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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.The nuclear holocaust which caused the collapse of the Old Times on Earth should have wiped out all human life on the planet. Yes, the gods set up their beautiful Elysiums to provide sanctuaries for their chosen, but by all rights everyone outside the elysian lands should’ve perished long ago. Yet somehow, human life still managed to persist, even in the deadly, mutant-infested wastelands.
Cloudhawk was a young scavenger who dreamed of being as free as the hawks in the skies, yet seemed destined to live out his life scrounging for scraps in the wasteland ruins. Fate, however, is ever-fickle. A chance meeting with a ragtag group of mercenaries changed the trajectory of his life, bringing him into a world with mutants and metahumans, demonhunters and godslayers, and even gods and demons. Cloudhawk would find his own place in a world that was far greater than he had imagined, find his own path between the zealous light of Sumeru and the whispering darkness of the Abyss… and one day, he would find that even gods may fall.
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- Enemy doesn't finish him off ass pull
I've only read 100 odd chapters and yet all those things listed above have been used multiple times. The whole story so far has been the MC jumping from danger to danger, and getting his ass kicked. Worst thing about it is if he had enough time to kind of sit down and semi/cultivate for a while, he might be strong enough to not get kicked around by everyone and their mother. But that hasn't happened. Another problem is that every character other than the MC are horrible people in a screwed up world, and yet he's kind of a do gooder dipshit. The worldbuilding set up would be perfect for a scheming sociopath MC, or a meticulous planning MC to thrive in. Yet what we get is a kind of timid weak Naruto type. It also doesn't help that the other characters generally only start becoming likeable just before the author kills them off. All in all this just isn't as good as the reviews indicate.-
- Translation is fine. I didn't notice any grammar issues.
A deeply unsatisfying novel that I can't seem to drop.A bit-long summary:
The protagonist has a strong plot-armor (well, he's the MC), though the others didn't as lucky. While the MC continue being alive, he has many companion he owed his life to (e.g the mercenaries) as he keep trying to reach his dreams he firmly held from the time he still a scavenger.
I think the character development has the most impact of this series. People may think the female lead is an arrogant, ungrateful character. But I can say for sure, from reading the raw, she will become one of the most important character to the MC.
And lastly, many people may think the MC get OP as quickly as a galloping llama, but although he get's a lucky event early on, he will not depend on it too much as there little he can do as he only can be considered weak aside from really strong people of the wasteland. Like,
it takes years for him to reach maturity from a naive kid, to a badass wastelander, to a wise-charismatic leader
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One-shot an entire city by himself
Well I won't spoiler too much, but I can say for sure the story remains solid, author clearly know where his/her series going. Honestly, I just can't believe this author is the same author of Miracle Throne, it's like his brain went on a full upgrades to another realm.
The novel is so fast paced it’s beyond stressful and exhausting. It’s like watching a high budget action movie but with all other important parts cut out, like character development, location and environment description, conversation etc. It’s basically all the Mad Max films back to back edited with only just the action and chase sequences. It’s an endless cycle of MC being hunted > epic life and death battle > survives by the skin of his teeth either saved by a side character that is killed off a handful of chapters later or some crazy deus machina plot armour power up or teleportation > MC heals up for a few paragraphs before another disaster/mutantbeast attack/sandstorm/conspiracy arrives and then it’s all repeated all over again. Over and over and over and over.
Never mind the MC, I’m ready for a complete meltdown. I worked it out, in the first six weeks of the novel he nearly loses his life every few days, on average. And the MC is beyond annoying, he’s inexplicably so pure and naive that he’s constantly overestimating himself and launching himself into white knight mode repeatedly against foes many times more powerful and numerous than himself. For people who bully, physically abuse, demean and try to kill him numerous times. I think even Gandhi would be hard pressed to be as benevolent. To the point where I suspect he’s a serious masochist?
Basically the author must have wrote this whilst off his face on stimulants and psychedelics. He needs to take a Valium and go back to insert some breathing space in between all the near death experiences.
I get the not so hidden hint that it’s all planned to make him stronger blah blah but it’s just coming across as The Ancient One is a sadistic twat getting off on bullying a shiny white flower. What is he training up? A lunatic with severe paranoia and PTSD with an adrenal gland the size of Australia? Most people would’ve broken down from the relentless pressure long ago. And this is only the first 100 chapters FFS! Right, I’m off to find some ibuprofen, the blood pressure induced stress headache is killing me.
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- Story progression is well paced and has a lot of fluidity from arc to arc.
- The dialogue is often witty
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- The romance is lacking, there isn't much of it. Some female friendships and a couple of s*x scenes, but no real romantic development. I'm secretly hoping this earns a harem flag in the future, but so far no indication of it,
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and he definitely matures throughout the novel.
Final thought after completing it:He was raised and taught by a kind and well educated old man in his early years, an old man who is hinted to have some extraordinary background and was very knowledgeable. So it is understandable that the MC would be different, kinder than all the savage ppl in the wastelands.
That being said, the roles of some are hyped up to be have a critical impact, but the book ends before we ever really see that (i.e. Azura)
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- Realistic and believable overarching plot
Dislikes:Besides the region of Skycloud and a few other regions (like the Meadow in the south) that are lightly explored towards the end, we tend to mostly stay in one zone. This novel mostly takes place on Earth, which means there should have been several continents, oceans, the poles etc. To cover. Maybe I missed an explanation about how the world changed after the Gods blasted everything with radiation but it seems like there was so much more that could've been done here. Similarly, there isn't much exploration outside of Earth either.
It's hard for me to put this into words, but while we do see some named characters introduced in each important location, you don't get much of an impression of the remaining population. For example, when I picture the city of Skycloud in my head, I think of the few named members of the Cloude and Polaris families, Jan*s and Atlas Umbra, the Ludae (?) merchant family, a few vague members of the temple, and that's about it. The rest of the city is basically a gray area. There is effectively no interaction with the rest of the city's population, no other minor families, no competitions, no other social events. The only time the rest of the citizens are mentioned are when there is public outrage or when people are dying from some attack. It all just feels flat and lacking. Even the members of Hell's Army that return to the city after their term is up are basically forgotten. The author could definitely have done a better job of this. A couple of other novels that replicate this feeling are Undefeated God of War and The Avalon of Five Elements.
There are times when characters are faced with certain information, like how Selene felt that she was losing herself as part of the temple's empowerment ritual, but she dismisses it saying there's no point thinking about this. This also happens multiple times with Cloudhawk, where he will literally be given facts that should make him question someone's motives and he will respond with "no point thinking about this now" and proceed with something s*upid. At the end of the day, I understand that the author is doing this as a mechanism of continuing the plot, but unfortunately this is a horribly jarring way of doing so. This is similarly true regarding the dissemination of information about the truth behind the gods and the war. If Arcturus believed so strongly in Cloudhawk being a critical helper for the war against the gods, why be vague about his reasoning? Why continually frame him or alienate him? None of it makes sense. The same is true for the Crimson One, or Baldur, or even Wolfblade. The latter obviously had his own motives, but part of the truth could have been given without issue, but we end up taking this big winding path to get to the end for no apparent reason. I also dislike how some of these figures will try to give some information or fact but the MC or others will just ignore them and fight. Why? So much frustration here.
The MC is really s*upid about walking into traps. Several times he returns to Skycloud knowing that he's an enemy of Arcturus, and as usual, he will waltz right in only to get imprisoned once again. There are other similar circumstances where the MC does something like this without thinking and it bites him in the ass, which sucks as a reader because although we have the same amount of information as the MC, we have to sit through and watch the MC walk into an obvious trap. ≪sarcasm> Thankfully we have some heavy plot armor to save the day.</sarcasm>
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- There are actually a lot of examples of this. There are many things that are built up or that the MC focuses on that should have a large societal impact that are basically neglected. Some examples:
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- To summarize, I honestly think that most of these issues stem from either a lack of planning or the pacing of the novel being too rushed. I understand the author mentioned how he had to hugely reshuffle everything based on the publishers requirements, and had to change the timeline in ways he really didn't want, but I think things could have still been more well thought out.
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Although I really enjoyed the book, there were still several issues that detracted from the story. As a result, I would give this book a 4 out of 5, but I would still recommend this book to others. Also, with regards to the some issues brought up in other reviews, I think most of them are addressed if you actually read the entire series. For example:Azura and Skye. Both are disciples of the MC and are mentioned to potentially change the world, but the former has a very minor impact by guiding the younger generation of Awakened while the latter is actually forgotten by the author altogether (he doesn't even remember making him a disciple).
MC's ability to manipulate energy without relics. This should have been introduced into the training program very early on in the Greenland arc but the MC somehow only considers this during the Last Judgement of the gods. Although it's eventually revealed in a class around the gods attack, there isn't much of an impact and it's brushed off as most people not understanding it
Nuclear weaponry. I find it hard to believe that after communicating with the Ark members and after having access to Legion and other members, that it is so hard to recreate high-energy weapons like nukes to use against the gods etc.
Cloudhawk's goal of turning himself into a relic. We don't really see this get explored enough, such as not having a clear plan for what relics to absorb or even what his limit is. This is also true for most of his abilities. We don't really know what he's capable of nor do we get to see him training to improve any of his abilities like his usage of the Eye of Time from the Greenland arc onwards
Many groups of people or races like The Eternal, the dragons, the other races of Gehenna etc. All of them are introduced as important allies but they have basically no screentime or impact. From the information we are given, they contribute nothing to the war other than being part of the strongest group in the 3 armies that are storming Sumeru.
The Divine Matrix. Besides the MC delving into this twice, this feels like it could have been exploited way more, or at least used as interesting story arc. The author even uses an effectively paraphrased quote from Morpheus from the Matrix movie in chapter 30 of book 8. I would have liked to see more virtual reality action going on.
All of the other "dimensions" or planets that were marked by the Demon King. IMO, none of them were really exploited or explored to their full potential which was highly disappointing. There were supposedly several more "layers" that the MC could reach but he only stopped at the 4th planet.
The Demon King's Cube. This was both not used enough and also used in a way that wasn't faithful to the initial explanation. I believe it was mentioned that people can only remain alive when The Cube is deployed, but it's later mentioned around the time he takes Gods as POW that he closed it off, which doesn't make sense since that would imply anyone inside would be dead.
MC's space abilities. It's mentioned that the teleportation done to other marked dimensions doesn't really count as true space control since it uses the old Demon King's markers, but later on when his abilities improve he never really takes advantage of his spacial control to go anywhere or find new locations in the universe, especially since it's mentioned that after a certain point, distance no longer matters.
Many of the issues I mentioned probably could've been used to its full capacity if the war with the gods didn't start so soon after defeating the remaining Supremes on Earth.
I think there are two factors: The first is the fact that he has the so called Seed that makes him the child of destiny which might have an influence on his personality. The second and far more relevant reason is the fact that everything about him has been molded by Legion since the old man that is basically like a father to him is one of his many personas. Unlike an animal that knows nothing about society or the world, his head has been filled with ideas and stories that guide his personality away from being a typically ruthless wanderer.