The stories pretty tight because we know the MC isnt the strongest thing in existence and that there are stronger things that could easily kill him.

The MC is reasonable. Most people are probably thinking "NO, HES AN IDIOT THAT RAN INTO A DUNGEON ALONE!!" what do you expect him to when he runs in there with a team and he starts firing mana bolts left and right but he's not feeling tired from mana exhaustion. The biggest way a strong person hiding their ability gets caught is that they don't... more>> get tired easily or they're acting is extremely horrible.

People complain about the MC getting money in the beginning and not spending it on his mother but he spends it on spells. First off, how are you gonna spend money on a dead person? You have to get stronger in order to actually give something to someone and the government won't be suspicious on why a single mom, in debt to loan sharks, could possibly buy a house in a good neighborhood and get rid of her debt.

IF YOU GET CAUGHT YOU DIE, THAT IS THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE! <<less

There are novels where the story is a clear power trip, and the author makes up for that issue by using good writing, or good dialogue, or having the main character be interesting. This novel has middling writing, forgettable dialogue, and an extremely unlikable main character. I will give credit though. The author gave the MC a backstory of being a bullied loser, and even after getting his powers, he feels like a bullied loser who suddenly got really strong and not like an immediate super hero.

Let's be very clear — all these reviews (stars-only, and a few written) are early, and many are suspect. The MC is a high-school student who spent his time getting bullied while his poor single mother worked herself to the bone to support them, under the burden of a useless father's debt. His mentality is juvenile. His life experience is limited to: runaway father, hardworking mother, limited social experience due to economic destitution, and bullying.

He gets these powers, and instantly begins research and planning. He's not stupid, he's just immature... more>> right now. That's fine. He's written consistently and the things he thinks and says are pretty humorous. He's doing the best he can with clearly limited knowledge (the author has decent show-don't-tell skills for a Korean WN author) as we see when he sells his first dungeon loot.

The fact that he hasn't gotten revenge on the bully yet is a GIVEN, people: he knows the bully is still stronger and more valued because our MC is purposely hiding his world-shattering gift. He knows from experience what it's like to be controlled by higher powers, so he's going to great lengths to hide what he knows would get him taken by the government and forced to be used as a tool or study subject. It all makes good, consistent sense.

UPDATE: As he begins to enter the dungeon community and socialize more we see his growth and naivete exposed in greater measure, and the quality of the writing is holding up. I was happy with the introduction of the mother and the debt situation. The series continues to meet expectations. I would perhaps lower it to 4*s because it's not -amazing- if I could, but I don't mind leaving this as something I've put at a 5 in comparison to others, like I said below. END UPDATE.

Whether the novel will end up good or bad in the end is up in the air, but for now, it's a really enjoyable read. You need to keep in mind the author's characterization and consistency, try to pay attention to MC's character growth as his power and experience multiply. Please don't listen to these 3* reviews trashing the story, it has more potential than dozens of the 5* harem trash on these frontpages. <<less

I think the author has video games confused with reality. This novel suffers from some really really bad writing that has to rely on video game mechanics to make sense without adding anything of interest; it requires you to suspend your disbelief and believe whatever the author writes no matter how ridiculous or stupid it is. Not that anyone who actually finds this story entertaining actually cares.

Just go down from a checklist of tropes and you'll find this story is just rehashing many things that have already been done before,... more>> and tries to have you appeal with an main character that has very little personality, If you think any of this will sit well with you, then this is the story for you.

Edit in response to Lapeacock : Yeah, if you're the author you have to power to make anything, and instead the author decided to opt for the uninteresting and overdone reality based virtual reality; instead of creating or making the genre his own, this is what we got. "It's real life, but at the same time it's not because we add basic rpg elements that readers understand. Genius, it's reality but also a video game." Character motivations are lacking, and there is a lack of any sort of tension in this story just a diary about a kid you can self-insert in and wank yourself off on how great you are. The author has all sorts of freedoms to make the story he chooses, and instead he remixes a bunch of tired out cliches. I love fantasy, don't get me wrong there. There's a difference between fantasy and trash however. :)

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So far, the motivation for the MC is to get money, like LMS, and payback loan sharks. However, the MC here is kind of a wimp and keeps cursing and planning revenge on his enemies inside his head. The way the MC acts, makes you think he is in middle school. With the ecception of the greed aspect, the MC could be confused for a typical Japanese MC.

Somehow, I have high hopes that the story will improve, so I will stick with it for a few more chapters.

Update: So,... more>> the story does not become better and I could speculate why the first translator dropped the series. Before being picked up again, a similar but better Korean novel appear, with a better MC, The First Hunter. <<less

I'm really enjoying this so far. It's early in the story but we've got a likeable character who actually takes advantage of his abilities without needing to be dragged into the dungeons. It could just be the books I've been reading lately but I was really getting sick of MCs who don't fully utilise the pros of their cheat abilities. So I'm excited for this and really want to see where it's going.

The MC of the story isn't mature enough. He is kind-of wimpy. So far he likes to plan revenge on his bully in his mind but does nothing to actually hit him back in real life even though he now has the power to do so.

The MC's personality leaves a lot to be desired. He is like an immature child who got superpowers. His preparations for real world are severely lacking, actually his preparations for everything so far are severely lacking granted not much has happened so far.

The story is... more>> not paced well. For me it is too fast. There has been no development of the character or his power or the plot, actually there nothing has been properly developed so far but the story has progressed a lot.

It kind of gives the feeling of wish-fulfillment that you get from stories of similar genre of Japanese origin. Also the translator uses a lot of spacing, way more than necessary, which gives the illusion of the chapter being longer than the length it actually is. I do not know if this is the case in the originals too though.

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I like this novel so far, interesting premise looking forward for more chapters.

What you have to keep in mind tho, so far with 3 released chapters, you can already see that the author likes to curse. An average chapter has at least 4.3 "f**k", "sh*t" or similar vulgar vocabulary, which I don't mind of course. If you don't either, go for it! (:

A great news that the Novel is picked up again. I am loving the story so far. Yeah, it's just another RPG in reality based Novel but who among us who played RPG as Wizards didn't dream that we can spam our spells endlessly. This novel serves as some sort of personal indulgence to those that at some point had that desire.

A story about lightly bullied MC with no power. One day, he suddenly awakened to an OP skill. Then went on to do the most sensible things any Korean novel on this site do, grinding. No sensible person on Earth would directly go risking his live like this ever. Is this the correct way to loves your mother, MC?

Another greedy weedy protagonist. There is no plot for the first 30 chapters (There is a minor plot as of 45 ch. But totally not interesting). From my experience, it will likely... more>> to turn out mediocre or worst. The MC is just grinding, money grabbing, farming, whatever and it's turn out to be arrogance MC vs arrogance passerby. No character development. Actually, there is no side character for MC to interact with at all. If a female lead is an ultra stunning beauty, super famous, strong, with a perfect background, I will not be surprise (edit: and there it is).

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i like the way this novel is moving, but only the MC has any character development, but this story is completely centered around him so its not a bad thing I really wish it had more characters. But on the plus side the MC is a thinker, he calculates his every move and don't rush in. Overall its a captivating series and right up you aliy if you want a story about an underdog rising to godhood

To the gentleman who said the author is confusing videogames with reality, you are... more>> the god of your story you have the freedom to make anything, if you want reality don't read from the fiction genre <<less

In this novel, people can randomly awaken to powers. When they awaken they start at level 1 and granted a unique power. MC who has been bullied by someone with power awakens and gets the power of pretty much infinite mana. Like many KR novels, MC only has his mother and is low on money (in debt due to father) and uses this opportunity to make money. Each awakened person also gets to chose their own path like warrior, mage or healer and get skills based on their class (skill... more>> books drop in dungeons and you can sell and trade them). There are also monsters immune to physical and magic. Obviously through MC cheat he is able to use all classes spells while at same time leveling those powerful inefficient spells no one uses (cause you level spells through usage and MC can just spam everything)

Now then, I will say this. When you see CHILDISH MC tag, that is an understatement! (More like Obnoxious MC) To explain the MCs personality, if you are familiar with the typical bully found in anime/manga/novels. He tends to have 2 followers, the skinny guy (henchman #1) and fat guy (henchman #2). Well the MC personality is pretty much henchman #1 (only difference is he is the one being bullied, but personality is pretty much that annoying squeaky guy who doesn't know his place and always screams 'you'll pay for this' as they run away). You get to experience henchman #1 from first person POV, so if you can stand that annoying personality, this may be a more entertaining novel. MC is obviously reckless, stupid, self absorbed and simply fails to prioritize despite his own goals.

Now I will cover some of the issues behind the spoiler tag:

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1. 1. First thing MC does is go into a dungeon alone with no party like an idiot (don't get me wrong he is successful but totally reckless)

1. 1. He then at one point does get into a party and while he does hide his ability to some extent, he makes it pretty obvious something is up.

1. 1. He is too focused on short term money almost dying due to his carelessness, if he wasn't saved from the poison after coming out he would have died there.

1. 1. Obviously despite starting to make so much money, he hasn't even spent it on his mother or his life but simply buying new spells. (I get that is important, but he could have easily used a small portion for his mother). Until of course the plot forces it.

1. 1. This is the most glaring of them all: He finds out the guild he joined is actually a terrorist organization that has no problem with killing people, holding hostages and doing all kinds of dirty stuff. So MC does the most logical thing possible after seeing how powerful they are during a guild war. He lays low till he gets stronger than them, gets help from outside sources all in preparation to leave. Haha, I'm joking!
      He walks up to the leader of the guild, returns the weapon and says "I quit". Yes, seriously!

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Conversations happening in this story is very very awkward.

Might be the translation or the korean culture, who calls their mother with Mrs.?

Story is what you'd expect from a korean game based story

ch.1-infinity ---- Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind Grind

At first it was interesting, but after reading up to 30+ chapts you can just skip paragraphs of fillers.

Grammar: 3/5 (formerly 4/5 as of chapter 4)
Story: 4/5
Writing: 3/5 (formerly 3.5/5 as of chapter 4)

(Update as of Chapter 10: Severe quality drop. Most likely either due to the former translator losing interest, or the author burning out too quickly. Not planning on keeping up with the series since the translation team has officially put the work on hold.)

Well now, found another Diamond-in-the-Rough. Grammar-wise it's fairly well done, not the most brilliant in word choices, but it gets the job done and then some.... more>> The story is kind of cliche in the Post-world altering event kind of way, humans adapt to this new threat in some fairly magical way and our MC is an ordinary nobody who gets their power by an odd set of circumstances. Lots of anger and hate going on here, but it makes the story a bit more juicy. The writing isn't the most phenomenal, but it's not bad. It's is just lacking a bit of flair and gets a bit repetitive at times.

Over all, think of this as a Korean Drama with a Fantasy/Game Theme. It's going to be entertaining. It's going to have emotion that usually leans towards the extremes of hate and angst. Most of all, it's going to be a good way to kill time. <<less

Loving the fact that this series has been picked up again, obviously there is only a few chapters done however it has already provided a solid world build, power system and has some decently understandable decisions. Not sure about the combat as only a little has been built onto that, also there hasnt been any instant powerups allowing for the MC to defeat his bully 'enemy' in this case, instead providing a gradual build-up of strength and world building with not too much or too little.

If you liked The Gamer, you'll probably like this from chapter 2. Being honest, chapter 1 almost made me drop it. Badly enough for me to recommend skipping it.

Beyond that, suspend disbelief, pretend the world is a fantasy world that only looks like ours, with Awakened being Heroes of various cheats and agendas, and Non-Awakened being the villagers you'd expect, and you'll enjoy this.

Before you read, you guys must understand that the author is Korean and probably his intended readers were Korean... while maybe in your place it's a dog-eats-dog world or "a tooth for a tooth" scenario is common, life in Korea is mundane. If you so much get into a fight with someone, it almost always ends up in the Police precinct and an estimated loss of money is expected and your public reputation is smeared... long story short, even if aggrieved, you don't suddenly punch someone in the face... because... more>> it's more of a loss and there's absolutely nothing to gain. So, in that place, as long as it's just minor physical injury, the victim usually ends up the happier one. But lets not delve deeper into that. I'm here to review this story.

The story is... I'm just at chapter 1 yet so I'll fill below with something maybe later... ciao! <<less