At First Light

There must be some sort of conspiracy going on with the power stones because this story does not deserve first place. I'll  summarise it for everyone here.MC's temporary boss/high ranker/harem candidate tells him not to let anyone leave town because it might be too dangerous. Random low-tier noob says she wants to leave anyway. MC pulls out a gun and point it at her head and tells her he'll kill her if she leaves. He could have just said, "hey, the gold-ranker says you can't leave because there are monsters roaming outside" but naw, straight to gun-in-face. Keep in mind this isn't some grimdark fantasy, this is a hyper-modern world where there's supposed to be rule of law. Our MC is a psychopath, but it gets worse.Random bozo tries to stick up for the girl and say the MC is being unreasonable, MC literally thinks random bozo is just doing this for a pretty face and is proud that he isn't swayed by pretty faces. Author makes it clear he's also proud his MC isn't, the chapter title is literally titled "What's Being Kind to Women?".Suddenly, for no reason at all, random mid-boss antagonist who has been harassing MC (and other people) jumps in to start a fight against MC, not because of the girl but because he wants to pick on MC. They look like they're going to get in a fight. Mid-boss is definitely stronger than him, he literally beat MC like yesterday and let him go because "you're so weak you're not worth killing even though I'm here to kill weak people because I'm weird."MC doesn't back down, because I don't know, being a dumbass threatening some random girl with shooting her in the face so she doesn't endanger herself is more important than his own life, which is all so stupid I can barely breathe. Fortunately, they're suddenly interrupted by random bullsh*t and everybody forgets what they were doing. In the ensuing few days MC exerts his dominance by beating up sh*t-tier background characters with no names and doesn't let anyone leave.Somehow, this makes people trusting and admiring of him, which is important because he's about to lead a squad into battle because his boss/harem candidate thought all that previous bullsh*t was genius work by him. A couple of chapters later he declares he's going to stay and defend the town from monsters despite being having a power rating of effectively zero when there are literally a thousand other super-powered high level humans running around. Literally tens of thousands of years of combat experience between all of them, and somehow MC is piping up with his sh*t-tier ideas and people are calling it genius. It also feels super weird because our MC has been relatively focused on himself and his sister so far, and this is the first hint that he gives a sh*t about anybody else, yet he's suddenly burning with self-sacrificial desire.Not long after, it turns out this was a tremendously stupid idea (which literally other more experienced people than him told him at least three times) and he's going to die, 100%, no take-backsies. Just then he gets a system notification: Would you like to get your get-out-of-jail-free card I didn't tell you about and you didn't know you had? He's like: "sure". And then the magic wish automatically determines how to get him out of the situation with no input from him, and kills millions of monsters with a nuke that only hits bad guys and instakills everyone but the boss, and saves the day. No, I'm not joking or exaggerating in the least.But wait, it didn't kill the boss. Boss appears and says, haha, you humans are so dumb, Superman-Goku Macguffin the 3rd isn't coming to save you, Superman is a dumbo and is fighting my sekret clone. By the way, I'm going to kill all of you, especially you MC. Suddenly, harem candidate goes, "Wait boss monster, can you please give me 3 minutes to confess my love for MC? Pleaaase? Pretty pleeaaase?" Boss monster goes: "Okay, sounds fine with me, but don't doublecross me or I'm gonna like, kill you. Uh, I guess I'm gonna kill you anyway but I'll like really super duper kill you or something

hey bro. I really appreciate your novel. keep it up. your novel is a hidden gem. its a shame that nobody notices your novel, only time will tell. Fighting!!

Oooooooo, I was actually hooked, what an organic progression, loved it. 10/10. Definitely would read again some day. Nice job author keep it up please!😉😉😉

This is one of the best novels ive read that focus on climbing a tower, this book has great potential and can definitely reach the top if you put enough effort, please do not drop this🙏

This good is pretty good. Of all of the books I've read this would be the third best. It has kind of alot of action which makes it interesting and the legendary swords he gets do sound appealing. So this book is actually really good.

Interesting premise of a Tower Defense game and the shenanigans that the MC gets up to while being the overlord for his city/tower defense. MC has the fairly typical archetype of being a scrooge while having some innovative ideas and getting by on a decent bit of luck.The character development currently is a bit shallow but it is mainly the world building phase with a number of different people interacting with the MC so it is understandable.The MC is a bit unique as his goal within the game is not to earn money - honestly one of the first gamer novels when the MC isn't ridiculously poor/greedy. The MC instead is 'casual' and aiming to have fun which shows in the novel in later chapters with some unique developments. The only issues I can really see is the some pretty thick plot armour with the MC getting some quite valuable things very early on - so for people looking at this review I would recommend to not take things to realistically. The other issue is the setup for outside the game is a bit dull with the dialogue usually the standard tropes you see in Chinese web novels - doting 'aunt' type character, person looking down on MC etc.The translator has done a good job with a fair balance presented between keeping Chinese slang/proverbs which provides some charm to the novel and keeping things digestible for a western audience.If you are into video game novels I would say check this out and I hope that this novel gets picked up as I am looking forward to future updates!

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