@Luca44 Because editorial wouldn't greenlight a vanilla fantasy story. Nowadays manga needs the shell of a popular trope to get the story through like how 29 to JK had the JK shell around an office politics manga.
@FrenzyMode TBH I don't think there's ever been any lewd moments in the story, apart from 1-2 characters pointing out another character is flat chested.
@NotFunstuff But I don't know how that's supposed to scale. There's at least one more rank before emperor in the novel so is the next rank arch duke/grand duke? How does that scaling make sense that the vassals are mere 'lords' rather than a range of titles from baronet to marquis or margrave?
@sedition
TBH this is a quite decent adaptation. The novel is trash in everything other than narrative direction. I can't see anything good about it other than it knows what it is, fulfills the promise of it's premise and moves forward with the plot.