Alright, where to start with this. When I started reading this novel, I became hooked on it. The world seemed average nothing too unique but the idea of an MC getting godly swords every year on his birthday was interesting. I like his interaction with his sort of adoptive sister but you can quickly tell how their relationship will develop in the future. He has companions/disciples who surprisingly stay relevant and aren't just abandoned half way through, though I'll be honest, as the MC gets stronger and stronger their existence becomes weaker besides being used for comedic relief or creating ******* between the MC and some of the factions that exist in the world. This is all well and good except, it quickly gets boring... The MC is supposedly very powerful but the author constantly makes him fight completely overpowered enemies so frequently that the reader doesn't get any sort of sense of how powerful the MC is (at least for me) since most of his fights are barely won and only because he uses some OP ability granted by his sword that also leaves him crippled. Nearly in all of the chapters that have been translated, he is constantly running away or being chased by new factions he has offended. And speaking of powers, all the swords he gets have some sort of special ability and are given tiers and this is where I think the greatest failing of the novel is. The MC focuses on only using the most powerful tier of sword and that's fine but he hardly ever uses his swords logically. He just grabs the two most powerful and then uses all the other ones as basically artillery and we hardly ever read about him using his swords creatively or logically. For example, he gets a sword that the more evil the person he fights the more damage it does, but aside from when he gets it, he never actually uses it for it's ability despite frequently coming across enemies that hit the mark for using the ability. And that's the other gripe I have, he doesn't feel like an actual powerful warrior, just someone who heavily depends on getting the highest tiered sword and using it. It's like watching a pro player get a bunch of items he can use creatively but only using high ranking items because, "they're higher ranking so they must be better". In the end I'll still follow this novel for several chapters more but I'm almost at the tipping point to drop it.
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Sigh i agree with you. I was an okay read from the start but the more you read the more it doesnt make sense. The mc here is all brute without cunning or planning how he should proceed to his next plan.
