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Yeah, no.. Not enough patience for a novel like this. I'm fine with weak protagonists that make sense. I'm fine with s*upid protagonists that make sense. What I'm not fine with are protagonists that are supposed to be smart or have the potential to be strong, but just aren't because the author went too far with the abilities and now tries as hard as he can to slow down the pacing.In the beginning, it was not that apparent because the growth felt pretty consistent with the abilities the MC had. The issues started when the author realized that he's 50 chapters in and the MC is in the top 10perc. When it comes to power and at this rate it'd take at most another 100 chapters before he becomes some sort of peerless overgod. Now there are other novels with pacing like this, but they usually solve it by adding more powerful enemies above the "peak" that the reader didn't know about in the beginning. The way it's solved in this novel is the author creating situations that force the MC into leveling situational auxiliary abilities instead of combat oriented ones. Essentially. The MC gets around 60 skill points each lvlup. Those 60 skill points are enough to lvl one school of magic or swordsmanship, or even defense so high, that there would be almost no one in the world stronger than him in that one area. Why doesn't he do that? Well just before he levels up, every time there just happens to be a situation that convinces him that he needs detection skills that do almost nothing.. Or psychic defense skills that are useful against exactly two people out of the entire story so far.. He confidently spends 40 points on extremely situational skills, but refuses to spend 10 to max his swordsmanship. And that's not all.. The worst part is, that the skills he gets look very impressive for exactly one chapter, and then they just don't exist.. Whether it's his divine eyes that were stolen from the gods or whatever and allowed him to see through smoke one time, then never did anything useful again, his "Unsealable" skill that makes him very much sealable, just with a different ability, or his newest ability that protects him against psychological influence, unless it just doesn't when it's not convenient.. The abilities don't work, he doesn't use them or there's some meh explanation about why he can't use them..TLDR: The villains have plot armor, the MC has plot holes. It's like the slime/spider reincarnation if 100 chapters in, the author decided not to have an OP protagonist and tried to explain why they're actually not that strong after all..
