Review Detail of CERC_xr in Holy Necromancer: Rebirth of the Strongest Mage

Note: I dropped it after the whole scepter tampering plot so don't take it to heart if I complain about something that's explained later on. I liked how the novel was going at first as it reminded me a lot of how modern media depicts the King Arthur legends, but it all went downhill afterward. First, in the story, gods, the reason a specific element exists, are killed more than once. Secondly, he comes across such information all too easily. Sure, it might be explained by the collector of artifacts who lives in an artifact of a demigod designed like a city, but it's still too early and easy to obtain and reveal such information. There's also the betrayal of his childhood crush, which happened with so little hesitation that she attacked him personally. After that betrayal, he becomes a 'bit' more untrusting. He completely refuses to trust anything or anyone. Finally, when he finally gets the darkness scepter, he does one of the most idiotic things I've ever seen, which honestly had no logic behind it. Rather than trust in mutual benefits, give the scepter without doing anything, and just go with who could've been a generic FL, he planks to tamper with the scepter and then give it back because he doesn't trust her. If he didn't trust her then he could've given it back and left, tried to just kill her then and there, or just run away. All of these would've removed the need for the generic revenge plotline that every avid reader knows by heart at this point. And as if that's not enough, the author decides to have the new antagonist torture MC rather than killing him and quickly running away from the soon-to-be chasing churches. All in all, some parts of the novel look like they were written by an experienced author while others look like they were written by a Chinese Wuxia author who mindlessly writes.