Companionship is a beautiful thing.

In the novel, Grid doesn't put on the entire Dignity-boosting gear all at once. It's funny because he's not paying any attention to the Count, who is behind him, poised to attack. The Count stops when some dignity-boosting gear is on, thinks about it, confirms "nope. you're not my king" internally -> goes for another attack. Grid is like "I should make the best first impression!" and puts on the rest of his dignity-boosting gear -> and the Count stops again, gives up, etc.

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"Duke of Wisdom" is both Grid's Class and also a Title. "Great Magician" -> as in "Legendary Great Magician" -> as in Braham's class.

There are a bunch of "Duke Titles." Each of them has a pretty game-changing effect involved.
Duke of Wisdom deals with magic -> and if someone uses magic to attack you, you have a chance to break the spell and if you do, there's a chance to cast it yourself back at them.

Then there's Duke of Fire -> self explanatory. Helps Grid with blacksmithing. At one point, in like 1,500 novel chapters or something, Grid sets aflame the entire smithy with fire so hot that no one else could approach and it is slowly melting the entire smithy? Why to smelt a mineral that a dragon used as uhh... a bit of a toothpick or something? I forget the details; it was stuck in the wall in a dragon's liar, and the dragon was a fire dragon, sooooooooo it is was pretty fire resistant. Would've been impossible without this title. It made a really nice sword.

And the last one I can recall off the top of my head: Duke of Virtue -> which allows Grid to spare NPCs (he literally cannot finish swinging his sword to kill them. He tried, repeatedly. lol) where the system goes "bingo bongo -> this NPC is now an ally." First time it popped off was against a Vampire Noble who broke the curse on himself. Grid was like "but... but I wanna kill him and get EXP AND LOOT!" Vampire: "He's sparing me when I'm so desperate to stay alive! I'll follow him forever!" lol

Two more details: 1) these Duke titles have effects that synergize with one another for greater effects. Make no mistake: Overgeared is a power fantasy for Grid and the author cooks and cooks and cooks up a storm to boost Grid in all sorts of ways.
and 2) Obviously, there is more to these titles, like downsides and other stuff. I never give 100% of the information to the stuff I yap about. There are more Duke Titles and more times they're directly useful.

I think a really funny incident is when in a tournament (not the correct context, but close enough) -> some dude is like "check it out! I'm awesome! See my ultimate earth magic!" and Grid's Duke of Wisdom pops off, breaks the spell and casts it back in the dude's face. Get absolutely destroyed! lol

Well, he has a choice to make. He seriously believed that the sect leader wasn't... tyrannical. He is.

"I want food"
The food:
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Dad: "we have food at home"
The food at home:
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Oh.
Well, I have the novel entirely unlocked on WuxiaWorld. I'll just read that when I decide to read it.

And here I thought the birb traveled SUPER far away from the Schubert's territory.

Huh... why're you at -383 points?

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How do you know it was axed?

A punch so strong, he destroyed the manhwa's pages. lol
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I dunno why, but I thought this was a manhwa. It's a manga. 95% of the manga is quick one chapter gag reels about a princess getting coerced into spilling important secrets about her kingdom to help the demons win the war.
Coercion tactics like food. Also food. There's food. Did I mention food? It's like 85% food. They're not even starving her for it to be effective. The remaining 15% of the time is "cute" or some other silly reason.

It's a cozy manga.

The highlighted genres are: Comedy and Slice of Life. While nothing that matters fundamentally changes between the chapters, there is some character growth for side characters, like the Demon King's daughter who slowly grows up and gets some confidence because the princess sympathizes with how pathetic she is -> and divulges important secrets such as "the cipher to decrypt messages of the royal army" -> but the king is like "this is her first success. I'll frame it and hang it on my wall instead of use it to win the war." If you reach this point in the manga but you're still taking the manga seriously, then I dunno what to tell you... "you're in the wrong place?" maybe?
Minor spoilers.
Also, I guess Fantasy is also an important genre because these demons make IRL humans look like absolute freakin' monsters.

I skipped 200 chapters from chapter 71 to 271. I can tell you confidently that if those 200 chapters didn't exist, I wouldn't have noticed.

Take this little review for what it is worth: a direct statement on what to expect. If it sounds like your jam, then enjoy.

Sigh. I dunno if this was rushed, axed or just kinda sorta incompetently written. It's overall enjoyable but blehhhhh.

For one, characters dropping off the face of the planet, only to be remembered 50 chapters later. No really. Some characters don't return at all.
The manhwa tries to pull a plot twist out of nowhere and pretends "if you were smart, you would've seen this coming!" Ah yes, a character only barely mentioned is a mastermind of sorts?
An obnoxious need to devalue all sorts of events by attributing them to all sorts of other things.
Action sequences that are more "show, but the results are whatever the author wants." At one point, straight up, a character distorts and fractures space itself, goes for the killing blow after kindly taking an hour to explain his abilities -> and the author is like "okay, enough of that" and reality itself shifts to make sure the baddie survives so we can get to a more impressive set piece.
"And the grand reveal is..." and it doesn't tell you so it can save it for a later time. I hate this trope so much nowadays.
A major plot point got introduced, emphasized but then discarded. Some plot hole of sort happens apparently and it is shrugged off.

So, what is this? It's about an unfortunate kid who, spoiler alert, accepted all the pain, sins and suffering of the world -> dying. He reincarnates, faces misery and repeats this over and over again. This "second life" is far from the second life. He is in this eternal cycle of suffering to keep the abyss at bay, sealing a part of it within him as it also has to endure the same cycle. Why? Well, you know how there are 12 disciples of the mage who "made" the world? He's number 12 and this was his role. This is where the major plot point of "transcendent beings must ascend" falls flat as disciples 10, 11 and 12 are all still on the planet but somehow eh, its fine. Being a sick kid destined to die yet again, the uncle does everything he can, morals? never heard of them -> to figure it out how to cure him. He figures it out but it is rejected because stupid plot reasons I didn't really understand. And then, out of nowhere, his dad is actually the 1st disciple and he wants to force humanity to combine their efforts to combine all of humanity to fight the abyss 100% of the time. No peace, constant war, but it ensure the planet's survival and prevents humanity from going extinct. Winning that fight, the dad is revived? how? lol

It is a mess. Early-ish on, two orders come in: one to kill Mr. Main Character, and one to protect him. The story wastes no time in switching the roles of the assigned characters, resulting in the protector going nuts to kill him -> but he gives up halfway through the fight, abandons his life to send his "son" away -> and we never see that plot point ever again. Author forgot. /shrug

4 or perhaps 5/10.

Impressive his Iron Hand arm could last so long.

Onto the reading list you go.

What's a lot of seasons. When's it going to end?

Yeah. We humans are social animals; straight up: life is better with a companion.

Those eyes, and the silver/white hair. Is that a Zero?
Also, I wonder if the world would've ended if this actually happened:
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I'm talking about how season 2 ended.

You can reply to me, ya know? So I can see your reply via a notification. The @ thing doesn't seem to work.

As Yahtzee said: "As Nietzsche said, "Gaze ye not into the abyss, lest the abyss's boyfriend get narky.""
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I see "End of Main Story."
Alright, onto the reading list. By the time I get around to it, the extra side-story stuff will be complete. I have like 40 different works on my reading list, all completed works. lol