This was the beginning of my novel journey, I was about sophomore year of highschool when I started reading this and it was so good man it launched me into the world of novels (I was a bit bored with many mangas at the time). The whole beginning before he gets (SPOILERS) captured by the Rank 21(?) Ice mage is so peak, but after this point the author kind of slingshots Abel super far into the wizard path and its unfornuate we didn't see a bit more of him being a beginner elite wizard. I mean he literally went from rank 16 to 21 in like less than a year it was insane. But they carry it forward well the marriage with Loraine was great and the final enemy was a bit of a snooze fest for me but I was reading an MTL because a better translation was not out at the time so I kinda was super confused and am currently re-reading it now and may update my view on the ending. For now my view is It was pretty basic big bad tbh, not terrible.