[Light Novel] Harun ( Haroon )

[LifeHowling]

Original Title : 하룬
Author : LEE Hyun Bi
Status : 26 Volumes (Complete)

Translation : NU

Spoiler for Description:

In the distant future, Earth is heavily affected by consecutive nuclear wars and humans are barely surviving under a shield protecting their few “Unions.” Inside the Unions, people are classified from S to F based on their abilities/aptitudes and live in residential zones that match their classification.

Our protagonist Jung Min was born as one of the 300,000 artificially inseminated children created to prepare for the future of mankind. However, it turned out that he was aptitude-less (i.e. incompetent) and was thus pushed out to the F Zone, the most dangerous and outermost part of the Union.

Then everything changes on his first day of Adulthood: Jung-min receives an advanced Virtual Reality capsule from his foster father for a game called ‘Beyond.’

Overall, Harun is an incredible tale of a failure’s growth and success both in the gaming world and the real world.

In South Korea, Harun is considered as one of three best game-fantasy novels (the other two being the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor and Ark).

Review Okuri Ookami

Great novel so far. The novel is hard to read at this point but you can tell the TL is doing their best. With a good editor what is passable now could be stellar! Not to mention each release is equivalent to 3+ chapters of a normal novel.
About the story.
The MC is a failure. Simple fact not my opinion, this is a key point in the series. The MC wasn't born with incredible gifts and do to events he's been on his own for a good bit. In this post apoc world an unskilled and underage worker really has no prospects so you can guess he's down and out on his last leg...
Events happen and his life is changed. There are no reincarnation or know everything events here. No what he gets is equivalent to a double birthday present. A chance to reinvent himself, change his figure, and move up the social tiers.
This is your typical KR MC he's hard working not noticeably underestimated and diligent. The chapters might be a bit short of LMS' length but NPC interaction is top and greatly similar to LMS if not better. The UI isn't as in your face either.
Its a great series and only requires a bit of mental editing. This is your Grammar Nazi's beware!