Love this. Maybe because I read only low-quality stuffs lately but this feel fresh. Sure, it's not new per se, but it doesn't feel copy-pasted from a template. Author doesn't care about the initial history of the VR system and reality, but I don't care either as long as it works. It does feel a bit cliche, but I haven't read enough manhwa to perfectly guess the plot so there's still anticipation to the future plot.
MC is not perfect, he made a small mistakes here and there but insignificant enough to not be noticed if you're not paying attention. He's not stupid, but not exactly smart either, he at least think before he acts. He's not exactly a good person and depicted as villain in the VR world, but in my opinion he's a realistic picture of someone with perfectly balanced of good and evil. FLs are high school students, so they have some naivety when they act, but not idiocy. They're not the type who annoyingly doesn't listen to the MC and then make mistake at every crucial moments which then need MC to clean up their mess.
I don't really have anything to complain against this series, so I'll give it 8/10.
One thing I feel unfortunate is that, two excellent scans are translating this series at the same time but then both stopped translating a few months ago. I don't want to be ungrateful or anything but it'll save both teams much effort by cooperating together, that way maybe at this point this series will be translated until chapter 60s, unlike now that both teams translated around the same 30 chapters. scratch that, cosmic scans has translated until the end of S1 but on their own site