Return of the Calamity-Class Death Knight Chapter 217 Discussion

Overall the story isn't bad... It's a pretty typical regression to past self, now I'm op type novel, where he always has some technique from his past life that's so op and his enemies are always within his ability to kill them...

It does have I think a lot of issues, but these are all more minor nitpicks of things that annoy me, but are more personal preference on if they bother you...

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• He keeps using potions, elixirs, ect which just feel so unnecessary... So many things like the hearts of spirits gives him heat vision sense, yet that is used never again... he gains poison immunity from some honey, never used or mentioned again...
• Techniques are always an asspull... Whenever he needs something "The phantom whatever technique to hide" but you would think if he was the strongest then he would have his own techniques other than "divine sword"
• The power gap between ranks is not consistent... It's treated like absolute walls where a mid can't win against a high, and master classes are suppose to be so incredibly rare, yet we see so so many of them in the enemies that MC fights. This one bothers me a lot since it keeps talking about how the dark mages had to hide and use all their power but there is so many of them that are so powerful but "church scary" when it seems to be about equal. Plus the world is so peaceful even with these supreme evils, and there is so many plots for these smaller kingdoms... Like these "masters" are so powerful they are basically unrivaled so just send one to the kingdoms without anyone and wipe them out...
• The main character is just plain s*upid... He acts like he cares about his family, but does essentially nothing to actually showcase that where it just ends up feeling like a cheap attempt at character building... Especially with almost every time we see them (which is like a chapter between arcs, if that) its just them worrying about him and his dad saying he is proud of him, queue "emotional moment" that just feels cheap.

This is the bigger thing in relation to his family... he talks like he cares so much about them but he is actively putting them in danger. He announces to the world at how powerful he is, while using his actual name, while leaving ZERO protection for his family... The people he fights against are all at bare minimum master class, but sure that bracelet that protects against a high-rank attack should be sufficient. He gives them some techniques to train some knights like thats going to f*cking stop any of the people targeting him... Then when an enemy threatens him by saying his family could be targeted he just says "I'll kill you all first" like you f*cking dumbass, your leaving them alone pretty much permanently with literally not even a single low-class protecting them (that we know of) and your not exactly taking care of the dark mages quickly... It's just f*cking annoying plot armor on why they are still alive... If you really care about your family, get rid of your worthless pride of not wanting to use dark magic, and then use your brokenly overpowered abilities that you willingly sealed to wipe them out with your identity concealed...

• There is so much forced emotion in the book... The dark mages supposedly took the souls of the family of a dark knight who they think doesn't even have a mind, and then instead of actually doing anything just torture them... Like why, are they that free... and every single f*cking dark mage seems to have a connection to his family dying that it just feels so worthless how he gets mad over it... Just make him have a goddamn hatred for all dark mages for his normal motivation and create an actually impactful moment with someone important... It's just annoying with every strong enemy "They did horrible thing to xxx" or whatever, those characters have so little screen time that I don't even care.
• Other minor things like the dark mages being so evil, yet the church has people who will torture huge numbers of people to find dark mages...
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