Personally, I hope with 1.0, WW introduces more monsters for MC to fight in the earlier parts. I'll have to remind him because I suggested it a long time ago. But basically the idea was that MC would fight multiple different E Class, D Class and possibly even a C Class monster leading up to the Valravn fight. Instead of what he does currently. Which is fight multiple Minyaks, the rat monster and that's basically it before the Valravn fight. Unless I'm missing something.
This way, it makes more sense in the world for MC to be so popular. Compared to beating only just Kenny, Klaus and the Fused Minyak as the reason.