The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World Chapter 143 Discussion

Frankly it's worse than expected, there're glaring plot holes and tags along with the title are simply wrong (the title holds no links to the novel as of chapter 143).

Lots of chapters could be easily cut off even if you enjoy slice of life Eg:

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There's chapter when queen sends her underling assassin to fetch MC and tells him how women used to brew tea for generations. boom entire chapter.

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There's no real action/adventure until volume 8. Biggest fantasy part of this novel is his kingdom/people still existing with how incompetent they're portrayed as.

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MC is known as a genius, made huge contributions by stopping a plague, top of the cream of the academy and considered as a potential ideal son-in-law by the queen (she offers him so), yet when one of governing witch houses representative (what else can you call a groomed heir as?) pretty much admits in public of burning his workplaces down - all she does is...a frown.

Another example - enemy has new weapons= guns, grenades, cannons even a gunship, yet they never try to change ANY strategy while using swords and spears...

Until chapter 140, eagle rides are worthless unless in the hands of MC or his uncle at the start of the novel (one dragon flies into 20 eagle rides and they can't do anything until MC arrives)

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It does get better from volume 7/8 onwards - if you can ignore plot holes.

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Since the said dragon can handle 20 eagle riders, one would assume it's pretty big, yet when it falls from high altitude it doesn't break any trees and is completely invisible so the said eagle rides ABANDON their princess (it bit the eagle she was on while falling).

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Enemy mid tier commander randomly turning superhuman

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Cankers nose got completely destroyed and it was written that without proper treatment he'll keep on bleeding, AND YET he wears full plate armor runs entire night with no food, no rest and fight MC while never losing breath????

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And then progressing the plot with something improbable

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Soon before enemy siege on the royal capital they caught an IMPERIAL GUARD deserter who pulled a weapon out on friendly who's supposed to do important mission for their royal family and instead of hanging him as an example they put him in a prison, let him escape from prison, entire city, city walls and until enemy camp with no pursuit - so he can progress plot by selling out MC

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Pacing is abnormally slow - all 143 chapters cover about 70-80 chapters of most other novels in term of plot progress or even heartwarming chapters which it does have some.

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In fact he did not finish academy yet.

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Modern technology tag is something that will perhaps come online in the future?

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Enemy war technology: Guns, grenades, gunship, cannon

Allied forces war technology: Swords, spears, arrows

And remember that he's heir of richest and strongest military household with favor of the royal family and his own very profitable company with access to goods from other countries - presented as genius with modern knowledge. Despite all of this he's still behind in technology for most part with notable exception of lighter and a press.

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The longer it goes the better it gets but I cannot recommend reading it if it takes 6-7 volumes of rather sub-par if not boring novel before it gets there (there're some good chapters on the way, too few however) .

On top of that translation is... lacking:

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People changing their names, some typos, some making my head hurt on the question how: Syamu - shamu/shamamu, Rook - Luke????. People talking to themself a lot. There're sentences that I've honestly given up on trying to decrypt.

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It does have good points, but there's enough positive reviews here talking about them.