Knee jerk review as of chapter 10. I'm all about the beginning few chapters of being high importance as that's what makes me keep reading. So spoilers are here but only up to chap 10. It's so far The Rising of the Shield Hero but edgier. Generic MC and backstory, the classic bullied by everyone, he's useless, powerless, etc, then gets crazy powers, and a system to boot. The writing can be repetitive and at times is so choppy it becomes tedious to read. World building is glossed over more or less as he "studied in the library" and knows most everything of importance. Level scaling, explanation of magic, just a general sense of what is "strong" to be able to compare to isn't their either in my opinion. He also levels up insanely quickly as it seems killing single wolves while he's way above their level still garners him a fair amount of exp. Which is also never mentioned or shown, he just levels up instead. So the sense of progression isn't there and it begs the question why not just cheese it and power level off of weak beings. Why even need a slave? He says he needs a meat Shield but he seems to be doing fine on his own. Even going out gaining like 3 levels with ease just after he gets the slave and this is while it's recovering. Overall it's pretty middle of the road, not really doing anything new or interesting. I may pick it up time to time to see if it gets better or maybe skip a few chapters ahead and deal with the lost information. Like I said the beginning is the most important to me as it sets all my expectations for the whole book and right now I'm just kinda "eh" 🤷♂️ Also I have no idea about updating stability, so freebie 5 stars lol.
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