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It's rare for a novel to be this... unbalanced.Character are fine, they actually live even when MC isn't around, which isn't common in webnovels.They aren't too flat or stereotypical, their dynamics are nice to read about, too.Yes, it's very cliché and lots of cannon fodders getting slapped every few chapters but most of it is totally okay.Would be a mediocre novel that won't make you feel like you lost a part of your lifespan for nothing.The problem is, that the writer worked incredibly hard to stretch the wordcount.Every little thing is explained in so much detail that it reads like a scientific report, background information no one needs to know (because they have no significance or use) are dragged out over a whole chapter.Repetition, be it the whole alchemy process, things about MC/ML, show up every couple of chapters like they have been copy pasted.It's not that the writer is longwinded, wordy, or rambling to a certain degree, it's blatant wordcount inflation.You can see how they overworked their brain to add as much filler as possible.An easy, lazy, and cheap way to get more money out of a novel than it deserves based on its overall quality (that's at best mediocre).I switched to MTL (very understandable) just so I can skip the 50% of the story that has no value because putting effort into translating it is a loss of energy, and even then I'm not sure I really want to continue until the end.Not recommend if you value your time, because the writer obviously did not.