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>>21701128
>First major complaint about this volume
I admire your resiliance, Anon. Volume 8 in general is something of a shitshow, showing some of the best writing the story has seen at times (early Eldavin chapters or Hectval arc), but mostly exemplifying the author's flaws. The last bit part of Volume 8 is an entire circus by itself. To put it in perspective, Pirateaba intended to wrap up the volume by the end of the 2021. It lasted several MONTHS more, ending in May.
Volume 8 overstayed its welcome, at the point you are in the strain was felt by almost everyone. Even the author was getting tired of it, admiting he didn't spoke to anyone for like two weeks.

The entire volume is honestly a mess. Pirateaba overestimated his ability to juggle several major plotlines at the same time, resulting in a series of half-baked plots, constant PoV switches and overall unsatisfying events. Not to mention random retcons or straight up contradicting the previous lore.

Btw, you know what Pirateaba always complains about? Readers complaining about Deus Ex machinas. This is just how Pirate writes, not going to change.

The finale of V8 is a beast in and of itself, being the size of an average Epic Fantasy series yet still not big enough to contain all of the events taking place. Sometimes there is such thing as too much ambition, and that's exactly what I saw at the end of that cursed Volume 8.


Volume 9 is better though, still has many flaws that were made apparent by Volume 8, but settles back into more comfortable pace and setting. I'm satisfied with what it is.

>>21455495
TWI is a combination of humorous slice of life and epic fantasy, all in an ancient, warhammer-like world full of race wars. If characterization is important to you, then its TWI's biggest strength, although it needs two or three volumes to really get going. But it has best character writing I've seen among webnovels, so here's that.

I recommend to NOT read it yet, as the author is basically done with the rewrite of the first volume, depending how whether they like it and how much they intend to edit, you may see it even few weeks from now. Two months at most, I think. Better to wait.