A recurring theme of every story from this series is people stubbornly withholding information or going from super genius to absolute idiots. There’s no reason for it other than to drive the plot. I almost refunded this book after yet another character got their intelligence nerfed and another flat out ignores any attempt to get necessary information out of them. It’s as if this series has a very small dixie cup of tropes to pull from and just keeps reusing them over and over. Also, if this series is going to have overpowered characters that’s fine but it is terrible to have to sit through exposition for all 8 characters in a single battle. They can’t all be cool and all get 3 minutes of narration for each of their super moves. Chapter 3 is a half hour that can be completely skipped for example.