- Nov 13, 2017
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The main point of the story is that the slime is a an ancient being, and the world this takes place on is shaped by other ancient beings, their power stemming from their absorption of the very power the universe was created with, Omni is unique in that they maintained that primordial power when all others of his kind did not. His power of learning basically is his only power of relevance for the story, he's and overlord that has minions do all of the fighting for him.Don't you think the fact that you are having this several post-long discussion about the story, that means that maybe the story is not that well written enough and maybe you should make things different?
To be honest, i think a easy fix for all these complaints that people are having is to just make the protagonist be obviously weak, make him be a scholar-like character: curious about everything but not particularly strong in terms of physical/magical power. Make a weak to strong cliche and make the first enemies of the game be the Drows, instead of him brainwashing they easily, make him have to put up a fight, defeat they first, enslave they later.
These stories where the protagonist is a OP monster work in other media because we can't interact with them in the same way we do in video games. It is way more satisfying to begin weak and then get strong in a video game.
Yeah yeah, i know that he technically isn't strong, i read your garbage explanation but i think it is not enough. Make his strength be his ability to learn, he learns fast, let that be his Cheat skill. Make his weakness and defects more obvious.
My "garbage explanation" is only so because I'm failing to convey what kind of story I'm trying to tell. Omni appears all powerful, until they discover they are not, from then on they use intermediaries to explore and learn of the world around them. They then focus on learning, and enhancing the power of themselves and their subordinates.
I'm not going to make Omni weak because they defeats the main plot points of an ancient being rising to power from obscurity, and all the old powers who are in stagnate fight for the world find that their ancient powers don't mean shit in the face of the oldest living thing in the world.
Example: Ancient dragons taking pride in how ancient they are, how their age means they gained their power when the universe was at it's apex in terms of magical abundance. A slime creature reveals itself to be the mastermind of a rapidly growing empire, in their vanity they look down on slime, slime gives big reveal that it's older than they are, and their puny lizard brains snap like twigs as everything they thought they knew is proven wrong (Slime isn't the only one working with incomplete information, nor are they the only one resting on the laurels of past victories).