Something that made me somewhat sad is the end. I won't say it's a bad ending. On the contrary, the end is really good, but... well you'll see it if you read it.

I thought it stuttered a bit in pacing after 'Pride' died but it still held my attention well. The first battle with 'Pride' was so amazingly done but it wasn't replicated in future fights.

On one hand, there’s Sylvia, who regards him as her very first friend and the person who she can form a mutual relationship with. He’s the only one who she can related to for being regarded as a genius (despite him not really being one because of his cheat grimoire method). But he doesn’t treat her the same way?? I can understand if he doesn’t want to reciprocate her feelings but he just straight up treats her like a random character??? Not once did he act like her friend and really support her that much as a friend, especially in the beginning. He would just run off and do his own thing and she would be perfectly fine with it after a little talk from him when he gets back. The one time he notices that he hasn’t been a good friend to her, it almost feels like he completely forgets about her afterword. I just... didn’t understand and it annoyed me a lot.

On the other hand there’s the high elf (who I’ve already forgotten how to spell the name of because we haven’t seen her in forever). She decides on her gender (which is a half-death for her if her partner doesn’t feel the same for her) because she regards him as her partner. It almost seems like the author is making this to guilt trip the MC into reciprocating her feelings. She confesses to him, and the MC basically forgets about it and has not a single thought about it for the half of a year that he’s gone in the East Continent. When he gets reminded of it when he’s back, he’s basically has an “oh yeah, I forgot about that” attitude and forgets about it again. Like dude, come on, this girl is confessing her heart out to you and all you’re going to do is sleep with another woman (we’ll get to the whole sleeping with another woman part with the next harem member)

The last harem member (although there are more women that lust after him) is the eighth circle tower master. Now that’s what I call a strong minded and physically strong women. But she’s constantly lusting after the MC as her prey. Like she was a little unneeded for that, and should have just stayed as a the strong, badass tower master who gives no shits. I love that the author doesn’t make her weak once she becomes part of the harem but at the same time she is not bound to him as part of a master-s*ave contract when the MC saves her life. Then immediately afterword, she pounces on him and sleeps with him? Like she’s fine for going after someone who she has feelings for, but the MC has a lot to think about regarding his other female relationships. He should be getting his act together, not sleeping with her.

Aquilo, the evil dragon which isn't part of the main 3 heroines but important regardless, was just mentioned. And the elf Ellenoa, had enough development before, however lacked an appearance on the epilogue. But at least the MC got married to her (he had 3 wives by the end btw, which I don't think is forced as some others) so I'm not too mad about it.

He's losing against the Emperor, and one of his many not-quite-a-girlfriend allies is dying, so he releases the soul of a necromancer lord (he got the book holding it via an earlier deus-ex-machina) despite knowing that there was a very high chance that his own body would be stolen. The necromancer lord does in fact take over his body, wins the fight for him, saves the girl (sorta), and is then bumped out of his body by another deus-ex-machina. Convenient. Then he soul-bonds the girl to save her more permanently (ugh!) while the necromancer goes on to mu*der a country of 10 million people and eat both their souls and bodies... and he's rewarded for this! Later, the necromancer goes on to attack the allies he gained earlier, and despite this all happening due to the power of boners they still don't hold him accountable, saying that friends don't keep score and since he helped them out once or twice they'll forgive this existential threat that's entirely his fault.

I liked all the arcs except the one with Lust and Heavenly Demon, I just skimmed throught it because it was too boring and predictable. The last arc did good unexpectedly, a lot of novels about transcendents end in similar way and I don't really mind. I like novels like this one that don't leave you devastated with 'book hangover' and I'm glad that the ending was cute with a child and future.

Like how the souls Theodore gathers from original books somehow are important keys to solving disasters, how the sole element he has contracted through pure coincidence is the goddess Dmitri, etc

As of now, the MC has accumulated too much power (despite being at the bottom of the food chain..... sorry, at the middle of the food chain) too quickly. So he must train a new unknown power before to remain alive before continuing growing.

But our "intelligent" MC dicided to slow his trainning because he's all but not intelligent. He remembers very very well but don't understands half of what he remembers (almost all his power is based on understanding so he should be in deep sh*t but it seems that Gluttony misunderstood "remembering" and "understanding" because the understanding of the MC is very high for almost anything he read twice :-s And everyone said the MC is quick witted but it's clearly just normal deduction... If he didn't deduced this much then he would be qualified to be another dumb MC :- (Adding to all that, the MC is DENSE... He doesn't know what is love... Furthermore, the MC is a complete newbie who keep doing s*upid errors or non efficient actions but everybody treats him as a veteran -_-

Even marriage for those of you who are tired of a one-sided one-dimensional dense main character who doesn't have the courage to do anything. The main character also understands the concept of people changing with power, and does more than his fair share of effort put in to protect his loved ones (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)