A million times better than the novel's translation of "wish wish iwish." No, I'm not joking. I mentally just replace it as I read along.

It was one-sided protection: Lefanta would protect Gongja, not the other way around.
There was no clause that stated Gongja wouldn't harm/kill Lefanta.

I think it's an english thing. English is weird.

Googling shows that:
Pride is how we think of ourselves - self-worth.
Vanity is how we think of others - how you want others to perceive you. Also, it is usually used in a negative context.

MEANWHILE, we can be "proud" of others. English what?

That little Simon... He's become the strongest person, huh? I really hope he isn't evil or anything... and I also hope that he doesn't turn into a dragon or something either.

This is why I know that vanity has to be one of the seven deadly sins.
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Like, he's denying what he's seeing and downplaying it just to protect his stupid useless pride -> and if he's right? It literally comes at the cost of his own death.

Note: being proud is one thing; being vain is another. One is how we think of ourselves and the other has to do with what we think of others. One certainly leads to another, yes, but between the two, I think vanity is the real problem.

Right on time! Late as always!
So, when's the flashback for the extra bonus challenge thingy?

Ah, fiction. You can take any concept, dance around it and be perfectly accurate. The usual thing I tend to see -> is "the auspicious beasts." Four of them: the phoenix, the turtle, the tiger and the dragon. This has 5 and it's all weird. lol. Still accurate though!

To be fair, Legend of Northern Blade is one of those rare 11/10 or even 12/10.

"I said I will NOT eat you."

Getting quite full of yourself, mate. You should very much, without any doubt, know that teaming up with Luo would yield far more benefits than... whatever nonsense you're trying to pull.

I mean... this guy isn't thinking in the long term. Sure, you got the power of a demon. Congratz, you gained +100 str and agi... but like, your life expectancy has dropped significantly. Do you really think that in 30 years, you'll be able to just casually coexist with this demon power inside of you, no problemo? Really?

My exact first thought. You wanted to stop aging, well, here ya go!

Oh what's that? You're not happy? Obviously not because you may never have said it out loud, but you only wanted eternal life so you can continue to sit in your comfy seat of power, where you can throw other people's lives away for your selfishness. No end is better for you and people like you than an eternity of suffering.

A sneaky snake trying to cause chaos? Meh

The stupid snake hurting little Biyoo?!
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tl;dr: 8/10. Lots of "show, don't tell" in the early stretch of the manhwa and explanations come later.

I started reading this with the basic thought of "it takes place in a video game." Turns out, it takes place on another planet that runs on video game/computer logic because of reasons. It's got things like players, NPCs, moderators, administrators, viruses, antiviruses, glitches, bugs etc, but like... that simply is the reality of the world.

Mr. Main Character and his sister start off as NPCs in a village that's set to be purged because there's a bug or something and the only thing that can be done is to delete the entire village. Wait... no restoring them or anything? Hmmm??? Well, as I said, this is explained later. Part of the explanation goes to build the big picture that this manhwa concludes on, and I do think it's cleverly put together.

Characters are decently written, the plot and the lore of the land has a lot of attention to detail focused on it because it is very important. There are some plot twists that work fairly well and, once again: lots of things are explained later on.

Instead of *stuff happening* -> *cut to flashback explaining stuff* -> *back to stuff happening*
the manhwa is like *stuff happens* -> later "so, the stuff that happened?"

Not to suggest it completely avoids that - because there are at least three instances of it happening, but not early on.

Overall, I do recommend it. I found it to be quite the page turner, so good thing it is completed.

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Though, I've forgotten quite a bit of the plot.

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The sword: "It's Aoubutz!"

It's been almost a month since the last update. I had to remind myself of the general plot we're going through right now.

In short: there's a tournament and we're heading towards it. Also, the people Mr. Main Character is traveling with don't believe him because they've met so many fakes in their travels.

Yeah. Changes like this are consistent throughout the manhwa vs the novel. It isn't anything major enough -> but the fiend being a specific person they knew from when they first started hunting -> is evidence as to how meticulous fiends are.
It also works to defend the group from "you invited a rando who happened to be a fiend? What're you, stupid? Why didn't you check their background more thoroughly???" -> because it wasn't a rando, it was a long time friend.

Also, you reminded me that I didn't finish doing this whole "reread the manhwa and compare it to the novel and make a comment about it" thing. Derp.

this ^
to add to it: most likely, they're also not educated. If he was wearing a sign saying "there is no singular entity stronger than me because I'm the Heavenly Demon" they'd be like "this sign can't stop me because I can't read!"

Based monogamous Mr. Main Character
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Ya know... why are we so happy to accept polygamous Mr. Main Characters in so many comics?