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No matter what you say, that was an unnecessary nerf... It left a bad taste in my mouth. It's like introducing me to a bucket of chicken and cheddar in the first chapter, and before I can even eat a single piece...; the bucket was taken from me at the beginning of the second chapter. No nexus. If I'm going to make a slow-growing fic, don't give your MC so many good powers...
You heavily nerfed him. At 20 years of age a Kryptonian under a yellow sun wouldn’t be weaker than a super soldier like you indicated in this fic. Later in this chapter, you said he was only 100 times stronger than he was at 20 which is still a HUGE nerf. I saw your author’s note about your nerfing, however, it leads me to ask: why bother making him a mutated Kryptonian if you’re going to make it take decades to achieve strength he should have had when he was a kid?
I will be honest, i don't particularly like nerfs, despite understanding why some people use them. You didn't want to making him too strong so the story would not be boring, as you mentioned. But then you just glossed the entire second world war, no interactions, no world building, no missions (written). Which part of this do you think is not boring?
Well, let's agree that Mutant Kryptonian is not one of the best names to give to a race, but let's continue anyway. He could very well have chosen another name or simply created a variation of a human with Kryptonian characteristics, after all, there are many types of human beings in fiction. There is an absurd difference between a human and a Krytonian. Taking Superman into consideration, in 11 to 12 years he would probably have a physical fitness as good or even better than a super soldier, taking into account that he improves his physique completely through the sun's rays, although he lacks experience in body control. , all bodily aspects would still be a true difference between heaven and earth compared to a human. Let's imagine a ladder with one hundred steps, each step has twelve runes representing different physical and spiritual characteristics, a kryptonianon at 10 years old and having absorbed all these years solar energy, he would be at the apex of the fifth step and would make 9 of these runes if If they lighted up, a super soldier in his prime at age 30 would be at the start of the third floor with only 6 runes lit and an ordinary 25 year old human in his prime and theoretical physical limit would be at the peak of the first floor with only 3 runes lit. Remembering that a super soldier serum does not provide a complete increase in all physical characteristics and fourth-dimensional attributes of your existence as a whole and there are negative effects on the serum itself. Even with the downside of growing ten times slower than a Krpytonian should, it should still be enough to leave a super soldier in the dust. But I'll keep reading anyway, life goes on.