A kingdom building story that became dull quite fast with a boring MC that is like a robot in auto preservation mode.

MC transmigrated as a baron and, despised by his father, was given a sh*tty run down place to govern. It's middle ages with magic but we seldom see any magical things and everything is pretty mundane.

MC is coward and just wants to enjoy the life of an aristocrat. Those are his only reasons to develop his territory.

He doesn't give a sh*t about anyone but himself and can't even love... more>> the dog he's raising from a puppy, saying that it can die at any moment and he'll just eat it.

Author also nitpicks too much with small unimportant details like 2-3 chapters of new servants selection that will never be used again in the story. The story is slow paced because of these kind of things.

Read only if you're bored and have already read Release that Witch. <<less

A reincarnation story set in a fantasy medieval setting with too much flaws...

The story is classic but entertaining, but the writing / translation is flawed (not to an unreadable degree though).

Moreover our MC is quite hypocritical in his contempt for the feodal system while fully enjoying its benefits and without showing any intention of amending it...

... more>> I was also put off by the anachronistic introduction of cigarettes, coffee and tuxedos into what is supposed to be medieval times.

This feel amateurish and I have no hope that it will improve, so this is where I drop it (ch39). <<less

A very hypocritical MC. Constantly mocking the aristocrats and yet behaving like them. Honestly, I don't "see" any fire in his eyes. All the stuffs he does for his territory seems to me that as if all of it has been forced onto him. I don't think he would be able to develop his territory this far without the time to time "quest". Any Japanese authors would've made their mc's achieve much more by chapter 80 than this guy. Without any flexible mind, I guess MC will probably rely on... more>> the plot armour/intervention to develop himself. This novel has already given me very poor impression from the start. Except for the characters, I can't seem to find any proper excuse to return. <<less

Tried to like it, but it's intensely boring.

Man gets reincarnated into the body of a boring aristocrat, then spends his life plodding around doing hardly anything. Entire chapters dedicated to barely one thing: "Today MC had a bath and wanted soap! Today MC told his serfs to serf better! Today MC ate bread! Today MC swung his sword! Today he looked at the thing again!". That's it, chapter after chapter he just sort of gets his serfs to do everything, practices a little, maybe rides a horse, then hurray! Our... more>> new Baron is so smart and the bestest master ever, I want to be his slave forever!

Story comprises maybe 1-2% action and adventure, despite them being the main tags. Hopefully something will happen in future but after nearly 100 chapters of drudgery, I've lost any real hope. It isn't even a real kingdom builder since everything just falls into his lap via a literal plot device that exists to... give him things. It is a very one dimensional story that probably could have been good, but got mired in laziness. <<less

This novel, while it starts with a standard transmigration-premise, does introduce enough unique elements to make it an interesting read.

The cheat is neatly integrated into the world and while he does easily get good rewards, at the moment they seem to just help his future development (except his first breakthrough) instead of being immediate power-ups.

tl;dr: Fairly standard transmigration novel with some unique elements, let's see how it develops.

A fairly good kingdom building light novel. There is some interesting parts with divine/game-like missions for the MC whose only op power is the fact that he came from another world and can read different languages which the missions are apparently written in.

I love reading these types of world building stories where the MC doesn't really do something too outrageous like summoning a lake or instantly wiping out all the nearby monsters for no reason. This one seems like a more believable fantasy story. Its all about how a declining... more>> kingdom gets some help from the MC and his knowledge and mission rewards.

Will reserve rating for more chapters. Pass/fail/success information on Rules to follow below:

Rule of 5 - if not interested by first 5 chapters stop reading.

Rule of 10 - if the story has not progressed or shown little to no hints about the direction of the future of the story, stop reading.

Rule of 15 - If the story has started to change or does not resemble what was written about or hinted about in the first 5 chapters then determine if it is worth continuing to read.

• • Rule of 5 - Passed

• • Rule of 10 - Passed

• • Rule of 15 - Success

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Currently at this stage nothing of significance has happened. We are still very much so in the early days. I love kingdom building novels and I have hopes that the release's will be speedy. Will edit when more chapter come along.

There are alot of reviews saying this is a boring and dull novel and the MC is a coward trying to discourage people from picking up this novel... to that I would like to

1st- point out that there aren't alot of kingdom bulding novels with game elemants and high chapter counts being translated

2nd- I mean come on man you guys complain when MC is LUCKY and gets cool stuff and have exciting moments and being overpowered but when MC that is still Lucky but just get moderate stuff and just... more>> relaxes and doesn't have some heaven defying power... what do you do, still complain.. its dull boring wtf do you even want (and I know that different people have differing tastes but just cause it does not suit you palate doesn't mean you have to knock it down)

3rd-

Spoiler

This novel takes a different route than most novels of the same genre.. like how the dragons aren't just the figting type but also the creating resource type.. although there are some novels with this but the dragons aren't usually part of society its more of a hunt or sneak into dragon lair kind of thing but in this story almost all major countries and some states have dragons or different mythical creatures.. and there is also worm sprite thingy that have their own evolution chances and new types of plants

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4th- Mc's cultivation has just started and I have confidence that the author won't disappoint us with the name of the novel being The Defeated Dragon and all <<less

I'm gonna say right now, the title and cover image are very misleading. If you are hoping for battles or dragons or OPness, just move along. This is a kingdom-building story with a lot of details. At times it can even be a bit boring (and I actually ENJOY the slow, detailed story). However, I enjoy kingdom-building novels and this one actually makes sense. The world that the author has built is much more authentic than most attempts in the genre (no adventure guilds, the currency is closer to medieval... more>> Europe than modern japan so bread doesn't cost 1000 copper coins, the streets are filthy, etc) so reading about the MC's changes is a lot more enjoyable. There is technically fighting, magic, and dragons, but all of that takes a backseat to the kingdom-building.

Basically, read this for a detailed story about a reincarnator building up a city and nothing else. If you enjoy that, this story actually moves at a pretty good pace. <<less

It's bad, yea let's get that out of the way and onto the rest.

The main character is soulless and heartless. He doesn't like or dislike anyone.

Everyone is as fleshed out as cardboard.

The problems he has are either mundane or solved really quickly.

Still I read this on a regular basis for some unknown reason, really can't tell what it is that makes me keep at it because it really is bad.