they were hard because they dodged at the speed of light which is more of a speed thing than a martial art. then again you're welcome to develop a martial art that can dodge bullets if you'd like to prove me wrong.

it's not that they're particularly bad names but the further they are from words I'm comfortable just reading and pronouncing the harder it is for me to remember them. for example I remember bai zemin from some Chinese novel I can't even remember then name of because that name is just weird in English but works completely.

fair fair

dude I can hardly tell what age my siblings are within a 3 year margin of error and I grew up with them. there's no chance I'm picking out the difference between an 11 and a 12 year old i just met so that's irrelevant.

I do consider the benefits but my bias tends to outweigh them by the time consideration turns to yapping. incase it hasn't been made clear I'm a big fan of magic or other ranged style classes and only tend to stick with an alternative if everything else is going well.

I know it's like machine translation or something, that's just me also being surprised by what he said.

yeah but if someone is scrawny and 5'2 that means they're malnourished not lanky, lanky does imply height to some extent.

no no I'm not saying she should I'm saying she was placed as his caretaker and like guide to life so I doubt literally anyone cares about the whole "cradle snatcher" angle.

story has a decent setup with a good premise but seems to rely too heavily on trope crutches and refuses to explore any sort of originality. it seems like the standard "author doesn't want to branch out from the default incase it doesn't go well" so while he had a bunch of good concepts they were bogged down heavily by this choice. the first one is the weird introduction of an all powerful being that transmigrates him to the new world for entertainment, the only thing this does is makes the novel feel shallow but it's intended to be an easy and cliche way to give the readers something in the distance to look toward and develop expectations for, granted its not really the authors fault since maybe if this hadn't been done 5093379 times before it would work out but here it does not. the next and most prominent issue for me is the "class" of combat chosen, the mc is essentially avatar in the sense that he has access to all elements of magic (all as in time, space, life, death etc as well but only had the base 4 unlocked when I gave up) and awoke his "core" (yeah another cringe crutch trope I know) when he was like a month old or something. so what does this almighty God of elemental magic do for the next years of his life to train himself as he keeps stating he needs to? cultivate, like a Chinese novel. he does eventually get to the age where he's allowed to train properly with his family, who are super well off and technologically advanced BTW, a family known for their bloodlines giving them access to a branch of elemental magic each like fire, lightning, dark etc. what do you think this technologically advanced borderline royal family of powerful people with elemental magic do to train their godlike prodigy with every element imaginable once they deem him old enough? literally ANYTHING you guessed that made sense is so far wrong I laugh at your attempts, stick swinging is the answer, yes a stick. a piece of wood, the kind that grows on trees and poor families might use to chase off wolves if they're extra unlucky. sure maybe one day they're planning to upgrade him to a metal stick but that would just make it even more cringe, atleast a kid using a stick can be seen as handicapping him as to not hurt himself but I genuinely believe the author just wanted to give the mc a stick as a weapon because literally every other fantasy novel does the same thing even if it makes less than zero sense in the novel. second to last issue the novel had was the writing, randomly then sentences would be broken up like this into different lines. it made things very hard to read and constantly pulled me out of the novel. on the grammar front it wasn't too bad, I only noticed a few more minor issues outside the weird line breaks so he will likely get better with time for those. final complaint was the progression or like pacing, we got nearly 30 chapters in before I even discovered that this was going to be a stick swinger novel which is part of why I'm writing this review despite it being obviously not for me on a fundamental level. if I'd found out less than 10 chapters in i wouldn't have cared and would've just dropped and moved on, by drastically slowing down your pacing you're making a promise to the reader that "trust me dude it's worth all that time you're gonna love it" and I didn't. the romance is a good example, if you've read the novel and you're asking "what romance?" that's my point, I have 3 things tagged in my search filters, romance, overpowered and anti-hero. we got to see not even a hint of any of the above in 30 chapters of a webnovel (the expensive way to read), I saw another review that implied we wouldn't see any romance until the chapters are well into the triple digits which i doubt since that would borderline this novel on scam territory but since nobody refuted his claim it must've atleast been an understandable exaggeration. for the author: relying on crutch cliches is only going to at best give you a falsely inflated novel that floats purely on people's laziness and inability to search for something better. if webnovel had a proper search system there's a good chance alot of novels that do this wouldn't even show up on most people's app let alone be read and enjoyed. if you were just looking to milk some money from a fantasy template and succeeded then I suppose you don't care, if you were looking to author works as a hobby or as employment and want to know where this could be improved, stay away from as many cliches as possible. some are unavoidable, some are only "cliches" because they're enjoyable story decisions but you'll know which are which. technically "having a shit homelife pre-reincarnation and then a loving family post-" is a cliche but the kind that can be leaned on without much conflict. still it'd be nice if some authors did stray away from it and some do so even good cliches can be dodged by experienced authors.

why would his strength stat effect his access to magic classes?

oh so he's God now, good news is no more sword, bad news is idk if he's even trained for his godly powers yet

yeah the novel might get good if she found out, we wouldn't want that.

22 chapters into a fantasy novel with mana, chapter after chapter of supposed strengthening and we just now mention magic, essentially the only thing that matters in the long run

again a punch, dude a 5 year old from our world can punch. why must we misuse magic like this

sure by the time you multiply into the millions it hardly matters but there are a few components besides hardness that give diamond it's unbreakable reputation.

his foresight showed him this

so is foresight some sort of magic or did we just introduce two different characters by saying they're known for their foresight

alright I'll forgive the old man then

neither could he and he's the higher rank?

propelling them into the almighty heights of punching, granted he didn't actually move and probably didn't intend it as an actual attack but still. you'd think if this is supposed to flex how strong paragons are they'd do something we can't do, like anything but a punch.