Again with the 'trickery to victory'. Doesn't the author get it? In an evaluation of a product's value, who the heck wants to see someone bend the rules? That doesn't accurately reflect the ability of the suit, just the ingenuity of the EXO. With Li Yao pulling this stunt, the decision makers don't get a real feel for how the different suits compare. Only a fool would believe the Mystic Skeleton was better due to it's pilot rigging a fake meltdown. I am disappointed.

Wait... That's not just word-play, that's actual cheating. I'm usually impressed with Li Yao's innovative strategies, but the point of the duel was to detemine the superior fighting suit in a blisteringly hot environment. Even if he wins, the rest of the world should recognize that instead of putting on a cooling plate that would actually be useful in this use case, he put on heavy armor that on one would ever be equipped with on the actual battlefield. If I or anyone from reality were watching this contest, the conclusion we'd come to is that the armor Li Yao wears wasn't good enough win without cheating. The author stretched this one out too much.

You won't get one... soft of. There is a sequel. It takes place hundreds of years later, but it's the same world and it tells you what happened to the main characters. However, it has yet to be translated by humans, (you can find a machine translations rather easily).

This is a rare masterpiece. Are you looking for a powerful, intelligent protagonist? Are you looking for fleshed-out, thought-provoking villains? Do you want a mix of complex, interesting side characters? Do you want a whiff of romance without the overbearing stench of sordid detail? Then you have found a winner. This is the tale of a young man's struggle in a post-apocolyptic China to find peace for himself and his family. He'll face bandits, hegemons, corporations, soldiers, and honeypots that get in his way. He will awake one day to a 'system' for him to get stronger, and square up against foes with superpowers. But it will never be easy, and it will always feel earned. The world of this novel feels tangible. I can feel the grit under my feet and sense the emotions of the characters without them having to be spelled out. It builds slowly, but not ploddingly. It's not (very) jingoist, and you feel you yourself are in the main character's shoes. Best of all, by the end of the novel, you will feel like you've completed the adventure... although there is a sequel! (as yet untranslated...) My advice is to give it a shot.

This is a mess… the ransom was 2,000,000 km of resources. 5% of that is 100,000 km or resources. This statement just said that 5% of 1,000,000 is nearly 200,000. I try to gloss over most contractions, but this is basic math…

This person has a complete understanding of our hero.

What a payoff! Not only the beautiful end to an absorbing arc that took Xaiosu through every difficulty, but the chapter was so exquisitely translated. I'll admit that I became impatient at the release rate and I read ahead from some machine-translated chapters. I was able to make sense of them and to appreciate the plot development, but it gave me a real respect for this translator and how good a job they've done.

I love this blockhead. He knocks out P5092 because he, ‘knows he has already agreed’ to travel to the Northwest. He may be the strongest superhuman in this world, but his girlfriend still needs to straighten him out now and again. I could not like this character any more than i do.

Just when I thought I was used to it, the author slips in a casual reference to a main character (Zhao Manyan) date-raping another. Cringe worthy.

Wait wait wait. Ignoring the fact that the nomination deadline for the Nobel prize in Literature is January 31st, him coming up with this novel makes no sense. The line 'He had read many versions of this novel' is ridiculous. He could not even spell the word "hero" in English. It would be impossible for him to read every page of the English version of the novel while still in college. There is no way that he flipped through and scanned every page of a book of which he didn't understand a single word.

I can't understand why he is always 'broke'. No matter how little he asked for from the Japanese manga companies, the Japanese anime companies, or the Chinese anime company, he should be taking in millions of USD. not to mention the 'godly' tea that he is the sole owner of. And a million other things he should receive residuals from.

Just as I was getting fed up with Webnovels that take someone with oh-so-convenient knowledge from our time and place them in dystopian circumstances, our hero looks to be a being of his own mind. I know that in LOTM author Cuttlefish only used the time skip as a jumping off point, but I am happy to see that it looks like this protagonist will wholly be a product of his own ingenuity.

He mentions early on that he will not let others control his life. Yet time and again he lets others dictate what he does and how he does it. Here, he could capture and torture these women until they tell him who has the jade, yet he lets them lead him around by the nose. This will be another story about a protagonist that 'lucks through' all his misadventures. He is a fool.

Christmas is coming. Can I ask Santa to return us to 2 releases per day? (I kid, I kid.) But as the most engaging story I read, a chapter a day feels lethargic to me.

As in tag line? In post-apocalyptic China, you are either a resident of a Stronghold or one of the refugees that live outside them. One of those refugees, a 17 year-old by the name of Ren Xiaosu has neither electricity, nor running water. He is neither brilliant, nor stupid, neither handsome, nor ugly. But he is tenacious. He will do whatever he needs to protect himself and his younger brother. His world is seeing the advent of mutant plants, mutant animals, and the whispers of supernatural humans appearing. None of those things directly affect him until one day, he awakens to a system in his head...

I like a clever main character. A man or woman in a dangerous world that uses caution and pluck to make their way. Luckily, so does this author. It also lessens the fun when their is no real danger or worthy adversary. But their is here. The villains, while admittedly filled with hubris, are capable and deadly. In fact, central characters die and the main character is badly injured. It feels satisfying when the hero overcomes because he's actually earned it. And, importantly, the main character is not the most clever protagonist. I think his girlfriend is. What he does have, above any other character, is grit. He embodies the doggedness of a Sherman tank. That alone, would make for a good story. But the humor with which the author peppers the story, makes it great. Sometimes the humor is unintentional. That's my favorite way to laugh. But often it is, as the main character's only perfect proficiency is literally in, 'annoying others'. What most attracts me to the story though, is that it takes itself seriously. Most of the adults act like adults, and the children act like children. There is an air of maturity to the storytelling that really pulls me in. I began reading this story when in only had around 200 translated chapters. The translation was fantastic, but I tend to read quickly, and I knew I would quickly reach the latest translation. But realizing that I enjoyed this writer's style, I investigated, and I found Spare Me, Great Lord!. I began plowing through that, and I was not disappointed. I didn't like it quite as much as I have come to love, The First Order, but it was a fantastic read. Now, as that novel has been fully translated, I am back here, and eagerly awaiting every new release. This novel is currently in my top 5.