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Even though the total score is low I think the novel has one of the best settings for a story. It starts out like Solo Leveling as the MC gets stronger through dungeons and expands into a universal space opera with planets of cultivation, demons, Atlantis, etc which scratches a nice itch to cover multiple settings without losing the main purpose behind the story. The downsides are naturally the writing. While the random gender swaps are forgivable with a grandfather being addressed as "her" in another chapter or even in the same chapter. The prevalent usage of the same coined terms such as Magisterial (in ch 823) where the word gets used several times in one chapter to describe a multitude of things, some of which make little sense. It's like the author did a thesaurus search and decided to use that word and no other words for a chapter or two. Maddingly is used to a maddening degree as the author maddingly uses the word to describe the maddingly powers of the characters in the demon arc. The character design is low impact as well with most characters being described physically with little else about them. Enemies are the type to show up and get killed easily with no usage of their powers or abilities outside of the Celestial and the Time Veiler and a handful of others. It's as if enemies don't have their own skills they have developed over years or thousands of years. They just die to a random attack. Side characters have some impact but for the most part they are ignored. Instead of dedicating a brief chapter every now and then to cover some of their fights they are summarized and in a Deadpool breaking the fourth wall kind of way. World background is also lacking as some descriptions are there for things but there is no heart to it and unlike other novels where I can imagine the world it is impossible for this novel. That's not to suggest that I need a paragraph for what the food smells and tastes like but generally the overall feel of the story is lacking with the story progressing from an F ranked hunter to a galactic traveler in just a few hundred chapters. I feel like the pace could be slowed so that we can appreciate the side characters more and the progression of the MC. Overall, the story is fantastic, like I said, with a great plot and a good story is there and it's worth checking out. I think the writer is starting out and as a first novel it is pretty solid for a fanfic. There outline is there to be an epic novel, but overall it falls short of that due to the aforementioned things stated.

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