I'm still mildly amused that the secret to the game is:
https://i.postimg.cc/BZ2FPG8v/i.webp

Unfortunately, the hands aren't that smart.

>perfect order
https://i.postimg.cc/vHLwTyJF/i.webp
I need a copy of their dictionary.

If this genre fits your tastes, then yeah. It does a lot of things right. Just because I didn't enjoy it doesn't mean that it's not worth reading.

I read this and enjoyed it... but I didn't type a review yet? Oops. Let's remedy that!

Mr. Main Character suffers from bulimia, a miserable eating disorder -> that makes him feel permanently hungry. He is managing himself as much as possible by sticking to a super strict diet - mostly of cherry tomatoes - and lots of exercise. Despite his efforts, and he really is muscular and athletic, he is still sooooooooo fat that he can barely fit through a door. He is also pretty smart due to exceling in school and luckily for him, his dad is super rich so while Mr. Main Character hasn't attended school, he hasn't fallen behind (if anything, he's still ahead in terms of school).

Oh look, a new VRMMORPG popped up and this is where the manhwa will take place in: a game. In this game, you can have all your senses, just like the "Please Have a Meal!" manhwa. First quest's reward? Bread.
Mr. Main Character: BREAD! OMG! BREAD! OH HOW I MISS BREAD! It's kinda meh quality and chewy BUT IT'S BREAD! And here he is, repeating the first quest, over and over and over and over again to get more bread.

Just like any of these VRMMORPG manhwa: the AI is super unrealistically intelligent (have you seen any AI IRL? It's so stupid lol) and they respond to your efforts kindly. He befriends tons of NPCs and his attention to food gives him a special food-related class. All this eventually leads him to leading the game's main plot as somehow, the food-related deities are super relevant to it. How convenient.

It might seem like I'm trashing on the manhwa but I'm really not. It's well done and Mr. Main Character is likeable and so is his dad. Yeah, minor spoiler alert: his dad is a real character (rather than a billboard for world building and never bought up again) and even plays the game with the primary intention/goal of helping his son as much as possible. He's great!

8/10? I think that's a fine score. I liked it.
If you don't like VRMMORPG manhwa, then this is not for you.

I can't edit my old message, but I just realized I messed up the name of the manhwa I wanted to kick. It isn't "Kill the Hero" -> but "Hero Has Returned"
Two very different manhwa. Oops.

https://i.postimg.cc/QxQTXWhc/i.webp

A few more details on the novel:

The entire novel, including around 100 chapters of epilogue, is 832 chapters. Based on my estimates and seeing how we were around 200 chapters away from the completion of the manhwa -> if the manhwa wasn't axed, it would've been complete in around 50 chapters and maybe a dozen more for the epilogue.

Shame. :\\

uuuuuuuuugh I dunno pay me and I'll read it, type out some half-baked summary of events based on my understanding, and post it somewhere lol
this is a joke, I don't even have a venue to get paid. x_X;

Okay so, I found info about the novel.

Most importantly: we ended at chapter 168 in the manhwa -> which is the novel's chapter 571.

On that note: any and all novel translations after chapter 500 are MTL only. It's abysmal quality. You're looking at messing up names, like "Rinne" being swapped to "Line" a few lines later and then back again; incorrect pronouns not just his <-> her but also mother <-> father too. So yeah... really bad quality.

I can tank most of this stuff and figure out what's going on. Example of the following events right after the axe:

Rinne asks Rudiger if it's true, hoping it's a misunderstanding. He simply says "yes" which causes her to drop her head down. Any attempt to explain himself is stopped by her yelling... and her magic starts running wild. Her magical beast gets summoned, which was this thing:
https://i.postimg.cc/R0TB6dpJ/i.webp
and rampaging. Her non-attribute magic? It's space. We kinda know that and now we see it in action as it lashes out at Rudiger. He clashes with it as he teleports across various places in the world; including a little village, a factory, etc.

The rampage stops as Rinne collapses (they're not at their best condition seeing what they just finished dealing with). He catches her and she's still trying to shove him away as she's fainting with a high fever. Where did they end up?
Remember the three mage societies or whatever? There's the old, the new and the third one -> they ended up at the new one. It's a flying island that is constantly traveling across the ocean, taking in sea water, boiling it and using steam to power its movements. You can't just simply come to this island even if you want to. Yet, this is where they ended up. Lucky? Or Unlucky?

Meanwhile, there's some dude on this island pondering his orb (for security purposes) and he sees them suddenly appear. It's Nikolai and he recognizes John Doe and wants to kill him.

That's the end of chapter 572. I did gloss over a bunch of details but frankly, the details in the MTL aren't your friend. I stopped reading there. I dunno if I'm willing to tank the horrible MTL.

He lost a hand, not an arm. Big difference? Probably.

And he'll most likely reattach it like Senator Armstrong.
https://i.postimg.cc/HnDD98GF/i.webp

I was right!
https://i.postimg.cc/RFBWcSmd/i.webp

100 year quest that's about some dragons
They deal with said dragons

then you look inside some more and oh look, even more dragons
Where were they all this time? Hawaii?

I'mma look into that when I read the axed point. Reply to this in a few days to remind me to post my findings.

Onto the reading list with you!

>End of Main Story
Welp, to the reading list with you.

Should've told him "I hate fighting really strong opponents!" instead. lol

Fun fact: I'm reading this despite everything and... it's peak.
I'm almost done and I'm already soooooooo saaaaaaaaaaad that's axed. T_T;

Let me get this straight:

3 months have passed.
The Demon Scheming Sect has been entirely wiped out, which is something THEY know:
https://i.postimg.cc/tT0khck1/i.webp
from scouts... Just scouts. And yet! And yet THE Exalted Double Dragon Manor or whatever is CLUELESS about this? Completely in the dark? What a useless moderating authority. smh

Next chapter: they learn that Demon Scheming Sect is GONE and so is the stupid Mystic Heaven Sect -> and they flip their lid.

Yesssssss

~2K chapters total.