Review Detail of novelmeister in I'll Curse Everything To My Liking

Of course, thanks for showing interest in the reviews of your readers, regardless of what they rated your novel. I respect authors that don't have high egos about their work, so I'll describe in greater detail why I rated this novel 3 stars. Here's the reason: 1. The introduction of the main, Sol. - Although there is a backstory, it is a plain and short one. After reading more than 200 chapters of this so far, one could ponder - if such a figure truly threatened the foundation of the world and was immortal, why was such a small and insignificant backstory given? What drives Sol to conquer and dominate, other than a naive wishes? Even throughout 200 chapters, not much of Sol's past is known, and the fragments shared don't deliver his character justice. 2. Power Gap - While Sol's original body was far behind his peers, the rate of Sol's growth in power seems small compared to the legacy we were introduced to at the start. For example, why is Sol only above the Sanction Princes by a rank or two? Even though they are royalty, Sol possesses centuries (and potentially more, though that has not been made clear yet) of knowledge in alchemy to craft pills for cultivation, and yet he is only able to get a slight jump on his peers in power levels. Such a figure that invented his own type of magic who threatened higher beings, who also has tens of thousands of decent-grade pills, is still only slightly better than his peers, who are in an insignificant lower realm? It doesn't make sense. 3. Academy Tournament - The MC defeating his peers was a given, and even if he didn't possess any secret techniques or his own magic, his cultivation level alone would be enough. It seemed like a filler section of the story, to be honest. There should have been something more interesting going on, like a secret martial master disguised as one of the students or some kind of terrorist attack on the academy. Everyone and their mother knew the MC would win this tournament, so it seemed like this was only written to throw "The MC is overpowered" in the readers faces. 4. Slaying the King - When the MC goes up against the king, who is an entire cultivation realm above him in power, and wins, it doesn't make much sense. The level of power through cultivation should be made explicitly clear early on, because this is not the only instance in which I was perplexed. The city knights, who were chasing the MC down to arrest him, could be easily beaten by the MC. But yet, they were obviously more than twice his age - why were their cultivation levels low? The knights may not have access to as many pills as the MC, but they should still be at least 2 cultivation realms higher than the MC at that point. Moreover, the head of the knights was the king's brother - why was he so substantially weaker than the king? Overall, the reason why the MC being able to slay the king doesn't make sense is because the level of the MC's secret power *combined* with his standard cultivation isn't made clear, whatsoever. We don't really know how powerful he is, because he keeps getting saved by plot armor. Make it clear how he stands compared to the rest. 5. Cultivation Techniques - Why would an immortal need to learn subpar cultivation techniques from a lower realm? Shouldn't he have them memorized from his past life? 6. Random Enemy - In the novel, a certain character meets with the Sanction King and requests to be his knight to kill the MC, but no backstory is given as to who this man is and why he wants the MC. Moreover, there isn't any premise as to how this man who was weaker than the MC was able to get inside of the Academy undetected but the MC couldn't leave undetected himself. All in all, character development needed work, and the story had pacing left to be desired, considering the legacy of the MC and his base of power before he died, the story should be faster and the MC's accumulation of power should be faster, only because of the reputation of the MC.