Review Detail of Warmaisach in Birth of the Demonic Sword

After reading for a long while, I want to honestly show my opinion. The novel is, in total, near perfection in regards to what it advertises. While in other novels, a ruthless MC, or a unfair power struggle is a negative, that only holds true if the other novel as not advertised as such. The frontpage of this novel shows very clearly what you need to expect. - ruthless MC - Cultivation Point 1 may be a negative in other novels, it holds not true for this one. It was advertised at the beginning, and if people complain about this, then they should have paid more attention. If someone gives a low rating for the reason that the MC is ruthless, even though it was CLEARLY advertised, then why have they even started reading? The readers should know what they like, and what they don't like. The flow of the story is, what I would call, necessary, which is a strange adjective for "flow of the story." Yet, the word necessary shows the the balance between "overdescribing" and "underdescribing" in the sense of characters. Some may complain about "one dimensional characters", yet that only holds true for the very early chapters, and only because it is necessary. Complexity of a character must be shown to "exist", and showing the complexity of a character takes up time for the story. If, for example, you spent multiple chapters in the beginning to flesh out all your side characters, most readers will get bored with the main-story and say "This is a story about the MC, and not about all those others." The story is already very long, and will get even longer. Length may be a positive for many readers, but if it gets too long, it will start to be a detriment. Many people say "1500 chapters? Long, but I like long books!" while the same ones would also say "3000 chapters? How can you keep such a long book interesting?" So in order to fit a very long conceptual story into an "attractive" range, you need to cut corners SOMEWHERE. Spending chapters just to flesh out side-characters that will be unimportant a couple chapters down the line is a very good way to shorten the story and keep it more "essential". Too much description of side characters can quickly feel like filler if the MC is not advancing quickly enough on the side. The only bad thing I could say about this novel, is that, at the beginning, the people in power are not black and white, but only black. At least SOMEONE in power should hold different ideals to the others, just to create a contrast. Though, this could be attributed to the MCs bad luck in only running into those. If that were the case, then a couple comments in the story like "Not everyone had this cold outlook on power. Person A was a good example, but Person A couldn't change the majority, so they were helpless in this matter. Sadly, the MC never had the luck to meet those few who would have wholeheartedly helped him." there is always contrast in the world, even in one as dark as this. If the contrast exists, then it must be shown, or else it "does not exist" to the reader. TL;dr: One of my favorite Novels, ever. 4.8 Stars