- #1
Volume 1 may as well be the prologue. It gives the setup and fleshes out the story from the description. The author did an amazing job in my opinion on the setup. While at first this seems like many other MC is underestimated and gets powerful to face slap everyone that is not quite the case here.
MC is legit worse than his brother if comparing the two. However, no one except his brother can seem to recognize the MC as his own person. Eventually he flees from this life. Father was hard on MC largely cause he didn't understand sh*t about raising a kid. He seems to regret having driven his son to fleeing.
Others dont particularly care except for the fiancee's family of the MC. Mainly because when MC fled, that pissed his brother off at the country effectively and set many waves in motion there.
Volume 2 - begins with MC already having made a moderate name for himself (in the middle ranks of adventurers). MC meets the first heroine a princess from a different kingdom. To be honest, I thought it was going to be the trope of fiancee, but it wasn't for the reveal. I did get confused at first as the princess is from a kingdom different than where the MC originates.
Night 1 after meeting princess and saving her, MC gets drunk and they bone. MC is then invited on a quest to learn about magical weapon drops. Plot happens. MC sets off with princess to rescue princess's friend who will probably be heroine number 2, though given the author's twisting of tropes maybe not. We shall see.
[collapse]TLDR, give the first four chapters a read. I think that is enough to give you an idea if you will like it or not. I feel like the author uses common tropes and cleverly twists them so your expectations are not met, in a good way.