the bridge after crossing it, so he either killed, discarded or changed the characters in order to achieve that, along with whatever else was needed. At the time I still expected these things to serve a purpose, have a reason justifying them and all that, but it appears that's not the case. I imagine the aim was to "subvert your lowly expectations" and the like, and if you consider it as turning all of my positive expectations for the plot into negative ones... then fair enough. I'll still give it a chance and read further in, but no matter what happens next, this was certainly one of the disgusting, frustrating and disappointing rushed conclusions of all time. It doesn't matter if the next arc is interesting, if the memories and reunion with family are nice, or whatever else comes in the future. My expectations dropped to the ground, just like Elona's cold corpse did after calling "B-big brother" in order to fuel an edgelord-class rage-powered strength outburst that could probably have happened a while earlier and saved her poor ass. A classic, really, but she deserved better.

Idk but this chapter feels like it was made by A.I.

Thank you for the review! It's great to know you're enjoying the story. Every piece of feedback means the world to me, because I usually feel like I'm trying to predict 100 steps into the future while also not knowing if it'll end up good or bad. I already have most of the next chapter written down, and a lot also planned. I'll be releasing as soon as I finish

While I do want to have romance, I haven't decided on the specific details just yet, since I didn't plan that far at this moment. I think having a single love interest is good, but if I'm able to execute a great and fleshed out harem, that would be an interesting option as well.

Sure, no problem. Are you an author as well?

Thanks!! ^-^