Defiance of the Fall by TheFirstDefier

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Pain. That's what I feel when I think of this novel. Just pain.

This used to be one of my favourite novels of all time, I would look forward to my next moment of free time to come back and binge read the shit out of it, watching how the mc grows in power by getting titles and stats, has awesome fights with cool enemies, builds relationships with other characters and even establishes his own "kingdom".

However, that is no longer the case.

The author has taken away every single character the mc was even remotely close with, be it through death or by sending them to the opposite end of the f#cking universe. He also decided to basically make stats and titles completely irrelevant and make power levels be determined almost exclusively by "Dao comprehension". This makes it extremely hard to judge how powerful anyone is and also makes his advantage in stats feel hollow, removing the joy of seeing those numbers go up.

The author also basically removed any personality and agency from the mc by having him basically be a puppet for some million year old monsters as well as THE FUCKING SYSTEM ITSELF to bring together the shards and create glimpses of chaos. Mcs personality at this point is just "I have to get stronger or the shards will harm me, and to do that I need to get more shards, which will make them harm me. It's fine, I'll just repeatedly put myself through literal torture with absolutely no repercussions". This is exactly what mc does, every single advancement coming with a whole chapter describing how excruciatingly painful it was and how the mc repeatedly wanted to kill himself from the pain. After dozens of advancements like this, it's impossible for someone to not have some sort of trauma, but the mc is perfectly fine. In fact, he looks forward to the next time he can torture himself.

This has turned into a weird torture porn story where the one being tortured is the mc, either physically or emotionally. He is unable to form any meaningful relationships because the author immediately takes them away when he does. He is constantly in danger, on the brink of death, or heading towards danger. Every waking moment the mc is struggling in one form or another, which I guess is expected from the title but really isn't what I came for. All of this is exacerbated by how f#cking SLOW it's become. There's no visible payoff to all this pain and struggle. 800 chapters in and the mc is still in E-grade, and there are entire chapters of the mc simply monologuing over the dao, which would be interesting if it wasn't so tedious.

This story just isn't fun anymore, reading every new chapter is simply a chore, which makes me very sad since the earlier chapters before he leaves Earth were an absolute blast.

This novel really need prof read some parts of the novel is not mention, and the concept is jumbled and not well stated.... Will though it's good for pastime if you are waiting for other novel updates...