So, this manga has been an interesting read, however not a particularly good one. While the story reveals in its own grimness, it doesn't give me much of a reason to care for it. Just as a warning, let me say this: You will need a level of "sick" curiosity if you want to put up with this manga. As a video gamer who was always intrigued by the possibilities of an evil playthrough, but never had the guts to pull it off, this story peaked my interest.

The biggest problem with the story is its own weightlessness, which is a direct result of the fact that the story never gives me a reason to care. Throughout the story never once is it explained what the motivation of the main character is, which is the driving force of the plot. He likes to bloat about how the things go according to his plans, but it is never explained what these plans are. And since the story never bothered to tell me what the point of this all is, I simply became disinterested. Let's not even mention the fact that the Mc finds the source of ultimate power in the first chapter. Actually, the story doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, it juggles between being a serious story about the villain conquering the world, and between one where it takes itself less seriously treating all the cruelty as more self-indulgent. Nowhere is the story's duality more apparent than in the art style. When it is not the dark and edgy staff the art usually depicts the characters as cutesy chibis, and the tone shifts to an outright comical one. And these extreme tonal shifts are especially jarring when the manga goes from torturing someone to chibi comedy in the time space of a single page. The story's handling of time is also nonsensical, a single chapter can take up from a couple of days to weeks of time and then between chapters entire months can take place. It just becomes confusing, it honestly gave me the feeling that I am watching a montage of the more interesting moment of this villain's life.

Let's take for example the mini arc from ch.8-12, spoilers ahead (skip this paragraph if you don't want them). This arc is basically all about the torture and breaking of that adventuring party that goes to the Mc's dungeon. Not only is it confusing because it takes place over an indeterminate amount of time, but it also completely undercuts the main plot. In just the previous chapter (ch.7) we saw that the Mc started to conquer the land around him, but now it is just been put on the back burner. 5 entire chapters about Mc torturing this random adventuring party and the only thing you are left with is a question: Why? Why go all the trouble of converting them one by one, if he could have simply killed them? Fun fact: After these chapters, these characters completely disappear from the plot, strengthening the feeling that this was completely irrelevant. The only point was for the manga to reveal in its own dark edginess.

That is the thing, all the cruelty is extremely self-indulgent because whenever the story decides to do this, the plot comes to a crawling halt. And if you want me to put up with all the wicked and frankly somewhat disturbing things the Mc does at least give me a reason. But there is no reason, it's all self-serving. Also, if you want to shock me with rape and the Mc making women into his sex slaves, at least have the decency to do it only once, because after the fifth time I can't stop to just roll my eyes and think: "Here we go again."

Let's not even talk about the characters. The side characters personality wise, are pretty much non-existent. And they are not even parts of the plot, they randomly appear and disappear from the story.

Although I give props where its due, it takes a certain amount of balls to create a story like this. It is also clear, that a lot of thought gone into certain aspects of the plot. Especially to the building a dungeon thing, and it can be pretty creative when depicting all the deplorable things the Mc does.

On a short note, just because you fill your story with lots of gore, sex, and cruelty, isn't going to make it a mature examination of the concept. All in all, I wouldn't recommend this manga, if not for the shock value itself. It took an interesting concept and squandered it, 3/10.