The hero's strongest weapon is "personal connections"! An exhilarating fantasy adventure begins!!Ned is a young man who has been behind many of the world's greatest achievements, wielding a weapon known as "human networking".One day, however, he is judged by the selfish king to be a liability and expelled from the heroes' party.Ned decides to start from scratch as an adventurer. However, his life as an adventurer is naturally far from ordinary, as he is adored and connected with everyone, from the leader of the knights to the princess of the mermaid tribe..."Can I get help from the Wisdom King and the Great Sage to find this person?"Meanwhile, the king is coming to a realization: the heroes' party was full of capable, but incredibly problematic children, and that it was Ned that kept them reined in...Thus opens a new story of a hero who changes the world from behind the scenes with his motto of "using connections". 335kt
3 Volumes (Ongoing)
I read somewhere once that an author can't create a fictional character smarter than themselves. If the author has poor socialization skills, then they can't create a character with great socialization skills on their own. That kind of limitation can be overcome with help from others but it seems that the author didn't take anyone's help. I worked super hard to improve my socialization skills over several years, so it bothers me when poor socialization skill is treated like great socialization skill. Beyond that, something very important that most folks don't seem to get is that pure socialization skill is useless on its own. For example, you can't suddenly become friends with an experienced engineering genius if you don't know enough about engineering to draw their interest towards you. Similar requirements exist for making societal connections with anyone anywhere in real life. Someone with poor socialization skills doesn't understand these things.
For a guy who only has people skills, he's hilariously bad at talking to people.
One dimensional antagonistic King and Royal Knight.
Shoehorned scenario where MC is unjustly kicked out of party.
Meek MC. He could just leave with the party, but apparently he fine with them rampaging and killing civilians.
MC constantly downplaying his own abilities, as the author wants him to appear humble to make up for the lack of personality, but it just makes everything a contrived version of "whoops, didn't mean to reveal my power, oh no, silly me!!! but do bask in my glory worship me now"
