So, I’ve read up to chapter 35, I believe, and here are my initial impressions: The story has promise, and I understand that this seems to be an isekai but not a system novel. I wanted to score it higher but I have three main complaints. The first is exposition, it needs to be done better. Find a way to write it in the story that feels natural, find the timing, and control the length. There have already been several exposition dumps where I reading paragraphs of information that not only broke up the current actions of the characters, but tested my patience because I felt this could have been relayed through the characters themselves. My second complaint is repetition, I don’t know how many times the main character’s motive has been told to me, and I’m tired of hearing about it. The MC wants to farm peacefully, you don’t need to tells over and over again. Last is the farming, where is it? I chose to read a novel about a farmer farming, but that seems to be lacking. All I get are chapters of him cultivating. Find a balance between the farming and cultivating or I’ll just assume this is another battle novel with the skin of ‘farming’. Just my two cents, sorry if it’s harsh.

I can understand what happened , I actually have two books on webnovel myself even though I haven’t had my application accepted yet. There have been chapters I have rewritten a few times because before I release a chapter I will read it. Then I’ll ask myself question, would this character do this? Why would they do this? Why did this event happen? How would this effect the story? If I’m not satisfied with the answers (which has happened) I’ll see how I can change things to fit the narrative I wish to make. Do I need to create a new character? If an event makes no sense, do I put it on the back burner and wait until it fits, etc. I should state that one of my favorite books is Black tech Internet cafe and I wish I could write like that but I try my best.

Sorry if I sounded harsh, and it’s not just you. Many titles and authors have done the same thing, and it just gets old. Fey Evolution Merchant? Take the merchant off because the MC hasn’t cared about selling nothing for a long in favor of battling. Astral Pet store? What store? The MC forgets about the store pretty quickly. I have the alchemy god in my head? The MC just constantly battles and rarely refines a pill just to push the the plot forward. I could continue to give examples but it’s tiring to search for a non battle related story about alchemy, blacksmithing, store ownership, restaurants, etc only to have an MC that constantly battles and doesn’t care about what the title of the book is.

I have to be honest, I liked the idea but quickly became disappointed reading the first 40 chapters First of all it’s a chef system which is what made decide to try it but there hardly any cooking. I was surprised when the system awarded him experience for battling and for having a summoning part to it? Once again it seems to be yet another story where the author wants to write a story about fighting but covers it up by naming the book a chef system. If you are going to write an action story, write an action story, I’m tired of all the stories where the contents don’t match the title.

Overall, I want to say it was a great read and I would recommend to most people as long as they aren’t like me. I’ll discuss the pros and cons for people to read in the future. I’ll do the cons first so they are seen. Cons: As the title suggests, this should be a system novel but that’s not quite right. While there is a system, it’s only relevant at the beginning of the story and a couple other moments also close to the beginning. My suggestion would have been to change the title of the book because the system sure isn’t important enough to be the title. It’s also an isekai story but honestly whether I speak of the system or the isekai aspect of this story, the truth is it both cliches wasn’t needed. As a reader that enjoys these types of stories I was disappointed in their ineffective inclusion. On a side note, I don’t like flexy and feel he appears way to often. Pros: Frankly everything else. The story is good, most the characters are good. If this story had a different title, the isekai and system elements removed, but kept the rags to riches rise of an orphan as he used streaming to ascend. I would have scored it much higher. Imagine, a story about an orphan that was bullied, so he learned parkour to outmaneuver his enemies when he was young. He is able to grow until adulthood where he lives in the projects, but through the help of his childhood friend is able to kick off a streaming career that displays his hidden talent. This sounds amazing to me while the current story including the isekai crossover and system comes off as unnecessary which is author seems to agree.

I was disappointed. I read the title and story description thinking that wine would be the primary focus of the story, but sadly this isn’t the case. Once again, a story I thought would center around a non battle profession was mostly about cultivation and battle. So to new readers who read this, if came here looking for a bartending story, you will be disappointed. If you came looking for a battle story, congratulations, here is yet another action story alongside the thousands amount this site.

Unfortunately, this is a book with a brilliant start that suffers from too many flaws. There are honestly not enough good sci-fi stories on this platform, and this was one of the good ones but I believe that the Author’s goal to reach 10k chapters has caused him to compromise the story. Examples of bad writing decisions are the questionable integration of information dumps, the inclusion of terrible jokes that aren’t entertaining, side or support characters that become one dimensional, and more. My personal beef with the story is that the MC is a mech designer, but the longer the story advances, the less frequent this happens. It’s so bad that a reader will have to wait hundreds of chapters to see a new mech design in later arcs, with no reasonable obstacles from preventing him from doing so. There is also a system in this book, one that is seen often in the beginning, but just like the designs, will also disappear for hundreds of chapters. So if you started reading this story because you enjoyed the process of the MC using the system to design, I’m sorry to say that like me, you will be disappointed the farther in the story you go. So this is the end for me, 5600+ chapters that resulted in a uninteresting experience that greatly deviated from the original vision.

Obviously I’ll parrot what a lot of others have said. The story is a slow burn and I read over 400 chapters. What ultimately made me drop this title was that it felt like a scam. Three chapters come out every day but it feels like one. It really feels the author writes one chapter and splits it into three and then fills the gaps with junk. If I was the editor for this story I would have taken out most the useless stuff and condensed it down so that people would get what they are paying for. It’s one thing if a story is slower than others buts it’s another if it feels like it’s done on purpose.

Oh I don’t think he needs to tell her that. He just needs to tell her that he has the MDS or a fragment of the metal scroll. He doesn’t need to go into more specifics.

If Ves isn’t pumping out mechs designs before the start of the expedition, then I have to tap out because Exlor no longer wishes to write a sci-fi story with a system anymore and that’s what I came to read.

This didn’t dawn on me until a few hours after I read this chapter but let me get this straight. Ves has been accumulating knowledge for awhile now and we also had the birth of the hyper materials to be used in mech design. But Ves designed the fey and the ultimatum and is already telling his disciple, “I need to go on an expedition to gain inspiration.” He has barely used the ideas for new designs and should now know the depths the aliens and cosmos will go to erase him, and he thinks this is a good idea?

I don’t know about others, but I personally hate what Ves did to his students ideas. I know the living mechs are basically sentient machines at this point but in that case they would almost like a new species and should have their own processes for what his disciple wants to achieve. There is no need for them to copy human reproduction.

I’m shocked, for the longest time, Gloriana had a proper conversation with Ves that didn’t break down into a shouting match. She actually acted more than the one dimensional character she has been in the past. Can we have support characters like this more often?

I don’t know why Exlor put a system in this story when he obviously hates it. Or came to hate it. It started out just fine, the prices required to benefit from it was fair but Ves still had to work hard to achieve to some mcguffin that seems to have no interest in promoting its user or upgrading itself as the costs to do so are unreasonable. Which is a shame because this used to be one of the better well written systems in any book I read.

Honestly what’s the point? Ves doesn’t care about the system so why upgrade it. This is one of the frustrating aspects of this book is that the author took the time to make a viable system but it’s for nothing because the MC ignores it even as his situation becomes more dangerous, and the authority of his faction is aware that he owns the system. So you know what? Who cares if Ves upgrades the Mech Design System.

This has gotten a lot less fun to read lately. While these events aren’t set in stone and future story lines could center around preventing or changing events, I don’t think I have the will or the interest in see this happen. All I ever wanted was to see Ves create more mechs but now we have a bad situation with a worse one probably down the line. That’s just a bit too much negativity for me.

I’m just going to forget these chapters exist because you took a great idea and made it dumb. I hope the third order mechs tell Alexa that Ves is wrong because I really don’t want a future chapter where Exlor describes the process.

No Ves, I can’t back you up on this one. You literally created design spirits from the ether. When Alexa first present her idea it sounded cool, but every chapter afterwards has made me hate it more. Especially this chapter. Alexa either stand your ground on your choice and rethink the direction. Ves own kids aren’t conceived the traditional way and he loves and accepts them just fine, no need to go in this direction.

The last part of the chapter was great, but ngl that first part was unreasonably bloated and unnecessary

Ok this doesn’t make any sense. Like zero sense. If this is his account or a shared account, and she requested this, I’m pretty sure they would contact him or request both parties permission before they did it. There is no bank that would do this off the her request only.