Unlike the first review, I don't have an axe to grind with the plot of the novel. Rather, I aim this axe towards the translator.

Kari Studio. If you start reading the novel now, the translation doesn't look so bad. But as you go further, it starts getting worse and worse. Pronouns being wrong and inconsistent - first it was just his/her, but later its also I/you. Soon, names of characters change spelling. Curry Studio starts attributing actions to the completely wrong character. In some chapters, they have even crossed the... more>> territory of literally misremembering past events (?though maybe here it's the author's fault? Nah I still blame the TL) It's frustrating, trying to go through the story only for Curie Stadium to fail to uphold any sort of consistency. Perhaps I'm the idiot for not having filtered them sooner, but the slop they release is just so compelling despite how bad their work is. I feel like a League player thats so sick of the game yet still plays it for hours.

Speaking of the slop, I will now address the novel.

I am a sucker for villainess, gender bender, misunderstanding, and munchkin stories. Having all at the same time is definitely a treat. I love an ebic girlboss and I would overlook any subpar plot if I can vibe with the protagonist.

There is a slightly sus part in the early chapters where the author writes "Men are superior to women", blatantly, just like that. That was in the context of the protag trying to come to terms with their gender bender moment. I was starting to forget that spicy Korean author-flavored discrimination. It's good that I'm reminded of it here. Its a shame that the novel did not give the author much chances to express what they think of the Japanese. That would have been the cherry on top. We love a BASED author.

Anyway, random funni moment aside, the rest of the novel continues to be BASED in a different sense. The MC is surrounded by psychos that will do everything for her. One is a cannibal, another is a necromancer, and others are a bunch of whatever-flavored monster-humans. Also there is an emperor that the MC is technically serving but actually he's part of this legion thing that the MC leads so its kinda weird.

The misunderstandings aspect is somewhat fun, it tends to follow that Overlord-like development where MC does or says a thing while thinking of [A] but the person that sees/hears it thinks they are doing it for some nobler concept [B]. What is a little annoying is the MC's idea that she is ever communicating in a "straightforward" manner and that she supposedly hates BS yet she is constantly putting herself in situations that create it. But I get it, a girlboss can be as much of a difficult hypocrite as she needs to be.

Munchkin is a term in KR novels generally for super OP characters. Life is easy for them, they just go *snap* and the enemy is dead, hooray. In this novel, the MC is just *said* to have lost many times in the past, but she is not really challenged much in current story. Who knows, it might change in later chapters. I'm only around halfway through. I doubt it though.

The villainess thing, eh it barely counts. The most you will ever experience regarding this aspect is the prologue, which is in the perspective of the original Lana Frost. It kinda feels out of place considering the mood of the story that follows immediately after it. Its like being in a blind taste test for different kinds of milk and one of the cups contain orange juice. You get hyped up for this bitter tragedy but then you get haha ebic fire magic go brrrrrr haha get slapped in the face, random antagonist.

Oh, almost forgot the gender bender thing I mentioned. It's there, in all of the typical ways that a KR author understands it. Very pretty, huge breasts (which she wears some magical uniform that hides it), and the MC also does the "I'm a MAN" thing. Though the circumstances of fighting to the death for all her life gives her little time to care about womanhood. There are some scenes where its brought up but its not much of an active component in the story like the misunderstandings.

Overall, just the kind of slop I love to fish for in my filters. Just a shame that the TL is like that. <<less

My honest opinion at ch 16 is that this novel is one of the worst Mary Sue type novels I've ever read, every character that is close to the MC can destroy a nation, MC is stronger yet still subservient due to the authors dogsh*t plot of having the main character misunderstood as a hero.

Also, Wolfgang? Really? I'd even accept Jeremy as a woman's name instead.

World building is decent, character's are either completely broken power fantasy characters completely obsessed with the MC or average people misunderstanding the MC as a... more>> great hero while she acts with the intellectual prowess of a brick of compressed horse sh*t to keep the authors narrative that could have been good if written by a literal monkey.

I really tried to ignore the rotten stench of self insert power fantasy but as soon as she said her eye patch wasn't an injury but to keep her power in check I physically gagged. The saying too much is as good as too little is exaggerated, it's clearly worse, I'd rather read a biography about what someone had for breakfast than suffer more of this crap.

TLDR: it had potential but was ruined entirely because of bad writing, 1/5 <<less