Why did he start doing dumb stuff that caused him more problems and slowed the story down? Risking his cover, standing there waiting to be seen when he has a teleportation scroll. Growing a pair then backing down right after because bending over is what a good person does? And there is a lot more fluff, useless information that just slows the story down without adding anything. A lot of the material is stagnant and unnecessary thoughts about what’s going on. It feels dragged out to have more books. Most of what progresses the story could be cut down to like 1/10th of the book.