THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

This...is...soo...bad...

Having read way too many LNs, WNs, and VNs, I stumbled upon this and thought "Hmmm, high score, lots of content, I can't wait to get lost in reading this!" Little did I know the poor souls who came together and upvoted this must have done so not realizing there are better things....like almost anything else... even Naruto filler has more substance...

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Story
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So the generic premise is that this story is a power fantasy of revenge centered around an MC who is betrayed/mocked for being weak trash. This by itself is fine. The problem is that the writing reads more like a train of whimsical thoughts than it does any sort of well constructed novel.

This story takes in an MMO like setting. The power fantasy build up begins when the MC realizes he can use materials to upgrade his shield. However as he "unlocks" many types of shields we are given little to no description of what they do outside of their names. As the MC has a shield and can't do damage this might initially trick the reader into thinking maybe the story will revolve around becoming a tank while his friends do damage.

As things move along the entire concept as a whole is dropped as he quickly unlocks a OP OP shield which can do OP OP damage making you question why so much time and effort was wasted on describing a system that served no purpose and throwing the initial concept out the window.

No effort is put into world building outside what is immediately concerning the MC's party. The story takes random directions with little for the reader to grab onto regarding any sort of goal outside of occasionally defeating the enemy presented to the MC.

For example at some point the MC whimsically decided to establish a slave village consisting of some people the MC rescued. This causes the story to suddenly revolve around village building for many chapters with no connection to the previous events. Once it feels like the MC, as well as the author, got bored of that fantasy they move on with the adventure with little reference to the arc's events and having served 0 purpose outside of showing the MC as "an asshole with a heart at times, but still an asshole"

Action scenes in general are incredibly confusing and hard to follow leaving the reader struggling to get a sense of relative scale, positioning, and power in general. Most important fights are simply resolved by OP OP protagonist with some vague edgy suggestions that he is becoming tainted with more OVERFLOWING EVIL each time he uses his powers.

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Characters
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The motivations of the MC himself are totally scatter brained.(Also immune to love) His motivations transform from revenge/survival to "now i'm a bad-ass without a care in the world and can do whatever I want (AKA edge lord)." That is about all can be said about the MC. However this itself isn't the end of the world as some novels have intentional hollow MC's so that the reader can more easily envision him/herself in their shoes.

However the real nail in the coffin here is that the rest of the characters all all 1 dimensional and many are 0 dimensional serving no purpose w/ no characterization outside their introduction to existing in the novel.

The supporting characters in the MC's party consist of females whom he has saved and as a result they are blind to his entire lack of character. Of course they are in love with the MC with occasional shifts to their point of view which rather than revealing a creature capable of any sort of thought, instead focus entirely about their struggle to make MC senpai notice their love for him. In terms of power they are also rendered completely useless in contrast to the MC making their presence more of a cheer leading generic harem.

The antagonists in the story are several with a new, more powerful one arising from somewhere when the previous one is defeated by the MC. Their motivations are often vague and extremely generic "evil" with no additional details. Hell for how much of an asshole the protagonist is it leaves you confused why the evil antagonist didn't ask the MC to join forces.


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Conclusion
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I think it isn't too far off to say this reads like a ill conceived fan fiction. I found it impossible to get lost in reading as there wasn't one character more complex that a Ham Sammich. The situations lacked any interesting originality. The direction of the story is totally unclear most of the time outside of the whimsical concerns of the protagonist. I could only imagine the only reason someone might get into this is because they have never read anything else. Would not read it unless you can only understand 1d characters.