A Returner's Magic Should Be Special

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No Spoilers, just story feeling of momentum summary:

1. Beginning: its AWESOME
2. Middle of series: Still really Good
3. Climax: TAKING TOO LONGG and some ass-pulled information.
4. Ending: What the hell is going on.

Unfortunately its one of these kind of reads with a more confusing end to wrap up on. You also kind of get heavily information bombed alot more then usual compared to before. Usually talking to magic concept explanation toward the big final battles so do brace for that. Manhwa is also different from LN ending if you want to explore on that too separately, All in all i still think it is ... worth your time to read. Especially for the binge readers. As its very likely that the strong starting initial hype from the first half of the series will carry you through the arcs of the later sections even if they are a bit needlessly extensive.

So we start with the typical protagonist who regress through time and is given an opportunity to keep his memories and change his previous past mistake and the future.
The story is your typical training, high school arc before it gets to the meat of the actual plot. A lot of cliche are used but not abused.
Sadly, I fail to see anything really special about that protagonist and his teammate as the story telling and world building start to crumble the more the story progress. Power scaling will start to take a turn to some chinese wuxia/xianxia with nothing making sense.
It is like saying, look at ... everest the tallest mountain, then suddenly everest isn't the tallest mountain but it another new one and this goes on and it becomes absolutely ridiculous.
Which makes the protagonist and friends strength means nothing, their training effort are rendered useless and just plot armor and plot convenience will save the day. This is a showcase that the author is getting lost and is scared to actually make Desir feel actually strong.
He is a regressor, he will be in an advantageous situation but it never really comes to play.

World building is all over the place, a lot of things are left un-explained.
Character growth is rendered pointless due to bad plot and power scaling.
Without really spoiling, imagine the bullies winning all the time except when a non-sense power of friendship will save the day.

The first ARC stays "solid" aka 150+ chapters afterwards beyond, things start to become ridiculous and non sensical. It feels it should have instead reached a final conclusion and a nice epilogue with some side stories to give a closure to this actual arc. Or move the story to a new timeline with new protagonist and with our main heroes being a legacy of the past. Like Avatar series or The legend of Heroes.

The first arc deserve a solid 7/10 enjoyement.
The new second arc deserve a solid 2/10 for throwing everything established in the first arc into the garbage.

I read a lot of power fantasy books and this one has to be the worst by far.

The story is alright, time travel to the past to prevent a future event seen it before.

The art is passable, nothing special though.

But the characters are some of the most basic 2d characters I've ever seen. You got a genius who has little aptitude in magic besides like cancelling spells for some reason (The reason exist but I forgot since I dropped it a while ago), a blue-haired femboy who is good at using a sword, a flat-chested tsudere who can use magic decently (She is ... the most unbearable character imaginable), and a kuudere who is good at everything those. The side characters are a bit better but still don't have any depth behind what they do.

If you want to read a power fantasy in a magical medieval setting just read Mushoku Tensei or The Beginning After the End they are better in every way.