I am the Monarch

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Roan ran away 20 years ago from his rural village in the aim of becoming a Great General. However, all he got 20 years later was just a handful of money and the lowly position of squad commander of the First Legion’s.

In the end, he became a cold corpse in the battlefield… but somehow, he came back in the past.

“Alright. This time, I won’t become a Great General but a Monarch.”

His previous life’s aim was becoming a Great General, but, he only became a spearman squad commander.

This time, his life’s aim is becoming the Monarch.

“Then I guess I’d become at least a General, right?”

Roan, who remembers 20 years of his future, now starts his unstoppable march.

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DrCee
DrCee rated it
May 4, 2020
Status: c255
Pretty good not the best but nice kingdom building. Lots of lucky coincidences that aren't very believable with the military tactics.
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Kanat-TM
Kanat-TM rated it
May 2, 2020
Status: c346
I started reading this in 2017. At that time it looked like for me as the good piece of work with logical plot and clever protagonist. Of coz, not without loopholes but. His enemies weren't clowns like in Chinese novels and he wasn't too OP as them. However, all of you know every good thing shall come to the end.

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Spoiler

The end of this story began at the Ark of Simon, when our Protag started to turn from quick-witted but non-knowledgeable person when it comes to the strategy to the person who is more cunning and shrewd than Ian Philipps whom the author had described as one of the greatest mind of the World. Simon from pragmatic and a little bit cruel character changed into complete idiot. When I was reading it I still believed that the story wouldn't be like it was in the tonns of Xianxia, Wuxia etc. How naive I was.

ML always took the best things. He was praised as the great man; his nature spirit is the most powerful one. Blah-blah. Additionally, it was revealed that he is living his 3rd life.

It seemed that in the 1st life he was the Emperor who had ruled over the World and achieved greatness by himself. In the 2nd life as the consequence of his enemy's plot he and his comrades, friends in previous life died miserably. He himself died early as the soldier.

As the things escalated he met Kalian, took from him the heritage ofthe most powerful Dragon and was blessed. Both the Son of the God (Philius, for us knows as Travias) and the Demon (yeah-yeah, Flamdor wasn't mage but Demon) gave him their powers and memories. After this, he cnahged into so much OP that he defeated the King of the hell who was the strongest. Just in two or three chapters!!!I had more problem than him when killed my first c*ckroach with slippers. And one chapter ahead it was the epilogue O_O.

But the most irritating thing is

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all of the events I mentioned prior happened just in the last 20-30 chapters. So if you ask what we have in the ending? The OP ML who knows everything much better than his subordinates, he is like the incarnation of the "Mister who was engineer, doctor, astronaut, scientist etc". Also, we have the rushed ending without normal descriptions (not the two or three lines like it is) what happened to the other friendly characters after. And this is the reason why I rate this story only 3 stars. <<less
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rialm
rialm rated it
April 23, 2020
Status: c291
I paused/dropped this series. The plot develops too fast and seems rushed in the later half. Hence, it falls into old patterns of the genre which can be a little boring.

4/5

Old:

Enjoyable piece. Sometimes the... credulity? of the main character's thought process is somewhat hard to bear, but he is a well-built character, and I like his uncompromising spirit.

An unexpected source of comedy and quite entertaining. 5/5 for now.

PS: A very well done translation that only seems to be getting better every chapter.
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LeeEzekiel
LeeEzekiel rated it
June 26, 2018
Status: c221
Probably the best "second chance" novel I've read. Can be a bit melodramatic at times, and Roan is a bit too perfect of a messiah, but those are easily forgiven when compared to the rest of the story. I don't mind that he's only really skilled in battle, knowing how to rely on his subordinates and delegate tasks is exactly what a leader should do anyway.

Biggest flaw? Translation is a bit shoddy with grammatical errors in almost every chapter, badly needs editing.
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dats
dats rated it
April 30, 2018
Status: c211
The best novel i've ever read. It's so good it'll make you want more of it.

The story basically the same old coming back to teenager with all experience intact. Roan, the MC starts all over again from a veteran soldiers to a single soldiers that couldn't wield spear without calluses spread from his hand. The starts wasn't that interesting though it will become a foundation of the story. Like every other MC, roan got a thick plot armor (of course, if he doesn't have that then he's not MC lol).... more>> But the interesting part was the story the author develop from a soldier to a noble with political interest to serve the people not the king. The complex of the story was revealed to us one by one. It's like you got a fine multiple course of meal from the best chef with the one you love. A fine candle like dinner.

Please by all means read it and enjoy~ <<less
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pomoli
pomoli rated it
December 9, 2017
Status: c186
I recommend that one.

Pro

    • Great main character, actually using his head when he has a second chance. He's a good guy at heart, and becomes really admirable in later parts of the story.
    • All characters are developed.
    • There is world building, as many things unfold as the story passes.
Con

    • The romance is not bad, but I'm not a fan of love at first sight, as it takes the fun in the relation. Especially here as the main female MC is interesting.
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Ahsirt
Ahsirt rated it
August 3, 2023
Status: c268
One of the greatest reads for me I say. It's fun, inspiring, and a highly recommended novel. The type where u can get amazed, excited, and keep wanting for more (well atleast for me). Although I was quite put off in the romance part since I don't prefer it being squeezed through in the middle of the 'action hype' vibes or something. That was just personal preference tho, the romance was good and totally makes sense. Excellent character and plot development.
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gormaniac
gormaniac rated it
April 19, 2022
Status: c59
The story is ok. Standard reincarnation story. It is a magic world that is basically a videogame, except it is the real world for the MC. MC knows where all the powerful things are, all the future important people, and all the important things that happened over the last 20 years of his life. He decides to power level his way to becoming king.

However, the translation is just so hard to continue. I don't know how people can finish this story with this quality of writing. I am not blaming... more>> the translator, as I am sure it is hard. But it clearly needs a new person involved to proof read it in order for the story to be passable for English readers. I want to read more, but I just can't. It is like reading baby talk.

My rating of 2 is mostly because of the translation. Probably give it a 3.5 if I could read it. It is a simplified version of Amber Sword except with much worse translation and its not a video game. <<less
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Tras
Tras rated it
February 12, 2022
Status: Completed
I really liked this the first like 200 chapters, even though I slowly got more and more frustrated by the sound effects. At least 4/5 up until the story devolved into only being wuxia with hardly any world building whatsoever. At first it seems like it's going to be about actually kingdom building in some way, but it's all fighting the last 100+ chapters. The new technologies, trading, policies etcetera that were hinted of ends up just being "It was the best sh*t ever and all the people loved it... more>> to death" and that's it. There's no closure for any of the characters, it just feels like a 10 year old had his dream fulfilled. The writing also got extremely repetitive and lazy the last chapters as well as rushed like crazy. All fights and plots are "It was all over/he thought there was no hope/they had finally won... but it was then!" in one way or another. I think I read "But it was then..." more than a thousand times during those chapters.
The world seemed really amazing and vast at first and we were introduced to lots of things that seemed to be important for the future, only for them to barely be mentioned in a sentence while the main character punches 10 newly introduced "last bosses" in about 20 chapters.

Very disappointing read. It's like a completely new author wrote the final third/half of the novel.

PS, the last chapters fairly well translated at goblinsguide. At least compared to other MTL attempts. <<less
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Andrew341
Andrew341 rated it
December 22, 2021
Status: c189
After the 150 chapter it got really hard to read, the translation wasn't a problem for me since english is not my mother language and I don't really care about that, but the problem is that the MC don't have any real challenger and simply get everything easily.

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Spoiler

As he becomes more powerfull he would easy get much more enemies than he has now but the prince who supports him do not to feel threatened by his rise to power and it doesn't make anyone suspicious of him. A young man getting so much as the king himself can easily have different thoughts such as becoming a monarch but the only person whom even considered that was Ian.

The nobles are really good at schemes and strategy but they never learn anything and continue to use the same tactics and that probably would not happen.

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RyC
RyC
August 24, 2021
Status: Completed
One of the best novels I’ve read. Anyone should give it a try. Although it’s kinda sad the story ended but it ended well and I think I’m satisfied!! Thanks to the translators and author for this amazing work!!
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GrayMao
GrayMao rated it
May 21, 2021
Status: Completed
The novel is not that bad, but not that good as well. It have the time element, where MC takes advantage of his knowledge of the past to gain a better future. (Like typical Isekai characters)

The good points are:

•No harem

... more>> •MC have a decent personality

The bad points are:

•Plot hole - some events are missing or maybe the author forgot about it or prolly skipped

•Personally, I think the ending was rushed

If I'm gonna rate it in numbers, it's about 3.5. If you'd like story with no heavy drama or thick plot - give this a try and judge for yourself. <<less
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Brajac04
Brajac04 rated it
August 3, 2020
Status: c319
This novel is very good. I mean, it just naturally pulled me in and entertaining me whenever I got free time. I did read all translated chapters a little too fast lel :P

Overall, in my eyes this novel is brilliant. Now there are people that obviously have better eyes for details than me but some reviews are just pain in the ass. Simply put, f*** off y'all.

This is very entertaining and fun novel with plent of action and when MC achives something or someone praises him even I feel the... more>> goosebumps :) 10 out of 10 would recommend of course. <<less
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wait321
wait321 rated it
July 24, 2020
Status: c278
This is a novel about tr*sh talking. Read about enemies on the battlefield tr*sh talk for half a chapter before dying. Read about assassins cutting through the target's guards and tr*sh talk the target for a chapter while rescue comes. Read about "brilliant" political masterminds tr*sh talk in public and laugh like cartoon villains. The novel started out fine but just keeps getting worse with each arc. At the end I was skipping 90% of each chapter because it was filled with s*upidly boring tr*sh talk.
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RajSanthosh
RajSanthosh
July 5, 2020
Status: --
Don't Judge quickly....

MC stealing others achivement are somewhat not good....

But there is an another twist about his time travel, so don't judge quickly...

Truly A Good story... (Just read fully and give review)
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Leylin_The_Generous
I read till 50 chapters for now. All I can say is, the novel really gets on one's nerve. Honestly there are lot of good "reincarnate back in time" genre, and this certainly isn't one!

If you're fine with MC who steals someone else's achievement from his previous life (for e.g, spear technique of his genius friend, strategy established by one of the geniuses) and shows off as his own in this life then proceed with the novel. Else not, for those of you this isn't one you can digest.

Another thing... more>> is, he acts all confident when some wars happens that he already encountered in his previous life and "devises" the strategy for it, however when something unexpected happens due to butterfly effect, he gets all cold feet at the beginning (but somehow manages). This portrays MC in a way that he's nothing but an imposter who can't do anything if things go out of control.

P.S: If you're all really interested in "reincarnate back in time" genre, "I recommend The World Online" which is gold. <<less
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Corbyn Besson
Corbyn Besson rated it
June 19, 2020
Status: c266
This novel is about war tactics and strategies, and it was well-written at that. The character development is good, MC is naturally a good person who had seen things when he was a soldier. Every arc had made me anticipate and nervous, and simply root for the MC and his subordinates. There's betrayal and such, but the MC is amazing as he already expected it and he's not dumb but calm and collected.
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kenichiwuz
kenichiwuz rated it
October 17, 2019
Status: c204
A solder who's dream was to be a general but dies with a low rank. With such regrets he suddenly ends up back in the past with his younger body. With all the history and him marching around, he decides to not be a general but to aim higher. That was to be a monarch.

At first the story was really interesting to read as the character progression and story building was nice and added onto it, but the story starts to stagnate later on when the main character has become... more>> comfortable.

After being comfortable for so long, there werent that much character building and suddenly the main character is seen with esteem and fame and what not. As I read through the arc I felt a lack of direction and didnt really feel the main character had deserved that glory. The author doesnt emphasize much on how he gains these beneficial events and are only part of the story at the end of a chapter where the cliff hanger is, but is not explained after in the next chapters. <<less
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Renaxan
Renaxan rated it
March 27, 2019
Status: Completed
I have mixed feeling about this novel, I admit this novel isnt bad as I having enjoyable ride. But some aspect of this novel so ridiculous that make everyone wouldnt be comfortable with it.

Pros :

1. Start as pretty good, we got MC who has nothing first and relied his past memories change his destiny.

... more>> 2. The characters isnt forgettable and having roles on their own, altho some are lacking.

3. MC didnt relies on nasty plot/drug plot (like CN novel) or have wimpy like character, he is decisive.

4. There's no harem.

5. Enjoyable ride, the plot are unpredictable (which is also cons) and most arc are having good conclusion (especially at earlier leaving good impression).

Cons :

1. End of story feel to rushed, like MC come out to last enemy and just dealing it within 2 chapter, which the arc itself have so much bs* explaining plot.

2. The plot unpredictable, because author keep spawning new character and major plot out of nowhere everytime without foreshadowing (altho MC supposed to know the future). Instead, MC somehow know a lot strategies and tactic from genius from previous life which is weird since he is common soldier in his old life. Its also sometimes made me skimming a chapter.

3. MC subordinate have too much faith and a lot moment wasteful just to make pov from other character, even mob just to let the readers that MC are incridible being.

Overall its story you can diggin, and could enjoy about kingdom tale, but not much as rokuin no musshou/overlord. 4/5 <<less
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KirbyReviews44
KirbyReviews44 rated it
June 20, 2018
Status: c220
There are novels that try pad chapters with the least amount of effort, and then there is this novel.

I am not going to spoil any of the plot because I think its interesting and its doesn't take many chapters to get engrossed in the story.

The author goes ALL-OUT on the plot, it is heavily plot driven story and the plot is very very interesting. The plot progresses very quickly and by around chap 150 you kind of know where stuff is going.

Minor nitpicks are that you'll have to get used... more>> the author writing a ton of character thoughts in single quotes. So you constantly have to squint at the quotation mark to see if its a single quote (character thought) or double quote (character speech). <<less
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