This Necromancer Just Wants to Plant Trees Chapter 31 Discussion

So the concept of a necromancer/druid is interesting until the protagonist starts trying to go into philosophy about how necromancy and druidry can mix. In spoilers because people who would just skip over philosophical ramblings might enjoy the story less:

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Undeath is not, cannot be, a part of nature. It specifically goes against the natural cycle. The dead are supposed to make new space for the living and provide nourishment and resources for them. Undead break that cycle by continuing to survive by taking nourishment from the living (In the case of Matthew's summons, they take his mana and maybe some other resources he has to gather). While individuals might be able to force undeath and nature to coexist, it's not natural and will inevitably fall apart without guidance from the individuals.

... And I let it pass when the protagonist said it because he bullshits a lot, but if a druid doesn't immediately recognize it as bullsh*t and call him out on it, and even says "well, I knew someone who was trying to wield both life and death powers together" as if that's the same thing as nature and undeath, I question the author's understanding of the forces he's trying to fuse.

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And once I got past that initial interest in how the protagonist would deal with the opposing forces, I noticed the novel was mostly just exposition upon exposition. It's not like nothing has happened, but it would be one line of action sandwiched inside many lines of background information. I gave it a 2/5 because the novel at least is what it said it would be...