(Anyone who want sth with more complicated plot line, fierce fighting, and deep emotional conflicts would feels negative about this for sure. Or someone who doesn't like reading about MC with a little resemblance to a goody two-shoes, nor fillers called SoL, for example.)

Annoyingly enough, if I bh, if MC wasn't so humble and sensible (never getting conceited, and over his head) garnering appreciation and trust from others while also receiving devotion and consideration from his allies/those who regards him as their benefactor (which he had consciously designated them to be under his protection more firmly as well). His life wouldn't have been so peaceful, with backers to deals with aftermaths and ensures he wouldn't be negatively impacted due to each other in certain events.

Tho that also makes his position as the center of his allied forces quite solid. It's unavoidable to get involved in some faction conflicts as to not get further dragged into uncalled troublesome and unfavorable matters.

The strongest top 3 tier of swordsman are: Sword King, Sword Saint and Sword Master. Guess which he became right around v4 epilogue?

*Tick Tock*... Just stepping one foot into the realm of Sword Saint! *clapclapclap* It's doesn't seem fast at all after all that diligent training and life-threatening enemies he faces from time to time to protect himself and the heroine.

Look at that, the latest enemy is a weakened surviving Demon King's General hibernating inside a near-breaking sealed holy battlefield. What bad luck to be dragged into it, sigh. (def. growth device by author, but is said to be the holy place detecting them)

her losing some powers as a sign of "fealty" to the MC, without knowing

noble light+dark saint daughters

some parts are too boring, uninteresting, unnecesary to read, like the political strife. (btw just to skip the explanation of the situation makes u skip 3 chapters, and thats a whole lot for a 37 chapter volume

at the start of v2 author changed the main 2's ages (not a time skip, he just changed MC and saint 3 years older), amateur move and I m kinda annoyed

*From him going to the fort to rescue the adventurers;

*From him meeting the second love interest for the first time and the author trying to force the relationship between the two in this first encounter;

MC goes to rescue a figure in the blizzard fighting a group of monsters:

MC: Oh my god, we fight so well together, it's like this strange person that I can't see the face because of the blizzard knows me so well!

Stranger: Oh my god, we fight so well together, it's like this strange person that I can't see the face because of the blizzard knows me so well!

Dude, whatafock, it literally happens like this, it's so forced and poorly written that I was embarrassed.

*So there are all the times that the two interact in this fort, the author makes for an unexplained and forced tension between the two. And it's really unexplained, it's just the author trying to force their relationship down your throat.

And from here until his fight with the resurrected dragon is so s*upid and poorly written that I don't have the patience to write everything that's wrong, since it's all poorly written and bad.

The main character is developed as someone who cares a lot for his village/parents yet there isn't enough build up to make me care or make his attachment feel real. I think it would of gone a long way to add some mundane family bonding moments like a dinner scene or something when he was young just to help create a relationship. Right now his mother barely has enough character for me to remember and the dad just taught him swordsmanship. There are also a few issues in relation to his powers. His skill magic sword is honestly just too random and game-like that it feels off with how this was suppose to be game came to life. The base ability of him unlocking swords with enough proficiency I think works great, even if you set up the unlock to have certain conditions that need to be met (i.e. an immense desire to live, desire to kill, desire to protect) where the main factor is himself. The part that bothers me is how he unlocks things like the thief sword & shield sword where he gets blades dependent on exactly one monster with traits specific to that monster. I just really don't like how his power is essentially set up as worthless unless you happen to run into the creatures that satisfy these secret swords (well, not completely but a lot weaker) and just overall I don't think it was necessary. I think it would of made for a better power of he can summon a sword that reflects his soul, when he wants to be non-leathal its wooden, when he wants to kill its sharp, when he wants to protect its a sword in the shape of a shield, his will determines the sharpness and hardness. This kind of ability allows us as the readers to get easy insight into his development and his desires but instead we just get a skill that forces him to farm and kill specific monsters. Overall while I think it has issues and plenty of points that could be improved its not a bad read and at least the author isn't doing sh*t like trying to be as disturbing as possible or writing like their bastard of a main character is a good guy after abusing a person he forced to be his wife. (Mini-rant from another book)

Now, this is the thing that pisses me off the most about this story is the title. Why the hell is he reincarnated as the mastermind of the story??? I mean, the story isn't bad but the title is very very misleading... Not once has he even remotely done something mastermindy... What I expected at the start was some hidden plot so the original Ren fakes the deaths of licia and the headmaster but instead its just some guy training with his sword and being a normal protagonist, and I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, just that the title should be something else. Rens original character wasn't even a mastermind, he just killed some important people and disappeared. Plus whats up with how dependent he is on his skill. He got the skill magic sword as a reincarnation bonus or something along the lines of that so Ren didn't originally have the skill yet his previous self was able to become that powerful, and judging by the dialog of old ren killing old licia for her stone that means he had that power, but if he had that power then what was the point of the MC unlocking the skill in our world, he could of just reincarnated as ren as the bonus clear reward.

. For example, he is completely certain that the guy he reincarnated as, Ren, is the main mastermind behind the plot of the game when that couldn't be further from the truth. All it takes is two seconds of looking around to start asking questions like "wait a sec, the great mastermind of the story wasn't even born a noble? Something's odd here"

You'd think that it would be impossible for a young child attending an academy to be responsible for causing chaos across the kingdom and being the main guy behind the attempts to resurrect the Demon king when he has neither the influence nor the means to do so, yet the MC thinks that the moment he starts attending the academy he will be the one to kill the saintess.

From what we actually know of Ren the character, he only kills like two important people, the saintess and some mage woman, and then disappears. That screams more "I'm being used/blackmailed and have a secret tragic backstory" than "muahaha I'm the real bad guy" to me ngl

If I were in his shoes, I would've begun stacking up on any healing medicine/herbs from the first second I begin walking while waiting for that tragic backstory to hit. It does end up happening eventually, as MC's dad is attacked by a wolf monster and MC has to find a rare herb to save his life, and he ends up killing the wolf in the end.

This causes him to become a little famous and he meets the saintess because of that, and then immediately panics because he is afraid of eventually killing her, for no reason. I will give him props for refusing invitations to the capital though. Even without the game plot, an ordinary guy going to an academy for nobles without any achievements he can fall back on is a bad idea. An equally bad idea is avoiding the saintess, though thankfully he gives up on that later.

Then for some reason, MC is just as shocked as everyone else when a viscount from the hero faction starts stirring sh*t up and demanding the village to go over to his domain instead, even accusing the baron of things he clearly didn't do. Considering that the hero faction are supposed to be the good guys in the game, that ought to be setting off some red flags, and if that doesn't, then the fact that the faction supports democracy should be a dead giveaway that they're demon worshippers.

Seriously, what kind of a noble faction wants democracy lmaoooo

Oh also, the viscount is a stern looking middle aged man.

Always remember the first rule of generic Isekai: If a person is ugly, fat and old/middle aged or stern looking, they are evil. I'm honestly shocked MC doesn't know something so basic.

Remember that wolf monster MC killed when he went to get herbs for his dad? Well the organs of that monster are really important for that one exact cure this noble needs to save his daughter from dying from an illness. The MC, completely oblivious to this, sells the organs to the baron because he paid more, and the baron sells the organs to the noble in return for his help with the viscount fiasco. This all comes out of nowhere and it just makes it all seem like the author pulled it out of his ass. If it was alluded in any chapter then I'd believe it, but it would still be dumb because the royal family, who had the organs and could've given them to the noble in order to rope him into their faction and thus increase their position, refuse to give them to him because "they're holding on to them in case they get sick". And this noble, who is the number one most influential guy in the kingdom right behind the royal family, somehow can't get his hands on a mere D Rank monster because, and I kid you not, "the organs are difficult to collect". Yes, that's reason.

And you know what's even dumber? It's revealed that this guy was meant to be the final boss of the game and he was supposed to be the reason why many bad things happen in the future. And now MC completely changed a major part of the story just like that, because now he isn't going to turn evil anymore. Everything related to this situation just seemed so random and out of nowhere.