The Gilded Hero

Enjoyed it a lot so far. An fresh take on the isekai genre, and probably a far more realistic take. If heroes can be summoned, you can bet that someone is going to want to exploit that.

Keep up the good work!

It turns out, people summoned from another world are easily charmed with the title of "Hero."  And they really shouldn't be.

I really can't think of any words to do justice to this story, in any way more than the description already lays it out. Just go read the first couple chapters and if you're not hooked by then, nothing I can say would do the trick either.

As of chapter 38, I have found this serial to be everything I want. While the mc has a special advantage, he often earns his progress through pain. The author raises questions that you want answers to, and when answered lead to more interesting questions as well as tantalizing glimpses into the story's mythos. The characters around him are compelling and very human, each dealing with the difficulties of life in their own way. There's more, but I think this is enough to get you started. Enjoy!

You should read it.  A rather unfortunate MC has been transported to another world.  Normally even unlucky protagonists feel somewhat enviable.  Werc does a good job of making you feel the unfairness of the MC's life.  He's powerless, screwed over and despised.  I recommend it.

Real.

Non-one-dimensional characters.

Shows, doesn't tell.

Gripping. I read everything available at the time in 1 sitting.

Excellent grammer.

MC is relatable and not an idiot.

I can't wait for more. 

 The Gilded Hero is a story about a man named John after he is summoned from another world as a "hero", where the kingdom that summoned him and others only summoned them to use in their massive war to take over the continent. John struggles to survive while being given little to allow him to become stronger, and is forced to improvise. Watch as all his fellow summoned heroes either grow stronger and become competent or die, while John manages only minor gains.

The story is very character driven. John doesn't have a specific overarching goal or purpose, other than to get away from danger, but he continues to struggle to survive. The way it's written is compelling, holding your attention throughout. Hopefully, the author Wercwercwerc will deliver a story even better than his last one, The Snake Report. 

I look forward to future chapters.

This story is very frustrating for me to read in a way? Like, it's very good. And I can see the character development and plot and all that, and it's objectively well written. And yet I kept finding myself saying, "When is something going to happen?" followed by me skimming over 5 chapters before something finally happens. It feels like a lot of filler chapters that could easily be cut and improve the story, things that have no impact on the story. Like what plants he decides to eat. Or how long the walk is. Weirdly, and I don't normally say this, but weirdly I think that the pacing is off not because you're going too fast, or you have big exposition dumps, but it's off because you're too focused on writing a good book? If that makes sense? Like, this is what I imagine the first draft was for some amazing books before an editor came along and said "scrap chapters 36-40" and forced the writer to cut down on the unnecesary details. I don't know, that's just my feelings.

I just got to chapter 40.

This story has a lot of potential. The MC has a great set up, and the story has interesting twists and turns to keep you interested. I especially enjoyed the chapters until around the early chapter 30's or what is the beginning of what I call the "Sea" arc. The grammar is nearly flawless as well.

Starting around the early chp 30's however, the author started to put in excess filler monolouges about the MC. I wouldn't mind it if it didn't take about 10 chapters for the "Sea" arc to conclude because of it. I could skim/skip literal paragraphs, with missing very little actual plot to the story. A lot of what is mentioned in that "filler" just doesn't matter. Basically, the chapters turned into MC starting new action > MC talks about doing said action > MC has flashback about something relating to that action from Earth > MC talks about doing said action again > MC does said action > Chapter ends. Rinse and repeat. Honestly I have to say, the story has started to get rather tedious and boring to read and predictable in the structure of each chapter. Very little progress actually happens during the "Sea" arc which is 25% of the story thus far, and pretty much nothing noteworthy happens at all. If the arc was cut out completely and skipped straight to the next one, nothing would have been missed since he also literally doesn't learn anything new, or progress in ANY way (maybe 1 or 2 stat points, but that's it). And with only 1 chapter per week coming out so far, I doubt I will continue to follow or read it as it has been taking chapters for any progress to occur.

Zug zug. wercwercwerc. Me wercing.

Zug zug. kek stop poking me.

Will review now post above 3 stars? With 5 ticked...

Zug zug.

TY for chapter

The story is incredibly well written, and is easy to follow. Not everything is what it seems in this tale of being a summoned hero. This tale is a bit gritty.

This is a tale about how those summoned from another realm are taken advantage, and one "hero" who slipped through the cracks.