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What if Superman didn't have any super villains to fight, so he instead he spent all his time writing parking tickets and fining people for littering? If that sounds like your idea of great entertainment then read this novel to learn how it turns out.There's nothing new in this novel if you're read similar stories. The author fills in the checklist of standard tropes in a way that is simultaneously competent and bland.Plot holes abound, starting with the fact that the god who gave him the skills apparently bestowed him with more power than he actually possesses, or else his claim that gods were limited in that world was a lie. The main character wasn't given skills, he was promoted to a minor deity and then turned loose on the world with no goals or instructions and nothing more than a cursory suggestion to avoid becoming an evil one.That could be a cool story of the author gave him a suitable stage on which to act, challenges to overcome appropriate for his abilities, or at the very least satisfyingly evil villains to curb stomp, but at least so far none of that has happened in this novel.It's hard to see where this story will go from here. The MC theoretically has a vow to take revenge for the betrayal at the beginning of the story but at this point his standing in the world has raised so much and the people he would take revenge on are so pathetically weak in comparison to him that he'd just look like a bully if he did anything to them now. All that aside, the novel can't really be called bad because the execution of the plot, such as it is, is handled competently and might be enjoyable to someone who hasn't read dozens of variations on this basic theme already.
