Review Detail of Riccy in The Oracle Paths

I've caught up to the latest chapter right now (411). This novel is one of my absolute favorites. I've spent what limited amount of coins I had to unlock chapters and support the author without any hesitation. I'd like to start with the positives first. - The author has a phenomenal grasp of the English language, with an emphasis on vocabulary. It puts many other individuals, both readers and authors, to shame. I consider myself well acquainted with English but I found myself looking up words more than I'm willing to admit. You probably will too, the author is that good. - The world building is out of this world (haha). Seriously. Although this does bring some negatives which I'll discuss later on, it's seriously worth it. This author did not skimp out on his research. Everything is written in detail. The environment, the background, the logic, the technology. I used to dislike long, informative paragraphs but not here. Everything seems so believable and more importantly interesting, and I found myself feeling excited whenever more information was shared. This world building is on par, or dare I boldly say perhaps even better than Lord of The Mysteries. One of the best qualities of this novel by far. - The characters. Oh boy, the characters here are very realistic. The story is mostly presented in a third-person perspective in the form of the MC's thoughts. I love it because it really sheds light on his thought processes and the way he thinks and why he interacts with the world the way he does. I love it. But what's even better is that I found absolutely no tropes or cliche's in this novel when it came to other characters. None of the side characters stick to the MC or become his best friend after a few interactions. No instant love or random girls or whatever garbage similar to that. Their traits, both good and bad, are well defined. This also brings me to the negatives. (very very very mild spoilers ahead) The characters are a little too realistic lol. Let me explain. Their behavior sometimes are filled with hypocrisy. Let's take the MC for example. He's often presented as being an asocial loner. A man focused on his survival and nothing else. He has difficulty trusting people. Over the course of the story, it's often reiterated that he won't care what happens to the people around them, that he doesn't trust them, that he puts his survival above all else. Yet, hypocritically, whenever one of his companions is in trouble, I find the MC doing all kinds of mental gymnastics to make it seem like saving them isn't because he's worried for them but because he might as well save them since he was going there anyway. This sort of discrepancy between what is told to us and how he acts happens quite often. The MC is presented as this solo loner, who doesn't trust anyone but yet he extends quite an effort in saving them. In hindsight, I don't have much of a problem with this because all of his rescues were rewarded with great plot advances and personal rewards for the MC like him discovering a secret about the world, etc. My last negative is the slow release of chapters. Excellent world-building comes at a price. Often I notice that there are multiple paragraphs just dedicated to world-building. Entire chapters can go by with little actual plot development. This is great in my opinion but with the relatively slow release schedule of the author, I often find myself frustrated because little is actually happening. This problem will obviously go away once the novel is finished but for readers like myself who have been addicted to this novel, it's extremely frustrating.