and all this started bc he wanted his dad and family to live lmao
now he has to fight a god, half the worlds known nations, and several demi-god level individuals

at least every now n then the author will have a reason for it like a problematic and cowardly antagonist will only show up when they think they are about to win so the MC needs to put on an act to get them to come out so they can be put down
RN with slime? feels like they are just dragging it out for the sake of it, but i might have forgotten something since i read other shit and this one updates once a month at most

neds a bit of a dumbass here
they kept the actual reason a secret because the expedition succeeding was the ONLY way Z could gain its freedom from ABC and needed to keep it a secret because of the slim chance there was spy's aboard to stop them from reporting, not knowing the 3 already had people inside that knew the truth and it was just dismissed until then believing it to be false

oh lmao, i thought that was the name of the noble knight girl. i read too many stories and barely remember the names, mainly i remember their rolls in the story

still could have been targeted by traffickers or other criminals, or maybe a group of bandits was targeting the town so they worked together to kill them, mainly being MC doing the work and getting the foundation for his skills

my guess for how MC got his skills was that he was training to be a scout (maybe one of his parents was a really skilled scout?) and after working with/trained by Tiana she was targeted by people who were trying to assassinate or kidnap her since shes a noble, and MC secretly protected her and honed his skills
then later on he used his skills he learned protecting Tiana and more training and practice against monsters (who likely have better senses than humans) to become the extremely skilled infiltrator assassin he is

with the saintess... i can see either she enjoys it and is using excuses to justify it, or she was sexually abused a lot before she became a saint/joined the church and now she is mentally broken and thinks doing that stuff is normal after growing up doing it

lmfao reminds me of this old ass meme https://i.postimg.cc/QdZgfCmW/i.webp

something im actually kinda surprised about is that he wants for people to think he is a villain, and killed people (villains) back at the start of the story, so i wonder why he doesnt kill villains before they act or it goes too public but also wont hinder stardust from getting stronger
surely there is some B-list villains that are more in the shadows he can dome and claim credit of? like moving in and grabbing them during a fake attack, killing the down-low villain so people take it seriously, then dip without any actual innocents getting hurt and saving more innocents in the future

bruh i figured the last 4 people playing an MMO together would be actual friends and not be blatantly hostile towards each other, just drama for the sake of it
you dont just play a game for, what was it a decade? with the same 3 people without getting along with them pretty well and its insanely unlikely you didnt play with any of them individually at any point, maybe with 10+ but not fucking 4
and the author seems to be basing their info on how nuclear power plants work from chernoble and not how they actually work, sure a meltdown could set up the conditions for a steam explosion, but with modern reactors that shit is insanely unlikely especially in 1st world nations like SKorea, Japan, USA, and Europe but im sure if the author ever has the story go to any of those places they will be radioactive (or just forget lmao)

Angels invaded the earth during new years and mentally put people in a testing area that were in groups during new years events like the New York Square ball drop, and in those areas people got 1 starting rune/power at random and had to kill monsters for seemingly the enjoyment of the angels and if they die in the trials they die irl
MC (guy in disguise as the guy talking back) had a rune of return that let him do-over 100 times, learning from each run to get better n better and on run 99 he got to the final boss but found out he actually needs a party of 5 to even start it so now he is building a team even tho he could solo all of it but the team is supports so he can do it faster and easier
there is also some groups, like this PCW one, that see players as superior or humans as superior (like the congressman who was kidnapped) and MC is stepping in to dismantle them before they get to big and organized and cause problems he cant easily and quickly fix
his main motivation to fixing everything is to keep his little brother safe since thats the only family he has left

also MC got his unique class, reaper, from killing an angel during the first tutorial and he found it by accident originally but just defaults to secretly killing the starting angel so no one else gets it since its great for solo edge lord style

it is funny how everyone keeps assuming he is doing all of this for the people of valhalla, when in reality he doesnt give a shit and is only making sure the empire has less power when that fight happens eventually

bruh what the fuck is going on with this story? it started off really good but now its just getting worse n worse
the plant was already at its deadline when they were going to make the sacrifice but then they got an extra 12hours??? and an entire chapter of fucking nothing?????

at least he did say he would 'gather evidence' (though that just means he will do it later when he cant find anything and panics) which is a bit better than other not-antagonists in manhwa that have the 'kidnap/attack first, ask questions never unless my boss tells me to' approach

called it that itd be some dumbass thinking spirit girl was kidnapped
but its also stupid that she tried to magically attack him basically randomly while he is very clearly still heavily injured

dude waited till last min to look like a hero and brag about being so much stronger

also, i am not 100% since the rust... plague or whatever, but modern nuclear reactors have dozens of safety checks to prevent a meltdown, and even half of them require materials that could be affected by the rust i imagine at least 1 or 2 would be some material that doesnt rust
and it having a meltdown would create a new 'no-go' zone like chernobyl but they can get stronger via leveling and items, and if 30 is super human and MC got a stat to 20 (even with planning knwledge) in only a few days, i imagine getting a stat to the mid 30s or 40 would only be a few weeks and as the stats got stronger radiation would be exponentially less dangerous, they dont just explode or turn everything into a big green glowing swamp

fr, after the fairy explained the rules and people started to panic he should have stepped up immediately instead of after someone else died and they were ready to kill another

my guess is the spirit cant talk with normal people but people saw her come from the forest and assumes she was some poor mute MC kidnapped since she was never seen before

based

fr
i think back when he was helping with the elves he had some kind of spirit related buff given to him?

true, after all they already have a secret kid

at least he finally did something about them, but only when if he waited on his ass any longer it would have gotten his friends killed