the last few chapters has seen john gain far too much support with literally everyone, the vast majority of those people having barely interacted with john at all. Everyone mindlessly subservient to his orders, as if their sole purpose is to be a blank sheet that says "hey, this MC is really charismatic!" I wouldn't have a problem with their obedience if John did anything at all to befriend them, but we haven't been shown any of this at all; The only blank slates people he talks to are the few people he trained for his own mental benefit, other than that are some people he got lumped with during an exam. He only really interacted with the prince in private other than one honestly dubious time they simple displayed they knew of each others existence. This leads to a situation that is so ridiculous even the level of suspension of disbelief required to accept magic cannot accept john magically being so trusted. Previously it has been stated by other characters that John is more-so "weird" than charismatic. If there were even one legitimate panel where it was shown that John was made out to be trusted by these complete strangers. If anyone attempts to use the argument "John's father is a soldier at this fort, and their instructor knew this." then I'd also have to state that all of these background characters came from various locations; as shown by the large amount of nobles which wouldn't realistic in a well functioning out of the way town; would likely not even know who Johns father is in the first place- largely due to the fact John has stuck to himself other than characters of convenience. There is little chance that a man who intends solely on gaining power to save his entire town would have the time out of story to buddy up to every single commoner. This would also mean that John wouldn't know anything about how everyone in his school would fight, especially the nobles. All of this leads to this absolute ludicrousy. Although it pains me to say, the arrogant nobles were right to be suspicious of Johns orders, regardless of how well they worked.