From 1-10, how would you rate this series?The story shares the core premise of revenge and regression with Revenge of the Sword Clan's Hound. But this is the smarter version. This is still a shallow and stupid story of having too much knowledge in your MC and that knowledge being pulled out of the MC’s ass to save the day every time.
I mention the Hound story because if you read that one, it makes this seem like Isaac Asimov. The two are the same story but this author actually makes the right decisions and judgements based on how the MC alters the timeline. It’s predictable and theres no tension. But the MC doesn’t frustrate you by holding on to old shit from the past life that clearly no longer applies.
Not great, but far superior to the dogshit Hound story.
7. Not great, but serviceable.From 1-10, how would you rate this series?
Honestly it is worth the 8.83/10 I would say. Me personally I would give it something like 8.Usually the hook of regression is enough for me to keep reading but after 12 chapters of just boringness I just cant. All exposition dumps and MC getting OP powers for free. Where’s the action and sword fighting for a sword clan? He doesn’t get sword training till he’s 10 after leaving the house for babies, and even then it looks like basic sword training after a 4 year time skip. No clear motive in second life too other than vague “become strongest”, and doesn’t even try to find who cursed him.
Another commenter from 2 years ago compared this to Revenge of the Baskerville Bloodhound which Im caught up on. Calling Bloodhound dogshit when compared to this manhwa is straight capping. Hound MC starts his second life as a regular baby and earns his powers during the second life through his knowledge and experience from previous life. He has a clear and obvious revenge motive to drive his growth. There’s action within 10 chapters and he fights for his life before he’s even 8 years old.
This is like a 5/10 beginning and I can’t bring myself to read more to find out if it’s worth the 8.83/10 later on in the story.
He isn't bootlicking anybody. He just knows he can't beat his father yet so he is training to beat him. If you read till the latest chapters you will understand just how powerful his father is(he sent a person who mc can only just barely scratch and that same person was quite easily beaten by MC's father. Also mc says that he can now SURVIVE one clash with his father which implies that he is not even close to being able to beat his father and all these comes from the latest chapters.) his relationship with all his siblings is horrible(with the exception of two of his sisters) and his goal is still to kill the person who put the curse on him. Which from what I can see from the latest chapters might be very soon. Also his father has responsibilities which is why he threw him away in his past life which the mc understands(but still wants to take revenge). In conclusion, don't jump to conclusions. This concludes my paragraph.MC genuinely wants to bootlick and be acknowledged by the very same people who threw him away and let him die like a dog in his past life.
All the attention and praises he got during his second life is because he is talented and powerful. They're fake and hypocritical and his family is incapable of feeling affection unless it is for the powerful and talented.
This is a case where the target is obviously for revenge, but MC bootlicks instead and somehow the story and most people who read it think this is fine.
I dropped this out of sheer disgust a few chapters in. Every year or so I come back thinking maybe I was wrong because this work is so highly rated, but it's the same every time.