Matzen

Great story and translation so far!

The quote is actually: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

This is stolen from SystemTranslation, that is why from chapter 44 it goes off the rails. If you want to read the real translation from chapter 44 onwards go to systemtranslations page, its on their p.a.t.r.e.o.n.

Your reasoning doesn't make much sense. Just because the first dozen or so chapters are slow paced, that doesn't mean the pace of the story will remain slow paced throughout. In fact the author has already mentioned this exact issue before, where he stated that the pace will ramp up later on. And I, for one, don't find that having a slow paced beginning is bad, in fact quite the opposite, especially when the world and main character are being fleshed out at the same time.