The Return of the Iron-blood Sword Hound

Like the novel but the grammatical errors in the various chapters suck out the enjoyment. The editors really need to comb through this novel and fix them. There is constant switching of gender terms for multiple characters or not using their correct name when they are speaking or being referenced or spoken to

It's basically what you would expect from a average regression novel. The plot is nothing insane, world building is OK. Main character stupid and smart and too, too broken. Side characters development is good. And that's it, don't expect some peak

one of my very favorite LNs. for me personally top3 or better, really. the school ark is rather short and wr don't have any unnecessary and cringe romance.

It was pretty good at the start but it just had too many things that simply killed it for me Tldr, vikir feels too stupid, the author just wants to make him brokenly OP, evey other character mostly doesn’t exist 1) To start with vikir, no matter how many times he sees Hugo loves, he simply don’t understand it again and again and ignores it. If he was the smart character that he is supposed to be , after knowing that Seth was behind his death and seeing Hugo first cry for his grandchild, he could stop with the unreasonable lack of understanding. I am not saying anything about give up on the revange, but it is not excuse to make vikir so dense about Hugo’s change 2)Vikir is strong, very strong. Now instead of building strong allies to fight multiple vs strong demons, we keep seeing him gets buffs. (note that vikir keep talking about the heroes and his comrades from his past life, but we see basically nothing he does to train or interact with them) The point that made it too much was in the tower with the candies. Not only that tower has the potential of simply doubling vikir’s power, he also got all 3 special candies (each one buff hidden stat that you cant get anywhere in the world, basically BIG buff) at the start, meaning that he will become too unreasonably strong from it. Not to forget that he already has basically immortality with his high regeneration and the strongest poison in the world 3)About vikir hiding his identity at the academy, it started somewhat reasonable but later it became bs. He did too many things to stand out so the whole point of not standing out simply doesn’t exist Later on with the demon hunting, all of them couldn’t care less about vikir and underestimated his power. One of them was like: “you killed 4 demons? It doesn’t matter because you won’t be able to kill me“ only highlighting that hiding his family wasn’t necessary 4)Now about other characters, they really feels like they are not existing or simply tools. Camus was basically disappeared from the plot for a lot of time, vikir never searched for her Aiyen will probably won’t appear for a long time The saint exists to boost his power, nothing more. The “friend group” doesn’t know about vikir identity, we don’t have enough deep relationships so it feels a bit empty 5)At the tower the other student felt like kids that their only existence was to look bad and stupid, just for the sake of making vikir seems like smart strong etc etc The academy is an institute for the elite and the student there are late teen of 17-18 + meaning that they are not kids. So why did the author made them so stupid?? Instead of working together they thought about cannibalism, who to kill first based on stuff like who is the richest or smartest. I simply can’t understand this at all Smaller points: Encountering the demons miraculously by the order of their power, there was no indication it was planned and it felt so bad for me. For example Instead of the weaker demons working and fight together to make the fights a lot harder, we didn’t get any of it. The event when the students made TONS of money but they simply throw it all on a party. Somehow vikir had a knowledge to create such a big fancy party, this was one of the things that made me question what is the genre of the wn is again. So my opinion is that it is not recommended to read, lost it potential and has many points that felt bad to read

Peak word building, Peak side characters, Great MC, the fights are fire 🔥 I like it a lot The concept of the novel and the ideas are great.

Honestly, this is extremely underrated. Everyone says the Academy arc is horrible; however, in my opinion, its alright and not deserving of the amount of hate. Yes, the academy arc is long, and yes, it gets a bit annoying; however, there are still a lot of enjoyable parts in the academy, for example, the fights and the ten demon corpse's. Lastly, the demon corpse fights are magnificent, with Vikir already killing 3 (Decarabia is basically a baby madam that can talk so it doesn't count) and me personally, I am loving this Abyss Tree arc at the moment.

I loved the manhwa, picked up the LN, was great until I hit the brick wall called the academy arc that has no sign of ending… I am sure some people like it, but it’s too jarring for me how the tone shifts, especially with the strange relationship stuff like: haha try to be funny with the Saint wetting the bed with him blame shifting…? I wish I was joking It makes a attempt of being edgy deceptive, but it really rubs me the wrong way as well considering that it doesn’t meaningfully accomplish anything but a unnecessary “school-life” plot insert, and the elusive demon big bad guys become dime a dozen going down in numeric order… Little to no build up whatsoever Absolutely goofy from such a strong start, I fear the impact this will have on the manhwa, I didn’t expect it to take such turns Overall, it is a disappointment, and my day is ruined

Istg this novel needs more stars and a better rank. . . I love it and would recommend it to read but the academy arc is, as already mentioned by others, a bit lame because noone likes him acting all powerless of course, but i hope/believe that the next arc wont be like this, so i support this novel fr 👍

I have liked this novel before the academy arc but after that it's terrible. Mc suddenly changed his character design and pretends to be low key which simply to avoid attention. But the outrageous deeds he does bring him much more attention. At this point it is just brainless show off. Again I am not a fan of the idea of mc trying to solve everything by himself and taking the blame when there's is simply no need. I feel it rather disgusting to see the culprits constantly treated as matyr. Besides mc is not alone. He has family status and power(both baskerviles and the tribe) but doesn't use them. I was very much delighted, how he behaved until academy arc (including second brother/1st demon hunting) but then it simply feels his IQ is nerfed. Besides he acts like saviour too much (academy arc) when his character is not that type. (like sacrificing himself for others)

As of 26/02/2024, I have read all the translated chapters for both the Manhwa and Web Novel. It starts off with the MC having a clear goal in mind - Revenge. Although the MC desires revenge, he doesn't let that dictate every action he does as evident by the fact that at some point where he comes to terms with his past self and does not let revenge become his so purpose in life in pursuit of something else - Freedom. I like that character progression aspect of him the most as I find it the hardest for MCs in regression stories to actually reflect on their goals in life and change, whether for better or worse. As the story progressed, I saw how the MC hesitate to enact his revenge as he realized there were other facors in play that caused his death and he is wise in doing so for not being blinded by only who caused his death but who actually orchestrated it. For romance, there seems to be multiple girls charmed by the MC and it remains to be seen who he will actually choose first.