GrandpaPeng

So this will be my next novel, I decided.

As of chapter 618, well, not really. They are pretty much in name only. First it was one monster girl plot-forced on him due to political reasons as a concubine, but she isn't really his concubine anymore, it was just a design on MC. Second, a young warlock's apprentice that was originally sent to observe and spy on him. He proposed her to join his forces, took her as concubine due to her status, it was convenient. She acts more like his right-hand as a dean of an academy of warlocks. There's nothing romantic going on between them, but she's still his concubine. Then there is one shy and weak princess, also plot-forced on him, she was finally saved and moved recently to his territory and they treat each other with cliche words of husband and wife. But that's pretty much it. In the arc she awakened her bloodline, there was a foreshadowing that people with this bloodline are all ambitious and that she might not remain so simple. Looking at the plot, she might become some new unstable factor for MC, like, she might be some ancient guy lurking, no idea as of now.

It's the newer book of the author of "I have a bunch of players on Earth". The author has skills and potential to write top novels, I had enjoyed his previous novel despite the unnecessary addition of "china number 1" and other flaws. "The Demonic World I Designed" also starts out well and goes strong for about 300 chapters. It feels rushed around Dragon Palace arc, but then it goes well again until like chapter 500 where we get reveals as to what the world is, who the MC is, the developers, players etc. We basically switch back to what the author likes the most - sci-fi stories, instead of the dynasty, medieval vibe from first 300 chapters. And then... the author inserts nationalism and stuff. I don't mind him gloryfing the place where he comes from, or his people, but hey, if he can write a good plot, why can't he write this part in a more reasonable way? Why does he insert such primitive characters who have no respect for other people and are full of themselves, why does he keep talking for chapters about how white people are stupid, short-sighted, vulgar, feel color supremacy, make conflicts etc.? This doesn't even make sense, he's either rac..ist himself or does it for social credit store, hence he doesn't bother writing it better. Because why would he raise this flag, and continue to insert this flag in plot to sabotage his own story, if in the setting he designed these "stupid" characters to be not even humans of body and flesh, but DATA uploaded to the CLOUD after catastrophe 40,000 years ago? Why so many DATA people, who are given chance to start fresh, and are like living dead - souls in non-human bodies - make their life choice based on color skin? Guys, if you died and were uploaded to the cloud and exist as AI, and then could reincarnate as a newborn and live from scratch in a horrific world filled with death and catastrophes, would you choose color skin and harsh conditions over prospects, welfare, resources, good family and stable environment? Of course no. This makes no sense. So for now I stop reading at chapter 618 "The name is unreadable", I give -2 stars for this. This low, primitive effort that he stuffs in every few chapters just kills the mood. A shame. A blonde girl gets a new chance to live. She gets one of the 500 very desired spots and can keep her whole memory. Author makes her choose white color in harsh conditions over good life that women enjoy, he makes her protest as if she was completely re*tarded, and then makes her show middle finger to an underworld city lord to get killed and have her soul imprisoned. Wt.f is this plot all of sudden? I can't, I just can't.

If he still writes with habits from his previous novel, then there probably isn't any or it's a pure, delicate and innocent type, one that you can get engrossed into. The author writes very lifelike characters, so pretty much any human interactions flow nicely under his pen.

A pretty interesting novel, it gives TLM vibes but is also different and has its own strengths. We get some foreshadowing throughout the novel for a huge plot twist around chapter 617 titled Deprivation. It becomes less gamey for both MC and the players.

It has more depth to it than legendary mechanic, as shown in chapter 616-618.

The beginning doesn't have much OP MC moments, but it gets better - MC builds his force, and eventually can solo hordes of enemies. And after chapter 600 there's a huge plot twist, where MC is stripped of his "system", and players get erased from the memories of others in their world, because as we have been given tips throughout the novel, it is not a game world at all, but more like a world isolated from powerful entities, and the system was a scam.

There, 哇！爆率真的很高

I have only read up to chapter 26. It's ok, but the MC isn't that careful, he involves himself in too much karma. He powers up rather quickly in a relatively safe environment, otherwise he'd probably screw himself over. If you enjoy observer/bystander novels, there's a somewhat similar novel named "Immortality: My cultivation Has No Bottleneck", where MC has a harder time than this one from the very start, be his cheat or background circumstances (clan member), acts more carefully and incognito, has to use more brain to avoid danger. The novel is depressing and dark at many turns, but gives a reader a very unique view of how things are and pass away.

I'm also interested in MTL/RAW title.