Not gonna lie, I have no idea where this plot is even going. 24 chapters deep, and I'm more confused now than when I started. The translation barely helps make sense of the story or the dialogue, to be honest. Where is the MC's family? He had a sister he was taking care of and then just... stopped caring? Then, randomly, there's a 7-year time skip, and we still don't know the power scale of this world. I thought it was normal for everyone to talk to all the "mysteries," but then they explain mages usually only use one element of the mysteries, so that doesn't even track. And the sword masters in this are so underwhelming; they hype them up, but they barely do anything impressive powerscaling-wise. Also, the characters feel weirdly distant from each other, even though the MC supposedly cares so much about them; like the emotional connection just isn't landing. Also, Lucy (the first love interest) is talking about how much she trusts her uncle, and then the next scene, the uncle's just like, "Yeah, I'm gonna marry her off to one of my vassals after this." And nobody addresses that? Like that's a whole conflict of interest they just threw in and dipped. And the whole story was set up like we're supposed to be hunting for an Ice Phoenix, but now suddenly we're in a war? How did that even happen?
And this isn't me saying I hate this; no, I actually like the system they have going. The mysteries are basically like spirits, and you have to keep a good connection with them, but a lot of them conflict with each other, so usually, mages just stick to one to keep their affinity high. But what I do hate is how one-dimensional the characters feel, like it never actually explains how our MC got to where he is or why he does the things he does. He just says yes to stuff, and the story just moves on after that.
Not gonna lie, I have no idea where this plot is even going. 24 chapters deep, and I'm more confused now than when I started. The translation barely helps make sense of the story or the dialogue, to be honest. Where is the MC's family? He had a sister he was taking care of and then just... stopped caring? Then, randomly, there's a 7-year time skip, and we still don't know the power scale of this world. I thought it was normal for everyone to talk to all the "mysteries," but then they explain mages usually only use one element of the mysteries, so that doesn't even track. And the sword masters in this are so underwhelming; they hype them up, but they barely do anything impressive powerscaling-wise. Also, the characters feel weirdly distant from each other, even though the MC supposedly cares so much about them; like the emotional connection just isn't landing. Also, Lucy (the first love interest) is talking about how much she trusts her uncle, and then the next scene, the uncle's just like, "Yeah, I'm gonna marry her off to one of my vassals after this." And nobody addresses that? Like that's a whole conflict of interest they just threw in and dipped. And the whole story was set up like we're supposed to be hunting for an Ice Phoenix, but now suddenly we're in a war? How did that even happen?
And this isn't me saying I hate this; no, I actually like the system they have going. The mysteries are basically like spirits, and you have to keep a good connection with them, but a lot of them conflict with each other, so usually, mages just stick to one to keep their affinity high. But what I do hate is how one-dimensional the characters feel, like it never actually explains how our MC got to where he is or why he does the things he does. He just says yes to stuff, and the story just moves on after that.