What a disappointment.

TL;DR
Started great, becomes not great at all later on due to many many issue, but the art is great, so everything is bearable.

The story is too convoluted. Too many worlds inside worlds inside worlds with different powers and abilities. Plot advances haphazardly and is often unclear. I can sort of see where this is going, but it doesn't seem interesting, just like a very long and quite boring road. It doesn't seem like the journey will be "fun" or "epic" or even "tragic" since the MC is so bland.

The MC has basically no character, it doesn't seem like he likes anything, is hurt by anything or has a goal besides "uncovering the truth". He is basically mentally deficient. This might be "realistic" in that only someone so singularly focused will get to where he did, but that means he isn't fun to travel with, especially on such a long and repetitive journey and this doesn't excuse the rest of the cast being so shallow. It is just not fun to read.

He like a bull rushing through because he saw red, destroying everything in his way because he is blind to everything. Somehow it sometimes helps other people, but this is completely coincidental. He could ruing the lives of millions just as well. I think is an actual plot point later on. Also, he is mindless. He doesn't carefully plan. If he wasn't the MC, he couldn't have survived.

So MC is unlikable, emotionless, deeply selfish and refuses to plan ahead.

i usually give manhwas a longer chance while i read coz of many so called reviewers are kind of dum dums...
but this dropped this ..the story wasnt bad but the mc was ..umm not bad but hmm i never had this weird feeling of dislike of an mc ..hes no like an arrogant asshole..hes just ...uhh..unpleasant ? any way, youl get it once you read, or not. We are not all the same 🙂

I don't want to compare this story to ORV, but I kind of have to. Almost immediately, you see the similarities between this story and the world it operates under. The pop-up screens, the fact that the mc is part of a more powerful being's plans for entertainment, and the mc who manages to get stronger by doing his own thing.

The main problem is that the world building is not done well. The basic fundamentals that the world(s) operate under is not explained to the reader in any capacity. We see the main character just show up and do his own thing to achieve his goal, which results in side/supporting characters later on explaining to the viewer by proxy through thinking to themselves as we read their thoughts. This often leads the readers in this confusing purgatory of trying to understand the context of the terms and phrases and hierarchal structure of the world as events fold out while we read.

Not to mention, all the hierarchal layers of the opposing characters is like trying to peel an onion, but it's as if each time you peel back a layer of the onion, inside that layer there's like four sub-layers.

Mc is in the tower of nightmares, defeats the mare, goes to , and in you have the ten-sect clan leaders, but in those clans you have vice-leaders and blahblah, but also if you leave then you run into the Monarchs or the twelve lords, but wait, there are also the Five Great Families. But they both also have Generals, but not just any Generals. They have Lesser Generals, Generals, Greater Generals, and Commanders. But when you go to the , then you're met with Gods, which include lesser Gods and high-ranking Gods, and then you have proxies for those Gods called Avatars, and then--

It just doesn't stop and it would be fine if the integration of this system was actually done well into the story instead of just blasting the reader in the face with tons of information at once. I suppose the author is trying to scale up the difficulty of the story, but I don't know if it's for the reader trying to understand or the mc trying to get to the end.

However, there are some funny moments and some moments that make you go "awww, that's nice." But then you kind of go back to the incomprehensible mess that is the power structure and then you're just like ah, this again. In conjunction with this, the mc pulling up and just trying to brute force his way through everything kind of gets in the way of the world building that's necessary for this story to be told in a cohesive manner. Since there isn't a character like Kim Dokja who can give insight on the mechanics of what's going on, you'd expect the mc to ask questions or make some astute observations in this case, but he doesn't really have any interest and just bullheadedly tries to go up against the strongest opponents in the story, which really cheats you out of learning more about the new areas he's in.

Overall, it's not a good story, but it's not the worst story. It could 100% be better with some adjustments to a lot of things, but the art is entertaining enough to keep me hanging on for a little while longer.

2/10. Good Lord I have never seen a harder artist carry job in my entire life. I didn't think it was possible for art to carry a manhwa harder than Solo Mideling but by God they've done it. A pathetic, absolutely sorry, utterly incomprehensible jumbled mess disasterclass of story, setting, and character riding the coattails of outstanding artwork and visual character design.

I stopped around chapter 80 like that I really tried, everything about the power system is never really explained,
the worldbuilding is pretty trash to be honest a lot of potential but never clearly explained, too many characters who are not interesting or of any help for the mc, despite being like dozens of dozens of monarch ennemy, like I don't know how I was able to last until chap 80 and I'm not even talking about power-up out of nowhere, the only good thing its the art

What good is a lore-heavy story if it has neither the "show" nor "tell" part in the writing? You guessed it, it's a convoluted mess.

Huge fan of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint here so I was hyped when I realized this webtoon is based off a novel from the same author. Unfortunately, I think ORV is better.

While the world setting IS really interesting, the pacing is a bit off. I find the story's attempts to include metaphysical philosophy to be flimsy but still captivating. The story appears to challenge the concept of universal truths in favor of relativism. It references Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte's "This is not a pipe" painting to that effect.

I actually enjoy the author's attempts to play with how different characters gain their powers. It's kind of like the red/blue pill of the matrix. Do you take the world at face value and run with it, or do you question everything presented to you no matter how grim reality is? And it's kind of fun that a stereotypical power-up shounen manhwa is flirting with so many philosophical concepts, even if it doesn't always make too much sense within the paradigm of the world building itself.

I like it alright. While not totally successful, the webtoon gets props for trying to reach for something deeper.

Author tries to go for a metaphysical angle to IMPRESS while intentionally withholding critical information.

At least the drawings are nice. You gotta nod like the Emperor's New Clothes servants else you can't enjoy it.

This story has the most confusing, convoluted worldbuilding i've seen in a manhwa, it's never explained and the author treats it as if the reader should know it and understand it easily.
It's so shit that it basically ruins everything else, the plot is nonsensical and the characters have no motivation or personality. The only good thing about this is the artwork, but even that isn't enough to keep me reading.

Good if you literally want to throw away time looking at some mildly connected pretty images, that's about it.