The King Of Cave Will Live A Paradise Life - Chapter 5.1

Egh, this series is really losing me. The author has no patience, which means that nothing has a sense of payoff. Story elements are introduced, and then immediately resolved, one after another.

I also strongly dislike that the goblin girl’s evolution turned her into “human, but with black nails”. That’s so lazy, and so wasteful of perfectly good character development. If she’d remained at least somewhat goblinoid, you could have a sense of conflict, since they might fall in love, but she would still look like a monster, which means that not only does the main character have to consider whether he can love somebody who looks different from what he’d normally be attracted to, but he would also have to think about whether he could have a relationship with someone who would be shunned and hated by the rest of his (currently absent) race.

It’s a waste of perfectly good pathos and character building, because this main character can never face any real challenge or conflict. His whole tragic backstory is that he was kind of a loser and got picked on for it, which is such a load of pandering crap. He didn’t even have to wrestle that giant spider into submission or anything! His power is completely unearned.