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Dungeon Mimic
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Put more simply, the measurement "day's walk" is the distance walked within a specific time frame. There's probably a slight translation error and the intent isn't "a portion of the globe's diameter," but rather "a portion of the celestial sphere's diameter." They might also be using a word more specific to angles, which 2pi radians is 360 degrees while a diameter is 2 radii (radius plural). For reference, the Sun's width is 0.5 degrees, and in an hour the Sun will move 15 degrees. So 5 degrees is 20 minutes, and 0.5 degrees is 2 minutes. According to google, sundials can be trusted to be accurate to 2 minutes.

Now, here's something interesting. The Earth's circumference is 40 million meters. Divide 40 million by 243,000 and you get about 160. Incidentally, 1 mile is 1609 meters, and 3mph is roughly an average adult's walking speed. So every 2 minutes, what can be reliably measured by sundial, the average adult would walk 160 meters. So I believe the math does work out, and 1 "day's walk" is equivalent to roughly 160 meters.

(in case I'm unclear, because it's written a bit scatterbrained, the logic is this: Average walking speed is 3mph, and in 1 hour the Sun moves 15 degrees. So 5 degrees of movement is 20 minutes, and a person would have walked 1 mile or 1609 meters. The smallest reliably measured unit of time is 2 minutes, a tenth of that 1609 meters, so 160 meters by average walking speed. 243,000 units of 160 meters would be equivalent to Earth's 40 million meter circumference. Therefore, that reliably measured 160 meters is what they're calling a "day's walk," not a literal day's worth of walking.)
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Dungeon Mimic Jasher - 1733468582
At this point, doesn't she also lack all of her skills in the web novel too? Like, if she could manually activate it then yes she could have super high poison resistance, but because she's still learning she can't.
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Dungeon Mimic ayoooooo - 1730864433
Looks like Nano Machine.
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Dungeon Mimic Neninho - 1727752210
There is a demon involved, though. It might literally instantly disappear.
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Dungeon Mimic - 1725778974
Kind of impressive how quickly things took a turn for the worse. What kind of plot even is this? The whole thing with the eldest child is just ridiculous.
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Dungeon Mimic - 1724120404
Started strong, then just plummeted through the ground. "Holy church is evil" plot, followed by meaningless predestined nonsense that's just going to be horribly handled if it ever even reaches that point, on top of the edgy "I'm actually a demon, I'm so edgy, two years of struggles have turned me entirely evil" garbage... I dunno, the plot is almost assuredly going to be poorly written and follow all the cliches.
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Dungeon Mimic Aab - 1720725920
It isn't translated very far, and the one place I found that is translating it hasn't updated in several months. They got as far as like chapter 30 of the manga.

If you google the Japanese name (転生大聖女の異世界のんびり紀行) you can find a website called kakuyomu that at least looks like an official source. Could google translate it and read like 5-10 chapters worth of content further.
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Dungeon Mimic - 1720655808
This one is kind of cringe. Reading chapter 1 is kind of hard, because it just tries so hard to establish way too many things with way too much exaggeration. There's a kind of 'rule' to writing, more a strong suggestion but it's treated as a rule, which says "show, don't tell." This does far more telling than showing, and it's a medium designed to show.

Sometimes less is more, and it's like the author saw a recipe that needs a tablespoon of lemon juice, and because they like lemon juice they poured in the whole bottle. It's too much.

It's honestly a shame it has such a poor handle on all the most important aspects of being a story. The art is pretty good with a style I quite like, and the world building seems okay after skimming several chapters. It just treats conflict and character as a joke, while telling us that it's important.
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Really just a slap in the face, isn't it? Honestly feels like it's trying to mock readers' intelligence. Like jingling keys to entertain a baby.
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I mean... I would put in a fair bit of effort to stop my home country from being razed to the ground too.
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Dungeon Mimic CdaddyB - 1719201123
Yeah, you're describing abuse. Actively working to isolate someone, and manipulating those close to them is abuse. It can be one of the key indicators of a relationship being abusive, because abusers do it to keep their victims from recognizing the reality of the relationship or escaping their abuser.
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Dungeon Mimic TauCeti - 1719021281
If I recall, I think there are rules they need to follow that prevent them from directly interfering. Like they did a bit near the start, but there were reminders of like "this much is probably okay, but we're pushing the limit of what we're allowed to do without being contracted."
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Yandere is just a term that means "abuser." They aren't sweet, they're poison disguised by artificial sugar. Sickening.
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Dungeon Mimic Trecta - 1718447492
Might be true though. As long as you don't take it to mean "no evidence more accurate." Witness testimony is unreliable, but people think it's credible.
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Dungeon Mimic - 1716974782
It's crazy how some random government official could apparently just steal a negligible amount from the emperor's vault and apparently become immediately the strongest martial artist ever. In fact, their side's strategist is some random low level scholar. MC wasted so much time training and finding super miracle ancient elixirs when he could have apparently just done some paperwork and no doubt far exceeded his current strength.
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Bad things like using poison, and traps? Or do you mean like the black knight's side starting wars, kidnapping random people to drain their blood, strengthening bandits and pirates, helping the blood cult make zombies to invade... the list goes on. The black knight's side didn't like an emperor, even if for good reason, so they've decided to slaughter as many people as the emperor or more as... I don't know, payback against people who were uninvolved?
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Not just that, but forcing his ideal on only one very specific group. He can't stand evil, but only within a mile of a very specific building. Everything else? Totally fine by him.
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Dungeon Mimic - 1716966031
What's the point of justice if injustice is ignored? Dude's childish appearance is fits his mind well.
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Pretty sure they're two spellings of the same name. I think Zhuge is based on the Chinese, while Jegal is the Korean version. The same handful of names are common between murim stories, so sometimes you end up finding a mix of the Korean and Chinese forms depending on the translator.
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I'm with you, but I also think I understand. The other stuff has been new to him. The movie previously didn't exist, and he didn't know any of the other stuff he's worked on. This one is one he not only knew about, but is very familiar with and likes. It's the first thing outside his own life that he's really seeing and understanding his effect on.
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