The real world is unexpectedly invaded by rifts that threaten to unleash monsters from the virtual reality game "Chronicles of Arcana." These rifts can only be sealed by "players," individuals who have transformed into their in-game characters, complete with identical stats and skills. Unfortunately for our protagonist, Lee Hoyeol, his transformation is anything but glamorous. His avatar turns out to be one he created during his awkward middle school phase, imbuing him with all the mannerisms and speech patterns of a total cringelord. How on earth will he manage to become the hero humanity desperately needs?
(Source: Tappytoon) Original Novel Original Webtoon: Naver Webtoon, Naver Series Official Translations: English (Tappytoon, LINE), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Japanese, Thai
The virtual reality game "History of the Archana Continent" has merged with reality, and "players" synchronized with humans have emerged to safeguard the world. Lee Hoyeol, once an ordinary office worker, now inhabits the body of a character he created in middle school, "Grandfell Claudi Arpeus Romeo." Under normal circumstances, this would be an absolute career disaster, but Grandfell, whose occupation is a "demon hunter," becomes remarkably confident when facing demons! The sole demon hunter in this world, Grandfell (= Lee Hoyeol), begins to take action!
The world feels different (I'm not sure if it's the story, the battles, the translations, or the art giving me that impression). In any case, some chapters really made me laugh.
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Read up to chapter 32 and it's only got the art and the humor going for it. The humor is based off two things. The dichotomy between his 26 year old self and his chunni roleplaying aristocrat is very funny but also confusing because there's no explanation for why that is. Second, everyone misunderstanding and misinterpreting his actions to be so cool because he has such a dead pan face.
There's zero plot. It's very basic on the background info. Apparently the guy Raymond created the game and he's supposed to be the one posting news about the updates but he's also paying players out of his own pocket when they contribute to successfully closing a rift/rupture. That makes it seems like he's purposely pulling the game into reality but then he's sorry about it at the same time? And he paid the MC 100 billion won which is around 100 million dollars for his contribution in closing just one rift. How much money has this dude paid out so far for the last 6 (i think) years for players to close rifts? Also the last two updates had introduced the highest level monsters: one had a vampire demon at the highest level to date at 430 and the highest level human player at 404, following update jumped to level 650 in the span of one week. So yeah poor plot.
Also very poor logic shown. It starts off by saying ordinary non awaken people can't see or interact with the rifts. Then we get a bunch of youtubers and news channel filming on their phones and their drones - DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. EVEN WORSE, we see a whole bunch of phone communication from inside and outside the rifts both with the streaming and the calls. Uh, that would require cell towers, satellite, or something to get signal. Maybe they pull a wire through the rift? I was able to ignore it for the most part until I got to chapter 32. He's getting one skill point to distribute to his attributes per level from the first couple of times they show you his stats in detail but now he's at level 226 with what should have been 4 basic points and 226 points from leveling and the extra 4 points he gets every time he finishes his repeatable class quest which i've estimated he did 10 rounds of. So he should have around 270 points but the snapshot of his stats gave us a total on 197 points. So is he just sitting on 73 points undistributed even though he's whining about needing more mana? Hell no. The manwha claims he only has 10-20 points more than other players at the same level. How the hell was that calculated?
He's way too OP which is not always a negative but seems like it in this case. The explanation for his op magic is that he understands magic itself - which can work logically. What isn't logical is that he uses way less mana since he manipulates the magic directly without using a skill which is just BS. A skill should be the most efficient way to use magic (at least if you're not a mage) and he's a noob to magic so it's hard to phantom how he could be so efficient with his mana. In chapter 32 now he's decided to test out some knife skills after observing one of the top swordsman and he broke his apartment with his kitchen knife. It's just over the top.
I know I've done a lot of bashing but these are common problems in the genre. There are better ones with less problems though. I might read this for the comedy if it was completed and I don't have something better to read. Will check back later.
Just read chapter 27 and I almost choked out of laughter. Hilarious.
First chapters explanations are chaotic, and actions even more illogicals.
imo the comedy and action alike is pretty light right now (Upto chapter 16 so far). I do like how it’s going so far. Would like to see his sisters pop up more later on.
I’m hoping there is no romance component and if so, I’d rather it be anybody but blond haired girl. Mainly cos she’s part of a Guild already and I feel like beef might start up with MC and guild master bc of said girl. So if there is romance maybe with a non-player, tea lover.
Also low key wanted the streamer to become like personal streamer/assistant🤣🤣
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