Blood Warlock: Succubus Partner in the Apocalypse by XIETIAN

This is a copy of my review on webnovel: Spoilers ahead

I just wanna start by saying that I've been following this novel since chapter 30 and I've read all the available chapters at this point in time (260+).

This novel started out great tbh. The entire first arc in the university was, overall, solid, but the big problems this novel has start later on during the next arcs where the story goes from the best apocalyptic novel I'd read to an okay/average (maybe above average) one.
I'll mention the good points 1st which include the update stability which is good at 2 chaps per day and the character design because most important characters have interesting thoughts and personalities tho it could be better. The world background is also not bad, but at the same time it is also nothing to crazy.

Now, when it comes to the flaws of the novel there is one that REALLY is annoying among all of them and that is the way the author writes. What I mean by this is that the author loves writing filler chaps just to make his novel bigger and sometimes u have like 3/4 chaps of enemies being cocky and killing his subordinates just to then be oneshot. For example there was also this one time where for an entire week (2 chaps a day) we only got equipment crafting chaps, like what???? How fuking much do u wanna stretch it. These novel suffers from the same thing as Cultivation online which is having a really good story that is butchered by its author in an attempt to make it last longer and milk it more which is understandable but sad. The chapters are also very small, which was also something that only started happening later on.
There are other things people might consider bad that don't bother me much like the kingdom building tag, as long as it is done well, and the constant description of sexy females.
This novel also suffers from the chinese novel syndrome and copies some of its "qualities". Like for example, everything the Mc makes, be it his base, weapons or even his strength it is always superior to the others and they are always monsters while he is always a saint/right.
Another thing that really bothers me is how lazy the author is with the titles. There were 10 chaps in a row titled: 3 vs 300 something (I forgot tbh). Of these 10 only the last 2/3 even mentioned the fight. If u read this author just know that i like ur story and i'll keep reading it, but if these "concerns" of mine, and other people, get worse and others appear I might just drop it tbh. It was such a good story at 1st.

Final rant: What was the fuking point of introducing his family and showing how much he cares for them if it has been weeks and he hasn't even gone to look for them. Especially after he saw how women and even children are being raped or selling themselves for food he still doesn't go look for them. I know he's got other shit to do but in that case why introduce his family in the 1st place. I know for sure his sister is fine, but i hope either his mom or dad, or both, are dead to show him he should have gone looking for them as soon as he could. Tho I bet when he finds them they'll have been mistreated and he'll murder destroy an entire base.

btw if there's one thing that i like is his relationship with lili which is quite well done. I kinda want this to be a harem cuz I like binxue too but I'm conflicted xD.

So I liked this one till around chap 200 but it loses its main point. What I dislike about it is that the author is trying really hard to shove the idea of 《I can't go alone to save my parents because I am too weak 》When! When in the story is he 2 weak? He can't beat all the monsters but it's not like he can't run away from them. When I saw the main character being cold I thought that he would detach himself from the group at some point , I get the whole Idea of let's get the other people to safety thing but when he gets the leader job that gives him power with the number of people he has, well we all know where this is going. So why call it blood warlock with a succubus partner and not blood warlock kingdom building?

(Note: I will or have posted this message across many of the top novels from Webnovel)

CatsAreOverrated's response to people trying to shame people who read and comment on sites such as Ranobes

If I am not mistaken two authors have already voiced out and complained about Ranobes specifically, more so a hoard of their sheepies cry out with out a brain, a good example would be Lioner( he posted a comment in Blood Warlock), attacking us readers and especially those who comment with criticism.
Therefore I will attack their notions used to attack and shame us readers. I will present three arguments, the first is how these sites do not hurt the author, the second is how it helps the author, and the third is why we readers may still criticize(As long as it is valid and not nonsense with no reason) the works of these authors, as many point to our criticisms as shameless and worthless.
1. They say that we hurt the author in that we take away their source of income by reading in these pirated sites, they argue that because we do not read in Webnovel we are leaching of the author, draining the author of his or her's blood sweet and tears. To this I say nay. My first argument, pirated sites do not hurt authors, to go further, we have to first understand how they get payed in the first place. They get payed by coins, coins used to unlock chapters, or to get the privileged ones. To them, I propose the fact that those who do read here, do it because they do not wish to spend, if so then even if they do read in Webnovel, they would only use Fast Passes. They may use one, or like I have, used over 20, to get Fast Passes to be used to unlock chapters, Fast passes in which no way benefit the authors. Therefore since the demographic using these pirated sites will still not give coins to the author even if they use Webnovel, then therefore the author does not get harmed losing this demographic. ( This demographic mainly consist of People who live in love-income areas, third-world nations or rural areas in the more developed nations, Minors, Seniors, people with financial problems, there is something called the corona crisis ever heard of it, and people who will not spend because they are not financially secure yet. Though I do concede that there are many who do so just cuz I think my positive case on arg 2 will suffice.)
2. In the shallow case that they say we steal views from the author, which is near worthless btw, then I propose that we readers here still better and help the author more than a tiny few views. How? simple, recommendations thru any form, any medium, any site. Those people who write recommendations are not people who spend hours a day farming Fast Passes, or spending thousands upon thousands to read, they are us, people who read from these sites, who are able to read quickly and continuously. We write recommendations, which may bring more people to the fold, people who may choose to use coins on Webnovel, people who may love it so much, they choose to maybe even buy privilege, allowing them to read further than we here have.(additional info: Privilege chapters do not and should not be posted on these sites, this furthermore proves my point on how if you really do want to read further than like it works as a gateway, the first few are hooks to keep you want to keep reading further propelling the chance of people giving Author coins)
3. They Like to silence us, berate us for our criticism, however why should we be able to criticize if it is free? Isn't it shameless? How evil and uncaring! To them I ask, why do we criticize the works? Why? Do we have no time as to just want to smear there names? So again we need to understand, there are mainly two types of criticisms, the first is about recommending, it is about telling others what the novel is about, the good and the bad, the second is a form of just saying what you think off the top of your head, whether this be an applause of a criticism. To them I say we say the first type not as an attack to the author, but to spread the word to our neighbors, we tell them what we think, and if it suits them then go for it. Its to spark a conversation or at the very least to share your thoughts, however I do not think this is what most of the sheepies refer to as shameless, so I shall move along. The second type is more direct, just criticism straight to their face, maybe we say its sad or disappointing or stupid, now I ask the sheepies this WHY? Is it because we are lazy asses who do it just cuz? We do it because we care, because we want the novel to be better for us, for everyone, we do it because we may feel sad that our favorite book turned trash, or angry that the author betrayed us, we do it because we care and love the book as much as you do.
3b. The clearer and more concise version of arg 3. Though it will only tackle the first type of criticism mentioned above.
Criticisms is criticisms. There aren't some higher goal. People read something -> they got some thoughts -> they write some thought. When people read comment section most do expect all the different opinions, not plain ass licking. But WN have some funny thing where author can delete comments for no reason. They basically make comments their own temple for mindless prayers. The comment section is mainly not for author, it's for readers to exchange their opinions and find novels they like faster and easier. But ofc there should not be direct attacks against the personhood of the author, just the book, it's common sense.
"Find novels they like faster and easier" does not only benefit the readers but authors too. They will get more readers that love their type of novel, that just read comment and go ahead if it fits them.

This ends my rant, and if any sheepie wants to mindlessly berate me again, well my brothers and sisters will hopefully defend me in the comments section

*Props to Penguin who created arg 3b and also reminded me to give examples of the "target demographic" I was talking about in arg 1.

I used to read without commenting, but I created an account here just to respond to comments from shameless people
Many assholes shamelessly complain despite reading for free
Imagine complaining that the model of car you got isn't the one you wanted?
My God, some people really weren't educated by their parents

The concept of this history is solid, the basic mechanics and systems are well structured and you can follow quickly, the combat is a little above average wish is good if followed with a good story and there are multiples oportunities where you can glance an hype and epic finale of proportions.

BUT! everything is not shit and giggles, the history streetches or say the same thing diferent chp by changing the wording or using allegory, also i feel that the world building is not well put together because we are bombarded with this phrases "The laws of society are no longer valid", "But even he has limits to what he could do", "the era of peace and tranquility had long since ended", "he cant save his family alone" like a broken record, you should explain this by building your fantasy world no by trying mind control (the saddest part is that is working for some)

In my opinion story , world building, character development e.t.c is good. But the only problem is author needlessly tried to streach the story as much possible. I will rate the story 3 out of 5. Here is an example
Spoiler-
Look at ch202 he just said same thing colorfully with different words- "that after 1 month he met the condition to evolve the skill which he thought was impossible before 1 month". This single sentence streached to entire chp. Bravo author nice trick you can actually make 1k chp worth of story to 2k chp. Brilliant idea.

hey ranobes why is there netorare tag?

Dropping this at 218.



It was good at the start, but went stale after 150.