So this story can be divided into 2 halfs. I honestly believe that it peaks at the end of part 1 with the end of the school arc. That isnt to say part 2 is bad, but that its kind of rough.

Still the author later figures out what he wants to do with the story and now were here in a very intresting situation with twists and turns all around.

And now that they understand each other and are on the same page, thye strugle to deal with people who are angry at what happened, while also dealing with the gates themselves. This also creates what you could probably consider the true antagonists of the story.

In yet another ironic twist of events its actually a few class b guys that are the main antagonists right now. Due to Bertusea own depsperation to end the gates incident, he gave a bit too much power to a few class b guys. That is to say he made them build a super weapon to fight the gates monsters. Said super weapon is an army of immortal undeads created from the strongest peoppe in human history. And one of the class b students, who is now in control of said army and went kind of crazy bwcause of what happened after the gates opened has found out why everything happened the way it did and the 2 others who helped her make the army (though they arent all that for her plans) have decided to not let the people who created this mess (aka the protagonists) do whatever they want with the world. So now with Ludwig (the original stories mc), who joined them later on because of certain reasons have kind of become the antagonists. Nothing has happened yet because the gates are still ongoing, but all the characters in the story expect sh*t to go down after the gates end so they are preparing on what to do.

The events of part 2 have a depressing tone. Sure there are light moments here and there, but I can see why people wouldnt like that. Still its not like it comes out of nowhere since the whole point of part 1 was to set up part 2 and its not like the story itself doesnt tell you that its gonna get a lot more dark.

Still imo its getting quite exciting witht he recent developments so I cant say its not good. Just keep in mind that its gonna get darker, but it gets very intresting as well.

1. The main character keeps consistently withholding information from the people that he trusts, can trust and absolutely trust him. If the even confided in any one of the other main characters, the story would've gone very differently in a good way. But, for some absolutely absurd reason he keeps refraining from telling them anything, deliberately letting misconceptions and misinformation keep piling up. It's raw "plot fuel" (as opposed to plot armor), and unfortunately it's of the type that's the worst burning nauseating smoke filled type that is usually avoided.
2. The main character is consistently flip-flopping between his decisions. These flip-flops can sometimes take up 80% of the core of a chapter when they happen. And this happens frequently.
3. The author is great with his or her ability to write, but unfortunately also uses that ability to consistently re-hash content that was just said but worded differently, events that happened last chapter, and then go on to rehash anything and everything that happened in relation to the "current" part of the story. Then goes on to rehash anything related to the characters present in the current context. Pure word count fillers which typically take up around 20-60% of every chapter that isn't an action chapter. The worst I encountered so far was multiple chapters worth of 90+% rehashes in a row where anything really new can be read by just reading anything in speech marks; 3-4 sentences per chapter.
4. There are just way too many subplots and scenarios that induce cringe and make it uncomfortable, at least for me to read.
5. The author unfortunately later on starts applying the same "sin" as the MC to his chapters, which lead the MC to end up in his own novel world, tho not as bad yet (killing off relevant sub-plot characters just to increase the cringe).
6. So much pointless suffering for the characters we want to cheer on and read about. Pretty much all of which could’ve been avoided, mitigated or at least reduced if the MC fixed flaw #1 above.
7. Cringe inducing situations that the MC could've avoided by being truthful or confiding in his "friends" in advance. Oh wait, I'm copying the author's flaw #3 by rehashing point number 3 and combining point number five together to create word filler sentences. "Oops". But wait, the author has a really good and interesting writing style, so the flaws or maybe not flaws are considered ok? perhaps, but since the MC becomes indecisive but still ends up doing what's needed it's still ok. Until the MC ends up cleaning up after his own mess, which would've been avoidable or a best-case-scenario reached if he used his brains and confided in at least one other person he can trust. His friends trust him 100% (or more for some female characters) but he says he trusts them, but he doesn't; he creates situations that just makes readers want to scream why is he making it so cringe-worthy when telling the truth to someone that trusts him would've solved things sooner? Why does the MC keep doing things that keep leading to more and more suffering for his closest friends? Isn't it interesting that our brain can read all of this rehashed text and find it interesting, or at least readable despite the actual content being just a rehash of everything that's already outlined in flaws 1-4, just because the wording was different? Until we actually think with our brains and realise that nothing actually new was written.
   
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the female leads are mentally tormented later on

• MC should have been more aware of his surroundings when talking with his demon allies, particularly with the vampire lord. I find it weird how he did not change his appearance every time he went to the vampire lord's place, especially when the princess ordered him to stop talking with princess' rescuer already.
• The princess and sword girl were weirdly too untrusting against the MC and too trusting with the prince. This was of course addressed by the author at a later chapter that it was their (sword girl) mistake that they did that but I don't think that's in their character to divulge what they discovered to other people immediately. I was expecting them to perhaps hesitate for a few days before telling or perhaps confront the MC but immediately divulging it seems weird imo.
• The MC already knows that he might have been exposed when returning back to the empire but he still chose to teleport back to the empire, the imperial palace no less, without being cautious. And what was the reason? "It'll work out somehow". Wow! Really? One would expect the person to at the very least survey if the coast is clear or something. A more cautious person would have made plans on what to do supposing they were exposed, etc. But what he did was simply teleport back to the Imperial Palace.