While the novel is relatively mediocre, I disagree with the reasoning others gave.

Vore: His complaint boils down to, he doesn't like the genre, so he one-starred it...

Fluffums: His complaint is in regards to the poor use of magic. The more I think about it, the more unwarranted this complaint feels. ... more>>

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The protagonist charged along with thousands of other soldiers. The enemy was preparing magic to fire, the protagonist uses crossbows to kill the mages targeting his group. The protagonist continues to charge and the magic fired by other mages is glossed over as the protagonist tunnel visions.

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That is the extent of what happened that chapter. The only explanation I can give for Fluffums comment was that he came in expecting a larger magic spectacle.

Dragons33 and scrub09 have the best real criticism despite being the lowest rated. The story lacks depth. No actual characters are developed. No history or backstories or justifications are ever developed. In fact, the characters are so poorly articulated, the moment the author gives anyone other than the protagonist a line, it sounds awkward as hell since everything revolves around the protagonist.

My personal complaint is the exaggerated military accomplishments the protagonist makes. The moment he enters the army he takes his troop that he trained for a month and becomes a grim reaper of the battlefield. All his judgements are correct and lead to amazing victories.

It feels like the author is trying to speed through early chapters because he wants to get to "the part he was really interested in writing" but that part is super far in the story. So he keeps glossing over everything. <<less

After I read how author give half assed on land development and straightforwardly write MC that seeking war for promotion I can't continue to read.

Seriously reading this making you think a mean of warmonger he, MC is very basic Korean MC a cold blooded bastard that thinking only himself so yeah you could expect very basic romance like how godlike he is for chick.

I was on board until this chapter ruined the entire premise by ignoring the effect magic should be able to have on warfare. He'd just noted that in modern warfare clumping up is a bad thing, but wouldn't a fireball be as effective as a mortar shell in dealing with grouped-up enemies? There are so many ways magic can be used strategically that it's honestly disheartening that 4-5 times in the same chapters it's only added as an afterthought; "They fired arrows! Oh, and spells too! Because it's fantasy!"

It's not... more>> impossible for this to be a setting where magic is heavily limited in what it can do, or as in some cases wizards spend most of their time keeping each other in check, but that needs to be established instead of just ignoring it altogether. It just seems like a waste to even have magic when all references to it could be replaced by archers or musketeers and not affect the battle description whatsoever...

... Anyway, since the premise of the story collapsed already - because the author obviously can't imagine fantasy military tactics yet decided to make a fantasy military tactics novel - what's left is the usual "underdog rising up with some bullsh*t ability the author doesn't understand" cliche, complete with face-slapping random nobles and impressing everyone else by not being completely useless. Also, making the entire world incompetent to set the stage for the protagonist to show off. <<less

The story makes a decent time killer if you're not looking for much indepth political intrigue or any real fleshed out anything. I do like the involvement/ mention of military training and tactics, but overall the story lacks depth. We don't know the size of the world, the positioning of kingdoms, reasons to fight are clear for the protagonist, yet somewhat vague for the grand scheme of things, and most settings or characters seem hollow to me. The novel is, again, a decent time killer at least. It's fast paced,... more>> most typical drama scenes for an academy titled book are absent; I like the theme of a orphan turned war hero and I suspect that despite it's hollow start the story will fill out and take shape in the later chapters.

P.S. I agree that the mention of magic might as well be nonexistent due to lack of clarification on its limitations and uses in the story. I suspect though, that magic may become more relevant if the female officer who uses magic, whose name was specifically stated, becomes a key character to the plot. I can only hope, because I love magic. <<less

This is a mid story that had the potential to be great. The writing style is good and feels immersive, that's probably the only decent thing about this novel.

The biggest flaw of this novel is depth, every character is shallow, none and I mean NONE of the characters have deeper motivations than the plot decided so it will happen. The main character what motivates him? He was interested in military before being isekaied, after 121 chapters there is not a single mention of any other motivation or any internal conflict... more>> as he climbs the military ladder.

Magic is a thing that exists but after 121 chapters apart from being used by "mages" (soldiers that instead of using arrows use fire arrows) as slightly stronger arrows and as a lighter. It is never once mentioned or described deeply. Why? No idea.

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The MC gets married and the marriage is described in 3 lines before being time skipped by 1.5 months, I don't understand why.

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