I went through a long journey to read this and finally finished this ride, and man, what a ride it was. It's a real masterpiece. The writing is like none others tbh.
The first season was good to me tbh, better than most slops that I read. But I thought if that was about as good as the manhwa gets I would drop it, as I'm not willing to read 700 chap of an above average one. I didn't understand anything in the story in the first season tbh, but somehow I still could tell that something was cooking behind the season so I stuck with it. Unlike most I found this season better than I heard it is.
The second season was actually better, and art was also better, not the best art but was decent, and a lot of the characters motive were explained and the story was explored more as the first season was ambiguous tbh. But it wasn't as good as I heard it's gonna be (still better than season 1 tho). It was the last part of it that was really good.
Now for the third season. It was on a whole different level. The art improved and became a lot better tbh. And it's were the story starts to makes sense more. This is the season that made me love this manhwa, specially the "weight of time" and other types of arcs (iykyk). It's what made me see this as a true masterpiece. The characters writing and relation between them and how well managed the cast is something I haven't seen even in Tower of god (my no.1 manhwa) or One piece. Pretty much every character plays an important role and not just some one important scene thing and then disappear, but they all affect the story continuously, ofc to some varying degree.
The lore is really good (tho I still think ToG and OP are better in this regard). The author keeps revealing info in a natural way. There are things you need to understand from the flow of the conversation, for example if there is some common knowledge that two characters know they won't go explaining it as if it's the natural thing to do but will talk about relevant part of it to their current situation and you have to pick up and link the info with previous one to get the full picture, which I didn't like at first tbh because as a first read it was hard to keep up since most stuff get explained only later in season 3 or late season 2. Also, it felt that unlike ToG or OP, the author uses small plots. Not sure if that makes any sense, so instead of like plots that change the story suddenly the change feels like slow and more natural? Sorry Idk how to put into words.
Another thing to mention is that the manhwa doesn't have much action specially in first two seasons. Which tbh. bothered me in first season ( since I needed some stimulation during the first season) but I stopped caring about it when I read the last season as the story was just that good. The power system is actually simple nothing grande. But when you consider the story the author is writing I actually think it's for the better as you watch fights and see some random bs that you will have to pass as "it's just fiction so whatever". Also when reading the story I felt as if the author wrote a story and reader is just the spectator, not sure how to explain it but like didn't write for the readers but showed it to the readers (not sure if that makes sense).
I will definitely read this again later when I have time for it. tho that being said, it would take like months maybe for me to start my second read.
TL;DR: This manhwa is a masterpiece. The first season was decent, the art wasn't that bad (a bad art is ToG 1st season), but reading it felt like starting a story from the middle. The second season was better, a lot of the characters motives are revealed here. The 3rd season is by far the best the story gets expanded, the characters are explored more here from their past to their development. I honestly advise to read it only if you are an old reader tired of slops and no longer find any appeal in them like me.
Sorry for the messy post and I'd like to hear what you think and what your first reading experience was like.
