I can make everything level up, but choose not to. MC is too smart for his own good and refuses to be efficient with his abilities for fear of being too op for his age. He hovers at this weird line between being stronger than his friends but not as strong as adults until he needs to be. He has the potential to powerlevel himself any skill or any item and trains constantly just inefficiently for years out of fear of standing out too much even though he has the ability to store the results of his training as status points. He is shown to understand how to maximize his system early on but ends up ignoring it after a point until the moment he needs to overcome a new obsticle. The author shows him accumulating power over years only for him to have a self imposed limiter on his potential for story reasons because his peers would quickly lose relevance as party members but it goes against the personality, desire, and need of strength of MC to do so which is frustrating.
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He's not too smart for his own good, he's just stupid.
It's so annoying. The time he figured out he could get more xp and level up by grinding monsters in the dungeon, I expected MC to solo as many dungeons as possible but NOPE. MC is really dull, no ambition whatsoever. He just goes with the flow.
I gave up on this novel exactly for that reason, the mc understands how power works right in the first chapters, it was very obvious how to abuse his abilities to have exponential growth, but instead of using all his resources at his disposal to have a great development , but he wastes all his safe time in the beginning and does absolutely nothing, and when two tribes had to flee, he was absolutely useless, and after that he still wastes years without doing anything important. when he was born and he couldn't even move right he could have started farming, it was just increasing the mana stat, and acquiring skills that gave more mana or mana recovery, and keep updating them all (only grants mana and recovery of mana), the greater the level of these skills, the easier it is to level up other skills, so it was just focusing on mana and mana recovery, and trying to upgrade items with those same bonuses, doing it for some time with exponential growth would be absolutely OP.
he is too smart for his own good, what you should've said is unwise
That explains it. Haven’t read it but from the synopsis he should be op from the start
