World’s Fastest Level up! ~As a Result of the Awakening of My Incompetence Skill [Transfer Within Dungeon], I Became the Strongest Without Being Restricted by the Rules of the Dungeon~ Chapter 48 Discussion

This is fluff that produces exactly what it says on the cover, yeah? It's a story with an average japanese protagonist with no parents, a cute little sister, and various other female friends and make enemies in a fantastical version of the modern world where nothing is different other than monsters. That in itself means that there is no world building outside of "there are dungeons, monsters, skills, and levels, and this is how it works... Also, we still have normal cab drivers and schools and pretty much nothing at all is even a little bit different from how things are in real life".

I mean... If you read the title and expected something else, then I guess I should welcome you to the world of japanese web novels?

Anyway, the dungeon system is passably unique. It has drastic limitations that make the idea that anyone could actually advance to the point that they supposedly have pretty hard to believe (farming monsters provides roughly a few levels per day, while defeating av dungeon boss gives a set number of levels (starting at one and scaling to ten, fifty, one hundred, etc along with difficulty), but also closes entry to every dungeon for a full week, meaning that a dungeon crawler can only really choose one method or the other to level up. Yet people have reached levels into the hundreds of thousands... And the early antagonist has a full party of people who leveled up to 2000 in a single year. It's a system that the author needs to handwaved into plausibility, especially since that party has no problem at all randomly clearing a dungeon that only gives them 25 levels for killing the boss, then forces them to take a one week vacation.

My biggest complaint, though is a spoiler.

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Soooooo, the entire premise of why he is a solo adventure is extremely weak. He has a unique skill that allows spacial traverse inside dungeons. We learn eventually that this TYPE of skill... Both transfer of any kind AND skills related to dungeons specifically have NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE EVER IN THE WORLD. Everyone in the association knows about this new type of skill (thus everyone in the world also knows), and he ends up joining a party unassociated with a guild full of kids his age that also have unique skills.... That in itself is a little strange, since those kids would likely be heavily encouraged to either join the association or a large guild so that they can grow safely, but whatever... Kids can be s*upid. Then the leader of the party he joined, after a week and a single level up of his one-in-the-world transfer skill, starts to spread rumors that his skill is worthless and turns him into a well-known loser after another week a rumors spread by a child who has been a hunter for a week. Then he's entirely forgotten by everyone except for one guild that sent him an invite one time which he ignored. All of this despite the fact that skills get additional abilities when leveled up. Like.... That history is so impossible that I can't even wrap my head around it. Even if his skill never improved to the degree that it eventually did, just having a scout that can teleport around a dungeon would be invaluable for a large guild, and if he was ever able to bring others with him, he would pay for his own salary a hundred fold by just being a shuttle to take parties directly to the boss rooms. There is no way that a less-than-half-ret*rded adult wouldn't see the value in a gamble to level up the kid's skill to ten, or even twenty or higher. It only took 100 levels to see his skill reach ten. That's ONE trip to a dungeon being carried by advanced hunters. ONE DAY OF WORK. That the author expects me to believe that history is mind-blowing. Just make his skill unknown outside of his party. Have him dropped because they didn't know you could only have a party of four people in beginner dungeons (this exact situation is how he got his first harem member). Instead, the author has to explain in an as*hole party leader and shoehorn in five chapters of angst.

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That said, it was a fair way to kill an hour of quarantine.