Isaac

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Insane. Traitor. Terrorist.

The title given to Joon-young, a soldier who fought a lost war. Performing the most devious last stand befitting his titles, his memories were sent to another world.

Now named Isaac, he seeks to live out his days in relative peace. But with his family wanting him dead he is sent to the Campus, the Empire’s greatest centre of Education, in hopes that he would be expelled and tarnish his position as the heir of his family.

He is told that the school will treat him as if he doesn’t exist, that he isn’t protected by its rules. But Isaac, or Joon-young, sees it differently.

There are no rules to hold him back from getting what he wants.

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ISSAC
아이작
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AddicitveReader
AddicitveReader rated it
January 18, 2021
Status: c121
Our MC is a pessimist, crazy bastard, genius, and someone who lacks the fear of death. He did acts that gave him the name an insane terrorist and when he died he immediately is in action. He is apathetic towards most things but yet he has a contradicting trait and has a warm side to children

Spoiler

Already in a family feud when he gets there and when sent to the academy starts a business that no one else in history has done

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tempetahu0
tempetahu0
December 16, 2020
Status: c117
Amazing.

this is such a fun read, you get unique characters and everyone has a purpose in this story not just 1 dimension flat board just for the sake of it.

world building in later chapters got more ridiculous but in a fun way and it's not just in your face plot there's a sufficient foreshadowing and built up.

every characters got it's own development, at least for the main cast and important side characters.

i read everything from chapters 1 to 117 in 2 days, it's that good.
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TianKrea
TianKrea
September 24, 2020
Status: c109
I gotta say I didn't expect such a complicated story when I first started. I thought it was just a common isekai trope at first then it became something like kingdom building then conspiracies... secret organizations... hell... heaven...

Anyway it is a really confusing but surprisingly well made novel. Must read for selfish/chaotic neutral MC.
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muhammodalamin
muhammodalamin rated it
August 21, 2020
Status: --
MC is a loser with no ability. He is not poweful. Everyonecan use magic and sword where he cant even use a single bit of magic. The worst MC ever, .
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Alkra
Alkra rated it
July 29, 2020
Status: v6c100
I created an account just to review this, please bear my english. Please remember this work is for mature audience who can differentiate which is good and bad, and what things can be implemented in real life and what will not.

The story is really good and so do the writing. It is hard to find any filler sentences that are quite common for novels on this site, as anything could become a plot device. The author is really good, and if this genre (mainly psychological, politics, dark) is ok for... more>> you, give it some time and the novel will prove its worth eventually.

Now as to why the low rating. This novel is made to be read one volume at a time, not one chapter. But I warn you that the volume endings will also contain cliffs

The main characters and the oppositions will keep doing things that are morally questionable or usually straight up horrible to achieve their objectives. At times, the justification and reward of such actions are written at the end of the volume, making the reader (at least me) feels really horrible after reading.

Relationship: Cutthroat, I can't think of any allies of the main character that are sincerely going to help him achieve his objective, not to speak of romance options. Here some gigantic spoiler that made me put the novel to rest, revealed at some point in volume 5 or 6.

Spoiler

The otherworld that he lived in have an organisation that specialised with dealing otherworlders such as him. There is a part in said organisation that I found very deplorable which have a task of becoming a lifelong and loyal friend maybe even lover of said otherworthers and prepared to betray the otherworlder at the most crucial times when they deemed it necessary. And yes, the allies of the main character is so full of those people. I see you kunnette (she is hot according to author's description, and is considered by some as romance candidate, but we never see her inner thought,). That Kunnette thing is just my prediction, take it just as some random prediction, I have not read ahead.

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That in the spoiler is an interesting plot device but as I cannot stand betrayal (especially when the character have accompanied MC from the start of novel) and the slow release speed of the translation, I think I will suffer if I keep reading this when the translation is not finished.

Speed:

Chapters left = 177 side chapter not included

Translation Speed = about 4/ month on average. Might drop or raise (every 8.1 days on novelupdate release frequency)

Times to complete : 177/4 = about 44 month = 3 - 4 years.

Yeah, I don't think for this kind of novel I can wait that long. If you haven't read this one, do it at your own risk, cliffhanger for these kind of novel will hit really really hard. So basically, the whole thing that bring this down to 3 star for me is because this novel makes me suffer from insane cliffhanger for a long time. <<less
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Sneezing rambler
Sneezing rambler
June 26, 2020
Status: c1
Very interesting main character. He has a nihilistic and pragmatic view that came about as the result of seeing too many dieing, having his worldview shattered and all his beliefs throw into chaos. As long as u get he is tired of it all. U will like where the author takes him. The world building may seem brittle at first and you may have to suspend your disbelief a lot scratch that u totally will have to disable some neurones to accept some of the events but most of it... more>> get explained around chapter 70 to 80. Good payoff and a fresh take on the reincarnated into another world where the fantasy world is not totally at the mercy of the whims of various transmigrators but much more proactive about keeping control of the evolution and state of their world. Thanks to the author and translator for this nice piece of work. Can be childish at times but gets serious for the righr moments. <<less
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Sparky1234
Sparky1234 rated it
June 15, 2020
Status: c39
it's ok.
it's not bad, it's not great. it's like junkfood, you can read it if you have nothing good to read.
I'm really not sure how it got such a high rating...

translation: the translation is ok. it's not bad, but its also not perfect. it could use an editor to fix minor mistakes.
note that 30-40% of the novels I dropped were dropped because of low translation quality. so use this info to compare.

story: it started really nice, gives you some feels and makes you hope it will be... more>> a great novel, but it became meh pretty fast.
like most korean novels, japan is bad evil. whatver.
the plot is flawed, doesnt really make much logic most of the time, there are plot holes that the author tries to fix in later chapters, but it's still meh.

mc: should be the cool edgy lazy scheming smart MC type.
well, he is lazy and edgy.
and he is smarter than everyone else... but it's not really interesting when literally EVERYONE else in the world is about as smart as a 10 year old kid... im not even kidding, everyone is s*upid. very very s*upid.

little spoiler about how s*upid other are, around chapter 35:
Spoiler

there's a tribe of bear people, and they like honey. like, really really like honey. they are obsessive with it, you can make them do everything for a jar of honey.
but guess what? no one in this whole cruel world managed to abuse this fatal flaw in the bear people tribe to use them. why? cuz someone else can offer the bears honey and they will switch sides...
and how does our genius MC solves it to keep his bear minions? gives them a contract "you must accept bribe honey, and then come to MC and report what they wanted you to do"
and then, I kid you not, EVERYONE there is amazed with how smart MC is for coming with such a solution

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also the politics are pretty bad, and meh.
not even sure if it deserves the 3 stars rating, maybe I should have made it lower... <<less
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Vulcan Hajin
Vulcan Hajin rated it
May 9, 2020
Status: c91
After reading the 91 first chapts, the feeling I got was getting p*ssed in the first 50chaps since there is it feels the writer just doesn't want to give the informations about the circumstances surrounding isaac and the structure of the world... But still I kept reading since it wasn't too bad and I quite liked the comedy.

The second part gets a lot more busy as a reader as the school arc ends (there was almost nothing but 7character and the mobs in first arc afterall) where he gets... more>> his jobs and many different people gets involved with him/work/business. And when we get what's happening with all those report and he realise what's happening there, it brought me great entertainment!

I have great hopes for the rest of the novel, so much I felt tempted by MTLs, only to cry and just come writing this..

Spoil:Btw, the first 3 words of the description should be remembered well, gonna cheer for Isaac when 'the monster breaks all shackles' and rampage! <<less
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Supranoob
Supranoob
April 16, 2020
Status: c36
The world is bad in the meaning that it's hard, but it's exactly for that.

The first thing that I thought was "dayum what a long intro"i nearly dropped it, I'm glad that I did not, the way that isaac stands up for himself, is cunning and is quite the mature guy with a mix of mysterie is good.
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PLSnoharem79
PLSnoharem79 rated it
February 22, 2020
Status: v1c11
"perfect", "modern", and "meritocracy" are not words that describe the society Isaac is transported to, yet it is repeatedly narrated as such. It's literally a monarchy. MC's father can't marry his mother 'cause she's a commoner. A typical 'the entire world is against me' isekai. It's perfectly justified that they can hit the MC because he's only on campus and not an actual student but if he tries anything he'd be arrested. Don't bother
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BindingOfIsaac
BindingOfIsaac rated it
January 30, 2020
Status: c76
As an lover of code grass, this is just lelouche on steroids.

Compared to omniscient reader, novel's extra, returner's magic should be special etc ; this novel truly focuses on the out-witting and countering your opponents.

For those who want to might want to read this, the main tags are: isekai, clever/cunning MC, secret organisation, nobles/medeival setting.

Spoiler

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Mothman
Mothman rated it
January 19, 2020
Status: c73
It's strange that every Korean novel has the Japanese commit a dozen war crimes yet you could look at the top 50 Japanese novels on the ranking and not find the word Korea. That said besides the initial edginess the novel is decent, it doesn't stand out in any particular way so if you're after standard Korean isekai genre fiction this is it.
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Rort
Rort rated it
September 25, 2019
Status: --
I will call it refreshing.

I have read a lot of novels with the clever protagonist settings but some of them fall to give them the charm or simply made them inconsistent in the whole novel, by taking actions that they will not take or attitudes that derivate from his former behavior without any explanation what so ever.

It's not the best of his genre but how the author made the MC made his way through the adversities gives me the feeling of Dungeon Defense (I'm not saying that they are similar).

I... more>> advise you to read a little more chapters because the first ones don't give a full scope of the novel but again like any novel until more chapters come we don't know if can kept it up with its own quality. <<less
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Marek2222
Marek2222 rated it
August 31, 2019
Status: c50
One of the best novels for me. Stylistically it is kind of rough around the edges, but it's still nice to read. It seems to confuse people who require novel to be very orderly.

It's kind of novel where most people rate it either 1 star or 5 stars, in other words, best kind of novel if you don't bounce off it!
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pomoli
pomoli rated it
July 24, 2019
Status: c45
Very good stuff for the lovers of MC having an actual brain.

Pro

    • MC is clever, very strong willed, good natured while kinda ruthless, and loves to scheme for everything, while being actually quite weak physically compared to the people he interacts with.
    • MC acts his age, not like a teen while supposedly old.
    • The world is weird, but MC knows it's weird, so we really want to know what's going on.
    • The cast is interesting overall, as everyone has their own goal to follow.
Con

    • The beginning is literally sh*t (when he's in Earth), I understand it's to set up MC character, but it's way too over the top ridiculous, from geopolitical to people reactions. Thankfully, it's only 5/6 chapters, and then we get rid of that.
      Spoiler

      Apparently no, they come back with Earth contact, sadly, I'm not anymore interested with that introduced again.

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    • No romance. I don't mind yet though, as there are hints of relationships in the future.
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charioles
charioles rated it
June 17, 2019
Status: c39
You better read this novel before it gets banned by the official publishers, just like what happenend with The Second Coming Of Avarice. It's that good.

MC is basically Korean Joker (Heath Ledger version) but more like an anti-hero personality instead of a villain.

There is no power up and lucky misunderstanding bullsh*t whatsoever. The MC progress purely from using manipulation knowledge, something that every normal human being could do if they know how to do it, hence why I relate MC as the Joker.

The story is getting better as of the... more>> latest chapter out today, I have laughed many times from the situation depicted, I even screenshotted some of the quotes because it's meaningful or mindblowing.

Anyway, it's that good, a very rare novel with meaningful plot in every chapter. <<less
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tokito
tokito rated it
March 29, 2019
Status: c22
Don't know if anyone know but at first few chapter I find some paradox if you re not that severe the story is very entertained:
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Spoiler

Mazelan mentions Isaac isn't the only person to be in a situation like this and yet in those year in Campus NO ONE LIKE THAT appear even after Isaac become an very important person a.k.a VIP and try to become his opponent. The only way I think its possible is at viscount or higher they can shutdown the agent completly since a mere baron can hide their heir in 10 year

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Spoiler

THIS IS THE MOST UNLOGIC PART. The Campus work like a GRAND ÉCOLE in french which compose a bunch of school so you need to enroll in one to get graduate. During the talk with Mazelan his biggest problem is to survival for 5 year (No school will accept him). The problem here is every one is fk busy to try to pass the exam. The only one care is those who doesn't try and want to drop out => bully + his relatives who wish their nuisance to die. Yet there aren't any death since the new law had adapted (Only 5 in 300 year). So they can go there playing for 5 years accept some bully and get a certificat of the top school in the world while the other have to try their best to study and can be expelled????

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The MC isn't too OP. He only know how others people think. The villain (so far exclude the little brother) is not too s*upid like the other isekai. <<less
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LetThemFall
LetThemFall rated it
March 8, 2019
Status: c15
I've been cat-phished by the summary!! I was expecting the second coming of Rambo when he got transported to another world. Go in there with guns blazing and makes some serious changes but nope. It has a more slice of life feel to it. Its still a good read but don't expect some serious action. Also some minor bashing on America and Japan in the first give chapters but its minor and it was to set up the character. Not my cup of tea so I pretty much just skimmed... more>> it. <<less
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ArKRiV4L rated it
December 8, 2023
Status: Completed
What can I say? It's a must read for people who got tired of too OP main characters who always gets what he wants with no visible drawbacks to the accomplishments the MC acquired and it really was a fun read though I doubt it would suit the taste of other people, nonetheless, I urge you people to read the novel.
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Fexa
Fexa rated it
December 3, 2023
Status: Completed
He is NOT weak.....
Although this is debatably a spoiler, but this would help those who can't bare to see their MC experiencing the slightest harm during their epic.

If you're interested in finding out how uncanny and resourceful he is, well..... best buckle up, cause you're in for a ride. This one INSANELY good story that I'm glad to have found it through one of the other older reviewer. This is definitely a hidden gem.

"He was a child with the mind of a pessimistic old man, but underneath lies an uncanny resourcefulness which only surfaces when he is in trouble."

Let's just put it this way..... This is a novel that I want my kids to read like a bible.
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