Edited after chapter 35. Dropping the novel and not recommending this. The initial small arc (15ish) is a meticulous work that is one of the better written clash of strategies between two chars. After those initial chapters, the quality drops so much that I have thoughts of the author using shadow writer for the first arc.
The good:
The novel is well written with interesting character in the begginning. Conversation, thought pattern and action flows smoothly.
The bad:
Plot seems like a korean version of OP MC being reincarnated to another world. He is currently 16 and is the strongest magician in the world, the third strongest muscle, the third most skillful swordsman, and the second smartest person in his village of strongest race in the world. He is also revealed to be a skilled craftsmans and alchemists at a later part, able to create such a powerful staff that can obliterate the aforementioned strongest race's village if uncontrolled. Plus he is apparently also genius in his previous life as he understand aerodynamics, economics and accountancy in his previous short life. So he got the brain, the brawn and the magic. Recipe for success in whatever he do. But oh, he just want to live a life of a humble civil servant. Convenient. You would think that it is simple for such a prodigious character that wants to be essentially a lowkey character to be succesful. But no, the author have to make the MC to use contrived method to solve simple challenges just to showcase his OP-ness. Worse is the MC is so dense and keep annoyingly emphasizing that he is oh so mature to realize how much of a fuckup situation he is creating.
World building is a mess. Technology development is haphazard. Looks medieval but they have a train? A village has a guard hunter group of 2000+ people? A SSD using magic? What next?
MC's character is inconsistent. Portrayed as ingenous, humble, caring in the first arc. Eg: playing 9 board chess, escape from 1000+ strongest race in disadvantegous terrain, hate to even scratch fellow villager, just want a stable job as inconspicous civil servant etc. After the first arc ends, he become dense to his status as powerful being, arrogant to suckers, careless and ruthless. Why in the world does he steal from powerful people when he wants to live a humble life? Why does he nonchalantly walk the count residence with invisibility magic but forget about when "accidentally" meet the princess. Why does he even still want to be civil servant when he has a wealth rivalling a high noble family. What's with the offputting eay he denigrate other people in his mind and downplay his/justify his crime. He likes to think of himself as infallible and wallow in power trip. There is also an annoyingly large amount of chuuni-ness from the supposedly 40 years old MC (in 2 lifetimes)
Many cringey events start to happen due to his whimsical display of chuuniness. Eg: that ch 35-36 with the princess just screams of the scene from Aladdin. Mind you, I happen to like Disney stories for what they are but in this novel, the execution is just cringe
TLDR: Read it til chapter 13, stop, and assume ending at MC saving the world from demon conspicuously and live happily ever after as civil servant and married to a (or many) beautiful wives.
Edited after chapter 35. Dropping the novel and not recommending this. The initial small arc (15ish) is a meticulous work that is one of the better written clash of strategies between two chars. After those initial chapters, the quality drops so much that I have thoughts of the author using shadow writer for the first arc.
The good:
The novel is well written with interesting character in the begginning. Conversation, thought pattern and action flows smoothly.
The bad:
Plot seems like a korean version of OP MC being reincarnated to another world. He is currently 16 and is the strongest magician in the world, the third strongest muscle, the third most skillful swordsman, and the second smartest person in his village of strongest race in the world. He is also revealed to be a skilled craftsmans and alchemists at a later part, able to create such a powerful staff that can obliterate the aforementioned strongest race's village if uncontrolled. Plus he is apparently also genius in his previous life as he understand aerodynamics, economics and accountancy in his previous short life. So he got the brain, the brawn and the magic. Recipe for success in whatever he do. But oh, he just want to live a life of a humble civil servant. Convenient. You would think that it is simple for such a prodigious character that wants to be essentially a lowkey character to be succesful. But no, the author have to make the MC to use contrived method to solve simple challenges just to showcase his OP-ness. Worse is the MC is so dense and keep annoyingly emphasizing that he is oh so mature to realize how much of a fuckup situation he is creating.
World building is a mess. Technology development is haphazard. Looks medieval but they have a train? A village has a guard hunter group of 2000+ people? A SSD using magic? What next?
MC's character is inconsistent. Portrayed as ingenous, humble, caring in the first arc. Eg: playing 9 board chess, escape from 1000+ strongest race in disadvantegous terrain, hate to even scratch fellow villager, just want a stable job as inconspicous civil servant etc. After the first arc ends, he become dense to his status as powerful being, arrogant to suckers, careless and ruthless. Why in the world does he steal from powerful people when he wants to live a humble life? Why does he nonchalantly walk the count residence with invisibility magic but forget about when "accidentally" meet the princess. Why does he even still want to be civil servant when he has a wealth rivalling a high noble family. What's with the offputting eay he denigrate other people in his mind and downplay his/justify his crime. He likes to think of himself as infallible and wallow in power trip. There is also an annoyingly large amount of chuuni-ness from the supposedly 40 years old MC (in 2 lifetimes)
Many cringey events start to happen due to his whimsical display of chuuniness. Eg: that ch 35-36 with the princess just screams of the scene from Aladdin. Mind you, I happen to like Disney stories for what they are but in this novel, the execution is just cringe
TLDR: Read it til chapter 13, stop, and assume ending at MC saving the world from demon conspicuously and live happily ever after as civil servant and married to a (or many) beautiful wives.
