Highly recommended

MC is cautious and doesn’t do unnecessary stuff and the best part is

His talent is bad but MC works hard and has a proficiency panel, so every effort is rewarded.

He is also relatively low-key, but is not a hikimori (XD)

It's slow-paced, but starts getting faster when he becomes a wizard, but he continues his knight cultivation because it's powerful.

The best about this is seeing the skills improve and get added to the panel, it just scratches that part of the brain

Relatively decent modern novel, enough to reach the B-tier standards in your typical S-F scaling system. Unfortunately it's also a victim of Qidians new westernization initiative, meaning things such as names of characters and places, sometimes even occupations and realms of power have been changed to "more attract larger audience of readers". This by itself wouldn't necessarily be completely negative thing, but due the way it's handled; poorly using unreliable automatized programs, the end result is a travesty.

In the garbage translation for example, names, even main characters name, will occasionally... more>> switch between the westernized "Levi" and the original Li Xiu. The surnames are also subject to constant changes and range from Snyder or Schneck, Snechk Sneck etc. Other ridiculous variations. This in addition to the already sub-par translation (and the usual shenanigans such as watermaking and fake release baiting) make reading the story incredibly more straining for your mind. Frankly it's pretty annoying clusterf*ck, quickly closing in on MTL levels on the annoyance scale.

It's shame too, since the story by itself, and the way author executes it, is actually pretty interesting. Sure, the world building isn't anything overly grand and the plot couldn't be described as anything glorious, but it's still very entertaining as a entry level "typical webnovel" quality work. Main characters decisions are human and rational, the people around him; both antagonists and neutral allies alike are all rather "acceptable" and their lives, including their actions, don't really just cheaply revolve around the MC. This is where I feel the author managed to thrive.

Generally speaking I would probably give this a score of four out of five stars, but with everything that's going on I feel like 3.75 would be more fair. I'll make it three stars here due to the limitations of the grading system. <<less

The magic system is exceptionally well-polished. The cheat is similar to WMW in some sense, so I knew what to expect when reading the novel. Truly, the author does take plenty of notes from WMW, where the MC begins modestly and ascends to the top with slow, deliberate care, always thinking twice before acting and remaining focused on the goal of becoming a magician. Following the introduction of the early arc, the magical world reveals itself as both ruthless and fair.

Unlike some novels where characters undergo drastic personality shifts, or... more>> their cheat is just never used again, this is not the case here; the MC in this story maintains a steadfast, careful, and methodical approach to becoming stronger, and is not ashamed to use his cheat to go up higher. This narrative doesn't have unnecessary elements – there is no fluff, no romance, and no mercy. The reading experience would have been even better if I hadn't had to deal with MTL. <<less