Okay, this just feels so pointless. So immediately after forming an alliance with an obviously shifty queen (for no good reason) he tries to accomplish his original goal of taking down the empire by listening to his new strategist (for no good reason) despite the fact that he could have done this a few chapters ago by himself EASILY. He’s way too powerful for this plotline. He doesn’t need to listen to a strategist or ally with anyone. All he had to do was return everyone to village to be guarded by drake lone enough for him to kill the emperor and pope. That would have taken him MINUTES. He’s already defeated the strongest and we now know that adventurers defeated would become contracted monsters as well. This entire conflict feels so fabricated. The author failed early on by showing us how strong the mc is. You want to make a political strife manga? Then do so from the get go. Don’t make me think I’m getting a chill comedy about a hero that changed his class to tamer and got called demon lord, and then went on to establish a country and is so OP that there is no real conflict. Don’t force shit like this in a setting where it just doesn’t belong. The country and church wouldn’t even have time to prepare their “elite” holy knights or turn the MC’s brother against him if he had done has he wanted from the start and didn’t waste time with the manipulative bitch. I’m just going to go ahead and drop this. Its clear its going to keep trying to be something its not and this dumb shit is going to continue. I don’t even know knlw what the story is trying to do anymore (still pissed the nun from earlier so easily thought the MC is the demon lord and told the church instead of joining the mc early on).
And before I get the usual “you just want the mc to be stupid op; its better than he’s not: The problem isn’t that I WANT him to be insanely powerful. The problem is that he IS insanely powerful. That’s what the AUTHOR HAS ESTABLISHED despite that, the author isn’t sticking with it at all. Not to mention that the author portrayed this as being a VERY different story earlier on. As a reader, just going off of what the author has done so far, I feel like I’m both being lied to and this entier conflict is a fabricated waste of time. You can’t do one thing (show how stupid op your mc is) and then turn around and do another (make the story into a political conflict one) and expect that all your readers will just happily take the huge change in direction AND forget the first thing (that the MC is stupid levels of op and can solve this in seconds with minimum casualties). There is no reason AT ALL for this to happen. The MC wants to do this while killing as little people as possible? He’s going to kill more by doing a full on invasion. He could instead travel directly to the emperor and kill maybe him and the guards that try to stop him (or probably not even that because the guards would be too weak to be an issue), and then maybe do the same for the pope (more casualty there is the holy knights are elite enough to be able to get in the way) and that’s it. He wants to protect his friends? THEY ARE IN MORE DANGER BY BEING THERE WITH HIM! What the freaking hell?! When he was stopped it was because he was reminded of who to protect so why the actual hell DID HE BRING THEM INTO WHAT HE WANTS TO MAKE A WARZONE?! Doesn’t want to be seen a evil? Well you just made an invasion speech and aren’t guaranteeing the lives of innocent citizens that don’t evacuate, so that’s out. There is literally no reason at all for this to happen. Now if the MC was significantly weaker (which could have been a story line where he gets strong monster allies) then this would be another case. He would NEED a country to ally with. He would NEED a strategist to beat the emperor and church. He would NEED his friends there to help him. But the author established the opposite and now this is all fabricated and a waste of. Historically the reason the U.S. used the atomic bombs on Japan because an invasion would have resulted in more casualties. This is just the opposite of that and makes a really dumb plot line. This is like a country has an “instant kill” drone to only kill a military leader (or individuals needed to make the enemy country lose its will to fight) , but instead chose to invade and cause as ,any casualties as possible.