I’ll start off by saying this story wasn’t bad. If you like the rpg Uber protagonist with depreciation companions then this is another book for you. what I have a problem with is that this book comes off as a more tower defense take on the genre. I can already hear you saying, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” No, the picture in front of a really cool looking fort with the title “the fortifier” should give some idea to the books contents. Most of the book is the protagonist is spent off base, which is an apt synopsis for this book. I’m not saying that the protagonist should never go off base if say he needed resources or find people but I’m saying this book should focus more on monster hoards breaking themselves against his defenses and walls regularly as the people inside struggle desperately to repel them. I want tower defense, not open world exploration for 3/4 the book. and it bugs me that the protagonist follows the Hulk model where anger = more powers. He’s supposed to be an engineer, not baki. why not let him just passively earn exp while his residents kill suff in a domain, then just give him lvls and stats that way. He could also give buffs to his team when out in the field, instead of the copy past “I have to take on all challenges alone” MC we’ve all seen a dozen time I was hoping for more of a thinker/trapster that finds how best to implement their team or how best to use a thing to maximize its use for his fort. but no, this was a northern copy past isekai with city builder sprinkled in if not largely ignored.