I'm just finished the web novel. The story and overall concept as well some of the ideas were very good and I enjoyed the novel very much but I was also very disappointed in the story as well. Overall, the so called genius mage became somewhat disappointing, he had abnormally large mana pool but as far as how powerful he got from it was truly disappointing, basically he seemed like a genius from how he could reach saint level at such early age and then later when he learns king magic he learns it in one look, as well as when he creates his own magic electric and how he learns Ran Ma so quickly was all great but he frequently when he is in battle later in the story, he barely does anything there is almost no true one vs one epic battle either. When this novel started it out there also a possibility of him learning Flying magic but he didn't bother learning and all the saint magic sounded useless in terms of fighting one vs one as well as king magic having to use it after using saint magic was bit lame and he never really used emperor or god level magic at all, with the exception of Nuclear or something when he was fighting the Dragon God. The fact that he couldn't wear fighting spirit was never explained at least I don't remember reading about why maybe I missed that part but the way he got over it by making magic arm sounded cool, but even when he is equipped with it he never truly seem all that strong and pretty much all he ever does in fight is use stone canon.
To me, in my opinion, this novel would have been more enjoyable for me if the main character actually got stronger, instead it was more like him just going around talking to lot of different people begging for their help and most of the people he actually manage to defeat is small fry. I was really excited when he grown up a bit more and finished off stray red dragon by himself as well as showing his magic power against Babadi but in the end it never really grew from that, instead it was just lot of mind games. There is lot of inconsistence logic in the story as well. Like the fact that he keeps saying that he basically killed North Emperor Auber and the prime minister, and that was his first murdering of a person, was really weird, he keeps saying the one who basically killed them was him despite the fact that Eris was the one who actually landed the finishing blow, if you follow his logic he already killed plenty of slave traders when he let Reijurd kill them. The fact that he gets scared of war when he fight against beings that are Seven Major World Power? Like 5000 people scared him? I basically got sick and tired of how this guy gets scared by every little thing, he basically rarely actually do anything by himself. I personally really like it when the protagonist becomes powerful or is powerful from beginning. This novel, I thought I kept seeming glimpse of that but it actually never came to be. All that potential to be something great but never came to be. And with main character being a mage I thought there would be lot of cool magic fighting but this novel's fighting was truly boring I would just even skip of the battle because most of the time it was just main character cowering in fear or watching people fight while he shoots stone canon time to time.
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After thinking about it I came to the conclusion this novel was half a$$ed done and isn't very polished work, lot of flaws but it is web novel, I don't think there was actual editor, probably? No idea but I really love the concept and overall story, just the finer details and character development in terms of power was really just pathetic. I really hate how a boy genius became nothing, terrible magics with limited combat magic used ( literally stone canon every day + with MKII he just shots over stone cannon ).
Edited by youkissass, 22 September 2015 - 02:06 PM.