To give a very brief overview: The MC is an all-powerful super-being of some description that starts the story "asleep" and living the life of a mortal bookstore owner. The story begins just as his slow awakening process is starting. This is marked by occasionally at night a mysterious fog will descend and admit a (female) character from an alternate world who is in crisis to his bookstore. Then he will "sell" a book that happens to have some mystical power to resolve the crisis the girl is in to her, the girl will feel undyingly grateful and go back to fighting in her apocalyptic hellworld, and the MC will return to his mundane day to day. Meanwhile, all around him the ghosts and gods of his world are also slowly waking up and causing all sorts of tension which the various world governments are trying to hide. All this punctuated by occasional turns into blatent plagiarism (a great deal gets lifted from Warhammer 40k and there's even a whole arc lifted from Alien VS Predator, the 2004 film) using the infinite multiverse setting as an excuse. I'll say up front that I read up to chapter 450 before dropping this. Anyway, here's my review: I like this book. I find the "super powerful person who is unaware of his strength" premise fun to read. Also, the plot-line in the "main world" where all the various gods and deities (for example, there's an archangel awake in Europe who is trying to awaken the Christian "God" in the west, as well as a bunch of splinter factions waking up Norse/Greek/Roman gods) from our world are slowly waking up and battling each other for mortal faith is interesting and fun to think about. I felt like the author did a pretty good job of writing a main character who is struggling and confused as the beast inside of him slowly wakes up, which is a point in the book's favor. And the long-running plot thread where the supernatural government agents of MCs country discover how immensely powerful he is and spend a bunch of time overanalyzing everything and trying to curry favor with him are also fun to read. MC seems to have some sort of magical visual perception blockers that completely prevent him from seeing any supernatural phenomenon, so all of his conversations with the government agents are filled with misunderstandings and that keeps the plot rolling in interesting directions.Now for the parts I didn't like. First of all, it's been mentioned, but the nationalism in this book is a bit overwhelming. Basically, the "Federal Empire" (the clear China proxy) is perfect, infallible, and amazing in every way. Every other southeast Asian country wants to join them but, of course, the Federal Empire rejects their pleas. Meanwhile, all the western countries are cartoonishly evil and western characters have thoughts like "I really don't understand why the Federal Empire insists on treating these filthy commoners like equals to us, the elite." In fact, it's so bad that I honestly just started skimming the next five paragraphs whenever I saw any paragraph that started out with a sentence singing praises for the Federal Empire. I just have to emphasize that an absurd percentage of the overall wordcount in this book is dedicated to talking about how great China is and if you want to read it I highly recommend skimming.But I could handle that. Chinese nationalism isn't really a deal-breaker for me when I'm reading Chinese novels. The thing that broke me in the end is the one thing I gave a 1 star in the review categories: The translation itself.This book was translated with very little care. Starting from the very beginning, where the first two chapters simply aren't there and "Chapter 1" here on Webnovel is actually "Chapter 3" in the raws, I knew that things were looking bad. The first 50 chapters or so were translated decently, but after a point it just goes downhill and never recovers. When it gets bad the translators are completely unable to keep characters names straight (for example, there is a character who has been in the book since chapter 1 but it's a 50/50 shot if the translators will actually put her name or put "thousand night sauce" which is presumably what the MTL software spits out). There are idioms (like "even if it's a small mountain, if it has an immortal on it, it's an immortal mountain; even if it's a shallow river, if it has a dragon in it, it's a divine river) which get translated properly in early chapters and then absolutely butchered in later chapters. And, of course, there's the usual complete inability to keep any pronoun straight. In short, the later chapters are really obviously just machine translated and then edited (but not edited very much) and, considering all the ghosts and gods in the story it means that there are a bunch of literary terminologies that MTL software can't really translate properly, coupled with all the made-up fake names for every country, it leads to pretty much zero proper nouns being translated properly and a lot of chapters just being complete word salad. That aside, it's just clearly zero effort in too many places to overlook. MC has a cat that is with him since like chapter 5. It's a female cat. The translators have MC refer to it as him/"little boy" over and over again over the course of hundreds of chapters. This is clearly just laziness and/or the translator not being at all familiar with the story they are translating, and there are a LOT of mistakes on this level that crop up continuously. So, read at your own risk. If you do read, be ready to do a great deal of mental corrections for the constant deluge of typos and mistranslations in almost every single chapter. If you can look past that though, it's a pretty good story.
Leaving a more honest review. While this has kpop in the title. I felt clickbaited. Originally thinking this was going to be a idol-making of story. It turned into a high school slice of life-slice of life with kpop elements. I really enjoy it though. Keep up the good work . Fighting!
It's a little bit interesting but it's nothing special. The concept (which is not even original) has a lot of potential but the almost all characters and development are too unlikeable. Overall, there's nothing good here. Better read something better or do your important responsibilies in your life.
well, it has been 40 chapters so far, the story as seen growth, from a save zone to a wider forest and some insight to another plane showing good development and back ground, the mc so far as not started with some stupid idea. so a win for me.
After Ming Xiang left, another student with similarly tattered clothes walked up to the table. He directly pulled out a large handful of monster cores; it seemed that he did not have any less monster cores than Chen Ming Xiang.
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