Skeleton Knight in Another World (Light Novel), Vol. 10

I had originally marked volume 9 as where I dropped this series, but I couldn't remember why. After finishing this dreadful volume, I remembered. Nearly this entire volume is nothing but filler, with a tiny thread of a plot near the end. You can read the first chapter, then skip straight to the epilogue and still have a decent understanding of what you skipped, because one of the characters introduced in this volume explains the entire plot as if you didn't just read the volume. Surprise, the mysterious gold-ranked mercenaries are agents from another nation, and they're up to evil schemes because something-something war, but none of that matters until the epilogue kinda sorta maybe. Also, for some reason Arc is basically a pacifist against human enemies despite his very first incident in the series involving him cutting a bunch of bandits in half and then remarking how he doesn't feel anything about it. His insistence on capturing instead of killing comes back to bite him in the ass almost immediately, obviously, but I doubt he'll change his methods from hereon

This series really went downhill after Thanatos got merc'd, which is natural since that's where the original web novel ended. Everything after is the author writing by the seat of his pants. Oh well, time to find something else to read.