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This is a well written story. I originally skipped this story when it was first released because of the MC enslavement reviews but was bored and forgot about the reviews. I really enjoyed the story up to the part where the MC got enslaved by his dark magic teacher. Thought I could get pass it, but I just loss interest after that part. Rated this at 3.8.

MC is a high level demon (who also happens to be a transmigrator from earth) that died and took over the body of a young noble man millions of years later. Upon taking over the body, MC reaches level 4 (of whatever the power scheme is), kills a level 4 beast like nothing. MC seems OP at this point, but as of this writing Ch ~85, he is still at the same power level and now struggles against those very same level 4 beast that was killed like nothing at the beginning. Author is definitely trying to rein in MC's power to the extent it makes the story feel dragged out. Also, as of late, most chapters (<80) are focused on building a village and his retainers/slaves and their practice journey instead of advancing the story.

This story is about a MC that is betrayed by people he trust and protected before jumping off the cliff and being reincarnated (but feels more like a transmigration). The storyline is fairly solid and is generally enjoyable to read. I rated this a 3.8, primarily because of the annoying plot armor that saves the MC, time after time due his 'machonism' to take on more than he can handle or unwillingness to be looked down upon. The MC just never seems to learn from his mistakes and as of late, his wariness of being used and betrayed again seems to be gone, replaced by your typical headstrong hero who voluntarily becomes the kingdom's savior. The MC is a sword master, but as of ch 90 or so, he has been in life and death situations saved only by plot armor without even wielding a sword all because he wants to experience his other skills according the author's comment. The harem element also seems forced, such as the random cat girl that saves the MC just has he was about to be killed after being greedy for some spirit plant.

This story started out somewhat interesting with the online-like world merging into the real world theme with a relatively low-key MC, but spirals out of control into collecting beauties, letting trouble makers get away and plot armor to save the day. It feels like most of the human world conflict could have been avoid if MC would have just told everyone the danger outside of the world instead of trying to take it on himself and being the human worlds enemy. Also, MC could have rooted out trouble makers, but that would have solve too much of the issues instead of letting things go.

MC transmigrates into a world with magic with a system that can help the MC grow stronger from lustful activities. Unfortunately, the system becomes nothing more than a status pop up to take up word count and suffers from the author nerfing it early on as a means to slow the MC's progress which leads to open plot and stupid decisions, such as extended time passing without any natural MC cultivation progress until the next time the MC dual cultivates. This story also seems to mix the magic/mage system with traditional cultivation, which makes it confusing at times.

While a bit dragged out, the prologue was interesting with a possible kingdom building setup along with the death note element. Read up to about 50 chapters, this seems to be more slice of life along with cringing family moments between mc's parents, sister, maid and fiancées. The book of death element is rarely mentioned to the point where it probably should have been excluded. Mc is also very cliché and naïve for being an old man transmigrator.

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So far the story is not too bad (up to ch 40). The MC is primarily focused on growing up (stronger) while being overly cautious to avoid being found. There are no face slapping, system or other usual trope present. MC transmigrates into a baby poison dragon and awakens the ancestor bloodline which grants him the ability to absorb traits/skills from things that are consumed. The only negative or annoying thing so far is probably the MC's lack of taking advantage of his OP skill. He can absorb skills/traits from things that he eats and even the story description hints at this but so far he refuses to eat any intelligent creatures (humans and mermaids) to obtain their skills. The author seems to want to nullify this skill by bringing up compatibility issues that does not make much sense. Our MC's biggest obsession is to eat a freakin lava rock. ugh...

Battle Dragon Mecha is not a t-rex robot? Unless I am not understanding things here, I'm pretty confident a t-rex is not a dragon. If your statement is correct, why isn't this titled "Mecha: Defeat the Battle Dragon Mecha from the start"? The only explanation is a bait and switch attempt or maybe poor translating by whoever translated the title and the story but that doesn't make sense.

This novel really deserves 0 stars for lying about the t-rex robot. So far, up to chapter 40, there is no t-rex robot. This story is about a transmigrator who transmigrates into a world with strong mech development. Our MC becomes instantly OP due to his mech system, however, this system which was my initial reading joy disappeared until around ch 36 before the author suddenly remembered to issue another system mission. The author also casually gave our MC a system reward for completing the training mission after the fact, despite never mentioning the system's mission during the training mission arc. A 14-15 year old mysterious loli with the ability to increase our MC's strength was also casually thrown in the story around ch 30. She essentially lives with the MC & his sister as of ch 40 and offers nothing to the story except her mystery and powering up our MC.

Don't expect this story to be original. It is full of the usual cliché but is somewhat still mildly enjoyable if you do not over think it. Our MC here is a reincarnator with a system that bumps the time of whatever he desires to a certain threshold, such as his cultivation to 5 years or later on a skill to 100 years of experience, etc... So far, up to ch 40, MC is still mostly focused on self cultivation while being led around by others. Although, a 10 yr old tsundere loli introduced around ch 29 seems to be forcing her way into the story more, forcing annoying loli interactions, which is annoying to read.

I've also spent time trying to find the raw. No success so far.

This is a transmigration story like others before where the MC takes over a body and has a knowledgeable spirit master to help guide him to cultivate. The interesting and enjoyable part of this story for me is where the MC takes a backseat and is more like an observer as the plot unfolds around him. The author does an excellent job of highlighting characters around the MC and provide very reasonable points of views for all the characters, even the villains. There are no young master drama, face slapping or unnecessary killing. SPOILER: I completed reading the raws for this story. After the wonderful first volume/arc, the story tanks for me. It becomes a harem focused, women chasing drama with all beauties (15+ ish) falling for the MC as he explore the world and gets involve with their dramas. The MC even gets his master, his personal disciple and her aunt, his not blood related sister and her master, etc... you get the point. The author admits at the end of the story that he made the change due to low subscriptions from the first arc and doubled the subscriptions after focusing on the harem, which is too bad because this could have been a unique and interesting story.

Fyi, as of this writing, I've read up to ch 980 of the raws. Spoilers towards the end. This is another transmigration story with a system and OP MC. The twist with this one is the system allows the MC to travel to different worlds based on a game, movie or story (such as Diablo III, Edge of Tomorrow, etc...) at random to complete various quest/missions while getting stronger. Fair warning, the MC has an ever growing large harem with a large amount being loli or young girls. There's also nationalism present, strong support for marxism and distain of capitalism. For instance, MC wanted to abolish private property ownership in one of the worlds he conquers later on when he is caught trespassing on private property. There is also a disturbing rape incident involving the MC and a female enemy in chapter 707.