(3542 Chapters in)TLDR: Do yourself a favor, read till the War arc, then quit. it only gets worseAfter 3500 chapter of reading this novel, the only thing i can express is disappointment and frustration. The first few hundred chapters are rough, but they had promise and the premise of “the system” made sense. The MC progressed at a reasonable pace, that is until the infamous “War” arc. this is where the entire story begins to go downhill. See, The Mech touch ‘was’ as system novel up until the war arc. At the beginning of this arc he is forced to put away his system and you dont see it for nearly a hundred chapters. I believe this is where the author got the idea to start phasing out the system, because even after the war arc he begins to use the system less and less, supposedly to not ‘become over reliant’. yknow, reliant on the one thing that is the entire reason that he isnt rotting in obscurity in the first place. The second he stops relying on the system, his progress grinds to a halt, in the 2000+ chapters since, he has had minute and intangeble progress with no signs of true progression. Now all that is pretry damning for what was supposed to be a system novel, reimagining your system novel into something that is decidedly not is a bold move, one which i think didnt turn out well. however, this wasn’t even the worst mistake that the author made. no, the single worst mistake that the author made can be summed up by one name, gloriana. Up until the moment ves met this girl, he was a calculating man who, while not being abrasively masculine or overbearing, still stood up for himself. Once gloriana was introduced he was dragged along like a dead fish, by the most unlikable female lead ive ever read about. This female supremacist, ultra religious, man hating, obsessive-compulsive woman is the single most annoying character in existence. her constant harrassment and dismissal of the MC is absolutely ludicrous and it is further compounded by the fact that the MC just lets her walk all over him on countless occassions. The authors choice to include a female lead who no one could ever possibly like is confounding, and is the single biggest reason that ive quit reading this novel DOZENS of times, to the point that the only reason i come back to this book is because im alread 3500 chapters in
