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7.9/10

“Ah yes, another generic manwha for me to review and tr@sh, I can’t wait,” is probably what many people would think from the synopsis and the cover art aline, however, if we throw away our self-pride and patriotism, it isn’t a bad manwha.

There is always a threshold to never cross as an author incorporating real countries and when reading this, I never once thought it was crossed. In our minds, we have diluted ourselves to think that if any country is powerful that is not the U.S, etc. it was only made for self-righteous patriotism. Yet, in the entire course of this manwha, ... not one country was depicted as “evil” nor in any negative way. To add to this, Korea, obviously the ethnicity of the author, isn’t strong but rather belittled constantly. The strength of each country is actually pretty balanced contrary to what we’d usually expect, and there aren’t the typical cliches of “America Bad, Korea good and not evil; let’s go Korea.”

The entire story reminds me of a massive epilogue to a typical dungeon outbreak manwha that doesn’t end up challenging God in the end.

Along with this, the art style is reminiscent of a prime “Tomb Raider King” with a mixture of an early "The Tutorial Tower’s Advanced Player’s" plot. At times, the story is based on side characters with the mc popping in here and there, ultimately taking credit to add to his further stacked resume. With this, the progression of said side characters is very well-paced.

Honestly, it’s a very entertaining read if you enjoy a more team focused manwha rather than an edgy solo kid that rolls through everyone, and a story that has the glorious player v player action scenes with some small dashes of monster fights here and there.

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired & A Huang Teizan Original)
10 – God’s penmanship
9 – Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 – Instant bookmark
7 – Entertaining
6 – Good to pass time
5 – Why are you reading this?
4 – Bad.
3 – Typical garbage.
2 – My head hurts.
1 – Retirement is a thought.
0 – “Did they even give you a story?!”

Welcome to sword art online vr esports. This is the premise of assassination classroom where the mc falls from the sky like the yellow squidward does and teaches the vr esports team to get gud. The people he is teaching is all having big skill issues so sum it up. This is a very gamer Orientated manga. I think overall so far from what I’ve read that the whole basis will be generic and not that fun to read. You got the manipulating headmaster taking advantage of mc. There is nothing unique going for this series, but if you want something to kill time then ... this is fine because there are 100+ chapters with a ok story, so I can’t recommend and not recommend this series as it’s really is just mediocre and nothing makes it stand out. There is also overlapping personality of the mc where he is a calculated smart sophisticated protagonist but then has a side where he is just a lazy mid age man living in his parents house normie.

Hello, I am here to stop you from wasting your time.
I'm not going to sugarcoat it, this manhwa is slop. The MC is the strongest man in the world who stays behind in a dungeon to save the world, he then returns 17 years later, not having aged a day.
in the meantime society has advanced and in the time of peace superhumans now play a special combat sport that's the most popular in the whole world. You would think, "Hey that sounds like a pretty good setup."
Sadly dear reader the author subverts all expectations by tying their hair back, getting on their metaphorical knees ... and glazing the MC so hard that simply reading this in public will cause people to instinctively give you the side eye.
The MC is the smartest, strongest, most capable man on the planet, he is always right about everything and lets everybody know it.
The game I mentioned before? He's a master strategist and the best at it. Outside the game? He's the strongest in the world remember?
There are only two kinds of characters in this manhwa, people who know how great the MC is and people who are wrong, he usually beats or humiliates the latter till they become the former, then he goes back to just being the best by existing and sometimes having flashbacks to show you how he was the best back in the day too.