This Damned Thirst for Survival Chapter 18 Discussion

EDIT: Read through Google MTL. Lots of confusing words but if you're familiar enough, it's still more readable. Still, I hope this gets proper HTL.

And YES, it's real good adventure!!! A bit anticlimactic at the end but that's probably because of the MTL. But I still liked it so much! I don't remember any loose ends and all the hints and foreshadowing were done right.

Someone said MC's friends are a burden. This is not true. His friends are weaker than him but they serve as his tethers to his humanity. Without his friends, he would've eventually become the next ML.

With that said, MC and ML are both toxic people and I love how the author doesn't even bother sugar coating it or launching into a moral-high-grounding type of redemption. They both remain just as they are and yet we see so much character development and emotional progress.

Plot-wise, the world-building was just enough to hold up the story, which is very nice because we are not bogged down by unnecessary details. We are given just enough for imagination, and just enough to move the plot forward. It has really been trimmed down into a lean narrative, without chunks of text explaining this or that.

--1st review--

Giving it 5 stars ahead of time because I can smell a good adventure even from here.

HOWEVER, the edited MTL is so confusing it's not even funny.

Spoiler

It was not unlucky that Jiang Luo and Qi Ye met the spider man that the tournament authorities had failed to spot during their inspection of Hu Bu village, but it was very unlucky.

Jiang Luo, sleepy-eyed, struggled to pull himself together, " Yun Nan Temple? Which temple?"

Ge Zhu said, "The Golden Rash Temple."

Jiang Luo subconsciously looked at Ge Zhu, a former Buddhist son who had turned from Buddhism to Buddhism, and now he was going to a Buddhist monastery, wouldn't Ge Zhu have mixed feelings?

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This is just from one small part of one chapter. I have a strong feeling MTL-ing from the raws would be more understandable than that.

With that said, it's a testament to this story that the quality of its essence can survive the bad MTL.