good novel... starting few chapters feel slow but bear with it until he auction chapter ...plot will pickup from there...side characters are well fleshed out and the adults don't just starts believing in the mc cause he's the MC . MC worked hard to get their support . world building is a little bit slow but done through subtle dialogues instead of whole bunch of text.overall well thought out slice of life novel where MC is trying to earn money, become strong enough to protect his money, and his group and subtly trying to change the world.
i just couldnt get into this. there are many things wrong with it. it has some BS world background that overall doesnt make sense. author tried to translate VR into reality so he came up with AR (think google glasses). also his previous novel was bad even though it has many fans.
The story is seemingly well thought out, the world building is decent, it has an easy flow when it comes to reading it. The characters could be fleshed out more but the main character is basically a blank slate so I can't really complain... There's minor errors in every chapter regarding the writing quality but it's pretty readable for the most part.
TL;DR: Good translation, good plot but the novel is dropped by the author. All 4.5 stars are for the effort of the translator 😊I've read a few Chinese web novels on outer space exploration and I've been a fan of them despite not knowing deep enough about this pseudoscience. This and The Temptess of Stellar War had very interesting plotline and makes you keep on reading non-stop. The translation quality is very good and the translator is very responsive to any mistake and suggestion given by readers. SPOILER!!!However, I wonder if @Lonelytree has read the novel till the end? Why again is this novel recommended to be translated in the first place?! I pity the translator as he/she had mentioned several times that s/he not really liking this story.The ending feels like it have been dropped half way, not the kind of open-ended, but like I-give-up-let's-end-it ending. The book ended like Titanic, but worse - some random granpa retelling stories of "this is how humanity is save". It's a freaking story time and the story ends at the climax of the arc! It mentions the final boss - the ultimate villain of outer space human civilization in the future (mad scientists - during human's 8 level civilization) and the worst nightmare of all civilization (the devils) but the story is far from end. It keeps on hinting about the aliens and the UFO being a God civilization, MC is The Immortal, the devils, the evil elitists that vie for power, and the possibility of the MC to be resurrected... for it to end when they're just nearing the 4th civilization! For what?!!I thought it has a 2nd book, but to my disappointment, the whole last arc had only 4-5 chapters and had not been updated since 2013. Even the Chinese community still ranting about this unpleasant end.
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