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If you like infrastructure genre (basically kingdom building except it would not always be kingdom that were 'build') where the protagonist will change how the world he currently resides in to the better, then I highly recommend this. An equivalence to this would be "The Virtual Character I Personally Raised Wants to Marry Me" except in this novel, the world is an 'isekai' rather than an actual game world (also that novel is a BL and unlike the MC in this novel, he could not freely travel to the other world cuz he had essentially become an NPC at the game). Anyway, if you really like what that novel offers, then you ought to read this.Of course, like the top review had said, this novel has some nationalism in it. Like, I cannot comprehend how someone who had only spends 16 years out of his 200+ years life in a country could ardently love said country to the point of what can be said as a blind worship. His 16 years in earth gain him unbreakable nationalism. I could excuse it as him obsessing about his somewhat peaceful and safe homeworld compared to his chaotic and hard life in other world. Yet somehow, he IDGAF about his actual, biological, family who had raised him since birth??? If China was person, I would've thought it was the one who had birthed him rather than his real mother.BUT, here's the thing, the author previous work "The Wolf King" (another great infrastructure novel that had hold jjwxc top 1 ranking for quite some time) does not have this problem! So what does this imply? Like many other webnovel author, they were forced to insert the whole nationalism shebang. You got that right, writing nationalism was an actual 'working procedure' that has been enforced to many authors. Not only doing it would avoid 'forced ending' or even direct removal of their novels from the sites, it might also promote their work and gave them that sweet-sweet social credit. I'm not pulling things out of my ass here. Many times I've seen how author would normally write their early work excellently, and then do a whole 180 from so on (this happens more often in infrastructure and quick transmigration novel, idk why).What I want to say is, please do not take the nationalism in this novel seriously cuz there's a high chance that the author was forced to do it. I suggest that if you do read this novel, just skim the nationalism part tbh. And also, the nationalism part was mostly concentrated on the first part of the novel, the rest on novel would focus more on the exploring the world and the actual story.I assure you, this novel is worth it. Worldbuilding is great, characters is well developed and not just mobs to make MC stronger, MC also have some mysterious past that was not just disclosed at the beginning like the usual webnovel (no, he did not unintentionally hide it, he did not have amnesia or sealed his memories as far as I remember, he just didn't want to casually exhibit his wounds for other to see per the author writing direction.) Some things I would like to highlight:
- Players would eventually gain 'human' form except the form that they would take was that of the person which skeleton that they now has resides in. So you would see how a macho male players having a petite girl appearance etc XD
- One of the earliest jobs or advanced 'quests' that become available to players is being what essentially to be ghost busters lmao.
- A possible dead lover of MC?
- The acquitence priest that MC would invite who finally decide to stay after MC introduce him to soap opera lol. Btw I kind of ship him with MC because of the amusing dynamic that they have, and the sort of rivalries history they used to have.
- MC actions leading to the abolishment of sl*very, the suppressions of forced prostitution, and the introduction of education and s*x education for non-nobles.
- Scientists freaking out when they discover how the 'game' might not have advanced technology, but rather an actual other world at the time when MC expand the "maps" to region with high technology.
