Climb to the Gods, I Have an Agreement with the Gods

I feel that it is a good article in terms of group portraits. Each character has his own personality, and is vivid and flesh-and-blood. Each character has his own image, personality and habits. It seems that it is not an article written by an author, but a group of people, a spiritual combination.

This novel really made me like [admiration]! The framework of urban martial arts incorporates the eerie atmosphere of Cthulhu and the bizarre imagery of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The setting of the superpower sequence is also very innovative, and the collision of multiple elements is particularly eye-catching. The rhythm of the plot is well controlled, and layers of foreshadowing are laid at the beginning [Exploration]. Every chapter has a new hook to hook people into reading, making people unable to stop. You can feel that the author is writing the story with love. The text contains the careful polishing of the setting, and the details are also handled very well. As a serialized work, it is really rare to be able to maintain high quality despite unstable updates [Sparrow Food Masterpiece]

I was amazed by the author's description of the group portraits. Each character has his own temperament, habits and stories hidden in the details. It reads as if they really live in this world. The setting is also very innovative, the pace is not sluggish, and the more you read, the more you get into it [I learned it]

1. "Promise" mechanism - contract is destiny The word "promise" in the title of the book is the soul setting of the entire novel. The author did not take the shortcut of the traditional "system flow" or "sign-in flow", but designed a power system based on contract and price. The agreement between the protagonist and the gods is not a one-way gift, but a two-way binding - the gods give power, and the protagonist needs to complete a certain mission or pay a corresponding price. This underlying logic of "equivalent exchange" makes the acquisition of power full of tension and suspense, and also lays the groundwork for subsequent plot conflicts. 2. Localized expression of urban Gaowu The novel anchors supernatural power in the contemporary urban context. Gods are no longer abstract existences far away, but intersect with mortals in some kind of "arrival" way. This setting not only retains the romantic imagination of "interaction between humans and gods" in Eastern fantasy, but also gives the story a strong sense of reality. The protagonist pursues a miracle in the concrete jungle. This contrast itself is extremely dramatic. The protagonist's character development is biased towards "tolerant growth" - he was not born as a dragon, but was forced to make a contract with the gods under the pressure of life, and gradually transformed in the process of fulfilling the contract again and again. This kind of "passive ascension" narrative arc has more character arcs than the traditional invincible flow, and also gives readers a stronger sense of involvement. "If every attempt to ascend to the gods must be based on an agreement, then the heaviest price may not be life, but the original intention."

The logic is very tight and unexpectedly rigorous, and the plot line keeps advancing. I feel that if I write it out and keep it to the end, it may be another potential work.