Znakey's manga / #Dungeons(12)

I LOVE WITH THIS. Why isn’t it more popular?! Badass, crazy yet sly protagonist; he is a mad genius who loves battle (and money… and K-dramas lmao). He is so cool! No romance (on his part) so far. The story takes place in a “modern” world, where a previously hidden underground magical race suddenly attacked with monsters and dungeons. The humans in response awoke powers, and thus superhumans fought back. Seomoon Yeob, an orphan, gained an unremarkable ability “Throw” (when killing the abusive owner of the orphanage). However, with his second power “Analyse” (can see his and everyone’s Stats and Abilities; can also see their potential), combined with his genius, he managed to become the strongest human in the world. He conquered every dungeon until he finally sacrificed himself after defeating the final boss [High Priestess] to give his six teammates (he was their leader btw) time to escape. He was happy to die in battle, and to the rest of the world he became the legendary hero who sacrificed himself to save mankind. But he doesn’t die. SY falls from a portal in the sky 17 years later, and wakes up in a now peaceful world, though for him no time has gone by. Now, most superhumans live as untrained civilians, and a small percentage participate in a VR sport, Battlefield (two teams of 7 or 11 in a dungeon, PvP with PvE). Korea, once a leading force, is the lowest ranking country in Battlefield. SY at first doesn’t want to play in Battlefield, planning to retire, but slowly he is dragged in. Though it is VR, their power is transferred, and the monsters and dungeons are all replicas of those during the war, so he is familiar with them. He trains others, forms his own team, fights the best players, and currently (ch 92) joined the World Tournament. Why is he so invested now? Because he found out that the Underworlders have not died out completely, but they are not the real threat. The president of the company that made Battlefield is the Underworlders’ Queen. She is the one that took SY out of the dungeon before he died, because she can see others’ fate and knows he is the “Savior” from prophecy. She didn’t want war against humans in the first place (the High Priestess did, though now she was raised from the dead and has joined SY while disguised as a white haired dude). There are other Underworlders that are against the Queen, because they believe they follow the Guiding Light (their good, sort of), but the Queen knows they have been tricked and they might open the door to Earth to a powerful monster from another dimension, along with his army of creatures [this was told to him by the Emperor, the strongest tyrant Underworlder; he killed him in a dungeon during the war and recently defeated him in VR ((they summoned his soul))]. SY wants to help all superhumans become stronger to face the threat. SY is really strong. He has his Throw and Analysis abilities, and after returning he got Immortal (he can’t die from injuries, though he can’t use this power in VR). Then he unlocked Amplify (+10 in one stat or improve an ability for X time; when Amplify + Immortal he can turn his body into Aura or create an Aura weapon [this one is taught by the Emperor]). In latest chapters (~85-90) he got an ability from the Emperor as the new Savior that lets him choose six (? “vassals” (they can get stronger), and also a training space where he can increase his stats beyond human limits (goes beyond the max 100 for humans). The novel is complete at 271 chapters, so this Manhwa shouldn’t drag too much!

The MC is CRAZY! As in, crazy crazy. I love how he gets excited to see a pretty woman but even more excited to see FOOD. Thankfully he is not focused on romance. He has a cute face too lol (until he makes his demon face, always cool) So far read ch 65 (end of season 1). The ML was one day dragged to hell by a portal, where he killed and ate monsters to survive, eventually becoming the demon king. After 10,000 years, he success in returning to earth, only to find out only 5 years have passed, and that the “Gaia System” made humans into players to fight monsters in dungeons. Most of his demon powers are sealed, but he has potential to become stronger (he’s always OP because he has his “demonic energy” as an inherent energy). Then he finds out there is a demon cult trying to make hell on earth and he wants to stop them (even takes advantage of suck their demon energy). Also, the Gaia system made a guy become a player so he could be the “savior” the day the ML returned, but the ML met him too soon and just in case turned him into a subordinate (so they are bonded, just like the ML and his dragon-girl familiar), tho the ML erased his memories from the time he shoved his hand into his chest lol. The savior is the swordsman with grey-blue hair and eyes)

Read up to end of season 1 - Ch 50 MC is from a modern world with dungeons. One day he gets dragged to another world and forced by a priestess to become a “dark mage” and defeat monsters (can absorb dark energy and use it, but dark mages are discriminated against). Two years later, the Hero party returns and MC tells the priestess to send him back to Earth since the mission is done. The priestess agrees and frees him (from some slave seal?), but before she can remove his powers he attacks her and opens the portal himself. He ends up back in Earth except now dungeons have become much more dangerous and everyone over 21 MUST enlist. He decides to enlist to kill all monsters so that his favorite game company keeps working on his fav game (he’s a huge fan of a character — never cares about real women). Currently the priestess keeps sending monsters to Earth (idk why), and the MC’s cult of dark mages are trying to follow him to Earth (one with white hair succeeded) His love interest seems to be a woman with blue hair, the daughter of a high ranking soldier. She is nice, but I like how the MC squabbles with her and she gets angry and calls him a crazy bastard lol The MC is hilarious. He loves fighting, and he’s a little a shit. Whenever someone mocks him or his favorite game, he beats the shit out of them lol He doesn’t care about women at all, those fists are gender neutral.

Based on a novel, can find in NU MC (Yiseon) is the small blond, he’s an S-rank hunter. His personality is a bit frail because he has PTSD from losing his family and friends in dungeons (someone said he made his dead friends into zombies). The ML is the man with dark hair (Wojoon), seems like some fans dislike him because he’s manipulative (like your typical regression protagonist) — but a reviewer said he has a lot of character growth (unlike the MC), since he goes from someone willing to do anything for revenge to someone who treasures Yiseon.