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1463 Chapters (Completed)
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What do you do when you wake up and find yourself inside the very game that you love?

What do you do when you realize you that you have not only become an NPC – you have even been thrown back in time to before the game even launched!

What will happen when our protagonist’s two realities coincide?

Han Xiao was a professional power leveler before his transmigration. Using his past life’s knowledge, Han Xiao sweeps through the universe as he prepares for the arrival of the players. This is definitely not your typical transmigration novel.

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Chāo Shén Jī Xiè Shī
Siêu Thần Cơ Giới Sư
TLM
Transcendental Mechanic
超神机械师
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Berkyx rated it
December 2, 2018
Status: c347
Startup was great but afterwards its become unintresting and boring also MC is too much OP because of spoiler

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Spoiler

he can sell skills to players with the exp as currency therefore he has nearly unlimited exp as long as he can get the advancement learning (think as secondary classes) he can full his level of his advancement later he again looking for that advancement and they are not hard for example for his 2nd advancement he just went to a bar and asked bartender for his deceased brother's notebook and that was it...

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Blackrabbit0634
Blackrabbit0634 rated it
November 28, 2018
Status: c191
I must say that it's really not that good. IIRC MC used to be a "Yorozuya" so he does odd jobs which makes him more of an all-rounder so expect him to be good at almost anything from stealing, conning, manipulating, assasination, infiltration & so-on. And as you can guess MC is not one honest guy he's more on the grey side.

What I don't like about this novel is that even though MC is transmigrated into the game MC's attitude is only like a player with only 1 life, I'm... more>> not expecting MC to overly cautious but he just kinda rubs me the wrong way as he's pretty much treating everybody as a disposable NPC then suddenly being nice from time to time what is he a tsundere? I'd like for the author to just focus on the MC entirely as some NPCs have background stories which makes me feel weird as sometimes I forget that they are all just a bunch of data not living humans.

As of now other than getting stronger MC has no other goals which is kinda boring, like atleast make-up some kind of goal to strive forward this is not a SOL novel, like aim for being a pirate king or one piece etc. Even if it can't be realized atleast there is some kind of specific goal.

Also as of chp191 there is no possibility of romance or anything remotely similar as MC stated that he's not interested in women/men/humans.

There are also a lot of info dumps at the beginning which I suggest just skimming it as it's not that really important, even now I skim the histories, skills, abilities, blueprints etc. Yet I can still follow the story without a problem. <<less
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Nay Nay Nay rated it
April 29, 2025
Status: --
It's a good story, but just like the top comment says, it's plagued by directionlessness. Sure, the MC has places to go, but it's from "game knowledge" and he really doesn't have a goal beyond strength. After the revenge arc is done, he doesn't really do anything logical for people without game knowledge aka us readers, so it felt like a slog.
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Lukitacx
Lukitacx
February 23, 2025
Status: c20
20 chapters is all I need to see how bad this novel is.

Autor tries to paint the MC as some cold, calculative genius.

He also makes the MC act the complete opposite way.

... more>> Example 1:

-MC is part of a super soldier experiment, and the organization expects him to show results or they'll dissect him:

-What does MC do? He acts like a brain dead guy to lay low, effectively putting himself on a random death timer, while also getting less resources.

Example 2:

-MC goes into a camp of travellers, and stays the night with a couple that warmly take him in.

-MC decides to leave his belongings outside for absolutely no reason. Even when he notices they have been touched, he doesn't even bother to tally up what's missing and trusts the thief blindly.

-This leads to the couple that took him in to be executed, and he fully knew that a missing gun might cause this issue, yet he's so dumb he didn't even bother to double check.

In 20 chapter the only smarts the MC has shown is him knowing how to breath properly. Everything else is either knowledge of the game's future or basic survival stuff.

Considering how MCs always become dumber as novels go on, this one is bound to go full tard by chapter 100 guaranteed. <<less
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bayukencanap
bayukencanap
February 16, 2024
Status: c1236
It's quite good but has a rough start. The plot on starting planet is filled to the brim with brainless characters. It gets better after Han Xiao goes to the outer space.

I personally like Manison vs Xiao dynamics. They're like two sides of coin.
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Jurnlok
Jurnlok rated it
June 15, 2023
Status: Completed
TL:DR - Below mediocre, great if you love evil MC or knowing what's going to happen before it happens.

The Legendary Mechanic wants, desperately, at the beginning to paint itself as a 'new' 'different' stuck in a game universe with that wacky twist at the end. The problem is, the author didn't really write 90% of the novel to account for the ending, but that's ok! The author plot armors everything in this book to prevent everyone from realizing how awful, sadistic and evil Han Xiao is. Because he is. If... more>> you knew someone who constantly acted like Han Xiao, you wouldn't interact with him. But that's ok! Everything he does is swept under the rug, because no one dies from the awful sh*t he does. So what if he modified a piece of armor that prevents you from repairing it in the future then he leaves two seconds later. I'm sure that won't end up in your team getting merc'd if you were in real life and death situations and needed to repair that in the field. And Nero, dear god Nero; Han Xiao would end up being arrested 25 times for what he did to Nero. What happened with Nero is how you hear on the news about how a child snapped and wiped out their whole family one calm weekend.

The book very much wants to merge the beginning premise with the end premise and say "Sure, this works perfectly fine" but it can't. You either have the beginning premise or the end premise, you can't have both. The beginning premise fills most of the book and allows things to happen logically and justifies plot armor. The end premise disproves the beginning premise which means the author wrote the plot armor to make everything else run on rails to the end, which is absolutely jarring when you finally get towards the end and unmask that 'crazy' twist. If you want to say both can be right, I would say that all of plot armor of random people not constantly getting slaughtered due to Han Xiao's actions would be equal to winning the rarest lottery jackpot EVERY SINGLE TIME you bought a ticket. Can it happen? Sure, but I don't know if we have a computer powerful enough to calculate those odds.

The book premise makes it easy to justify Han Xiao, but nothing justifies the plot armor of the characters around Han Xiao which becomes just as hard to stomach as if Han Xiao himself always magically escaped death at the last second by pure luck. Is there lots to love about the book? Sure, but also a lot of promises go unfulfilled as well. <<less
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Irvenn
Irvenn rated it
May 27, 2023
Status: Completed
I loved reading this novel. Praise the Great Mechanic Han!

It was a great novel, and although the ending was a tad abrupt, it made sense for where the MC and overall direction of the story were. It's a shame some strings were never wrapped up but were minor and had no relevance to the ending. Overall 4/5 it was fun as hell reading this novel.
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Xuanyu
Xuanyu rated it
January 19, 2023
Status: --
Story and worldbuilding are not bad.

But the MC is shallow and contradictioning himself everywhere.

Also while he seems smart that is only because the people turn dumb when he makes a plot or something.

... more>> Writing is passable, plot is good.

The biggest flaw is the terrible MC.

Some people say some readers are giving 1 stars because MC is not mental enough or not h**ny enough. But I say the story lost 1 star because he is too mental. I mean he just went and killed an entire group of young woman smiling like a madman screaming exp, exp, exp hahahahaha.

But then the game is also unbalanced as hell. Skills and tech tree is tr*shed up.

It is either a horrible game or a tr*shed up world.

Despite having the potential to be strongest he is always struggling with fights because despite saying he is prepared for everything he is always weaker and not prepared for what the opponent does for some reason.

Also some player were stuck in labs for months getting sliced still being lvl 1. How has this game not crashed?

Would anyone here log in a game for months everyday getting you organs harvested then getting brainwashed over and over and over. <<less
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miscreant
miscreant rated it
January 15, 2023
Status: Completed
Overall I'd say it's a fairly good novel that would appeal to people who like level up based novels. I'd probably rate it at around 3.5/5 but rounded it up to 4. However there are a few flaws I'll point out.

Firstly I think the game terminology with the MC as an NPC doesn't really work that well. When reading the novel it feels like the players are NPCs. Basically the existence of players is just used to farm XP and justified to give the MC knowledge of future plot points.... more>> Since their level cap is well below the MC's they basically end up being pretty much irrelevant to the plot so the whole aspect is at odds with the rest of the plot.

Secondly this novel also suffers from Chinese Nationalism syndrome that manifests itself during the player interactions. This means that the Chinese players/teams always have to win and any evil acts are always done by foreigners. This is used to justify that China is the best despite the fact that only reason Chinese teams win is cause the MC gives them cheat items.

After a while I basically skipped most of the plot involving players for the above reasons. <<less
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Rustes
Rustes rated it
November 8, 2022
Status: Completed
A legendary novel. Without spoiling too much, it starts of as our protagonist, Han Xiao wakes up as a no-name lab rat (Human experiment) from a very popular VR game he used to play called Galaxy. He used to be a pro player at the game before transmigrating. He has the same system that he used to have in-game and also sees that the actual game will launch after some time. So he is basically in the beta version of the game.
Spoiler

In the future, players from the real world come to play the game and our protagonist is a NPC with the payers system.

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explores various elements of the game world that he didn't know existed when he used to play as a player and realizes that the game has a lot more to it than what he knows. The butterfly effects caused by his actions are also very well thought out.
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Zyxia_92
Zyxia_92
November 2, 2022
Status: c1463
This novel is fcken great. Once u immerse yourself into the storyline I can't help but get engrossed. It's a whole immersion, the characters feel alive and I really like the ML. Though I wish the author could add few epilogues 😭😭😭😭
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6ber
6ber rated it
October 7, 2022
Status: c1463
I d'ont know what to say on one side it was a fun read quite entertaining even though the MC relies to often on luck but ok you know what I don't care but this ending pissed me off so bad who does this it feels like a chapter cut in half ok guys ... more>>
Spoiler

so he gets back to earth we show you look he came back but we won't show you anymore nothing not even a tiny bit more at least make some side stories after the ends like idk 1-2 ch or don't give me a chapter with someone falling over and him saying I'm back AHHHHH show at least a micro tiny bit of the repercution

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that's while I enjoyed reading it goes down from 4 stars to 3 stars because of this ending <<less
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harryleafings
harryleafings rated it
August 31, 2022
Status: c332
I really liked the story but at some point in reading it just clicked, that this is now boring. This point was when the pro player competition started. I really enjoy leveling aspects and getting stronger, but at the pro competition I realized that I would not be getting any of that—since he basically gets billions of xp. It removed the entire slow grind for levels, grinding for skills, and getting xp at all. At least he cant instantaneously advance, but its just going to be him getting max then... more>> having to complete some difficult advance task.

Another reason was that the whole mechanic theme was basically gone, in the beginning of the story it goes through all the process and information of him making things, and displaying how he is gaining all this knowledge and applying it in real time; however, at this point in the story it seems to just be “Ahh, I have all the prerequisites... 7 days later the machine is built” or “Now he can enhance all his machines” Like there is no elaboration, isnt this a story about the legendary mechanic? Why not show the mechanic process and more?

Anyways, apparently if you get past this point in the story it all gets better and resolved—thats what they always say—but I cant hold on that long 😴 <<less
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MyriadBooks
MyriadBooks rated it
August 27, 2022
Status: Completed
I wont give any review since many people already said what I want to say.

I just want to say that this Ive truly enjoyed reading this novel, I love the MC and his shamelessnes, his interaction with other characters.

Reading the last chapter made me a little bit emotional, guess thats what happen when you really enjoy a story.

I just hope the author Will make some extra chapters explaining what happened after the last chapter.
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moonsterdark
moonsterdark rated it
August 20, 2022
Status: c1463
I loved this novel.

Other have already said what was good with it so i'll just say the few things that dissatisfied me.

Caution this major spoiler!

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1: Evans and Karlot. They wboth recruted and trained from ordinary person to beyond grade As, it took more than 400 chapters of training and they don't even have that much screen time once their training is finished, even more so for Evans since Esgod is the same as him but better.

2:MC's daughter and Ames. Ames was the first to think that MC was reprodution material but it still took her something like 1000 to get on with having a child (they had 'normal' s*x in between, if destroying passing by planets counts as normal, of course we don't have the s*x scenes, just the destruction scenes.)

3:The ending. This ending where MC get all emotional and says "my hometown, I'm back.." was a bit disappointing honestly. Personally I think an ending in the sanctum would have made much more sense, something like: On the sanctum's light curtain MC writes "Civilizations of the past, civilizations of the future, the Information Strpping Plan was a success we survived the Great Reboot and entered the following Iteration. However, the Information Strpping Plan isn't a definitive solution, only a temporary one, we must strive foward to find a definitive solution."

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Sahbiot
Sahbiot rated it
July 17, 2022
Status: c1463
Never thought a mechanic class would be so interesting and powerful. Really enjoyed following Han Xiao as he levelled up in this mysterious world. Ending felt abrupt but at least it wasn't bad. Definitely worth the read. 4.5 Stars
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The Prodigal King
The Prodigal King rated it
March 29, 2022
Status: comleted
This is basically a cultivation novel with sci-fi background lol atleast the pattern seems like it, yet it did better than many other cultivation novels I've read so far, there were no power imbalances and progression of MC's power is fairly reasonable, story pacing is good, no annoying forced plots, fun MC, no rushed endings and ending itself is also pretty good.

Romance is as small as the female lead's chest (sorry Ames)... Though there are subtle hints here and there about romantic subplots it's still very subtle to the point... more>> where some might not even notice them.

Overall if I had to give an alternative name for this novel I'd call it "The Legendary Leak Farmer"... If you read to the end you'd know that this name is more suitable for this novel lol. <<less
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nieldizon
nieldizon
March 13, 2022
Status: c1
Giving this a 5 star, not too slow not too fast, nice comedic touches here and there, plot is OK not Mushoku Tensei great, overall a satisfying read. I feel bad for the worms - the author totally forgot them after he got the kunde race.
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Vanlatte
Vanlatte rated it
February 21, 2022
Status: Completed
This novel is one hell of a journey/adventure.

I quite like it.

Advantages:

  • Lovely storyline. It's exciting and interesting.
  • Character from weak to strong (MC has golden finger 'tho).
  • Good development and world building.
  • Not too much politic (more or less only a general politic; I mean, ordinary people like me can understand xD).
Disadvantages:

  • MC (and any other characters in this novel) doesn't leave much impression on me. The characters building aren't deep enough. From start 'till finish we don't know what MC's thought are. In a simple word, it's all superficial.
  • Plot armor. I don't really mind this, but the use of plot armor here is quite significant because the traces are everywhere.
  • The romance is... blerghh. It's better without romance, really. In my opinion it's more like friends with benefit, but somehow everyone view it as romance, which I don't know why but it's just feel... odd to me.
As for the ending, honestly it can be a little bit more. One or two more chapters are fine.

Spoiler

I mean, what will happen to the players? You can't just cast them aside after using them (harvesting their experiences) ! I really really know what happen. Can they still have the power? Will Earth be like Planet Aquamarine or what???

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Overall it's so amazing. Just, the romance really make me irksome and the characters don't really make connection with the reader.
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AngryNutMonster
AngryNutMonster
February 18, 2022
Status: Completed
This has become one of my favourite novels. Totally worth finishing it.

A lot of the criticism this novel receives is irrelevant much later in the story, but I'd understand not wanting to commit for so many chapters. Everything else is just thinking too much. Even the MC isn't taking stuff too seriously, why should you?

Of course, it has its flaws. So many characters, so many settings, so much OP, but it's all so memorable. I read this novel over a long time, taking long and short breaks because I couldn't... more>> help but cone back to it. 'Twas all worthwhile, as everything was so beautifully tied up in the end that I felt sad that it was over. <<less
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