The God of the Underworld - Reviews

I read this one at an MTL style site for 300-400 chapters it has a generic storyline, bland character designs, and non-existing story development. You can see what's coming in the next 50 chapters without reading. But its background can be used as a template for some other novel so there is that. Before I forget This author literally a noob at spreading info at his story treating the entire thing as a dictionary with examples.

It's a good novel grammatically, with decent world building and characters. One major problem. Everything. Takes. So. Damn. Long. End a chapter on a cliffhanger and then spend the next 20 chapters on a side character. Story arcs that go for way too long. He'll craft an item and then 10 chapters later you'll see the stats for it. He sets something up, the system will say: done in 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours it turns out it wasn't enough time and will need 30 days. And at the end of the 30 days? Wasn't enough time, now the time is: UNKNOWN. Wtf. At the end of a chapter he'll open up a treasure chest and gasp, oh my hod, it's a...... And the chapter will end, and 30 chaogerd later the item he gets will come up with what it is.

I've read up to chapter 354.Reading up to that point, I had barely any issues with the novel but as I continue reading did I realize the problems it has. 1. Unless a side character is a part of the current plot, they are hardly mentioned by name, leaving some with just a title as their name. Every Arc in this story appears to have a female protag that follows Noah(MC) on his journey within a particular arc. So far, Noah's had *** with two of them, which is fine but I doubt that'll be it. The female protags don't really do much after the arc they're introduced, reduced to backstage characters.2. Skills. So far in this novel, Noah either killed enemies of an (x)rank to get the equivalent skill book for that rank or combined compatible skills to give them (+)modifier, a halfway point to the next rank. Doing that again with another compatible skill with the modifier will rank it up the next rank. So, A > A+ > S.That's fine and good. I like it, but then another way got added and it got ignored. Using the island time distortion of 1:20(1 day in reality = 20 days in distortion), he could've leveled his Transcendent skills to Saint and then Saint to Void and Void to Soul Rank in only a few months where in reality only a few days pass. He doesn't though and instead spends weeks training in reality with the Celestial skills during sparring matches.In that time, he could've potentially reached Soul rank and above. Of course, the new method of getting stronger skills is strong but that shouldn't distract from what he had been doing previously.3. The MC and Skills. In the entirety of this novel, how many times do you think Noah(MC) has made something unique or created his own skill? Well, I'm sure you can infer by the way I'm talking that it isn't much.In fact, if I'm recalling correctly, he hasn't made a single unique skill or any skills at all! When Noah was sparring, his senior Sister and their master were amazed about how good he was at adapting to the new skills, even more so when he uses the skills in ways they never thought possible!Is this due to his talent? They think so, but it isn't. It's due to the new method of increasing the strength of skills and that's it. He literally doesn't have to put any thought into a skill and can just increase its strength on a whim. Honestly, that would be fine if it weren't for one key thing...He doesn't even know how to manipulate mana despite having a literal infinite supply of it and having the strength of Void Rank. Here is a quote from the story. "Athena and Grandmaster Vredral were watching closely as they personally knew how hard it was to manipulate the Law of Fate and be able to discern the fates of entire planets. Yet to Noah, this was the simplest thing as he did not even know how to manipulate mana, much less being able to manipulate the law of fate!"Yep, he doesn't know how to manipulate mana in all this time. I find this very disappointing. The MC gets his infinite mana from the System(Planet Core), uses skills through the system, and ranks up through the system. In an arc where he goes to Atlantis, he kills an invading cultivator and obtains a Law Crystal of Water. These crystals contain the understanding that the cultivator had of the Law of Water. He uses it and guess what...It's a mere percentage for a boost to water-based skills. He might say he 'sees water in a new way', but that's it. The author doesn't go any deeper than that in regards to the law of water and how Noah perceives it. So, in reality, Noah doesn't actually understand any part of the Law of Water.Without the system, he would lose access to almost every single skill he possesses and only retaining the strength of his body which again, was provided mostly by the system.Noah is a puppet to be used by the System, nothing more. I still can't believe he doesn't know how to manipulate mana at the weakest of levels, like what the hell. 4. Dialogue is skipped in places. For example, when Noah discovers he can destroy dungeons he goes to a meeting to discuss what to do next. Do we see this discussion? No, we're told a summary. When Noah goes to the Underworld and talks with the Vampire King and Prince, do we see this discussion? Nope. It's summarized, again.Another moment is when the Cores of Planets talk to each other about new things. We, the readers, do not get to read what they're saying and only told what happened with the discussion afterward.Basically, in short, the potentially interesting dialogue is skipped where it shouldn't be.Conclusion. Reading this story, I really liked it as is obvious by where I read to. I read it non-stop with only short breaks to do other things. I am actually disappointed I had to make this review and see these flaws appear in this novel. I might continue reading after a break from it or I might even drop it. I'm not sure.If you don't care about these flaws, then go ahead and read it. I liked it. If you want a detailed story that brings up interesting concepts, shows interesting characters, and has the MC goes to interesting worlds that he explores then I must disappoint you by saying that this novel isn't that. Far from it. I do not recommend this novel if you want what I stated above.If you read this far, then I hope my review helped you understand this novel.

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This should have been a good novel if not for the bad translation quality. It is readable but the translation quality can break your inmersion which makes you want to stop reading.

Im suprise this novel is quite good! The story is something about man who go to parallel world that had dull entertaining world so he can bring live to the entertain world using his knowledge from his past world.

The MC is authentic and feels like a real human. Others (reviewers/commenters) say that this story is one dimensional or the plot feels plain, but that's because it's "slice-of-life" when you aren't expecting it to be. I feel slightly refreshed with this story, many slice-of-life stories with system elements are over-powered JP Protagonists with lots of hype and naïve outlooks or edgy (trying to set trends). Also, I personally like the mild x-nature the author writes. It lets you know what happened without being so explicit to write lemon scenes you find in many fanfictions with unrealistic events.I also like that the female heroines feel like real heroines. The heroines all have actual stories, backgrounds, and design; there is actual character development; and the their reactions feel satisfying to read. I don't feel it's too much of a stretch or exaggeration, and there is no fake "true love" as the author skirts around with each womans own personal thoughts on what defines what "love" means. Like one woman believes love of a man is him taking responsibility and thinking for the woman while a woman's love is acceptance. And this definition of "love" changes from heroine to heroine.I also like the protagonist's spending habits. It's part of the "authentic" feeling. The story starts off poor-to-rich, the main character's attempt to spend his new found wealth, realizing that certain "high end" brands are actually just trash and searching for his own definition of quality and spending money with quantity. It's worth noting that it also feels realistic, because this is the same behavior real people have when they win the lottery. I've seen people "waste" inheritances and there are plenty of stories online about people who win the lottery and ends up in debt. The protagonist's spending habits specifically targets his desires and the character development of the protagonist, while some events could be argued to be plot devices, it still totally happens in real life. Even the first heroine's placement into the "harem" and her "obedience" feels normal. I don't even think t's even excessively exaggerated, as when lots of money is involved, people become willing to do things they might tell themselves they wouldn't do normally.It's too bad only 40 chapters were translated even after 1 year, but I liked this story so much that I went ahead and found it's 386 MTL chapters somewhere else. 我有种植空间Overall, I recommend checking out this novel. It's medium length story with an urban setting with a harem seeking protagonist with a cheat-like farming space. The story uses the tag KingdomBuilding, but it would be more appropriate to say "Business Management

This story is somewhat of unique and interesting . Author should consider this story to continue .. Thanks for your hard work

I'm not sure why this story isn't more highly rated, unless the LGBT theme has created a bias for readers.  If  that is the case, there are people missing  out on a really well written story.The  characters are engaging and have their own personalities, the plot makes sense,  and there are enough mysteries remaining to  keep you interested.Give it a try.

I was promised a story about a villain. Almost 90 chapters in and the hero has done nothing even remotely evil or villainous except kill a mouse. Waste of time to read.

So far I have read to ch 1254 and plan on continuing till the end. This novel comes from an intelligent and imaginative mind. Yes the grammar has issues here and there but it’s nothing a professional editor cannot handle. Sam is one of my most favorite characters across the many novels I have read. The way his mind works is fascinating to me and I can appreciate his brand of gratuitous violence in the beginning lol. From that I’ve also appreciated his gradual changes over the series and the little mysteries throughout the story. Speaking of story, the world is quite complex though plot armor is a little too strong in my opinion. There is also the issue of situations feeling repetitive. These last few chapters have done well to address that. All in all I can’t wait to see where this long journey will lead to while enjoying the ride along the way!

We moved on to the left where the kitchen and storage room seemed to be. We retraced our steps and went to the right and following the hallway around a corner, found ourselves in the dining room. There was a large table that looked like it seated 8 people. "I wonder how many people lived here, or if it was always just the four." I quarried aloud.