The author constantly struggles with balancing. There are times that skills are everything. Then it's gear. Then it's personal skill and capabilities. Then it's a balance of the 3. Then it picks whatever the story needs at the time.

The biggest problem is the personal skills portion. One arc the MC can fight thousands of strangers alone, but then he won't fight 100 strangers on his own in the next arc because that would somehow be impossible.

The story seems to follow the same pattern again and again. They are looked down upon, so they fight. The guild wins, and then the enemy either partners with others or resorts to another attack (this could be physical or a monetary fight like a bounty or shop prices). The MC then uses the newly acquired capabilities (item, skill, people, building, city, or money) to combat the situation. This is especially seen when the guild is just about to make a lot more money because of whatever the MC just finished doing or getting. It gets old fast...

The guild is constantly underestimated. Even 2000 chapter into the story where they are the primary guild of a kingdom, highly competitive in a few other regions, resisted attacks from many guilds (including 1st rate, super-first rate, and even a super guild) most think they don't stand a chance against whatever the new problem is.

The story mentions after every major event that the guilds and players investigate the MC's guild Zero Wing, but they never seem to investigate well. Even a guild that lives on gathering information always underestimates the guild. The worst part is that you even have the same guilds that just got stomped reappearing and underestimating Zero Wing time after time. It gets old.

The author constantly pulls something out of the hat to make the story cool or to add a new element, but then it is forgotten later. In particular this happens with skills, items, and even NPCs that supposedly were fought over even 10 years into the future because of what they could sell or provide.

Some skills or items are used a lot once they first appear, but then they disappear for a while (sometimes hundreds or thousands of chapters later) or completely. The same is true for some items that would make the situation much easier. The worst is when the MC supposedly can't do something that the skill or item could resolve if only the author remembered. Instead, the MC has to use a secret item or go on a quest to get something else to take care of the problem.

The worst moment for me was a situation where the author contradicts himself not even 3 chapters later by changing the way an item works (1 minute cool down ring is used multiple times within a handful of attacks).

The joke some commenters on the story's site say is that there is a different author every ark. It certainly feels that way when the author rambles about something that isn't true. One example is a time the MC encounters a dragon that speaks in the dragon language. The story then takes a whole paragraph explaining that he can't understand the language but the MC learned it about 500 chapters beforehand. That isn't the only time that has happened in this story, and this mixed with the other issues make me almost support their theory. Haha...

At one point there's this random girl that his vice-leader invites to a real world auction related to the game, and he doesn't know her, he doesn't care about her, its just some random person that he allowed his vice-leader invite to use the last spot of his invitation card, and when they reach the place, one of the top 50 companies of the world seem to hate that one random girl, and wants her expelled from the auction, he acts in a polite way towards the protagonist, even saying that the protagonist didn't know so wouldn't be fair to blame him or his guild for it, and would even pay for the inconvenience of having he, and his guild members, stopped randomly like that because of 3rd party's conflicts, if it was me I would look at the random girl and say "Sorry you were not honest with us, you didn't explain anything and just came along in silence, we have a guild to take care of, we just got out of our 50th war, and we need to develop, we cannot just start a new war like this".. but no.. the protagonist goes and "f*ck you mate!" to the dude, to protect a girl that he didn't EVEN.. KNOW!.. WHY?!?! I will tell you why, because the author already used all the major methods of making "Young Masters have a conflict with our protagonist" and the protagonist guild already wiped them out.

1. Some things got forgotten completely without any follow up. For example the card set that is said to be useful at level 15 and the MC hoarded a bank full of it.

2. Aqua rose class got changed in the middle from elementalist to cursemancer

3. Blackie class got changed from cursemancer into elementalist in the middle as well

4. Too winding explanation on details. Please stop explaining the same thing over and over again for 3 paragraphs

5. Precious soul pearl was said to be unable to drop upon death when MC wants to get it from other player but then suddenly in the next chapter becomes 100% dropped upon death just to give MC a reason to go back to city and triggers another story line

6. Seriously mysterious flame that promotes so much damage without any drawback and its not even a skill is completely never used late game. Let alone the soul flame that is able to oppress opponent vitality by 40% is also only used once.

Furthermore it was said that abyssal bind which was most likely stronger than tier 3 restriction ability which makes it unable to be relieved even after using "immune to restriction" skill and then got promoted suddenly became more useless. Can be broken almost by every skill.

And then MC got an OP item which can make all player in a huge AoE to be unable to use any skill or item. But never uses it at all in late game. Previously that exact same skill could even cancel rage mode of Lord level boss and kill over hundreds of player. Like why is the MC so dumb?

7. Lei Bao deal was to join the studio to be a player and train them in game so as not to disturb his martial art practice. But in follow up he became their trainer irl

8. The only redeeming quality is that the lore and equipment effects are quite interesting

I would really ne happy if the author focused more to strengthen the team or guild... At 1st the author keeps saying that a monster needs to be killed by a hundred or so players but later the MC accidentally got lucky and recieved a rare quest or something that is really hard for a single player and MC still cleares every sh*t of them... Next its plain bullsh*t the MC subordinate, its obvious that the author just forced to give a role to the male side characters, all main conversation is for girls the team and the guilds higher ups are mainly girls even the crowd want to warm MCs bed and always blush... plain BuLsh*t so unreasonable for me..

And the NPC sharlyn to unreasonable for me.