Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City Vol. 4 - I'm still creeped out by the way MC always thinks of himself in the third person as "wee little Van". But in general I like novels where someone builds something up (books, cities, nations or even just their own character build) the most, so I can look past the creepy MC in a story that centers around building.

Record of Wortenia War: Volume 14 - While reading Territory Defense I thought that I could pick up Wortenia again since it's always sitting there in my "Continue Reading" list. It's been years since I last picked up this series and I remember now why I stopped reading it. The constant history tangents and the terrible chakra power system. I had volume 14 still sitting at 12% read and thought I could finally finish the volume now that Unrivaled in Another World reset the scale. And it works. While it was bad enough to drop it back then, it now doesn't feel so terrible in comparison. Maybe I should pick up Der Werwolf: Annals of Veight again as well. The nation-building in the series seems to be pretty much done here in volume 14 and it looks like only continued war is on the horizon so I'm not that interested in picking up the next volume, but at least I was able to finally finish this one.

Since I Was Abandoned After Reincarnating, I Will Cook With My Fluffy Friends: The Figurehead Queen Is Strongest At Her Own Pace Volume 6 - What should have been a fluffy iyashikei has devolved into frustrating romance with drama tropes build on stupid misunderstandings.