True, the first part is okay, I do not exactly wanted to portray him as a massive genius, but I wanted to show that he had actually accomplished something. Although I still dont know how I fail ' spectacularly at it'. As for the second thing... It has already come to my attention that the fact the Mc 'wasted' time by not going earlier, but yes, I did not want to write a story of a freaking 12 year old adventuring in the dungeon. Simple as that, if you wanted to see a 12 year old fight monsters, shed blood, have romance and do other Mc stuff, go watch mushoku tensei man. As for the grammar, I have plans to re edit those 18 or so first chapters, but I am a lone man, so yeah.

Thing is, that mc intellect and wisdom is HIGH, VERY HIGH, thats how you made him, so your mc NEEDS to make intelligent decisions based on facts, science and calculations, so he should understand a lot of things and know very very well that he needs to prepare for the future. You could also make his decision to wait until 18 better and make it like a "plan" by making the mc want to "enjoy" his childhood and not rush at it like in his previous life. Its a very valid point because of wanting to take things slowly, enjoy nature, enjoy his time with his family and what not. Plus, with his ability with plasmid, he knows VERY well how OP he can be with just that alone if trained properly, so he feels like enjoying his childhood while training his plasmid powers for 6 years is a fair deal in his opinion, even if he is not a lvl 5 by 14 years old like Ais. He should be able to calculate that he can at least reach level 4 in a few months if he plays his cards right for example with just houdini door. Adventurers waste a lot of time when going in and going out of the dungeon. So he can level up way faster than them with the door alone. ALso thanks to his plasmid powers he can farm monster a lot faster and even try to kill level 2 monsters while being level 1 by playing smart not harder. Such amount of exp would be huge. THis is why i said that you make your character have genis level of intellect but fail at it. He can learn something 10 times better than normal people, and even come up with better ways to do things, improve it, reduce costs, optimize things, etc. On everything he does, thats what it means to be extremely smart. For example... Blacksmiths in danmachi do not chemistry, do not know the periodic table, do not know the exact melting points of metals, etc. MC knows that stuff and can learn those of new materials if he makes the necessary instruments for new metals and materials. There is a huge difference in blacksmithing when you have a pro heating the metal backed up by science and a medieval blacksmith... In the TV there is a channel that i watch about blacksmithing competitions between 4 or more blacksmithing and they put to the test their knowledge by making them make 1 object and then they compare results, the winner gets a price and all.... Also, Hephaestus is an exception, but for her getting the knowledge of the periodic table would and the meaning of atoms would 10/10 improve her blacksmithing further.

So, you are saying that going to the dungeon at 12 to hunt giant monsters is a very wise and intelligent action?

You did propose some valid points, for example, I could've make it clearer how he spent his days with his family, that way, you wouldn't have said all of these things. I wont be shameless and say that what you said was one of the things he wanted, but there was something about his family stopping him from going to Orario. As for his reason to train, he said that his power were relatively foreign to him due to their change, he used that time to train his abilities more, because of that, he got strong enough for later events. Its a relatively weaker argument, however, it fits the same purpose. I can add a line in the future saying he spent that time to enjoy his childhood when I re do those chapters, however, I think that by doing so it raises an even bigger problem for some people. Such as: he is old, why is he bothering to enjoy this? Shouldn't he be used to this or not caring bla bla blka

It wasn't exactly like this. In his first life, his family died early so he worked hard to prove himself, and in his second life, his family died way too early. So in his third one, he did enjoy living with them a bit. He did regret not being able to spend time with them because of their early death.

You slide over the fact he said ”he understands if the mc wanted to just enjoy life because he speed ran it and that is a very realistic thing to do”

If people start complaining about him wanting to enjoy life/ a family again then they are reaching for anything to complain about and are heartless. Dude went an entire lifetime or 2 being a bad son so he has valid reason like guilt to want to be a good one

He wasn't a bad son, on the contrary, on his first life he was a normal uni student until his parents died, and on his second one he was a "Genious" making his parents proud, but they died too early too see him shine. Instead of Guilt it would mostly be regret for not having a normal life

nah its ok, the training was just too long, couldve just done a timeskip

the MC spending 18 years training before going to Orario is in no way dumb. instead of learning things in the dungeon with a high plausibility of dying everytime he makes a mistake that other MCs survive only because of plot armour, he went to the dungeon ready and after rereading it you realise how grossly overpowered he is due to his training as in beating a strong monster before joining a familia and killing a level 3?4?(i don't remember the exact level) when he was still a level one.

And what about ais didn't she fight monster when she was younger than that. And mc may be 12 years physical but mentally we all now that he is old foggy that out lived most people.

Mais é isso que dá graça na história, o enriquecimento de informações que dá o sabor na história, sem isso a história seria muito chata ou rápida de mais, não teria aproveitado do mundo em seu aredor, pelo menos é oque eu acho.

in a world where might makes right yes, yes it is.

For some people yes not everyone can just train a little bit then go to the dungeon and be fine and there is the fact that the mc’s abilities are somewhat foreign to him because the way they work changed so if he went there would have been problems that could get him killed. There is also the fact that many adventurers die young so it would be best to spend time with family and train while you are young because the chances of dying are very high.

i mean - bell went to the dungeon at 14 ? what's a 2 year difference ?