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Arena
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199 Chapters (Complete)
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Weekly Rank: #9649Monthly Rank: #11013
All Time Rank: #400
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On 7558 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #515
All Time Rank: #645
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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 29 year old civil employment exam student wakes up in a blank white room and meets a baby angel. This baby angel informs him that he died in his sleep due to heart disease like his father and grandfather. Remembering his mom and their last conversation he says that he will take on a series of life and death tests that the baby angel offers him. From this point on he must put his life on the line and fight in the stage called ‘Arena’. And Every time he clears a test he will gain abilities and weapons to increase his strength. All to clear the tests and get his life back. This is his story of his fights in the ‘Arena’.
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One entry per line아레나
이계사냥기
이계사냥기
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11/15/17 | Kokuma Translations | c112 |
11/14/17 | Kokuma Translations | c111 |
11/14/17 | Kokuma Translations | c110 |
11/01/17 | Kokuma Translations | c109 |
11/01/17 | Kokuma Translations | c108 |
10/30/17 | Kokuma Translations | c107 |
10/27/17 | Kokuma Translations | c106 |
10/25/17 | Kokuma Translations | c105 |
10/24/17 | Kokuma Translations | c104 |
10/23/17 | Kokuma Translations | c103 |
10/17/17 | Kokuma Translations | c102 |
10/11/17 | Kokuma Translations | c101 |
10/02/17 | Kokuma Translations | c100 |
09/26/17 | Kokuma Translations | c99 |
09/25/17 | Kokuma Translations | c98 |
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Possibly the worst read ever, I have only and will only stick around for the Arena part of the story, I am disgusted by the MC's crazy s*xual thoughts, for 10 seconds don't think of interc**rse with your girlfriend. His sister and girlfriend are both superficial and have a HUGE interest in his wallet, he honestly fell for his girlfriend making him think she doesn't want his money, nor to spend it when she clearly does. All none Arena or Arena revolved parts of the story are tr*sh. The MC spends so much time in the real world doing useless things for a horrible girl, OK. We already had a female character that was deserving of the girlfriend spot. The MC had fallen for a girl already, she wasn't strong but she had potential, she wasn't trying to jump his bones or make him do anything for her that would just be a benefit. All the things she asked of him, she needed for peace-of-mind.
She understood and liked the MC before he was some Millionaire super buff guy. She realized her faults and tried to get better, she ended up being a sacrifice for the MC to live and barely a few days later he's porking it with some sl*t who tells him she's had more guys on her than wikipedia? Really?! Honestly, he legit forgot about his team, I don't care how hard the author tries to force the MC into being saddened. He did not at all mention their deaths or their existences but days after they died for him. He utterly disgusts me and he needs to be tortured. He is neither clever nor intelligent, he was quite the opposite to the extent that he couldn't properly study without starving himself, and that was proven by the Author himself when the Angel said so. He does not deserve to make it out alive, but we know he will merely because of Plot Armor when people should want to assassinate him at all times, now the majority of what I just said applies to just the real world. In the arena he's a decent person, I still believe he should acknowledge his team mates deaths or at least mourn them. In the Arena the MC is like-able to some extent, he's someone who if you take his utter betrayal of his team mates and lengthy and repetitive thoughts about his girlfriend while in the Arena that could be good MC material. But, the Arena is too short, it's several days, even years, but it's seemingly less chapters than the real world, which in my opinion is just the writers bad writing.. If he fixed that, and spent far less time on the real world, and took away the sl*t and downsized the MC's ego that forms the second he's in the real world, this could be Amazing. But a possibility is not worth great treatment.
Many of the abilities in Arena don't scale with training, which is somewhat disappointing since in a lot of other ways the world in which they live is essentially an RPG. For example, the MC's spirit summons (such as sylph) have a usage timer, however that timer doesn't increase as your proficiency with the spirit increases, neither does the strength of the spirit. Although the spirit summon is in and of itself a skill, you can't quite 'level' it up without spending karma. It's a minor point but I do feel icky about this. On a second note about spirit summons, it is a little annoying that the MC can't telepathically communicate with the spirit. It makes no sense to me why this isn't implemented.
MC gives in too easily to feminine wiles I feel. The moment someone starts flirting with him and he crumbles. I was honestly somewhat disappointed when after his entire team got killed off, one of the members even going so far to sacrifice himself to help him escape, the first thing he does is get himself seduced by some side character who really doesn't have much going for her. It's somewhat distasteful. I can't see this as being anything more than a fling but it seems like the author plans to flesh this relationship out more with how clingy and dependent he has become on her.
I feel that this is an especially big slap to the face to the reader, when just a few chapters ago the MC was holding hands with and bonding with a girl whom he was close to that fought in the arena with him. The girl that seduces the MC is only interested in him for shallow reasons whereas the other girl who was his companion was anything but shallow. She grew together with the MC and they had a good vibe going, so it left a bad taste in my mouth when as soon as she gets killed off he jumps into bed with this vixen seductress who has played with many men in her day (and enjoys bragging about it, even to the MC).
Some of the descriptions of the skills feel dumbed down. For example, when they explain the upgrading of a person's physical traits, they broadly categorize it as: level 1 (healthy male), level 2 (athlete), level 3 (soldier), level 4 (elite soldier), level 5 (beyond human limits). However I doubt that soldiers are more physically capable than athletes, for whom training their bodies is their job. Foot soldiers are usually trained in certain skills but I wouldn't place their physical prowess over athletes. I'm pretty sure that most soldiers can't outswim michael phelps, or outsprint Usain bolt, or outdunk kobe, etc. Just little things like this occur everywhere in the novel and it's somewhat annoying to see them pop up from time to time. It isn't a huge deal though so it's not too big of a setback.
During the third mission the MC and his team was wiped out. Only the MC lived. At this point of the story, although we weren't too attach to them, it was surprising. Especially losing one character almost on par with our MC in ability. Afterwards MC goes solo for a while and becomes more of a cheat. Then the story in the arena isn't that interesting even after new characters appear, where as the real world fights become the most interesting. The team wipe just shifted our expectations of the novel and began feeling like a much different novel, so I wouldn't blame anyone who says it's not as good afterwards.
It's something I don't really get why she was so disliked. The girl was nice, supportive, good looking, put out, and really liked the protagonist, yet a lot of readers saw her as a sl*t and gold digger.
She's introduced as a party girl and not a virg*n, so pretty much a real woman in her 20's and in college which I guess frightens some guys here as opposed to JP and CN girls who are virg*ns no matter the age and are pure as snow, obedient, and don't have a life outside of the protagonist.
Calling her a gold digger has no standing in the novel. The MC gets rich around the time of his 4th and 5th mission. He wanted to buy her a few things, bought a good car and liked to drive her places, and bought a expensive apartment and moved in there with her. Well, none of those things were her idea. She didn't want gifts, but he pressured her. She didn't tell him to buy the car. And most of all buying a expensive apartment and moving in together were all the mc's idea and he was scheming to impress her so much that she would give up her place and stay. Chapter 77 shows it.
The only event that might make you think she's not a good girlfriend, if you're a petty person, is one time after the MC comes back from a mission. Her friends were jealous that she had a rich boyfriend, so they conspired to get her drunk and leave her with a man who is in love with her. The MC, who sees this after coming back from a dangerous battle, gets a upset even knowing the situation and knowing he wasn't in a good mood. Later after sobering up the girlfriend immediately rushes to apologize for the situation and says she will dump her bad friends.
They get over this incident, but because soon afterwards real world forces are targeting him he breaks up with her to protect her. She hasn't appeared again and the MC moved on in like two days to new girls. Despite this people still look at her like a sl*t and gold digger, and are glad he's now with a unfeeling and obedient woman living to help him in the arena. Because, you know she had no life outside the MC. And MC gets even more clingy to her and as the same way as before, scheming for affection and buying her stuff.
With that said I wouldn't trust any review them at slanders her as credible opinion to look at. They either have unrealistic standards for women, forgot the story, or straight up lying about her being a gold digger and bad influence on the MC.
Similar to Gantz, life fail MC dies and is forced to play a death game with RPG elements on another world named Arena. Pros:
- Great writing. Can't stress this enough. Genuinely funny dialogue. Non-archetypal, interesting characters. His family members are great. Normally in this genre the game/dungeon chapters are where the meat is and the civilian life intermissions suffer from blandness/genericness. Not this story, the out-of-game chapters are just as interesting. Lots of detail is given to flesh out the world and characters.
- Great character development. Characters feel real. Believable MC; isn't a blank slate, blatant self-insert, silent robot archetype.
- Power system is consistent and easy to understand. Cons:
- The first couple of chapters with the first mission feels kind of forced and abrupt (unnatural). If you can get past that though, you're in for a treat. Recommendation:
Wasn't expecting much, so this was a surprise. Got quite a few laughs. Definitely worth a read.