Most of it, like poor characterization, tension management, etc. The writing is probably the worst I've seen in a long time. The worldbuilding and game mechanics were nonexistent. There were also huge plotholes everywhere and no desire on the author's part to fill in any of the gaps. The story brought nothing new, just watered-down pieces borrowed from others. The story began with a decent enough premise, but was just generic as hell and derivative of any number of other recent stories. Yeah, a viagra weed is a rank D component. The only bit of personality in the story was from the 1st person pov of the MC, but it was still pretty basic and never really brought anything to the story other than a few juvenile jokes. There was no characterization to speak of, just bland trope-shaped cardboard cutouts. I went 43% on my Kindle (just long enough to get through the character's first dungeon experience) before finally calling it quits.Ĭharacter - 2/10, Plot - 3/10, Setting/Game Mechanics - 2/10, Writing - 2/10, Enjoyment - 1/10 I had an itch to scratch and I also don't have a problem with an abundance of cursing, so I naively ignored the multitude of 1-star reviews and gave this a shot. I was in the mood for a quick junk food isekai/litrpg experience. So there's some kissing, but it isn't detailed and I consider this extremely chaste. I suspect this is a deliberate choice by Atwater and I kind of liked it. This is a bit weird, but it's also a great tweak of the whole harem expectation that dogs anime, light novels, and isekai in general. They're planning on marrying and have chosen to abide local custom in not having sex before being married. And they even begin sleeping together with her moving in with him above his store. Atwater made it look easy.Ī note about Chaste: Nate and Milia come together very fast, moving from friends to more with practically no setbacks. This is my favorite kind of humor and Atwater pulls it off with a consistent subtlety that delighted me. I'm going to give this five stars but it mostly got that high by subverting the activities of the System into something with a personality infused with snark. ![]() At any rate, I enjoy that Nate considers his enormous power-source his "cheat" and determines to only exploit it in his own way and for his own purposes. But the System is suspect-enough in both motive and veracity that Nate is probably right to be skeptical with that as an answer. There are hints that he had it on Earth before being dragged into this new world, it's just that Earth has no opportunities for that power to develop. It's a little unclear where all Nate's unearned power comes from. From there, he accumulates a number of apprentices, some guardian animals, and a garden. One of his first friends is a nearby dryad who becomes a friend before becoming a love interest. This conflict with the System begins right from the start, making this one of those books where a sample is going to tell you all you need to know. Nate chooses Potion Maker for his class, despite the System urging him to be something more dramatic. And he definitely doesn't want to be a murder hobo (a common description of RPG adventurers when they devolve into more killing and looting than anything story-centric). All Nate really wants is to help people and be left alone. Indeed, one of my favorite parts is the hero arguing with the System and subverting its desire for a butt-kicking hero. ![]() This is an isekai, LitRPG story with some serious trope-busting as a theme. A story of an upcoming potion shopkeeper and his apprentices.īuilding an S-ranked Potion Shop is easier said than done. As characters develop throughout the series, issues and emotions and even the mc may find himself in a corner or two. Novel contains: Strong MC in a slice of life environment, dungeon diving, boss battles, cultivation and elements, mana/magic, mc exclusive system but it doesn't do the work for him, treasures, adventurers, slow world building, build-up, features that will not be introduced all at once (upgrades so on), actual good loot at the end of very powerful bosses, romance(no harem). The town would soon be going under.īut will it be that easy to escape fate.? Unfortunately, the town I spawned near was suffering crippling inflation, merchants and people were leaving, and they themselves lacked high-demand businesses. I wasn't interested in cultivating mana and defying the heavens, courting death, none of that crap. It's his job! So instead of being tempted by the system's nonsense, I chose a simple class. Why should I bust my ass, deal with dragons and the unknown, for people I didn't know? Let him deal with that. It wanted me to become a great hero, save the world, win the love of the people and all that crap. In a blink, I found myself in an unknown land, greeted by the textbox of an unfriendly system.
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