I have a lot of criticism for this story, but I will start with what is good about the story, since the best part is the premise. It is at is base a "rags to riches" story with a lot of potential to explore themes of abuse, love and trust. A potential it hasn't lived up to as of chapter 494. It is however very graphic in its portrayal of gore, violence and sex. My continuing reading is due to the sunk cost fallacy, meaning I keep reading in the hope that the story will fulfill its potential so I haven't wasted my time reading it.
One of the quirks of the story is its referencing to real life historic events. It does this by for instanse having a ship called the lusitania, a fortification line called the maginot line and a politician named Brutus. I will not spoil if things play out in the story as it did in real life, but if such a thing annoy you, then you have been warned.
The worldbuilding is okay if you do not think too much about it. If you do think about it, it can only be explained with: "This is what the author thought was cool to add."
We are talking magic, furture tech, monsters, demi-humans and all sorts of government systems all packed into an otherwise medieval style world, without much thought of how to make it make sense.
The Characters are by far the worst part of the story. Not in the beginning where you still have some sympathy for them, and they have something that resembles a personality. But by adding more and more characters the flanderization kicks in. This is a harem story so there are a lot of women in the story but I no longer care about any of them. Some of them started with goals and motivations of their own, but now they seem only to exist for the purpose of serving as onaholes for the mc.
The MC can shortly be discribes with one word: Dick. He is more or less just a dick. If you picture a man as stupid as Johnny Bravo, just without any likeability, and a rape-vibe that goes through the roof. He view women only as sextools, he refuse to see them as people with their own agency and if they stray they just need to be fucked back into line. He also rapes alot of women, granted he does not se it like that since he gives them a choice, but when the choice is "have sex with me or you and your family gets gangraped and/or killed and/or starve to death" it is at best exploitative. Some women he just strait up rapes, to the point even he himself knows it. Don't worry however the mc is also a dick to other men even those he sees as friends. That the mc does not love nor care for anyone exept himself is obvious, but where his women gets the protection that comes along with beeing his property, the men around him are screwed. the mc does not care about how his actions effect the men around him, and he would fuck their wives/gfs if he saw an opening for it, that he has friends is beyond me. When it comes to his underlings he is the embodiment of a horrible boss, if you are a woman you get fucked, literally, if you are a man you get told to do his work. The mc has no desire to learn or to improve in any way unless it is aboout sex or fighting, only fighting not commanding. And even though he is as dense as a brick with no respect towards any poeple around him, he never gets betrayed or duped to a degree that incentivize him to change, he faces no negative repercussions for beeing a horrible human being.
Side note, I mentioned earlier that there are demi-humans in this story, the mc obviously also fucks the females of those when he can.
I could rant about the mc for a long time, and allready have, but the worst thing about him is that he is boring. He says he has a goal but he does nothing proactive to reach it. As I said before he does not improve or learn, not because he can't but because at every opportunity he has to he refuses and pushes the duty of solving the problem he faces onto someone else and that is boring, if the plot didn't happen the story would end with the mc riding into the sunset at around chapter 30 that is the last time his actions propelled the plot and not the other way around.
The sex...
I never thought I would read so much about sperm in my life, the amount of space dedicated to describe sperm filling women to the point of them looking 8 months pregnant, the sound it makes as it shoots out, the heaviness of the balls and viscosity of the sperm... just... so much about sperm.
All in All if you want a story with a plot and likeable characters, go somewhere else. If you want sex (so much attention to sperm) and voiolence loosely hold together by a "and then this happens"-story, then by all means, read this novel.
I apologize for any poor grammar and spelling, English is not my first language.
