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The experience of the end of Path of the Deathless 1 and the start of the second book has been unlike anything I've read. I went from moderately enjoying the MC, Shiv, to hating him. After some sleep some of my frustrations have softened but I still have an enormous problem with how Shiv conducted himself through the beginning chapters of the second book.

First, you're not getting brownie points from me for killing people you don't know and then justifying it by calling them slavers. This justification doesn't work when they're compelled to participate by the threat of violence, massively unequal power dynamics, and magical contracts that bind the soul. Contracts enforced by a System that

The fact that Makiel and his Presence are unable to read Suriel's facial expression in Waybound is so nonsensical that it actually frustrates me. As I said in the title, this is utterly unimportant to literally anything but I still wanted to talk about it.

"She made an expression that, even with all his advantages, he couldn't read." - Waybound Chapter 5

For a normal person there are up to 10,000 possible facial expressions they can make and 27 distinct emotions they can experience. Even if we say Judges are special and can make a million facial expressions and experience thousands of emotions, a byproduct of their genetically and conceptually perfected bodies and long lifespans, given w

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Does anyone else feel like Lindon's scaling at the end of the series makes no sense whatsoever? The longer I sit and think about it the more questions I have.

The source of my confusion is twofold. The first being when Lindon manifests his Dreadgod weapons Li Markuth states that all of Iteration 110 shook.

I'm not sure what Will intended this to mean but from my perspective we have only see the word Iteration used for universal level feats. Which raises the questions, why are the Dreadgod weapons that strong, especially since only Wavedancer had a binding in it? Why is Lindon's spirit strong enough to support weapons of that caliber with a mere 5 Dreadgods worth of strength?

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We all accept that Gojo was always going to lose this fight because he was simply too strong for the plot, if he won the story would basically be over. So Gege's solution for creating a character so OP that it got in the way of the story was to create an even more OP character to kill the first OP character.

How are we not just back where we started but worse? The plot is still over it's just that the bad guys win. Expect no, bad guys rarely win in fiction so now we have to asspull a win for the good guys.

Unless Gege goes with the Sukuna was significantly weakened after his fight with Gojo. But if that is the case and he really is that much weaker that the other characters who are clearl

This is a series that chose to kill itself with a thousand cuts and chapter 168 rubbed salt in the wounds. If you want a slice of life series that doesn't focus on characters at all and tries to pretend its actually an action series that has tension then Path Of Ascension is it, the grand opus.

The story had so very little going for it at this point. The fact that the upcoming war was going to be a 3v2 which placed the Empire in a difficult position was only thread in the story that held any weight whatsoever. But why have tension? We wouldn't want the Empire to actually have to deal with the consequences of its rapid expansion and its soon to be three sets of Ascenders and thus chapter 16

I wanted to give my view on Makiel's final role in the series because now that I've finished Waybound it's the moment I've been thinking about the most.

At the end of Dreadgod I felt a slight dissatisfaction with where I thought Makiel was going, down the path of typical villain who simply wanted power. To be fair, Dreadgod goes out of its way to paint him in this light but then again the Mad King is hardly a reliable observer. Anyways I thought that this was an abrupt change from what we had gotten to see from him in the series thus far. From what I'd seen Makiel was a man who did his duty, did what he thought best for the most people, and who made mistakes, and in the end that's exactly w

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