0.01 Second Sword Master

Suherman Joshua says:

You can categorize this novel as a humor genre with an OP protagonist who is misunderstood by his surroundings.. To prevent MC from having excess strength, the author limits MC’s strength to a few seconds, instant strength with a cooldown of 200 s, and limits MC’s stats to remain even after completing missions with the system. Unfortunately, as the story progresses, MC gets more robust thanks to the items he gets and the power of devouring power, which means that MC can get other character powers if MC absorbs their souls. However, the writer still limits his strength in a short time duration.

Like the cliché of stories of being possessed by other game characters, the story begins with the MC, who gets an invitation to play a character in the game, where the MC chooses the character with the worst stats and extreme difficulty mission. The only MC cheat is instant power with a short duration. Interestingly, the MC doesn’t fully control the ego of the original game character, Aslan, who is known for being arrogant and full of pride, which then causes a lot of misunderstandings. Aslan is the supreme commander of the kingdom. Still, he is actually weak, bluffing that he is strong, relying on his family background to become a commander and, in his original story, should have died in the war. After possessed Aslan, the MC still says arrogantly, even though he doesn’t want to. The different from the original MC, now he has an OP cheat that backs him up. In addition, Aslan is one of the few MC in web novels who is older than 40 years old.

Romance is not main story but just subplots. The main heroine is Hariel, the woman the original MC loved but was rejected because of the age difference. Ori MC still harbors a crush on him which make him not married. It will later affects the MC. Some other heroines are Natasha, MC’s original teacher who often teases MC but is surprisingly decided to be killed by the writer using Rylakan, a resurrected past hero.

Similar to the story of other OP protagonists, this novel suffers from overused settings such as arrogant characters who cross the boundaries of the kingdom of MCs, Elves, dragons, monsters, etc., which are then easily defeated by MCs, then over time, they are attracted to MCs and become MC’s minions or allies or even worship him. Other characters also lack a spotlight. In other novels such as Overlord, to avoid overused cliché OP characters, the writer will give more roles to MC’s minion to help protagonist achieve his goal of world domination. The MC’s mission here is to become emperor of all kingdom on Earth, hell, and Heaven, which is similiar. By chapter 142, MC already king and almost all the kingdoms on Earth had been conquered. In terms of character writing, MC is a cowardly character who will justify any means to complete his mission (MC even makes Ryla Khan, who killed one of the heroines as, his subordinate), and lacks attachment and trust in his surrounding, subordinates, friends and heroine. MC is considered a hero and saint by other characters even though he helps others because of quests from the game. Based on the plot, I think the MC can complete his mission easily and return to the real world. The ori MC’s character will probably appear and take his body back and pretend he understands everything that happened, lol.