Otherworld Nation Founding Chronicles Chapter v253 Discussion

I like this story's slow paced world and its nice empire building story. As a slightly nice change of pace many of the 'villains' or rival nobles are in fact fairly smart and methodical. They are not idiots who would easily be provoked and not listen to their advisers when they try to stop them from doing something s*upid.

It starts off incredibly slowly, as is the custom lately, and can easily be mistaken as a 'slice of life' story of a group of orphan peasants. This doesn't last as the empire building becomes the main plot, even though the MC won't acknowledge he is obviously building an Empire.

I don't like the main character. He is portrayed as a very practical character, and most of the chapters involve large amounts of him hearing someone's rational opinion and then several lines of him worrying in his own head he comes out and says "As expected... we'll" do something completely unrelated to what any other character has said before.

He also seems to blatantly make decisions in accordance with modern peace-loving assumptions, only to be forced

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Especially annoying was recent chapters have him discover a mine near a border with a very aggressive neighbor. If it wasn't for the neighbor being angry and forcing them to patrol for escaped serfs the MC would have had no patrols on the border. MC even said that the aggressive neighbor would not jeapordize the kingdom's security for his own ambition. We know he will, his friends know he will, the king told MC he would, but the MC is like you're all wrong. That was like 7 chapters of buildup while MC refused to accept that fief wars are a thing.

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During this, the princess wants to marry him. He wants to marry her. Her father wants him to marry her. Economically speaking, at his territory's rate of development if MC isn't the next king in 5 years he'll be richer than the rest of the kingdom combined. After the king dies indications like there will be a war inevitably between the MC and the A**hole neighbor no matter who marries the princess. Did I mention polygamy is a-ok in this primitive early iron age setting and first waifu seems to be okay with it?

Why do I (the reader) know this if not as a foreshadowing for the inevitable harem? At this point each chapter is stretching out the inevitable...

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It may sound like I don't like this story... but I find it an enjoyable read. I can't really put my finger on why, but it might be that it is just different enough to pass