멸망한 가문의 회귀자(A Flame Reborn)

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Protagonist was a terrible asshole in his previous life that basically got thrown out of his noble house, and had to become a mercenary in order to survive. The rest of his family mostly perished due to various plots against his household so he had nowhere else to go later on. Eventually he dies and for some reason reincarnates back to the moment when everything went askew and was given a new chance to right all of the wrongs of his previous life, so he sets out to be a better person to his family and tries to implement everything he can to save his family and territory from the horrors that await it.

The plot of this work has been done so many times by now that I feel like this is the 100th time i’ve read this exact same thing; it also takes some inspiration from Greatest Estate Developer since it may as well just copy all of the popular works at once. Unfortunately it doesn’t do anything interesting with the outline and just treads the same few standard plotlines all of the other ones do. The protagonist just constantly introduces stuff that will appear in the future based off of vague knowledge that it exists, in order to monopolize the inventions for himself, while conveniently finding exactly what he needs to elevate his land.

The protagonist makes a dam, spends tons of money and many months making it. Then on the opening ceremony he for some reason has golems feign to open up the gates to let water through “for show” while the peasants use the rope/pulley in the back, except there’s an issue and the gates don’t go up. The protagonist’s immediate thought is to just use the golems to smash the gates since they’ll “remake them later”. It’s a dam. It’s going to be a pain in the ass to recreate them and install them again. The protagonist is a dumbass. This author is a dumbass.

What kind of kingdom allows declaring war on your fellow kingdom’s nobles willy-nilly just slaughtering them constantly in order to take their territory with no formal declaration or like actual consequences for doing so? I can understand political intrigue and doing this shit in the shadows or something, but this kingdom is kind of screwed. “If the golem takes too much damage, we’ll be affected and possibly die as well so we can’t use golems in live combat”, then many chapters later just tests out his new exploding crossbow on a golem for the lulz and it’s perfectly fine and okay. Author please at least be somewhat consistent.

There is at least some merit to the overall attention to detail in the logistics of war and I see glimpses of brilliance here and there, but not enough to actually recommend this work to anybody with all of its flaws. The only real highlight is that the “heroine” strives to be like a knight herself and is on the frontlines, but there’s basically no romance or any kind of love between the protag/heroine so it’s kind of a pointless addition to the work overall.