The book is pretty good, but it would be nice if the amount of snark from the MC would decrease. His greed for getting money, treasures, or weapons from prior who have wine him make him seem much more like a 12 year old kid instead of someone who had been an emperor. Please stop it with the monologing by the MC because it ends up making everything worse for him. Clean up the dissonance from how you describe him to hire he actually is and acts.