Before Ascending to Godhood, Be a Good Lord

Things that came to mind after reading the introduction From DND4E God-Emperor|God-Emperor "You place your powerful hand on the helm of the greatest human culture in history, guiding this ship ever toward the horizon, until your will is so strong that it can sail on its own forever." Source: Dragon #411 Prerequisites: Level 21, Human

Having read half of the chapters, I feel that the world in the book is more like a future world. If "magic" is replaced with "energy", it is even more so. In this world, the energy and heat released by the planet itself are converted into magic.

After it was revealed that the God Emperor was from the same hometown, and the God Emperor also knew that the protagonist was from the same hometown, the story basically fell apart. The premise of the God Emperor being alive and having a fellow villager is honestly a bit toxic. It makes everything the protagonist does seem like a joke, like he's just eating someone else's leftovers from 1000 years ago.

Good heavens! The Benma Plain is 400,000 square kilometers, equivalent to four provinces. Even if the protagonist unifies southern Benma, and I only consider it to be 200,000 square kilometers, there are only a little over 2,000 people. That's outrageous! There shouldn't be that many people on 200,000 square kilometers of grassland, right? Shouldn't there be hundreds of thousands of people?

Author, could you please add a zero or two after the population figure? This is some kind of village brawl in some uninhabited area! Several provinces' worth of land have only a few thousand people, and you have the nerve to write that?

I read the comments saying there were few people, and I wondered how many there could be... I didn't expect the protagonist to have so few subjects, and no serfs at all... I think the author didn't carefully calculate the data. In a self-sustaining small society or village, this many people wouldn't even dare to live a normal life. Think about professions like doctors and carpenters? I read a little bit but still gave up.

After reading the comments about population issues, I stopped reading. It's just a bunch of fighting involving the population of a few village chiefs; the scale is so small. It feels like an empire that dares to call itself a divine emperor has a population smaller than a single county. It reminds me of a game called "The Most Ancient Village Chief."

This is hilarious! A knightly order of dozens of people, a tribe of twenty or thirty, a hundred or so people can fight a major battle? Are you kidding me? You should use wooden horses and wooden swords; that way, no one will get hurt, and when they get tired of fighting, they can all take a leak and play in the mud.

I couldn't watch any more of the free version, but everything else was fine. The data is just unacceptable. Baron 200 Village Chief Viscount 500 Town mayor, count, thousands The county magistrate and the king have tens of thousands? Does a country have 100,000 people? There are so few people at the bottom, and several legendary figures at the top; it's completely mismatched.

This is a rare and excellent fantasy farming/lord-themed novel. But it's really too padded out; they can fill an entire chapter with just anything. Moreover, the purpose of suppressing the protagonist's strength is unclear. It's fine to want a reasonable plot, but going too far is also not good.