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The Outer God Needs Warmth
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Rating(4.2 / 5.0, 132 votes)
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2024
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409 Chapters (Ongoing)
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This is the story of how I became an outer god.

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OGNW
외신은 온기가 필요해요
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Review
8 Reviews


madospicy
madospicy
Oct 03, 2024
Status: c60
This novel really attempts to tell a story about a "chaotic" evil god. In many novels with evil god themes, the protagonist's alignment is actually more lawful good or neutral. Despite being called "evil, " characters often don't casually kill people like an evil god would. However, in this novel, death and harvesting are essential for the protagonist. The "chaotic" part might be debatable, but in my opinion, the lawful aspect is reflected in how the protagonist efficiently pursues her desires.
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Flamesystems
Flamesystems
Nov 05, 2024
Status: c40
this is 5 stars. I'd give it 6 stars if I could. The premise? Oops someone reincarnated as an elder god entity thing. What do they do? They crave warmth (aka, lives in various forms) and set about getting nice and warm. Then they get summoned once and about 6 months later the multiverse is on the path towards destruction. Absolute perfection, no notes.

The story is broadly divided into several arcs based on what world the elder god is getting incarnated into, and how they use that world to expand... more>> their skills and powers (and take more lives for that sweet sweet warmth).

Anyways the characters are well written and pretty multifaceted, with the main character spending the story lamenting their lack of intelligence and knowledge while patiently manipulating people slowly but surely. The baby elder god is decidedly not forceful, makes mistakes, and applies rules and restrictions to themself. The author does a great job making them *feel* like an incomprehensible eldrich being, both through their unsettling powerset and goals, and secondarily through their tendency to like messing with people maybe a little too much. Great monologues, unsettling scenes, the works. There's also a general sense over time that whatever humanity was originally present is slowly losing as the entity becomes stronger and changes tactics.
Spoiler

Unfortunately the author is much worse at writing the "oh god what have we done" human reaction to discovering existential horror, but it's not really bad just not as cathartic as I'd like.

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I also greatly appreciate that the style of horror is *not* basic lovecraftian horror (slime, rot, fish, and tent**les) but their own version that is decisively more modern (powers glitch or interfere with reality, contortion and mutation, vide0 game style evil purple fog). It's a refreshing version of horror that is currently everywhere in visual media but not in written stories, and focuses more on dread and incomprehensibility than grossness. <<less
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gg_wp
gg_wp
Oct 02, 2024
Status: c78
The MC wakes up and feels "cold". He don't know where he is, why he is there, nothing. He only knows he feels extreme "cold" and he is willing to do what it takes in order to be warmer. One day after a long time he sees "lights" above him and when they fall and get to him, momentarily, he can feel "warmth". The MC becomes extremely obsessed with this feeling and escaping from the "cold", even momentarily. The MC device different ways to interrupt, making more light fall towards... more>> him but without significant effect. Until one day an opportunity present itself, giving the MC the possibility to interfere directly and influence in ways he couldn't before.

This is a great story with well developed characters and world building and a ruthless MC that is willing to ignore common sense and morality, putting overcoming the cold coming from within him above all else. <<less
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rcpsycho
rcpsycho
Nov 09, 2024
Status: c44
I went into this with few expectations beyond a little curiosity, and this novel easily surpassed anything I could have anticipated.

It's an incredible depiction of the point of view of an incomprehensible outer god through the lens of memories of a past life, but shedding all moral concerns or empathy. And this isn't just described explicitly but made evident through depictions of this god's needs that simply outweigh mortal concerns by a wide margin.

If there was anyone to blame, it would be if someone had caused the outer god to... more>> have this need for "warmth" in the first place, but as of this point there's no indication for whether there's a responsible entity or if that's just how things are.

The motives of the god are understandable to the reader, but foreign and grotesque to the mortals interacting with it.

The novel does a great job at conveying the fear that it causes, while retaining the perspective of an outside observer, as if unrelated despite being told in first person for the most part, rather than an omniscient perspective. Meanwhile, readers empathising with the protagonist may even feel a giddy anticipation at the doom that the other characters fear so much.

I'll hide the following since it may contain minor spoilers, but it's mostly my interpretation rather than explicitly describing the plot:

Spoiler

Some of the other reviews have indicated that the god is evil, but I don't believe that's fully accurate. The novel itself often likens the state of the protagonist to a hungry beast or monster, but it's actually more complex.

Perhaps partially influenced by the memories and intellect of the previous life, the ultimate goal of the protagonist is not momentary warmth by devouring all civilisations, but a constant influx. And people with wretched lives who have been driven into despair actually provide less warmth - albeit those are the ones that fall into the god naturally when they die.

So effectively, it would be preferable to have a Matrix-style highly functional society (not necessarily virtual like the Matrix) than actually driving people to despair and only reaping from battlefields.

So it's in the interest of the protagonist to have an advanced and prosperous society, so long as those people with large "warmth" actually offer it up to him in the end.

It's just through the interpretations and misuses of others that the chance of a potential mild dystopia is turned into something apocalyptic. That said, it's not as if there are sufficient details to predict whether a "human farm" like that would work on a large scale, and if it wouldn't still involve cruelty and unreasonable violence - just against different people.

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Either way, it's well written and even thought-provoking. Despite some curiosity, I usually don't read horror, and it was very enjoyable to read what could well be a horror story from a perspective that basically turns large parts of it into more of a comedy.

Which is not to say that there's flat humour like in many pure comedies, I just occasionally found it funny. <<less
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Noobao
Noobao
Dec 24, 2024
Status: --
Good concept about a god that actually feels evil because it feeds on people but awful writing style that somehow that takes you out of it because it's full of tell, don't show, and boy do they suck at telling. It feels the same as reading some sort of diary, a badly written one at that.

It's full of cut and dry descriptions of the ambient or actions that get showed in your throat that add nothing whatsoever. It's extremely irrelevant and only made to bore you out. It's just like... more>> how JP novels tend to go on a tirade about food for example.

"I woke up, my room was large and empty. I talked to my maid, I scanned my maid's mind, while I was scanning my maid's mind, someone came." No joke, it really does read like that.

Also a complaint of mine: explanations.

Explanations, explanations, explanations and explanations ad nauseum.

Shut up lass, we already know you want "warmth", whatever that means. You don't need to keep reiterating on that.

The worst of it is how some explanations don't even add anything and get dropped midway because they're obviously used to pad word count. The MC will say something like "X frowned" and she will spend 2-3 small paragraphs thinking the reasons why she did that just to conclude with "idk tho."

Good concept but I don't like how it's purposefully wasting your time, don't really recommend unless you're a fan of skimreading. <<less
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Whotooed
Whotooed
Jan 03, 2025
Status: c291
The concept itself is excellent. The protagonist does show some sense of morality, but doesn't actually appear to follow it, nor do they feel any empathy. ... more>>
Spoiler

(I mean, just look at how many people they kill. The only thing they regret is when something happens to prevent them getting more warmth)

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However, the flow of the novel can feel quite clumsy at times, like other reviewers have stated. Additionally, the syntax of some sentences feels a little weird, getting the general meaning across but it's more as if they've translated each phrase individually without caring for rearranging the sentence in order to make it more readable for English readers (the whole point of a translation being to make it readable across audiences who aren't able to read the original language).

Overall, pretty good novel. It has something past 300 chapters, but the only good translation only has 90 free chapters (that being Fenrir translations, as listed above on NU) and all of the others I could find were using ChatGPT to translate.

I'll be continuing to read this, but read at your own risk past the free chapters on Fenrir translations.

Edit:

The good news is that Fenrir has continued to translate this novel, which bodes very well. Other good news is that, as I've continued to read the novel, its standard of quality (disregarding the standard of quality of the terrible translation I've been reading) has not dropped. Good novel, will continue to read once Fenrir catches up to the point I've read to.

... and it got nuked, along with a bunch of other novels on Fenrir. Nevermind, I guess. If you can find a good translation of it, I implore you to give it a shot. <<less
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Canyll
Canyll
Mar 24, 2025
Status: c161
This is extremely good to the point that if I could I'd give this a 6 stars

So basically our MC was once a normal korean man who died and is then reborn as a mass of energy in a void where everything around him is cold, so unbelievably cold, the type of cold that seeps to your very bones and because he has no nervous system or body the cold never stops and only get colder as time goes on. Then at some point lights in the sky appear and... more>> fall to him and when he touches these lights he feels warmth even if very little, like a tiny match while being in antarctica, he feels warmth he then makes it his goal to get more of this warmth, and one day a "rope" or a fishing line appears before him and he grabs it, once grabbed he then wakes up to find he is insane the body of a girl who was used to summon a god in her body but unknowingly summoned our MC instead, MC now has to navigate his way through this world and finds that giving parts of himself can unlock latent abilities to people through an act they call a "blessing" and those he contracts using said blessings he can gain warmth whenever they die or kill anyone with warmth, he also gains they're memories which is why he tries his hardest to bless specific people to gain the method of being called into worlds, so MC waits and waits till he finally gains the memories for the method of summoning him and then begins blessings untold millions
Spoiler

for the first world he blessed around 100 million lives but since each person he blessed he puts a part of himself the world cannot handle his weight and literally breaks and every soul of world 1 falls into the deep dark abyss where MC originally was and dies

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and finally once he's done with the world he falls back in the abyss and waits for an untold period of time until he gets summoned again to another world.

And that's basically a rough summary of the beginning parts of the story. Right now he's been to around 3 words at ch 161 and I left out a ton of information about the side characters and etc so take my post with a grain of salt, but I really do vehemently recommend reading this it's absolutely amazing. <<less
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Buibi
Buibi
Jan 15, 2025
Status: c98
Instead of isekai into an overpowered entity, think of it more of an entity trying to understand the system. With isekai there only to help connect the terminology. Afterall, a pure outer god would not know about terms like wuxia.

In terms of the approach, think of it like this. You woke up in a wasteland and you see a virtual reality game in front of you. The technology is beyond your understanding, but somehow you can get food from it.

You try to operate the device to enter the game, to... more>> play and get it to spit out the food. The rules are unknown and mistakes can get you kicked out, leaving you hungry. The game does not affect you and your avatar is powerful, like the hero of an mmorpg. But bound by the rules.

Now, apply the context of an outer god and hunger for warmth, and you get this story.

A pretty interesting approach compared to a regular OP char isekai <<less
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