Protagonist randomly accpet journalist task in protecting him when going to the slum. Then they randomly ask a guy to look for information on strange happening. That guy tells them girls have been kidnapped recently. Protagonist randomly decide to save them. That case randomly involve a lot of powerful people, so we spend 10+ chapters saving the girls. End of the mini arc; Next side quest please.

Thus begins the bloodborne fanfiction phase. It never really stops either, just continuing to snowball out of control. I honestly thought this novel was written sometime in the early 2000s-2010s given how detailed the setup and cast of characters as well as overarching plot, something I haven't really found in current instant wish-fullfillment power-levelling fantasy series.

I really wanted to like this series, and I really did like some parts. MC overthinks himself and is a bit of a coward, pre-planning and just barely scraping past plot-armour excuses to come out as victorious in the end. He has moments of character building that were insightful and solified what kind of person he was. Most action sequences are genuinely exciting and I got to a point where I was invested in seeing how characters interacted. Some bits actually made me laugh too (not the constant references to curly-haired baboons though, what is up with that). The female characters have slight depth and are guided by their personal motives, not MC's dick. (Just realised MC is celibate the whole series. Wild.) The power increments are believable to begin with, and are reasonably well adjusted to his difficulties. I was actually a bit sad at the sad parts (Dunn, Daly, the interaction with the siblings at the end of the first two books), and celebrated with the characters on their victories. The antagonists at the end gave me a very clear sense of dread every time they were so much as mentioned and were real threats to MC. The Bloodborne fanfiction parts are great, the constant extremely vivid descriptions of body parts falling apart and writhing maggots really adds to the atmosphere and tone. Rose Shepards' disgusting damage reduction mechanic working by vomitting out flesh and blood to mitigate damage and then being able to eat the scraps of blood and flesh off the floor to recover is shown and gets me every time. The marionette town Utopia appearing as a 'horror story' to the masses is interesting but knowing the reasons behind why it exists is great. The sense of 'otherworldly horror' just continues to increase, which is great if that's your jam.

Here's the but: It kind of sucks near the end and the lack of a fulfilling conclusion doesn't help. No characters are given an arc that doesn't feel somewhat shallow and incomplete (except the ones who die lol). They get introduced with a backstory, a motive and a vague path two steps forwards... and then nothing? Nothing past that extremely obvious character growth throughout the series?

The ending being a set-up to the sequel just makes the ending feel half-hearted, incomplete.

Reasons why I wouldn't reccomend this.

Please sir, may I have some closure.

"you have to do acting after you consume a portion to digest it fast, then only you can advance in your sequence pathway safely and quickly"

After finishing volume 2, I proceeded on to read volume 3 with great zeal. I was told in this volume the MC acts like an adventurer at sea, a pirate hunter, and really embodies a great personality, his name being Gehrman Sparrow. But then again, it was really like nothing I had envisioned, here also most of the time all I got to read was details. Like all the old stuff about where this place is located, what was it like before, why it became like this, etc, etc. The story moves forward, but the pace remains the same, slow like always. And the character I was anticipating for so long turned out to be no more than a tsundere. Like cold face but so soft at heart. Like the MC never really changes, he acts and dons all the type of disguises but he never really changes internally, well that's the case for where I am at. He remains the same 'kind-hearted' MC throughout. And for what I was expecting from Gehrman Sparrow, it was ruined by the actual personality of MC, which I believe will never really change. In the end, I never really got to see the craziness I was expecting from Gehrman Sparrow, it is all superficial stuff at this point for me. The novel, at this point, just feels like more of a collection of different kinds of well-structured PowerPoint slides, than an immersive story.

MC have personal space, that make him nearly omnipotent (again nearly) but have many limitations. MC can resurrect a couple times (3 times)