Reborn as a Barrier Master · review
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This review may discuss plot details.
This shit is so ass and I couldn't NOT recommend it enough. Hear me out, the first like 8 chapters were great, we met many amazing characters and the relationships mc had with them was great. But then, boom, they all die. Whatever, I was sad but it wasn't unexpected, it's just that what came after made the story go from an interesting one to trash. First of all, mc runs away to the forest and meets some talking fox that he befriends. Then mc goes to this neighboring country, cuz, y'know, he just killed like all the higher ups in his kingdom in a fit ofrage.
In this new country, mc takes up his old job, except not really. Mc opens a business to protect merchants things for them or whatever, but we have NO idea how he did it, was just skipped entirely.
Then a whole lotta nothing happens, mc meets a giant fox god, the god gives him these powers because he gave her food and whatever.
The part that really put the nail in the coffin for me was the princess of the empire. Like I get it, she was starved for attention and affection from her father and put her trust in some super shady guys, but how can you be THAT naive to ever think anyone would support her stupid ideas. The knight guy by her side did not even hide the fact that he disliked her and she didn't notice.
Anyway, knight guy uses naive princess to start a rebellion or whatever. it fails cuz mc is there, and then the knight guy tries to kill princess and mc goes over to save her. Mind you, this is the same mc who is known as the demon king, the same mc who destroyed an entire castle with barrier and ice magic, and the same mc who got exponentially stronger after killing all those people.
And yet, he struggled like hell to defeat the knight and because of his refusal to kill because he wanted to save lives, the knight guy got even stronger and many innocent soldiers died as a result. then the knight steals this conveniently placed ring, eats it, becomes immune to magic and suddenly mc can do NOTHING, so what does mc do. He uses the random ass sword he had in this infinite bag and kills the knight guy.
What was the point of all that build up if mc was just gonna kill him with a sword.
In conclusion, the beginning was a solid 7/10, and as it went on, it got worse and worse until my final rating where I dropped it.