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Sigh.I really liked the story idea and the beginning of the story, at some point I realized that the MC has no personality to speak of and only whimpers like a stereotypical "shou" with all these big ranker alphas stepping all over him; but they're utterly in love w him. It made me really made that these feelings were coming out of literally nowhere, but then they explained it and made it quite interesting.Spoiler
Basically when they become "vengeful ghosts" they lose everything (feelings for past loved ones or comrades included, which makes the relationships between the guild members quite empty) except dedication to revenge and "hunger" for MC. I was really hoping they would take this into an interesting decision that has MC re-examine his relationships, give up on his feelings, and more thoughtfully interact with them. However, tbh it seems to not be the case or at least not fast enough.
[collapse]Why I'm dropping this: It's really frustrating to read how MC has literally contributed nothing at all the entire story. Obviously his enemies are super powerful, but not a single development has been from MC. All he does is listen to direction, hide behind them to be protected, and is as useful as a mascot teddy bear would be.I like trying to contradict traumatized but powerful Rankers with their weird psychology with a more innocent MC, but at the same time it feels like it's undermining the struggles that MC had to go through living between the cracks in a class totally belittled by everyone and selling his pride to scr*pe by, I found the beginning quite interesting. I guess it's accurate to his character to continue cowering even after getting these summons, but he just doesn't use his brain AT ALL to think about how to edit the contract or anything at to improve his life. He doesn't even read the description of his skills or know his skills or clear system functions, even after over a year as a hunter!! Frankly speaking, the MC is a total weakling, one that doesn't even try to improve all that much. And I totally get where he's coming from, but it makes for a really uncomfortable MC to read about. In addition, tbh his incredible subservience feels contradictory to a man who struggled for a year at the bottom when all odds were against him and was willing to bow low. People calling him super dense but rather it's more that it's utterly and totally absurd that any of these people like him.Not only does he have no control over the plot or developments, it reads more like he's actively OUT OF CONTROL of everything, including relationships with his "servants". They literally step all over him, and he lets them. Even the ones that don't step all over him, it feels like he's letting them anyway??? Like he's always so careful and polite even to sangyoon, not to mention swayed and swindled w jaemin or hiseo. ITS SO WIMPY AND BORING.Like, we get it, you made your point, can you move on from this now??? Can he please start showing some growth??? How come he's just getting more and more pathetic???????It was kinda cute and nbd in the beginning, but more and more getting super annoying. Also, it feels more and more like tons of filler, it's getting quite boring. It moved from dungeon-getting-stronger to strategizing-for-revenge yet the strategy is not even that good, really they're just taking advantage of their OPness to patch up the plotholes all over the place.I'm really quite disappointed, I wanted to love this story and at one point I was really starting to but it took a steep dive down and I gave up on it going up anytime soon.