If I had to describe this series in a phrase, it’d probably be… “I don’t know”.
What happened to the gods that seemed to be crucial after appearing in the first chapter? I don’t know, they never appeared again and have gone completely unmentioned as if they never existed. The MC spoke of them like they were a major plot point at first, but then they just don’t matter ever again.
How does the power system that’s been constantly referenced and utilized work? I don’t know, there’s been quite a few fights, and a lot of mentions about it existing, but the scope never gets explained, and it almost feels shoehorned in at times to explain the lean protagonist having hulk levels of strength and flash levels of speed. Supposedly it’s well known, but the mc also steamrolls countless thugs working for an organization seemingly full of other “awakeners”, and they seem baffled by his abilities. They also introduce the artificial substance in the funniest way, with it being an alternative fuel source to oil that also supposedly gives people superhuman abilities, and I can’t help but laugh thinking about how they made that discovery.
You’d think after 14 chapters, that there’d be some clues about what exactly is going on in this story, but I honestly don’t have more than an inkling at any given point in time. My best guess is that the author created an mc and world they really loved, but didn’t have a whole lot of ideas relevant to the plot after the pilot, so now they’re jamming in all sorts of filler while also occasionally giving a tiny snippet of relevant information. He spends a majority of the early chapters fighting standard issue manhwa thugs, then he joins a school run by his enemies… which is populated extensively with gangs and mobs from various countries, with a system for students to beat each other to death legally for some reason. He then uses this system to beat up even more standard thugs, but this time in a university setting.
It’s essentially just a standard bully beat down manhwa that started out with a somewhat interesting premise, but all of that got thrown out the window by the second chapter. The plot and pacing are so inconsistent that I almost got whiplash going into the second chapter. Everything is so padded out that I feel like I could stop reading until chapter 30 drops, read only that, and still be in the same place in terms of the plot.
This is like a solid 3.5/10, with a lot of potential going untapped just so we could get 13 chapters of cliches and only a sprinkle of relevance instead.
