troutrun

This is a well written story. I originally skipped this story when it was first released because of the MC enslavement reviews but was bored and forgot about the reviews. I really enjoyed the story up to the part where the MC got enslaved by his dark magic teacher. Thought I could get pass it, but I just loss interest after that part. Rated this at 3.8.

MC is a high level demon (who also happens to be a transmigrator from earth) that died and took over the body of a young noble man millions of years later. Upon taking over the body, MC reaches level 4 (of whatever the power scheme is), kills a level 4 beast like nothing. MC seems OP at this point, but as of this writing Ch ~85, he is still at the same power level and now struggles against those very same level 4 beast that was killed like nothing at the beginning. Author is definitely trying to rein in MC's power to the extent it makes the story feel dragged out. Also, as of late, most chapters (<80) are focused on building a village and his retainers/slaves and their practice journey instead of advancing the story.

This story is about a MC that is betrayed by people he trust and protected before jumping off the cliff and being reincarnated (but feels more like a transmigration). The storyline is fairly solid and is generally enjoyable to read. I rated this a 3.8, primarily because of the annoying plot armor that saves the MC, time after time due his 'machonism' to take on more than he can handle or unwillingness to be looked down upon. The MC just never seems to learn from his mistakes and as of late, his wariness of being used and betrayed again seems to be gone, replaced by your typical headstrong hero who voluntarily becomes the kingdom's savior. The MC is a sword master, but as of ch 90 or so, he has been in life and death situations saved only by plot armor without even wielding a sword all because he wants to experience his other skills according the author's comment. The harem element also seems forced, such as the random cat girl that saves the MC just has he was about to be killed after being greedy for some spirit plant.

This story started out somewhat interesting with the online-like world merging into the real world theme with a relatively low-key MC, but spirals out of control into collecting beauties, letting trouble makers get away and plot armor to save the day. It feels like most of the human world conflict could have been avoid if MC would have just told everyone the danger outside of the world instead of trying to take it on himself and being the human worlds enemy. Also, MC could have rooted out trouble makers, but that would have solve too much of the issues instead of letting things go.

MC transmigrates into a world with magic with a system that can help the MC grow stronger from lustful activities. Unfortunately, the system becomes nothing more than a status pop up to take up word count and suffers from the author nerfing it early on as a means to slow the MC's progress which leads to open plot and stupid decisions, such as extended time passing without any natural MC cultivation progress until the next time the MC dual cultivates. This story also seems to mix the magic/mage system with traditional cultivation, which makes it confusing at times.

While a bit dragged out, the prologue was interesting with a possible kingdom building setup along with the death note element. Read up to about 50 chapters, this seems to be more slice of life along with cringing family moments between mc's parents, sister, maid and fiancées. The book of death element is rarely mentioned to the point where it probably should have been excluded. Mc is also very cliché and naïve for being an old man transmigrator.

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So far the story is not too bad (up to ch 40). The MC is primarily focused on growing up (stronger) while being overly cautious to avoid being found. There are no face slapping, system or other usual trope present. MC transmigrates into a baby poison dragon and awakens the ancestor bloodline which grants him the ability to absorb traits/skills from things that are consumed. The only negative or annoying thing so far is probably the MC's lack of taking advantage of his OP skill. He can absorb skills/traits from things that he eats and even the story description hints at this but so far he refuses to eat any intelligent creatures (humans and mermaids) to obtain their skills. The author seems to want to nullify this skill by bringing up compatibility issues that does not make much sense. Our MC's biggest obsession is to eat a freakin lava rock. ugh...

Battle Dragon Mecha is not a t-rex robot? Unless I am not understanding things here, I'm pretty confident a t-rex is not a dragon. If your statement is correct, why isn't this titled "Mecha: Defeat the Battle Dragon Mecha from the start"? The only explanation is a bait and switch attempt or maybe poor translating by whoever translated the title and the story but that doesn't make sense.