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So I felt the need to review other then giving my 5 star rating because I'm a little puzzled by the low ratings of other reviewers. I fully read another work by this author, Ultimate Evolution, and I feel this work fully takes what I loved about that one while it gets rid of the most annoying parts from Ultimate Evolution. In comparison to UE, which had a lot of long, draggy segments that took place in the the real world that no one really cared about that much and which cut into the flow of the novel, this one is filled with action from the beginning, real world or not.There's a lot of mystery going on, about his origin, about a mysterious hand in the background that seems to be trying to assist him and another force manipulating the world around him to do the opposite, but he's no one's pawn - he's living by his wits trying to get every advantage he can despite probability seeming to shift to screw him over at every opportunity. Very much an underdog in the beginning but he's fighting for every advantage he can, which is realistic given his starting situation and knowledge.No team yet, it's all about him, but I have no doubt it's coming and he's already realized the importance of one after what he's experienced. Don't see anything wrong with them focusing on him to build himself/his prestige up first, no one's going to follow a loser. Looking forward to more chapters, glad this was picked up.