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Oof this is a rough one.The premise is fine. The issue is that the 'world' of this novel is 1 character, the protagonist, and never expands beyond that.To better explain lets pick a random LN like Ascendance of a bookworm. The first few chapters the world of the main character is the only relevant point of view, all other characters are kind of just there, but then she meats Lutz and now Lutz has ambitions, hopes and dreams, goals etc. Tulli then gets expanded as a character and she starts being relevant to the story, then Benno, then Ferdinand etc. As the story continues, more people start coming into plot relevancy, having their own story arcs and points of view.This WN never gets to that point. Ars (our protagonist) is the sole point of view and every other character doesn't have any ambition, or has a single chapter before getting tossed to the wayside. We know his mother chastised him for spending all their money but she basically never shows up again. We find out like actually 30 chapters in that he has an older brother, presumably written in by the author because he needed a strong right hand man for combat related things, and a younger brother like 40 chapters in. We know he has a dad who was supposedly off at war but at some random point he returns home. Like there is a war going on somewhere, that should be plot relevant but its handwaved as 'over now'.All other characters in this world exist seemingly solely exist when the protagonist is interacting with them or thinking about them, because all of their decisions, motivations, and actions are related to something that the protagonist did. We have next to no insight into their personalities. Time skips occur and basically nothing changes. Massive changes to the world occur around the main character (all caused by him) and the only thing mentioned are that people are surprised.Spoiler
Like this dude turned a thatch and stone village into a f*cking marble metropolis with roman roads in 4 directions, and walls and the people of the village were like "cool I guess."
[collapse]In short, the author is writing this story like its a MMORPG, where characters beside you don't matter, and the plot is solely driven by your actions.Other than that, the story is incredibly simplistic, and the chapters are pretty short. Great translation efforts though. Don't recommend. Don't read.