- #1
There's some humour, some interesting concepts, characterisation is fine.
But it gets progressively worse.
The first problem is, the description is utterly misleading, it suggests that MC will lead a cult, or at least serve some god – he does neither.
Everything takes place on the side of the good guys, there's no cult, no serving anyone.
If that's still to come, after over 90 chapters out of 140 something, then that's way too late to use it as the blurb representing the whole novel.
It's just your cliché "I'm not evil but special and everyone loves me" kind of novel.
Everyone does love MC, the first time they meet him.
The romance is... I don't even want to call it that.
MC isn't gay, he's not bi, he's straight. Completely straight and gets goosebumps just by thinking about a guy liking him romantically.
Not in the sense of "closeted gay" but "genuinely straight guy". He doesn't want ML, or any other guy.
I'm at chapter 91 and he doesn't even consider ML a friend, much less has any kind of slightly romantic feelings for him, it's going to end up as a straight guy being bend by plot-forces against all logic or good taste.
Overall, it gets increasingly more convoluted, with unannounced POV switches, no indicator about who's currently talking, time rewinding, etc.
And the story starts to crawl so slowly that the whole thing can't be wrapped up properly with just the remaining chapters, especially because the main plot point hasn't started yet.
Like many Korean novels, it seems to be something originally made for a webtoon, not a novel, as indicated by how often nothing is described, be it environments or even just who's speaking.
It's all happening in a void.
I can't recommend a pictureless webtoon with a bait description, despite the basic idea being quite good and with lots of (wasted) potential.
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