I have loved the first four books, but only got 4 hours or so in this one before getting completely put off. Spoiler alert. Boxey has enough raw power that he can utterly annihilate 100th level people (the supposed ultimate weapons of entire nations). There shouldn’t be anything on the damn planet at this point that can manhandle him like Jones did. Beat him, yes. Completely wreck him, hell no. Then to have the audacity to read out Jones’ character sheet. He’s a God. Boxey hurt Teresa, the god of truth and justice, at the end of the last book. Jones would utterly destroy her and piss on her ashes. It is literally the anime trope of “Oh shit, we made the MC to OP. What can we do other than create even more OP antagonists to counter him.” In this setting, Jones would be able to single handedly conquer the entire world that we have seen this far without breaking a sweat. It’s just an awful and lazy way to make sure the series can keep going and still have some suspense. It is a trope right up there with the “MC gets amnesia for and entire book, so I have more time to figure out what to do next”