MC's hidden identity is an SS-Class adventurer (like the description says). That means he's an astonishingly powerful being that should inspire a mix of fear and respect into those ranked below him.

And that doesn't happen. He gets belligerently confronted by an Adventurer well aware that he is confronting an SS-rank Adventurer in public, and in return, this is what the MC says to that:

"What you want to say is reasonable. I also understand your dissatisfaction. So if you want to shout at me or beat me up, I will not complain."

Really? One of the top 5 most powerful Adventurers would say that? Much weaker Adventurers would just casually yell and confront him, knowing full well how mighty he is?

Really?

Let's look at something else.

There is a powerful Duke that the MC has gone off to meet up with, in an attempt to win him over to his little brother's side.

The MC goes in his SS-Adventurer disguise to the front gate of the Duke's mansion. Here, he tries to get in proclaiming his identity and showing his Adventurer Card.

The gate guard (there's only 1) assumes there's no way this could be the real Silver. He turns the MC away without even looking at his Adventurer card to confirm, an example of extreme incompetence for a guard trusted to maintain the front gate of an extremely important Duke's mansion, trusted to do this all by himself.

Ah, wait.

The gate guard is actually the Duke's son.

??????

An extremely powerful Duke, who is very wealthy and famous, has only a SINGLE person guarding his mansion's gate, and he sticks his SON there?! ?! ?! ?! ?!

He has no actual gate guards or anything of that nature?

Yet you expect me to believe he is a wealthy, powerful, and influential Duke, one of the most important figures in the Kingdom...

The story claims:

"Because you couldn't do much I left you to guard the mansion gate while I was out subjugating monsters!"

But it's just such a poorly thought out, terrible excuse to try to force in the Duke feeling indebted to the MC, it's just... bad.

This is not good writing.

There are many other examples that I did not mention, and I only read 3 chapters in. What a disappointment.

The first arc pretends there's stuff happening in the background but doesn't really do anything with it. The real problem is that the MC knows there's a bunch of monsters about to attack a town. There's someone behind the attack, but you never hear about them until they're revealed to be the bad guy at the end of the arc. They show up, explain why they did what they did, and then fail to do anything and is never heard from again despite being a prince. Instead of it being someone who we know about and can suspect, the author chose to just make up another character at the very end of the arc to be the bad guy. That's not how you write a mystery.

Quite literally nothing about this arc involves the battle for the throne. The issue is that there's a water dragon in the waters of foreign countries that are small enough that the empire basically doesn't care about them. So the MC goes over there and kills it. Then those countries are never heard from again. The author tried to do something where the MC had to make it so that the other contestants don't get to be the ones that give the hero's descendant (not the MC) permission to kill it, but it's a s*upid problem to solve that took no effort to resolve.

Again, there's a ton of monsters attacking a town. Except this time there's demons! They weren't summoned by a political rival though; they're there because a random kid freaked out basically. Someone does kidnap a princess, but again, it wasn't for a political reason. It was so that they can experiment on her. It's like the author isn't even trying.

The author tells you that if the sister got the throne then human experiments would run rampant. Immigrants entered the country a while back and nobody likes them. Immigrants are getting kidnapped in the territories where the sister's influence is strong. Gee, I wonder what's going on...

The MC could easily kill every single enemy. But for made up reasons they decide to teleport armies to fight the monsters, even though he doesn't have to. After he's done pretending they were needed for a bit (and probably letting several of them get killed), he finally kills everyone.

Cheh, how can the MC stand to be insulted when he's actually one of the most powerful people in the world? It's almost like it would ruin the persona he's built for years!

What about when he's in his adventurer identity? How come he's still like that? Oh man, I can't believe there's a guy who actually doesn't want to avoid confrontation! He's powerful! That means he automatically must be exerting dominance, or he's a wimp! No way someone can be trying to settle things in manner in which they acknowledge the other side's perspective or acts humble about things.

Anyway, I actually prefer MCs who stand up for themselves as well, it's just that this doesn't mean that MC's a wimp for avoiding confrontation. Anyway, if you can't stand MC acting like this, then it's a sign this novel's not for you; not everyone has your tastes. There are plenty of novels out there that feature less "doormat-like" MCs, take your pick.

So the basic overview of it is that the MC shows up at the only unaligned Duke's house and tries to gain his support for his little brother.

So he shows up in his Silver get-up and basically just waltzes up to the main gate and is like, "Hey, so I'm Silver. Yeah, the super-powerful adventure that's known for never leaving the capital, but for some reason, I'm here to visit the Duke, so take me to him."

Are we supposed to believe that? I'd react the same way as the guard, "No dude, that makes no logical sense, I'm NOT letting you, a very suspicious individual, near the guy I'm supposed to protect."

And he gets ridiculed for it!??? I understand that the MC tried showing his identity to the guard, but he refused to look because he was "arrogant".

Listen, I can't even begin to list my problem with that in a concise review. So I'm not even going to try to shorten this.

The first issue with this scene was that the MC didn't tell the prince that Silver would arrive. So he just showed up, out of the blue, with no warning, and expected to be treated special because "he's SOO powerful". You do understand that you can't possibly receive a guest that's supposedly so nation-shatteringly important, and expect them to have a guest room ready for you. It's a common courtesy to tell your host that you will be arriving before you do so. So this wouldn't be a show of how arrogant the guard is, it only serves to show how crass the MC is, and his blatant disregard for the Duke.

My next problem, in the first chapter, the MC is established as having the reputation of a lazy, no-good prince, and that even the lower-ranking officials and nobles ridicule him openly. So why in the world, does he think that the Duke would respect him. We know that the Duke is from a prominent household and that officials ranking lower than him can insult the MC with repercussions from the King, so why would the DUKE of all people, PERSONALLY receive him?

You could argue that it was a sign of respect to the MC's younger brother, but none of them had any problems disrespecting him before, so again, I ask you, why in the world would the Duke respect him???

Next, the butler Sebastian, proclaims that the MC is a good strategist because he could have sneaked into the mansion, but instead he chose to go back to the capital and ride over here again to kick up a fuss about them ignoring the suspicious dude in a mask who claimed to be someone important.

1. This doesn't work because, again, his reputation is in the dumps as we have established. He doesn't HAVE to be respected so the whole "acting arrogantly" thing doesn't reflect well on his character. Now he's seen as a useless good-for-nothing, who is ALSO rude and arrogant just because he has his little brother's backing. When a subordinate does something bad, it reflects badly on their boss, the same principle applies here. If I was the Duke, I'd just go and support one of the other candidates for the throne.
2. No, he absolutely could NOT have just sneaked into the mansion. You're trying to get his support, not make him get a heart attack when a mysterious masked figure comes jumping through his window in the middle of the night. It was stated that the Duke couldn't make the trip to the capital to visit the MC, so we can assume that he's fairly old and in poor health. So a scare like that might actually end up doing him in. Not a great look to the next in line, being the guy who killed his dad.

And then the Duke is SCARED?? What? Of this supposed tr*sh prince? He could tattle to the King and it'd be donezo for the MC.

Then we have the metaphor. Oh, the metaphor. The MC compares his little brother to clean water, saying that fish cannot survive when the water is too clean, so he must pollute the water for him.

Uh, no. There are SO many things wrong with that analogy.

If you said that your little brother is the clean water, then you can't pollute the water by messing with his reputation. To "pollute" the clean water that is your brother, you'd have to make him less naive, maybe some actual personality other than, "I'm a nice person."

And, what kind of fish can survive in polluted water, but not clean?? I've heard of fish that can only survive in water with a certain level of salinity, but not pollution. The salt content in water is very different from the pollution levels of water.

I just can't stand it. I'm sure I've forgotten some of the things I hated while reading this, but honestly, I'm done thinking about this novel. 0/5 Do not recommend.

Finne's family which is s dukedom is said to be a prominent family but the one guarding the gate is his son seems kinda dumb

their talk before that turtle monster subjugation quest he offers him a status of duke which means that he is willing to accept someone who uses ancient magic into his family proves that even if he reveals himself there won't be that many disadvantages

kinda naive and hypocrite in the rebellion arc he tells the youngest prince that if someone tries to kill you you have the right to kill them but when Zandra has tried to assassinate him only thing he does is to remove her from the succession war which too is ineffective in the rebellion arc still doesn't kill her. The MC preaches he cares about the people still doesn't punish those responsible