Different World Reincarnation as a Sage ~With my Gaming Knowledge, I’ll become the World’s Strongest~ (WN)

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A boy, born to a noble family, led a tragic life and in the end, met a tragic death. The next time he opened his eyes, he was in a world that resembled a VRMMO he played in his dreams. The inhabitants were ignorant even to the most basic concepts — concepts that would be considered common knowledge in a game — and kept on fighting inefficiently.

In this world, our protagonist, armed with his game knowledge, acquires the strongest job class there is –the Sage — and proceeds to become the world’s strongest.

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Isekai Kenja no Tensei Musou ~Geemu no Chishiki de Isekai Saikyou~
The Invincible Sage in the Second World
異世界賢者の転生無双 ~ゲームの知識で異世界最強~
異世界賢者的轉生無雙 用遊戲知識成為異世界最強
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placeholder45 rated it
June 30, 2019
Status: c20
Avoid. (I read 20 chapters ahead in the raws.)

Character incarnates as a beginner adventurer after playing a VR game to the point of mastery, only to spend all the time expressing surprise that the dumb villagers don't understand the VR game tricks and can't do special attacks.

I don't mind "I'm living is what was a VR game" stories, but this one sucks.
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Theforsakengod
Theforsakengod rated it
February 9, 2020
Status: c31
Basically, this is an example of how you shouldn't make your novel. My reason is in spoiler because I can't write the reason without spoiling.

  1. Badly written story coupled with short story is just a bad combination. The plot itself is quite good, but the deus ex machina destroy the plot completely.
  2. The protagonist is an uneducated potato, and inconsistent. Sometime he's as brave as a player who play fighting game until they die, and sometimes as coward as a newbie who just play fighting game for the first time.
  3. There's no character description, when the author introduce a character he just say "there's a [insert man/woman] holding a [insert whatever they are holding]" and then, do it again when they want to introduce new character.
  4. The main character just functioning as a helper for the protagonist. Only appear when it's necessary for protagonist. Which mean, no character development.
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  1. Most of the chapter is only the protagonist comparing his life now with the game he play. And then what? Progress it a little and call it a day. Not to mention how he magically kill a higher ranked monster of the same race when go to a forest which is said to have lower ranked rat monster. And magically get a ton of money to go capital. That in itself is still bearable for me. What trigger me is the guild just go "oh, you kill that higher ranked monster that don't usually appear? Ok then, nothing wrong here" while handing a platinum coin, and.... That's it. Nothing more. Could you be a bit more worried and assemble an investigation squad or something?
  2. When asked to kill lesser wolf he's like "what? A lesser wolf? No way, that's too much for me a novice, what if they kill me?". And then a few chapter after that "hmmm? A sea dragon? Don't worry, even a novice like me can hold it off" decide already whether you want to be a coward, or a brave person. Not only that, he already know the people in that world has low skill when fighting, but the protagonist just keep surprised whenever he meet someone from that world that won't match with "HIS" common sense (if exist at all)
  3. Nothing, like literally nothing, what do you mean "i see a woman with a couldrom" explain clearly the characteristic of that woman you s*upid author. How should I understand a character when you don't even give them a characteristic to remember?
  4. The protagonist need money? Introducing, a rich lady who own a company. Who will not be remembered until our protagonist has a reason to remember her again. Need a staff that can't be found every where? Oh yeah, let's go to that rich lady who own a company. Then? Let's just forget her again and go on our own journey.
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DeirdreH
DeirdreH rated it
July 14, 2019
Status: c90
This series starts off slow, but larger narrative starts to take shape as the antagonist is gradually revealed. At the time of this review, Light Novels Translations is on chapter 12, but Bing's MTL does an unusually good job on this series so reading ahead to the newest raw isn't that bad.

The gimmic in this series it he unwillingness of the MC to succumb to complacency just because of how OP he is compared to the other inhabitants of his world. Battles are won with tactics and innovative combinations of... more>> skills rather than just powering through with absurd stats.

Read this series if you're a munchkin, enjoy min-maxing your characters, or even know what those terms mean. <<less
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mistvenom
mistvenom rated it
August 30, 2019
Status: --
Medium-Slow pace + short word counts/chapter + 10% of content that move the plot (that 1 chapter is like a normal conversation about someone asking what is sage class, what is sage class, bla bla bla, it seems there's no one know it, bla bla bla, nice conversation, let's end the chapter here). Most of the chapters are like that

Good translation quality, but sometimes confusing as hell, annoying website ui for android user (if you use tap to scroll mode) that '$20 special' banner

Interesting premise at prologue

You can judge it... more>> by reading 20 chaps. It's not that long to read. This novel is more like a manga script.

Having high hope, but got disappointed at the end. <<less
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Shadowminion
Shadowminion rated it
October 10, 2019
Status: c52
Honestly, I don't want to badmouth stories, but this one is seriously boring. I've read plenty of other transmigrate to another world with game system type stories and this is the worst.

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Spoiler

Firstly, the guy transmigrates twice. First as an abandoned noble son locked in a tower and starved to death with 'memories' of Earth, then again as the current MC. I don't know why they even included the first reincarnation if they weren't gonna mention it ever again. It's seriously dumb.

Secondly, this guy starts of so OP he doesn't need to have a job. The only reason he gives is that 'anybody who plays the game should know these basic skills' or 'it was included in a guide' and worst still 'thank goodness I memorised it even though it wasn't required'. It's honestly amazing how little effort the author puts into giving a reason for his OP-ness. It's so amazing I can't even immerse myself in the story because it's so unrealistic.

So here's the situation: All the skills he professes to be 'basic' are unknown to the natives of the world, and somehow or other the superior classes are known as 'inferior' because they don't add skill points and they need more exp to level. Frankly, all the 'basic' skills like how to succeed in crit hitting all the time sound ridiculous. The only thing that the story got right is that they called it 'miracle hit' because in what game in RL does a crit hit not depend on luck (or algorithms) ? It's NOT something you can control. He doesn't even mention stats but by dint of these 'basic' skills he can solo tank a dragon, rat swarms, etc etc. In what game do you solo tank any type of dragon before you complete the tutorial??? And not the baby dragon type but an actual monster that's been claimed to be really fierce and at least mid-game content.

The worst part? He claims that all the stats that the natives have are actually similar to himself, so what they've all been doing is classifying the ENTIRE SYSTEM THEY BASE THEIR LIFE ON WRONGLY. Exhibit A: Heroes are inferior classes. Exhibit B: All the so-called C-rank monsters are actually beginner monsters in the game version.

Again, I emphasise: THE NATIVES HAVE THE SAME STATS AS THE MC AND HAVE ONLY NOT BEEN OPTIMISING THEIR SKILLS.

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... yeah I don't know what else to say. <<less
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hawlol
hawlol rated it
August 8, 2019
Status: c35
Really short chapters, irregular and long release dates.

Story is nice enough, albeit not amazing. More strategy and game 'tricks' instead of pure stats/level comparisons, which is a big plus for me. Everyone but the MC is dumb about skills and mechanics, but apparently that's tied to the plot.

Chapters are so short, though, that in these 35 I've read, barely anything has happened plot wise. I'm serious, don't underestimate how small they are, it's absurd. You could read this if there are a lot of piled chapters, but then again, the... more>> release rate is also bad. You'll get one chapter (which is less than a quarter of a regular sized one) each 2-3 days.

With regular sized chapters and a proper release date, this series would be okay, but not great, nevertheless it's not the case. My advice is to read only if there're lots of piled up chapters and you don't mind waiting a lot for it to pile up again. <<less
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Higira
Higira rated it
December 28, 2019
Status: c6
This story is pretty.. dumb in my opinion. I hate to be the barer of bad news.. This story needs a lot work. I read up to chapter 6.

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Spoiler

Basically the MC is dumb as a door knob. He doesnt understand how "others" do not understand a VR game. Secondly the characters are built up really s*upidly. For instance when he found out the "wolf" was a c rank monster... he was astonished as it was an beginner mob. Fair enough. Then he goes to the receptionist then asks what is this monster? She says this is a wolf but its so cleanly cut did you not buy this? He says internally"oh they dont know clean skill or whatever" ok. thats a fair point. Mind you, he doesnt deny it. He only expresses his astonishment. The receptionist glances over this and says she'll add it into her record when she just said that if he had bought it or not.. and also because its illegal to add onto records when you bought it. So why did you not get down to the answer??? Thats not all he lies and says he doesnt know what the monster is (because he wants to know if it s under a different name), however the lady just glosses over that fact. WTF LADY. HE'S SHOWING SIGNS HE BOUGHT THE SHIET!!! but thats basically it about everything. You enter with promise, and then is let down with the result because everything is half assed.

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mio
mio rated it
May 10, 2020
Status: c1
i read quite far into this, and it's not that bad.

sadly, it is based on a powertrip. Author seems to want to compliment his MC at every possible moment, and has not really thought out his story other than "MC is awesome". as such, the story is barely hanging together, which is somthing you can immediately see at the start;

MC reincarnaes from a magical world where he had dreams of a normal world where he played a VR game that was exactly like the world where he reincarnated.

not only is... more>> it incredibly convoluted, but the mc's dreams are barely discussed other than "i know this, I know that" and his life in the dream other than cr is non-existent, his life in his previous life is also almost never mentioned.

it's basically a writer who needed an excuse to make his MC "awesome" and OP, then used reincarnation, but left huge plotholes, so he went back and quickly added "... and he also has dreams of VR in his previous life".

So, thinking about it again, it really is that bad. <<less
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whitecrow90
whitecrow90 rated it
October 31, 2019
Status: c8
TL;DR: Short, non descriptive and boring. not even if I were bored.

i actually started reading this because I apparently accidentally cl**ked it as read some time ago. I start it and...... it's really too short per chapter. a reviewer here had described it accurately as like a conversation length per chapter, and that's accurate. I've only read up to chapter 8 because of how boring the chapters were. the feel of the story that I got was so monotone. another reviewer had described the writing more akin to a script... more>> for an anime. I say it's more of a pitch meeting for an anime. because of how barebones it felt. there were no flavor text as it were. heck there wasn't even a description of what the characters looked like. it was all " he's my edest brother" " I think our fathers name was gerd" "i went to the guild receptionist". given the scarcity of words as is, I was even skipping reading some parts by chapter 8 because it felt so bleh. <<less
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Cass UwU
Cass UwU rated it
September 1, 2019
Status: c35
Emmm, the story is good pacing is on the slower side but not painfully slow, chapter length is what would you expect from WN, but oh my God, it lacks so much description of the characters, places, towns, scenery, if it weren't for 2 pictures of main character, you would legitimately not know how he looks, same goes for a girl he meets later on, if not for the picture you would not know how she looks, but there is a problem, what if you don't have a picture? That's... more>> right, you know nothing about one of the main girls appearance expect that she has a weapon and that she is beautiful, no hair color, no hair stile, no age. NOTHING AT ALL

still it's fun I guess. <<less
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Boogle
Boogle rated it
August 14, 2019
Status: c28
So, the idea and the story so far is fine. The chapters are essentially quarter length of an average WN's so keep that in mind.

THE BIGGEST FLAW of this novel is that nothing is described. Without the Illustrations we wouldn't know what the MC looks like or what his equipment is like. It makes imagining the events of this novel impossible. Example:meet the 1st town receptionist, the only thing we know about her is that she is a female. No age, height, race or even tone of voice to get... more>> an idea about her. Same for everything else. Oh this new monster Kick Rabbit, good look figuring it out how it's different from a rabbit! <<less
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lokq
lokq rated it
March 20, 2021
Status: c124
It's below average and boring, the story only focused on the protagonist, and all character beside the protagonist only got a name. To make it worse, the author didn't even bother to describe their appearance, it's like they didn't even matter and only there to help the protagonist before they got discarded again.

The author is inconsistent with the story, for example there is a scene where the protagonist asking the guild manager for a special room because he didn't want other people to know about his dimension storage skill. He... more>> clearly said to the guild manager "please keep my skill secret", the guild manager said ok and ask if that skill come from his "sage skill", the protagonist said "yes something like that", just because the protagonist doesn't want to explain it, even thought that skill can be used by other sorcerer class. The protagonist even said if he recklessly spread the information, he'll be targeted by other people, and I thought, well it makes sense I guess, you don't want to be targeted.

But what grind my gears is in the next town, The protagonist use that skill, and blab it out in front of the guild receptionist, he said "It's just a basic skill, so it's fine", he even sell the skill information for 1 billion to the guild master in that town, and I just... what the hell. what's the point you keeping it a secret then, there are other example but if I write it all down, this review will be too long.

Also, the protagonist doesn't even have a companion, he is working alone. actually for an adventure story it's quite boring if the character didn't have someone to talk to and just mow down their enemies with OP power. Same like "reincarnated as sword" early chapter, in that novel the protagonist just kill monster, lv up, get more skill, and repeat. Lots of people complaining it's unbearable to read the earlier chapter, that's why the author introducing secondary protagonist "fran" as his partner. it's become better from that point on.

But in this novel, the story is seriously boring, the protagonist do have a companion before, he even teach her how to use her skill effectively. but the protagonist leave her after adventuring for a few days just because she have to wait for the guild to raise her rank, and the protagonist doesn't want to wait for her, the reason the guild have to raise her rank is because of the protagonist himself, and the protagonist didn't even want to wait for her. It's just..... damn...

There are several people the protagonist meet after that, but they just there for the sake of being there, you'll forget about them in the next chapter, it's insane... even though I want to quit in the beginning, I tried really hard to read it till the latest chapter, I thought this novel will become better later, but no! it's so bad... maybe that's the reason the author delete the web novel version and focused on the light novel. I wouldn't know if the author already fix his story in the light novel version or not, because I didn't read it yet. But for me, this web novel is below average, the concept is decent, but the execution is done so poorly, that makes it meaningless. <<less
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doodle0211
doodle0211 rated it
September 18, 2020
Status: --
From the setting itself, the light novel stumbles and doesn't really recover throughout the rest of the story.

The author is clearly inexperienced in playing any kind of MMORPGs but decided to write a story based on a fictional MMO game, and as the story goes on, the main character keeps mentioning Sage to be an unreasonably overpowered class in the original MMO as the reason why he can do everything by himself. And in order to make the MC even more OP, everyone else is also weaker than MC in... more>> pretty much every way (swordmanship, magic, monster hunting, scouting, etc.).

The main character has not much else going for him other than being OP, and his personality is not really well portrayed (with side characters even more boring than the MC).

If you can ignore the author's lack of knowledge on multiplayer game development, and just want to read random adventures of an overpowered protagonist, this one might be for you. Otherwise, move on since there are better stories out there. <<less
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Gonzhilaz
Gonzhilaz rated it
January 16, 2020
Status: c90
Sage is all mighty occupation. Every skillset and gaming experience was convenience for every chapter. Why because in VRMMORPG sage is bla bla bla...

I read this just because I was bored... the story was fine actually, but this is not my favorite story.
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walang16
walang16 rated it
January 13, 2020
Status: c91
(2.5 stars rounded down)

not really a review here, but more of a complaint/pet peeve is that the chapters are short. Very short, like 1/3 of regular chapters short; and the author had the gall to call it chapters. I'm currently updated at 91 but other novels here would just count this as 30, because that's how short these chapters are. This is what truly lowered my rating here

i don't even mind the dumbed down people here as they were formerly npc with set amount of parameters and the... more>> author equally couldn't bother improving them. I get it. I do. <<less
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scribbledoutname
scribbledoutname rated it
August 9, 2019
Status: c26
Not half bad. I wouldn't call it addictive but it's still an enjoyable read. The MC is quite smart and he's not condescending at all -- he's just surprised that the world is quite different from the VRMMO he used to play. It's interesting to see how he uses what he knows to his advantage.

Also, while the chapters are a little on the short side, the story moves quite quickly. It's not one of those infuriating stories where it takes ten 1-paragraph chapters for the MC to tie his shoelaces.
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Dobber1k
Dobber1k rated it
June 16, 2022
Status: c53
Spoilers? I guess? Maybe?

I will be complaining... a lot.
Sorry not sorry.


So many things in this novel is contradictory. And there's no goal. I mean he hasn't even expressed about becoming even the strongest. Also throw that romance tag away. Harem? What? I know I'm not finished but man I'm 53 chapters in. It's an odd story where he's isekai'd twice? It seems? This story is picky where it puts out info. There's more info on the guild rules then there is anywhere else in the story.... more>> Maybe beside how to use skills from a game standpoint. Which is useless for a reader. It would be better to have info on oh idk characters, or his family. I mean why did they throw him away besides his lack of skill? When did they get their original skill? Are they born with it? Do they get it at the age of 5 originally? How do they check it? Like 30 chapters in we learn of a job stone? He acts weak when he's actually above average then with another job now he believes he's strong? I mean we understand that just not magic but skills and tactics are lacking but the only info we get is Everytime he brings something up nobody knows anything about it. And a short booklet in the first town. I hate how most of the characters just disappear. His brother that cared for him. The first receptionist. They may have the ability to show back up again but nothing yet. He's abnormal and people notice here and there but the most it's spread is a rumor. A hero and a sage is an inferior job? Okay but I mean what are superior at this point? No info? There's supposed to be discrimination of these "inferior" people but you don't see it aside from them just thinking he's weak and when I say them it's like 5 people? And they are not all that dead set. He round off secret info at random in each city and people are surprised for a paragraph then they believe him or drop it Everytime? They never ask for level or have the ability to gauge strength I guess aside from your job type? Info? I mean. I hate stories that just keep writing off things like that. also he finds it inconvenient to be noticed yet he wants to? It's unclear he wants to keep everything a secret but he wants to rank up? (Also the only other female to have multiple chapters with him simply just says if you want to rank up stand out and he literally just re thinks that instance and starts to accept it... dumb) Then he doesn't. He doesn't want people learning about sage but he does. He has to explain everything over and over. Why not at least give some effort or say it's a class only pertaining to him? Something. Also they write hero as a insignificant job but didn't they say that, that crystal is at the church? (I could be wrong) he uses a sword in the beginning which I understand he's now a "sage" but I mean. That's a waste don't you think. At least carry a short sword or something. He also gains like Insane amounts of money but he hasn't bought anything since the ferry ride. He's spent what seems like weeks at the death Forrest but the writer doesn't write about anything but trips to the Forrest and guild. He keeps dealing with a dangerous shadowy organization but does nothing about it what so ever. No precautions. Not telling a soul. Nothing. He keeps hearing about a certain "guy" also does nothing doesn't look into him no info. We all know what is going to be deal at this point right. I'm just complaining about a lack of info more and more. And ranting sorry. I just think exploring this game element and having this job system where he can exploit it is wasted right now. Along with even the mundane things that's skipped. The short writing style is not helping either. I'm interested enough to at least read to the end but it's not satisfying.

FYI volume 5 ch1. Something that pisses me off to no end is the contradictions it's only second to a translation changing he/she confusing the reader on the s*x of a character. But I digress. Contradictions. This ch. it just kept going back and forth. Early we're told that the trading company is I believe the largest or one of the largest and in this chapter the MC says is she really that big of a deal? Like f*ck. Then the count asks if she's s*upid then he counters with saying he heard she was a genius. Also count says that the company was going under till the current chair to only have the MC ask if that was what happened. I mean it's lazy. It's at the point where you wonder if the author either forgets what is being written or is just trying to fill space. Also at this point I'm only b*tching because the novel is compelling to where you want to read and progress the story. It's sad. With work this could rank up to top 10 for me. Also. 125 ch in and still zero love interest and none of those characters resurface. Sad. Cutting out the useless writing would quarter this novel but if you filled the gaps you could almost double the content. Constantly just skipping days and information in the gaps very seldom does explanations really matter to be used in the story it's mostly useless information. You'll hear bbo and game references, or how underpowered he is comparing level or the skills. I mean. There's almost 3 chapters regarding where his adversary was denying his skill or what had happened. All he did was claim to be superior or deny his skills or what has happened. The mc's claims superiority with power/skills/tactics comes out uneven. Sometimes he's confident sometimes not. More so now I'll give him that. He trains people yet we have zero clue what has been trained. How. Sometimes even when. It's like we're just taking his word that it's happened and most things just completely happen conveniently when it's brought up. Someone please redo this novel and make it yours. It'll own I mean it. If you fill those gaps and give it a little love this novel can shine. <<less
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k40235
k40235 rated it
December 13, 2021
Status: v7c1
my expectations were low and it was as expected

everything is convenient for MC, like a manhua stories, which isnt appealing at all

skills doesnt make much sense

... more>> no world building

not any interesting character

interactions with characters are basically MC commanding his surroundings

to be fair we can see MC thinking about situations, but his thoughts and decisions are not of a veteran's and more of a normal guy with common sense's, and to be honest all it does is making chapters last longer

only good part is fights, which are like anime fights for some reason (fights with too much talking and little action) (and that is a bad thing) but descriptions are nice yet not detailed to the point where it brakes the momentum of the fight

finally, it is bad as it sounds, I got bored even though I only read fights for %80 of the novel. Not worth giving a chance, just read something else <<less
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Alfiant
Alfiant rated it
November 21, 2021
Status: --
It is just your standard, generic japanese novel with mediocore plot, mediocore MC, dumb side character and dumb logic.

Like, dude. How the hell "Hero" job is considered "inferior" ??

I do not understand the logic at all. Even the side character is dumb.

Like, did they not understand what the word "Hero" mean?

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✓ Have a cheat from the game.
✓ Can learn a skill with shortcode (again this is cheat).
✓ Can defeat the Sea Dragon.
✓ Can kill C rank wolf pack.
✓ Can kill the top brass from the evil organization.

MC: "Yes, I am F-Rank adventurer"

Dude, there is a limit to s*upidity..

As expected from #Japanese_MC with #Isekai #cheat #harem genre.

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You must lower your intelegent in order to read this novel. <<less
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gsvn32
gsvn32 rated it
October 2, 2022
Status: c54
Plot seemed good at first but the story is incredibly boring and most of the chapters are about the "genius" MC ranting about how the NPCs don't know the vr game and how s*upid they are.
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