A wild ride from start to finish. Excellent read. Only thing that got annoying was that every character was a self-righteous self-sacrificer and seemed intent on rushing to suicide (literally sometimes) without consulting anyone. Even in the epilogue. But everything else, including the characters other traits, made up for it in spades.
Understandably so... they're used to it iykyk
Now I know why corruption is always rampant. It's "tyranny" and a "bloodbath" to clean house and rid the state of corruption. Seems like the Emperor isn't a tyrant but is actually doing his job as sovereign.
MC is fun otherwise though.
This series rules. Keeps me gripped for sure. But there's something thematically that annoys me, and it's not unique to this series.
The game admin is cheating. The deck is rigged. And yet, Han continues to play by the rules and not account for the admin cheating. Aside from a token here or there, nothing from Niflheim is bring used. He over limits himself to the "role" he is in as a summoned character and not the master of this game that he is.
Granted, I'm not entirely sure what he can do, but generally stories where the admin cheats are like this.
In every other palace drama story, murim or otherwise, both ML and FL hem and haw, pushed around by reputation and face and manners and all sorts of social spider webs and become paralyzed, socially outmaneuvered and out positioned, usually with a "loyal" maid or servant to brainwash the MC into being just as submissive and afraid as they are. Our MC? Someone touches his girl? Just fucking kill them, politics be damned.
That was satisfying.
Well said
It is the only way to be sure
The way he nukes those barbells reminds me of this other manhwa.. the storage warehouse in apocalypse where he too like this one- reunites with his family
This was a toilet scroller for me but got hooked. And then the ugly head of the trope I hate the most showed up.
It's a trope that almost every single FL in these sorts of stories has. The self-righteous sacrificer. Brood over everything by yourself, burn every bridge and hurt everyone who cares about you because you know better than them and are "doing it for their own good", consult no one about your issues. I hate this trope. I hate these people. And the FL I enjoyed reading started going down that route. My disappointment was immesurable.
Then chapter 70 rolls around and she says fuck it I'm gonna be with my man.
Nice.
Powerful people's paranoia always ends up as a Greek tragedy. The very things you do to avoid the bad scenario are exactly what brings it about. Leave sleeping dogs lie.
Dating advice: set your enemies on fire while recounting their sins in public.