Have mixed feelings, am currently at chapter 1364. Liked the pace until like chapter 700 (when it was still somewhat easy to follow), but then then the first big arc full of action is as long as 600 or more chapters and still hasn't finished. Am getting tired by it at this point, but unlike cliffhangers in other novels this one actually has good plot and characters so i want to finish the arc and see what's next. But as for the current arc, there are so many plot twists, the author pitied a couple forces and several other mastermind-like individuals with their own agendas, when you think there can't be more behind the scene plotters and so many powerful guys with unclear motives, hey, a new one pops up.. what's worst is that they can be some random girl or a simple-looking with average power, and most of them survive one way or another until the climax.. so when you think a character can't make a comeback, it does.. one guy seems to be your own, but then teams up with enemy, then becomes an ally again.. and then enemy again, then peace contract, then one of the main bosses.. so many characters pit each other.. So many characters changed so many sides during the arc that as a reader it makes me feel uneasy and uncomfortable, mostly because it really drags and drags on while things became so so complicated and absurd.. in just this one arc, we have the parasiting of the host, symbiosis with host, undeads, those that can predict future, change flow of time, change past and future, detect luck, reincarnate, seal their own memories or abilities.. alter memory.. space shift... teleport.. isolate space.. have ,,vessels" in their body.. and many more. There's also mind reading, though i am unclear, because we're shown a lady that can read minds, then a couple hundred chapters later the main developer girl says that mind reading doesn't exist, puts an argument as to why and explains that it's only possible to deduce things based on emotions.. a plot hole i guess? Not sure because that lady was foreshadowed and disappeared for hundreds of chapters and she's likely to appear before the arc ends so maybe there's yet another plot twist.. where she turns out to be some rare-to-be-seen cheat-like individual :PWhat's refreshing is that unlike other novels, the characters there don't really rely that much on artifacts or items that pop out of nowhere and are their great reliance. They do have hidden cards that they keep surprising you with, but it's not really rings, swords or the like. More like, as mentioned before, it's some mastered forbidden spell, sealed power, pre-planned allies.. fabricated past so as to mislead or bluff others.. and various other tricks. Only in some cases it's e.g. a replica of an item that replays a fragment of the near past to e.g. open the same portal again, but these are only used once because these items only have value when others don't know about them and hence can't take these into account.1364 chapters, the plot is so "elaborate" and long that it's suffocating. Making all these stuff appear in one arc is a bit too much in my opinion, it's almost like every character plays some kind of crucial role or identity. There are barely any simple guys with names that keep appearing in the plot that don't play important roles, you think you already know everything about a character's depth but it later turns out he hids even more deeply and has other secrets. Many key characters have a plot armor that is too thick.. they can be outplayed, wounded, tricked, sealed, killed several times but they still survive!! it's as if someone wrote a couple arcs into one instead of introducing these things slowly over a couple smaller arcs. Am really wondering, if the first big arc that is taking place in a small insignificant area is so long and has so many characters with their own agendas, than what about future arcs? Will author write even longer and more complicated arcs with even more allies and enemies? The plot is so well written that he can easily go for over 10 000 chapters this way.Will write a new comment again, maybe after i finish the arc and see the next one.. but so far these are my thoughts.
