Trying to find a story I was reading.
I was reading a story a friend sent me a few months ago, but when I went back to continue it they had deleted their messages.
The details I remember:
They were in a tutorial world, to make Earth part of "the system".
There was a guy introduced in the 1st(2nd?) chapter that used his ability to brainwash people into following him and sacrificing them for his own safety.
The MC gets a sidekick/butler style man who speaks like a shakespeare play, can use stealth/illusion magic and has a wife that was capture by goblins after being kicked out of the brainwashed group with her friend. The butler and his wife were in a theater group together.
The MC almost dies in his first fight, buries the body of a guy he didn't know the name of, and comes back at the end of the tutorial/book to pay respect for (paraphrasing) "being the death of his old self"
MC uses anime references, including the final attack of the book where he does a Blackfire bow attack with a monologue from an anime.
The final arc of the tutorial setting is against giant sentient ants, where one of the Queen's sons betrays her to become King of the hive, while the MC and the Butler hide in the tunnels.
MC has a fortress he steals from Kobalds, which he then fills with a group who thinks he will just use them, after he rescues them from the goblin camp.
This is all I can remember, as I read it back in Febuary. If anyone can help me find it I would be very appreciative.