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This novel pisses me off by no small extent. Let's first get the setting straight. Middle Earth is a MMORPG with over 100 Million Active Players. Now, let that sink into your head, 100 million. That is equivalent to Maple Story at its peak. This number is important for a single reason, Achievements. Much like all of these Korean and Chinese power fantasy novels, Achievements grant permanent boost to the users. In this novel, if you are one of the first 3 to get it, you gain DOUBLE of its value. Let's start with this point and how s*upid it is. Any MMO that did this would be dead in the water in the very first year. Why? Because the bonuses from the achievements are MASSIVE and if the first players getting it get it in double, that would make the first players that no life the game (play it 20 hours a day, every day) to be at such an insurmountable amount of power that it would be literally impossible to come even close to competing with them. Have you ever played a F2P that players can just P2W? Now imagine that, but it's impossible even if you were willing to pay. Dead. Game. No Devs would ever do that. But whatever, it's part of the setting, so you can just ignore it if you want.Now, here is where it goes from dumb to damn right ret*rded. The MC is a Sharpshooter of the Army that most likely received the blessing of God of never missing. Ever. This translates into the game, where he can hit with a Musket using his skills (lol). But this is fine, power fantasy and all... Except... He gets two achievements. Hitting a ground target from over 100m and hitting a flying target from over 100m... That's fine, right? Even with a shitty musket, that is possible! Except... He was the third player to ever get the first one and the second player to ever get the second one... Yep, you read it right. Out of ONE HUNDRED MILLION PLAYERS, somehow this MOFO is the THIRD TO EVER HIT A TARGET FROM 100M AWAY! AND THE SECOND TO HIT A FLYING TARGET AT 100M AWAY! Are you kidding me?! The current record for highest an accurate shot (that is, a bullseye) is 283 meters. But, if its just hitting a target (especially if they are over 2 meters wide) it's 1222 meters. Yep, more than 12x the distance of this "Achievement". So you are telling me that ONLY TWO PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO HIT A TARGET FROM A DISTANCE HIGHER THAN 100M?! Even a goddamn amateur can do that with a bow and arrow! And this is a game, so high level bows (and players) would most likely EASILY hit targets from that distance.But, do you think that is bad? Nah, the worst is next. You see, this game is funny. Really funny. If 20 people are attacking a field boss and they reduce its HP to about 5%, but die or flee, the last person standing that gives the killing blow is considered to have taken down the boss alone. So he gets the full achievement and EXP/Loot. Is that dumb? Yep. But here is where it becomes VERY idiotic. The MC is level 12 here and the boss is level 62+ (let's forget at how s*upid the level difference is, since in any MMO, the MC would be dealing not even 0, 01% of the boss HP per hit). Once he DOES give the finishing blow, he gains an Achievement... The first player to ever kill a monster 50 levels above them SOLO (even though the Raid of 20+ people dealt 95% of the damage)... Are you f*cking kidding me?! You are telling me that NO ONE has ever CARRIED someone in a high level area?! The highest leveled player is 200, the average is 80. You are telling me that no one that was level 100+ didn't bring a low level 10~15 to a high level area, almost killed an enemy and allow the lowbie to get the final hit (without being in a party) ? Out of 100 MILLION PLAYERS, no one sells POWER LEVEL?! f*cking hell dude...Yes, read this novel if you just want to turn your brain off, the author sure as hell did.