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After reading light novels for over a decade and a half, this finally happened. I finally found a light novel terrible enough to justify creating an account to review it.This review will address the beginning of the story only. If you're not a patient reader and dislike boring content, I would skim over the first 50 to even 100 chapters; nothing important happens here. The beginning of the story is characterized by endless complaining, edgy-as-f*ck monologues, POV changes that make no chronicle sense, and worst of all, no world-building.The novel provides absolutely no standard as to what is considered powerful. Where exactly does level 60 place you? How many elements are there? What weapons are there? Which Gods exists? How do the dungeons function? What does the continent look like? This is the first novel that I have ever read that has managed to completely fail to answer even one of these basic questions. On top of this, time skips are frequent and jarring; in the first 10 chapters, there is a skip of an entire year and one of three months, each explaining nothing about the main character has been doing, leaving only a "he got stronger lol" as an explanation. There is a total disconnect from what is happening in the world, and any attempts at foreshadowing are placed so terribly that reader is more likely to skip the section entirely instead of trying to read ten pages of completely new terms and no explanation.He is a hard worker. This means absolutely nothing. The main character actually has no fixed personality whatsoever. He inherently is very emotional and expresses himself quite openly. However, for whatever reason, he decides to contradict his own personality forcefully instead of recognizing his own flaws as a person; in other words, he is only a hard worker because his skill forces him to be one regardless of his power level. He never really expresses a desire for power or for anything really, and this quality makes for a very bland and filler read.Finally, the grammar is flat out one of the worst I've ever had the displeasure of witnessing; sentence structure and chronological events just don't exist apparently. Trying to read this is like trying to unravel the earbuds that you stuffed in your pockets without sight, touch, or a functioning frontal cortex. I regret every second I spent on this garbage.