Athlete Saotome, Keeping a Secret (manga end) - review

It's refreshing to read a complete manga. Hopefully a sequel comes out. But here's my take:

The chapters are short. The whole manga is short. The side characters aren't given much justice but they were used well for the main characters development. The relationship is so cute. The restriction feels useless, or I'm just not too knowledgeable about this. The sports side isn't the priority of this manga so, a bit about it is used or highlighted compared to other sports manga, or that is to my knowledge. But that shouldn't matter, really, this is a romcom. And the chemistry between the two is not much highlighted but they are really meant for each others. They're a cute couple. And I'm glad no third party was involved. There is, but it wasn't as much needed.

I love this cutesy fast paced short manga now. It's very refreshing. Read it for a warm fuzzy feeling.

How a former pro takes advantage by doing easy job (manwha until chapter 84)

arel, mc

mc's mom

mc's father, the king

kania, second princess, self proclaimed knight of mc

aisha/asha, knight bodyguard chosen by mc

jaeil, crownes prince, mc's brother

seina, knight bodyguard chosen by mc

dia reki, exclusive mage chosen by mc

aken, dwarven smith that mc employed to the fahilia territory

lichen, merchant executive of mc, mc's uncle, brother of mc's mom

mayka, aide to kania's new knight order

pena amret janil, a royal princess of the merman empire

helmin, mage tower leader

fahilia, the snowy territory mc owns

fly/fry, the griffon kania saved and mc took care

1-60 101 reincarnation. baby arc to early teen. meet up with half sister kania, meeting with three aides, two knights, aisha, seina and one mage, dia. mc's own territory. kania joins mc. mc's revenge on the queen. mc's inventions: paper, carbonated drink, war machines. mc prepares for war. pre war to post war. victory of the ernesia kingdom vs the three alliance states. kania's return to the castle to make a name for herself. mc's desire for a laidback life. mc rewarded with land expansion. mc's engagement dilemma. mc meetig with a summoner/spiritualist princess. mc's next endeavor, standard currency and banking.

61 mc secures a banker to manage mc's banking plan. mc goes to seina's hometown to commission bank guards. the dilemma in seina's hometown, undeads, and a political strife between the lead of the town and the lord of the land. mc wants to help. the town chief declines and tells their plan of leaving the place.

62 mc tells the town chief he will deal with undead so that they will not leave and so that mc could employ them. after a deliberation, the town chief accepts the deal. mc goes with the undead extermination. they made dia be the dealer, while mc and siena do the aggro and kiting.

63 the trio completes the task. mc had a hunch the undeads are not from the area but from the border, where the war took place. mc had a final talk with the town chief and the talks are settled. mc gains guards for the bank he is planning to make. mc goes to a conferrence with the king and the cabinet. mc proposes his bank and a unified currency. they all agreed. mc gets the okay for his project. a month later, the bank gets created and is established. with the rumors circulating, people are using the bank for loans and financial security.

64 mc asks permission from the king to make a city in the territory given to him. after a bit of persuasion, the king gave his okay. mc manages to get people to help in constructing the city. after a briefing, mc leave the rest to them. mc goes to his secret place to idle. unfortunately, while mc is playing hookie, mc receives a message. a certain trouble is brewing. a certain necromancer reanimates the dead and is now launching an attack on two borders of the kingdom.

65 mc, seina, aisha and dia are having a talk about the undead attack. mc sees it as an opportunity. meanwhile, the king is seeking advice from his advisers. the advisers tells the king to seek help from the holy kingdom but due to certain conditions with beliefs, the king is hesitant. suddenly,  letter came for the king. it was from mc, he has a plan. on another side, other countries are facing the undead as well. they will be getting help from the holy kingdom at a great price. meanwhile, the ernesia kingdom, where mc is in, sent letters to the other country that they will help vs the undead at a more reasonable price. back to mc, mc plans on making copies of the holy water that currently only the holy kingdom knows how to make.

66 mc manages to recreate the holy water. it's potency is weaker but making it is far cheaper than the existing holy water. mc's holy water is effective. the ernesia kingdom sent letters to neighboring countries regarding mc's holy water. mc will be giving an explanation regarding his holy water. this is mc's decision. this decision is caused mc wants himself to be known. mc's conference regarding his own holy water. mc shows his fang as a business tycoon.

67 certain neighboring countries started using mc's holy water. except for the one country that accepted the holy kingdom's help, many countries who accepted the ernesia's kingdom help are able to solve the undead problem. the necromancer who is the main culprit for the undead are mad with the sudden lost of his undead army. in mc's side, news of the necromancer making a last stand and missions to subjugate the undead army culprit. mc is also receiving letters from the holy kingdom which mc tells his aides to ignore them. after talking about the undead incident, mc decided to personally join the fray. mc meets the necromancer.

68 mc is able to use holy magic. mc eliminated the necromancer. mc also gain a bit knowledge regarding necromancy and the dark mage. it was not much of any use. with the undead incident solved, mc's city project which was put on hold can finally continue. meanwhile, in the holy kingdom, certain officials are seeing mc as a problem. the saintess, sees mc as a problem as well but due to principles, she cannot do much vs mc.

69 1 year passed. mc's tech development is going smoothly. mc's city is now built or rather almost. some of the residents are a now able to take residence in the buildings

 mc's next plan is to make a celebration party for the city going along. it is also a way to advertise mc's city to no longer be just a country side village but an actual rural area. mc let aisha take the lead with the celebration. mc invites all the noble he can. day of celebration, many nobles arrived in the city of fahilia. nobles who arrived early is surprised at how well develop the city is and the temperature within the city is opposite of the harsh weather outside.

70 celebration. mc's aides will attend. mc's mom will attend. mc's mom arrives. mc warmly welcomes her. the banquet starts smoothly. the fahilia city technological advancement is showcased. the king joins the scene.

71 mc introduces the techs in his city. then the party. mc dances. mc gets exhausted. aisha saves mc. mc dances with aisha.

72 mc meet with the mage tower lord/leader. an attack of dark mages. the mage tower lord/leader handles the dark mages smoothly. mc strikes a deal/proposal to the mage tower lord/leader. the magr tower leader tells mc he accepts it but first he must tell it to his associates. mage tower leader leaves. mc goes back to banquet. mc talks with the king.

73 the king asks mc to come back to the royal castle. mc declines. mc understands the freedom mc had is far more compared to the life within the royalty and the politics. the king tells mc that his brother wants to see mc. this invovles the ascension to the throne. after some time, the fahilia city is now fully recognized as a city. mc inspect the city, incognito. mc happens upon an imported goods store. mc finds chocolate seed. after growing the choco seed into a tree, mc's next step is chocolate ingredients, and finally choco products. taste test with the dwarven smith aken, seina, and aisha. dia is included as well.

74 5 days of choco product tasting. the tasters gave up. the merchant group where mc got the choco seed hears the rumors about the chocolate. the merchsnt group leader, geothal wants to meet with mc regarding the choco product. mc rejects a few times. after, mc decides to meet geothal. the two meet. geothal wants to join in the choco business with mc. mc says there is no benefit for him.

75 mc rejects her. the reason, other than business projection, is that mc used his magic to see through the merchant. mc did not like what he saw. mc asks his uncle, his trusted merchant executive to investigate the geothal company. the geothal company is planning something sinister. mc next dilemma is his griffon, fly. the griffon family grew. mc can't take care of many of them as they all idle by. after a few inquiries, mc decides to make griffon deliveries. unfortunately, suddenly, news arrives for mc. the news of the choco seeds to be evil. mc sees the scheme of the merchant he rejected.

76 it is the holy kingdom that announced the choco seed to be evil. only the ernesia kingdom did not support the holy kingdom. other countries support the holy kingdom. with this announcement and with choco product only distributed within the ernesia kingdom, export of the choco product gets sealed. fortunately, mc already knew this would happen. mc had a plan vs the geothal company. within the holy kingdom, the holy official who announced the evil ofnthe choco seed met with the holy saintess. the holy saintess did not want to mess with the ernesia kingdom and with what just happened, she had to do something to stop whatever she knows to happen. meanwhile, mc exacts his plan vs the geothal company. mc intercepts a smuggling transport of the geothal company. it went successful. they found something else beside the imported goods.

77 the geothal company is smuggling illegal drugs. mc continues with his plan vs the geothal company. business war. geothal realizes the attack. geothal meets with mc. mc goes all out offensive with his rhethorics. geothal is unable to defend and had to give up her company to mc. meanwhile, in the holy kingdom, the saintess punished the official who were connected with geothal.

78 the choco trend went back to business. mc meet the holy kingdom saintess. the saintess just want to clear up her and the holy kingdom's name with what happened recently. the saintess also says she will not be enemies with mc for the moment. mc wants to open trade with the holy kingdom and the permission for the holy water. the saintess rejects and leaves mc. meanwhile, in kania's side. kania now has an aide herself, mayka. kania is the leader of a new knight order. not long before, kania lost a duel vs another sword master. kania is determined to win and be acknowledge. mayka, the aide, worries that with the negligent of kania, the knight order led by kania might get disbanded.

79 mayka meets with mc for help. mc did not want to help as it is for kania's sake. before mayka leave, mc asked mayka to give a letter for kania. it contains an advice for his beloved elder sister. meanwhile, kania is still struggling vs the swordmaster she cannot defeat. mayka arrives and hands the letter to kania. kania rejects opening the letter as she believes that if she does so, she won't be able to grow. kania on her own continue with what she's doing. later on, kania once again duel vs the sword master. kania changes her tactics. kania won. the swordmaster acknowledges kania.

80 after the duel, kania asks mayka what was written in the letter. mayka already opened the letter. there was nothing inside. mc met with the swordmaster kania defeated. the two talk about kania's growth. the master asks if mc helped. mc says he did not and that kania really did grow on her own. after, mc meet up with his crown prince brother and the king. mc discuss of a war to happen. after persuading the crown prince if they should take action, mc gave his info. mc says the holy kingdom will sometime soon engage war vs ernesia kingdom. meanwhile, the saintess is preparing an underhanded method to engage vs the ernesia kingdom. back to mc, mc receives a guest to his city, pena amret janil, a royal princess, the summoner mc meet after his failed marriage talk.

81 princess pena is in the ernesia kingdom as a foreign exchange student in name, but in truth she's a political hostage of the kingdom. currently mc will be hosting for her. after a few exchange, pena states her actual intent. the spirit she summoned asked specifically of mc to teach pena about magic. mc is surprised that the spirit could see through mc. mc agrees to teach pena. spirit summoning art lesson begin. pena manages to summon a second spirit. first was a salamander of fire element, the second is a gnkme of the earth element. mc also realizes why pena wants to hide her power. the merman empire is deeply indebted to the holy kingdom. the holy kingdom has a high resent vs non humam beings.

82 the holy kingdom resents non human beings, specially spirits and summons. spiritualist and summoners are once hunted down due to this principle of the holy kingdom. pena explains that some of her relative as well the current emperor, pena's brother knew of her power. mc continues her explanation that they sent pena to ernesia so that the holy kingdom has a justified ground to stage a war vs them for harboring a spiritualist. political talk about war. whatever the outcome of the coming war, the empire of merman is set to be destroyed. mc proposed to help pena to saving the merman empire. mc plans on using pena's spiritual power to aid vs the holy kingdom. princess pena accepts mc's help. after teaching pena about spirit magic, mc was also able to summon spirits himself. mc asks the many spirits he summoned why and how the salamander spirit of pena knew that mc could be trusted.

83 mc inquires the spirits he summoned. the spirit says mc looked differently compared to other. they also reveal that there are also others like mc, reincarnators. mc tells the spirits the keep what they know about mc a secret as well others that are below them. mc also ask for a tiny favor from the spirit fire. mc teaches pena. pena starts learning. mc discusses with dia regarding his dealing with the mage tower leader, the engines to be used on the ships mc recently acquired. the project going smoothly but can't proceed as fast since the mages are also dealing with the dark mages. with a free schedule, mc takes pena for another lesson, idling. pena does not like the and insisted on studying more for her spirit arts. mc persuades her that they should enjoy life. the two enjoy themselves while roaming the city. suddenly, a thief pickpocketed pena. mc notices it.

84 mc tells pena to use her summons to apprehend the pickpocket. pena successfully captured the criminal. the two continue their leisure time. pena sees the printed books mc had made for their country. mc have a big plan for this. the two return back to the fahilia castle. meanwhile, in the holy kingdom, a book printed by the ernesia kingdom is the hot topic in a meeting with the saintess. it is a banned book, it is about a spiritualist. the saintess is yet to face vs the ernesia kingdom but they decree to ban the book printed. the higher officials wants to face the ernesia kingdom but the saintess stops them. the saintess then reveal a secret to the official which she said that although they are letting the ernesia kingdom be, sooner or later, they will have no choice but to follow the holy doctrine. timeskip, a year after. mc's brother jaeil succeeds the throne.

100th Regression of the Max Level Player (a bit of the story, until chapter 41, season1 end)

Ryu Min, mc, Black Scythe

Ryu Won, mc's brother

bully, 

Min Julie, buffer, friend of mc

Body Guard, knight and body guard of seo arin

Seo Arin, Summoner

Heavly Demon, Dark Knight

story so far until chapter 41. with a skill, mc kept on regressing from the 20th round of a death game made by the gods. mc is on his final regression, 100th time.

first round mc, used the avatar he's used to and the name he always use when they enter. the quest is goblin slaying. after much going on, mc gets first place in the server and across the region. mc gains rewards and more. mc also killed an angel, a moderator for the round. mc acquires a change job item. mc knows a lot of things that even the mods don't know about.

when the first round end, mc as well the other survivor player gets back to where they were. when the players gets ported, they leave their bodies in the place where they were. this will be called real world/real life. the avatar in the rounds are connected to the body in real life. if one of the two dies, both dies. the school bully, a player, wants to test out his new ability on mc. buy mc already left.

mc went back to his brother to check up on him. mc takes his brother to his younger brother's bullies. mc teaches the bullies a lesson. mc takes his brother to a convinience store so they could eat. mc uses up all their money to buy lottery tickets. they won. the two brothers moves places. the school bully wanted to check on mc, but mc had already left his former home.

mc and his brother gets a condo. with mc's brother's request, the two greet their neighbor. mc meets actress seo arin and her bodyguard. the brothers were treated coldly.

mc goes on to win more lotteries until the lottery system gets shutdown. mc then used up their money to invest on NFT. mc ready for round 2.

round 2 is vote selection round. survival is 100 percent but due to show of force a few died. Mc knows that round 2 is only about voting. Mc grinds to get to a higher level and change job. when the voting actually happens, a gangster won the vote selection for the region representative. the representative is granted absolute authority but only ten times and only limited to one person per authority. mc did not aim to be a rep because he has a plan. a reward is given to mc for being the first one to change class in all the regions and servers. also during this round, mc also saves seo arin and her bodyguars from the bullies. they wanted to stuffs to the actress but mc stopped them. at this point, the bodyguard is wanting to leave behind seo arin for her weak mentality but as a duty to the heavenly demon, a player from another region, he cannot abandon her.

back in real world, mc has two objective for the moment, to meet up with min julie, the buffer player and to invest in heavenly demon's company. mc liquidates his asset from the NFT investment he got and invested on heavenly demon's stocks. mc went to the convenience store min julie's father own. it's the same store mc won his lottery ticket. mc fakes he just wanted to give something in return for the winning he got. but in truth he wants to get a connection with min julie. mc successfully got what he wanted. min julie knows mc is a player, as the players falls in the same age group.

round 3 starts. the game is tower def. the start is a bit shaky since the angel mod says the rep can be taken by pk. mc makes a deal with the rep. the rep denies mc's deal. mc goes on his own corner for grinding and the waves. the rep is getting targetted for pk. he uses his authority to get 10 players to protect him but dealing with tge monster waves and the pk, the rep getd cornered. the rep finds mc and plead to help him. mc refuses without any authority left, rep is useless to mc. rep gets pk by the bully. bully asks mc the deal he had with the former rep. mc accepts. mc protects bully. mc tells bully to order 10 people to destroy the crystal they're defending. bully does so. the crystal gets destroyed. a hidden quest happens. a boss fight. a few players gets killed. mc fights the boss 1v1 and rises victoriously. bully as well 10 other players who destroyed the crystal gets permanent stat reduction. mc gets a huge reward.

back to real life. mc have two new objectives, a mind reader rune and connection with heavenly demon. runes are like permanent power ups that players can acquire. heavenly demon contacts mc and set up a meeting. heavenly demon suspects mc to be part of a party who is trying to bring his company down. before meeting heavenly demon, mc must first acquire the mind reader rune. mc acquires the mind reader rune. mc meets with the heavenly demon. mc also once again meets the bodyguard. the bodyguard apologized for treating mc and his brother coldly. mc meets the heavenly demon. mc tells them he wants to help the company grow but it must be changed in a few ways. the bodyguard did not want the idea and suspects mc even more. mc says his power is divination, he can see the future and his class is prophet. the two did not want to believe mc. mc gives info about the next round. mc leaves. mc meets with min julie to tell he's a prophet and give advice for her to survive. round 4 starts.

round 4 is free fall all pvp match. the players were hesitsting to pk. the bully approach mc and asks if the deal is still on. mc says it is in exchange for the powerstone the bully has. mc meets seo arin and the bodyguard. seo arin gives mc a powerstone. the bodyguard thanks mc and tells the regard of their company leader, mc's round identity is still hidden. mc stops the bodyguard before revealing anymore info about themselves in real life. the round begin and the people are hesitant. mc starts the round with mc killing the bully. the players were shocked and wants to go at mc. but they also hesitated, they are afraid of mc and they can't easily do pk. after a few discussion, the bully gets revived. the round is pvp match and no perma death is ruled. the killing begins. mc joins the massacre but only mc knew as well the people he told about round 4, the real scoring of the round. the round settles, mc gets first place in all server and the region and he gets rewarded. the player who didn't make it to the cut off mark gets eliminated. the bully is still alive and part of the game.

back in real life, mc meets with min julie. mc gives min julie advice for round 5. he says their regions will merge and that she should look to ally with black scythe. still mc's round identity is hidden. min julie is hesitant but mc says with his prophet ability that he will partner up with her. next, mc meets with the heavenly demon company. mc brought his brother as the heavenly demon suggested. mc, mc's brother, heavenly demon, bodyguard and seo arin are in the get together. mc's mind reader ability gave mc a huge tip on how the agendas of the big company were working. mc is letting things slide until they wanted to being mc's brother in the plot. mc had a private talk with heavenly demon and says he knew of what was going on and it's becaue of the prophet ability he has. heavenly demon felt inferior? abacked with how things went. but still mc goes with his plan of growing with the company, he just warned the heavenly demon not to bring his brother in to the mess. mc gave advice for round 5. 

after the meeting, heavenly demon felt mad of how weak he felt during the meeting and goes on his vigilante dark knight stuffs. his dark knight requires living soul to power up, monster hunting doesn't give as much as actual pk and murder.

back in mc's room, mc looking to get another rune ability, the clone rune. end of season 1.

Level Up with Skills (manwha until chapter 10)

@kang taesan, mc, easy mode player

@geum joonggeun, hard mode player

@lee changchoon, hard mode player

@lee taeyon/taeyeon, solo mode player

--above are pre regression characters

@kang joonhyeok, post regression, solo mode player

@na jaeyeon, post regression, solo mode player

@lee sang, post regression, solo mode player

@lee taejoon, post regression, solo mode player

@kang dongjoon, post regression, nor.al mode player

@broknman/brokenman, npc in solo mode, post regression, labyrinth gatekeeper

@lost king, shopkeeper in the labyrinth

@einzhal, a person searching for god, npc found in the fountain of life area floor 1

@levinenoph, a goddess in the labyrinth

#after returning from the labyrinth, people is in a state if denial and confusion of what happened to earth while they were i side the labyrinth. the usual way beside talking is beating them up to calm them down

#a brief history, the world at peace suddenky got attacked by monsters. humankind suddenly received a status window alert to give them choice to enter the labyrinth, there are 4 difficulties, easy normal, hard and solo. afterward, the returners will save the earth from the monsters that appeared.

#easy, normal and hard, allows players to interact in person with one another of the same difficulty. whereas the solo mode, players cannot interact face to face with one another. a solo player can only personally interact with the environment and the npcs.

#wave, like a monster break but aims to destroy humanity

#boards, just like reddits, players, regardless of difdiculty, are able to interact here by posting chats. this is essential for sharing thoughts, tips and trading. this is ultra essential for solo mode players.

#gods and goddess in the labyrinth grants rewards and blessings to players in exchange for entertainment. they only exist in the solo difficulty.

1 mc just returned back from a capture mission? his capture got killed by a rank monsters. mc killed the monsters. mc goes to the cafeteria with his friend, geum joonggeun. suddenly, a commotion happened outside, a returner just arrived and is confused in what happened to earth. mc steps in to deescalate the situation. mc requests a duel. the returner, lee changchoon, accepts. mc easily beats lee changchoon. lee changchoon suddenly calmed down and accepts what had happened to earth.

2 next up, lee taeyon, a solo mode player returns from her patrol mission. she wanted to discuss matters with mc. mc goes to her place. lee taeyon is intrigued by mc's power. lee taeyon discusses that a wave is about to happen. lee taeyon says it would be worsr than before. mc leaves lee taeyon to tell the news to the others. lee taeyon has plans. mc reveals the news. the others seemed to be anxious, worried and fearful. they are all certain of their fate. mc is tasked with beating 2 s rank monsters. the wave arrives, mc alone goes on the offense to face the s rank monsters.

3 epic battle of mc vs 2 s ranks. mc wins. mc returns to the base to find everyone had already lost their lives. he even found the fallen body of lee taeyon, the strongest human. mc see the monster who killed her, the leader of the wave, the apostle. mc vs the apostle.

4 mc gets defeated. with mc's passive, mc is able to stay alive but he is gravely weaken. mc's passive continues to keep mc alive. mc goes to the fallen lee taeyon. mc saw what lee taeyon was holding. it was a regression stone, ouroboros bezoar. mc takes and use the regression stone. mc went back in time to the time right before the everything ended. suddenly, monsters attack, then a voice can be heard. a status window prompt appears and asks the people to choose what mode of difficulty they are going to choose for their labyrinth run.

5 mc chose solo mode. the highest labyrinth difficulty. mc gets teleported to another world? mc is in a town. mc meets broknman, the gatekeeper of the labyrinth. after chatting a bit, broknman gave mc some starter equipment and let mc in. mc already knew about the gatekeeper when lee taeyon told mc about it, before regression, so mc is able to deal with the npc easily. broknman, an npc, is intrigued by mc's different aura. broknmam have high hopes for mc. mc enters the floor 1.

6 mc finds the item shop in the labyrinth. mc meets the lost king, a dwarven shopkeeper. mc notices nothing is displayed in the shop. after chatting for a bit, mc understood what to do to be seen as a customer. mc leaves. the lost king is intrigued by mc. mc encounters his first fight, a monster rat. it's a floor 5 boss in easy mode and mc is encountering it as a random mob. mc realizes the difference in the difficulty. mc manages to defeat the rat monster and returns to the shopkeeper, the lost king.

7  mc sells the rat monster loot to the lost king. the lost king is surprised. the lost king took it and asked mc what he want. mc wants a giant shield. the lost king asks why. mc says he wants to bash monsters. the lost king like the answer and gave a giant for free to mc. mc is surprised. the lost king showed some wares to mc. mc chose the bow and arrow. the lost king is more interested in mc. mc is confused. the lost king also gave mc direction to the fountain of life in the first floor. it will heal mc's lost hp and he can use it infinitely as long as he doesn't leave the floor. mc is more confused. the story of lee taeyon about the shopkeeper is way different from what mc's witnessing now. that one thing he did of killing the first random mob definitely altered how the story progressed. mc continues his grind. mc noticed that compared to the other difficulty, there are many prompts being shown each time he does something. like proficiency progress, perma bonus stats, unlocked skills and such. mc also noticed gaining skills that he previously got but was sealed but in solo mode, it is unsealed and easily accessible to mc. mc heads towards the fountain of life. mc encounters another rat monster. it's actually a group of rat monsters and mc's surrounded.

(right now, mc is still inside the labyrinth, there's no open area, just floors, walls, ceilings and corridors)

8 mc's stats and his own battle knowledge made him come out of top. mc beats the 3 rat monsters. mc continues and enters through a door. mc finds the fountain of life. the area it's in is a safe area. mc take a drink from the fountain. mc gets fully healed. mc realizing that his mental fatigue might build up, mc took a rest for the night. the next day, mc checks the boards. mc notices the difficulty and worries of the solo mode players that are trying to interact. the solo mode players are having doubts and have not yet started entering the labyrinth whereas the other mode players have already started their labyrinth run. mc shared his tips as a solo player. after, mc ate the raw rat meat he acquired. mc got afflicted with poison status, fortunately, the fountain easily cures mc. mc continues this way if eating. mc then acquires a passive skill, disease resistance. mc then goes for next passive, mc drowns himself in the fountain. mc just revives after going unconcious. mc does this repeatedly until he acquired hold breathing passive, it lets him hold his breath for a longer than normal duration. mc also acquires hazardous danger sense passive, it happened when mc almost died. this passive activates when mc is in danger of getting killed or in the most dangerous of situations. mc then thought of how he's easily acquiring skills. with this in mind, mc wants to continue getting skills.

9 in the boards, the other players are question mc's method of gaining passives. mc honestly answers them and says it's their choice if they want to follow what he says. meanwhile, in the safe area of the fountain of life, mc is continuing his training. after getting a number of passives, mc goes to make his original skills? or main skills. mc gains a defensive skill he once had before regression. while mc is resting in the fountain of life area, a certain npc appears, an old man, a person searching for god, einzhal. instincitively, mc takes out his shield. mc remembers the story of lee taeyon regarding an old man in the fountain of life. suddenly, the old man launches and attack.

10 mc was able to block the attack. mc gains stats and a new skill. the old man throws another attack, mc knows the gap between their strength. mc could not do anything about the second attack. mc got hit and is launch to the labyrinth wall. the labyrinth wall broke on impact. the attack dealt 32k damage, fortunately, the attack is call non-lethal. mc getting one hit killed get nullified. the old man is impressed by mc. the old man introduced himself as einzhal. the old ma goes to explain he does this thing to assess the adventurers who enter the labyrinth. einzhal repeatedly says mc passed with flying colors. mc then asks regarding einzhal's description. mc inquires which god einzhal is looking for. einzhal tells about the goddess, levinenoph. she is a goddess loved by the people in his world. unfortunately, einzhal's world had already been destroyed and he's the sole survivor. no one else but einzhal remembers and worship the goddess levinenoph. mc knows about the said goddess. pre regression, lee taeyon talked to mc about the goddess levinenoph. mc knows which floor the goddess is in. mc remembers that lee taeyon told mc when she found the goddess, the goddess had already been killed. back to the present regression, mc did not yet mention his knowledge about the goddess levinenoph to einzhal. einzhal asks mc if he wants to learn techniques taught by the goddess. mc accepts the offer. but before that, mc asks what's the catch. einzhal says mc should take it as an apology for getting attacked. mc couldn't careless as long as he gets more skills. the lessons begin.

The Middle-Aged Newbie Adventurer, Trained to the Brink of Death by the Strongest Party, Became Unbeatable (manga until chapter 12)

Shinmai Ossan Bouken-sha, Saikyou paati ni shinu hodo kitae rarete Muteki ni naru

@rick gladiartle, mc, former guild receptionist, now an adventurer. age 32

@arisa, guild receptionist, former junior of mc

@domurudo, a rank knight of tyranny, wanted, the adventurer who is trying to hit on arisa. mc easily beats him up during exam registration

@frito/frido dirumutto, second son of dirumutto, he excells in magic. age 11

@angelica dirumutto, first daughter of dirumutto, a second class knight. "flash of light angelica"

@lastar dirumutto, first born son of dirumutto, a rank adventurer. "the man who holds thousand skills." "f rank crusher."

@sylvester, first rank knight from.the chivalric order

@lynx lolott, b rank adventurer, supposed to be proctor in charge for mc's second half of the exam as an adventurer. age 40+

@zayd hurworth, b rank adventurer

@lynette elphelt, dark elf maid, member of the orichalcum fist party. has a trauma with dragons.

@blowstone ashorc, the wise orc, s rank, an orc, member of the orichalcum fist party

@mizet eldwarf, the millenium atelier, s rank, dwarven elf, member of the orichalcum fist party

@alicet drakkul, prodigy of devastation, vampire, s rank, member of the orichalcum fist party

#orichalcum fist, strongest party in the continent, mc is a part of this group

#fairy rondo, a mage party

#kaiser arusapieto, strongest monster, those who defeat him will be granted the akashic record and anything one desires.

#tiger road guild, the first guild mc worked for as a receptionist

1 years have passed since mc retired from being a receptionist. mc returned to the guild to join as an adventurer. mc is having anxiety of being a middle aged man of 32 starting his career as an adventurer. mc meets the receptionist, arisa, a former junior receptionist of mc. arisa took care of mc's exam registration. after having a bit of a quick scene with another adventurer, mc got his form and is set for the exam. mc meets with a lynette, a dark elf maid, she tells mc that their other friends will come to see mc's exam. mc is anxious of how old he is compared to the other applicants. lynette comforts mc by telling him he has grown drastically within the 2 years of training and that mc should not worry about anything. mc is also advice to hold back. meanwhile, in the guild, an investigation is bring held, regarding the unconcious adventurer that mc easily beats up. back to mc, mc is looking at his exam schedules. afterward, the exam commences. the first exam mc has to enter is the power measurement. mc tries to measure the power of other youthful applicants. although, the other applicants as well the proctor are amazed, mc is underwhelmed. when it was mc's turn, others looked down on mc. mc felt himself trying to show them off but at the same time holding back, as adviced of him by his friend. mc wrecked the measurement. everyone was surprised. mc had to admit, his two years of training, holding back isn't one of the many things he was taught.

2 mc aces the next part of the exam, written test. next part is the defense measurement. frito dirumutto seemed to be resenting mc. mc asks the proctor the launch a 5th level spell on him. mc defends vs the attack. sylvester, a first rank knight arrives to be a proctor of the exam investigates the rumor regarding mc. sylvester is in awe and couldn't believe at the feats mc is showing. meanwhile, mc and lynette are discussing. lynette tells mc that mc shouldn't hold back in the first half of the exam but in the second half, the mock battle. suddenly, frito dirumutto appears and insults mc. frito is crying that they way things were goinf, he couldn't make a debut as a prodigy since mc is hogging the spot light. suddenly, frito's elder sister appear, angelica. frito tells angelica, mc is bullying him. mc tries to defend himself by telling he doesn't. angelica officially asks for a duel with mc. mc unknowingly accepts. angelica gives a condition, the one who loses becomes a servant to the winner. before the duel, lynette tells mc the ranking of knights. angelica is a second class knight, comparably, she is as steong as a b rank adventurer. mc is f rank. lynette tells mc to hold back and not to worry. compared to the 2 years training mc undergone, the fight is simple. the duel commences. angelica shows off her quick step attacks.

3 angelica keep using her quick steps. mc dodges easily. mc felt at ease. angelica attacks, trips and unleashes very random barrage of attacks. mc almost got hit. mc believed he had to take things seriously. angelica goes for her ultimate moves. mc easily dodges them. angelica uses her ult move for the last time but trips. she failed to hit mc. mc in serious mode, attacks. mc hits the ground and it cause a great fissure. mc apparently missed. mc still wants to go continue fighting. angelica saw the great gap between their powers. angelica immediately surrenders.

4 angelica says its her first lose vs mc. mc asks about the condition angelica gave. mc got ignored. mc let things slide. in the guild, mc and lynette are discussing about the first half of the exam. mc is worried he might not make it for the second half. suddenly, lastar dirumutto appears. he wants to take lynette as his second wife. mc intervenes and says lynette is his girlfriend. lastar reveals he's an examiner/proctor for second half of the exam. lastar says mc is lying. lynette says she actually is mc's girlfriend. lastar got mad and promised to make it hard forbmc if in case mc gets to the second half. lastar leaves. the participants for second half gets announced. mc will be part taking in the second half. mc apologizes to lynette for making such a lie. lynette says it was fine and she's glad about itm lynette leaves mc to tell the rest of their party about mc's coming test. meanwhile, frito and angelica came to lastar, their elder brother, to tell on mc. lastar got even more mad at mc. after, mc and lynette goes for mc's second hal of the exam. mc meets with lynx lolott, the supposed proctor in charge of mc's second half of the exam. lynx wants to talk to mc. mc thought he will be ridiculed again. to his surprised, lynx lolott praised mc for his determination of wanting to be an adventurer despite his age. lynx lolott says he sympathized with mc and that they have a lot in common. mc finds a soul buddy in lynx lolott. lynx lolott tells mc he will not be playing favorite during the exam. mc understand this. the two even promised to have a drink despite the result after the second half exam. after the three part ways, lynx lolott meets with lastar dirumutto.

5 during the waiting for the second half exam, an announcement tells everyone that lynx lolott couldn't make it as an examiner due to health conditions and that lastar dirumutto will be taking care of mc's group. many in mc's group felt worried that they won't make it as adventurer because of lastar taking over. mc feels worried. meanwhile, lastar while taking care of the examinee, he awaits for mc to come. a subordinate of lastar appears and wants to deal with mc's disqualification. lastar feels he'd rather like it and task them to do so. in the waiting room, while mc is getting worried, a hooded man appears. he offers mc a way to lessen his burden. mc takes the offer. mc gets teleported away. lynette who was with mc saw everything and got mad. she launches at the hooded man and asks where mc went. mc gets ported elsewhere. there were men in suit and a bald guy waiting for him. they reveal themselves as the elite guards of the dirumutto household. they will be killing mc. mc just realized the hooded guy was actually frito and that he is being targetted by the dirumutto household. mc felt doomed. suddenly, the rest of the orichalcum fist party arrives at the scene. they greet mc. mc feels even more afraid.

6 the orichalcum fist party asks why mc is outside the venue. mc lies and says they are friends doing a demo. mc asks the elite guard to withdraw. the elite guards ignores mc and attacks the orichalcum fist party. the orichalcum fist easily takes care of the elite guard. the elite guard leader, on his own retires from work and didn't even consider fighting.

7 mc returns to the waiting room. lynette is still holding frito. frito says that mc is getting beat up. mc arrives and he is fine. lynette made frito passed through the ceiling. mc and lynette waits for mc's turn. mc is still worried about his mock battle. lynette gave mc comforting words and a great word of advice. mc's worries got lessen. suddenly, lynx lolott appears. he is badly beaten. he reveals that it was lastar who beat him. lynx says he heard the talk mc and himself did. lastar got mad and beat the heck out of him. mc got mad. he made up his resolve. mc got called. it was his turn to face lastar.

8 in the audience stand, lynette meets with arisa. they decided to watch together. the two went tonthe rest of the orichalcum fist who will be watching mc's mock battle. they have high hopes for mc. mc vs lastar. mc followed lynettes advice for the battle. for the first bout, mc will tank the attacks of lastar and feel what lastar is lacking. lastar dishes out all his magic vs.mc. mc gets hit but he withstood everything. after mc realizes lastar's flaw, mc makes a move.

9 mc vs lastar continues. lastar continues to insult mc. mc pulls out his own low level skill he mastered beyond perfection and defeats lastar.

10 mc is greeted by the orichalcum fist party. mc then meets with lastar and gave him an advice. lastar vows his revenge on the next promotion exam of mc. backstory of mc. how mc dreamed of becoming an adventurer and defeating the strongedt monster. how mc got a hidden skill that never manifested. how mc kept wanting to be an adventurer until mc only landed a receptionist job in an adventurer guild. how mc felt left behind by his peer who became full pledged adventurers while mc for 14 years is still just a receptionist. how mc first met lynette.

11 flashback continue. how lynette saves mc. how mc asks lynette her opinion being a late bloomer and lynettes honest opinion. how mc gets to have a dinner with lynette. how it gets ruined by a monster invasion. how mc saw his adventurer friend fighting. how lynette warns of the remote village they are in to run away as a dragon is about to attack. how mc and the rest of the adventurers gets face to face with a dragon.

12 flashback continue. how the adventurers are panicking trying to run away from the dragon while mc standstill and comes to face the dragon head on. how the other adventurer got their morale up just by seeing their receptionist in the frontline. how the dragon unleashes a breath attack, they all get sent flying. how mc withstood the attack. how mc suddenly manifested his skill after waiting for so long. how mc unleashed his skill and one hit killed the dragon. how the adventurers as well lynette witnessed mc's feat. how mc collpased and when mc woke up it was already a few days later. how lynette is waiting fornmc to gain conciousnes and how lynette invite mc tonthe orichalcum fist party. how lynette changed her opinion on mc and him becoming an adventurer. how lynette also mentioned to mc they are aiming for the same thing, the strongest monster. how mc accepts the offer and joined the orichalcum fist. end of flashback. back to the present, mc is among the ones who are finally registered as full pledged adventurers. mc felt he has came a long way.

I'm a Low Rank Adventurer, but I Decided to Excel in Magic ~I'm Going to Use My "Magic Creation" and "Item Creation," Which Are Godly Skills That Were Once Useless, to Become Unmatched~ (manga until chapter 12.2)

Teihen Boukensha Dakedo Mahou wo Kiwamete Miru Koto ni Shita: Munou Skill kara Kami Skill ni Shinka Shita "Mahou Souzou" to "Item Sakusei" de Musou Suru

@loa foil, mc

@sonia clark, a tank, a fallen noble who became mc's first party mate

@carter, son of the only item shop in foil village. he resents mc.

@masha, a travelling merchant

@eric, d rank adventurer that mc and sonia saved inside the d rank dungeon.

@jake/jack, the leader if the no1 party in runbelk

@dori, party of jake's party, she's infatuated with mc

#foil village, starting area of the story

#runbelk city, second area of the story

#almunt, volcano town

#yaou, the earth dragon of mc and sonia given by eric.

#item creation, mc's skill, he consumes his own level to create items. mc's level reduces to a certain number whenever he uses this skill.

#magic creation, mc's lvl50 skill, he consumes his own level to create/learn magics. magic acquires does not scale on mc's level. if it's high powered and within mc's mana capacity, mc can unleash deadly spells even at low level.

#when someone levels up, they gain skill points. mc doesn't have that privilege when he loses level. mc needs higher level to gain skill points.

#impenetrable, sonia's unique skill. she can learn defense skills, but she cannot learn attack skills.

1 mc returns to the adventurer guild to announce himself defeating two slimes. everyone laughs at him for being proud of such simple task. mc exchange his acquired loot for money, they weren't enough for mc to eat. carter, the son of the only item shop in foil village arrives and belittle mc. the adventurers reprimands him for showing off his skill. carter felt privilege as he can ban anyone who go vs him from shopping in their shop. mc ignores carter and goes on his way. mc continues training to gain back his lost levels. mc returns to his previous level and is about to conquer the lowest floor of a dungeon. mc steeled himself and enters the boss roon. mc beats the boss, levels up to lvl 50 and gain a new skill. mc returned to the guild and exchange his acquired loots. the receptionist was surprise by mc's comeback. mc went to the cafeteria to splurge on food. carter appears to insult mc. carter then blames mc for some stolen items in their shop. carter's father hears and wants to arrest mc. carter attacks mc and messes mc's meal. carter them whispered to mc it was himself who stole the items and he was actuallu putting the blame on mc. mc got mad and counters using his new skill. mc uses magic.

2 flashback when mc just leveled to 50 and just acquired his new skill, magic creation. mc tinkered with his new spell and learned magics at the expense of his level. mc also tried his new magics and had also gained some of his lost levels. back to the present, carter became submissive and apologized to mc. mc let things slide? carter then pin the blame on the guild receptionist.

2.2 carter tries attacking the receptionist. mc intervenes. mc uses his other magic to reveal it was carter who stole the items. the truth surfaced, mc and the receptionist names were cleared. carter's father punishes carter. the many village folk who witness the scene rejoice for carter getting humbled. the view on mc suddenly changed. next day, parties were trying to recruit mc. mc rejects them. party systems equally divides gained exp, it's detrimental to mc gaining levels and getting magics. mc finds it  hassle to trust anyone. in the guild, the receptionist tells mc he is promoted from f rank to e rank. mc heads to the dungeons to raid. in the dungeon, mc spots another group of adventurers. the group is having trouble. mc notices the vanguard, sonia, is not meant to be a frontline member. yet the other member insists on her being a tank. suddenly, a monster gets behind sonia and aims for a surprise attack.

3.1 mc secretly helped and saved sonia. sonia thought it was their mage's party who saved her. the mage knows it wasn't her but still claimed it was her who saved sonia. mc leaves them. mc then uses his item creation to make mp pots and then used his magic creation to make an item box skill. with mc back to his low level and a new plan, mc goes grinding for levels and making mp pots. 4 days after, mc made 100 mp pots. mc goes to the lowest floor of the e rank dungeon to try and beat the boss. mc gets to the boss floor and finds sonia, on her own, fighting a giant frog monster. mc hesistates helping, he knows its bad manner to help someone especially when someone doesn't need it, especislly among adventurers. but mc still help, he knows how hard and pathetic it felt to seek help and being unable to when pride comes into play. mc attacks the frog monster and claims he'll take the boss. mc at 40, the frog monster at 120.

3.2 mc is in a pinch since the gap between them is wide. sonia gave hint of the monster weakness. mc uses his potions to make the floor slippery. mc then slid under the monster and aimed his spell on the monster's weakpoint. mc one hit killed the 120 monster. mc gains 30 levels, he's lvl70 now and he gained a title, foil dungeon traveller, it grants him additional hp. sonia falls to exhaustion. mc goes to sonia and gives her hp pots. sonia felt relieved and thanked mc for saving her twice. she just realized it was mc who saved her before. mc apologized for stepping in twice. sonia says it's fine. mc asked sonia what happened with her party. sonia says her party abandoned her after she stepped inside the boss range and finding out they couldn't beat the boss. sonia is left to fight the boss. sonia reveals to mc that she has a unique skill, impenetrable. she can only learn defense skills and no attack skills. this is why sonia had to group with her party. mc felt obliged to help sonia. mc sees himself in sonia.

4.1 mc and sonia meets sonia's party. the party seemed to worry for sonia. mc intervenes and reveals the truth. sonia party says mc is just faking it. mc says he wouldn't lose anything if he's telling lies and goes on to ruin sonia's party reputation. the party member couldn't take it and goes for a fist fight. mc easily defends himself. the guild receptionist intervenes and asks the people involved should leave. things deescalated. sonia insists on mc they should leave and says she feels great that someone is on her side. sonia treats mc for food. mc feels elated. mc says thay sonia is new in the village, tells a story about him and reveals to sonia why he felt empathic towards her. sonia feels even more indebted to mc. sonian requests to form a party with mc.

4.2 sonia reveals she's a fallen noble and the reason she became an adventurer is to get by. mc thought he also needed a vanguard in order to keep monsters away from him while he's preparing his skill. mc agrees to form a party with sonia. next day, after registering as a party, mc wants sonia to gain a title for herself. they will go to the f rank dungeon mc recently beat. but first mc uses his magic creation skill to make a new skill, fire ball. from lvl 70, mc reverts back to lvl 10. the heads for the f rank dungeon.

5.1 they went to the e rank dungeon. after grinding for a bit, mc and sonia reach the frog monster floor. with the two as a party, they made quick work of the frog. mc then loots the frog and places the loot in his itembox. mc then tells sonia he'll.be leaving foil village the next day so he could aim for a d rank dungeon.

5.2 after returning, the two talk about getting promoted to d rank for them to conquer d rank dungeons. but they have no clue where to find d rank dungeons. mc had an idea. the two went to carter's shop. they want to get info and map. carter's father gave them one. carter's father also gave them info regardig a dungeon. carter's father tell the two to head to runbelk city. next day, the two set out for runbelk city. mc felt nostalgic as he will be leaving foil village. on their way, mc and sonia finds a carriage being chased by a monster. the two decided to help. the monster is a lvl 130 bear. mc is level 78, sonia is level 82.

6.1 with the distance still far, mc casts his strongest magic and one hit killed the bear monster. masha, the one driving the carriage, went to the party and thanked them. masha says she's going to runbelk but got lost. mc wants to hitch a ride. masha says she wants to but she has wares. mc takes the wares inside his itembox. there are now spaces for them to get in the carriage. masha has nothing say with the matter and let the two hitch a ride. mc slept all the way. they arrived in runbelk. mc hands the wares back to masha. they all went their own ways. mc and sonia heads for an inn. sonia wants to share room to save money. mc insisted they shouldn't and that they can earn the money they needed in runbelk. sonia is unhappy?

6.2 next day, mc and sonia heads for a d rank dungeon. after entering, they are greeted by a lvl 150 crab monster. mc and sonia defeated it. with water as the main element in the dungeon, mc fire magics are at a disadvantage. sonia tells mc to get another magic with a different element. mc gets lightning magic. mc consumed 50 levels. after, the two goes raiding.

7 after a while, the two rested and had a wholesome moment. suddenly a monster attacks. mc uses his new lightning magic to one hit kill the monster. the wholesome moment continues. afterward, mc and sonia goes to the guild ti exchange the loots they got. mc is lvl 105 and sonia is lvl 115. the receptionist check the duo's guild cards. mc tells the receptionist they did not steal the loots they got. mc feels down that they got accused. the receptionist bring an appraiser. the appriaser say the duo's loots are legit. the receptionist takes the loots and handed them a greater reward as an apology for accusing the duo. the appriaser asks why the two needed money. mc honestly answered they needed it for lodging. the appraiser advice the two to go find a monster house in the dungeon. monster house is an area in the dungeon that have a lot of monsters. mc gladly takes the advice.

8.1 mc is eager to find a monster house but they must first be prepared. mc finds a magic mc can make but they required level is 150. mc also made an item that grants him additional mana. for a few days, mc and sonia starts grinding for levels. at one point, mc had to disband the party so mc could get more exp. when mc finally reached his needed level, mc immediately made the lvl150 lightning magic. mc is back to level 1. mc tried forming a party with sonia but it couldn't happen. the level gap between mc, lvl1 and sonia lvl150 is to wide for the party to be formed. sonia suggests she'll help mc. sonia lures monsters for mc to beat. sonia unexpectedly lured quite a lot. mc starts casting his lvl150 lightning spell as sonia runs towards mc.

8.2 mc casts his skill. sonia was able to evade at the side. mc beats the many monsters. from level 1, mc instantly reached level 110. the two celebrated. suddenly, they hear a call of help. the duo responded. mc one hit kills the monsters and saved the man calling for help. mc gained more levels.

9.1 the three went back to the city. eric treats the two for saving him. eric tells the two they should be wary of their surrounding and that others may target them. eric tells a bit about himself and how he plans to stop being an adventurer and become a merchant. next day, the duo had a wholesome cute morning. the duo head to the guild. the receptionist tells the duo that she spoke with eric and how they saved him. the receptionist takes the duo's guild card and changed them. the duo got promoted to d rank. the duo checks the commission board and found a monster house quest. after the duo takes, another party intervenes and demands the request be given to them.

9.2 jake the leader of the party wants the monster house quest from mc. mc did not give in. jake's party member hold's him down and asks the duo to leave. jake's party stalks mc and sonia. the duo goes for the quest. they are one hit killing monsters. when they reach the floor for the quest and mc at lv152. mc already has a plan for his creation magics. mc wants a new lightning magic but it needs a higher attack stats, 500, mc made a weapon that adds 400 to his attack stats but it consumed 150 levels. mc disbands the party so mc could solo the exp. the duo did the same trick. mc one hit kills a bunch of monsters. the stalking party of jake is at awe of how strong mc is.

10.1 from level two or 1?? mc jumps to lv170. they just completed the monster house quest. mc says they couldn't get all the loots and so they could only get the rare ones. meanwhile, the stalking party, jake the leader, wants to have a duel with the duo. apparently, they want to keep the no1 title for themselves. back to the duo, the duo leaves the other loots and heads back to the guild. they hand over the loots they got and got their reward. after, mc wants to splurge on food. mc and sonia had a wholesome moment. suddenly, jake's party appears. they request a duel with the duo. the duel is a timed subjugation battle. the first to beat the boss wins. sonia insists on mc. mc accepts the challenge. the duo prepares for the battle. after some time, mc got all the skills he needed and both mc and sonia is at level 200. they are ready for the battle.

10.2 day of the challenge. the guild made it a grand event. jakes team first takes the challenge. meanwhile, mc and sonia had a wholesome moment. after, jakes team returns. jakes team finishes the challenge for an hour and 32 minutes. next is the duo's turn. mc and sonia had a wholesome moment inside. the duo finally reaches the lowest floor. they face the boss, a kelpie monster, lvl400. sonia takes the vanguard while mc prepares his skills. after mc gets ready, mc defeats the kelpie monster. mc gains 70 levels and a new title, conqueror of runbelks dungeon, it grants mc additional 300 mp. things were going smoothly until they found out a bonus event is happening inside the dungeon, a pirate ghost monster appears, it's lvl1000, a b rank. the duo can't leave. sonia can't pull aggro. the pirate ghost heads towards mc.

11.1 outside the dungeon, the receptionist says the duo is inside for 45 minutes already. while theybwait, the receptionist tells that their are instances of a second bosses appearing and those who faces the second boss always die. it's a very rare thing to occur. unknown to them, the duo is facing the second boss of the dungeon. the duo is struggly vs the lvl1000 boss. mc got hit. mc gets launched off. finally, sonia gets the aggro. mc recovers. mc decides to go for close combat cqc. magic is ineffective vs the ghost boss. mc consumes his level to get a combat buff skill. mc is reduced to lv70. mc tells sonia to be ready for a cqc.

11.2 cqc match vs the ghost boss. sonia handles the defense and mc deals damage. after a lot of exchange, the duo came out on top. they beat the pirate ghost boss.

12.1 a wholesome moment for the duo. mc reaches level 470 and gains a new title, captain, it grants him additional 200 stats on his hp,mp,atk and def. after a short break, the two return outside. the duo's time is an hour and 29 minutes. the duo won. mc shows the boss stones they got. jakes says it fake. thr appraiser appears and says the stones are legit. the other stone is from the rare second boss. after, jake acknowledges the duo's strength. the spectator wants to interview the duo, jake's team stops them and says they'll be with them celebrating. when the time for celebration ends and mc is back in his room, sonia secretly enters. mc is heavily sleeping. sonia confesses her feeling to mc. mc is unaware as he is sleeping.

12.2 next day, mc is joyful, after the event and the duo won, they got promoted to c rank. mc plans for them to go for the next dungeon. they'll be leaving runbelk. mc says they need an earth dragon for transportation. sonia says that earth dragons are very expensive. the duo can't afford one. eric appears to congratulate the two. eric says he had already quit being an adventurer and had become a merchant selling equipments. eric says he had been looking for the duo. eric brings the duo to his shop. when they arrive, eric gives the duo an earth dragon, free of charge. it is to repay the duo for saving him. the earth dragon gets the name yaou. both mc and sonia have no sense of naming. next day, many residence of runbelk gathered to say goodbye to the duo. jake and his party as well eric is also there. the two leaves with a warm feeling from the city of runbelk. on their way, the duo had a cute wholesome moment. the duo's next destination id the volcano town, almunt.

Gift "mugen Gacha" De Level 9999 (manga until chapter 23)

@light/kuro, human lvl15, mc

@draggo, dragonewt lvl512

@sasha, elf lvl308

@diablo, ghoul lvl419

@naano, dwarf lvl301

@oboro, demon lvl403

@shion, dark elf lvl304

@center, centaur lvl152

@garuu, beastmen werewolf lvl151

@karnal, the inn owner of the kernel's inn in dagas city

@gimura, one of the party of kids in line to a dungeon in dagas city

@wardy, one of the party of kids in line to a dungeon in dagas city

@miya, one of the party of kids in line to a dungeon in dagas city, she was almost bit by a bush snake, little sister of erio

@erio, leader of the party of kids in line to a dungeon in dagas city, elder brother of miya.

@kaito, elf, white knight, line cutter in the dagas dungeon, has the master's blood in him. lvl 1500, he has a national treasure sword with him

@yanaaku/yakaaku, dark elf, a researcher who helps kaito to research higher level.

@subalan, lvl51, human

@gilbert, lvl49, human

@mei, seeker maid lvl9999, super ultra rare, mc's first SUR summon

@nazuna, armored lady, SUR summon, true vampire knight, lvl 9999

@eri/ellie, wizard lady, SUR summon, forbidden mage, lvl 9999

@aoyuki, cat girl, SUR summon, monster tamer, lvl 9999

@gold, a gold armored, summon of mc, golden knight, UR lvl 5000, guard of mc while posing as an adventurer

@nemumu, a dark skin lady wielding two daggers, summon of mc, assassin's blade, UR lvl 5000, guard of mc while posing as an adventurer

#master

#abyss, most brutal dungeon, in here id the lair of mc and his gacha subordinates.

#gathering of 9 races, a team composed of each races.

#the human race is the weakest among all races

#gift, age 10, at a very small chance, a person will be bestowed a gift.

#unlimited gacha, mc's gift. mc presses a button. a random card will appear. by reaching in the card, mc is able to acquire the item in the card. the gift uses the mana in the surroundong. the denser, better, and more mana in the surrounding of mc, he is able to draw better cards.

#sur, super ultra rare

#ur, ultra rare

#the summoned characters from the unlimited gacha, absolutely adores and respects mc

#akura, major city of the wolves, alliance of the beastmen

#dagas, city in the dwarven kingdom. there exists a dungeon within the city. it's very near the center between the borders of the human and elven kingdom.

#principality, joint nation supported by the 9 races

#kernel's inn, an inn in the dagas city. mc met staffs who they rescued in the forest from dwarven bandits.

#wristband of immortality, mc wears this to stunt his growth

#myth about dungeon. the goddess of light created lands and the races in the vortex. the vortex materializes and becomes a god and fell in love with the goddess. since the vortex god is beneath the land, he creates dungeons to reach out to the goddess. the warriors of the races protects the goddess from the vortex god.

#3 class of magic, 1 combat grade for small skirmishes and 1v1 scenario, 2 tactic grade, area magic, 3 strategy grade, colossal to large scale magics 

#water stone, essential items use for freezing and preserving items, such as food and ingredients. found in dagas dungeon 5th floor

#ranks of armaments/equipments: common, rare, relic, artifact, epic, phantom, mythology and genesis

1 mc is part of the gathering of 9 races team. among all the members, mc is the weakest, not by level but also by race, a human. mc believes the party is kind and treats him well and equally. they set out to explore the abyss, the most brutal dungeon. in here, the team kicks mc out. the team suddenly became honest. they hated being with a human. and the higher ups only took mc in to observe the gift he has and if in case he is a "master." and now they deemed mc worthless. mc wants to inquire more but they said no more. the highers the other races serve wants mc to die. the others beats mc and they plan on making it seemed that mc die due to a monster attacking mc. mc desperately tries to get away. mc activates a teleport trap. mc appears elsewhere, he is able to escape. but he is still inside the dungeon and he is badly beaten. mc thinks about his family, how he left his village to earn money for them and eventually getting recruited by the kind gathering of 9 races. but the kindness is all just a lie. mc regrets it and he wants revenge. mc remain hopeful that he may get back up in order to exact his vengeance. suddenly a lvl1k monster appears. mc realized he got ported at the deepest part of the dungeon. in his grave desperation, mc uses his unlimited gacha gift. suddenly, the 1k monster burst in flame. a beautiful girl appears. mc manages to summon someone powerful using his gift.

2 the girl defeated the monster and also healed mc. she calls mc, her master and her lord. the girl vows loyalty and to be a servant to mc. the girl calls herself a super ultra rare card, Mei, the seeker maid, lvl 9999. mc couldn't believe he got a super ultra rare. mei uses her identify skill and explained an analysis of mc's gift. the better and more mana in the surrounding of mc, the better carss he'll get. since he's in the abyss and the deepest part, the mana conditions is met. mei is impressed mc went to the bottom with his current skill and stats. mc explains his circumstance. mei comforts mc and vows to take revenge on those who wronged mc. mc just need to command. mc stops mei. mc says he wants to do it himself. mei obliged to mc's wish. mei suggests mc to build a team and a kingdom of his own. mc make it so with his gacha skill.

3 three years later, mc walks along a giant hall. the people inside calls mc master. everyone highly adores and respects mc. mc meets with three ladies, nazuna, eri and aoyuki. mc tells them of the incident befor mc's first summon, regarding the monster that attack him. mc freezes whenever mc sees or thinks of the monster. the three ladies got mad and are ready to make the monster go extinct. mc calms the three ladies down. mc then tells them that mei found the prey. they are ready for mc's first revenge. in the city of akura, garuu is reaping the reward for eliminating mc. garuu himself does not know what his higher meant by master and why they wanted mc eliminated. as garuu is leisurely relaxing himself, a human lady appears and asks the whereabout of mc. she introduced herself as mei, a maid to mc. mei entices garuu with a huge amount of reward if she is lead to mc. garuu, thinking he could get a heads up with the other races, agrees to help mei. garuu also some ulterior motive with mei. garuu gathers a party and accompanies mei. they went to the place in the abyss where mc got ported. garuu recounts what happened. mei kneeled and wept. garuu is planning on enacting his plans when mei suddenly reveals she knew everything. garuu backed away from mei. mei got mad and showed unleashed bloodlust. garuu and the party he gathered shivers in fear. they were all afraid. suddenly, mc's appear. mc stopped mei. mei is elated and obliged to mc's order. garuu is shocked to see mc is still alive.

4 with a smile, mc tells garuu he will be exacting his revenge on him. garuu laughs and belittles mc. he believes mc is still lvl 15. garuu is happy he'll be bringing mc's corpse with him. he'll be having an advantage vs the other races. mc tries telling garuu to think carefully. garuu brushes mc's advice. garuu thinks that, vs mei, he and his team wouldn't win but if it's it's vs mc, they have a chance. garuu orders his men to surround mc. mei easily kills those who wants to go behind mc. mc thanked mei. mei feels elated. mc asks mei to guard the exit. mei obliged. garuu and his team were surprised. garuu says that it just a lucky mistake. garuu continues to belittle mc and even goes to show that his level rose unlike mc who couldn't get his level up, so garuu think. mc tries telling garuu to think hard what happened. garuu ignores the advice and tells his men to attack. mc on his own easily beats garuu and his team.

5 out of desparation, garuu uses a magic ball. garuu summoned a lvl 500 monster, fenrir. mc belittles the summoned monster. garuu says mc is just showing facade. garuu orders mc to surrender. mc sighs. mc tells garuu he won't move and let his summon attack mc. garuu got mad and orders his summon the attack mc. the summoned monster unleashes a magic attack on mc. garuu thought the attack is a sure kill. mc is unscathed. garuu is surprised and is now realizing the gap between levels. mc then used a UR card and summoned a monster of his own, monster founder fenrir. it's the same monster but mc's summon is level 9k. garuu is shocked. mc orders his 9k monster to kill the summon of garuu. 9k easily defeats 500. garuu is even more shock. mc says that even if he did not summon his 9k, he could've easily beaten the lvl 500 monster. mc reveals his level, he is lvl 9999.

6 mgaruu is in despair, he finally realizes mc is telling the truth. the rest of his party is still in disbelief. garuu kneeled and bowed his head. he asks for mc's forgiveness and told mc, he was only ordered by the country. garuu wants to live in exchange for his men. mc then asks about the master thing, that was mentioned before. garuu answers he doesn't know anything. garuu says that although the beastmen are naturally better than the human race, thry are just as inferior to other. the beastmen were also kept ignorant. few member of the party of garuu says they know about the master thing. mei intervenes and easily killed the few members who tried to answer mc. mc then asks garuu if in case mc launch a war vs all the other race, how they'd fare. garuu says mc would still be at a disadvantage with the many history, treasures and artifacts the other races have. mc is unconvinced of garuu's answer. he used a teleort card to take garuu to mc's lair. garuu witness mc's subordinates. mc asks his subordinates to reveal their levels. they all obliged. garuu saw the extreme levels of the subordinates of mc. garuu's hairs fell off his body. he was fearful. garuu is in utter despair. they made the monster that mc is now. mc tells he is still thinking of what he'll do next with the power he has. but as of the moment, he'll have himself as well his subordinates to take action and rise from the depths of the abyss. it is time to continue his vengeance.

7 mc went back to his home village, to what was his home village. it was destroyed and razed to the ground. half a year before mc met with garuu, mc went back to his village, he was shock and in despair of what had happened to it. mc tried everything to find out who did such destruction but they couldn't find any clue except it was done by someone. the only bodies he couldn't find in the village was his brother and yume-chan. back to the present, mc made a grave for his parents. and mc is hopeful the two, his brother and yume-chan are still alive. mc's plan is to pose as an adventurer to gather info regarding their enemies and the master. mc is cautious of the master thing, and a possibility of themselves losing even at a great advantage. mc's next target for vengeance is sasha, the elf. eri will be concocting the plan for vengeance. mc had a few of his subordinates dispatch to find them. mc is with gold and nemumu. they are going to find a city/town and getting a residence at an inn. mc will be wearing a mask to hide his identity. mc uses a fly card and the three started flying.

8 mc, gold and nemumu heads toward dagas, a city in the dwarven kingdom. mc will then be called kuro to hide his ne from his former party mates. the three lands in  a forest near the city of dagas. they spot a group of dwarven bandits robbing a carriage. mc's team beats the bandits unconcious. after, the three hitch a ride on the carriage they saved. when they arrive in front of the city entrance, the three gets off the carriage. the carriage driver tells mc they run an inn for humans and invites mc to take their rest there. mc will consider it and then bid farewell to the carriage driver and his kid. the three enters the city and heads to the adventurers guild. it was the first time for both gold and nemumu entering a city above the underground lair they lived in.

9 the three enters the guild and registers. nemumu complained why mc had to be an f rank and insist of making mc the top rank. the receptionist says that it's the rule. mc doesn't mind it. the nemumu had to follow mc. after, the three headed to the inn recommended to them, the kernel's inn. mc rented the top floor of the inn for one month and tells the owner the highesr floor is not to be visited by any of the inn staff if they are staying in the inn. mc hands out his payment. the three headed to their floor. mc uses cards to make the floor a safe area for them. mc relax. gold inquires about the money mc paid. mc says they're real money that his other subordinate earned for him while they are business on the land. nemumi then tells mc that it would better if he had just ordered the other servants to exact mc's vengeance. mc got mad as he must and will be exacting his vengeance on his own. nemumu begged for forgiveness and showed her display of loyalty by kissing mc's toa. mc lets her as well as his other subordinates, they tell mc it's a sign of a loyal slave. mc doesn't like doing this. they plan on entering the dungeon to raise their rank. and if in case eri's plan gets finalized, it will take first priority. next day, the three head to the line going inside the dungeon in the city. the role for the party is, gold is the vanguard tank, mc is in the middle, nemumu will be the rear guard and last defense for mc. while waiting in line, the three notices theee hooded figures cutting in line. mc noticed the party of kids in front of them. the kids wanted to react on the line cutting but were afraid. mc finds a sense of connection with the kids. mc voice his complaints vs the line cutters.

10 one of the line cutters got mad. mc uses reason and talked it out. the line cutter got more furious. mc remained calm. other in line also voice out their complain. the mad line cutter was about to use an attack and even called the others as human trash. fortunately, one of the line cutters deescalate the situation. the line cutters went to the back of the line. the people who saw the argument praised mc. the party of kids thanked mc for helping them. mc says they did it for themselves since the line cutters also affected them. the leader of the party of kids gave mc info about the dungeon. the dungeon gets wider the deeper they go and usually, its essential to camp in the dungeon when dungeon raiding. mc says they'll consider it the next time they go in, for now mc's aim is just to check the dungeon. after, the kids party enters the dungeon and then mc's party. mc's party reached the first floor. it is a large open land.

11 it was already evening, when the line cutters reached half of the first floor of the dungeon. the furious line cutter, kaito, a lvl 1500 elf, wants revenge vs the people of his country and in order to do so, he want to level up. yanaaku is with him to help him. meanwhile, mc's party is in the third floor and their just breezing through everything. after collecting some materials as proof they've went to the third floor, they left using flight and steath magic. in matter of moment, they reached the first floor. on their way back, mc spots the party of kids, they are engaged in combat. gold and nemumu discourages mc to interfere. mc notices a snake aiming a blow at the back line of the kids. mc's party lands near the kids. the encounter is finished when mc's finish arrives. mc advises the party of kids to be aware of their whole surroundings at all times during battle. the leader of kids party wants miya to say her thanks to mc. suddenly, a group of monsters appears. the kids' party readies. mc says the monsters are just running away. suddenly a biggr monster appears, a giant mantis.

12 the kid's party says the giant mantis is a rare monster which only appeared every 30 years. erio orders miya to use her magic to distract the mantis while they all run away. mc is calm and asks if they could kill the mantis for themselves. erio is in disbelief. mc's party goes mantis hunting. miya is incredibly amaze at mc's magic. gold demonstrates his sword and shield techniques to the kids' party. nemumu does the killing blow by dicing the mantis. the kid's party is amazed at how great mc's party is.

13 erio inquires mc's party and their rank. mc says they're f rank and just recently registered. miya casted water ball to let mc's party wash up. the kid's party also help with the item collecting. erio then invites mc to camp with them. mc is hesitant. erio says his sister miya wants to talk magic with mc. mc's party takes erio's offer. during dinner, miya discusses about magic and how great mc is. erio tells mc that miya is a special case that got a recommendation from the principality to attend a magic school. unfortunately, erio and miya's parents died from the plague and so they must do adventuring in order to save up for miya's schooling. mc remembers his little sister from miya. mc praises miya for being a talented magician. mc tells their own story, a fake one. mc's parents died from fire and he wears a mask to hide his burn wound. he is searching for a potion to fix his face. erio's party believed it. the night goes on with friendly chat over the campfire. meanwhile, kaito and yanaaku are in the third floor. kaito is getting impatience. they just finised hunting troll materials for yanaaku's research. the next material they need is from a human.

14 2 weeks after, mc's master gets a name, dark clown mask. mc's party is in line for the dungeon. they meet up with erio's kid party. miya gives a gift to mc, a medicine to ease burn pain. although unneeded, mc accepts miya's gift. as a thanks, mc hands miya an super super rare praying bracelet which will grant the user a wish if needed. mc does not know how the bracelet work. miya reluctantly accepts it. after, they enter the dungeon. mc's party is in the 5th floor. mc head back to the abyss, to his lair, while gold and nemumu will continue hunting in the dagas dungeon 5th floor. mc meets with mei, eri, nazuna and aoyuki. mc tells rhem that his adventurer life is going great and he met some good people. eri tells mc that sasha revenge plan will be done in 10 days. afterward, mc gives them roles. mei will manage the abyss, aoyuki will handle the forest?, eri with the plan and nazuna for the protection of everyone. mc smiles as his thoughts of revenge on sasha will happen in 10 days.

15 somewhere in the third floor of the dagas dungeon, kaito and yanaaku are gathering human as specimens. they harbor deep hatred towards human. yanaaku wants the specimens alive but kaito instinctively kept on killing them. meanwhile, erio and his party are planning on heading to the second floor. miya adores the bracelet given to him by mc. erio and the others teases miya.

16 mc, gold and nemumu is in the adventurers guild exchanging the loots they got in floor 5. gold and nemumu voices out their thought of how the staffs change of attitude towards them. mc and the rest gets promoted to rank d. nemumu wants mc to get promoted to even a higher rank. the receptionist says mc needs a great achievement or a quest for it to happen. suddenly, the guild chief announces an emergency quest regarding the mysterious deaths inside the dagas dungeon, specifically of humans, and the adventurer killer. mc asks the receptionist if the emergency quest will suffice to have them promoted. the receptionist tells mc the quest will be enough for a promotion. mc and his party hunts for the adventurer killer. mc and his party heads back to their inn room to discuss the situation. suddenly, a black gate appears. the trio readies. out of the black gate emerges a beaten and unconcious miya. mc caught her in his arm. miya's bracelet fell to the floor.

17 flashback of what happened, erio's party were warned about the adventurer killer by one of the adventurers they met inside the dagas dungeon. erio's party heed the warning and started their retreat out of the dungeon. they were moving slow, it was already dark inside and they haven't reach the exit yet. erio's party decided to take a rest while deciding if they should push through or camp out the night. suddenly, they meet the line cutters from before. erio's party warned of the line cutters about the adventurer killer. the line cutters then reveals that they were the adventurer killers. erio's party decided to let miya escape while the three faces the line cutters. but the power gap is simply too much. the killers begin their hunt.

18 kaito massacres three of erio's party member. yaanaku tries calming kaito, they need the subjects to be alive for their experiment. kaito wants to force himself on miya. erio manages to live, with his remaining strength, he shouts to miya to run while he raises his sword to attack kaito. miya runs away. erio uses what he learned from gold and manages to surprise kaito. erio dealt no damage but it was an effective surprise.

19 kaito finishes erio off. kaito manages to catch up to miya. miya tries fighting back. it was futile. kaito disables miya leg. kaito still want to force himself on miya. miya insults kaito. kaito goes in rage and decides to kill miya. miya suddenly vanished. back to the present. kaito runs to yaanaku. their plans will get foiled if they will be known as the killers. they fear the elven race will had them hunted with the elven elite force. the two decided to retreat and find a different place to continue their experiment and research. unfortunately for them, mc suddenly appear. mc sees the dead bodies of erio's party mates.

20 gold and nemumu appears and tells mc thay two of erio's party are dead and erio himself is badly wounded but is alive. mc felt sad for the fallen members. he even thought that if fate let it, they would have all been friends. mc vows to get revenge. the line cutters tries pretending to be ignorant of what happened. mc tells them miya already told them everything. mc also said he hasn't yet reported them to the guild. the line cutters rejoiced. mc tells them he will make them suffer and reveals his true name, the killers don't know mc. mc orders gold and nemumu to stsy on the side. mc will go solo vs two. kaito goes on the offensive. nothing was effective. mc easily parries and poke. it was all effective. kaito gets mad and unleashes his sword.

21 mc tries evading. kaito thought he has the upper hand, mc blocks. mc uses his magic vs kaito. mc plays and simply stops kaito's sword attacks. kaito got mad and announces himself a descendant of a master. mc and his team hears. mc inquires about it. kaito gets proud and re announces himself a descendant of a master and calls himself a submaster.

22 mc changes his plan. they need to get as much info from the two. mc orders gold and nemumu to capture yanaaku. mc will deal with kaito. yanaaku proudly summons his chimera creations to aid him. mc orders to gold and nemumu to kill the chimera and absolutely capture yanaaku. although the two were surprised, the two easily managed the order. yanaaku suppressed.

23 kaito charges his sword and attacks. mc dodges. kaito got mad and reasons he can defeat mc if he gets a hit. mc gives a handicap. mc stood still. kaito gets a hit. it was useless. mc punches kaito. kaito gets knockes on the ground. kaito suddenly surrendered and gets submissive. it leaves a bad taste on mc. mc orders nemumu to hand kaito his weapon. mc orders kaito to attack mc. if mc feels the attack, he'll let kaito leave. kaito decided to run away. mc got mad and disables kaito. kaito suppressed.