Ok story, but slow pace, and not innovative

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It took 200 plus chapter on a single conflict. Story drag on and on. It likes watching a movie in slow motion. I skipped over 2/3 of the chapters. MC is an mercenary in modern time and yet beside making a few mirrors and sea salt, he is too stupid to innovate modern tech. His father army lost 45,000 troop try to climb a castle and yet he could come up with a way to solve it. Instead he ran around, got himself into trouble and got his father on dead bed. This whole time, the author keep telling how amazing MC.