Nano Machine

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This manhwa is fabulously awesome.
At First I thought this would be like any other cheat skill manhwa. But now, when I am 195 chapter in the manhwa now it feels really really awesome, the story has depth. The character has debt the storytelling, and the pacing is good every now, and then. Whenever there's a fight scene or there is a fight, the climax or mid battle. There's obviously gonna be a character. Emotional feedback or flashbag.

Also the construction of the story is really intriguing. It takes time as well your attention to keep up with its world building.

This is straight 8 out ... 10. It might get even higher in the later ch but now I'm very much enjoying reading this manhwa ongoing. Yeah I caught up with this manhwa pretty recently.
A MUST READ FOR HHOSE WHO TRIES TO FIND SOMETHING NEW AND THOUGHTFUL IN THIS KINF GENRE.

*Note for me* (not really a review but a RANT)

November 19, 2023
Since I'm a sucker for action manhwa and it doesn't have a harem tag so I directly delve into it, waited for updates every week.
The story is set in a Murim fantasy so you can already tell it will have a lot of action scenes, nice story, nice art but I'll dropped it (last read chapter 180) because fucker has 2 wives and I'm not into harem shit (I definitely got scammed, they should have put harem tag on it), maybe I'll read it next time but not right now cause I don't ... know what I feel about this (kinda mad and annoyed) ( I seriously I cannot stop thinking about it, and I can't help feel annoyed everytime)

Seriously Wang Yogun or whatever destroyed it for me, like I was having fun reading it although it's generic, like you can finds tons of different manhwa with the same premise but nice story nevertheless. She just barges in in the story and boom! He's gonna save me cause my father is strong and he needs him to be his ally and I'm someone strong that can't control her strength so he's gonna have sex with me to save me (seriously, at this point I thought I'm reading a manhua) and since we already have sex I'm gonna fall in love with him and he will marry me, like wtf. Moon Gyu (문규) was literally there from the start with the development to boot, aagghh annoying. I mean ml is strong enough like he literally kills anyone, and just like that he's gonna be forced to have a side piece considering he always says that he's gonna change the cult and won't have concubine, I know it's for politics and plot development but I believe he could have made a different decision.

MAJOR PLOT TWIST: I expected to read a manhwa but ends up reading a manhua (if you get it, you must also read a lot of manhwa and manhua)
Agghhh I'm being irrational and so emotionally invested in this that it's annoying, this seriously is a rant.

An intriguing idea, marred by horrible execution: a young bastard of a Lord (leader of multiple martial clans), who endured injustice in his youth gains an OP advantage early on (AI nanites) and sets use it to realize his ambitions and revenge. Sounds good, right? Wrong!

First of all, roughly 98% of the content is centered around martial arts. I mean, fictional martial arts. Things like "Sword Force of the Heavenly Demon," "Supreme Sword Sky of the Heavenly Sword," "24 Heavenly Demon Swords," "Sword Art of the Demon God." One of these is made up by me, but all of them are completely identical from a ... narrative standpoint (and butchered by translation). Of course, they require a different number of years of training or cultivation or whatever. But seriously, the sole motivation of the characters is to unlock the N+1 technique of the chosen hard-to-spell martial style. And they do. They train hard. They gain insights into unimaginably godly powers so they can train more and gain more insights. Oh, how awesomely powerful they are!

But... why?

Is there anything else in this world besides constant training and martial growth? Well, yes. Revenge. And that's it. There is no life where these awesome powers could be applied. The world consists only of martial clans who either fight with the main character or submit to him. The MC doesn't even have friends; he has only subordinates. His life is spent training, fighting, studying, negotiating, and teaching his underlings. Well, I wouldn't have judged if it were real life, but it's supposed to be entertaining for us, isn't it?

And the "original" sci-fi aspect? Well, it's not real sci-fi; it's "technobabble." It shows when the author clumsily tries to marry it with acupuncture-based medicine, qi channels, ghosts, etc. Frankly, instead of "nano machine," they should've used something more standard and relevant, like an inner demon or something. And it fades into the background once the MC becomes sufficiently powerful on his own.

Now, there are things that are genuinely good: art, violence, overwhelming power, the concept of the nano tech in the xianxia setting (early on). But they are not sufficient to compensate for the absence of anything besides the bland and repetitive martial progression and one-sided elimination of "enemies" for the sake of revenge.