Discussion Cool or Lame? Novel author depowers, perma-reduces MC's cultivation level for 400+ chapters?

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  1. SummerMascot

    SummerMascot Well-Known Member

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    Not sure whether it's a cool move or lame move by Novel Author when said author decides to pull a massive depowering act (aka soft-reset) in the middle? of the storyline, removing like 90% of MC's cultivation level and forcing MC to recultivate from scratch?

    Anyone wants to share their examples or when/how is it cool to do so? And when is it totally lame when executed?

    I will share a lame example here:
    1. MC reached a level where fights became boring and repetitive and author decided to take action to save his "falling ratings".
    2. So author came up with an idea to destroy MC's physical body in the lamest way possible while he was out astral projecting his Spiritual Form to complete a "not-so-important errand". You could say that MC deserved it because he left his physical body to an untrustworthy waifu-wannabe and her even more conniving family members.
    3. Thus causing MC's lifespan to start ticking down like a time bomb, as he is forced to use expend his remaining Spiritual Energy as fuel in the most masochistic way (author has to tell readers that is masochistic) to enact his revenge against his current list of never-ending enemies, preying on his new-waifus.
    4. With each use of Spiritual Energy, the stability of his Spiritual Form degrades and his cultivation level ends up dropping as well.
    5. Author resorts to wasting 100-200 words to reiterate the fact that MC is running on borrowed-time every chapter from then on.
    6. As if that wasn't enough, author teleports MC to a region where there is a total absence of divine chi/qi, so that MC can't replenish his Spiritual Energy and his lifespan degrades even faster.
    7. And after a few hundred chapters later, when MC finally reforms his physical body back (lame deus ex machina), MC gets resetted back to the 1st level of Cultivation.
    8. Because of the total absence of divine chi/qi, all of MC's former cultivation methods are rendered useless but MC has to recultivate from scratch.
    9. Author then makes MC spend 100-300 words on MC boasting (or whining) on about the past of how powerful he was in the past every chapter, without fail.
    10. Unfortunately, no matter how author tries to sell the creative "new combat moves" and "new cultivation methods" invented by MC with the absence of absence of divine chi/qi. It's just a lazy cut-and-paste and rehash of what author did a few thousands chapters ago. (Just replace the words "taking in divine chi/qi through the meridians" with "direct intake of the physical elemental essence into the flesh and bones")
    PS: Said Novel author spends more time coming up with spinoff side stories and "redrawing sexy? pictures" of MC's double digits of Harem waifus (who have either been in comatose or been kidnapped MIA for 3000+ chapters, I kid you not).

    PS2: As for the villains, MC doesn't get to kill them because of lame reasons (too lame to mention) and these villains (hundreds of them and counting) survive to join the Main Villain's not-so-secret organization (currently operated by Main Villain's waifu). Main Villain is currently trapped with MC's mentor and MC's ancestors/surviving family in the 4th dimension in an eternal combat standoff.

    PS3: I myself have skipped thousands of chapters by reading the Baidu wiki entry and the comic pictorial version.

    PS4: Author Mars-Gravity of ATG has successful power-resetted/depowered MC (Slag YC) to Level 0 or -1 (which is lower than what MC started out in Chapter 1) as of Raw CN Chapters 1356-57.

    PS5: MC in "The Sacred Ruins" got crippled/depowered for 30+ chapters.
     
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  2. elengee

    elengee Daoist Ninefaps

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    TLDR lame. like when they cripple his cultivation so he has to start as a weakling again, and use this more than once in a novel. :blob_coughblood:
     
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    Dropkick novel. German suplex author. Kidnap author. Lock him/her/it in dark room to rewrite that part. :blobowoevil_horns:
     
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  4. grish99

    grish99 [Pelican Hater] [Hater of Face-Slapping]

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    What the name of this story?
     
  5. Inuzuka

    Inuzuka Well-Known Member

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    Sounds like Child of Light.
    Bones got strengthened by a god? Here's a drug that softens them. Finally reached the final rank of mage? The Demon Lord's seal erodes your body and magic power, return to the first rank...
     
  6. reagents 11

    reagents 11 disaster personified

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    Honestly I'd rather see the main characters killed off than seeing them having some brain dead convenient twists to save it's character presentation (no longer underdog, or has become evil etc.)
     
  7. RizYun

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    watta pain in da arse... author's. why dont em to make the novel end faster instead, and create a same title in season 2 wit either differ MC & Charas. and then somehow make both of their works merge and make it season 3 or something like dat...
     
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    I've seen several series like that. Some of them are the infinity style where each world they go to they start from scratch again while still having their old power sealed. It's like the author can't keep a story past 100-200 chapters and just does it over and over again. Get's new wives while he's at it, then dumps them into main world and go off again to meet new ones for a few hundred chapters, come back home for about 4 chapters then leave again to another world.
     
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    Lame, author just wanted to prolong their novel for money.
     
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    SummerMascot Well-Known Member

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    And I thought Mars-Gravity of "Against the Gods" was lame in killing MC and putting MC comatose several times but this Novel author takes the cake.
    Because in the early thousands of chapters, this author has already been maiming or putting MC in comatose more than what Mars-Gravity did to MC of "Against the Gods".
     
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    Author wants to make the novel or is stuck with his story and can't make any progress so he/she is delaying the story, imo.

    Edit: i forgot to add LAME.
     
  12. unkxz

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    depends on the build up, reasons and the number of chapters but most of the time it's lame.
     
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    elengee Daoist Ninefaps

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    At least Yun Che gets laid almost each time, lol.
     
  14. SummerMascot

    SummerMascot Well-Known Member

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    The MC of this novel is the complete opposite. He's still virgin after thousands of chapters even though he has 2 digits worth of waifus and waifu-wanabes that throw themselves at him.

    So I believe the author has a mental issue and is in need of therapy from the great @elengee skilled in way of the Dao.
     
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    Rumby Rumbly Tumbly

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    Well at least MC is not OP, like some readers just hate MC being OP.
    It's just a bummer MC has to start all over though in the middle of the novel, when you enjoyed when MC was being OP.
     
  16. xiansho

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    what's the name of the novel you are talking about?
     
  17. GDLiZy

    GDLiZy Wise Deepsea Mermaid

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    Depends. If done right, it would create the senses of dread and fear of losing, making a good setback for our protagonist. ( 0.01% Done right. )
     
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    SummerMascot Well-Known Member

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    The crappy novel mentioned above is Beauty and the Bodyguard (aka School Beauty Personal Bodyguard) written by Fisherman 2nd Generation (aka Fishman The Second 鱼人二代)
     
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    There isn't need to say something, it's lame.
     
  20. Kadmos1

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    Who is the sexy girl on the bottom of your profile?
     
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