Worse than book 1 to me by a decent bit. This is a 2.5 at best. The fights kill this book for me. Every fight is an easily avoided train wreck. Its like they park on the tracks and stare at the train barreling towards them then they throw pebbles at it to get it not to hit them. When this fails horribly and predictably they get injured or almost die, that's when they pull out the rail gun they were holding onto the whole time. They constantly have no plan and when they do, our wonderful hero still prompts on the directions, such as yelling kill them all, helpfully. All of this is after the time he takes to panic, before during or after the fight. Nothing like a good panic to prove what a great hero you are. Ohh and I have never seen a worse main tank in any litrpg. He is weak, squishy, cant hold agro, constantly falls down, is slower than everyone and everything and has horrible instincts. All of that yet he still makes him try to tank rather than use runes. Ya know like a runecrafter would use. tier 3 cultivator weaker than a tier 0 human... pathetic. It seems book 2 will be the last for me.