Shadow Slave(SS) is an extreme on the opposite end where instead SS just pads the chapter/word count with needless dialogue, explanations, Sunless' inner thinking, shallow schemes, with the story progressing at a snails pace each chapter. Infinite Mana in the Apocalypse pads it's chapter/word count with endless skill upgrades and raising what you thought was the ceiling by another notch of power to chase for every 200–300 chapters. This novel in question is just going to keep repeating this until it hits 5K chapters.

Read to chapter 1394, so far the pacing of the story is light speed where you're barely given a chance to acclimate to the MCs new abilities, as the MC repeatedly breaks into higher and higher realms evolving and creating new skills several throughout each arc. Had to write the review now because the author keeps expanding the upper limits of power more and even more that you think to yourself "there's no end in sight" and it's not even a thought in the MCs mind of when he can stop, as the author posts 6 heavily padded chapters that just focus on two new "Quasi-Insuperable" tier skills of his that are going to steadily become obsolete over a hundred chapters then fully obsolete and then upgraded into the next tier or superseded and so on and so forth until the author writes his 5K chapters. If you know of the ways of the internet, you can binge read this till you either get bored with the repetition or until you catch up with the latest releases, where you can then get fed up with the typical 2-a-day filler slop chapters designed to stretch chapter counts. What's "CoIns" and "PrIvIlEgE"? I don't know, and I don't care to know.

Ironically, the author is a slave(bi_ch) to Webnovel, by cranking out these clearly incentive driven chapters with only a speck of substance just to run up that chapter count.

The author has from his word (in his personal discord) essentially dropped the novel because it wasn't bringing in the $$$ like his other novel at the time (Tyranny of Steel) and wasn't worth the time investment. As of late the author has been splitting his time between 3 other novels with the newest novel of his Dead Man Walking getting some focus over the other two at times. I think the author is just spreading his net across different genres to maybe get lucky and make his next moneymaker novel. The work he's been putting out lately has been quite the soulless, shallow, lazy, one minute read, directionless, short af, and slop not worth spending money on.

Don't care, Bruno will maybe get another chapter or two and never be mentioned again. Get on with it

so many words, to explain so little.

But for real, what tf is the plot? What's the end goal? Is it simply to be the strongest? The author is skipping some important steps here.

You just have to look at how many chapters there are, see what power level the mc is currently at, infer how many power levels/tiers are feasibly left, and average out how many chapters there are between each power level. Then you'll realize "God damn is it going to be 4000 chapters before the author ends this." Going by the current chapter count of about 1500 subtracted from 4k there's 2500 chapters left divided by 2(2 chapters daily) you get 1250 then divide by 365(days in a year) it will take 3 1/2 years if the author writes 2 chapters a day. Do you think any novel NEEDS so many chapters to tell a good story? No, webnovel is setting up a system of incentives to drip feed the readers content to have you hang around and spend money. The author here is beholden and a slave(lol the irony) to webnovel if he wants their money.

I stopped reading because the author started blowing the lid right open with the martial arts. Made the mc seem like the second coming, but in the end his civilization and strength only got up to rank D in some intergalactic competition where the rank A civilization could destroy planets. Wow, way to go destroying the mc ego.

Careful, pay very close attention. If you blink the chapter will end before you know it. So sad, so very sad, what this novel has become. This novel is only readable when you can binge at least 2 hundred chapters. Else, each individual chapter is so devoid of substance it leaves barely any time to register in your brain.

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Finish this chapter and skip ahead to chapter 1181. You're not missing diddly squat by skipping ahead, so just save your fast passes from being wasted on these garbage chapters with eff all happening. This author is a shameless mfer.

From what I remember, around that point in the story the author was doing hardly any world building, and it was just a jumbled mess of the main characters ping-ponging around with little reprieve while they were still in their first semester of college/academy. The novel was mid and a mess of gun ho storytelling.

The kind of chapters best binge read with how shallow these latest few have been. Disappointing, glad I'm not paying for these chapters or privilege chapters.

Looking over the latest non-privileged Chapter 1290, it's just over 1200 words long and can be summarized with two bullets points -Sunless checks the 3 enchantments for his new legacy memory. Author spends about 950/1200 words just typing paragraphs about all the different applications of it. -Sunless begins contemplating the 4th step of his Aspect Legacy, end of chapter. Those points could 100% been typed out in a more concise manner in all but 4 paragraphs with no more than 500 words. His manner of uploading is effectively him dividing up a good, concise, meaningful, and well-paced chapter into several parts, which then each have their word count ballooned up to the minimum wordcount threshold in order to feed it to the reader piecemeal style. The author does it this way because Webnovel incentivizes daily uploads which are detrimental to the quality of the chapters released like the saying "needs a little more time in the oven". Like jeez, will Webnovel stay in their lane and stop corrupting novels that used to have good pacing and meaningful chapters once upon a time. Same thing going on with Mech Touch, Supreme Magus, among others, as ain't no way a novel needs more than 1500 chapters (the norm in the past for webnovels to tell a complete story.

The novel wastes a lot time padding out its quite short chapters filled with introspection followed by even more introspection that you lose absolutely nothing from skimming each chapter. So bad you'll think to yourself "jesus christ, just shut up and get on with it", as we don't need an inner debate or moral quandary every chapter or every other chapter. With such padded chapters this novel is the type you should only binge read after a few hundred chapters have shortly built up and needless to say you're a fo-ol if you drop a single cent on this novel.

Read up to chapter 337 where I dropped it. What killed it for me was the stupidity and silliness the author's naming of skills like 10 sec quick-shot passive, mc's shepherd class, lolipop consumables, mc's herd of goats/rams. It makes you think like "wtf I'm reading", as it's not cool or interesting it's just so fu-king silly, cringe, lame, and nonsensical/bizarre that you lose any interest to see whatever cringe-a_s skill the author can come up with next to disappoint you with.