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I encourage you to still push through the daunting early chapters. After reading further I realized MC's weakness is not a mistake of the author - he is purposefully made to be a realistic person at least with regards to power level and growth speed and while it might not be everyone's taste I appreciate it very much. In fact I'm a little annoyed at ML's ridiculous explosive history. 19-21 year olds do not lead huge influential companies while climbing 7000 lvls. They don't.MC starts weak and confused - a regular, completely untrained person off the street suddenly developping very complicated abilities with no support, struggling to cover his day-to-day necessities without dying to his dangerous profession rather than to achieve something big.He gradually, slowly becomes stronger and stronger. First his ability to assess the situation develops and we can see him improvise through a dangerous interrogaton scene and be able to see through more and more bluffs.Second we get a sense of his mental resilience which is even remarked upon by other characters. He's physically weak and struggles to use his skills correctly but he is able to survive many extremely traumatic situations without breaking down. If anything he learns from his bad experiences and gradually becomes more ruthless and better at stratrgizing.Finally the slowest is his physical development and use of skills. It's realistically slow but after a while you start seeing the fruits of his labor. Also his life and health gets disturbed a lot by the use of his abilities and the plot so when would he have time to become an OP special ops fighter?Truly, the ridiculous ones are the side characters from Red Lotus. But they have well developped personalities, likes and dislikes so I let it slide.The plot is pretty cool. It's also much darker than I expected. Seeing people strategize how to taint sacred ground with mutilated corpses of holy people reminds of my DnD sessions with friends :,)