It's definitely a joke. Definitely. Totally.. Hopefully...

tldr: He's just not a dragon, at least at the start. He's also weak as heck and so damn annoying. He's a "dragon," yet he isn't even born with wings. He's a "dragon" (yes, I get it, he's only a few days old, but he's still a "dragon" with op abilities) and he's being ganged up on by some snow rabbits. He isn't even an eastern dragon. He just straight-up can't fly. He's literally just a large blue lizard. He is not a dragon, western or eastern. "Oh, but he has a. Ice Dragon Bloodline" Yeah, but as it is, he clearly wasn't born a full ice dragon. Boy has a skill called 'Immortal Body'or whatever, and it apparently does nothing besides making him ageless. I'm pretty sure it said it made him stronger, but I can't remember. And seeing as even some snow rabbits can hurt him, the boost doesn't mean a lot if the skill does do that. I mean, seriously?? He's supposedly a damn dragon, one of the strongest creatures in fantasy, and yet he's being bullied by rabbits. Him being days old or not doesn't excuse that. He's born with stats ranging from 20-30, and he complains that he's weak immediately after seeing them when he has no frame of reference. He's just so annoying.

That's what I'm saying! It's even more insane since he needed 300 exp to get to level 2. Why 300? His skeletons only needed 100. Is it because of his class? His race? Because the skeletons are reanimated using necromancy? 300 just seems really high to go from level 1 to 2. Especially when you only get 10-15 exp (his skeletons so far have done the killing, so I'm not sure if he'd get the full 15 or still just 10) for killing level 1 monsters.

I'm a little confused. Do the zombies attack the skeletons themselves, or are they only doing it in passing to get to the Mc who's behind them? We saw one of the zombies try to dive under a skeleton to get to the Mc, so I'm under the presumption that's the case. If it is so, Mc should just send his skeletons out into the streets to go on a killing spree. Mc can just watch from the roof, and after the streets or at least everywhere nearby is cleaned up, he either goes down or has his skeletons bring the corpses to him to turn into even more skeletons. Obviously, I doubt this will happen since it's too easy, and since it's the smart thing to do in this scenario

Pretty sure the skeletons only need 100 to level up since he said 55 exp on the sword skeleton is a little over halfway. And he needs 300 to level up

Yeah, from what we've seen with the zombie trying to go under the skeleton to get to him, zombies don't seem to attack the skeletons. So he should just go to the bottom floor, send them outside with orders to kill, go back to his apartment, and watch the exp roll in. Sadly, I doubt that's gonna happen bc that'd be too easy

Please don't be a harem 🙏

Military Time, I think. I'm pretty sure it means 1 pm, but correct me if I'm wrong.

So in 50 years, and the mc didn't think to at least try learning martial arts?? It's been shown he doesn't need to know what he's doing/learning as long as he does it enough time. So just kicking and punching a tree or something a bunch of times should be enough, right?

tl;dr - Inconsistencies and very little is explained. Heavily recommended not reading. Inconsistent Magic Stat and MP. Magic Stat went from 5 to 15 after a 1 year timeskip in which he became a 3rd rank (star? circle? idk) mage and did nothing else during that time. The literal next chapter, the Stat is 5. Then he leveled up a lot and classed up (He reached a level threshold and got a class). The class added "+8" to the Magic Stat, and after getting the class, the Stat was 13. It's also not explained what leveling up does since he doesn't seem to gain any Stat points. During this time, his MP has gone from 15 to 10. Oh, there's also a random well in the middle of a big city (which is later explained to be a dungeon, but if that's the case why is no one guarding it or going into it in an entire year? (1 year timeskip in which he stays near the well for the entire year) And the MC doesn't question the well at all. MC is also supposed to be some smart, really powerful Mage dude before he was killed and went to the new world and yet he attacks someone bc they have a cool looking gold mask and he wanted it. He already had a black mask. It's been explained that masks cost money, and the poor can't even wear them. This is also a fantasy world where he saw a dude get killed soon after arriving, and nobody even looked in the direction. So it's safe to assume the rich are also very powerful. And it'd be a pretty simple conclusion to make that a gold mask costs more than a plain black one. So even though he's barely any more powerful than before, he attacks bc he wants the mask and nearly gets killed. And the only reason he isn't is bc some bs Dungeon mechanic and the guy not directly finishing him off. Should also mention he was killed (I think? or at least injured. it wasn't explained) by a fish that came from the well/dungeon (when he goes doesn't encounter any such fish as of chapter 12, multiple days after being in the dungeon) and that for some reason activates his system. Yeah, a fish. A mere fish with sharp teeth. I should also mention he was only given the chance to be reborn bc he had a large amount of good Karma. Yet he murders 30 people a year after getting to the new world and tries to murder someone bc he wanted their cool mask. I personally prefer ruthless evil mc over a brain-dead goody to shoes hero stereotype. But not when the entire reason for the plot is happening is because he's supposedly a good person. Another thing is that even after killing so many people, the best weapon he has after all that time is a couple of sharpened rocks. It is mentioned that a butterfly knife (or whatever it was) that he got from a victim mysteriously vanished but the mc doesn't question it at all and it's literally only a single sentence saying jts gone. This would make you draw the conclusion that he can't take others' belongings for some reason, even his they're dead. But he can take one of the victims' masks, and it doesn't disappear?? Overall, nothing is explained, mc is a murder-hobo idiot, and there are a lot of inconsistencies. Don't get fooled by the potential of the story. Was genuinely excited to read this bc it's extremely rare to find a novel where the mc has water/ice powers, and that is one of my favorite elemental powers. And I was met with this.

Magic stat as 15, went down to 5 (for no reason. just happened) and then the class upgrade put it at 13...

15 + 8 ≠ 13

Was originally 5. Then the 1 year time skip brought it to 15 with him becoming a 3rd rank Mage or whatever, then he levels up many times and gets a class with a +6 (or so) to magic and his magic Stat becomes 13. And now it's 10... yeah

From my complete lack of knowledge in this field, I don't think the amount of calories gained from eating the same food changes depending on the person. A person who works out regularly would obviously need to eat more food and therefore more calories because they are burning a significantly more amount than the average person. They don't suddenly start to not get as many calories from food. They simply require more calories to keep up with the increased amount they burn from working out or else they'd be unhealthy. And what you said about dr.ugs and viruses doesn't really make much sense in this context. In that situation, the dr.ug is a poison for the virus (very basic, but that's essential what it is. sorta). It is similar to how say a snake bite (venom, yes, ik) could seriously injure a human (lower virus), and then the same snake bites a mongoose (stronger virus), and it just shakes it off after a while. It is simply more resistant to the poison. Now, with that said, it still has nothing to do with this context. The analogy you're trying to make (at least this is what I think you're trying to say) is that a stronger being wouldn't be as affected by something a weaker being would be. This makes sense if we're talking about taking damage or smth along those lines. But, what we're talking about is getting exp. The higher being should still "absorb" the same about of exp as a lower being. Now, there are multiple ways author's can go about explaining why they (higher beings) get less exp. For example, the higher being is simply a higher form of life, and the energy they require to grow stronger is stronger / more potent (I think that's the word) than a lower being. Say, for example, for a lower being a single unit ot energy *exp* is 1 power. For a higher being a single unit of energy, *exp* is 10 power. This would make it so that if I higher being absorbs the energy *exp* of a lower being, they would need to condense the lower energy into the higher energy. So, 10 units of lower energy would make 1 unit of higher energy. But this would only really make sense if the number of units required to get stronger stays the same and doesn't increase. So you'd need 100 units of lower energy to reach level 2. At level 2, you'll need 200 units of energy to reach level 3. But, instead of the number of units being 200, it's 100, and every unit is equal to two level 1 units of energy. But that's clearly not the case with this novel. In this novel, the mc just gets less exp for no reason other than so the author can make the mc fight stronger enemies to make the story more interesting. Because let's be honest, if the mc didn't get a lower amount of exp, he would hole himself up somewhere with a bunch of weak monsters and grind then till he's ridiculously strong. Now, since he gets less exp, he has to adventure out and fight super strong beings and meet powerful friends and foes, which makes for an interesting story. But all of that rides on the fact he gets less exp from beings weaker than him. And if the only reason he gets less exp is, "just cause" and that immediately makes sense to the mc without him questioning it for a single second, doesn't make much sense to the reader. Or at least it doesn't to me. Another example as to why the exp the mc receives is lower is from a novel I read and can't remember the name of. Basically, the system the mc has in it is all about fighting. The system rewards him with less exp for fighting beings weaker than him because it wants him to fight those stronger than him. And it is a sorta important part of the novel from what I remember. The mc recognizes that he is only getting less exp because of the system, and he knows how bs is it but can't do anything about it besides fight stronger being. That's a big driving point. It makes sense. It has an explanation as to why, and it has the mc reaction to the explanation. He doesn't just mindlessly except the lower amount of exp without a second thought. Something the mc in this novel does.

Thats plausible, but they aren't really learning anything. They're just getting exp. It's just a metric to show that the mc is progressing to the next level. It's not really experience in the sense of learning something (generally). A real-life example would be like eating an apple and getting 95 calories. And then getting older and the same apple only giving 50 calories and so on till eventually the apple doesn't give you any calories. It just doesn't make sense. It's the same apple (creature), so why would it give fewer calories (exp)?

He should have cast Fear on all of them and then killed them. From what I've read, I'm pretty sure he only has a cool down for the same person so he can cast it on multiple people at once. This way, he gets a lot of fear points, and they die.

But why? I never understood why you'd get lower EXP for being a higher level besides being just a way for the author to make the MC fight stronger beings instead of grinding weak ones. I get it if you'd require more (whatever is absorbed and used to create exp) to create an exp point, but if that's the case, why would the amount of EXP needed to level up increase? Some stories give good explanations for this (such as being an actual game), but most just say you get lower exp from killing lower level things until you just don't get exp from them at all without providing an explanation as to why

Didn't even notice that, thanks

Try a different weapon, simple. Don't believe not one person in this town doesn't know how to use a weapon other than a sword. Just ask or pay, and I'm sure most people would teach mc the basics of the weapon they use.

He's 4. Give him some credit. Even if he's not mentally 4, the people around him still think he's 4, so why would they consider him talentless in swordmamship if he didn't improve in merely 2 months?