Oh, yeah...
He lost that "incredible" ability that we NEVER see him use.

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Well, he gets stronger a lot faster fighting enemies more competent than him.
He poisoned his enemy at the start of the fight, and if said enemy didn't use a cheat item that let's them bypass the floor limitations, the MC's plans where sound and logical.

He could get insanely stronger copying the techniques of the best Murim warrior with almost no risks.


Now... to get the story interesting, they have to make the MC skip a few floors... or it'll get either boring seeing him overpower anything easily... or illogical, seeing him struggle in lower levels when he beat the strongest person in the upper floors...

So, use money, commerce, influence, engineering or connections to fight the MC, OK, he'll play your games.
Use excessive violence, and you get completely annihilated by an eldritch God, kept between life and death, tortured for all eternity.

Seems fair.

Woah.
That's fucking genius writing.

So, as long as they love each other, they will regress together...
But the fact that she has to kill a man who looks like the love of her life over and over and over again, so fucking tragic.

I thought the MC having to kill himself thousands of times was fucked up, but this is worst.

What the hell, this looks incredible.
Source for a like?
Looks like "Legend of The Northern Blade", but I can't find any animation of it...

Damn...

I've been reading so many manwha recently where the MC doesn't have any long term objectives, or it hasn't been revealed yet...
That makes the story generally episodic. And often boring and forgettable.

This story, the MC has so many long term objectives, all for one final plan.
And he actually goes through with his plans, he doesn't get unnecessarily distracted by pointless endeavors.

I like this, and can't wait for this arc. Go, little dragon. Kill, maim... rip and tear!

"Yeah, let's kidnap the family of the strongest in the world, and the love interest of like the second strongest".

I'm sure this will go well.

Ahaha, I was certain he was going to say "Ezio Auditore" because of that hidden blade :D

This is so boring.
This crap with the Shaman should have ended 2 chapters ago...
But no, it's better if the MC, master assassin, bowmaster, tracking genius, fastest man in the forest went after the Shaman immediately, but took juuuuust enough time to find him, just barely enough time for a probably lengthy ritual to finish...

I really hate when they suddenly nerf a character just because... I willing to bet that the MC will be at 100% again right after the Shaman dies, just like magic!

Oh, my bad, I actually meant Raphael, I mixed up my angels' names.
I didn't know about Michael, but now I do... a bit (from the wiki). I corrected my initial message, I don't want someone else to check the wiki and get spoiled.

But if he can't be affected by the skill, and is actively trying to understand what the hero can do, I find it strange and hard to believe that Rimuru wouldn't find it peculiar that EVERYONE is giving up against the Hero, without ever fighting.
He comments on the fact that everyone seems to love the Hero, that no-one fights him, that normally, wining by default would get booed... but just dismisses that immediately, like it's not important...
EVERYTHING about an enemy in your capital should be deemed important, but whatever, I'll see what will happen next. But I really thought Rimuru would have learned from almost loosing hundreds of his people that he must stay vigilant.

He just discovered that he can warp to a place defined by an object, not a location (the banner).

He can't enter the mirror city currently, because his cheat abilities and the risk of being discovered, and his slaves have to pay the insane entrance fee each time.
He just discovered a way to bypass that (make the slaves bring something he can focus on into the city, teleport to it, boom, free access).
He doesn't realize it yet, but I love how they just dropped this hint there.

Also, if he wants, he could offer something really valuable to the King or someone rich, have them store it in their vaults... then teleport to it, take everything he wants, and just leave...

That's really OP, especially because there's no safeguard against his, and only his, special teleportation...

Mmmh, is Rimuru already being manipulated by the Hero's skills? Or is he just plain old dumb?
I'm guessing that if he was under the effect of the hero's skill, the ultimate skill Raphael would have done something about it, so that means he's just dumb.

I'm pretty certain that the Hero has a special skill that makes him extra persuasive, he can convince anyone of anything he wants easily.
A bit like Kilgrave, but he seems a lot less evil, for the moment.

Edit: Corrected the skill name... My bad

Well, he's not the typical MC, getting miraculously powerful for no reason other than MC-powers.
He was the most powerful person ever before, just older... and it seems that cultivation isn't really the most important in this world, skill and judgement are.

So... he's pretty much still the most powerful person in the world.... seeing that he got younger, and that his actual physical brain in even stronger than before, he might be leagues above anyone else.

Wait... the Sky Demon was the one who died from poison... probably.
That makes the MC the new Sky Demon.

But!
Was the Spear Sky the old master, who died betrayed, or the previous owner of the Spear the MC is currently wielding?
I'm guessing the new Soul Sky, or Inverted Sky, is the "Emperor".
And the Sword Sky and Buddhist Sky might be the two guys we just saw drinking, maybe?

But that means that to win in the end, they will need to unite all skies... that might get really difficult, seeing the current state of the world.

Bunch of hooligans fucking everything and everyone up, torturing an innocent for no other reason than his regenerative powers... and now they cry for karma biting their behinds...

Tho, I must admit, the MC is scary as fuck. Like a proper horror movie villain, except the victims deserve it.

Damn, the fact that he has no fear seems like a super power, but it's probably more a curse.
He really doesn't give a shit who he pisses off. Government, S-Class, Dragons, Gods...

The end of this story will be his death, for sure.

Damn.
We know the MC "borrowed" the name of classic characters from our literature often...
Was one of those names "Helsing" or "Alucard" ?!?

Yeah, Joshua now has a sense of unease, because he became a dumbass.
I mean, he was in control, was laying plans to get what he needed, forming alliances with the people he needed, knew how to manipulate the bad guys to get him what he needed.
Now, he's just a dog running after his tail.

I don't like where the story is, and despise even more where it's going.
I was expecting Joshua to lose later, but I was expecting him to be blindsided by his spear, as the author seemed to lay down the ground work for it, and that the problems would come from there, not this crap...
This went from an interesting story, with clichés but interesting nonetheless, to something unbearably boring...

What was the point of killing the uncle?!?
I mean, I don't really mind, he was kinda pathetic, but what did she gain from that.

She doesn't seem like a psycho serial killer, she seems ruthless and incredibly intelligent, but not a killer who just enjoys killing.
So I can't understand the benefits she might get from killing him.

Vengeance? I mean, he did more or less imprison her, but she didn't seem to mind, and wasn't treated like a prisoner.
Or was it to remove any possibility of future revolution from this side? But that would be pretty bad timing wise, as the coronation hasn't happened yet, and that would make bad rumors circulate.
Or just a way to protect her brother, do what he wanted but couldn't do? She seems fairly attached to him, especially in the past, but she does want to rule herself, and her brother might become a problem later on.

I feel like the author was trying to show her as a ruthless strategist, but if that was the objective, that didn't really stick with me.
This has lowered her value to me a bit. That seemed petty, and fairly psychopathic.

I don't know, maybe she need the utmost possible flexibility around her hips and stomach for her techniques. I doubt it, but why not.

Now, the string underwear up to where it is... that's a conundrum, I have no idea what purpose it has other than make horny.