The 31st Piece Turns the Tables Chapter 228 Discussion

In the beginning I fell in love with this novel. A unique D&D inspired story with a large and intricately connected world, a ruthless protagonist willing to do anything to climb to the peak and take revenge against the gods, and just an overall interesting story but as all things do it declines significantly the more it goes on. This novel has fallen into the classic Prolonged Web Novel Degradation Syndrome category that so many web novels fall into.

Our character changes from a ruthless fellow to a man who has a multiple paragraph internal dialogue about why killing others is wrong only to then proceed to kill dozens less than 5 chapters later. In particular Spoiler

there is a scene where our MC has no choice but to take the lives of hundreds of transferees who literally are trying to mu*der him en masse but for no reason he freezes up in the midst of a dire situation and says s*upid sh*t like I know my only option is to kill them but killing them is a line that there is no going back from. Of course to show how much of an upstanding citizen our MC is our dear author provides a cop out. Like buddy you have slaughtered countless individuals who have nothing to do with you but now you wanna play the hero. Smh

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As another commenter said the stats literally lose all value and have no effect on the story or characters. At some point author forgets what stats actually do but has no choice to give the character higher stats to show 'progression'. To begin with we have no idea what the average stats might look like for anyone else but the MC and eventually author doesn't even bother listing the MC's stats at all.

My personnel vendetta Spoiler

is how the author tries setting up the Madness merchant girl as a prospective love interest. Apparently she falls head over heels with the MC from making two to three successful trades with him. Like what? The most 2D cardboard cutout brain dead behavior I've seen recently. If the novel continues to promote or suggest this then... yikes.

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Mc's summons who should be prevalent characters (considering our MC is a summoner) might not make a single appearance in 20+ chapters. Like Jamad literally disappears from the novel and is only seen by the occasional grumble from the shadow dimension. Same happens for Karen and Karuna.

Also the MC literally forgets about his revenge for dozens of chapters at a time and is eventually pretty much forgotten in the story.

Lastly remember how MC can't remember what happened when he was playing his pieces because it was all foggy until he absorbs his piece well that was a lie. MC just chose to selectively forget that piece because apparently this issue never occurs again.

I probably should have given this novel a two star but the sheer disappointment from watching a fantastic novel with great potential devolving into a contrived filler filled mess in front of your very eyes is like watching your favorite pet be euthanized, an experience you absolutely hate but when you pick up another dog or in this case novel it's bound to happen again.

Yes this review might be a tad bit harsh but I'm tired of authors writing the first 75 chapters of their novels as a wondrous tale with grandiose world building, novel concepts, fascinating characters, only to then immediately drop the quality of the story and then proceed to force feed their readers slop. Authors don't continue to pile on weight if you know your buildings foundations can't support it. If you can't keep up with the features and developments you wrote in your novel then don't write them in to begin with.

TLDR: Only read if you enjoy watching good stories go up in flames by their own creators.