I dont know why you people like this so much. I have read so many fantasy novels like this that it made me very critical about fantasy novels. First of all, the idea of a broke mercenary with complete limbs and a probable average strength being broke is utterly idiotic. I wouldve understood him being broke if he had lost his limbs or anything or if he lost his strength maybe but this? Hayzz. The story is very bland so much so that this is the same pattern on fantasy novels before with no "Boom" or "Wow" effect on the readers. The depiction of cruelty is quite nice but the others are very much, well, nothing. I feel like the author had no experience reading other fantasy novels that he had no clue what was in it.