Low-Fantasy Occultist by Persimmon

This whole novel is a rage bait

6-7/10 overall it's okay, but lacks some depth plus it feels like some parts of the story feeled like they were unnececcery. Can read to pass some time (i've read up to ~300 ch, but thinking of dropping it)

THIS IS A ROYALROAD REVIEW(THE TOPMOST ONE): The story has great potential but is ruined by the author,the characters seem lifeless and being driven by the story,for example the protagonist's parents and brother : 24 chapters and all I know is that his mother has brown hair and his height (It took 20 chapters to report this) and your father, besides being muscular, we have nothing else, his brother doesn't even have a description of his appearance, and the MC suffers from the same thing.

The characters are lifeless because they don't have a clear objective, their "story" that would make them more memorable is conveniently left for later, The only character whose appearance and past are described is the alchemist's apprentice and that's it.

Now about the protagonist, a complete idiot, yes he has the modern magic system where mana has almost disappeared, which is focused on rituals and efficiency, but in his new world where mana is in abundance he keeps repeating that he is behind compared to others (yes, he compares himself and says he is behind with hypothetical rich families and how those in power control the resources) you know what's interesting, he literally has a huge amount of modern ritualistic knowledge that coincidentally and his traits help him a lot, In less than 2 months he wants to go out and resolve ley line crises, or risk himself for something stupid like getting "a head start and following the results of favored families"(which is all in his head, and he doesn't even really care about knowing about the magic of the new world), he considers churches evil for maintaining control of the population or keeping him and another girl under observation because of 'evil professions', not to mention that he coincidentally happens to be in the right place at the right time and how his knowledge allows him to solve all of his current problems (which the author uses as an excuse frequently in the plot) and considers churches to be cults (even though it is common sense that gods exist and have a presence in this world.

The story conveniently leaves his frontier village without any mages (even if they were a rare class, which they aren't because as his mother said there are several as adventurers) There should be some who were weak to give him better teaching, but no. In other words, there are several holes that the author simply covers with a sieve, I would much prefer him to have a weak and failed wizard to train his basics than to simply let him use his knowledge to use alone... the story is walking on crutches and I don't see growth.

And finally, he considers the system something he can change with a little study and time... simply forgetting that there are millennia of magical history in that mana-abundant world and others could have done the same (Gods) but no, there are many "convenient" things happening with the MC, which are covered by his knowledge.

i hear cult, im in

This is good novel, read it on Royal road... Go for it

Over the years, I think I've developed a certain allergy to works that don't have a transmigrating protagonist.