Man, this is boring as fuck.
This new arc could have been so fun, with discovering a new world and its people, then investigating the hidden things happening in this world, finding out why sacrifices became mandatory, what Miro has done in this world and the political play that could have happened to convert the people to a new way of thinking.
It even started to go in a really good direction...

This is just shit now. It was ruined for me in 1 chapter, great work!
For a genius, the MC also seems dumb as a rock... and we've fully reverted back to a pure fighting power-up story.

I'm wondering when authors will learn from stories like The Great Estate Developer, World's Greatest Troll, Myst Might and Mayhem, Eternally Regressing Knight, Trash of the Count's Family, The Extra's Academy Survival Guide and so many others...
You know, those series that instead of losing popularity with longevity... actually gain popularity all the time. And they usually focus more on the story, characters, relations, mysteries, learning, political manipulation... not on flashing white, purple, red and blue flashes with stupid attack names...

This current arc seems so low effort now, what a waste...

He can't, really.

Speaking of the reason those S-Ranks follow his orders will reveal his powers to the world, making him the most wanted person on earth.
Currently, he just gets remarks on his rank, that's all.
If the world knows what he is actually capable of doing, all S-Ranks, A-Ranks, Guilds, Associations and Governments will go after him...

OK, so...
We know he fought in a war as a mercenary.
We know his friends were fairly competent and are all dead now.
We know he is hiding from the Empire.

But I still have no clue why.
Was he fighting against the Empire during the war?
If so, what did he do to get on their radar so much that he had to hide as a simple Guard Captain in a Frontier City while more or less hiding his real skills.

I hope we get a bit more info on his past, I feel like an information guild is probably the most dangerous thing for him right now, but the most useful plot-wise.

I love how they thought limiting 1 boss fight per person would impede Dex from participating at all.
It seems it's actually making the game even more fun for him.

Also, at this point, wouldn't killing the game actually be committing genocide?
i mean, the NPCs are clearly sentient now... some even seem to know that they are in a game...

Maybe ontocide would be more appropriate.
Ontocide is the destruction of an entire reality or mode of being, in case some people don't know. Based on Onto from the Greek Ontos (that which exists) and Cide from the Latin Caedere (The killing of)

Well, so many things points to the Knights having pacted with demons to get Aura.
1. The MC did so to gain Aura himself.
2. Touching a Knights body is prohibited by law, even if the Knight's life is at risk.
3. The fact that the dark mages call then "Hypocrites". Meaning, they condemn dark mages, but get power the exact same way.

Also, I'm not entirely sure that the demons are bad, I think they are more neutral.
The one parasiting the MC doesn't seem to request murder and mayhem from the MC.
Yes, they require sacrifice to be summoned, but we don't know it's the only way.
Yes, they can kill the host to give them extra power, but only if the host approves, it seems.
For the moment, I think of them like a gun or a sword. They can be evil if wielded by bad people, or goodish if wielded by good people.

What I'm wondering is if the Knights and Demon Worshipers can also level up by eating Demon Cores too, like the MC... or if nobody really bothered talking to their parasites like the MC did...

9 crazy strong people... that's a Squad, or at most a Platoon, not a Company... a Company is usually 100 to 250 soldiers...

But this crazy elite group might be more like a Battalion (400-1200 soldiers), especially if you give them free reigns during a battle...
This is gonna be a massacre, can't wait for S2!

Hum... that's still a pretty good farmland.
If we take an average of how many banana plants you could plant on 6.6 ha, that would be around 2000 trees per ha, so 13'200 trees.
If we take the yield of 13'200 trees into account, that's around 400-500 metric tons of banana a year, and I'm taking the lowest amount I could find per ha.
that's around 3.5 million bananas per year.

749 monkey on the farm, so to feed them all, if we believe the species would be something like the common squirrel monkey (they look similar), that's around 250g a day per monkey.
And this time I took the highest values I could find.

That means that for the total population, you would need around 68 tons a year.

That means that at the very very minimum, in the worst case scenario possible,this farm would yield 340 tons of banana a year purely to be sold.

That's a pretty good free farm, I think.
And that's taking into account real world values, without magic, and the lowest possible estimate.
Let's say he sells that at 1 tower coin per banana, that's still 3'000'000 coins a year...

Yeah, he is powerful.
Yeah, he might become dangerous for the Royal Family.

But maybe take into consideration who will become your enemy if you try to take out ED...
I don't think the Kingdom, after losing its most powerful Noble family, can afford to make enemies of the Saintess, the most powerful Spirit mage, the most unique mage, the most powerful merchant and countless others who were saved by Ed.

That's just plain stupid.

Oh, fuck.
Another Yandere OP will join the harem... with abs.
I think the prophecy for the end of the world was actually about Corin's courtship.

Still fun.
MC so OP that there will never be any doubt about his strength or chance of victory. I kinda enjoy this tourist in a fantasy story, I don't want another Power Inflation story, where the MC is pretty much God, but there's always a new enemy stronger than him, and appearing out of nowhere until the MC magically gets stronger...
I like the fact that this MC is so much stronger than everything that it's not his power that determines who gets saved and who dies, but his interest and curiosity.

He's not good or evil... he's just a tourist :D

Fuck.
I was expecting so much of this revelation, and he just blurts it out.
And that's so fitting to his character.
It's good, but I'm still pissed off.

I wouldn't mind a harem in this, it wouldn't feel wrong.
Like, the time period depicted might allow polygamy.
Also, all candidates are furiously independent and so much more competent than others in their fields that they might be traveling or be absent a lot.

The issue is that they seem also enormously possessive, but I really don't want a loser in this fight.

"The MC is an asshole, self-centered, greedy and utterly incompatible with any kind of respect."

Yeah, he also has been losing everything all his life, parents, friends, lover, part of his body, his freedom, his life.
But still he gets back up and fight, for himself, his friends and everybody else, when it would be so much easier to not care.

Yeah, let him be an asshole sometimes, he deserves it.

Just how OP where the enemies in the Snowfields for this ultimate calamity, conqueror of worlds to be considered a trash mob?!?

Now, that's a really really dumb cliffhanger.
The author could actually kill the daughter and her father, that would make a strong "To be continued", but the MC?!?
You cannot kill him in this story, or the whole thing collapses, and there would be no point to it.

Everybody knows nothing can directly happen to this MC, so this type of cheap cliffhanger is actually pissing me off.

I really love when stories don't forget to add moments like this.
The MC is sooo far from where he started, literally and figuratively, but he didn't forget those who helped him on his way.

Fucking beautiful.

Hum, that was a fight organized by the MC, for their own purpose, forced to be made public by greedy hunters... who the fuck cares about the new rule?!? Who could actually decide who gets disqualified, except the MC?
So, if you're a hunter with crazy speed, relying on evasion and tiny accumulating damages, would they prohibit "going too fast" because the public gets bored?
Also "Flying too high" is prohibited, but "attacking the public" isn't?!?

This is getting so convoluted that it breaks the story for me. Imma skip 2 or 3 chapters, I hope this fight will have ended then.

I feel like this story should have ended like 20 chapters ago.
The author squeezed it too much, got too greedy, and we are soooo far off the hunters vs monsters story that it stopped making any sense now.

Man, this story is so peak, and so strange.
They just ignore tropes and preconceptions in the industry.
"Fight scenes are just flashing blue and red lights? Nah, we'll make ours so precise and with purpose, the reader will think it's actually animated"
"The style should always look like a Solo Leveling clone? Naah, let's do something original, between comics, manga, manwha and paintings"
"The MC is usually self-inserts for the typical younger Korean man? Naaah, ours is blond and smaller than most of his combatant"
"To make them recognizable easily, all characters have more or less fixed appearance and clothing? Naaaah, ours change clothes like normal human being and change style ever arc"
"All the girls are thicc noonas or ajummas? ... yeah, let's keep that"

Yeah.
I was afraid of this.
This is soooo boring to me, I was hoping for a swift and vengeful beat-down, but this is dragging out, and I really don't give two shits about this opponents' abilities...