The Spearmaster and the Black Cat Chapter 459 Discussion

Oh boy, here we go!

Author manages to create absolutely unique world. Every ability, every race, every city, locations, enemy, artifacts, weapons, magic, everything seems unique, fresh, never used before by other authors. (For me at least)

I'm amazed by the sheer size of the world and by the imagination of author needed to build such world. Unfortunately, this come with the price of scattered story. The further story goes the less focused it became. He can set a goal and it would take 200 chapters, while it could be done in ten if only MC didn't create new goals. Yes, that's how life is, but not to that extent. This trend appears in every part of novel. The casual conversation would be cut in the middle. By the random thoughts of MC who saw his spirit dancing in bg. They can't go anywhere without casually play with something along the way. While it's vexing how long it could take, at the same time this add deepness to the story, where every character has their own personality, or gain it along the way.

Stroy showcasing how fantasy world should be if it's inhabited with armies of monsters. It answers with a lot of really strong people. With A LOT of strong people.

Fights described with a lot of details. Since most of the powers a basically unique they tend to be pretty interesting, and sometimes long, because MC use every chance to train (yes in the middle of the fight, he percieves mostfights as training.)

It's important to say that this stroy doesn't have any main goals anymore, only secondary that seems interesting to MC or dangers to his close ones.

All in all, really good stuff, chapters are pretty long, Rebecca is the best girl (the most complex personality IMO) 8/10 (why 8 reason down bellow)

Old long version down below

I really like this one, author manages to create world that never cease to be exciting. The world has inique atmosphere that's different from others isekai novels.

I'm in particular, didn't like certain characters behaviour, like Viine's total loyalty, or Eva's unquestionable friendliness, like they got no personalities themselves like paper sheet with word "Yes" written on it. Well later it's became less and less prominent.

What hook me up is this infinite development of story, of his strenght and his companions.Spoiler

When they all became his kin, they also start to develop

[collapse] Every time he get a new move, spell, skill, technique it looks sloppy and raw, but he continues to utilize and refine it, until it become more and more proper and powerful techniques. It's really cool that you see how he improves as stry progresses.

Spoiler

It was exciting when they already get to auction, where he made friends (and no only friends (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)). But after auction author like didn't know what he wanted, so he litteraly started to throw one story route after another. Shuya came back to mist forest with Misty (the one with golems, and sister of Sol, the dude that tried to kill Shuya and Yui), leave her with Henkai, which he befrended after auction, and Viine and goes to Heckatrail (or whatever was his first city called) f*cks Nora (vampire hunter) check some stuff and immediately leaves. That's where the sh*t happened. He goes to the Quiche's village, which she rebuilded, and that's where the most messy, orderless arc started, the f*cking Evil forest.

He hadn't achieved not a single of his goal inside of this forest without starting a new goal and fight with few new enemies, that every time stretches story for the good 10 new chapters. Save the village kids from vampires, while the f*cking village is under a siege of orc army - leave Helme, skeletons, and another onein village, while he goes to help the kids. On a way found a fight between Nora vampire and Silver wolf clan's Princess, helps defeat vampire, say goodbye to Nora, take the princess with you and go to vampires lair, where he found that it's under attack of two Butterfly-human (i didn't really get it, it's like they a made from butterfly or they can control it, the main feature is their wings). The two girls are insanely strong, one fighting with Hoffman - vampire of Valmask family, and another isekai protagonist, another started fight with Shuya. After fight with Butterfly Shuya helps a bunch of captured by vampires people including childer from village, while Hoffman fights with another Butterfly. On a way to the village he encounter giant, which is a Hoffman summoned, beat his ass, learn new technique, then unseal a witch that was sealed in weapon of giant, beat her ass, than she swears loyalty. Then help village of Quiche with it's siege. Than start bulding houses, than encouner bunch of ghosts of elfs, that lived in this village, take a quest from one of the ghosts, than f*cking treant/demons army start attacking, and an army of silver wolves clan helped them, etc.

It was explained that this forest was ancient battlefield of gods, and in some flashbacks they literally teared space, and detonate nuclear spells in this forest, so there is this much threats in the forest.

BUT THIS sh*t WAS SO STRETCHED, and that's not even a half of it, at least hundred more chapters until where I am, and he's still in the forest. Author just start throwing MC in one situation after another, of course every point in story than connected. That was mindblowing how such a mess of a story became one, I almost started shouting in monitor how cool was it. But I dropped two times, because when there is important story, Shuya's attention brings sh*t like some kid in the village eat a candy, than describe a candy, describe how cute Rolo is, describe a child, describe how Helme happily start splashing water from her tits, describe how somebody training on background, than back to the story. Author just pouring so called 'water' on reader to fill the gaps in chapter. There is his new goals, but auther still holds Shuya from going to them by creating ABSOLUTELY new situation, you could never predict what would pop up. Do you think they safely arrive in the village of the Silver wolf clan? Nah ah - here's fight which take ten chapters long. You think we go to the main event in the village (some ritual) ? Nah ah here another 30 chapters of events inside. His trip to this village was one of the first goals in this forest, and it take him more than 120 chapter to even start going here.

Despite being utterly annoying, all this adds considerable depth to the novel. The world-building is so massive, complicated, and interesting, that it's really hard to stop reading.

I don't want to rant any longer about how messy of a story it is. At least it really has it unique atmospehe to this world.

[collapse] I read a lot of Japanese isekai, and that one is hardly comparable to any other. I can't say that it's the best one, no it isn't. But damn it's good read, it has a lot of cliches, but somehow auther managed to create them in that way, that they looks like totally new or unique.

All and all, I really enjoyed reading (I'm still reading this) this novel. Has a unique atmosphere and depth to the world, has hundreds of characters, with unique personalities, weapons, fighting styles, artifacts, spells. Never ending flow of imagination. There're so much of stuff that I lost a track of it already. Author has such a imagination to maintain a story with this much of characters, but has not enough capacity to tell the story with proper means, like not mixing ten arcs together.

Yeah. 8/10, not 10 becase I got burnt up few times reading this mess, but really enjoyed it afterwards.