Eldruin - Profile

At first, the story is ok. MC is lucky because in addition to the hints provided by the Catacomb World itself, it looks like there's an add-on for him. With the additional info, he can plan ahead and reduce the risks when exploring the catacombs. However, it degrades pretty quickly. The add-on hints cannot be more spoon-feed-y. I feel that the add-on hints were the words of the author himself dictating where character should go, and how to interact with the world. And I mean in a not-very-subtle way. It literally tells the MC that this character has no ill-intentions towards him so that he can trust her, and vice-versa. You can imagine those people that watch TV dramas, they scream at the machine, hoping that the character/s would move the way the audience want to. However, instead of the show going according to the script - in this novel, the MC moves only through the "HINTS". <this frog is stupid, you can bribe it so that it will betray its own people, and tell you all of their weaknesses>. MC did as he was told, and god darn it was SOOOO effective. Nevermind that the frog wasn't abused like some untalented young master from a fallen family, it was even ranked 3 out of dozens of its clanspeople. It told the MC every little thing ! And the weird part is, the poison can be counteracted by steam. Lol. If that's the case, then can't the MC just use large amounts of sand or rocks to block the poison spit? So stupid. As if that's really the ONLY way... And it's not like they can produce venom endlessly, either. MC can just dodge in the air and counterattack with flames .. No room for creativity at all. You'd really wonder how other people can survive. They don't have that extra HINT yet they're doing just fine! Suuuure some people get poisoned, and had to be saved by MC sending them antidotes whatever, but daym they are just like 4 people within a regional population of 1000 TLDR: the HINTS are the rules of the world. If the HINT says a waterfall spirit can be killed with a water blade, then no amount of fire can evaporate that waterfall spirit. (yes this happened, not making this one up, as well as the previous examples above)