The Game with Fairies Chapter 96 Discussion

This is a cultivation story where the protagonist has a game system that lets him play games that give him benefits in the real world when cleared and appear to affect reality. I'm also a sucker for a bleak horror theme and it's got that going for it too.

Our protagonist Li Muyang is a lowly outer sect disciple in a demonic sect. The previous owner of his body was a naive headstrong angsty youth who left his moderately well-off family to join the sect in a dramatic way. He gains a game system that lets him play games while still being present in the real world and with time passing. When he completes or progresses the game he gains cultivation rewards based on how well he did in the game. The games tend to be horror-themed and the cultivation world as a result has a similar vibe. There's some overarching mystery elements that I'm also interested to see develop.

Typically he has to spend lots of time trying them over and over as they've all been pretty difficult and obtuse. The games are so far single player; this isn't a Gantz/Terror Infinity style game where lots of people are s**ked into a shared game world to complete scenarios and gain resources in the game. They are also all cultivation themed and seem to take place in the same world that he is in but displaced by space/time. When he completes the games it appears the outcomes affect reality. There's kind of a harem thing going on by impressing female characters in the games (who it appears are real people in the world) and his not biological sister (who seems to have her own protagonist grandma in a ring thing going on) and this girl from his hometown the original owner of the body simped over (who is the green tea type). There hasn't been any actual romance yet but they are generally at least lightly crushing on him.

Our protagonist is mostly sensible and has been trying to keep a low profile. He's not a hot-blooded protagonist type but more the down-to-earth relatable modern sort. To the other sect disciples he's progressed quicker than usual in his cultivation but spends his time mostly by himself and doesn't appear especially competent or ambitious. He basically only puts as much effort is necessary to keep up appearances on his work and spends most of his time playing his system games to gain better resources than he could in the real world.

I was leery when I saw it was translated by Hiraeth as they've put out some real low quality stuff in the past but this is one of the better ones I've read by them. There's typos and other small errors but nothing too terrible or consistent. It's quite readable.