The Multiverse Megacorp That Started in Night City

It's a standard light novel, starting with lots of grinding and "brothers, come and fight me!" Clicking it gives you a free 999 damage attack. Currently updated to chapter 15. There's not much foreplay; think of it as jumping straight to the climax in a porn movie. If you like fast-paced, action-packed stories, you can check it out. I'd give it a 3 out of 5 stars—not very engaging, but not worth abandoning.

Xdm, please stop asking why the timeline is wrong. It was arranged this way on purpose. Just think of it as a parallel universe version of Cyberpunk 2077. (I'm tired of reading the original content, so I thought I'd write something different. Beware if you're a die-hard fan of the original!!)

Around chapter 200, it loses its cyberpunk roots and becomes no different from other books that simply introduce technology and use high-tech weapons to bully people. It's pretty boring. Will it stay like this afterward? Can anyone tell me?

Is the protagonist a born eunuch because he doesn't even have a woman?

The novel felt very disjointed towards the end, like primitive people using high technology—they only knew how to use it but didn't understand it at all.

To be honest, after reading around chapter 70, I feel really disappointed. I originally thought there would be some minor characters joining the protagonist's company, experiencing its differences from other companies from their perspective, and watching it grow step by step, with these minor characters also rising in rank.

I've read 140 chapters so far, and it all seems like a huge company in name only, with few people and little influence—just a handful of small fry. Will it stay like this later? Or will it just continue like this, playing house?

My assessment is that it's not Paradox Interactive enough. A megacorporation without contract slaves feels inauthentic, and the construction progress is like it's on autopilot. A megastructure built in a year? With such a huge cheat, they might as well just burn the entire galaxy in one go. It feels disjointed.

The giant company next door has already shut down; this one absolutely has to hold on! 🙂

The new chapter even misspelled the name; it's called Astartes, not Astera. I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't been listening to the audiobook.