Review Detail of Valixiant in I Reincarnated as a Shinai

Alrighty, this is a solid meh for me. The idea was pretty good, I've seen a few others that are similar but I think this one is better. However, it does have some problems. The main problem this novel has is how ridiculously slow it is. The story surrounding the first two wielders were okay, but once the main character found the third wielder it became super slow. I'm skimming the novel and I still find it excruciatingly slow. Ten or so chapters can go by and nothing really important will happen. Meaningless fights are several chapters long. Arguably the worst part is the POV changes. Theres so many problems with that. Other people's POV lasts so long. Furthermore, upon switching POV's, it will essentially just be repeating events that already happened from a different POV before continuing. Story development is meh. Story takes far too long for anything meaningful to happen. They foreshadow various things, but so far haven't capitalized on anything. As for the characters? Average at best. No matter how many skills the main character gets, it never really feels like hes improving. Side characters are meh. Theres nothing particularly interesting about any of them. The main character's students are average, if not 2d. Once again, I'd just like to point out how much exposition dumping and meaningless filler is included in this novel. Usually, most novels would stop exposition dumping at the start, but this novel never really does. It constantly re-explains stuff, to the point of it be repetitive. Overall, too slow to be enjoyable, especially considering this is a action novel. Fights are boring and almost all of them feel like filler. Everything else is average or below-average.