The battles are good in some sense, though this story also reeks of feminist ideology, every time there is a new ‘bad ass character’ it’s another female character, in battle it’s always the female characters that get the spotlight and the female enemies that get the most dignified deaths while the male enemies tend to be simpering cowards. I did hope that the writing would start to focus more on the actual battles than continue with this trend, sadly it’s a disappointing read because of this. 107 chapters in and my interest in the story has slowly been replaced with boredom, nothing makes a story more boring quicker than one that is not so subtly trying to ram a message down your throat. I want fantasy with interesting battles (the beginning was strong on this) but now it’s heavily leaning into just more and more look at all these warrior women that don’t seem to lose to anything, oh and one token male beastkin who us supposedly the main character but his wife is supposedly better than him in most battles has a tragic story arc, and yet we know little to nothing about the main character over than ‘umma merc’. The battles themselves have a couple of cool concepts which is frankly the main reason I have hung on to reading as far as I did. 

As for grammar there are a few mistakes here and there that a quick read through should fix, and sure those aren’t too troubling.

All in all, I give a 4.5/10, not too bad on the battles and building up a storyline towards those battles, some simple spell checking could bring it up to a 5.5 but the story itself with how it waterboards readers with feminist dogma loses at least 3 points and the remaining 1.5 points could be made up if there was actually more coverage of the main characters... Apparently main character’s? story. 

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It is action packed. We see the world through the battle between the retreating army and the attackers, with the main character being one from the retreating side. The writing is written so descriptively, that it is easy to imagine the scenes. 

The world building is done in bite sized installments. The story is a classical fantasy with plenty of action and magical races. It has dwarves and the main character is also from a non-human race, but that one is original. The grammar and style are both good, professional level work overall. 

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