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There are a lot of amazing things and a lot of annoying things about this novel.At its core lies the question about the value of faith in a world where Gods are real and offer tangible benefits to their followers. MC is approached by a shifty goddess in his dreams who asks him to be her believer. Although reluctant at first, he eventually agrees.As a reward, he receives a dagger... now, at this point, there is nothing stopping MC from turning to another god and converting. In terms of rewards or blessings, there isn't much benefit for him in sticking to his goddess since everything she could give him has already been given. Moreover, the goddess didn't approach him in good faith to begin with, trying to manipulate MC and hiding the fact that she is an evil god who was imprisoned for waging war in heaven... and once other gods become involved and offer their own blessings, his incentives to convert begin to multiply.This checks off the zero believer goddess part. As for the weakest mage part, it kind of is and isn't true. Yes, MC is weak. Comically so, in fact. His physical traits are a joke, his mana pool is shallow and his only redeeming feature is good control and accuracy with his spells. But he is incredibly resourceful tenacious to no end and was given a frighteningly overpowered dagger that puts all the holy swords in the world to shame.As for his party, there is the half elf fire mage with a massive mana pool and zero control and a brawler with no mana at all who can literally punch a dragon to death. Did I mention that both of them are girls and this is a harem story?And this is where we need to talk about the bad parts of the story. MC has two friends from his old world, both of whom create big harem of their own and yet when it comes to his own relationships, nothing ever happens... scratch that. It would be better if nothing happens, instead we get constant teasing followed by a predictable c*ckblock. And as the number of candidates for the harem increases, so does the time wasted on playing out the same routine over and over again.To sum it up, the story does everything right, except for interpersonal relationships.