Fun novel. MC is your power junkie with a heart of gold, A brute with chivalry. He names his skills after Wuxia fighting tropes so prepare for that.

Certain elements are done in an amusing way.

Quite interesting so far.

Protagonist’s demeanor about handling things thrown at him is refreshing as well.

So far so good and if MC's motivation and personality can remain consistent throughout the novel then I guess it wouldn't be far off to call it one of the better novels.

(which can change to best if the following chapters explore more of the world building and introduce more insight in other character's thoughts)

Misleading, boring, predictable.

Idk what I expected going into this novel, its clearly not romance fantasy. I dont even want to give this thing a full review so i'll try to be brief.

This is an author who really wants to write a murim novel. He does write a murim novel but then puts the setting as typical korean game fantasy novel. But because he couldn't possibly control his hard-on for a murim novel the setting is some sort of twisted dark fantasy.

Everything about this is murim. Starting from this 'aura' power... more>> system that's just murim qi. Aura being leagues stronger than the rest. The MC being an untalented idiot that hasnt learnt any of the secret family techniques but he just practices the basics real good.

There might be romance with the future empress who knows, but she already has a kid. The world itself has a transmigrator girl, a regressed guy and what seems to be a third guy with a system to round out all the tropes. The MC's task is to keep an eye on all of them. A task given by the future empress because she wants her son to not face obstacles.

The MC agrees to this nonsense task because this future empress has the cure to the one condition he cares most about. I.e. She can fix his impotence. She can make his pp go hard again.

You know what that's it. This is some real average slop. Maybe you'll get entertainment out of it if you're really drawn to the constant and otherwise nonsense fighting. But its appeal isn't high. <<less

Rate 3.5

It's a fun novel to read.

However, the only interesting thing here is the MC.

... more>> While other aspects of the story are well built and there's no bad points, the whole progression is not original, I came across similar tropes and the author didn't make much different.

The author took interesting parts from popular tropes and then merged them seamlessly, that's good, however, the author couldn't make a story that makes you think "wow", it's just enough as an entertaining read.

If you want to read a laid back rude MC that doesn't give a f*ck about anyone, and who has a bit of flawed personality (lunatic) and is somewhat racist to mages (if it can be called that), then this story is nice.

However, you won't get the deep world building and epic story telling with a deep lore or character growth. <<less