Aether Beasts by I_S_Rift

It is so-so, MC's pretty weak and instead of a system he got a encyclopedia monster with him.

My biggest grip with this is how the author is trying to be "different". It's like an amateur took his own spin of the whole fantasy/magic/cultivation genre but went really wrong. For example , in order to perform mana techniques they have to form "patterns" with their mana. My problem is that he calls them patterns and not runes. Runes are literally various patterns that have certain meanings. A whole magic language that communicates with the world. For some reason the author goes out of his way to call them patterns and not runes when he has runes introduced. Another name thing that ticked me off is his type of magic. For some reason they call it nature but it isn't nature (nature for us and the book is basically reality excluding nothingness/void) magic. It is basically plant magic. The author thought calling plant magic green magic good. It is wrong on so many levels and is actually shown why it is dumb to call it green magic but oh well. We are literally shown how many plants might not even have a speck of green on them. Nor do plants actually need to be green. The magic that the mc mostly uses is related to bark and the vines he uses could easily be brown. At that point would the author call it brown magic XD. At some point the MC was exploring a tower floor that was full of plants. The author highlights a couple of times how plants could have various exotic and alien colours. Then there is his attempt to incorporate our 21st century human science but there is a serious problem. It is repeated that he is really studious regarding anything aether but he has completely disregarded "science" knowledge. In other words we are told that he is really smart and hardworking when it comes to aether but that doesn't actually exist. His green pokemon tries to teach him "science" knowledge as it is a type of subject that heavily relies in good foundations but he acts all dumbly as he can't even learn the most basic knowldge. He has the advantage of his cultivation and the fact that his thinking isn't narrow. He has no reason to found difficulty in studying "science" but he does. There other things like how he acts like a puppet and a wimp cosplaying as hero but the things I brought up were enought for me to stop reading this.