I Couldn’t Afford to Buy Mana, so I Started Streaming Chapter 26 Discussion

This novel is honestly hard to read and jumps a lot.

The LoL stuff is good but everything outside of that feels like someone else wrote it and used AI.

There is some big issues with the logic that I can only attribute to AI generating text then the author just adding some stuff to what is generated in hopes to make it fit the previous chapters. The time frame of when the first chapter was posted happens to match when gen AI came out.

The novel jumps to random characters with little to no introduction making it hard to know if it is the MC's point of view or the random characters until a third of the way into each chapter. To make it worse because it jumps so much even when it is from the MC's point of view it is hard to tell if it is the MC because what is happening and what is being talked about is completely different from the previous chapter that it just seems like each chapter was made without looking at what was happening in the previous chapter.

Here is a summary of the story to try and make sense of the dumpster fire of random parts from the first 17 chapters:

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So the start of the story is the character being executed in a medieval fantasy world due to a prophesy. For the next couple of chapters we are given very vague clues of the MCs situation while she plays an alternate version of LoL until she gets saved from the situation.

At this point we find out the MC has been trapped in a VR capsule for 7 years with her dead mother but the kicker she is 7 years old and no one bothers to think something is off about it while they all desperately try erase any obligation to take care of the 7 year old girl. They even label her as an illegal immigrant because she doesn't have the chip everyone has after birth. Um 7 year old trapped in a capsule for 7 years I think they should be able to figure out why she doesn't have a chip.

The MC is then dumped on an orphanage and soon is diagnosed with a physical illness and then runs away to live at a PC cafe and the orphanage makes zero effort to take care of her and doesn't even attempt to bring her back. The MC makes mention of the other kids being the reason for why she left but we never get to see such interactions and can only take her word for it.

MC lives at the PC cafe until a professor teaching lessons to a virtual classroom she accidentally got in knee jerk adopts her within and hour of their first physical meeting when she visits the university to see her grades.

17 very confusing chapters I read to get that and this summary probably makes more sense than reading those chapters did.

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I will keep reading to see if there is any improvement but I expect most people won't make it passed 10 chapters and is mostly being propped up by the LoL fans because those parts of the novel really are a step above the rest of the content.