[SPOILERS] Just didn't feel like checking the box.
[IMO Warning!!!] This just my opinion, so take it with a grain of salt. It'd be easier to just read it and develop an opinion on it yourself.
[RANT START]
So... it ain't great. It started out weird and then just got bad later. Not because of this "hE ShOws MErcY tO THe EnEMy boo hoo..." nonsense. Everyone is different. He wants to show remorse over murder? That is fine. After all, I think one thing this story did well until later on was Ryu's character development. I say that cause now he just isn't interesting. God like MC's never are.
No... The problem I got with this is it just feels like a beginning and an end was planned, but everything in between wasn't. Maybe certain events were. Perhaps it was just the pacing, but nothing connected. Everything was too messy. Evident by the amount of times the author had to leave notes, explaining things. Even if the explanations didn't help and sometimes just made things wore.
Don't even get me started on the "Phoenix Slayer" stuff. One minute he can do this, the next he can't do that for some nonsensical reason. It was too inconsistent. I was not liking how notes would pop up. (Oh just so you know, he can't do "this" anymore.) Instant eye roll, bro.
Now the characters. I could not even force myself to care about the other characters beside Ryu and Irene. The best part about this story is, no doubt, Ryu x Irene.
Speaking of... I don't know if it was like this for others, but for me, Ryu getting together with "Erza" just wasn't a good idea. I didn't sit through all that development, waiting for him and Irene to get together just for you to to put him with someone he had so very little development with shown. Someone with so little of a presence to the story. Someone I wouldn't have cared for if she had been killed off in that group of people that did.
Well, anyway. In conclusion... It's a decent read up until the chapter where he gets killed by the gods. To me. Like I said, because of how its written, I didn't care for anyone but Ryu and Irene. Unfortunately, one dies. The other does too before coming back to become SCP 001: The Scarlet King, and marries a side character. Some things, I just did not come to read this story for.
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