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Unb_Ekannt
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I really don´t get the high rating of this novel. It gets nowhere close to Shadow Slave etc. There is no real character development or real story. You could read the first and last 50 pages and skip everything in between - you wouldn´t miss much. The MC is constantly OP- no matter what he does. Neither he nor any other characters have a real personality- other characters pop up and vanish as meaningless followers with emotions, intelligence and personalities of NPCs, meaning: none. The mother of his child has no meaning at all - at best she gets something from him. Same with his son- he is basically just the extension of the MC- to further show how OP the MC is, with his son also being OP, running around, using skills and talking right after birth.....riiiiiiight. The whole novel is based on leveling and rankings- with pretty much nothing behind it. AIs could create stories with more depth, emotions and excitement.... The whole setting is shallow at best. The character basically moves from bubble to bubble. He always meets characters a few ranks above him, dominates them, moves into the next bubble with some characters a few ranks above him, dominates them etc.- this goes on and on. Rinse and repeat or copy-paste. What happened to weak people with stories or characters far above him ? No matter what- the MC can do everything and is always the best- in everything. It feels silly, boring and like a waste of time. He just goes around spreading death to level up, no emotions, no challenges, no danger, no goals (other than leveling for no reason whatsoever). As if that isn´t enough- the little bit of character design that was done is also flawed. For example: the MC experienced how the water planet was destroyed- pretty much all living beings as well as the core with its own life got massacred. All the innocent people go down screaming, to their death- with the survivors in pain. Without any emotional involvement in the genocide whatsoever the MC goes after the culprits- why ? He befriends one- with no morale struggle. Afterwards he recruits her and seemingly instantly forgets what she did - slaughtering millions of innocent people....She was supposed to make up for her killing people - but just gets turned into his fallower, to kill more people.... With that lack of morale- why go after the culprits in the first place ? These are btw the only few pages with something resembling personalities, emotions etc.- so thousands of pages without even that... ;) Later the MC has zero problems destroying whole universes filled with innocents just to further level up- what is he even getting stronger for ? .. the destruction of all those lifes isn´t even a topic anymore when it is him doing it. really ??? I can´t take this novel seriously and it is the first I dropped after a long time. The writing itself is not bad- but everything else is. In general it is one of the worst novels I have read in a long time- if not ever. In my opinion the author should have ended the novel a long time ago and learned from it. Instead of improving the novel got worse over time with it getting even more focused on leveling up and everything else losing even the last bit of meaning- just serving as fillers in between [Upgrade]-notices.... Even real grinding of levels in games is more entertaining. So... to the readers: do not waste your time with this. To the author: improve and tell stories instead of spamming upgrade messages...

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Infinite Mana in the Apocalypse

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kennykangaroo2
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Shadow Slave(SS) is an extreme on the opposite end where instead SS just pads the chapter/word count with needless dialogue, explanations, Sunless' inner thinking, shallow schemes, with the story progressing at a snails pace each chapter. Infinite Mana in the Apocalypse pads it's chapter/word count with endless skill upgrades and raising what you thought was the ceiling by another notch of power to chase for every 200–300 chapters. This novel in question is just going to keep repeating this until it hits 5K chapters.

OneArmedImmortal
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I dropped IMITA around chapter 2000k-ish because of this(speaking from someone who has read multiple Xianxia-themed stories with over 2k chapters, which I had patient for, instead of IMITA. The author's capture of the language is good and all but I got tired of the level-up texts that fill almost half of the chapter.