Dec 15, 2024
What a disappointment! This series has a somewhat interesting premise, lemme give you a little synopsis: there is this cult, demonic cult, and this little fella is the illegitimate son of the cults leader. there is some other factions that wnat him dead so they send some assasins. just as he was about to die someone from future and iinjects him some nanomachines, kills the assasins. and there is this academy that he has to go and beat other leader candidates up to rise to throne. so sounds intriguing at first, right? Nope, total power fantasy.
Characters have
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no proper personality other than "i love the mc" or "i hate the mc"..These fellows are either way too loyal to this guy or way to hostile. But there is some common ground: bewilderment. I swear to god half the manhua is people talking to themself about how strong this guy is. every fight progresses the same: bad guy attacks somebody from mc's side or mc, they 95/100 times underestimate them then get surprised when they got beaten. thats it, thats the manhua for you. I promise you, you wont get anything else other than this. They dont explore the nanomachines, its just used as a tool to make mc overpowered and solve situations that are redeemed impossible to solve, and i swear the only reason is to shock people nothing else. If something is happening, it's happening for the reactions.
So what about the mc? is he as paper thin as the rest of the crew? Well... i frankly dont know. One thing i can tell is that 9 out of 10 times he solves the issue with violence. Like, even when there was no need for it. And it aint no targeted violence. Straight up massacre. And many times the casualties are enemies of the enemies. like they arent even hostile to him, he just killing them to... kill? hide his identity? idk maybe last few chapters left an weighed more than it should, but i cant remember a time he didnt kill them, aaah of course not the woman and chilren tho. he is the good guy after all(!). I personally dont have a problem with killing or massacres, even think that it is somewhat lacking in other manga/hwa/hua's. There is situations where it has to be done, and when done correctly could be a great scene. But here it is just another tuesday. every single fight ends in people needlessly dying, mostly cuz they werent on mc's side.
Character development you said? does mc change over the course of the manhua? no. he doesnt. his prior motivation to rise to top is his mothers dead, and to find the person who orchestrated it. he doesnt change a bit during this, not a single bit. there is no moral dilemma, zero! Nobody questions him when he is killing, and the ones that do are usually doing so internally, mostly while dying.
There is also no stakes. He wins, end of story. I understand that this is supposed to be a power fantasy but this is too much. Fight scenes already suck (visually speaking) and the so called martial arts are total bullshit, nothing more than some dance moves at best. On top of this you know from get go that he is gonna win, so what is the point?
btw this futureboy that injects him nanomachines? never explored. He doesnt even think about him. not once. not kidding, he doesnt give a shit.
Spoilers ahead!
before coming to conclusion i want to give a little inkling of an idea on how needlessly cruel he is. So there is this woman, divine physician. rumored to be able to fix anything. they meet her yada yada she asks mc to save her granddaughter from some bandits, says she would swore allegiance if he did so. Now they go around asking and find these bandits. they kill em and turns out this woman is married to one of these bandit, vice-captain or smth. she even has a baby with him. she is openly on the side oof bandits, even going as far a stabbing one of the member of mc's crew. so they of course kill everyone but the baby nd the girl. she is outraged, wearing at them and threaten to tell her grandma(divine doctor or smth) to not join them. Mc's asks nanomachines to analyze her and finds out that she has symptoms of stockholm syndrom. This is, to me, a very interesting dilemma; probably the only one so far(150 cahpters in btw). Now it would have been better to intruduce this before the fight, so that the conseqeuent actions would have bigger meaning, but i was alright with this too. But instead of diving deeper to this dilemma and exploring it, he just kills her. Just like that, no second thought given. At that point in the story he is the leader of the cult so he has to make state level decisions, and i know that these decisions can be hard. But it has to be portrayed as so, otherwise it comes of as a cold blooded killer killing people, just because he doesnt know how to deal with situations that require more than 3 brain cells.
But every one of these aspects are tolerable. you dont really start to think "oh he is gonna win anyway" until like 50-60th chapter, and i wasnt having problems with it until 150~ chapters, solely cause i didnt care enough to mull on. But the one thing that makes it intolerable to me is the goddamn comment section. it is god awful. not a single critical thought is formed in that place. I would much rather pick the fucking bear, rather than any man from that comment section. They are vile, dimwitted, have penises for brains and couldnt form a coherent sentence to save their lifes. Am i doing something wrong with my life? is what i am thinking when i see myself consuming the same media as these degenerates. I can see why this shitschmeack is popular, its thanks to people like those.
Final decree:
I would not read it again, although if you are looking for a slop manhua with some power fantasy and edgelord mc this could be the one.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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