A fair bit of worldbuilding here for the dwarves and their technomagic creations. We get a lot of detail on the “final” dungeon in the world, as well as a good dose of dungeon crawling. Some details on the beastmen race also turn up. Unfortunately the dwarves and beastmen, like the elves from the prior volume, are pretty generic fantasy trope versions. This volume also seems to be setting up political fallout related to the protagonist’s rapidly increasing visibility to the powers that be, which I assume will get more important in the next volume or two. There are also hints about what may happen after the demon war ends. It will be interesting to see how the world politics play out once the Big Nastybad gets trounced.

Been waiting for this for months, at first it was ok. The story at first feels like it had momentum but when you summarize what’s actually happened you’re left without much TBH. also why are there 7 side stories?! I think that just shows what I’m talking about. 7 side stories and the main storyline barely made any significant progress. I get it this series has been slow from the start but it actually made sense in the beginning. At book 5, this can’t keep being the same. If this ever gets put into anime form, this volume would equal maybe an episode and a half. Honestly I’m being nice because if I was the animator I’d cut all the filler and you’d really be at half an episode waiting for more significant content.