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This is a story that honestly started out pretty great (or at least was entertaining), but has become increasingly bland and homogeneous the longer it goes on - which is a real shame, because it has some really cool worldbuilding going on. Unfortunately the story loves going into repetitive and boring chapter-length exposition tangents about creature evolution that add little value to the overarching plot and exist for the sake of existing, which kills the flow from time to time and leaves you feeling frustrated, because all that time and mangaka effort could have been spent on things that actually matter. Like the god related ... plots or more politics developments stemming from the emergence of what is effectively a new country, rather than the MCs latest experiments in getting goblins and fox pokemon to evolve into the next stage.

As far as the character cast goes, unfortunately the saying 'less is more' applies completely to this manga - it was a honestly fun and pleasant read while it was just the main guy and the two main girls whom started the journey together with him. They played well off each other and had distinct personalities (as in, the two girls - unfortunately the guy has absolutely zero personality traits of any kind, which is one of the bigger issues of the story that honestly became noticeable very early. You can't even tell why he is doing any of the things he is doing, because he is not driven by any inherent personality traits or quirks - of which he has none, save passivity - but by the plot demanding he has to do a random thing X today for the story to progress) and the group dynamics were fun to observe. The vampire and priestess were decent additions, I suppose, and the later actually ties into the story themes pretty well.

Unfortunately the story kept introducing more and more harem members (we are up to 8 or so actively involved with the MC, and about half a dozen more just waiting in the wings), which has lead to a complete personality homogenization between them and an absolute lack of meaningful screentime for most of them. By this point all girls feels literally the same and have just about the same dynamics for interacting with the MC and each other, and the one personality trait they share between them is that they are hot and bothered for the MC and all want to have his children (yes, really). There's no reason for most of them to be there, and it shows. The characterization and relationships could have been much better and more meaningful if it had stuck with the first two girls (and the priestess for story and plot relevance), rather than shoveling more and more harem members into the MCs bed - you can't even really tell why the MC keeps sleeping with more and more them (or why the first two are ok with this, considering how otherwise biblically protective they are of the MC), considering his absolutely passive personality and seemingly zero drive to initiate anything on his own.

And that's unfortunately where we are now - an increasingly growing harem with decreasing amounts of personality and individuality for any of its members, and an arguably interesting plot that keeps periodically being interrupted by an absolute deluge of worthless, obnoxiously detailed trivia about monster evolution experiments and tower floor swapping that have no importance or relevance whatsoever in the large scheme of things. The overarching plot about gods and politics is still interesting, but the increasingly bland characterization and irrelevance of the ever-growing harem, coupled with the MC's own lack of personality, keeps dragging it further and further down from the very pleasant experience it was at the start.