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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.A mysterious natural phenomenon caused the Earth to be plunged into darkness. The world turned into endless bloody chaos and mankind is on the brink of extinction…
Chu Yun Sheng, an ordinary white-collar worker, discovered his family heirloom, a book, shining a bizarre light by accident. Out of curiosity, he tried to study the book.
After long research, he still only understood a few symbols written in the ancient book. However, he was shocked when he figured out what messages the ancient book tried to tell him: the sun will disappear, and humanity is doomed…
He tried to spread the message, but no one believed him; his family and friends even tried to take him to see the psychiatrist. Eventually, he gave up telling anyone but prepared for the apocalypse in secret.
Until one day — the sun really disappeared…
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One entry per lineWorld of Darkness - The century of blood
黑暗血时代
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Date | Group | Release |
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04/25/16 | noob mtl | v1c2 |
04/23/16 | noob mtl | v1c1 |
The MC drifts from place to place falling into trap after trap like someone constantly slipping on banana peels. New plot lines keep opening up whilst old ones are left hanging. New questions continually pop up while previous questions go unanswered. MC was given the task to find the 5 pieces of the map from the first few chapters, after 500 chapters of not minding his own business he still hasn't found the 4th piece and decided to concentrate on revenge instead. Most of the setting (99%+) is wasted as the MC keeps going to new mysterious places and f*cking about while everyone he cares about gets mu*dered. You could say the author is just making sh*t up as he goes along. And you'd be right.
The author's exact thoughts at the time of writing the MC:
"How can I write someone to be as miserable and helpless as possible?"
Here's the story in a nutshell:
OMG I NEED TO FIND THE 5 PIECES OF THE MAP BEFORE THE OUTER SPACE DEMONS ARRIVE
Oh look here is a random village that I don't need to enter but I will do so for the lulz
Oh noes random people are getting chased by monsters I must protect them even though I've repeatedly said that I'm a selfish bastard but actually I'm a nice guy
SUDDENLY MONSTERS OUT OF f*ckING NOWHERE AND NOW I AM GETTING CHASED BY MONSTERS FOR 20 CHAPTERS
WHAT! HOW DARE RANDOM STRANGERS THAT I DO NOT KNOW BETRAY ME! I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED! VERY SAD!!
Oh look, a power struggle between random strangers. Must... not... get... involved [gets involved anyways]
[100 chapters later]
Wow I just found about the existence of aliens maybe I should keep my book a secret
[reveals he has the book to all the aliens]
f*ck WHY ARE ALIENS CHASING ME
[LITERALLY 400 chapters later]
OMG I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND THE MAP BUT ALL MY FAMILY IS DEAD AND I DONT CARE ANYMORE! I HAVE TO KILL ALL THE ALIENS WHO KILLED MY FAMILY!!
[1000 chapters later the aliens are stronger than ever and he is still a weak shit]
So the premise of the story is that the MC has a magical book that NOBODY knows exists because it's f*cking thousands of years old and everybody thinks it's a pile of junk. Also nobody could read it. Otherwise they would've taken it away from him already. The magical book contains magical spells and cultivation methods and deadly strong fighting techniques that can destroy entire armies with a single attack. The book tells the MC that the world will plunge into darkness in 2012 and a new age will begin that lets him use magic.
Of course the MC is a blabbering idiot and tells everyone about 2012 by POSTING IT ON PUBLIC INTERNET FORUMS.
The problem with this is that the MC states that he's incredibly selfish and cold and will place his own interests over other people's, and yet his actions show the exact opposite. Let's think about this. If it's true and NOBODY ELSE on the internet predicted the darkness then it means it's either:
1. Top secret information that the government does not want anybody to know
or
2. Information that even the government does not know
Regardless of whether if it's 1 or 2, the government as described in the story would obviously arrest and torture the MC and everyone who has ever had the misfortune of being in contact with him to find out how he came across the information. The MC's actions do not make any sense. Even Jesus reincarnate wouldn't go blabbering on about the darkness since NOBODY would believe it, and it would bring trouble to him later on because he would get arrested. Thus posting about it on the internet forums is the worst decision in every possible situation.
There are a few more really dumb things that the MC does, like creating and wearing flashy looking armor that is instantly recognizable from miles away that NOBODY ELSE is wearing, using flashy fire and ice spells to kill bugs IN FRONT OF EVERYONE and so on. I'm actually surprised that the MC does not get found out by the aliens sooner.
So after doing all these incredibly s*upid things the MC doesn't go into hiding and instead tells his real name to everyone that he comes across, which I think was pretty dumb.
I've noticed that a certain mental illness, which I'll call "Revenge Disease" from now on, tends to afflict mostly MCs from Chinese webnovels. To use this MC as an example. Saving his family becomes his number 1 priority after the darkness descends. Then his colleague from work gets mu*dered by a bunch of thugs AND FROM THEN ON REVENGE BECOMES HIS SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT MISSION IN HIS LIFE AND HE SPENDS LIKE 50 CHAPTERS TRACKING DOWN HIS FRIEND'S KILLER TO GET REVENGE.
So here's the thing. The thugs who killed his friend did not do so because they were deliberately targeting him. They didn't know who he was, they just randomly picked out a guy to sacrifice to save their own skin. In other words, if he let it go, then they would have just left him alone and nobody would have been any wiser. Even if he just left the group to travel on his own it would have been fine. Instead he attacks the group of thugs immediately and for the following WEEKS AND MONTHS he does nothing but constantly attack the thugs to get revenge for his friend. All the other important long term goals such as SAVING HIS FAMILY just get tossed aside like garbage. It's like: "Saving my family? pfft, who cares about that. Revenge is more important." This is what I call "Revenge Disease".
So, as you can see, already at this point the MC has shifted his goal from protecting his family to avenging his dead friend which neither benefits him nor anyone that he cares about in any way shape or form.
After completing the revenge the MC goes into the city to find that it's cruel and evil with normal people literally treated like garbage and left to starve to death. In order to survive, his sister was going to eat poisonous food which had an over 50% chance of causing death and survivors are usually left with permanent damage. The MC had 2 options: 1. Take them out of the city and protect them with his own strength, since by now he is able to control the bugs so escaping from danger should not have been a problem at all. 2. Leave his only family in the hands of corrupt officials who look upon them as if they're worms. The MC naturally chooses the latter and of course the government kills his family after they find out that he has the book. MC is totally shocked by this revelation 400 CHAPTERS LATER as if he had no idea that the government would do such a thing when it has been doing such things right from the start of the story and the MC knows it from repeatedly getting scammed by the government (on multiple occasions he almost dies from the government literally shooting nukes at him).
It's almost a running joke through the novel that every time he makes an agreement with the government (e.g "I kill the bugs and you help me get back"), the government breaks the agreement as soon as physically possible. The MC knows this and still keeps falling for the same thing over and over. I just don't understand how this guy thinks. He says he's not the smartest guy in the world but the way he acts is dumber than a 3 year old. A 3 year old would at least learn not to fall for the same trick over and over but this guy just doesn't learn.
I don't understand the Psychology tag as there is barely any psychology in this (compared to say, Dungeon Defense, which has a pretty decent amount). I mean sure, it does describe character motivations, but these are one-time disposable characters and never mentioned again, and most if not all of the characters are just selfish a**holes. It's like the author created the world to be as insane and as edgy as possible so pretty much everyone has a s*ave mentality. Actually most of the character conversations revolve around their petty inter-tribal struggles which have literally nothing to do with the MC nor the main plot, and yet these conversations tend to span multiple chapters. The author apparently thinks this is a good way to keep things interesting, I beg to differ.
The entire webnovel is basically just the MC falling for other people's schemes repeatedly. It's not fun or interesting because you get a sense that the MC does not control his own fate, he has no agency, he feels like a puppet in the hands of aliens who control everything, manipulating him in order to make his life as miserable as possible. That's basically what this entire story is about.
The writing is 3rd rate. If you compare it to Death Knight (written by Protector of Time) it's complete garbage. There is nothing quotable, humans from different countries, even aliens, all talk the same way. Obvious things are expressed in a roundabout and awkward manner. Descriptions are imprecise, for example objects are often described as "huge" without any comparison to other objects of known size nor are measurements given to inform the reader about how big the object actually is.
Novel spends a lot of time explaining how the powers work even though that is totally irrelevant to the story and he doesn't do it well anyway, explaining things in a confusing manner.
like he did gave food to strangers, as long as they were kids, look weak and famished and he did try to get revenge for his friend, which the only person that he could trust at that time and could be considered a mental support for him, helped a woman give birth, protect/help strangers and so on, but he is an idiot cause of all that, as for the traps, the only one I remember him falling for is the one on the supermarket.
Another person that would be a good candidate for being the MC, is the guy at the fog city, that used humans as a bait to kill monsters. Now thats being selfish. MC you should learn a little from him...
all the fights are amazing, actually, his personality doesnt bother me a bit, if anything else it makes things more interesting, like how he tries to adapt to the changed world and yes, he has yet to adapt and yes
it gets kinda disappointing, if the gov indeed kills his family.
edit: whatever, that was a d*ck move gov, I wouldn't even recomend it if I were in your place.
when you think how he could have avoided all this trouble if he got his family out of the city and not bother with its problems, like the swarm of enemies or the grey-cloaked man, looking at the bigger picture. like, after he got the map from there, just take your family and scram, dont draw more attention to yourself, even a dog can think of this great idea. like, hide them just how you did to yourelf inside a monster, just remember to put them a shield or forge them an armor for safety reasons, or if you cant find monsters to tame. stuff them into a dead monster and carry them while you are in a Golden shell monster, the armor will hide their life signals either ways.
who cares about getting more attention that makes it more dangerous?
or fighting battles where he is uncertain of his survival, just because
he doesnt want to chicken out.
I mean, that would be boring, to hide and not do anything, like a turtle.
Even if he succeeds by doing that, my review would be a lot worse than now, since thats not interesting at all. edit2: I actually might have more complaints if the translator didnt work so hard for this novel, like he has pictures of various stuff in every chapter, in order to make various imprecise descriptions more easy to understand. It even has its own wiki :) on the translator's site edit3: actually, this novel worths 5/5 for me before and when I reach the chapters Keklel has, then I will change my review accordingly. I'm writting this cause previously, I had rated it as 4/5 since I had some thoughts for this novel by reading kelkel's riview and forgot where I was and how awesome the novel currently is.
imo, this novel is the most rational and logical monster apocalyptic (maybe not).
Not only that, MC is the strongest human (yeah, but monsters are much stronger) and fxcking onmipotent (limitless dimention pocket, super weapon and armor, onlyone who know qi cultivation method, can absorp qi from dead monster etc.)
Also, when campared with everyone, MC can even became a bodhisattva in orther words MC is very kind hearted tsundere.
only frustrated point is MC kills too few tr*sh humans? And that made me mad, why not farm easily acpuired qi from them (a good MC has to copy leylin who can do everythings for eternal life. Sadly, this MC do not has AI chip)