When I started reading this, I really enjoyed myself, but as time has gone on I realize that there is never any satisfying closure to any conflict. Yerode and Lumine, the first ‘true’ antagonists of the story who are introduced around chapter 100 are both STILL ALIVE and causing problems in chapter 670+. This is a pattern that occurs with just about every major antagonist and it is incredibly annoying. Especially when the female main character, Ruby, is one of those antagonists. The author absolutely refuses to let the main character act reasonably when she’s involved. Oh she tortured him to death? No problem, he’ll rescue her next time regardless just because the ‘Oracle’ offered to throw him a couple good boy points for it. Ridiculous. She’s been nothing but an annoying return villain since he met her, and I frankly have no desire to see the continued forced romance there. No matter how strong Jake gets, or how high his Ordeal scores are, it never matters because magically all of his peers end up stronger than him despite that. It’s been 500 chapters and Jake is still getting thrashed by the same people as he was at the start.
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LIKEShe cut off his arms, ripped a hole in his chest, and left him for dead at the end of their Second Ordeal—after she betrayed him, at that. If that isn’t torture, what is it? A polite greeting?
S3ntinel:She never tortured him 🤣
He’s not a main antagonist, he’s just the first antagonist. He messes with the MCs first ordeal, almost getting him killed, and then proceeded to turn his kneecap into chunky salsa after ambushing him in the real world.
S3ntinel:And yerode a main antagonist? xD
Ehbon:She cut off his arms, ripped a hole in his chest, and left him for dead at the end of their Second Ordeal—after she betrayed him, at that. If that isn’t torture, what is it? A polite greeting?
Ehbon:She cut off his arms, ripped a hole in his chest, and left him for dead at the end of their Second Ordeal—after she betrayed him, at that. If that isn’t torture, what is it? A polite greeting?
Ehbon:She cut off his arms, ripped a hole in his chest, and left him for dead at the end of their Second Ordeal—after she betrayed him, at that. If that isn’t torture, what is it? A polite greeting?
S3ntinel:And btw she used a mental technique xD I don’t know what you are talking about