there’s this thing that litrpg stories, an already very bland and overwhelmingly formulaic genre, do…

there's this thing that litrpg stories, an already very bland and overwhelmingly formulaic genre, do when the author needs to pad a few arcs: either they do a dungeon crawl or they go to magic school. nothing ever happens and none of the wider plot arcs ever advance while they're doing that, & this is not a genre with like, "character development" so of course there's not any of that. there's just…