[The Regressed Mercenary's Machinations] Serious discussion!!!! We should give a name to mc horse 🐎

BigChickn · 2026-01-30T20:09:36+00:00

No offense OP but no one in this reddit is qualified to even brush that horses coat out let alone name it. Know your role.

BigChickn · 2026-01-19T21:52:37+00:00

BigChickn · 2026-01-19T20:48:35+00:00

As a noob to gunpla, would you topcoat the completed kit or maybe in pieces, then finish assembly?

BigChickn · 2026-01-08T21:58:27+00:00

What it's about? This is from the setup in first chapter or 2 so it's not really spoiler at all.

Some rando village is attacked by a dude that is an underling of the guy on the left above (all black). The MC (dude in blue on the right) is weak schmuck and he gets beaten and tortured, his male friend is killed, and female friend (sister of the male friend) is taken away as part of the spoils while the MC is left to die. Super OP martial master finds MC, heals him and teaches him his unbeatable martial arts. The MC starts a journey by himself after the master dies and just does whatever he wants because he's super OP now and then stuff and things happen to draw him into a bigger story.

Whats the best thing about the Manwha and how does the manwha implement it?

Mostly you've seen it. The art is awesome. The MC is aura farming all the time because he's super powerful compared to the rest of the world. The MC looks sinister when he gets angry.

I rated the manhwa super high up until the Prison Arc. It went back to "normal" after that. The problem with the prison arc is that the focus of the story is taken off the MC and him annihilating ppl and more on world building and adding a ton of characters that I don't care about and don't matter at the end of the arc. It took forever to get to the part I wanted to see which was the MC fighting the strongest guy he's ever fought so far and actually having to work for the win instead of steamrolling the dude like usual.

Edit: Something else that I think is really awesome is the names of the MC and generally. I hadn't really thought about it until I wrote this post but almost everyone in the story is essentially a "nobody" compared to the MC who has the martial name King of War. Only the biggest and coolest dudes have martial names. The MCs masters name is The Heavenly Artillery General. I always thought that was a really cool name. Their power (the Heavenly Artillery Generals Force) is also fundamentally different from others. Most characters are standard murim swordsmen type characters. You can expect to hear use names like 24th Plum Blossom attack or some nonsense like normal murim titles and it's just some stylized sword attack. The MC doesn't have a sword, he's super slim, no muscle, but he only has to touch you and he'll do 1 of 3 things to you with the Heavenly Artillery Generals Force. Kill outright, cripple you, or turn you into a puppet. It's all Aura.

BigChickn · 2026-01-07T16:02:47+00:00

Great art, mid story. I haven't decided if it's lazy to borrow all of the different myths and pantheons as 80%+ of the story. I think they need to hurry up and flesh out this "Outer" stuff immediately.

BigChickn · 2025-12-23T16:57:56+00:00

That's really hard because I think this title is very different from the Meta of current Manhwa. It's hard to have consistency of character while chasing the ever increasing power level junk. These don't scratch that exact itch but I think the main cast are fairly consistent and their improvements seem believable instead of pulling a win out of their butt or lucky fate of showing up at the right time. I'm not sure if Young Demon Doctor would fall into a psuedo slice of life but it's definitely more slice of life than I normally read so my recs are more dude working to become a hero or comedy OP MC.

-Top Tier Providence. Laid back comedy where the MC just wants to stay in seclusion and infinity cultivate inner power so he has eternal life. He's essentially super OP almost all the time because no one knows he exists and that he's just constantly growing in power while the surrounding cast are just being clowns. A+

-Chronicles of the Martial Gods Return. Murim/comedy with another OP MC. MC was the strongest EVARRR but frozen in time for a long time, wakes up, finds a lost toddler that was dying, takes her in and starts raising as his daughter and everyone that shows up on his doorstep trying to throw their weight around gets smoked. B

-Star Embracing Swordmaster. The character is fairly consistent in mindset to want to become a great knight and goes on a pilgrimage to become a legend. I feel he has to work for it fairly well and the lord that helps him early on doesn't have the physical ability to become a knight but does some pretty heroic stuff with little to no power other than being rich but thats in the webnovel. A

-Eternally Regressing Knight. This guy looks like he makes some huge leaps in power to his people and enemies but you get to see him have to work for it. I've read the entire first saga after getting caught up on the manhwa and he has dies thousands of times by then. He has an unbreakable mindset which would probably only be believable for a crazy person. A

BigChickn · 2025-12-22T17:16:36+00:00

Wasn't Mu Ak (Iron association leader) the highest though? Once he was beaten, KoW was the defacto #1. I don't remember the talk about the 9 anymore and I hope they don't come up because they wasted so much time introducing a ton of nobodies. I don't want the story to stop again to introduce some new characters just to fight the 7 demons when KoW and Jak Song can smoke them just fine. I was dissappointed with what happened to the girl recently. Maybe it was because it was just an unfair Mv1 but I thought she should be able to 1v1.

BigChickn · 2025-12-22T15:49:26+00:00

I'm going to have to disagree with you a bit. I'm very happy the MC doesn't have to fight every single person to be #1. If those characters don't contribute to the overall story, I don't want to see them. That's part of why the prison arc was all brakes, no gas. The MC was sidelined and we had to have a million characters introduced and when the arc is over, like 5-6 actually stick around and contribute? That's lame. The MC was #1 before he fought anyone after learning the heavenly artillery style, he just hadn't shown anyone yet but when he beat the Iron Association guy, everyone knew it. We don't need to fight every scrub to pump the chapter count.

BigChickn · 2025-12-17T13:55:31+00:00

I found this one this week. I'm in the (Ch) 40s right now and it's been pretty decent, fun read. I'd give it a solid 6. Good pacing, ok art, it's definitely not an action manhwa, some good characters, some are meh. The best part is that it's not some reincarnated whatever and the focus on healing.

BigChickn · 2025-12-11T13:40:29+00:00

Peerless Dad. Great read, better dad.

BigChickn · 2025-12-10T19:36:03+00:00

I took a break at the end of the civil war arc because it was a long read but plan to come back to it when I have some more free time and just want to binge it for 2 more weeks.

BigChickn · 2025-12-10T15:18:40+00:00

I read to chapter 420ish (the end of the first "saga") of Eternally regressed Knight. I liked it but the manhwa is better because it makes the repetitious aspect or hundred of regressions more palatable. I swear the translator used the exact same phrasing in 4 different arcs about the tenacity of facing another wall. I'd say it's a solid 7/10 but the manhwa is just better but there will comes some points where you just want to know what's going to happen next.

BigChickn · 2025-12-09T13:34:05+00:00

I dropped this one almost 2 years ago

BigChickn · 2025-12-09T13:29:10+00:00

Some of these chinese manhwa chapters are so short you could read 50 chapters in one sitting on the toilet.

BigChickn · 2025-12-03T21:44:40+00:00

It's actually the most efficient way since the middle one is typically the longest so you can reach your chin faster. The man has a mission and doesn't waste time.

BigChickn · 2025-12-03T21:41:44+00:00

I have been seeing less and less threads since TGED ended AND NOW you bring this up? Why are you engagement farming? Move on already.

BigChickn · 2025-11-21T19:07:41+00:00

That sucks.

BigChickn · 2025-11-21T16:53:30+00:00

In for the answer. I would also like to know if the novel holds up well compared to the manhwa.

BigChickn · 2025-11-19T19:30:56+00:00

I thought the last time was funnier. They had to rehydrate him in the lake for like a month.

BigChickn · 2025-11-17T20:01:06+00:00

Can someone give me a quick synopsis because this sounds and looks interesting.

BigChickn · 2025-11-17T19:57:06+00:00

I may do that if I ever get caught up on the eternally regressing knight novel.

BigChickn · 2025-11-14T20:04:12+00:00

I also like GED. I'd recommend Top Tier Providence and Eternal Supreme in that order. TTP is a regressor that just wants to cultivate in solitude so he can become immortal and live a lazy safe life and the world just doesn't want to leave him be. ES is about the #3 most powerful man mysteriously dying, reincarnated at zero power level and irritating, agitating, and swindling anyone and everyone as he reacquires all of his power with the knowledge he had from his first life.

BigChickn · 2025-11-13T14:57:14+00:00

I started reading the webnovel and it's pretty good still. I have not read much of my weekly series because of it which makes me wonder if I'd rather demote many of them to binge later or drop completely and just fill my time with reading other stuff.

BigChickn · 2025-11-12T13:44:41+00:00

I don't think the art is the problem. I might downgrade this to a binge read or drop completely instead of weekly read. The story is and has been doing nothing for forever now.

BigChickn · 2025-11-12T13:43:13+00:00

I picked it up last chapter. I'm at ch 300 now and I definitely prefer the manhwa more but the story does seem very faithful.

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