False, Google Translate is much better than whatever this is

There are no author's notes on any chapter to this point. Maybe it was a comment somewhere?

Feels like things suddenly went very fast at the end there

A very standard cultivate-until-you're-the-most-powerful-being story, but not a bad one. The ending felt a little sudden, but not as bad as other stories have been. Several elements were established and then forgotten about over time, as is common in these plan-as-you-go stories: * The girl who joined the demonic cult * His spiritual beast and everything related * The old man who sent him across the abyss sea So it's a bit scattershot. But it circles around to the beginning a little at the end, so there at least is a form of closure. I don't regret reading it. It's fast-paced, avoids some novel cliches, and the ending doesn't retroactively ruin everything, but the ending IS abrupt, and overall it treads familiar ground.

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Maybe he meant instead of having a calm rational argument/discussion?

Did he extract from those 500 corpses or not? The chapter doesn't say. It would be ridiculous not to.

Did he extract from those 500 corpses or not?

That's how they get you!

One of the problems with machine-assisted translation is that if you teach the machine a wrong translation, you're going to be stuck with it. At some point, the "translator" started using the name of a different character to refer to a spirit. Now every time that spirit is mentioned (which is often, as it travels with the MC), it's the wrong name. Every time. Every chapter. It has been mentioned in the comments and paragraphs repeatedly, and never fixed. This is an OK wish-fulfillment novel, but the translation is ruining what little good is in there. It's definitely not worth the money.

He actually asked for 10 portions

And the dragon/snake just disappeared, and he went from using bags to having a storage ring, and the divine spirit now has the wrong name... The story is a mess, and the translation is bad.

Is 'Gandulf' just the permanent mistranslation from now on? This story needs an editor real soon.

I can't believe I complained about the need for editing, and also used the wrong "you're" in the first sentence.

The ghost isn't a pet, it's a talisman.

What's the 5th pet?

What do they do wrong?

What's the name of the raw?

If your going to MTL, you need to have good editors. Names change from paragraph to paragraph. Nothing is consistent. There's full blown untranslated paragraphs. An entire chapter is repeated with slightly different translation. It's a mess. The sorry itself is nothing to write home about either. Constantly retconning itself; "I gained a lot of experience, and in fact I had taken a 5x experience portion too, that I made with ingredients I bought and never mentioned any of that until after it had already happened." The MC supposedly has future knowledge, but it almost never comes up after the very beginning. The MC's sister is a big concern, then ignored completely. The MC is so OP so quickly there's never any tension. The stats system doesn't get much mention, even though stats are such a big deal, and supposedly the MC is gaining extra points during level up sometimes, those are mentioned once and then never again in the preview 40 chapters. It was already a mess, then it was poorly translated on top of that.

Good, not perfect. (Read what I could and MTL'ed the rest, so this review is for the full story through the end.) Good in the sense that almost everything that gets set up pays off before the end. Not _everything_ gets revisited, but few things are introduced but forgotten about (I'm looking at you, _many other novels_) Good also in the sense that many villains' motivation is understandable from their perspective. It's just that from their perspective the logical thing is to rob the MC. Or put him in his place. Or eliminate the MC *before* he can grow to become a threat. There are logical reasons why people behave the way they do, from the orc invasion near the beginning (they're starving, though there is more to it you discover later) through the end. It's never "Because they're EVIL!" Good also that even though the MC hides their strength, they're not always the strongest around. In fact, often they aren't, and have to keep hiding their strength to not get easily eliminated by much more powerful foes. The hero doesn't always win. Sometimes he has to run away and hide while working toward getting stronger. Not perfect in the sense that, well, it's not perfect. It's slow at first, rushed towards the end. Some interesting characters you just stop seeing at points as the MC grows beyond their circle. It reminded me a little of "Hail the King" though only because both are transported-to-another-world cultivation novels that heavily feature "Diablo II" cheats. But actually it's far closer in tone and execution to "Warlock of the Magus World". If you liked that, you'll probably like this. ... If you can get past the not-great slow beginning, which I think has made all the difference in the ratings.