I will be editing this review when I'm confident that there are enough chapters to develop a proper opinion on the story. As of right now, I cobbled this together as a sort of disclaimer on what current readers should expect from this novel.
I normally don't read many KR novels, but I decided to try this one out arbitrarily. Chapters 1-5 got me absolutely hooked, so I ended up reading all of the available free chapters using MTL and other tools. (More info below).
A disclaimer I want to leave in this review is that while NTR doesn't happen directly to our protagonist, to say that there is no NTR in this novel is a bit disingenuous. The protagonist is never directly NTR'd, but on multiple occasions he will describe exactly how NTR will happen and step by step how he was/will be betrayed by certain characters, occasionally getting somewhat emotional over it. I'm not particularly bothered by this; however, I know for a fact that some readers will want to know about this beforehand.
Chapter 1-5 can be described as the introductory chapters. They're quite good and got me hooked as I'm quite interested in what the protagonist is going to do as well as if and how he will get back at the other heroes/members who betrayed him. However, after chapter 5 the story does devolve into a repeat of
1. Show up somewhere and get underestimated due to being scrawny
2. Obliterate / impress opposition with incredible skills
3. Gain money, items, or some sort of improvement that makes protagonist stronger.
4. If a possible love interest is impressed, reject any advancements and leave due to tiny manhood.
Return to step 1.
By chapter 15 where I couldn't continue reading anymore due to a paywall, the protagonist had done the above to 3 different groups of bandits and about 3 other scenarios. Although breaking the story down into 4 steps does sound like a negative impression, I will say that it's still incredibly early in the story and I have high hopes for what will happen in future chapters. That, and that there is information that a potion to increase manhood size does exist somewhere. This wouldn't be an ad**t novel without some ad**t scenes. Spoiler
Could someone tell me why we are censoring the world "Adult" ?
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How did I read ahead / my thoughts on reading ahead as well as important info on the accuracy of this review
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The Korean website hosting this novel, Novelpia, is probably the stingiest site I've seen out of the many Chinese and Japanese novel sites I've passed through. To access the first 15 chapters you need an account, anymore than that costs around 10 USD per month. And then translating the actual novel to English is made borderline impossible. They have just about every form of security to prevent users from fiddling with the text in any way. This means you can't copy and paste the text, disable java to get the raw text, copy text from source code, download page as a pdf or as a file, or use just about any common methods to MTL text. Everything I've tried was blocked and the only reasonable workaround I could find was to screenshot some text then use a program to transcribe the image to text for machine translating. The Add-on "Copyfish" made this infinitely easier, you just have to tweak some settings, highlight text, translate, and then read.
The major downside of reading text from an image, though, is that the machine will guess a wrong word about every 5 or so sentences. This means that the review I've just written could be slightly wrong assuming the program messed up enough times. (Of course all of this might not matter if you know a superior way to translate untouchable text).
So in the end, if you want to read ahead I will say it's almost certainly not worth it. Even if you read the 15 free chapters, the time taken to do so will be significantly more and the accuracy and quality will be quite bad. Even if you plan to pay 10$ for access to more chapters, I genuinely think it's better to support the current translator than that stingy Korean site. Hoping that the current translator does have access to the premium chapters of course.
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