well, here the whole skill-stealing plot went out of the window in favor of new stupid form of his uberSword (now a staff??) (surely monsters with regeneration skill don't exist right...)
it's time to part ways with this nonsense finally for me
no, really, what happened to the plot-line of him being inhumanly ugly by this world standards (that's why he wore a mask earlier)? just vanished into nonexistence by forgetful author?