A Medieval Knight in a Martial Arts Novel Chapter 8 Discussion

A cool premise, though I'm not a fan of the execution. The entire gimmick of this book is that the MC is a western medieval knight in an eastern Wuxia land, but the author sadly leans away from all the cool and interesting parts of being a medieval knight that would actually set this book apart. It might as well be called "Average Modern Day MC with OP Sword Technique in a Martial Arts Novel".

I think it would be awesome and totally different if the MC actually leaned into the chivalry and whole crusade vibe, because the character interactions and cultural clash with the Wuxia culture would be really entertaining to see. It would certainly spice up the character interactions, because the dialogue is completely generic and akin to every other Wuxia novel. Right now this book does nothing unique; the MC is practically a medieval knight in name only, and it has no real effect on his personality. The author just uses the medieval knight trope to justify scaling the MC's power level up from the start since his swordsmanship is exotic, as other reviewers have mentioned.

With that said, the book is still fairly entertaining as a slightly different than usual Wuxia; there is the whole subplot of the world actually being from a novel. I give it a 3.5, though it would be a 4.5 if I wasn't bigly disappointed by the lost potential and the resulting generic dialogue. I really feel this could have been totally unique and exciting, and maybe even a classic since the author's underlying writing skills are good, but it ended up milquetoast unfortunately.