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2022-05-14 06:34

The story is a mess. Rather than having the mc become a low level master black smith and show his importance it broke world building in order in order to show off Chinese weapons. Let me explain: From where I currently left the mc is already 7th grade in terms of power as a martial artist yet still hasn't advanced to low level master blacksmith yet. And oh by the way he became important to the kingdom. An apprentice blacksmith is a slave because mortal weapons are not really useful but for the sake of power fantasy the author made it so that mortal weapons have great importance. The author also made blacksmiths above apprentice almost nonexistent just so the mc has importance, only grandmasters have appeared. In fact the higher weapons are very very rare for some reason. When assassin went to the kingdom to assassinate a high target or targets none of them had a single weapon above mortal. Like excuse me? This isn't the end of the dumbness. For some reason the enemy kingdom just so happen to make a list of all the assassins that are going to kill the targets. Killing these targets would hurt the Xia kingdom. So why would they make a note like that? And why would they entrust that note on some low level martial artists? One of those targets have a very high rank so why? To hide it? Then why would those low ranks have a band of soldiers behind them? Because of that they were discovered. Why? So the mc could do something important even if he is weak. Why would mortal weapons not break or be inefficient against martial artist? So the mc can be important. More importantly so Chinese weapons can be praised. That's right all this world breaking is so the author can praise weapons. At least that is what I think otherwise why would the author do this?

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MartiniSippinAngel
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Hey, I empathize with your position. I too tried to dive into this novel because it was trending but was disappointed . At the end of the day, this is a YA novel targeted at Chinese teens written by an amateur. If you aren't in the targeted demographic, your more likely to be critical. Also, the analytics on WebNovel are suspicious, so many readers with more mature reading preferences are duped by the rankings. BTW, this is not a take down of Legendary Armament Canon. There are very few novels/shows/movies targeted at younger, less experienced people that I can enjoy. The webnovel space overall is meant to be treated like prospecting: hours of sifting through sands in the river hoping to accumulate gold.

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Vanaxity
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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.

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