Due to the dumbing-down of everyone to make MC intelligent, MC is basically a king of Monkeys. His smartness is... reading beforehand about the dungeon - something almost no one seems to do. His cleverness is... not being cocky. As typical in superpower stories, my power is rank [insert higher than lowest], therefore I'll be cocky as eff, and I'll march into unknown dangers thinking everyone is beneath me. And then regret it and MC will come in to save the day. His cleverness is not shown in battle, using tricks, imagination, clever tactics. He fights with a knife pointed forward and later with a flame pointed forward. Okay, he uses the most basic game tactic of the boss weak point... the monster's mouth... no one would have figured out that the monster's weak point is its mouth/sarcasm And of course, the only woman who has more than one line about her wants to get into MC pants after she finds out how great he really is. Quote from a chapter: "Wendy, who at that moment was trying to stop the bite wound of the girl who had flattered Harry, couldn't stop spying in Noah's direction. "He... That flame of his does a lot of damage to the boss; he's definitely not just a blessed Rank F... Damn Amy, if you hadn't..." Yes, as the battle goes on, as they may die, as she heals her best friend's torn open bloody wound, she laments that her friend prevented previously her from flirting with the MC before. This BTW was mentioned a few times before, this particular scene just further highlighted how braindead it sounds. As for Lucifer... Right now it's just being used as a fancy edgy name. No symbolism or deeper thinking found so far. After all, only humans can sin, but for some reason burning random rats works. I'd liked to see a restriction on the power that only sinful human burning can upgrade the skill. That would give the upgrade a more monumental feel. Now it feels like he gets double exp. Kill first, then burn. Nothing fun at all. The Vampire system at least tackles it with needing different humans and second fang dips didn't count. This story's MC can farm all the "sinful" (how are they sinful??) rats. As it is now, this novel is a barebone basic system/powers/dungeon novel. The characters are cardboard cutouts. The powers are basic and uninteresting. Most shown are the story basic cookies cutouts Fire, Ice, and Healing. And they are used by pointing hands and shooting... They aren't described interestingly.
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