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honestly I really enjoyed this novel until around chapter 150.This novel sells us the idea of Kang-Yi-Sin, the main character, who was in his first life the dog of a super villain capable of brainwashing anything (except the MC) and who indirectly led to the destruction of Korea. So when he went back in time, in his second life, he tried to get revenge on him and save Korea (and by extension the world).It was rather interesting and well written at the beginning, the pace of the story was good, the MC gradually gathers usbordnés and becomes stronger, at the same time as he does what is necessary to lay the foundations of his power, and does what is necessary to advance towards his goal, but finally big writing problems gradually appeared.As the story unfolds, the pace plummets at a snail's pace due to a padding of scenes and unintuitive passages that do not serve the story in any way and the MC who was initially someone thoughtful, strategic, intelligent, capable of exercising a certain power and with the hope of improving, has become something else.To give you an idea, after the MC got a very powerful artifact (almost Op in the sense that said artifact has the potential to give him all the talents that exist, provided that he can perform mana circuit combinations,) at the beginning of the novel, the MC gradually worked and unlocked "simulated combinations" and unlocked the use of 3 "combinations" around chapter 90. And... around chapter 350, the MC still hasn't advanced a single inch towards the use of 4 combinations. He hasn't actually even increased his natural mana capacity either, but whether it's a talent limit or a lack of trying, the story doesn't even show him trying anything, so it could be any random reason.The MC constantly defines himself as a villain (on average once every one or two chapters), except that the problem is that he does almost nothing else but constantly say, but doesn't actually do anything bad in itself.He doesn't steal money from rich or powerful people, doesn't clean up the underworld, doesn't proactively act to build an empire or a situation against his sworn enemy, despite all his knowledge. In chapter 360, the problem of gates being exploited by s*aves is mentioned, but he didn't even do anything about it (he barely thinks about it).He pretty much just wanders around randomly and saves people depending on the situations he gets tangled up in. Past a certain point he doesn't even kill his enemies anymore (because he wants to become moral), except for two or three high-ranking political figures. Why? Because he doesn't want to be evil anymore and consider human life as worthless. He basically becomes nothing more than a "good hero in the shadows".He even asks his distant associate Baek-Do to stop the drug business "because it's not right", without offering him anything or giving him anything in return. This could have been a strategy, but he admits to himself that he hadn't thought about the consequences of his decision.When he meets his nemesis (spoiler alert), our MC mastermind acts like a trembling idiot, and gets fooled like a complete beginner, making the most ban*l mistakes, and it doesn't happen just once, but several times. The MC simply doesn't learn between encounters.For me this has definitely broken the myth surrounding the MC.And what convinced me to stop, is the following problem:Damn! The story moves at the pace of a dying old man! Because the author spends his time writing reaction chapters between the MC and "his children" (the members of his villain organization), like the fact that Han-Seo has grown up and become a shy teenager, that Kim Jae-Ho spends his time eating and feeding her or has no education, that he must educate them better because they are not children who should be part of a criminal organization and etc.Past a certain point (ch300), I ended up simply skimming the passages with my eyes to detect the course of events, and I realized that I could skip about 60 to 70% of what I was reading (sometimes entire chapters, sometimes even several chapters in a row), because it did not concern the progress of the plot, but just Kang-Yi-Sin and his "children".In short. The dark tone of the beginning mixed with occasional humor, ended up becoming mostly light and humorous. Yes there are some dramas and some good moments, but the problem is that they are drowned in the flood of ridicule, the story remains almost motionless and the plot threads are forgotten.I expected more than just that from this story. The idea was good and the beginning was pretty good, but I guess that given the infernal pace of publication that was asked of him, and that because he didn't have time to imagine and build the events he wanted to write, he succumbed to the sin of padding and probably lost sight of the thread of the story he originally wanted to write. Unfortunately this greatly affected the quality of the few passages that are really good and well written.Thanks to the author for trying and for his efforts.Fighting!
