Surviving the Game as a Barbarian (manwha until Chapter 100) - reader's note

Surviving the Game as a Barbarian

Read until chapter 100. This is a masterpiece. Must re-read this once the manwha finished.

Premise is the mc gets transmigrated to a game world and his class/race is a barbarian.

Slow start (chapter 1-3) but the story is seriously worth reading. There's a sense of comedy here and there but the entirety from 1-100 is a praise-worthy character development plot.

Take note: mc isn't the sole transmigrator. Transmigrators are considered evil, hence called evil spirit, and on sight must be killed by the citizens, npc as the transmigrators called, of the isekai world. Also, the reader gets to see the systems and stats but the characters don't see them, they just simply feel it. There're also more to the world. There are different factions, races, places and lores only lightly explored/mention.

So for a world building and character development, this is seriously a must read. Especially for the chracter development.

Player who Hides his Past (until end of s1, chapter 53) - reader's note

Player who Hides his Past

Read until end of season 1, chapter 53. Please re-read this once this manwha is finished. It is a must to re-read finish this title once it's 

A serious comedy of the mc literally living his chuunibyou life while also being aware he is. The plot armor in this one is simply phenomenal. Take note on the words "serious" and "comedy."

The Necromancer Academy and the Genius Summoner (manwha until chapter 99) - a short synopsis and a review of sort

characters:

Simon F., Mc

Dick/Rick Hayward, first friend of mc in the Keyzen acadamy, part of team 7

Kami Ursula, vampire student, part of team 7

Meylien, ex heiress of the Ivory Tower, leader of team 7

Peer/Feer, first general of mc's undead battalion, skeleton knight?

Erzebeth, second general of mc's undead battalion, undead spider queen?

Neftis, head of the keyzen necromancer academy, she appears like a child as well as her demeneor but is actually older than what she looks

How do I start this?

Mc is living a normal, boonies, country bumpkin life until the owner or head of the keyzen necromancer academy, neftis, invited mc to the academy. mc's parents let mc go to the academy. mc is thrilled.

mc go to the academy where everything seemed all new. mc is really unaware of everything and he sees everything with enthusiast. things that stands out for mc is his enthusiasm for learning and the school life, he really enjoys being at school, and his potential as a genius to learning what the academy has to offer. mc's main drive is to be like his father who uses the undead to help people and build and stuffs. therefore mc decided majored in summonology, a branch/subject in the academy that is the least popular but goes in depth with summonings.

before the academy life start, mc was chosen as the special case student no. 1 as was decided by neftis. it's like a rep leader for students in normal school IrL. this is usually reserved to students who excelled in the entrance exam, IRL. the difference is that, the special case are exempt from the entrance exam and are chosen by neftis. with this the case, mc was expected to be a genius from the start, unfortunately, that's not how it went since, mc all his life was taught to be next in line of their small land and so have little to no knowledge at all of magics except to what he saw from his necromancer father and priest mother. so yeah, at the start mc struggled with things but this didn't stop the fact that mc is actually a genius that a lot of professors noticed. despitr behind with knowledge and know hows, mc's eagerness to learn let himself pushed through.

on one instance, a practice demo had mc pitted against one of the top of the class, despite mc getting at a disadvantage, mc's was able to pull through. mc loses but the professor saw the brilliancy mc had shown. a lot of professors upon noticing mc's brillianct wanted to immidiately take mc as their disciple but mc already have one subject in mind which is summonology.

a lot of school life and world building in the subjects are presented but this seemed like a nice pov to the usual student life. and despite being a manwha as well as mc being a prodigy and the learning methods, this manwha don't follow the level up systems and status windows and such and such. everything that mc does is just prodigy and genius, you know what i'm saying?

mc gets a friend then after because of a requirement, mc gets to have a group who also became his friends. then there are more. mc also got a rival which mc do not actually sees as one, mc just like to go with his student life, he is enjoying school period.

chapter 99 ends with the second mission quests that mc took as part of the academy curriculum. mc saves a small fief island and is granted young kraken skeleton. this will be helpful to him for his summonology practice as well to build up his battalion.

world building that's quite interesting to be mentioned:

1 the factions of the priest and the necromancers, this is very interesting, a good vs evil scenario but not like that. necromancer were not evil in a sense and not much was said about the priests except they are enemies to the necromancers. mc met one already, or two. mc's mother is a priest and another one who fought with mc at first but mc somehow befriended.

2 the traitors, two of this type were mention, first is mc's father, a necromancer who ordered his undead to fight and even kill other necromancer, this is because mc's father fell in love with a priestess, mc's mother. and the next kind of traitor are the necromancers who also practice priest magic of sort but something different, this was the one who attacked mc and kami while they were gathering supplies for their potion for their group practical

3 the 7 battalion commander, mc's father was a former battalion. after mc made a contract with peer, mc became one of the seven battalion commander. who are they and just how influential are they in the world in the story.

4 the ivory tower, serene and mylien are part of this faction and they certainly do hold a name that can be comparable to keyzen.

5 somehow, despite the main focus is on mc and mc as a protagonist, there are a lot of things yet to be known about mc. i'm thinking that mc is actually a transmigrator or something and that mc got to the necromancy world or something. i'm 20% positive about this. not to mention the necromancer blood and priest blood running in mc.

6 the privileges of being a disciple of one of the professors in the keyzen academy, this is very interesting. this is so hardcore that if a professor spots a candidate he can go so far as to hurt the candidate just for him or her to be his or hers.

7 more lessons for summonology and the darkness dynamics. i want to see the skeleton and undead making and the reanimation magic spells.

8 the unpopular opinions vs summonology why is it hated so. 

there are more but this is just a few so far from the hundred chapters.

The Count's Youngest Son is a Gamer (manwha until chapter 57)

The Count's Youngest Son is a Gamer

raul ashton, ign crash, MC

jake, heir of ashton, eldest brother of mc.

nikia, alchemist who vowed loyalty mc

nikki, sister of nikia

grey, president of the tower of mage

josh, the rookie recruit to the first knights, a peasant former mercenary that got hand picked by mc.

bernard, assistant butler of mc that handles accounting and such. he knows wind magic

a loud knight with a big sword, part of the main first knights

the silent and collected knight, part of the main first knights

the archer, part of the main first knights

pre-transmigration

mc, in game, just fought against a guild. mc came out victorious. mc takes an item from a priest npc. the priest npc curses mc. mc goes to a hidden area and uncovers three treasures. suddenly an error occured. mc gets forcibly logged out.

back to reality, mc just realized he got stabbed. there were goons from an organization that were part of the ones he had a fight with in game. the organizations main aim are the treasure artifacts he just got. in the end, mc gets killed.

transmigration/regression, story starts.

10 or 5 years before the game official release in-game, mc wakes up as the youngest son of count ashton, lord of ashton. ashton will be the first to fall when the game gets officially released. mc aims make such tragedy never happen.

mc immediately trained for the coming of age ceremony. after winning the ceremony tournament, mc goes to his father and asked for permission to attend the knight academy? after months of training and persistent requests, mc finally got the approval.

mc sets out with a hundred men, they aim for the first village meant for adventurers/players, mira. mc gets there and trained his men and soon after made the first ever guild, First Knights. with the knowledge he got from his system mc was able to help his men reach new heights when it comes to their combat skills and more.

while staying in mira, mc also settles the problems from the kidnapping caused by the enemy empire. mc also gains powerful allies that will prove useful in the latter times of the story, they are nikia, a prodigy alchemist and nikki, a prodigy talent but was unable to show it due to sickness. mc helps them. mc also acquires a skill to help with his psychokinesis.

after mira, mc heads to the capital for the academy entrance exam. when he got to the capital they happened to be an infight within the ashton family, the main and branch. mc settles it with the help of his brother jake, heir to the ashton. afterwards mc goes training with jake.

academy entrance exam, mc wanted to just manage to get in but upon hearing the top placer reward, mc had to push himself to come out of top without making himself seemed obviously way stronger. mc gets the top spot. mc gets recognition from some prominent figures from the noble houses and teachers, this also include a fellow student freshman, grandson of the duke templeton. mc gets an additional reward, a meet with the sage grey, a transform ring and recall ring for the sage grey. other rewards for the top placer is access to most part of the library and use of battle simulation in the academy.

mc goes to the library to fill up his skill index, one of the treasure he acquired pre transmigration/regression. at this time in the library, mc also acquires a fairy that will serve as helper for his skill index. afterward, mc also goes to train more with his eldest brother.

sometime later, an oracle is given by the holy church. mc's system also mentioned a big update for the closed beta mc is in. mc gets to stay in the capital while he trained his people. while most of the nobles pay less heed to the oracle.

first update, gates suddenly appear. this isn't just part of the game but is actually a plan devised by the enemy empire.

mc with his first knight guilds is first to respond to the sudden appearance of gates and the dungeon break that occured. the first knights are also the first to close some of the gates.

after hearing of the news of mc's guild getting recognition, the other nobles got mad and envious of mc. first they had the minister of finance stop the first knights from taking on the low level gates. this is trivial to mc as they are already taking on mid level ones.

sometime later during the gates outbreak, mc gets a news of nobles going missing after entering the low level gates. mc already had a suspicion. mc along with some of his troops and the grandson of templeton goes for a rescue mission.

they enter the gate the nobles were last seen, after mc set up a fort to go defense, a group of empire soldier suddenly appear. aftee dealing with the first easy wave, mc and templeton had to step in for the next waves. then the boss fight. two 1v1 duel, templeton vs a giant mace mutant soldier and mc vs no8 commander of the empire. they both won and the rescue mission was a success. mc also received an aura blessing.

after the gates incident, the ceremony for the knights. this is like a tournament initiation for knights or guilds to get recognize. mc's first knights came out on top. on the sidelines, mc gains a new prospect ally, faceless, former leader of wings of freedom, now an informant for the first knights guild. there is really something going on in the internal affairs of the kingdom as empire figures have already infiltrated. two of them is high possibly, the minister of finance, plank, and possibly the head of randall family, a rival to the ashton family and one of the five noble familiea of the empire.

after the knight ceremony two things also happen, mc gets recognized and gets highly praised and regarded by gray president of the tower mage?, and mc gets to battle with the commander of the knights of the kingdom. mc gets recognized during the duel.

the knight commander discusses with his fellow commander thay grey's thought of mc is a cryptic warning. one there is a looming problem going on within and outside the kingdom and the kingdom will soon face a great peril and mc will be one of the heroes to get to decide the outcome of what is to come.

end of chapter 57

The Academy's Genuis Swordsman (manwha until chapter 71)

The Academy's Genuis Swordsman

Ronan, mc

yriel, mc's sister

Aselle, mc's first friend after regression

Marya Sen, mc's second friend after regression

Navirose, one of the instructor in the Phileon academy, master of mc

Adashen, grand marshall pre regression, teaching assistant to navirose after regression, mc hold her highly be in before regression and after regression

Schulfin, mc's student rival as number one swordsmans in Phileon academy after regression, he hold's mc's sister Yriel highly

Sankirit, curse specialist instructor in Phileon academy

Stonesong, mana specialist instructor in Phileon academy

Ophelia, vampire member of mc's adventure club in Phileon academy

Braum, higher year member of nc's adventure club in Phileon academy

Warsong?, vampire acquaintance of Ophelia

Zangri?, werebeast, sword saint, the leader of the once night beast? they attack the home town of adashen which led to the death of adashen's love ones

before regression, a war against heavenly beings take place. mc defeats a supposed final boss. mc finds grand marshall adashen. the two had a warm talk of getting rescue. suddenly, an apocalyptic appearance of multiple heavenly beings happens. all humanity's hopes are lost. adashen transfered her regression item to mc, apparently she had already travelled back thrice already and the regress item can only be used one final time. adashen sees hope for a better outcome with mc. adashen orders mc to do better in the past and enter phileon academy.

after regression, mc wakes up. he suddenly had an urged to find his sistwr yriel. on mc's travel through town he sees a bullying in progress. mc steps in and stopped the bullying. mc gets to be friend with aselle. mc asks aselle to meet again after three days. mc continues back home. mc reaches home and saw his sister once again. a warm reunion for mc and his sister.

mc tells yriel he plans on going to phileon academy. yriel takes out her stash of saving to support mc. 

three days later,  night time, mc meet with aselle, mc tells aselle they will be going to phileon academy. aselle is reluctant. mc insisted. aselle couldn't say no. they went out that night for a training mission, goblins and treasure. they succeeded. after the mission, they got attacked by poachers, a duo from the caribolo gang. mc stops them. they managed to save a unique bird, a dream bird. with magic, they got to converse with the magic bird's owner. before leaving, the magic bird gave mc a feather to see each other again and a magic egg.

few days later? mc and aselle meet up with a merchant caravan, mc sold his loots to a merchant. later they found out siad merchant is father of marya sen, a prominent name before regression. mc became friends with her. marya sen is also going to phileon academy. marya sen gave learning materials to help mc for the entrance exam in the phileon academy.

a month later, mc and aselle arrived in the capital for the entrance exam. mc used the magic's bird feather to find the bird's owner. mc and aselle meets the bird's owner, a werelion, a teacher in the phileon academy. mc gets rewarded with map.

exams. mc got last place in the written. first place in the practical. mc is hailed as the first placer for the exam. mc's gets acquainted with schulfin. the two became rivals?

mc goes to the location indicated in the map from the werelion professor. after a squabble with the carabolo gang. the magic egg hatched into a vampire dragon.

first orientation day, mc had his sister travel to watch the inaguration. mc and sister goes for a shopping. mc also gets a help from scheulfin regarding his sword problem. scheulpin recommended a smithy to mc. inaguartion/orientation day, everything went smoothly until the hazing. things also gets settled peacefully. after the hazing, mc gains friends and respect from the higher years. 

first day of class, mc quickly passed most of his subjects. while waiting for time, instructor navirose finds mc. she invites mc to her special class. but he must first have a decent sword in order to join. mc and friends goes to the smithy. mc gets his order placed. after a few days, mc and friends return. the smithy is under attack by giant golems. mc helps with the defense. mc acquires his sword. mc meets two member of the star order organization, nebula glazier. the same ones, before regression, that are the main baddies. mc beats one of them. mc got defeated by one of the member and vowed to take revenge against mc and his family before escaping. fortunately, instructor navirose appears and stopped the escaping evil doer. as things gets settled, mc asks navirose if he could be there when the two villains gets interrogated.

mc joins the special class, mc found adashen, she's getting bullied. mc had to step u for her. before things get more heated up, instructor navirose stepped in.

few days later, night, interrogation of the villain. mc confirms that the nebula group is really part of the main villains before the regression. mc also found out about the curse placed in him. navirose recommended a curse specialist instructor to help mc.

next day? mc meets the curse specialist. mc found out two things. there is a ten layer curse placed on mc, there's a possibility it is mc's father who placed a curse on him.

next day? night, mc gets a visit from schulfin's father, a duke. mc get's commended for his bravery in the smithy problem. mc find out that the bodyguard of the duke is part of the nebula group. without telling anything, mc gets to confirmed it when the bodyguard attacks mc and schulfin gets to witness it. schulfin killed the bodyguard and vow to have an investigation within their people. same time mc gets to meet navirose and the phileon academy principal. mc reported what happened.

next day, mc talks with the principal of what happened and a reward for mc. mc asked for one thing, the permission to make a club of his own.

mc acquires two people immesiatwly, marya sen and aselle. then braum of the higher year and later on the vampire ophelia.

first club activity, orc hunting. but before that,  mc had aselle and marya sen complete a lot of their subject first. sometime later, mc goes to the principal for an approval of the club's first activity. it immediately got approved.

orc hunting, the club minus ophelia, reached a cliff overlooking the orc encampment. before they could attack an elven priest arrives to stop them. after clearing all suspicions of mc, they went with the elven priest. they went to a hidde temple dedicate to senielle?? the rock/boulder monument god. mc and the elf priest had a talk and after, the priest tells mc that quick answer to mc's curse problem is a bad idea. the priest instead gave mc a herbal tea to help with the curse, this is highly effective. few days after, the group gets better with mana handling and mc gets better with his curse. they part ways with the elf priest. mc's club proceeda with the orc hunt.

during the orc hunt, the group finds an elf. mc takea the elf to the priest. the priest took her in and bid mc farewell. when mc leave, the elf is actually part of the nebula group and is actually looking for the priest to join their cause, else she kills the priest. 

mc regroups with his club members. aselle reports the orcs they fought have weird magic markings on them. mc remembers the similarity with the rock giants in the smithy. suddenly, an explosion occured in the direction of the temple of the elf priest and a large two head ogre appeared. it attack mc's group. braum gets heavily injured. mc asks his members to fall back as he alone will take care of the ogre.

mc beats the ogre and go to the temple. the elf priest is badly beaten. suddenly an unknown woman appears and attack mc. mc blocks. the woman reveals she's the elf he took to the temple. mc and the priest vs the nebula assassin, brigia. the assassin thought her stars blessing would get broken UNTIL mc slahed through it and effectively killing her. the elf priest gave mc a ring as a reward? of some sort. the elf priests gets help going to the rock monument. the elf priest did not die but got assimilated to the rock monument. a ball of rock gets left in place. mc takes the ball of rock back.

back in the academy, schulfin confronts mc. the mid term practical exam is about to happen: an all out free for all for instructor navirose class in a deserted island.

free for all: adashen gets third/second place, mc and schulfin gets tied first. during the ffa, mc vowed to help adashen reach her goal.

after the ffa, navirose recommends mc to meet with a mana specialist to help mc with his just acquired mana.

mc and adashen meets with mana specialist. the mana specialist notices the ring mc got from the priest. the mana specialist asks to get a portion of mana from ring. mc asks he would give what the specialist ask IF adashen will also be helped with her own mana. the specialist accepts the condition.

the mana specialist begins operation on mc. mc's curses attacks the specialist. the mana specialist had to teleport them to the curse specialist to get help. the curse specialist immediately treat the mana specialist, this is with mc's help. when the mana specialist felt better, the curse specialist tells mc that his condition got better. they went back to the mana specialist place and continued the operation. the mana specialist taught mc how to handle his mana better.

afterward, the mana specialist suddenly collapse. they tried helping him but the mana specialist is urgently needing the payment of for the treatment. mc obliged. they help the specialist back to his lab. they find the mana specialist's multiple experiments. mc found the mana specialist's diary. mc learns the situation the specialist is in, the resurrection of his loved one. mc also found a folded paper. mc took it. after things settled down, mc and adashen leaves. then the two part ways.

after mc got alone, mc checks the folded paper. there is a drop of blood in it and nothing else. ophelia, one of his club member appears and tells mc that the blood and paper is a sort of a letter written by a vampire. after returning back to the club house, ophelia helps mc read the letter. the letter contains an invite for the mana specialist to meet and that they have a material that he desperately need. mc had a hunch that the vampire who wrote the letter is part of the nebula group. with ophelia's help, mc manages to tranform into the mana specialist and in the place of the specialist go meet with the vampire.

vampire hideout infiltration, right from the start mc goes vampire hunting. mc meets the boss of the vampire group and found out that they actually want to make the specialist into one of them. after a 1v1 one sided match of mc and the boss, mc proceeds with the vampire slaying. right when the vampire boss is about to get slain, another vampire appears, this one's stronger.

mc tries fighting the new vampire but the match is impossible for him. suddenly, ophelia appears and stop the fighting. ophelia and the strong vampire knows each other. vampire realizes that ophelia holds mc in high regards, the vampire gave mc the blood essense that the mana specialist need. it is also revealed the the strong vampire and the mana specialist knows each other and they are both enemies. the strong vampire sets mc as his new target. just like hisoka and gon, the vampire will wait for the right time to fight him.

mc goes back to the mana specialist and gave him the blood essense. from a far, the strong vampire sees that his once rival enemies is no longer a match for him and so he moves on. ophelia was also there to accompany him. before leaving the strong vampire tells ophelia that she could call on him and he will respond to her call.

a day later? mc meets with schulfin in the club house. mc asks schulfin to join his club. schulfin refuses. mc uses his sister move to the capital to get schulfin to join. schulfin gets successfully recruited to the club.

day of move, mc, aselle and schulfin are to help with the move. meanwhile, with the rumors of monsters getting more active in his hometown, mc suspects the nebula group are the ones to blame. mc let schulfin proceed with the escort of yriel, mc's sister, while mc and aselle will investigate.

they found out a werebeast unit is assigned for the monster investigation. mc and aselle proceed with their own. they found a group of wyvern approaching and attacked it. mc's guess was right, the nebula group are actually the ones idoing this problem. during the fight, the leader of the werebeast appears, the sword saint zangri?

after a bit of a misunderstanding and coming to terms, they team up to find the remaining nebula group. they defeat the leader for the current nebula group operation. zangri rewards mc with whatever he choose. mc asks zangri and his team be an escort to his sister's move to the capital. mc, aselle and zangri's joined forces with schulfin midway to the capital duting the move.

in the new house for yriel, mc, schulfin and yriel are enjoying the new place. suddenly a wild argument happens outside. it turns out to be zangri and navirose, they were almost neck in neck until mc stops the fight. zangri tells that the request of mc gets completed and leave. navirose got mad at mc and asks how he came to meet zangri. after telling the story, navirose tells mc to be wary of zangri and explains the situation of wjat happened in the past. navirose reveals zangri is the leader of the werebeasts that fought against adashen's family. mc then had a hunch regarding zangri and the situation that happened pre regression.

after the talk, navirose asks mc to show her the progress of mc's mana growth as well to show her his sword aura.

end of chapter 71