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This novel is cheap knock off of "Ascendance of Bookworm" with worst pacing, blander characters, cliched world, more plot holes then cheese grater and word building which sometimes PAINFUL TO READ because of all unnecessary padding. Sometimes whole chapter go back to back describing something what can be explained in two paragraphs and sometimes even less then that. Main characters think he on earth? Bam, two chapters of looking on map with all colorful description. We need to know what religion of the world? Boom, chapter of MC attending lecture in school. Queen send for MC to make request, oh, how about we spend half of chapter describing tea? All of this colorful description even sometimes inserted in chapter what you can skip half of it and lose nothing because it unnecessary and only exist because author can't find better way to insert world building in narrative.Pacing all over the place sometimes skipping mouths and years, describing them in just couple paragraphs, but then story kick in it SOOOOOO SLOW describing MC life day by day very meticulously to the point what you should add "slow life" tag in description. On top of that author priority in story telling is plain incomprehensible and all over the place what I sometimes can't understand what kind of story is that. Its start with MC reincarnated in another world and first 8 chapter is describing his first 10 years of life with nothing significant happening, is it slow life in another world? (Fair enough first chapters cant be that significant but it became worse from there). Then his clan lose its head and his father trust in place of head of family, is it about making you clan best in country and then the world, no he immediately enrolled in knight academy become best in his grade but we hop from one year to another like bunny with nothing interesting happening. Then he decided create paper and printing press to make money but we only get to read 2 chapter of how he got past initial failure and away we go. What kind of story author want to tell??? Is it about him becoming best knight in country or world? Oh, sure we told what MC best at everything and even show couple times how he curb-stomp his opponent but aside from what we skip his years in academy like passing bullet train from then he was 10 to his 15 years. Is it about how he invent various things and make his country and world better? Well aside from making his bank account more fat we don't see more noticeable change in world around MC aside from telling us what he make other people angry for cutting in they profit.But the most damnable thing about this novel what MC is don't have any goal in mind and just hop from one thing to another without any destination at all. Other say it get good after 100+ chapter but going to that point as like slowly pulling out are teeth, slogging through useless exposition, constant time hopping, slow pacing narrative and obvious plot holes. If you can think of this novel as "slow life in another world" where goal of MC to only live comfortable life till he die from old age or author and readers get bored you can find enjoyment here. If you want thrilling actions, interesting characters and world building woven in narrative and not thrown at you like lectures in mathematical textbook go read "Ascendance of Bookworm". Or alternatively you can read 100 chapters of "The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World" and waste days of your live to get to interesting parts and find some kind of enjoyment. The choice is yours.