Tuesday, January 28, 2025

66,666 Years: Advent of the Dark Mage (manwha review)

9/10

A great read. The story so far is like a character development of the mc. And mind you, the mc is supposed to be OP who is from the ancient times with god like power BUT he isn't OP. he strong anad all but once he gets to face against villains and other character, mc gets thrown back to reality and that he is needed/required to train more. my first time, i supposed, to see the mc still struggling facing against his father and that is in season 2 when he already got a bunch of powers up.

other than this, the world building is nice as well. being reincarnated after so many millenia's mc is finding truths here and there and is also able to piece things together.

probably there will be side stories after this title end because as i've said earlier the story so far is a character development of mc but there are also characters, side characters, that are left out, but mind you they will appear later on to assist him as promised to each other.

there is also a female lead that gets easily toss as a side character as the mc is solely focus on his goal and that the female lead is not his league, although mc also knows she and him are much like the same.

i'll sum it up as shortly per season.

season 1, character development geared towards magic.
season 2, character development taking on the path of swords, making mc a true magic swordsman.

along this seasons, mc meets friends and allies that will one day may possibly assist him.

one is a dragon who promised to assist mc.
another is a friend, an apostle of pierro, ricky, him I have doubt if they'll be allies in the end or be clashing with others.
another is an old lady that went into the shadow realm who is looking for her son.
another is the third rank swordsmaster in their country.
another is the muscle head that is a friend of his mc's grandfather.
another one is a valkyrie/fairy, benna, who gave her loyalty to mc and had to get separated with mc in order to train.
another is the creature, behemoth, mc conjured back in the early days before his reincarnation.
another is the demon lord, trica, who is actually a close friend to mc before the reincarnation.

there are much more side characters that mc will someday, in the latter chapters, meet. and as i said earlier, these characters will also get a lot of attention as well popularity if they are also given a side story title of their own.

before I forgot to mention, the character development that is most appealing on mc, imo, is his growing/returning sense of humanity. he thrown away his care for other after reincarnation but as the story progress, although this isn't much.. a lot? I don't know the word, but mc is somehow growing or returning back to his humane side or something. mc did mentioned he was betrayed a lot and got left out before his reincarnation which is why he has this cautious towards other and most of the time he has no care of what happen except for himself. But this gets slowly broken when he himself is showing care and empathy. mc himself and on his own took an apprentice with little affinity to magic without much reason other than himself wanting to teach again. mc was also a teacher before he got reincarnated. this is what made mc a beautiful/appealing character. along with his thoughts of being OP but gets beaten by others.

I can't wait for more chapters to come. my last chapter read is chapter 100.

season 3 starts with mc, as the recently appointed master, an archmage, getting his first? dispatch mission from the king. mc gets to be sent to a neighboring country to either help or let things be. this is all for the advantage of their kingdom. the country is governed by corrupt leaders and the rebels are trying to overthrow the kingdom. the rebels is the frontier, a likely ally in the future for mc.

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66,666 Years: Advent of the Dark Mage (manwha review)

9/10 A great read. The story so far is like a character development of the mc. And mind you, the mc is supposed to be OP who is from the anc...