This book has several elements, some common to this genre or Isekai , so Ill just give you some dot points on their quality, as you probobly know what bits are most important to you:

– The world: interesting, logical (even if the geography comes off a little “gamey”) but many important or interesting elements are skipped over like “Wraiths”, “chaos”, “the goddess” it seems like these are to be expanded upon in the sequels, but I could have really used them in this book to avoid a little confusion.

– Characters: quite good, there are perhaps a few too many names introduced too quickly at times, but some of this books best bits are the little character moments where you get to jump to another characters perspective to see how a scene played out for their inner monologue. A crap ton of political intrigue, but it is presented so so, motivations and history are often skipped and instead you are just presented with “this is what happened” or “this is what I’m trying to make happen” rather than seeing how the political side characters played out problems, its all post or future tense.

– The RPG system: good. basically when you come of age “the goddess” literally blesses you with the ability to manipulate mana and a class (2 if your lucky) that is simply presented as a (short) RPG stat screen, everyone gets one, be it [Warrior] or [Baker]. It’s kept simple, every class gets only 1 skill, and when you level up by consuming “world essence” (XP) you get a boost to 1 or 2 basic stats. The narrating of these screens is brief and uncommon.

– The Magic system: you kind of just push mana around in different ways, its logical and simple but the book doesn’t get too much into it (our MC is a melee boy), the only real “spells” are just class skills or magic items.

– The MC: bad BAD BAD. sorry folks this is where it gets super boring and dull, his character is actually ok, likable, understandable, even has sypathetic personality flaws.

Problem is that he never gets to do anything, he is written with very little agency in the story, he never seems to make any decisions or resolve any hard situations. The few times he had a choice in something, it actually turned out later to be mind controlled during said choices.

Whenever something happens, either someone else is making the big play and fixing it for him (often without any input from him) OR he just casually walks through the situation with his unstoppable power.

Which brings up the biggest problem, he is a HUGE Gary Stu that has unimaginable power and upgrades CONSTANTLY thrown upon him without him doing ANYTHING to earn them.

Remember how everyone gets 1 class or 2 if they are lucky, he gets 4! and he gets to choose which one (so of course picks only the best, rarest, and most unique).

Leveling up is hard? sorry, here is an entire dungeons worth of XP all you have to do is carry this bag.

You still don’t know how stuff works? sorry here is an academy scholarship because you bumped into the owners heir.

The academy is social class based and expensive? sorry, here is the house for princes and a servant.

Learning is hard? sorry, here is the best teacher and a secret best tutor.

The final boss is tough? sorry, here is an instant win artifact that activates itself.

and so on and so on, EVERYTHING just falls into his lap INSTANTLY