Disaster Strikes灾难降临

Why bother with criticism? The novel is meant to be read, enjoy and escape from reality not analysis and scrutinizing its political, social, history, skills and logic. Why bother?

The start was relatively good and interesting but the author decided to run full speed of the cliff shortly after.

We are told about a world that needs to plunder other worlds as its way of living. This way its inhabitants are forced to constantly mix and match their skills and professions based on the world's they plunder and what fits them.

The MC is a thick skinned telekinetic. For some reason only the author knows he apparently can't control telekinetically weapons but he needs a special skill to do so which makes no sense. Like he can move stones, metal fragments and special telekinetic objects but not normal metal weapons?? Bullshit. The author just does this in order to needlessly make eastern style cultivation innately stronger.

Now we get to the cliff part. Apparently the only world so far introduced that can face off against the disaster world is an eastern cultivation world which makes no sense. An eastern cultivation world has no innate advantage over any other type of power system other than the preference of the author. Another unfair advantage is that for some reason disaster survivors can't loot skills from monks. They can kill people from other worlds to get a chance to acquire their skills but not from monks.

Anything Western related gets severely shafted or killed soon after and this devolves into a Chinese ego stroking. There is subtle racism from the get go. In the first mission world the western captives get killed for no reason. Like they had escaped from their previous kidnapped state and just because the MC needed to get more rewards they were killed. They could have waited a couple of hours for support and it would have been fine. Then the author forces two high level people take a healing medicine that will destroy their potential just for "revenge". They could have just waited. The Chinese guy was middle aged and most likely not that talented given his age. But the western girl was really young and probably many times more talented. There was no reason to sacrifice her future compared to waiting a couple hours.

Then we are introduced at a medieval Europe fantasy world which is described being at the mercy of the Disaster world. Comparatively the Disaster world is described as being afraid of the monk world. Apparently 15th century European aristocrats with a good upbringing can't solve elementary school level mathematical problems or the Disaster survivors. The problem was as is: there is a barn with servants and horse inside, there are 26 more horses than humans and there are 200 legs in total. The aristocrat was given 2 minutes to answer but paled and panicked instantly. The MC answered after about 30 secs. It seems to me that the author isn't even that well versed in history considering equations were a thing since at least the 5th century BC. It is also described that such a simple mathematical question requires someone to be a genius?? Like what that hell goes with this racism. Not to mention the whole plot for this world was shit. Initially that aristocratic man was described as a useless, impotent and sickly cripple but he suddenly becomes super awesome and strong for the plot's convenience sake. The whole plot of this world is based how his fiancee looked down on him due to his sickly, weak and cowardly appearance and cucks him. The MC is summoned to avenge his shame. This makes no sense when the author later makes the aristocratic man look so awesome. Then this aristocratic man pursues a known intelligent and super awesome beauty that is pursued by too many people in order to make up for the war he started. Apparently this super awesome ,intelligent and beautiful aristocratic lady almost immediately falls in love with this aristocratic man. It needs to be noted that he looks relatively bad. He is super pale, hunched over and in bad health. He only passes legitely three of her tests. Only her first test does he pass based on his capabilities. The second test was one of courage but he had nothing to lose and even dying was better than not being able to succeed in marriage. There was no point of this courage test. The third wisdom test was answered by the MC. The last loyalty test also made no sense since he admitted that he approached her with ulterior motives. Which of her pursuers did not have ulterior motives or have fallen in love with her. Super sloppy plot writing.

Definitely not recommended.

Have read all available chapters (50). It's honestly pretty decent tbh. The first chapter is pretty much entirely unnecessary, so definetly don't take that as any indication of the actual story.

The main story so far has covered the pretty short academy arc and then his first actual mission. All of the students get an AI chip implanted which basically acts somewhat like a system, but mostly just as a means to digitise bodily stats, list skills, allow learning of skills via shards and tracking/trading contribution points. There's no shop, titles, achievements, etc. There initially wasn't any assignable stat points, though he gains one as a reward for beating his first mission.

The HP and game-like mechanics are a bit weird, but make logical sense in how they work for the most part.

The MC himself is Hardworking, fairly smart and focused on improving himself. He doesn't make any stupid or rash decisions either. He spends majority of the academy section training by himself/with guidance from a teacher, but during the mission he is an active team participant, not a complete loner who avoids others and does everything solo.

In terms of his path, his main Trait is Stone Skin, which increases his defense and survivability. He makes use of his higher mental stats by choosing to go down the Psychic path - telekinesis etc.

Initially he doesn't seem to have any cheat, other than an increased mental stat due to his transmigration, but in the last few chapters he awakens a new talent which is pretty interesting. It has 2 aspects - one related to his skills and one that will allow him extra time to grow, similar to the novel 48 Hours a Day.


Potential minor spoilers for a small aspect of 48 Hours a Day in my explanation below:


Overall this new talent seems to strike a good balance between giving his skills more utility, as well as allowing him extra time to increase his stats - which he definitely needs as the body he transmigrated to was abandoned because the original owner didn't bother with increasing his stats/skills at all.

Hopefully it continues, since I will be interested to see how things go on from here. On the NovelUpdates link it is up to Chapter 56, so hopefully they do get uploaded here sooner or later.

In five chapters I only saw stupidity, nothing more, I can summarize each of them in a single sentence: 1- xenophobia/racism 2- transmigration and dumb world 3- game status for no reason 4- I don't remember, even though I just read it 5- who is who?

"Ad Astra Abyssosque!"

I read about 40 hp on the 69shu. My assessment is that the author is probably anti-social. It's an interesting work, it's not rubbish, but it's not a masterpiece either. Rank C+ (has some potential)

Not a masterpiece but pretty enjoyable novel.

Awesome hook, I’ll give it a go

Poison testers?