- #1
At first, I liked this novel. It was a bit funny, and light read with a good mixture of action and off time. However, later the novel became just more annoying and boring. Overall I have few problems with the novel.The novel revolves around conflict with gods. They are supposed to be the ones who created the world. So they are old and powerful. However, the personalities of almost everyone, especially gods are just awful. First, the MC. He is supposed to be the most powerful god who was sealed for 1600 years. After his seal was released, he went ahead and reincarnated as a human for the purpose of learning how humans live and all about them. So what does he do after he is born? He lives in a remote village deep in the forest, does not know anything at all of what is going on outside the said village and have no interest in human civilization and society. How does this even make sense? Why would he live for 18 years and not explore or at least learn history and other things? That was the whole purpose of being reborn. Personality of MC is that of an average teenager, maybe very slightly more mature. He is constantly spawning s*upid lines and gets flustered like a h**ny teen. He retains all the knowledge of a god, why the hell is he like this? He is a walking contradiction between what he says and thinks! Now, all of the other gods and probably humans in this novel. All of them are conceited fools. They have been there for 1600 years and did not learn anything? Every single one of them is just a clone of one another. They spawn almost identical lines; they show an identical misunderstanding of humans, they behave in almost identical ways. The power dynamic between the gods is a mess too. First, the darkness is the strongest; he is the father of all gods. Then they say the light is absolutely superior to the darkness and can kick his ass while sleeping. After that apparently, darkness can pull of a black hole trick and overpower the light. But the light also has shadow power, so maybe black hole won't work on that and light is stronger? Who knows what will happen later. Also darkness apparently can swallow all elements except light, but the light has an advantage over all other elements, but that advantage is not really specified. Another problem with the powers are that they are super boring and not well thought through. Apparently, each person has a combination of elemental powers within them and one of them is usually the strongest. But others can also be at a high level and it is shown that with the training they can increase. However, everyone only uses one power by themselves, only the element they are the best at. Why? There is no reason they can't do it. Especially since the heroes do combine elements between themselves. Did no one in that world try at least training to separate powers? Even if not combining, they should be able to use them separately. The wrighting is pretty simplistic and kind of amateurish here. For me, the best parts of the novel are the heroes and their interactions. I think all heroes have good personalities, pretty flushed out and interact in an interesting way. I also like the humor in the novel. It feels natural and realistic. I would rate this higher, but it became so repetitive and boring after almost 200 chapters, I can barely tolerate it now.