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After reading the latest chapter, I will be dropping this.I feel that the novel started out really promising. There is an interesting premise: a modern worlder immigrated to basically the iron age and builds an empire from the ground up. There are so magic sprinkled in but they don't feel too infringing.However, in the later chapters, the author is essentially just plagiarizing Roman history. From the MC creating the myth that he is the adopted son of the Griffin (for Rome, it was a she-wolf), to emphasizing the importance of roads, to how the MC is planning to centralize the Imperium with a senate, to now the latest the famous ways the Roman legions fought with large square shields and short swords. If you want to read about how a country became crazy powerful, just read about Roman history because this novel has essentially become the cliff notes version.It really is a shame. I feel like there was quite a bit of potential but the blatant copying of Roman culture is too off-putting. The dumbest part of the latest chapter is how a local (non-isekai) general came up with the idea of the famous Roman square shield, short sword, throwing spear with unstable tips rather than the MC, you know the guy that "came up" with all the modern reforms and ideas or ones he knew from our real-life history.
