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Honestly I thought the first 3 volumes (133 chapters) were pretty good. The writing was never all that good and it stuck very close to the tropes of the isekai genre, but it was still a pretty fun read, especially near the beginning when the MC was actually primarily an alchemist.As it goes on it seems like the author just stopped paying attention to anything that they'd already written. Things are incredibly inconsistent, with details being retconed constantly according to whatever development/situation the author wants to toss the MC and co into. The main characters eventually lost any and all character or agency that they had at the start. The MC turns into the semi-willing s*ave of some selfish spirits, working on things that he constantly complains about, only to happily be rewarded with things that he already had access to (the author forgot). The harem (even the fringe members) lost they're defining traits and basically became silent background characters that can only either faun over the MC, act to protect him, or comedically (not really) scold him.Not sure if I'll keep reading this one, but if I do it's almost entirely because the TL is actually really good. I don't know if I've ever seen a fan translator cover up so hard for an author's sloppy writing. Honestly the TL feels like way more than the WN deserves lol.