By emilois
After being slain by the Hero party, the evil Demon Lord reincarnates as a regular human in a slightly futuristic modern world that has no magic.
Now living as Eleanor Demobraun, or Elle, she dives into the VRMMORPG “Dream World Online” to r
The world building and history of the world is cohesive and interesting. The MC's use of magic is compelling and creative at times, when it isn't stated explicitly that he forgot how to use his own abilities, and the pacing of the introduction is well done.
Once characters are introduced and start interacting with each other is where it goes downhill fast, their backgrounds and motivations forgotten they turn into rather uninteresting and shallow side-characters spouting one-liners and painfully acting out anime visual gags in written form. No one in the story, including the MC, seem to have their own set of values and motivations for their actions and instead come off as if they're actors reading off a script from a high-school play where things just happen to them and they act out their parts needed to get the story from A to B ignoring whether or not such actions would be in-character or even reasonable for a person in general. The author would make a terrific dungeon master, but the character dialogue is painful, MC's monologues to comfort/convince others are rambling, cliche, and ring hollow
One of the author's notes at the end of chapter 21 very much encapsulates the above and will inform you what to expect going in:
"Because some were pointing at Avan´s lack of being human and shrugging off all these mangled corpses, I decided to finally give him a little backlash."
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Yes, azarinth healer is good, but his gem is brilliant, EzZeus is 4 parallel universe ahead of Rheader, I read more novels than already exist, (I transcend spacetime to read some that wasn't written yet) so you can belife me.
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