Miserable Reincarnation

Wry Vent says:

This is pretty much a discount version of Drug Eating Genius Mage with an OP munchkin with misunderstanding elements. Similar setting but without the game elements, a magic post-apoc cyberpunk, level 1-9 power scaling with 9 being immortals/transcendent. MC was a super merc before dying, then gets transmigrated by a God into a 10 year old orphan with OP magic manipulating powers who died without being able to use them. The God seemed to just want to see how far MC will go, and MC, who previously died, just goes with it.

I like the setting, but there are issues that pretty much stem from the fast progression. MC is able to join a pretty good merc organization cause of a misunderstanding from his OP cheats that he is from a special family/organization and because the first character he meets just happens to be important to the mercs. Normally misunderstanding novels are fun for comedic elements, but it’s played too straight here so it makes plot seem too contrived. The author doesn’t properly define MC’s cheat ability, so it feels like it’s whatever the author needs it to be, and it has no downside at all. MC uses the cheat for close combat but it seems more like it’s for a wizard? MC pretty much starts out at level 3 and after only 2 months he is like at level 5 which is too fast for me. He’s pretty much a somebody too quickly, so the setting doesn’t seem as fleshed out, normally this goes like gangs > mercs > corpo/magic tower/university.

All in all it’s an ok read, but I’d rather read Drug Eating Genius Mage.