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Review Detail of Exodian in Supreme Magus

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Exodian
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This story is entirely centered around a single main character and as such, we mostly see this story thru his perspective. Here it's a problem. Because MC... lacks personality. He's nothing more than a husk of a human. At first it's not obvious, but as the time goes, more and more of this is revealed. At many points just reading his thoughts made me feel unclean, let alone his actions. This hero is not sane, and he is not getting better. He has no personal interests in life. Not even one. No curiosity, no joy, no goals. Even his development as mage is nothing more than a means to an end. The only thing he got is an obsession to not get personally hurt by people that manage to convince him of their love. Either by betrayal or by them dying on him. This is literally all he got. A husk is no exaggeration. That's not all. A lot of the plot consists of his moral dilemmas, but they are so incredibly hollow. All smoke and mirrors. Because no matter what thoughts are presented before us, the hero never changes. Again, there is as much as 15% of text centered at this, but he. never. changes. one. single. bit. Never gains even one bit more... content. There is absolutely zero personal development, despite all the attempts to describe various groundbreaking revelations. That alone was more than enough to consider dropping the story, as I personally hate reading from a point of view of less than sane people, but it actually gets worse. The plot itself is inconsistent. Everything in it is sacrificed for the sake of drama. Pace, logic, characters. Hero became too strong for the plot? Not a problem, after a time skip he will be subtly nerfed without any explanation. He is too strong to describe a dramatic fight? Not a problem, he will stop being able to run circles around his enemy due to his many times higher speed, with at best an extremely shoddy explanation of: the enemy is just that skilled. He can fly and as such can easily escape from any danger? Not a problem, he'll always forget about that option at the right times. He can't be ambushed nor lost because he can just fly high enough? Again, he'll just conveniently forget at all the right times. And so on. No matter what it is, it will step aside for even a little bit of drama. Heroes will do ridiculous bullshit at every corner to provide the reader with it. I'll avoid spoilers, so I can only say that it's bad. A lot of time characters will find hilarious reasons to do the exact thing that would cause the most drama, despite the reasons being paper thin and it being against interests of literally everyone involved. The drama is a huge obsession of this story. I managed to read about 240 chapters before getting fed up to the extreme. To me, all the worldbuilding isn't worth anything when I feel progressively worse just mentally touching the plot, the protagonist. I can't exactly rate this too low, after reading for this length, but I really wouldn't recommend it. It's a dark place.

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