Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder’s Record of Counterattacks Chapter 2971 Discussion

Read up to ch2971 in the raws (Mermaid world pt23) and my thoughts are so far...

The storytelling of the first introductory world is of much lesser quality than many of the other arcs/worlds, IMO. It made me put down the story twice, once in the translated version, once in the raws. It wasn't until I ended up just skipping it altogether and start reading directly from the second world/arc, that this novel managed to hold my attention for the next 2800+ chapters.

Another warning I should put out there is that there is no romance in this story, so anyone reading this story for that should not bother. The MC firmly does not believe in true love, and in fact has to repress her instinct to flinch or break away from any romantic contact from the BF/husband/lovers of the person she's transmigrated to. In fact, this author seems to be very anti-romance, as the majority of the worlds that the MC travels to actually seems to prove there's no such thing as true love, and in fact, the vast majority of MC's missions show love as something that is easily sacrificed for power, greed, reputation, and other things. It is something of a novelty compared to other stories that are hinged on the true love between the MC and the ML though.

Spoiler

From the chapter mid-thousands, early two-thousands, more an more of the narrative will be spent on the MC's adventures in the world of the system and system-users, as she tries to advance herself, build her own world, and endures various setbacks. These parts are a bit YMMV. I found them interesting at first because the MC starts interacting with other system-users and sometimes go on group missions to various worlds. But later on, I feel like the MC seems to get dumber every time she's outside of the mission worlds, like she's just asking to get herself killed, and often times acting just like the idiots that she looks down on and acts against during her missions.

That said, there's still a lot of interesting world building, and some very cool mission world arcs that I really liked. And it did hold my attention all the way to ch2971 (which is the current chapter as the story is a WIP). So I'm giving this novel an overall 4.

My favorite arcs are:

The second one as the emperor's sister, which was able to capture my attention for the rest of the novel, and also introduced the interesting emperor guy who actually pops up again later, more than once.

"That Phoenix Guy" arc, where the unfaithful/mu*derous husband the MC puts into jail later commits su*cide and then becomes a fellow system-user, much to MC's (later justified) paranoia.

"The Merchant's Daughter" arc, where due to an incident in the previous mission, MC is directly dropped into a mission without any system help, which includes getting background info on who she is and what her goal is supposed to be. She has to figure it all out and deal with the unknown danger with only what skills she's retained so far.

"Demon Sect Lady" arc, where MC kills off the original ML of the world right after she arrives, and spends the rest of the arc trolling the entire rest of the setting.

That time the MC transmigrates in as the male emperor (not even the first time she's cast into a male body) and has to deal with a harem full of transmigrators, wild system-users, rebirths, etc.

The war arc that takes place in the system-level place between-worlds, where MC and a bunch of other high level mission takers get basically drafted to defend their corner of the multiverse against... bugs?rats? It's the first time we get to see a lot of the other major departments of the overreaching organization that manages the system-users.

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