Honest review up to chapter 45. I tried reading this 9 month ago, it was dark, it was slow, I gave up on chapter 3. I came back, I read to 45. tldr: Don't recommend if you like a competent MC with some ambition and can't tolerate one that was an adult but doesn't act or thinks like one. The "cheat" the MC got is original and built into the world, and makes you keep thinking: This is stupid, how is this an advantage? The premise is unique, first time I read no Harry Potter or variation or prophecy of some kind (as of chapter 45). Writing quality 4/5 - No typos. Grammar is not great, grammar alone is 3/5. Readable but you are constantly aware its not natural. Updates 5/5 - Wish every novel was like this. Story 2/5 Character 2/5 World 1/5 All three tie together. The progress is slow, bloated with description of everything, anything to add words. The story starts with a unique premise, it also builds some expectations: A transmigrator that is familiar with the original story, formerly an adult (allegedly), you expect that as an adult thrown into a dangerous world and finding he has magic he would be the definition of cliche MC and start is training montage and never stop? This MC can be described as: Takes if bloody fkcing time. He does NOT act like he was ever an adult, unless he was the delusional kind that has zero understanding how the real world is. Point, not one you would enjoy reading if you like a capable, competent MC. The author points out, mocks in a way, how the original story was riding the plot armor. It very much feels like the author created this twisted world then somehow tried to maintain the same plot line: The stone, the attacks (troll in the original, DE in this one), it does not work. To add to this, the characters have not changed at all due to their bad life, the same "light" faction and don't kill, the same: Teach them slowly over 7 years. The kids are the same, like the MC, none of them any sort of ambition to grow stronger, to be fighters, to get ready. You would expect hard training to be basically soldiers or fighters, nope, start with lumos. Point is, other than this world being darker, the premise of the story has zero impact on actions and thoughts of people. At times Dumby is shows as being... dumb, to a degree you have to ask: How did they survive so far? Plot armor, all the time and lots of it. The MC has no cheat, he is somewhat talented in magic. The author decided to make up some weird artifact that allows the MC to cast magic on himself, like the levitation charm which normally does not work, but its hard, the MC will spend the better part of 20 chapters to get it somewhat to work, its poorly explained and the comments are full with: this makes no sense. This could have been great, in fact, just making the MC better would have resolved most of the issues, but he is not better and its not great. The worse part: The translator spends so much time translating what I can only consider as a sub par story, its not really a fanfic with how much things were changed.
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From your review I honestly can’t tell if we’ve been reading the same story
