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So for this story I never really expected much, from the first volume al0ne you can already kind of tell that the book won't be that good with the authors writing style but I think it still had appeal as a garbage but enjoyable read. At first I think the story was okay, his training arc had a few things that annoyed me with how he grew (For example reaching his level in swordsmanship alone, it would require a sparring partner since its impossible with just image training, but since its a fantasy novel things like this while I don't like are fine) but from there it starts going further downhill. The entire story is based on the premise that he doesn't realize how powerful he is but it feels flimsy, since while something like that would be ingrained in him he still has to be an idiot to never realize his strength, even with excuses like that he believes people conceal their power. Another issue this story has, albeit one that many have, is there are countless world destroying level catastrophes that he has to deal with. Its just unrealistic for there to be so many different enemies that run into him, where it just switches between one god to another with humans being weak enough to be nearly wiped out by almost any of them if it wasn't for MC. There are countless things like this that I believe just make the book bad, but like I said earlier I think it would of been a fine garbage read but the story really starts becoming incomprehensible in chapter 4, we keep getting pov switches to another character and while I can overall understand whats going on it all just feels so arbitrary and random. We get like 2 chapters setting up a enemy without a personality and then it does things and the enemies die, but with the way its written it just feels annoying to read to me rather than enjoyable. There are also things like the author making the chapters around the length of this review (This is what the author, not translator did, to clarify) This was something someone else said in the comments of a chapter but I agree with, this feels like an overlord knockoff that was just done horribly. It has everything from the obsessive MC is all knowing side characters to things like the subordinates thinking nothing of humans, where overall the entire story just feels bad. The running gags like the elephant god or whatever obsessing over him just feel cringe or how the gold dragon/Fenrir acts cute don't come off as sweet moments but instead as the author trying to force something.It's not the worst book i've ever read (Although there are books written better I would rate as worse, although this only happens when the author is good enough to get you invested and then ruins it) and I wouldn't recommend anyone to read it but if your looking for a read where you just no brain and don't think about it much I don't think it would be bad for that.