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Imagine slime + mushoku tensei + a goddess with zero believers combined and made into a dark fantasy. I've really been enjoying it quite a lot. It's a revenge story with good world building, politics, cast of characters and even tells multiple stories at the same time that end up converging together. The way that these two stories converge and the conflicts that arise from the two are things that make the story enjoyable for me. Many times I would pause and think about the situation that's happening in the chapter I'm reading and try to find what the best resolution is. In my opinion, stories that make me WANT to stop and think like that are special in a way.Regardless, there's a lot to be said about this series so I'll try to condense everything. This story has many gods, multiple worlds, many countries and even more people. There is a massive cast of unique characters. The conflicts and drama that is set up between some of them is great because of the circumstances that the protagonist is under. Yes this is vague, but I don't want to spoil anything. The main character is born as a race that has many prejudices against it and seeing him deal with this and live his life regardless is one of the stories strengths. He's a bit insane but that's why we love him. The best part about this character is that we see him grow up from the very beginning with minimal time-skips. The world building is better than most isekai novels. The magic system is okay but not that interesting. The game-like mechanics are fun at first but become overwhelming and eventually they just become annoying info dumps. However, there are so many chapters and each is so long that these info dumps are a really minor thing in the grand scheme of things. Typical harem collector story but it for some reason has zero romance, no fan service and is forced. This is odd, because it makes me question why the author even adds it to the story at all but happy because I'm interested in the other stuff anyway. It seems its just a dumb gag? There is another one of these dumb gags with idol girls that makes me roll my eyes but whatever. All things considered, I don't have many complaints about this novel.I would highly recommend anyone that enjoys dark fantasy to give this a read. Like I mentioned before, if you enjoyed mushoku tensei, slime or goddess with zero believers then it is absolutely up your alley. I give this novel an 8.5/10