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One is that the first operator, Mu Ling, gets her identity completely exposed early on, while other operators no matter how distinctive their abilities aren't ever exposed. Like a certain magician, particularly. The main issue here is that no one seems to even question it.
Another is that the author uses Bai Yan's functional insanity as a free pass to have the guy do pretty much whatever the author wants without any buildup. It's also uncomfortable seeing a protagonist whose first impulse is killing, and who regrets when someone hasn't done enough bad things to give him an excuse to kill them. Other people say he has a moral bottom line, but he's really thinking that the entire world, good and evil, will hunt him down if he crosses the line. Including his operators. No, I get that it's just his personality, but the author hid how bad he was until he was suddenly massacring thugs left and right to grind for exp and loot.
Another is about the outer god who was paying attention to him suddenly intervening after he used his prior knowledge. He just went "oh shit, that happened" and then ignored the possibility of it happening again while continuing to use his game knowledge.
He mentioned that the game probably wouldn't let him use a luck increase card for better gacha results, but then proceeded to ab*se loopholes all over the place. Based on what I've seen the game allow since then? I'd assume the card would work.
The library of ruina possesses all knowledge of past and present. But Bai Yan has only used it to enable powerups and didn't even consider using it to figure out his connection to the outer god, his missing past, etc. The operator looking for a missing best friend didn't even react to something that could outright tell him where the guy is. Making it worse is the fact that immediately after finding out about the library that knows everything, said operator commissions another operator for information instead.
Oh, and in addition to being able to know anything knowable, the protagonist also has a 1/week instakill weapon that can target anyone in the world. Why doesn't he use his knowledge of the future to deal with the more dangerous enemies ahead of time? I'm sure there are good reasons, but he doesn't even spend a sentence considering it.
[collapse]So, it's complicated. It really feels like most of my issues could have been resolved with just one or two sentences without changing the story. Some are minor irritations, some are major plotholes (potentially).I usually think of certain powers as plot-destroying or even setting-destroying, and this novel has all of those powers (except time travel so far) in the hands of major allies or enemies. So there will always be the unspoken questions "okay, that was a tense scene, but why didn't he just use ___ ability to instantly resolve it?" Or the character actually does instantly resolve the issue and it feels anti-climactic. These issues have been getting much worse in recent chapters, not so much in the first hundred.