I normally don't write reviews so bear with me here as it might be a little all over the place.

First, let's start with the things I actually do like about this:

The world building seems sophisticated and thought out.

The magic system while being similar to WMW has still unique elements to it and works rather well.

There is some character depth.

No plainly s*upid lucky encounters or plot armor situations.

MC doesn't have op growth cheats (yet?).

Possible/likely romance with a vampire. (What? I like vampires and I never said this will be objective, sue me)

Translation/Editing is good with no major grammatical errors.

You probably will enjoy the MC if you don't like Leylin's

lawful evil alignment.

And now the rest:

My biggest complaint is the inconsistency of it. It feels like the author couldn't decide what he wants this to be. For example, let's talk about progression. It's a rather strange mix of the advancement system we know from WMW and game elements/D&D style like an experience bar titles/feats that give you stat boosts. In my opinion this is rather irritating since the WMW style system was more or less real life like with the addition that the A.I. Chip was able to display stats (e.g. a human has base stats of 1 however if he trains for example as a warrior his strength and agility will increase, if he does a lot of concentrating his spirit will rise etc.) while here it goes back and forth between that and Ding! You did something so you magically gain 1 agility! Yay!

Next would be the MCs personality it just... changes. He goes from "Nobody can know I killed this powerful pseudo-Adept I must hide my strength!!! (why anyway?) " to " herp de derp so lets just sell her op gear I can't use in the middle of the school bazaar, I bet nobody will wonder how I got it anyway..." to " if you shall ever betray I will make you beg for death muahahahah!". Also stuff like "... as an adept in training Greem had long known that there was no place for love in his life and there was nothing that could melt his cold heart..." two chapters further "... maybe Mary likes me hihihihi

*awkward teen romance thoughts*..."

The AI Chip: so a lot of other reviews here say he is not op, however, the chip gives him a 360 view so he can dodge everything, he can perfectly analyze weaknesses of shields, spells, and attacks, the runes/circle he makes in his golem cores are so precise, his golems can beat people who are stronger than himself by two levels (that's a lot) 1 vs 1, his spells cost less mana and are more powerful and can be cast almost instantly (normally it would take 5-10 seconds) and while it hasn't happened thus far it was hinted that his alchemy abilities would probably be on par with Leylin if he tried. He even uses it if he doesn't know how to talk to Mary, like seriously?

Other things:

I don't get a feeling for the world while reading. It's a harsh dog eat dog world not because I think so but because the author tells me every other chapter.

s*upid/lazy naming makes it hard to take the story seriously and this happens a lot. Strong guy? Yeah, let's name him Hulk.

The Author establishes a logic and goes back on it a few chapters later.

E V E R Y female character is nuts in some way.

Some people hate the MC for no reason at all to the point of killing him which makes wuxia novel

villains seem reasonable in comparison.

Lots of info dumping to get the word count. When he makes his first Golem 90% of the chapter are infos about golems in general which have yet to become relevant and you get about half of the same information every time he makes a new one.

While I don't mind slow starts some time skips wouldn't have been bad at times.

Fazit/TL;DR:

It might not be the worst story but I cannot say it's a good story either. While the world building and character development seem steady, logic errors and inconsistency of story and characters, as well as bad character names, make it hard to enjoy it thoroughly. At the moment I'm also missing an overall goal of the story except for the classic get stronk.

If I could I would give it 2, 5 stars however I went with two in the end since the similarities to WMW are too many to simply call it inspiration and I can't give the author full credit for the background.

• a random adept group with a single 2nd-grade adept as the leader trying to establish his own clan by taking away territory of the clan MC is part of, ignoring the fact that the 6th-grade Adept leader of the clan can kill all of them by accidentally sneezing in their general direction.
  So the MC kills their strongest 1st-grade adept but instead of counting their loses they decide to use like half of their remaining resources to hire an assassin to kill MC which at best nets them nothing at all and at the worst the ire of mc's clan.
• Esoteric adepts, who at default are the worst in combat have a city inside an extremely hostile forest inhabited by things equal to 3rd and 4th-grade adepts. Also, you can only get there by using huge flying fortresses
• Said fortresses have runes to make them invisible, except it won't work on things with the power of more or equal to 1rst-grade adepts aka anything that could actually threaten it, making them exceptionally useless. And for some odd reason, regular harpies on which the runes actually should work didn't get the memo and were able to call their mutated more powerful sisters to attack it.
• Golems made of pure fire elemntium/mana will bleed and lose limbs when attacked with a sword.

So far it is able to:

1. Store information
2. record stuff
3. Display stats
4. Provide a 360 view.
5. Increase the power of spells.
6. Reduce mana costs of spells.
7. Shorten cast time of spells.
8. Analyze weaknesses in enemy spells/shields.
9. Remove weaknesses from mc's spells/shields.
10. Aid in crafting perfect golems who are stronger than the MC most of the time.
11. Perfectly control magic equipment as far as enabling the MC to operate on himself.
12. Display hostility towards the MC from humanoids and animals never seen before.
13. Analyze bloodlines, their weaknesses, and advantages when seen for the first time.
14. Analyze the origin of monster parts when seen for the first time (like an eye in a glass of formaldehyde).
15. Analyzing changes in the mc's body at cellular level.
16. Analyzing the weaknesses of enemy golems.
17. Analyze the efficiency of stuff (even if it is a heart of a creature you have never seen and no information about, it can still tell it is only beating at 46% of its max).
18. Tell you the chances of you winning a battle against an opponent never thought before.
19. Generate a map of an area never visited before by just relying on told information.
20. Display enemies on said map by scanning for their lifeforce (yes even in cave networks and through solid walls)
21. Telling you how to best talk with someone.
22. Tell you when affected by illusions or charms and terminate the effect.

The MC when tried to improve his grade, he got accident and basically died with a little possibility to resurrect

The MC when tried to improve his grade from 5 to 6, he got cheated by the soul of a 8th Grade Fire Elemental King in the Fire Elemental Plane. He got possessed and his body got taken over by the king. Before the his body got taken over, the MC disperse his soul and hidden his soul in his body with the chip help, so one day when there is a chance, he could take over his body again.

If the author, continued the story with this premise, it's okay. It could be a great story, but the author abandoned the books right after.

Both WMW and WW don't have any plot or pacing, they are just a series of disjointed incidents, written by kids who don't know how or what to write.

In Age of Adepts, the skill of the author is much higher. Greem is the main character, who came from the earth to a plane where magic exists. His cheat, although very strong, is not overwhelming. Greem, though strong, is not so OP that he is killing everyone and everybody. He has to use his wits to survive. He plots and kills, but he isn't actually evil to his friends. And he has friends!

Witcher knight war - had you played Witcher (consule game). Immagine what if you fighted against withchers and exterminated them. In their home plane. Well. One of first big arks is about it. It's after our MC becomes adept