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The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road
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328 Chapters (Completed)
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I ended up possessing Ars Elaine, a supporting character in the game.

Struggling to prevent my death, I pave my way with schemes, strategies and tactics.

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The Extra Trickster's Royal Road
엑스트라 책사의 로열로드
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Recommendation Lists
  1. List of excellent works, some of which are hidden ...
  2. Weak to Strong Harem protagonist
  3. Waste of time
  4. Male Power Fantasy with Harem
  5. Kingdom/army/force/alliance building

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04/26/25 ippotranslations c328
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AereaSilver45
AereaSilver45 rated it
January 12, 2025
Status: c234
I like this story. I must say that the story and the characters present a very interesting, fun, entertaining and quite diverse scenario. Both the main and secondary characters bring genius to the story and I enjoy reading the story.

Ars Elaine is almost like a god of war, he's a kind of genius who doesn't think he's a genius, he's not very ambitious but he knows how to ask for his rewards when he knows he deserves them. His family and friends are very entertaining. His growing harem is very... more>> funny, I mean the girls are obsessed with him, but Ars doesn't give them any attention or opportunities at all and at the same time it doesn't discourage them either, it's very funny to see their interactions in the story.

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Ars is a bit disinterested when it comes to love relationships, he has so many girls in front of him, but he doesn't act, he doesn't say yes to them, he doesn't say no to them. It's quite frustrating, especially when those girls are obsessed with him, they're also a little crazy, they have a screw half loose.

Juras is a sneaky bastard, isn't he?

I swear, he looks like a f*cking clairvoyant, he also has several screws loose in his head. But he is a crazy man with intelligence, that is a combination of care. <<less
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promet
promet rated it
January 11, 2025
Status: c160
Started pretty good as a typical "I'm weak, so I have to use smart politics and sneaky tactics while gathering powerful underlings" kind of story. Unfortunately, I'm not very satisfied with how it went down later.

  • MC keeps gathering "vassals" (JP vibe much), which is okay, but he also keeps getting stronger, making the basic rationale behind it a bit less relevant (he keeps saying he needs some noncombat vassals, but doesn't actually get them almost ever)
  • MC doesn't really actively engage in politics, he at most reacts
  • it vaguely feels like there fights are getting less frequent, and therefore so do tactics
The most annoying part is that MC first tries very hard to follow the game's plot and avoid anything that may cause the butterfly effect, and then when it's impossible,... more>> he keeps on relying on his ally's plans. He doesn't have some truly own goals or plan anything for himself strategically really. And the ally is way too OP (his schemes in particular are way too unreasonable) and keeps carrying the MC. You just can't really feel the MC's agency much after a while.

The original MC and his relationship with the "extra" the actual MC transmigrated into is a bit interesting as long as you don't figure it out. Once you do, it's really anticlimactic. Well, at least it's not cliche, I guess.

The harem and love interests started good, and the interactions were fun, but when the time came to actually develop any relationships, it turned out the author really sucks at escalating them.

There are as many male characters as female ones, and they are just as prominent and developed, so no complaints there (it's often not the case in harem novels).

Overall, it's readable, and I will probably return to finish it when it's fully TLed. For now, I really didn't like the recent developments (looks like a method to cover up a timeskip, but it was really forced and s*upid), so I'm pausing the read a few tens of chaps in advance and won't return to it anytime soon. <<less
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ayylmao21
ayylmao21 rated it
August 10, 2024
Status: c62
Look, this story has a very simple formula, but it does it well enough that it doesn't become boring. There is a mystery subplot as the main story continues and the characters aren't terrible. I would rec to people who like the military aspects.
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MyRAMEN
MyRAMEN rated it
July 22, 2024
Status: c36
I personally liked the story, but the core content is too repetitive. It is one of those op character centered stories where it does little to feed off its possitives such as comedy and easily resolving irreversible situations (It attempts to do so but the potential losses are never high enough, zero tension, and obvious realization the MC will easily resolve it results poorly). This results in a story with no real tensions and real story climaxes.

Now I get I'm just really listing negatives here... but I think it's still worth a shot. I'm just a bit stuck up on the negatives as I liked the story making me hung up on all these caveats that would've made it better.

The core loop consists of

    1. Downtime / Recruitment
    1. Military... more>> corps fighting (MC commands the army)
35% of the novel feels like it is filled with military strategy / fights, however, it is a very simple formula. The MC easily resolves everything, being one step ahead, there is never any real reversals and again tension in the plot. It is never complex either but a simple development/execution. This results in most of the core of the novel being really just a filler. These fighting scenes could've been much better written, a prime example being how Pick me Up, and Surving the Game as a Barbarian handles the exact same formula, but extremely well on both sides (though Pick Me Up fell off later on)

This results in the downtime filler being the core plot. The buildup that leads up these huge engagements being the attraction. I personally enjoyed this. But I can't bump it up from a 3 due to world/plot holes. Everything also revolves around the military. Every school is a training grounds to train potential future officers.

This novel is also 100% a harem. Every girl falls in love with the MC easily, and every FL love potential has major cliches to force the plot relationship. The MC is also a bit stuck up. <<less
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CandleLight
CandleLight rated it
November 17, 2024
Status: c132
I really liked the story. It's another munchkin type with MC being quite smart... but the harem really, really turned me off.

It ain't my first rodeo with harem stories, but the harem here particularly irked me. This was because the story was already brilliant but all these A, B, C, D, E.. and so on women brings the immersion down. It's like enjoying coffee and then you find author putting espresso, vanilla, sugar, honey, sweetener, cream, milk... you get it. The coffee is already good, why tf keep adding more... more>> just cuz you could???

RANT

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Especially when they added his maid to be part of this harem jengga. Mind you, this maid took care of him since birth. Literally since birth. She even assisted the mom in birth. Mom dies and she's basically his mom for the next decades? Even with 10y age gap, I found that disturbing. I've taken care of my brother since he was a baby around same age gap, so this. Is. Ugh!

And MC's mom (nonbio) logic is damn incomprehensible. She wants to be able to call the maid 'daughter', but the maid refused to be adopted when she's 10yo. So now she close to 30yo, let's get her engaged to the kid she took care of for almost 2 decades. WONDERFUL. It's so selfish, if I was that maid I'd be f*cking hurt.

If I'm MC I'd have like ???? And be disgusted. That's like marrying your elder sister. Unless he never saw her as an elder all those years? (Again, if I'm the maid, that would hurt) Plot chalks it up with MC transmigration, but he has memories? MC justify by thinking she's gonna devote her whole life to him anyway, might as well wife her up, make her happy! Along with with other women of course!

It reads so sleazy.

I can pride myself of selectively ignoring parts I don't like in a novel, but this part was too sleazy. This novels is supposed to be about military strategies, political schemes, and wars vying for domination. Not this sleazy d*ck head MC, that collects women with reasoning as good as third rate erotica. The expectation vs reality was jarring.

Every time the wars are over, I had to brace myself with cringe that comes from author's brave attempt to be a harem king.

This whole Schick just absolutely broke immersion for me. Even my MTL-fried brain cannot hang on anymore.

The other ladies of the harem isn't my cup of tea either, like Estelle who acts like MC is her property. I do like yanderes in my novels, but in the condition that they are not deadweights. Watching MC tiptoe around her was frustrating. So what does our supposed ever smart MC do? Ignore and just add another member of the harem, of course. He doesn't tell her to stop, or go on, or anything. He ignores her possessive streaks despite repeatedly saying he 'should' do something about it. Where'd his brain go?

The childish knight was okay, readable and cute sometimes but just that. Instead, I found myself liking the noble lady the most? Her plotline had probably been perfectly RRR (reduced, reused, recycled) many times. However, I found comfort in her cliché. Maybe because I had no expectations, I was not disappointed lol.

Rant over

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All in all, I'd leave a 3/5. I still did enjoy the story very much. Very, very much if I just skip filler chapters. It's really just such a shame. I belive this is one those novels that would shine bright without the gaudy accessories. <<less
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Robbertguy
Robbertguy rated it
July 14, 2024
Status: c26
I like this story. Bit of a quicker pacing and a main character with a good head on his shoulders. The strategic parts are interesting and not too drawn out.

The only downside I have noticed so far are the older female leads who seem to fall for the young protagonist a bit too easily. But yeah, harem whatever.
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ShadowKyun
ShadowKyun rated it
December 19, 2024
Status: c224
Pretty good story. I never look at tags when reading all I did was look at the title so it progressing into a harem caught me off guard and it’s not the most natural progression, but the wars and political intrigue is told pretty well.

Side note I never looked at the cover art for this novel til I started writing this review and I had totally different ideas on how Eo and Yumir looked. Now it feels weird
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Baldor
Baldor rated it
July 14, 2024
Status: c28
Definitely one of the better novels being translated right now by anybody. Translation is pretty impeccable as well. The tactics/grand strategy the protagonists employs in war are fundamentally sound and his background as a middling Go player and professional chess player gives his insight some plausibility, especially combined with his pre-existing game knowledge of the opposing generals' tactical tendencies and strengths/weaknesses and his knowledge of how the game's wars would ordinarily develop, he's formidable but not preposterously so; that is to say, there's a reason for him to be winning... more>> these clashes besides just the protagonist's armor. The politics of it all are alright as well. My only complaint is that I wish the character-to-character stuff had a little more time spent on it, the micro level stuff rather than the macro level stuff. <<less
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Sirusblue
Sirusblue rated it
April 5, 2025
Status: c296
This is fun kingdom building novel that focus more on the war aspect because the MC as stated in the tittle is a strategist. Ars Elaine is a genius general on the battlefield that defeat all other generals, even the old veteran. The MC is so powerful that you can call him broken if not for the existant of even more overpowered character, Juras. So, it kinda balance out a bit. It balances even more in the later part of the story when mc's vassals matured and polished their own... more>> talent. The existant of vassals prevent this novel to be just one-man show like other muchkin novel, you can even say this MC has more rest period and relaxed attitude because of how reliable his allies are. Overall, it is fun read without much tension from the conflict because of how overpowered the mc's and Juras's intellect are, you just wanted to know but it succeed at creating the sense of anticipation of on the plot will progress further. <<less
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CarbyTommy
CarbyTommy rated it
December 14, 2024
Status: c120
This is a pretty good story.

It’s another video game isekai, this time with a Fire Emblem esq gacha game as the background. It has a setting where magic is mostly a relic of a lost golden age, and not used in combat, so if you like more tactical grounded battles, it leans more to that side despite having stuff like aura swordsmen and healing magic.

One of the unique aspects of the story is particularly like is that unlike others in the genre, where a MC can easily predict the future... more>> and knows who their enemies are years in advance, the MC constantly finds new information that makes him second guess the knowledge he obtained from playing the game. This part of the story surrounds a big mystery that is introduced right at the beginning and slowly unfolds over the course of the novel.

Unlike most other video game isekai stories, there is no real main antagonist, the MC constantly tries to identify who his real foes are. Because of the feudal politics people who are sworn enemies, might become allies only a couple dozen chapters later. In the mc’s home country there is two conflicting factions, and despite the MC siding with one, neither of them are portrayed as benevolent or malicious, instead both being independent nuanced entities which seems rare in the genre. If you prefer reading with a consistent antagonist or threat, you might not like this story.

My biggest problem with this story is that it has some really interesting main plots that are constantly being interrupted by boring and uninteresting subplots. If you don’t like romance subplots, you probably won’t like this, though in my opinion the romance plots are the least egregious of the subplots. The academy plots are really dull and destroy pacing, and there is some other dumb plots like the MC writing a romance novel.

It has its issues, but despite the subplots being dull I still kept reading, so I find it hard to fault it too much. <<less
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