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Interesting politics, however they are badly written along with their premises.Sth comment is right in many aspects. The main character is a Gary stu, no one seems to hate him because he is a Gary Stu. Even thought he just colonized and by extension genocided half an world over, very odd. Especially if you consider the character of a certain princess who got her own nation "back stabbed" and forced to fight in a war due to regional policies. I know you gotta maintain diplomacy and jazz but not really hating someone like that is very, very weird.Other than that, I have no idea wtf he's talking about. It's a fantasy world so of course some races would have bigger advantages or stronger military power given their ancestry, and if it's a named character? It's reasonable for them to be moderately overpowered, said woman only subdued a small squad of half-assed elves who were trying to kill the legitimate heir to the throne, which in the end almost succeeded. Said character doesn't sound too much like an army/mary sue to me you know?This novel is not very realistic, however it tries it's best to be given the political premise and the harem intrigue and I respect the author for that. However, there are still some glaring issues. And no, I don't mean his handling of the elf population. I dunno what STH is complaining about here. The MC didn't even have time to actually consummate his relationship with the elf princess he's using in order to gain legitimacy over his handle of them and you already want the MC to do 5d chess and mess with their autonomy????? Aside from the numeral logistics problems over sustaining a front if conflict erupted there, the empire is an newly established hegemon, they don't need to concern themselves with the elves short term because they already proved their military prowess and there are more pressing issues to address. There's a reason why the poles only revolted after the collapse.The problems I'm talking about are all logical. For example, the empire won the war right? Everyone returned from the frontlines and the empire military started to get downsized.Yet the babies are not going back up.But how is this possible? Was their male population crippled so much they can't produce babies sustainably? No? Why then? We don't f*cking know.Just like every single Korean stuff, this has the overly annoying tendency to not extrapolate on some issues and simply skip on them. And that's what makes this of this novel annoying. Let me clarify, the author tries a great deal compared to other Koreans novels and that would have been alright, if this was not a novel who had kingdom building/military as a backdrop setting. Having this sort of issue is fatal on this type of novel for obvious reasons. There's logic for things to be the way they are. If you just dismiss them outright and not explain them, plot holes start to form.This would've been a solid 2/5 if not for the political intrigue amongst harem contenders. They're all very interesting compared to cookie cutter personalities since each one has a different reason to join and are rather strong on their character. So +1 point for that.In the end of it, this story is about the girls at heart so give it a try if you want to read for that. As a military/kingdom building novel? This is a bore.
