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This is gonna be a long one so lets get it out of the way. Despite its many annoyances and my own personally gripes with some decision, I'm absolute(pun intended) in my recommendation to read this novel.

General(pros):
Story is immensely fun and the progression is wonderful. With incredible worldbuilding that leaves you desiring more.

Many (including me at times) find the mc and his morality annoying but, it actually grants him a lot of nuance and personality which you usually don't get from these system/op mc stories.

Though the world is hardcore and at times almost excessively hostile to our mc, I personally love it as I feel it pushes our mc into terrible situations that require a nimble mind and decisive action.

I've seen some complain about the use of alternate povs but I'm of the opinion that it was generally well used. It mostly glazed the mc or gave us a unique perspective on upcoming events which was appreciated.

Characters(cons):
Most characters here are perfectly serviceable and remain enjoyable to read the whole way through. The few that fail at this though, really sour the experience for me.

Lets start with our resident mind flayer first. While I see the usefulness of Sophia both as a facilitator of dealings and a terrifying tool to bend the will of anyone who messes with our mc(not a combatant cause Op mc), I like many others believe she should have died. Her power is too terrifying and the fact we know she can be controlled by other mind benders will most certainly create a disgusting plot point later in the story; I can feel it. Whilst I understand perfectly well that this might not happen, the nature of putting mind f#ckery in a story like this her presence automatically creates deadly liability leading to unneeded tension and problems. (Also just hate mind bullshit)

Our absolute Lissandra is also a pos and should have played a smaller role than she ended up doing. I feel like the mc struggling but persevering to use his mana with just Lissandra's initial showing would have been a brilliant move in showing his love, dedication, and overall talent in mana while also giving us a more in depth showcase of its horrific limitations. Which, the novel seems to show a shocking lack of. It just comes of feeling like anyone without a specific talent like Kinetic not investing in mana is an idiot; which, If I'm to guess, was decidedly not the goal.

Overall I think the rating on this website almost perfectly represents this novels score. 3.95/5

I stopped at chapter 68, the MC is unbearable, of course no one wants a nice guy protagonist, but this is clearly a psychopath who has no feelings and doesn't see people as people, the kind of guy you wouldn't get close to in real life



But it's worth reading the first arc, which is quite interesting, due to its low power construction and being somewhat tribal survival.

Will do a proper review after I catch up (currently 390) but I just came here to vent and say I hate Lissandra. She's such bs character and even if I understand her reason to be here, I don't like her or the role shes meant to play. Would have instead liked to see the mc really struggle with his obsession with mana and try to find shoddy work arounds with debilitating side-effects on him. In my opinion, it would sell his love for mana so much more and would also provide an incredible payoff for when he actually stumbles into a good solution or a competent actually caring master/teacher which Lissandra is only one of. She just sucks.

Not a serious book, it feels like a gopnik was written, almost every character has the same manner of speech and it's terrible. I stopped at 100

I read the LN on Amazon. Thought it was pretty good. Third novel just released. Waiting on it to leak so I don't have to buy a subscription.

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I was only able to read 30 chap.I dropped this mainly bcoz of the bitch names sophie.
Author seems like an idiot , I mean female sucker.
It had great potential even though it has multiple pov and cold mc but reading the bitch name everytime ruined it for me

read up to 150
all i can say that it was good for time pass
it doesn't interest me that much
and i am sure if i take a break form readhing this novel i will never come back to read it again

Story Development: 4
Writing Quality: 3
World Background: 4
Character Design: 3

As of chapter 179.

Let's start with the plot. A group of people from a bus get transported to the tutorial. It's set at hell difficulty, the highest you can get picked to.

From the very beginning, the main character shines. He has some sort of battle instinct and immediately uses mana, though only subconsciuosly.

Everyone gets 2 skills, one common and the other "fitting" them. Fitting, because there are exceptions to this rule, and author just mentioned it casually after a hundred chapters. So mc gets his Focus, which helped him in battle and Mana Manipulation, or sth.

He is a genius when it comes to mana. Unfortunately, there are other people there. His abilities just suck, compared to what others can do. For example Desintegration skill, which literally disintegrates anything.

Anyway, there is this girl named Sophie,

Secondly

The author really hates Nathan. He gives him multiple obstacles, in forms of his "comrades". Mc only snaps, after someone hurt the girl (Lily), that has crush on him. He explains that he owes her. Nathaniel kills 2 guys he just met, and wants to kill Sophie, the bitch who tried killing him, but Lily makes him stop.

It's really frustrating to watch his enemies still live, just because of some nonexisting morals he has. At the beginning he appeared cold and ruthless, but later he's just a big joke.

System

System is not badly written. There is this cool status window and it looks nice. You can level skill by becoming more familiar with them. Also, there is little to none explenations from the system. Only the necessary things you get from side quest and quest are explained.

Quest are generally about clearing a floor. They vary from surviving to killing. The real power ups are generally side quests. You can get them complete while killing monsters and leveling up your skills. There are a lot more side quests. I think as of now they had better rewards, than the quests.

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Overall the story is not bad, but I started hating the few characters. I also was prepared for a loner MC, reading the tags, but he is just socially awkward. The author doesn't know how to write human relationships. He just keeps repeating same thing over and over. Characters are too childlish and Mc being a wuss doesn't help.

I would not recommend it to people wanting to expolre a new world, wanting to impersonate the protagonist, as it would only anger them. You need to keep your distance, to really enjoy this read.

Mid novel.