Review Detail of Basiun in The Oracle Paths

The characters! The oracle paths isn't a very unique type of story, but it certainly tries its hardest to carve a unique spot within the genre. The characters and their relationships are very impressively done. The MC doing a character a favor does not mean that the character will follow the MC, nor does a character being an annoyance at one point mean that they will be an irrelevant side character/villain. Each relevant named character has a developed personality which is not centric to something relevant to the MC. The story is reminiscent of "The New World" @ RR, characters and interactions are quite reminiscent of "Dungeon Crawler Carl" @ RR. It has some other things that remind me of a bunch of different novels but in my experience it reminds me the most of these 2, and I'm somewhat confident that the author has read both of them. There are huge problems with this novels though, and by problems I don't mean things like plotholes or grammar errors - The world being built is simply so big and comprehensive that for this story to end up satisfying and fulfilled, it will need to grow for thousands of chapters. The mere fact that it needs thousands of chapters is almost a gamebreaker in itself as it's very unlikely that either the author can keep up quality or very likely that the author will deviate to a narrower plotline/drop the novel at some point. Around c280-300 I realized that the author already has a slight problem with how to progress the plot, and the following 50 or so chapters became very stagnant and simply had a lot of pointless description baked in. 2 more nagging problems in the novel is how hard it is to compare how strong characters are without having them brawl. Due to the body//aether system and the tons of different races involved, the MC is obviously not the strongest contender, but at the same time he should pretty much be one of the strongest "unprepared" human contenders - but struggles way too much with them in comparison to his stat sheet. The second "problem" is how hard it is to evaluate "time" when the "standard time" should be a few weeks, but the standard+ordeal time is more similar to 5 months. The reader has no real understanding of how long digestors/evolvers have been "active" and whether or not any power scenario that is introduced seems reasonable or "Hmph, you took a year to gain that power? I took 3 days" and vice versa. All-in-all, it's a veeery good novel, but it's too huge to be reviewed properly, as 350 chapters is basically enough for half the system tutorial.