Dropped at chapter 62,
It just goes all over the place. The other reviewers are mostly correct. Its like the MC is bipolar and indecisive in all the worst ways possible.
At one moment you'd think you have a grip on his character but then he'd prove you wrong by doing the exact opposite.
This is the guy, who for the sake of equal opportunity chose to leak the martial arts manuals to the mortals and gets hunted down for it by the ones in power, (happens in chapter 0 / the prologue).
So you'd assume he has some kind of good alignment.
Then the next moment hes some hardened criminal who'd only help someone if he has something to get in return.
But then he breaks that philosophy of his cause he 'had a random flashback'
The story doesn't know in what direction it even wants to go, at the start you think its going to be action then theres a random slice of life segment... but oh wait random time skip of 1 whole year of him just studying (this author loves his time skips of monotony), and with all that studying he gets into a good college, but oh wait now he goes into the military service for no particular reason.
I could go on and on but really, it boils down to this.
The MC has no charisma (as a character), and the other characters as well but the MC in specific. He's worse than a blank piece of slate that the readers can project themselves onto like is the case in some novels.
He actively makes the weirdest and the worst decisions, letting people he know getting murdered but it doesn't faze him in the slightest, but he himself refuses to kill, for some arbitrary reason of wanting a 'normal life' even when thats a meaningless idea.
Oh and every few chapters of this slice of life wannabe, you get 'character development' short stories, like when he goes to the hospital, or when hes in the army, etc etc.
But don't let it fool you. By the next chapter he's forgotten what he's learnt about being human. There is no character development. He literally, does not change. the same situation happens the next time and instead of throwing a flashback about what happened last time he did it and what lesson he learnt, and this time he makes another decision, no. He makes the same stupid decision again.
Its like watching a guy running into a glass wall expecting there to be a door there. but instead of checking where the door is, he runs into that same spot on the wall again, and again, and again.
Its a very frustrating read. I absolutely do not recommend anyone read it. It's not even at the level of 'so bad its good/ entertaining to read', no, this is just bad.
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