On a purely objective level, this probably deserves the score it has, but it is enjoyable enough that at least for a little bit Ill probably read more chapters if this gets selected.This is very much a derivative tale. Check-In systems are conceptually lame, even by the standards of system novels. Check in Systems do serve as a useful device to justify hidden expert hermits, without having them have to be ancient powerhouses or reincarnated ancient powerhouses. This story is a generic powerful hidden hermit story through and through, and it leans into all the tropes you would expect in such a story. Unlike the other stories like this that have been released so far the power level gap in this setting isn't so obscene that there doesn't feel like any stakes, and the court drama, while cliché, was done fairly competently. I haven't read everything in this weeks new trial reads, but this might be my favorite of them so far.To be clear, this story really does not deserve me spending my time to write a review, as it is neither really good nor really bad, but I read a few a review comparing this novel (or maybe it was the other 80-years one, who knows) unfavorably to that stupid check in story in the magic school library, and it thoroughly outraged me. Really I just wanted to take the time to state that, that library check in novel is complete and utter trash.
