I feel like this is a detached account of a salary man's daily life after learning through social beatings. There is nothing I've found to be remarkable, and a sentence from the novel ingrained in my mind illustrates this concept.

When talking about the starting area for climbing the tower, an open plain, MC makes this remark:

"Some pretentious bards or pompous fellows would call it the infinite plains, but everyone else just calls it the plains."

... more>> This attitude summarizes MC's approach to everything.

To be honest, I'd much rather hear the story from the POV of said pretentious bards or pompous fellows. Every single place described, person talked to, and situation that arose, the MC nonchalantly gave us some explanation of the "hidden rules" and reasonably stripped down any magic or semblance of emotion that could have existed therein. Perhaps if the world itself had an interesting design, but it doesn't, it's as generic as could be. Everything feels barren, gray in color and void of purpose. <<less

4 Stars for now, concept is interesting. Translation could be better, but I definitely see the appeal. At this point, I’m an expert at figuring out translated nonsense.

Basically, the guy got transmigrated into the game as a 6 Star NPC, stayed there for 10 yrs, then the game launches and like, players start flooding in, and think he’s an NPC even tho he’s conscious. That’s what I got for now. Imma let it marinate for a while and come back to see if it’s still good or fell off

A unique and well executed concept for the most part.

Normal guy gets transmigrated into the body of the strongest gacha character in a random fantasy world. He doesn't gain any game like ability but just has a superhuman body and legendary gear. He lives in this dangerous world for 10 years thanks to said abilities.

Then players from earth start appearing in town and the generic fantasy world starts developing game elements (previously normal looking people turning into beautiful gacha character versions of themselves).

Really reminded me of 'The legendary mechanic'. I... more>> always liked this dynamic of real person pretending to be an NPC and using his gaming knowledge to win players affection.

So far really fun. A likable MC that doesn't seem overly talented or scheming. Just has a lot of experience in this world. Also not righteous or evil, he only does things for his benefit within a reasonable limit.

Update as of C51:

Everything I've said still holds up. Still really fun but no real sense of story progression so far. Unclear if it's because the genre is more slice of life or if it's just very slow. I wouldn't really recommend it if you dislike slow stories with a lot of characters just explaining things to other characters that for the most part don't need to be explained.

'Show don't tell' isn't exactly a strong point of this novel. <<less

This is so boring. The protagonist never has any interesting opinions, or anything interesting to say. He doesn't even commit to being self-centred, which would be boring and overdone anyway, but still better than this shit.

So much of the narration is neutral and bland. If he were at least funny, that might ameliorate it, but he's not.

The smut sucks too, and unless the protagonist is as thick as my wrist, then the only reason it hurt for Grace's first time is because the author has never properly done foreplay in... more>> his life.

Worse than being bad, or s*upid, this novel is just boring! I cannot overstate how f*cking mindnumbingly boring this f*cking novel is. <<less

Basic story premise is that a guy who spends all his money on a gacha game gets reincarnated into a fantasy world as the unique 6 star character that he spent a ton of money on rolling for. The story first starts 10 years after he's been in this fantasy world, where he discovers a streamer appearing in the world and acting as if it's a virtual reality game.

Over the story, we are slowly fed his past, where we find out how he had been living his life in the... more>> fantasy world. The main part of the story involves joining the streamer's party and training her, as they ascend a massive tower-dungeon that a city has been built around.

The protagonist is already unbeatable from the start, so there's almost no progression of his strength, other than him becoming more unbeatable. As of chapter 48, he hasn't faced anything that hasn't been killed in a single blow, so don't expect close fights or challenges. Any progression mainly comes in the form of him training the streamer and the rest of her party, although even that progress comes incredibly slowly. The story is just incredibly slow paced, although I wouldn't classify it as slice of life.

My biggest complaint is how much time is spent talking about how beautiful all the women are. A good tenth of story is spent on this, I'm not even exaggerating. There's an adult chapter around every 20 chapters, but they can be entirely skipped, and you can just assume everything fades to black. There's no adult content outside of those chapters, and you won't miss any important story information by skipping them. The adult content is extremely rare and completely optional. <<less

It's a bit slow paced, but there aren't really any low points and you learn more about Roland as the story progresses.

The streamer aspect adds some spice to what could've otherwise been a slightly too dull slice of life-ish story.

Roland is probably going sleep with the majority/all girls in the party (maybe even including the player?), and there's some light s*x scenes, which can be a plus or minus (or neutral) depending on the reader.

I don't have much else to say but just wanted to get out a review that's... more>> rating the novel highly. (also maybe someone could make an LCD thread on NU?...)

Oh yeah Roland is really OP and only gets stronger, so far there's basically nothing he can't deal with and he's basically a baby sitter.

Although it's starting to look like there might be at least some struggle starting from where I'm at. (Chapter 170+ at the time) <<less

Too much info dump, by the time those info about to make sense I already forgotten about them. Around ch.9 he's still talking about blacksmith here, tips here, and etc. To be honest, after ch.12 I just skimmed through the novel but decided to completely drop the novel, as I see no point to continue.

As for the plot, almost as generic as those novels who reincarnated inside a game. MC reincarnated into his hated character but there really is no other plot twist other than the character being OP. So... more>> expect almost no character progression or hurdle. So far.

Translation was good, not perfect but a lot better compared to other novels these days. At least translator made some effort.

Anyways, if your into in-game reincarnation novels and a pet hanging around him telling us how perfect he is, then this might be your cup of tea. <<less

A newer concept than others for "isekai" genre however as other reviews point out, the character progression or lack thereof bogs it down for me. I personally think this is a more wish fulfillment version of basically the same premise in "legendary mechanic". However that story focuses a lot more on the world and a lot more enjoyable characters.

The author likes to put in water in a KR novel. He’s got guts lmao.

Too much about the novel is about praising the 6* MC+comparison and unfunny forum memes, then about characters (Charlotte, Ellis, Grace, etc) have so little interaction I feel like they’re literally NPC instead of people.

Exploration of the tower and the FMC Hannah’s development has been completely skimmed over too.

In short, there is no focus in the story anywhere and it’s all over the place. If I could rate 0 on this site I would.

Slow pacing. First time I read about someone become NPC and pretending to be a real NPC while adventuring together with a player, and it's interesting premise what MC experienced when player logout, sleep, save and load, reset, etc in game and MC's use of browser-like cheat feature. But sadly that didn't become the main focus, instead making the plot tends to be generic VR RPG game but without 'real life' as MC lives in VR world now, making this novel loses its uniqueness.

The writing style of the author sometimes... more>> can be boring with repetitive and unnecessary info dump, while at other times the author glossed it over by saying "it's only common sense that blablabla", making the world building is a mess as there's a few things not making sense to me. But maybe it's not making any sense to me only because I'm not really a gamer and there's some cultural differences between me and the author.

As for the harem (or romance, depends on how do you want to call it), it feels like written by a virg*n or someone who haven't touched a grass for a long time. Because MC is handsome and well-built, women flocks to him like a monkey in heat (from author's implicit narrative). As of c109, there are 3 FLs with snusnu chapters, and for some reason all of them were virg*ns despite one of them is being described as coarse woman who often make dirty talks to MC, and another one is a closet pe*vert who fantasizes about MC. Not realistic but ngl personally I like it better this way, so no problem.

Translation quality is good too, despite translator's claim that they use mtl to translate. The translator team is impressive enough for the novel to not feel like low effort mtl.

Overall, enjoyable but it can be a lot better quality-wise. <<less

This novel is SLOW, but for me that is its charm, how little by little they climb the tower and how the characters get to know each other⁓ At the moment there is nothing that really makes me say that this novel is bad, I hope it stays that way

First, a warning, this novel is SLOW, so if this type of novel is not your style, I would not recommend it, but if you are like me and you appreciate a leisurely reading that takes time, I recommend it.

As for its plot, although it can be cliché at times, it also seems to me a demonstration that it doesn't matter what your base is or how original it is, all that matters is how you execute it and in my opinion this novel does it very well.

However, I have... more>> to warn anyone who wants to read it that this is not a novel that contains, at least so far, many epic fights, although that may change as we progress in the plot of both the novel and the game. <<less

It's a bit early to score but I'll cut this series a slack because it's a korean series without your standard korean MC.

Sure MC is ultimately self serving but he is not doing it in a dumb way. He carefully maintains his image, helps villagers, shares his spoils, tips generously while still being self serving. He has a work life balance, he is friendly, he casually flirts. Which is great for a pov character, discovering intricacies of the world he is thrown in. Giving us a relatively fresh perspective on... more>> this type of story. <<less

i can't say much as we're still at early chapters but from what I have tasted so far is that this novel have a big possibility of being epicly good, also thanks to the Wonderful translation the story can be read very well.

now to the real review, since the story started after 10 years we are left behind and how his heroic deeds roaming around the world story really are but it just feels weird around there but after that the story is going well and since he already knew... more>> the ins and out of the world it make more sense.

thats all I can say so give this book a try.

just wishing for more r18 eh hahahahahaha. <<less

It is a calm novel, it does not have much drama or annoying moments.

The truth is that the protagonist is op and he is a tank.

The s*x scenes really aren't that exciting, they are okay but it seems that the author wants to focus more on the story than on everything else.

... more>> I hope that at some point they increase the difficulty of the story or that there are more s*xual scenes.

The relationship between the characters is fun and I like that the girls are not b*tches without self-esteem who love the protagonist just to be saved like 99% of the typical isekai girls. <<less

This novel is in general savorless, be it the story or the characters. The little ecchi is what somehow evokes some emotions from time to time, but they are too rare (4-5 chapters in 183?) and bland to carry this. It’s like a slice of life (and it’s not, here we do have some objective like the mystery of the isekai + goddess + tower) without the things that usually make it interesting (no romance, warm heart, interesting characters or daily life/work, relatable moments or whatever).

The story is plain and simply boring. So is the smut for that matter.

You have the usual every love interest being a virg*n thing as one would expect, so no problems there.

But as one would not expect there is not really much romance to it, mostly because the MC is stoic beyond belief.

And not the good philosophical kind.

SLOW af...

Really, its friggin slow, not that I say its bad story, but S L O W..

Although its not bad story, its not that good either.

MC consciousness gone and possessed the 6* character Roland, no problem there, after 10 years the game finally start to move, and a streamer comes, Roland approach her like NPC encounter would, and at some point got access to her stream, all is good n stuff... BUTTT, I really hope that the forum chat or stream chat have more dialogue and screen time, because most... more>> of the time the chat are MORE INTERESTING than the actual dialogue between MC and other characters as he is really not good at talking, and too reserved. Sure there is NSFW stuff but its just some spices not the actual point of novel so its not really interesting to continue.

I'll drop this at ch 70....

If you want to read it and find this novel good then its fine.

I can accept slow story, but overly slow... not so much, added that the dialogue between characters not really much appealing to me. <<less

It's an absolute snoozefest so far.

The main character lacks personality and ambition. He spends all his time getting wasted. Then, when the female lead arrives, he suddenly stops drinking and starts acting like a good mentor, as if someone had flipped a switch. Then, nothing happens for twenty chapters straight. The MC doesn't react much to the FL. He just goes through the motions of completing the quests that the system gives him. The tower/exploration is also boring.

Another annoying thing is that the translator censors the s*x scenes. Although the... more>> translator makes them available on another website, it's still inconvenient. <<less