The Reincarnated Assassin is a Genius Swordsman Chapter 36 Discussion

Overall the novel just feels like a sub-par version of some similar novels. I forget its name right now but there is a novel about a guy who I believe was a counts son who basically just laid in bed until he started dreaming of a man who just swings his sword, later he goes to an amazing swordsmanship academy where he is seen as the weakest but due to his strong will it motivates all the other trainees, he has a giant lump of iron in his body that he uses fire to melt, ect. This story is very similar to the point where I think one was inspired by the other but compared to the other one this story is just lacking in many ways.

First is his past as an assassin, the author just did this very poorly in my opinion. While you can make arguments for him having emotions and stuff in his second life due to growing up in a loving environment (Humans learn emotions at a young age by those around us, if you fall and someone laughs you find it funny, if they are terrified then your terrified as a simple explanation) but when it comes to his previous life we get no explanation on how he broke out of his indoctrination, then the author uses a cheap plot device of the rage worm that can somehow kill him, transfer what his emotions are, and track his location all to a person. That basically sums up this entire novel, a decent premise but executed poorly due to countless plot devices.

The system itself is just bad, very few system novels are good. We get some bullsh*t about how the system is from wrath but it still doesn't really explain anything and its just unnecessary. This story could of easily been written by removing the system and then just have a world building setting like where he is creating fire rings (Which he is already doing) and then number of rings is his level... Overall the system just massively takes away from the story since it just feels so unnatural. Fantasy stories like this create their own logic, if the story says people can manifest an element but not any others than you expect every character to have one element, otherwise the story doesn't follow its logic. The system I think violates this principal, where we have a mostly sword and magic type world but then you get a dues ex machina in the form of a system that's sole purpose it to make it easier for readers to check his stats when it would be better for the author to just keep his abilities to a lower amount (2-3 skills rather than like 20) and then just narrate that he has grown in x ability.

Another major issue is the relationships, especially his relationship with his mother and the maids. In the story it honestly just feels annoying to read about because so little effort is given to the characters, the author gave a little bit of time and effort but it just feels so lacking that I don't care about the characters. His mom and the maid are so similar of characters that its hard to tell them apart, because their entire character type is "love mc" which just makes them horrible characters. When creating a relationship in this type of story its normally easier to have the other party be powerful so they don't become a weakness for your enemies to target and in this story his mother feels very worthless and I'm guessing she will just be a plot device where people want to attack her and he retaliates. Overall the issue is just that its showing the MC being protective of her with things like "its fine to investigate me but once it extended to [mothers name] and the maids then its crossing the line" but we have so little development. So far she has fed him medicine, stood up for him in a way that makes sense but feels annoying to a reader since its going against what the MC is doing, limiting the MC from training when he wants to, ect. but overall doing very little development wise with him. The author to make her a viable character needed to add some bonding chapters where she wasn't a side character interfering with what the MC is doing but with this genre thats not what the audience wants which just makes her overall a underdeveloped character that just serves to lower the quality of the novel.

There are quite a few more things I could go on about where the story violates its own laws or has developments which make it very hard to tell what is and isn't possible in this world or characters that are poorly developed and plot devices being used left and right without them feeling like its a proper way of obtaining that power but its basically just repeating the above issues that this story has, its relationships feels lacking, it uses plot devices like the system, and it doesn't have a solid world building.

The story is fine if you can ignore these points, I'm pretty picky on this type of thing now since I've read a lot so my standard is higher and if I read this a few years ago I probably would have enjoyed it so you might enjoy this story.