Review Detail of Rozuka in Supreme Magus

To the credit of the author, the writing itself is of the stronger showings in the app catalogue. The world itself and the power systems involved felt quite fleshed out. You can tell a lot of thought and effort went into creating both world as well as story. Many of the side characters and villains are well thought. With growth or motives that you can see and feel. The real issue comes in the form of the MC. The author labels him, in the synopsis, as cynical and damaged but promises growth. The issue is that there is no growth. The MC does have a relatively tragic past and it would definitely affect anyone but the level that it is overplayed in the novel, along with the flippant shifts MC makes, drags the story down tremendously. I could understand if the duality was used as a show of conflict for development. However, despite being often portrayed as clever and flexible, he never tries to wrestle his past. You don’t expect the MC to be a saint but he continually hinders himself in his self righteous thinking before someone else leads him down the right path, either in word or by suffering in his place. He then turns around repeats the “woe is me, maybe I should die” shtick, seems to make progress then regresses. Once or twice is fine but at this point I sense a bland, recurring pattern. Truly a shame for a novel that has so depth and promised character growth.