This is going to have spoilers for up to ch 17. Go away if you don't want to be spoiled. GENERAL SUMMARY:The story begins at a sort of mid point after an event. The MC who is a certified genius at the high school he goes to got beat up by this girl who had no reason to beat him up. (turns out she is his step sister bc his dad is going to marry her mom. He also has a step brother that ain't friendly either) Now the MC discovered that a phone that was stored in their house and forgotten was a relic from ancient ruins that his grandfather helped in excavating. That phone allows him to basically raid dungeons with a game avatar and reviving the avatar only costs a drop of blood. However, all that the avatar collects in the game translates over to reality with benefits. Because of that, the MC keeps on playing that and sleeping so other people think that he got into a slump and gave up on trying. MC obviously proves that he is fine and dandy later on, but somehow no-one seems to be aware of that because his step siblings think he is trash and the other teachers are just unaware. Luckily there isn't too many side character that are rubbish. The step siblings tho... they just suck. OPINION: So I think that this story is worth a read. The MC has an apathy about him that makes him not really care about others except his dad so he sort of just strolls along in life while others seem to care a bit too much about details. However, this makes it really difficult to get a read on the MC, I mean he didn't care that his step brother basically screwed up his chance to be on a really good team for practical examinations. Like the personality of the MC in a phrase would be: calm to the point of being apathetic. The other side characters were reasonable and had common sense in their actions. Step-siblings not really tho. They are just out to make the MC miserable. The general world set up without factions and crap is really similar to shadow hack, modern cultivation stories, and dungeon raiding kind of stories. At a certain point in time, dimensional zones AKA dungeons appeared and monsters came out from those. Humanity adapted to it and now there are special abilities and other cultivation like crap that are present. Currently tho there seems to be no threat of monsters coming out or anything like that. That about wraps up the review.
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LIKEWhen I thought of Japanese MCs it was like this. Someone steps all over them and they feel the injustice of it, but they never do anything in retaliation. With this MC, someone steps all over him, but he doesn't feel injustice or care because it doesn't matter that much to him. Hope this helps.
bloo:So when you say apathetic, do you mean he lets people walk all over him? I mean, he doesn't need to be the crazy xianxia MC but does he at least have a backbone? From what you're describing he sounds like one of those insane japanese MCs.
No it's more like they are a whole realm higher than him (step sis and step bro) AND he specifically doesn't want to ruin his father's marriage by telling him as he guess they are doing what they are doing because they want to ruin the marriage. No one offended him too much, and didn't get what they deserved without reason.
bloo:So when you say apathetic, do you mean he lets people walk all over him? I mean, he doesn't need to be the crazy xianxia MC but does he at least have a backbone? From what you're describing he sounds like one of those insane japanese MCs.
No it's more like they are a whole realm higher than him (step sis and step bro) AND he specifically doesn't want to ruin his father's marriage by telling him as he guess they are doing what they are doing because they want to ruin the marriage. No one offended him too much, and didn't get what they deserved without reason.
bloo:So when you say apathetic, do you mean he lets people walk all over him? I mean, he doesn't need to be the crazy xianxia MC but does he at least have a backbone? From what you're describing he sounds like one of those insane japanese MCs.
It's the same. Who would not feel about being stepped on? Only impaired people doesn't care or objects. Even animals would react to that. I'll try reading this, and thanks for your review. It helps a lot. Atleast I wont expect too much from this book.
Azunyan:When I thought of Japanese MCs it was like this. Someone steps all over them and they feel the injustice of it, but they never do anything in retaliation. With this MC, someone steps all over him, but he doesn't feel injustice or care because it doesn't matter that much to him. Hope this helps.
so he isn't as strong as them, but the initial antagonism was changed to more of a vitriolic rivalry. But it wasn't kind of like shounen moment where they become rivals. It was more along the lines of them always being rivals, but the way the author initially showed that rivalry really sucked,
viloh:from what you read so far , did he deal with the step siblings ? is he at least as strong as them curently ?