God Slumbers in a Bubble Chapter v2 side story 12 Discussion

The novel is a great example of a good start, but bad follow up. The first volume of the novel was great, everything you would expect from a "MC is mistreated because he has no talent, but is really op", that while the premise itself is very cliche and done to death nowadays, it was very well executed, with good characters, great world building, and amazing fighting scenes.

The trouble comes from the fact that the author is really not delivering the payback you would expect from this kind of novel, the family that mistreated the MC is still doing kind of ok, and the ones that are actually suffering are people innocent in all of this, namely the common folk that are getting killed by the monsters created by the whole mess.

I also feel that while the world building and characters were very well introduced in the beginning, letting us get attached to the characters, and giving us time to understand the lore, the author lost any semblance of control and started introducing characters left and right, way too many to keep track of, and it's the same for the plot and world building, introducing too much way too fast, with too many plot threads going on at the same time, and introducing even more before even resolving any of the old ones.

My breaking point came for the result of volume 2, where Spoiler

the MC decided to spare the lives of the enemy, that are a bunch of religious fanatical nutjobs, that doesn't hesitate to kill to conquest and ens*ave other gods, all because the MC felt that they didn't want to kill him in particular, when that was only because they wanted to bring him back with them. Basically because only a bunch of no named characters dies, the enemy was really not that bad in his eyes

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I have to give my appreciation to the translator team, it must not be easy to translate such a novel, with a lot of obscure terms and fighting scenes, if it was done by a less experienced translator, I would have probably dropped this one by the first few chapters

Read on if you still like generic jp MC novels, where the power of friendship wins the day.