Legendary Armament Canon is a story about Zhou Shu, a transmigrator. Upon transmigrating, the main character finds out he is a young blacksmith apprentice (slave) who died of overworking. He uses his system to get out of his precarious predicament and to get stronger in a world where the strong rule the weak.
I enjoy the idea of this novel quite a bit. I found this novel when looking for blacksmithing novels in general, and I found the idea of creating weapons and getting stronger when someone uses said weapon to kill interesting. However, I can't help but feel like the story shifted into nonsense at some point.
The translation quality okay, there's nothing good or bad about it. It's better than most, and there's no obvious mistakes. (4/5 stars)
The story development ties in closely to the main character's horrid personality, but I'll get to that later. The main character, Zhou Shu, works as a blacksmith apprentice, which is basically a slave. They don't get paid enough to live, and three generation's of his family have died due to overworking. The main character uses his system to forge new weapons. This backfires on him, and he is now forced to teach other people how to make a complicated weapon. After barely completing this, he is promoted to a slightly-more-valuable slave. He then invents even more weapons, and the government, upon realizing he is a genius who will probably become a full-on blacksmith, promotes him to a administrative position? They then force him to hire a bunch of people to complete a nigh-impossible order of weapons. He has arguably downgraded from the start of the novel.
The only action in this novel is essentially the main character meddling in other people's battles, and getting attacked randomly by assassins. Main character is carried by the fact he gets overpowered abilities.
Aside from that, the plot is the generic xianxia hidden identity overpowered main character, with a healthy dose of random misunderstandings. Very similar to "Zero to Hero in the Martial Arts Library" in this sense. (2/5 stars)
Character design is downright horrid. All the characters in this novel are one dimensional, and unlike most humans, do not have a logical thought process. Not to mention, the main character can only be described as a pushover. He is constantly hounded to do nigh-impossible task over and over again, and this never really changes. He barely has any complaints, and he is hardly using his system to his advantage. Majority of characters are unlikeable, this novel makes every character exceedingly stupid so whenever the main character shows average intellect he is shown as a genius. (1/5 stars)
World background is average. The novel is hardly descriptive, and I don't think they even said the names of other countries. Not much to say here. (3/5 stars)
Overall, an interesting idea but very poor execution. Author didn't put ANY effort into the characters, and the plot was sub-par as well. This is a typical cookie-cutter overpowered xianxia main character novel.
