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302 神 God Is Reincarnated, and When He Comes to Earth, He Will Live His Life Seriously An Insomnia TreeEastern Fantasy1.1M WordsOngoing 93Reads—Score—Shelves

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Overall, the style is somewhere between plain and jobless, not too serious. After eight volumes, every stroke paves the way for the return of Wu Mu's humanity, unfolding the cruelty and vividness of this world layer by layer. The scale of the story expands from a village to an entire continent, but the focus of the narrative has never deviated from "people". What deserves praise is the depiction of combat. The author has obviously done solid physical deductions, including the logic of Hua's domain formation, and how Nora's dark moon magic razed a royal city. Every battle has clear rules and boundaries and cause-and-effect chains. It is not the kind of cheap and exciting story where "the protagonist wins when he explodes". In the Emperor's Battle in Volume 8, Ebony used "shortening a single stasis in exchange for more frequent activations" to disrupt Gaius's rhythm design. This is truly a fight with brains. The creation of the protagonist Xia Wumu is the anchor of the entire work. He is not the kind of time traveler like Long Aotian at the beginning, but a "god" whose heart was closed by the trauma of his previous life and forced to descend to earth. His growth is not an expansion of strength (although his strength is indeed increasing), but a recovery of human nature: from initially treating the world as a mission, to blocking attacks from strangers, to fighting for the lives of his partners, wife and children in the eighth volume. There are traces to follow every step of the way. The supporting cast is equally brilliant. Behind Xiu Yihua's "carelessness", there is a drastic change in personality caused by stress disorder. This setting was not revealed by Zi Yuan until the eighth volume. Looking back at her early behaviors, they were all foreshadowing. Teak Peng is not a vase. She has her own dream of expedition, precise magic talent, and the tenacity to stay with the army even after becoming pregnant. The relationship between her and Wu Mu grew naturally through fighting side by side, rather than a forced pairing by the author. Stan's transformation from a high-spirited adventurer to an Avenger who lost one hand and one eye, the destruction of the Dragon Claw Heroes, Harry's sacrifice and the secret of the undead - every branch has weight. Even the villains don't have facial expressions. Behind the tyranny of Emperor Gaius was his twisted logic of "unifying the four regions and expelling the aliens". Ar Kikuma only loyal to the empire because of the simple utilitarianism of "giving money to women", and Noel IV's battlefield command was also remarkable. This kind of "different stance rather than simply evil" treatment makes the conflicts in the entire world more textured. The core setting of this work is that "the structure is unstable due to the loss of humanity." This is not a simple story of "gods descending to earth to experience life", but a philosophical proposition about the "meaning of existence": the power itself that supports the world needs to maintain balance by experiencing love, pain, anger and responsibility in the world. Divinity and humanity are not opposites, but two sides of the same coin - pure power will only bring destruction if it loses its "human" anchor. . The author's reflections on the war also run throughout. The plunder of women by the beastmen, the empire's policy of enslavement and exclusion of demi-humans, the Six Desire Organization's infiltration of local political power, and the displacement of civilians during the war are all factors that truly drive the plot. The lizard demihuman in Volume 8 said, "No matter what, you will die, even if you escape my wife, you will die." This sentence summed up the desperate situation of the weak in war. Of course, the work also has its issues. Some of the daily scenes are a little loose, and the motivations of some supporting characters are a little hasty. But overall, this is a work with a solid worldview, believable characters, and deep core. It uses a story about a god descending to earth to tell a proposition about "what it means to be human".

306 寻 Find That Piece of Sunset That Belongs to You White Bird and Water CityUrban190k WordsCompleted —Reads—Score—Shelves

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