This ln is straight up feels like wn without any editing. It has its moments, but most of the time you are reading filler content without any relation to the plot. There is no structure to the story, there is no subtext or anything really - just a power fantasy with a good premise. The longer the story goes on, the more obvious it becomes that the author is simply operating on generic tropes and canned reactions from popular media. Main thing here is MC tries to build relationships with a dragon girl, and when he does not do that - it feels like a filler.Also boring POV of girls that can only talk positive things about MC. You can see attempts to deepen story with a war or parenting - but it looks equally bad. All those events and their justifications are superficial and do not mean anything. They are just happen to make character troupe grow (in number) and give them something to react to, with pretty generic reactions to boot. Results are inconsequential to the MC and he operates mostly the same way throughout whole story.

What worse is that translation also kinda suck - at some point it looks more like localization to USA literature which can be equally alien to the reader. Just as an little example: "Itadakimasu" = "Bon Appétit". And dwarf speech stylization is just blegh.

I picked up LN version at book 7, after reading manga. And let me tell you, dude that adapting it to the manga is doing excellent job - all needless inner thoughts blabbering is nonexistent. After dropping on 11 book, I gave a try to the first one - it is bad. Stick to the manga is my best advice.