The Villain Only Wants To Live a Buddhist Life Chapter 851 Discussion

This novel is about making magic cards that could pretty much perform magic by casting said cards. There are various types of cards such as field spells, equipment cards, spell cards but most importantly, monster cards. Said monster cards each contain a monster with stats such as attack, defense and magical energy (serving as both health and mana combined). Each monster card has different moves like pokemon and can do variety of things such as locking an opponent down or use different type attacks, like pokemon. Each monster card also have stars and higher star monsters need sacrifices or special spells or moves to be summoned like in Yugioh.

The point of these cards are that they are actual combat tools and are mainly used in duels (think like in Yugioh) or in actual combat. The novel is very slow-paced and most of it are pet raising slice of life or actual research and school studies stuff but there are various arcs with constant duels with different opponents. I disagree with all the reviews that couldn't even even reach the duel parts before rating this novel. I find it s*upid that people would just jump the gun and rate the novel without even reaching the good parts.

The MC's cheats come with the Seven Deadly sins and how he could extract the seven sins from his brain and make cards from it.Spoiler

The monster cards made from the seven sins are smarter and generally have more moves than the average cards. He also made cards with purely sins which can evolve the monster cards made from said sins which is pretty OP as higher rarity cards are hard to make.

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The romance is quite slow-paced as well.Spoiler

The main heroine in the novel is Pandora and she is the only girl that Dark actively says that he likes and the only girl that he had kissed too. Though, there are other girls that like him and he is close with.

Diana & Rose: His best friends basically. Diana is proactive in telling him that she likes her but she is too childish in his eyes and basically not his type. Heck, she even knows this later in the 700+ chapters but still acts the same way. Rose is kind of more reserved and doesn't even tell Dark that she likes him. They are important characters that are around quite often.

Aurora: His fiancée in the game, though that never comes to light in the actual story. She appears quite late into the story and like him as well. Though, I think unlike in the game he is OP and smart and so doesn't need a fiancée to babysit him anymore and since the engagement was unofficial, he doesn't get engaged to her anymore. This doesn't mean she is not close with Dark though, because she is. She is in some important out of school arcs as well so there's that.

Professor Lily: She's a weird one. She like him but mostly either play pranks on him or simply works with him with some stuff. Overall, she's a fun character.

Eudora: Dark's stalker, well she no longer stalks him in later chapters. She likes him because she could see the OP sins powers in his body in the form of stars or something. Dark treats her like some kind of younger sister and she is not around very often.

Ergani (Athena) : This one I'm not too sure. Ergani appears very late into the story and respects Dark for helping her form her wisdom and is kind of very close to Dark. She's a very important character though and will continue to be important later.

He also has other girls that are have a crush on him such as Emma and his maids but they don't appear often.

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Overall, very engaging but slow-paced. I personally find the translation to be so slow and I got so hooked that I went ahead and read to the latest RAW through using MTL. The MTL is surprisingly readable other than needing some research to find names of the monsters that he made.