One important note: even though the MC is the "king" of the rank 1 powerful kingdom, he himself is not strong at all–but instead he gives 'buffs' to other characters to make them stronger. So I hope you're not confused and get annoyed whenever you see MC couldn't defend himself even though he's the king of the most powerful kingdom in the game.

51, but specifically from chapter 61 onwards).

he hadn't treated his subjects well and that's why he was afraid to return to the kingdom, then he says that he treated them in the best way possible.

The fact that he abandoned his kingdom is not even mentioned among his subjects, not even a hint of discomfort like "wow, didn't you think about us?". He simply came back and started ruling as if he had never left them behind, even though that was one of the main points in the plot.

It's understandable that the guides purposely interfered with their relationship because it put the world at risk if their affinity is too high. It's understandable that the MC, who has lived in scorn his whole life, can't handle the ML's scathing rejection and tries to run away. Also reasonable that the duke, who's gone through 42 failed kings and got his hopes up, would be especially disappointed and distrustful at his abandonment. We also know that just because they clear the misunderstanding, it doesn't mean the hurt they caused each other goes away, which takes time. But OMG KISS ALREADY

He is sassier than in the manhwa imo, but I felt like his massive distrust (which ig is borne from adoptive families rejecting him) and the way it's resolved felt glossed over. That, he suddenly was able to overcome it to win the battle. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't get how he obtained the Unity buff skill except for the fact that he realized he was very distrustful vs others, and he really needed it to win the battle, please. Well, that's how it felt like to me, and I wished the author tackled this issue sooner, since now it's more deus ex machina.

And that wasn't the only thing that felt DEM, but the romance and character development as well. I guess it can't be helped because there's too many characters in the cast, but if that was the case, then I wish we could've gone a better handling of MC's character development and romance better? I felt like the plot got too much in the way of that too, hence why I think there's a sense of disorganization.

100% better than the MTL floating around BUT not perfect— there are pronoun changes and the names of skills and characters changes often, sometimes even in the same paragraph (Junghan becoming Jeonghan, Iobel becoming Eobell.) But I'm still thankful because reading through the MTL gives me more of a headache.

• Sehyun’s character: as an MC, he is likeable. Not a pushover, knows his strengths and weaknesses. Basically the brain in the team. Also he is a Celestial, so as someone obsessed with angels and myths, that’s a plus lol
• Other characters had their reasons to be. I like that we got a glimpse of almost everybody.
• The fact that everybody was needed was nice. Every character carried the plot at some point.
• The questions about how the players got in the game and what exactly was the system keeps you hooked. That was my main motivation as I read through the book.
  
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• The romance between the MC and ML was very... mid. How should I say it? Anticlimactic. I don’t know if it’s because the book didn’t really spent time exploring the relationship between Sehyun and Ruhak (his Grand Duke) that every moment that was supposed to be romantic, it felt hollow. Even at the chapter when the misunderstanding was resolved and they declared their feelings, I couldn’t connect to it. Which brings me to the next point.
• Luhak’s character is empty. We really don’t know much about him, even Sehyun himself says so in one of the chapters: he feels he doesn’t know Luhak at all, and I’m with him. Apart from knowing he is obsessed with Sehyun, he was the previous king and that he is a strong-willed character, nothing about him made me connect to Luhak in a deeper level. It’s like he is just... there. And that feeling stays until the end of the novel.
• It tries to hard to convey feelings that it goes into unrealistic territory. The love that the knights and Sehyun’s friends have for him is strong, too strong that at some point, I thought everybody was in love with him. And the novel tries to explain the reasoning, but it falls into a codependency that I personally lined up with them seeing Sehyun as their God. Very heavy feelings, which bring me to the next negative.
• Too much drama. This novel tries REALLY HARD to touch in your feelings and get you connected with the characters, for example with Agatha’s sacrifice. But once again, it tries so hard that at the end, I couldn’t care about it. I couldn’t care about Huen’s past when the are in the middle of finding the Goodness, I couldn’t care about Dohyun’s struggle with himself when doom was breathing at everybody’s neck... At some point, I genuinely believe I was starting to get bored with the dramatic antics and that’s why I couldn’t relate to their stories, because I was already exhausted of the constant “look, they have a sad past and FEELINGS and you should feel bad for them, you should connect with them” in the middle of a bigger fish to fry.
• Inconsistencies all throughout the book. Too many to mention and I don’t want to make this review even longer lol But one that comes into my mind it’s the guides: Useless lmao Like I don’t get why they needed it to add all the previous guides from other worlds if they do absolutely nothing. Bill was more than enough, if the only role for them was to guide and give information. Because they can’t sustain the barrier and they cannot wake up the Goodness, so why... bring them all out? What was the point of that?
  
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