The First Necromage

If I lose, I walk away; if you lose, everything is mine. This kind of bet feels so childish.

Thank you all for the tips, recommendations, and investments. Ah, I'm secretly delighted!

What I'd rather see is a necromancer who can summon a horde of skeletons from another world with a wave of their hand, and later unleash a calamity of the undead that destroys an entire continent. Seriously, in novels these days, a necromancer without a corpse is just a useless piece of trash.

The title system in this book is really awkward. The titles grant terrifyingly much power with no oversight. This kind of system might be better left to magic or gods, but having an association run it is incredibly foolish. There's bound to be corruption and titles that don't live up to the title.

The characters... Have a kind of roguish charm that was popular more than a decade ago. A decade or so ago, I would have found it cool and down-to-earth. Now... I just want to ask myself, shouldn't this kind of scoundrel be killed long ago, whether in reality or in a reasonably logical fantasy world? How did he survive?

Is the protagonist serving the territory or the territory serving the protagonist? The protagonist focuses entirely on the territory, without any personal growth. I find this unbearable to read; I hope the author will revise it slightly. In a world with supernatural powers, aren't territories meant to serve the user? The protagonist's own power is extremely weak. He's constantly working himself to the bone building up his territory.

This book is terrible! I couldn't understand a word it said. Character backgrounds, story outlines, and the power system should generally be explained in the first few chapters, but all you wrote was about titles, nothing else. What is this? What is the purpose of titles? Why do you need titles to gain power? Who awards titles? How do you obtain titles?

No matter the genre, who would read a novel they don't enjoy? The writing and content are decent, but not top-notch. A novel like this is lucky to succeed; it's highly likely to flop.

The protagonist is an idiot again—oh wait, I should say it's the author's fault. You let Churchill see the entire cocoa manufacturing process and formula. Couldn't he just make it himself? Knowing he'd been tricked, giving him an arcane staff is just plain stupid. And this is only four chapters in! How will the rest be any good?

Selling everything, but my own combat strength is trash. I feel like giving up.