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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.The man forsaken by the world, the man a s*ave to money and the man known as the legendary God of War in the highly popular MMORPG Continent of Magic. With the coming of age, he decides to say goodbye, but the feeble attempt to earn a little something for his time and effort ripples into an effect none could ever have imagined.
Through a series of coincidences, his legendary avatar is sold for 3 billion won, bringing great joy to him, only to plunge him into despair at losing almost all of it to vicious loan sharks. With revelation of money through gaming, he rises from the abyss with new found resolve and steps forward into the new age of games led by the first ever Virtual Reality MMORPG, Royal Road.
This is the legend of Lee Hyun on his path to becoming Emperor with only his family’s loving heart, his boundless desire for money, his unexpected mind, his diligently forged body and the talent of hard work backing him.
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One entry per lineLMS
ปฏิมากรแสงจันทร์
달빛조각사
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Recommendation Lists
Date | Group | Release |
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01/20/21 | LMSnovel | v57c3 part2 |
01/13/21 | LMSnovel | v57c3 part1 |
01/05/21 | LMSnovel | v57c2 part4 |
01/03/21 | LMSnovel | v57c2 part3 |
12/16/20 | LMSnovel | v57c2 part2 |
12/08/20 | LMSnovel | v57c2 part1 |
12/02/20 | LMSnovel | v57c1 part3 |
11/26/20 | LMSnovel | v57c1 part2 |
11/19/20 | LMSnovel | v57c1 part1 |
11/12/20 | LMSnovel | v56c8 part3 |
11/03/20 | LMSnovel | v56c8 part2 |
10/27/20 | LMSnovel | v56c8 part1 |
10/23/20 | LMSnovel | v56c7 part3 |
10/13/20 | LMSnovel | v56c7 part2 |
10/06/20 | LMSnovel | v56c7 part1 |
that doesn't do any Bad at all, in the view of the people, no matter how a douche he is (like so many novels out there). 2) Doesn't have too many Side Characters
because hey, Side Characters are irrelevant, right? They're only there to 'Vomit Blood' whenever an MC disses them because the MC is OP as hell every god damn time. 3) Focuses on Harem genre
where the females literally want to bed him everywhere he goes. 4) A Suddenly OP MC
contrary to popular belief, if you really read the novel and not just skim past it, you will know that he is NOT a Suddenly OP MC. He conditioned his mind and body for one whole year before entering the game. His grinding is just in another level compared to every other players, or MCs out there, that's why he got so strong. And, honestly, you will see a LOT of grinding when you read this novel. Like, he's grinding every chapter. So, No, he is not a Suddenly OP MC that Suddenly obtained an extraordinary power out of nowhere without doing anything. If you like those kinds of story, then this story is Definitely NOT for you. Don't even bother reading it, less you'll just send out a negative review. On the other hand... In this Novel, you will find: 1) A Greedy, Traumatized but Funny MC
that focuses on obtaining money because he's literally the breadwinner in their family. What's so psychopathic about that? The MC experienced getting harassed by loan sharks in school, not being able to eat and helplessly watched his little sister cry because she's hungry, quitting school so that he could support his family so that his little sister and his grandma can eat. Is it really psychopathic when someone is obsessed in obtaining money so that he could support his Family? If that's your version in the term 'Psychopath', then there will be a LOT of Psychopaths in the world. Every MC has a quirk, in this case, Weed is obsessed in obtaining money because he was traumatized by his past experiences. The MC is actually quite caring when it comes to his family. 2) An MC that doesn't like 'Romance'
because having a girlfriend is expensive in his opinion, so don't even bother reading this if you want to read a romance-based novel. Who cares if his sister claimed that someone is a perfect match for the MC? Is her sister the MC? Is the MC obliged to be with a 'perfect match'? And Yes, the MC has a 'clue' about the ones who likes him. He just plain doesn't like them romantically. He's not the usual Oblivious MC. Again, you'll know that if you didn't just skim over the chapters. However, he does get a girlfriend in the end. Weed is simply quite obsessed with her, even if he doesn't realize it himself most of the time. And vice-versa.
The Badass Queen Seoyoon is his girlfriend. Even before they fell in love with each other, Weed is already quite obsessed with her. He admitted that she's the most beautiful woman that he had ever seen. Heck, from all the sculptures he made, Seoyoon has to be the one he most sculpted about. But, yeah, they will only officially get together around Volume 39. So, if you're looking for a Romance-based novel, this is not for you.
and not just those who 'Vomits Blood' whenever the MC disses them, but also a bunch of interesting characters that makes the overall awesomeness of this novel. They're not just Cannon Fodders (though the Grass Porridge Army PROUDLY considered themselves as Cannon Fodders, LOL!), but they're also interesting in their own ways. I love the side characters, the author presented them in a way that the MC is NOT the only one who can shape the Versailles Continent. Other people can do it too. Basically, the MC is not the only relevant character out there. 4) VRMMO Elements to the MAX
Yup, unlike other popular VRMMO novel that focused mainly on romance, this novel certainly incorporates and even focuses on the VRMMO aspects. This is one of the main reasons why I love this novel. I normally don't like to Compare Novels with Other Novels. But it just irritates me that others says tr*sh about this Novel because they prefer Other Novels. So, yeah, this is my backtalk to all those other reviewers. And yes, I know I'm a goddamn hypocrite. Who cares? Anyways, that's all I can think for now. If you're looking for a good novel to read, definitely try this out. It's been an enjoyable ride thus far.
- EPIC major battles!
- Stories are sometimes told in separate people's views.
Downside:
- MC doesn't develop any real personality + MC's personality isn't all that great to begin with => MC constantly complains about how under-power his class is & that he puts money above everything else.
- Girls fall in love with him despite said personality
- Every other chapters other than the the major battles are sub-par.
- Repetitive writing - MC gains xxx experience, levels, stats. Got xxx items, which increases stats by xxx amount.
- Names - Lots of character names to be memorized. 1 character has in-game name & real life name. Multiply it by 20 or so, and I'd lose track of who's who. Original rating is 6/5, but as of now, it's 3/5 & I'm dropping it.
It's like weed is the only guy with enough brain to think. Something like grinding your stat, trying out your options onto the NPCs, exploring every skill and class for their every single effect, prioritizing those with "percentage effect", prioritizing passive skills and playing a whole lot. They're common sense, any gamer would've done it, weed with his 2 years of handicap (8 years in game) wouldn't have a chance at RMT. You would've need to be at cap level for something like RMT and yet, weed with his low level could get enough money for living AND PAYING FOR HIS MOTHER TO A HOSPITAL. I also can't agree how his 1 year of swordsmanship training could be any better competed against players with 8 years of in game experience (I mean, they teach you how to fight other human fighting with swords in dojos), no matter how great his teacher is supposed to be. Only sleeping for 3 hours doesn't help, "sleep deprivation" exist, or else anyone would love to play game without sleeping at all. It's like the whole story is spitting on the face of "gamer", "professional RMT gamer" and especially "paying gamer". Paying gamer are the game side for super players as far as my experience go.
Weed's character development is almost to the point of excruciatingly slow, that's why it's hard to notice. He doesn't change very much inside the game, but in the chapters in the real world he changes in subtle ways as time goes on. Especially in regards to Sayoon the main love interest. I think the best way to see Weed's character development is to observe his relationship with Sayoon. He starts out being terrified of her, she's absolutely gorgeous, but she first appears with a mu*derer mark while he's still new to the game. He immediately jumps to conclusions thinking she's a Pker, going so far as offering some statues to her if she won't kill him. The next time they meet is after the creation of the statues of Freya that Weed carved in the image of Sayoon smiling. Though this touched Sayoon greatly, Weed was terrified she'd find out. Because in his mind, she's a brutal blood thirsty mu*derer out for my items. Weed was disguised as a tiny Orc trying to get back to one of the cities when he ran into Sayoon. Without revealing his identity he followed behind her, cooking, bandaging, repairing and taking care of item collection while heading towards the city. They didn't talk, because Sayoon's child trauma caused her to be unable to. But as they travelled together, Weed's thought's constantly went all over the place. He admired her fighting and watched her expressions, and studied her. He'd at one moment go, "That's a beautiful form" then switch to, "though it's unrefined and lacks direction". Every compliment he would find, he would immediately refute. What changes some of this is the moment they were relaxing before she left, she sat on a rock and admired the field of flowers they were in. For the first time, he saw the corners of her mouth had a slight smile. But as he looked at her, even though she was even more beautiful smiling, it was lonely and isolated. He decided to carve another statue, he spent some time on it. He couldn't carve the statue smiling, he couldn't give it a happy expression, when he was done. The statue of Sayoon, laying in a field of flowers cried solumenly. After he left, Sayoon logged in and witnessed the statue. She had not cried since her trauma, and seeing the statue she broke and began to cry uncontrollably. It's revealed much later in the novel Weed hadn't actually left yet, he witnessed what happened and because of the shock he tried to put it out of his mind though. Eventually they end up having to travel to the frozen north, where he's on death's door dying of a severe cold. He wakes up to Sayoon taking care of him, her cooking is a disaster and he thinks to himself that she's trying to poison him. Eventually as he got better, Sayoon instead got sick. Instead of leaving her, Weed took care of her as well and briefly thought to himself, "it wouldn't be that bad to be with a woman like Sayoon.. " Then he would try and remind himself of everything bad he thought about her and all of the misunderstandings he pretty much invented. Out of frustration he goes to the back of the cave out of view and begins to carve a statue. When he's finished, it's a man and a woman, the man held the woman close as they tried to survive the cold knowing that they were going to die soon. The two were looking into eachothers eyes and both had a content look on their face. That if they were to die, at least they would die together. He convinced himself is was a coincidence that the two looked like him and Sayoon. I think your getting the point by now, what he's thinking in his head, isn't always the truth. Eventually his inner thoughts go from trying to find flaws in Sayoon to, "She'll get tired of me soon enough", "Their are men in this world much better than me for her", "I'm completely unworthy of her attention". Then finally, after she had helped him out immensely in a romantic quest. He offered his anything she wanted, "You helped me out, so whatever you want, let me know and I'll do it". Her only response was, "Date" she wanted a date. In which afterwards, they kissed for the first time. From that point in the story Weed's character development seems to pick up some speed. Sayoon understand's Weed's faults, probably much more than Weed could ever even possibly know. She actually forces Weed to hold true to some of his promises that even he had forgotten about. Much to his dismay of course, but the outcomes from those promises end up bringing quite a bit of fortune and public opinion because of her actions. Eventually, through just letting Sayoon take care of alot of the Empires development it starts expanding like crazy with huge profits and everyone seems to just love the hell of out him for it. Sayoon is trying to slowly change Weed's attitude from, "distrust anyone and everything, exploit everyone for profit so that my family can be safe" to a more subtler version of that. Sayoon is a genius when it comes to anything administration or business like. But she never knew anything about hard work or what it was like to actually have a job or even the value of money, and even though it was slightly unintentional. Weed taught her the meaning of those things through his suggestions to her, to the point it healed her and she was able to talk to people. So she's trying to do the same to Weed and trying to get him to open up to people too. Finally, on his last quest to become a sculpting master he's presented with creating and carving a new star in the night sky by the goddess Hestia. He starts out greedy as hell and makes the thing out of gold, diamonds, platinum and nearly every mythical metal he had access to. He named it baby star temporarily and tried to think of something to carve. Eventually he smiled to himself and began. What he carved was a small baby, that looked remarkably like both him and Sayoon. Then he carved Sayoon holding that baby and looking down at it lovingly. As he carved, he has a ton of self reflection with the relationship between him and Sayoon. It's incredibly touching and more and more people refer to Sayoon as a Goddess in game. Weed begins to change alot more in the real world, where he even mentions to himself, "I can afford a can of coffee everyday now", even owning a brand new computer. There is alot more food on the table and Sayoon often cooks for him or with him. Sometimes he'd ask Sayoon what she wanted for dinner, at one point she goes, "Crab" and he starts to make an excuse that it's over priced. Then stops, thinks to himself and says, "You know, crab sounds lovely." He gets enough money to finally buy a building to rent out to people and rejoices in that. Sayoon ends up taking all of his animals though XD, something that is of a little bit of annoyance to him as they listen to her more than him now lol He even goes so far as finally telling his sister, "If you find a man you want to date, go for it, it's time to have a little romance in your life" and my god, he even thinks to himself, "I hope she finds a good man, I really need to teach her money isn't everything". So Weed does go through character development but it's very subtle and you can't expect to see it in the early stages directly from the main characters thoughts. Another way to see it is through his statues, when he carves one, he's thinking about all of these various things but it doesn't pretain to anything artistic, just value. But what he's carving, he puts meticulous effort care and thought into it as he actually carves it. It's only afterwards, he'll either say something or think something abnormal. I'm willing to bet this is his coping mechanism. He doesn't want to have his family suffer because they became poor again. He enjoys sculpting (even though he doesn't want to admit it), he still finds the skill worthless in earning money. If he didn't like it, he actually wouldn't have started to do it in real life. Which is something that's mentioned a few times, that he started learning how to carve wood. Even making one of Sayoon sleeping. So every time he creates a statue, immediately disregard nearly everything he's thinking about it afterwards. That's him making an excuse on WHY he spent so much effort, emotion and time on a statue.
- Lots of interesting situations and interactions. Some humor.
The Bad:- MC is dense protagonist savior wrapped in ill-fitting 'vicious money grubber' skin. Tragically, he learns nothing nor is really challenged (or even questioned) by anyone for his bad attitude/actions.
- Characters are all shallow, mostly caricatures who additionally see almost no development, choosing instead to mindlessly follow his lead with token reluctance.
- Lots of 'coincidentally that happened', 'somehow things work out' & deus ex machina plotting.
- Plot is so focused on the MC, that significant oversights regarding the rest of the world occur frequently. It also seems no one can do anything right without the MC- or at least others don't exist till the chapter where the author remembers them...
The Different:- For some reason a surprising number of authors want to write novels with heroes who do heroic things, but are actually 'totally not heroes' due to 'really being selfish' (or whatever- 'vengeful' is quite popular too).
I give this author some credit because a fair amount of his character's created mentality fits the desired mold. Even so, a whole lot more doesn't- and considering how smart the MC supposedly is, him trying to do selfish things which obviously wouldn't work- only to be undermined by 'unavoidable plot complications' -- I don't get why it's so important to even try. Well, magically it works out anyway...
That said, the idea of a 'cash poor protagonist who wants to do anything to raise his sister' is initially established pretty well- it just fails in so many other places as the author forces so many events and situations which water down that bond. As important as the sister supposedly is, she is almost always little more than a prop for his motivation, some minor plot point or what she can do for him.
- There's a lot to be said about things happening after v30, and while approaching the endgame- where all sorts of things that should have more impact are hastily changed (almost as an afterthought).
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- I won't even get into the 'real world' over-the-top, disastrous in concept nonsense regarding super-advanced tech and the prizes to be given to the uniter of the continent (regardless of personality, suitability, or methods used) which looms in the background while they fight out comparatively petty VR issues.
- Yup- other than being able to make money/fame/relationships- everything else is in the game (for now).
Anyway, as much as I have to say about it's issues- it's still quite entertaining. The MC is a jerk, but the story is pretty good- at least till v30, where a lot of things are 'jammed in'/rushed, and overall is not quite as good, but still workable.Including:
The initial money lenders being pretty much written out.
Weeds hastily accelerated & assisted romance.
Bardray's sudden & ridiculously easy path to stat increases.
etc.
We won't even go into his class change, which seems more 'author forced' than 'character chosen'. It's 'barely' logical considering the character's supposed stated purpose. I also seem to remember there being an excavator class which would be both better suited for that purpose & draw less wrath from the gods...
1. The Characters and especially the MC are likeable, they are true to their purposes. The Prota to be liked and the Anta to be despised or annoying (that's what an Anta is for).
2. The story (at that time) I could say original, and only after LMS getting popular, then many LNs used the same or almost same plot.
3. The Feel of the story is real, you weep when the story sad, you laugh when the story funny, having an adrenaline rush when the story climaxing.
4. The World building is very amazing, well not like xianxia in which there would be a new world, but you would still feel the adventuring and even the places are quite memorable.
5. The description on things are not too much, neither does it lacking. To tell you the truth I can go on and on about it's good point but I'll leave it for you to explore yourself by reading it. Trust me, the only bad thing about LMS is it's translation are in pieces (the 20 volume onward). But you will be hooked after 20 volumes anyway so it wont meant much to you readers. LMS is a great story with new kind of Plot, MC, Heroine, and adventures in virtual reality AND real life (reality) with good humor and great feels. May Freya blessing always be with you. :3