This novel is a solid read even though it doesn’t have much to do with knocking down towers. At first I thought based on the title of the novel that this would be a dungeon aka tower conquering novel. However it is not that at all, the story is about a young man who crosses over into a small farmer family where the son died of heat exhaustion working too hard in the farms. He then gets a golden finger that allows him to gain stats points based on life accomplishments, such as hunting an animal for the first time, killing a person, improving his strength in his chosen power system. When he makes those accomplishments he also gets more training/information where he learns those skills to a professional level. He can then use those points to increase his physical or mental attributes. This produces a straightforward golden finger that allows him to continue to increase his strength but not to the point where he feels completely broken at least not until the end.
The novel progresses with our MC growing stronger and gaining enough power where he starts his own territory in order to get enough resources to grow stronger. The novel then starts to include a lot of town management and political information and he starts to grow his own force. This own force includes a lot of characters but a few stick out the most. He has an awesome monster companion that is a giant white bear that is just as talented as the MC and stays throughout the whole story as a great secondary character. He has two ability users he takes under his wing that I wish were included more in the book and more of their abilities were used before he gets super strong. One is a person that can control animals and life energy and a necromancer who is also a blacksmith. There is never really any romantic relationship for the MC, he is too focused on growing stronger and surviving to take time for his personal life.
The MC gains a lot of miscellaneous abilities based on his cheat which come in handy for the main character. There are a few core abilities that he progresses on to become stronger, the main one is called being a knight, this ability is basically the equivalent of cultivating and this one stays at the core for the whole novel. Secondly he gets the abilities of someone who is called a Hanged Man who typically grows their strength based on the amount of justice power. The MC grows this ability by defeating people that are corrupt or using dark abilities or have murdered a lot of people. The other people in the world are magicians which the MC dabbles in a little but never goes down that route. I think keeping the MC in these 2 core areas makes the book easier to understand and follow and you can grasp how strong he is.
The book ends after 551 chapters in a relatively smooth and satisfying way. I would say around chapter 450 the book starts going at a faster pace to finish the novel. However this doesn’t take away from the book and does a good job on wrapping up the MC storyline and other side characters decently well. For this reason I am going to give it 4 stars. It’s a solid novel that is a complete story, with fun side characters that you can relate to. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read a weak to strong novel that includes kingdom building and doesn’t care about romance.
