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GrandpaPengLv42yr
2022-05-13 22:59

Finished up to current MTL (~200 chapters). The author recommends a racist novel under some of his chapters (Global Reincarnation). The story improves as time goes on, still simple to follow, not much depth so far but potential is there, the fightning part is good, mixed with trending theme and ideas executed in a fresh way it's quite fine to read, more so if you ignore its obvious flaws. We're there just to have some fun. Characters are rather weak in logic and behavior, seem have the minds of teenagers, they don't have that natural, lifelike flow, independence, you can see they're limited by the author's writing skills. MC feels like a small kid telling obvious lies or bad excuses yet his "parents" - stronger, older people - believe him, they don't question, don't get suspicious, don't test him cleverly. King doesn't feel like a king, but a reincarnated teenager acting as a king. But it's still an improvement compared to that tasteless mob in TLM so I'll take it. Expected more from the author of TLM. Actually, if I didn't know it's him, I would think it's some newbie chinese author who's a little capable at writing. Should get more spicy and fat though, since the story hasn't really progressed that much in the first 200 chapters. But so far it is at it is.

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JezzekielLv4

Agreed. I don't remember characters being such a weakness in TLM, but then again, it's been a while since I read that. Seconded.

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GrandpaPengLv4

The chapters are split up. Chapter 40(1) on webnovel is actually chapter 19 MTL/RAW. The site smuggled in a new business opportunity - splitting the chapters. In this case, they gave us less than 19 full chapters. Used to be 60.. 40.. What a magic! Of deception. The first chapters.. are unpolished by the author in my opinion. But if it improves later on then it's fine. There's some bland, stiff dialogue, unnatural behaviour, forced plot. The high rating's reason? Author's name does the job, for example. Besides, there's potential, just that the execution so far is average. The MC got [Agility] talent, then after using it he calls himself talented while being serious. Ha ha ha.. :D It's one of these novels where the one that takes MC role is decided by system (or well, apparently it's his Super ability). The author doesn't bother to write about the process of e.g. overcoming a language barrier. Just use system and... done, problem solved. For convenience... Grown men shown so far have somewhat flawed, unsuitable mentality for the roles they play (apparently they are experienced hunters but I wonder how they grew up and how they survived till now in such a dangerous world). The MC himself is alright, a bit dumb, a sheltered flower, no survival skills, so whatever logic or reasoning he comes up with is fine:) Hopefully he'll grow up as his adventures continue, or else be prepared for masterminds to have less IQ than he does. The author chose to write a novel with system and copied a popular idea. What was his motivation for this, one could wonder. In the same batch of trials, the author of "Protect our Patriarch(Chief)" actually roasted this kind of system novels. My comment is based only on the 19 (split into 40) chapters translated right now, because I have not touched MTL. If I read more chapters in future I'll either re-write my comment or add a fresh one with proper rating. 19 is not much after all and the subsequent might have a higher quality, I don't know. There are novels like World's Best Martial Artist, Museum of Deadly Beasts, A Sorcerer's Journey, Black Iron's Glory and many more that had even more boring, or cliche, or flawed initial chapters yet turned out to be much much better as I continued to read. It might also be the case with Astral Apostle.

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