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Warning! Spoilers ahead! I wasn't quite sure what to tag as a spoiler and what not to as a lot of it isn't related to the plot but instead the worlds mechanics, as well as addressing things other people have said in their reviews not marked with spoilers. With that said, here's my review and addressing of other reviews:———Honestly, I absolutely love this series and the way it twist the whole monster/gate genre in a new direction, and so I'd like to share my thoughts on both it and what I've seen some other reviews say. Most notably about his OP ability, "Absolute Dweller."I've seen a lot of other people say that our protagonist ability makes him functionally invulnerable and that they dislike it because of that. I personally believe they're missing the point of the protagonist place as a character; he's not a combatant, and hardly even a supporter. He's a sanctuary for people, an immobile fortress made to be safe for himself and others that he can't even leave. The actual combatants are the characters he picks up and raises to be strong, and those are the ones we're meant to feel tension for; and we do, quite often, as they get into deadly battles.I've also seen mentions of the main characters worship, and it being creepy. While I can't exactly attest for the supposed creepy feelings those people felt when seeing the worship, I'd like to say that from a logical standpoint, the worship makes sense; our main character is functionally a system, the kind that bestows stats, superpowers and safety upon other people, something the world doesn't do on its own (most of the time), all of which are rightfully considered pure miracles by the people around him. It's the same way we readers, as well as characters, see the systems granting skills and stats onto characters in other novels as omnipotent, able to grant anything. And though it's called worship, it's not as if they're bowing down to him or anything. In fact, most are afraid of him or are simply grateful they get to live inside his barrier and use his supplies, as they'd have died otherwise.I've also seen mention of the main character being, well, an a**hole. He's not. Im going to point out Chicken_person's review directly here and point out some key reasons for the protagonist actions that they seemed to conveniently forget to mention;1. The ten apartment buildings the protagonist covers are, for the most part, dilapidated and dysfunctional. This is mentioned multiple times and the protagonist even got a function to restore those buildings for most of the money he's currently in possession of. That's why everyone's so cramped together, there genuinely isn't enough space, and if you'd been paying attention you'd have read that.2. Food and water isn't free, nor is power, even for the protagonist. His ability takes money and uses it to "buy" the materials from his shop or directly bills him for using resources like electricity; the only way he earns money is from monster corpses at the moment, meaning if his currently built up society wants to run, he needs people to fight monsters. That means having them do jobs, which he does supply and give out materials for, to earn the resources they want to use. You also forget to mention how at the start he WAS giving sh*t out for free, but no longer had the capability to do so with the increasing numbers.3. Finally, no one actually heralds him as a Saint. In fact, several people point out flaws with his current system and ask him to rectify it; there's even a damn riot of people at one point demanding better treatment. He may have a following similar to a "cults" in some cases, but there's also a vast majority of the time you're neglecting where he's not treated like that. In fact, as I said earlier, a lot of the reason he's treated like "Jesus Christ" is because he's scary as shit; he summons things from seemingly nowhere, can grant superpowers to people, can expel someone to the outside world in an instant and has a literal dominating aura around him. As a normal person I also wouldn't wanna talk back to this dude. How you could ignore all of this and say the story is breaking your immersion is genuinely beyond me.With that all said, I'll leave my review here for now; there's not much more to talk about anyways, unfortunately, as NovelSama, the translators site, has been gone for over a month now with no news of it coming back. It seems we'll have to wait for a new translator, hopefully just as good, to pick this one up.
