Basiun

Novel is great, but the translation quality is absolute trash. There are alternative sites to read this on so would recommend those more than whatever this is supposed to be

Your bog-standard MMO novel, now with guns! Grammar & spelling isn't quite up to par. You can understand what the author intended to write, but intentions and what is actually written very much differ in multiple passages per chapter. Author has no sense of scale and uses numbers that are far too big or extreme when compared to logic. I coudln't find much character design in this apart from how everybody everywhere seems to react to how amazing the MC is in one way or the other. That is the role of every other character than the MC. To bring up how awesome the guy is. Everything in this novel moves far too fast, which is a common trend in these kinds of novels. A game is out for 2-3 days and suddenly half the people playing seem to know intricate details about obscure 1-off places as if they've been living there for years? It's about as bad as xianxia characters knowing events that "only happen every 1 million years" even though they're roughly 20 years old themselves.

The synopsis for some reason states something about this not being an edgelord story. It also states that the main character is bullied, doesn't rely on anyone, the MC being badass and a whole boatload of things I would definitely contribute to an edgelord story when combined. I won't even comment on the fact that the novel itself is literally titled "Hero of Darkness".

(C231) It's a very good story, looking forward to more chapters. Fun/Easy to read, has some good touches here and there, a lot of plot progression, and more importantly a lot of groundwork being done for future expansion of the story. I don't particularly care too much about the numbers/system, but so far there hasn't been too much inconsistency in the way game elements are handled. Dumb things behave like dungeon encounters while smarter enemies behave a bit more lifelike. Author is also actively patching up obvious plotholes/inconsistencies in a timely manner, and not 50 chapters into the future like a band-aid. Good work so far author, keep it up.

The best description I could give this would be a fast-food novel. It's basically just fighting continuously for several hundred chapters, with little to nothing in-between. There is not really any harem even though the novel advertises it as such - as it really wouldn't make any difference whether the characters were male or female considering the lack of meaningful dialogue. Chapters are short, events are quick and to the point and while nothing really stands out, there really aren't any aspects of the story that are unforgivably bad. It isn't exactly a good read, but it's easy on the eyes.

Update after reaching current chapter: Most of my criticism regarding the earlier chapters still holds valid, but most of them also went on the backburner the further the story progressed. A lot of the chapters after the first 100 or so are much more focused on story progression and world-building, which are precisely what this novel does best. Overall I'm very happy with the way this novel turned out. The author is doubling down on what he's good at writing and the novel has turned out great for it. +Plots +World-building +Characters

How is this piece of trash ranked as #1 on Webnovel? It's literally painful to read, no matter what age or interests you have. The only positive thing about this novel is the rate of updates. Writing quality is below average even for this site. Half-baked English with multiple spelling errors, basic language, and plenty of grammatical errors. It's slightly above a 1-star due to it being 80% coherent and identifiable as English, but that's about it. Updates are probably why this novel still lives on. The author just keeps writing, and the mindless reader just keeps reading. The chapters are short though, so really nothing special even there. The story up to the point that I've read makes no logical sense at all. The characters are as basic as they come, almost as if they were directly drafted from a character template for a B-rated anime show. The only reason I gave the World Background a 2-star rating is that I quit reading before the author even had a chance to improve on it.

It's a solid read, but it also has quite a few annoying parts to it. To define this book is to say "Kingdom builder with reincarnator from the future" There are 4 points that irk me in this novel: *There's very little dialogue and a ridiculous amount of narration. The narration is made even tougher due to the 10 line+ paragraphs that it's served in. *Many times we're reminded of the shortcomings of the middle-ages, but somehow the town smithies seem capable enough to practically mass-produce high-quality muskets, 12 pounder cannons, and even a large scale steel-piped irrigation system only a few days after being introduced to steel which was somehow produced several tons a batch using a Bessemer Process which ALSO seems to have been built in only a few days. *Building on the previous point, the main character is far too knowledgeable about "future stuffs". It's basically to the point of "Oh, a medieval problem? It's fine, I've got the perfect solution for it, and I can provide a random perfect blueprint or plan to solve it" The MC is basically an "Army engineer" who somehow knows: History and geography to a T, can create literal blueprints for cannons, muskets, rifles, an entire irrigation system, several types of textile machines, how to create "White Arsenic" and GOD KNOWS what else the guy will "remember" straight from wikipedia. It's just far too easy to cheat this way, and it sort of impacts the story and the writing quality a lot. *The amount of "foreshadowing" in the sense of "And only in the future would they know the significance of this event!" - It's literally once every chapter. It's annoying. Apart from all of that? it's solid. Characters are quite solid and their positions in society done quite well to match their personalities. The plots/schemes are well done and you can feel the MCs plans for the future building bit by bit.

This church certainly takes the word "Tithe" to a whole new level.

Well the point of it is quite understood, the problem is the multiplier and thus forced future scale. This novel won't end for a good couple thousand chapters and if we're scaling the currency into soon to be trillions at this current stage, we will end up with going from unimaginable numbers that we currently have - to numbers that a vast majority of the population including your reader base hasn't even heard of in 2-3 ordeals time. That means that you will at some point convert Aether Points into "Aether Chunks" (1B AP = 1 AC) as is usually done with spirit stones in xianxia novels. I just don't see the point of inflating numbers to the power of 10, nor the point of having a "plot convenience" tool like the instaheal - A tool which is planned to be used to put the MC in a really shitty situation and used very likely only once; which in turn will definitely empty all of his aether but be a "good choice" in hindsight. I have a problem with "things like this" due to my full understanding that it's not the "MC choices" that matter, but the way the Author will write future situations that do. The "MC choices" here didn't make any sense whatsoever considering both mathematics, uncertainties and his quite obvious inclination towards relying less on "Oracle" and more on "HImself".