Re:The Worst System Leveling Turned Me Into A Zombie

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Before I reached Lvl. 100, they called me Death God Hei. But when I broke the limit, the System punished me. It cursed me to become this monster. I woke up as a Lvl. 0 again. Dying only brings me back to a save point now. But I don't go back until I dietwice. First I suffer as a human, then I hunger as a zombie. The worst part is...I still have to watch when thatthingtakes over my corpse. I call it theGray. I can't do anything even when it's hunting down those I'm trying to save. Sometimes, I wonder. When I level, I swear I can hear a voice speaking to me.This thing...can it think?

It's like Re:zero crossed with SAO, Solo Leveling, and Tokyo Ghoul

Re:The Worst System is a dark, 1st person timeloop story where the main character is slowly driven insane by his ability to respawn at a save point. However, each time he levels, there's a possibility that the next time he dies, the zombie inside him will become too powerful for anyone to stop. So he has to level up a harem...ahem, others, to fight for him against the System. Oftentimes, Hei will get trapped in repeating death loops which are truly terrifying.

You've been warned...please don't read if you're not willing to see the darkness all the way through. The light on the other side may be a long ways away...I'll be trying to post on Thurs/Sundays, but honestly, depending on how I'm feeling, chapters could come out at some wonky times.

If you want to support the story, read ahead, or bribe me to write more, I'd appreciate you checking out my Patreon, but this story will be updated frequently for free anyways.

Come chat about the story with other Hunters: https://discord.gg/BUhQ23qw

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2020
Author: MtAlternity

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 240
Views: 91,875

Chapters(71 total)

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Community Reviews(6)

follower of darknessRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
this is a fun read and i hope that the author gets back to it. i like how he tries to develop all of the possible waifu/romance interests, but i hope that the author circles back to previously develpoped ones which had a lot of detail put into them but have seemingly dissappeared.
Lictor MagnusRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Style: Action scenes are done really well in this novel. The author describes things in a way that you can picture how characters are moving and everyone relative position.
Story: The plot is about a man who is stuck in a loop with a slight twist. Every time he dies instead of just restarting another personality takes over his body that just wants to kill everything around him. That second personality needs to die for the loop to start over again. It creates a solid reason for the MC to not try to become overpowered by taking advantage of all his knowledge of the future.
Grammer: Everything I've read flows pretty well. I've seen a few errors here and there but nothing that break immersion.
Character: This is the only real issue I have with the story. Hei and Yin don't really have personalities. Hei comes across as a standard really good at everything edgy MC and Yin just an overly nice girl. We never really get a picture of what makes them tick or what they like.
Overall I've been entertained by the story so far. As of the end of volume one, I think it's worth a read if you like loop stories.
TheEarlofBronzeRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Reviewing a novel after 3 chapters is a bit... well, meh. But this is a day-old novel and it's always nice to give new authors a bump up.
The basics are solid, good grammar, very easy-to-read prose, combat is clean and also easy to follow, mostly not bogged down by lots of extraneous details.
The MC shows a decent amount of personality, changing his decisions based on his emotions at times, and making other decisions based on rational in other instances, pretty good overall, makes him feel more than a 2 dimensional personality. Hope to see that trend continue.
I suspect that the general settings and 'tags' for the story are going to be the dividing line of whether people decide they like it or not, overall I find the apocalypse+system+reincarnation/restart thing a fairly well done mix in this cases, based on the few small hints we've gotten so far.
I'm putting it as a follow in the hopes that it keeps progressing in a good and interesting direction. Hopefully the romance is enjoyable, though that's usually a high risk tag! :P
Here's hoping for more soon! I look forward to hopefully bumping my rating up in the future too!
AuroraOfEmberRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
The writing is above average for RR, butsomething keeps bugging me. Over and over, the MC does and says things that deserve raised eyebrows. You just don't come up with knowledge that cannot be explained in a reasonable way without getting questioned. The first few times could be excused as Yin (the female lead / near equevalent) was most definetely in shock for a bit and accepted everything at face value. However, the loop lasts long enough for her to get to get her feet under her long enough to ask questions. Questions that just don't come. I cannot come up with a reasoning for her not to ask. Not that the reader should be the one to explain that anyway.
I honestly like the presmise, with the loop allowing for developing the characters with less action. However, ignoring how little Yin questions Hai is very tiring. I want to enjoy the story, but I just can't.
TroubleFaitRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Tragedy and throw backs are well acquainted with time loop stories, so it is unsurprising that Hei will be confronted to it. However, you may want to be prepared for the severity of it.
The beginning is a story about the MC forced to repeat his lives in a dying world. Each time he dies, he suffers, but growing strong to avoid dying was a trap on its own, so he was stuck in a fine balance where the smallest mistake could end his loop.
The catch:
However, the story won't stay that way and past this somewhat classic introduction, lays the real plot. The major tragedy element of it was enough to force me to stop right there. I am weak to injustice and bullying, you see, and it was very hard for me to read. In spite of this, I got word from the author that the story IS NOT at all about MC suffering endlessly, which is neat!
So if you can bear with some passages of tragic, you should really try this story out, it has much strong points to please you!
The good points:
The writing style is great. The fight scenes flow well, and rather than just being a fight, they feel poetic, with always an underlying theme to it. Very interesting.
The characters are well constructed. The narrator is restricted to Hei's POV, so they aren't all explained to us, and the reader have to think if he wants to make sense of their actions, which brings engagement in the story. Well done.
The world building is taking its time, which brings mystery to the adventure. Explaining everything wouldn't be interesting. As it is, we discover the world as it is laid out in front of us, with a reliable narrator to tell us of what we must know to understand the situation. It fosters a healthy desire to discover more of it.
Conclusion:
As I said, this story can be harsh to some readers, but it is of good quality through both the plot, the style and the characters. If you can bear with some tragedy, I heavily recommend it to you.
LlionoRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
In the begining this novel was about time loops with a guy dying by weird choices. The main character was really weird, he was pragmatic sometimes and followed his emotions and wasnt at all pragmatic sometimes.
He doesn't want to level but sometimes he wants. And then he's back to not wanting again. I don't really know what he wants really. I have a hard time understanding how this guy got to level 100, not to mention being the first one.
Then he is forced to kill a lot of people and I can start to understand how he made it to the top. Then this story changes genre and turns into the grim-dark horror where everything turns bad no matter what.
It's got good grammar.