Profundis
By 酒煮核弹头
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⭐4.68
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An era when compassion for the weak has disappeared, instead stared at them with eerie eyes.
Thirteen years ago, the life of a peaceful family of four was thoroughly destroyed.
One mutant that crawled out from the depths of the world.
Old Calamity, the most powerful star, ‘Almuten’.
Baek Yugeon lost his one and only older brother left to the encounter once again.
Woo Shinje, an S-class Hunter who appeared just in time, saved his life.
“Be a guide to ‘Erewhon’ and obey my orders.
Endure anything that come to you, and…….
Follow me into the gates.”
He whispered his long-cherished desire.
Join ‘Erewhon’ and die together with them.
Yugeon is in the midst of those who want to ruin him.
Love and hatred that bloomed between Woo Shinje and him…….
“Don’t try to escape with death.
I, as your guide, won’t let you do that.”
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Chapter 5: Wild Hunt
yall this thing is crazy this shouldnt be a hunter/guide novel but a horror lol
(considering the author also wrote another horror type bl deadman switch, I guess they love writing disgusting monsters lol)
aside from the outrageous 'romance', the setting of the novel is so fascinating, thats the only reason I kept reading til the end. You know how most of the actual dungeon crawling/ hunter novels have powers that goes mostly for 'wow' factor? fire, ice, lightning etc etc and fights not so gruesome?
the hunters/awakeneds in this novel got god awful powers honestly. and the fights..... they fight in the most gruesome way possible... like telekinetic ability user bursting out human heads... the poison dude melting ppl.... and the monsters are genuinely terrifying?
i LOVED reading this shit
the romance tho 💀💀 I mean the way how the MC, yoogun ended up with the main ML is a little baffling. But honestly after a few days since I finished I think I sort of understand now??? they have this
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codependency
going on. both have fuked up way of understanding romance. plus with the background setting of how the world is on verge of apocalypse and the society order is just fuked in the novel, I think I understand how they ended up together???
ppl wont really like it if they come only for the romance.
all five of them need therapy I swear 💀
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2023-07-17
Chapter 2: Erewhon
if you're unsure whether or not to pick this up, I say START READING NOW. This is an amazing story and the author has great storytelling skills. I wish I could write more about how good it is, but I'm not good with reviews so just read it already.
Short description of setting:
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It's the classic Awakened hunter world with gates, guilds, etc. But there's also something called guides (the MC is a guide). Guides are very rare, and they help calm Awakened ppl or else the Awakened will go on a rampage because of oversensitivity or whatever. Many Awakened go insane and/or die because they don't have consistent access to a guide, and higher-ranked Awakened need to be 'guided' more often.
The 'Erewhon' in the summary is the name of the best guild in the country, the only one with 2 S-classes in it.
Anyways the chapters are so satisfyingly long, to the point where it took me ~45 min to read one. So it's not actually a short story even if it only has 11 chapters + 3 extras.
To the translators: thank you so much for doing such an amazing job especially since the chapters are so long <33
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2023-07-17
Chapter 1: Calamity
For many who like cute or soft romance story, this is definitely not your choice. Since it is hot steamy, may be a bit violent romance. The setting is about end-of-world situation where people are crazy in between choosing dead or alive. All characters have deep self-hates and desperation in somehow that makes them want to kill everyone. The story has a lot of thrilling actions and the emotion is climbing to climax so those who seek for rough romance in battlefield will super love it. Through darkness, all 5 main characters found each others warmth, self-forgiveness, and light for themselves to continue to live. There are not so much pains. Harsh in body, and sweet in feelings, absolutely bittersweet story that cannot bore you till end.
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All 4 semes saw uke as their first soulmate love. "In this dark world, you appear to us like God" said by Shinje. Even they knew who uke chose, the other 3 still longing for uke as their ideal vision of guide. They all treat uke as their most special light in their own style. No characters are perfect, because they are not born as normal person, they grew up with harsh and un-kind world where they fight not only for the world, but also fight for their own morality. If using physical body to heal, they are not human anymore, so the story is progressing to turn all 4 semes (cruel in beginning, and soft heart till the end) transforming from a machine to a human because of uke.
They deserve to have their light of hope at the end T^T. I do not like NP, but first time, I wish the author will give NP ending instead of 1v1.
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2023-07-17
Chapter 7: Dry Fire
This is an interesting story with the similar premise of many Hunter/awakened/dungeon series. The mystery is intriguing and I can't help but compare this to s-classes that I raised.
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MC has a brother, ML's name, looks personality is similar to Sung Hyunjae, one of them seems like Song Taewon etc
But only surface level similarity. It's horror mostly and everyone is kind of f*cked up. I'm glad to see a story like this is being translated. The translation is very good as well.
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2023-07-17
Chapter 5: Wild Hunt
This novel caters to a very specific taste and I had assumed naively that I could stomach the r*pe and yandere tags but boy oh boy I was dead wrong..... this author does not pull any punches. I mean the writing is just so damn compelling and entertaining, the story pulls you in immediatly, and the translator did an amazing amazing job, but I couldn't take the constant abuse of the MC.... my poor sappy soul needs some romance, a little tenderness, some fondess fostered for the ML before I can turn a blind eye to some of their behaviors, but thats a personal problem. I have to drop this novel for now, 😩 I can't take it....I will go read somthing really sweet and sappy and return to this at a later time.
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2023-07-17
Chapter 1: Calamity
I'm so speechless after reading this. I even don't know why I started reading it, I think I was in a masochistic mood and was checking my bottom line. This story broke right through my bottom line and made an abyss in my soul. I hate it. There is nothing I love in it. But at the same time I feel my life would have been a little different if I hadn't read it.
It is truly a very, very powerful novel. There is so much wrong happening in it, and this wrong breaks my heart, but the author never pictures wrong and morally right. You always remember it's wrong, it's just that... the situation is like this, there is no other way. And it is frustrating and painful - but this pain is worth it.
So what I want to say: I didn't enjoy the story in the least. But it's a great story.
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2023-07-17
Chapter 6: SALIGIA
ah my god what a winner, I was looking for a good bl with smut and gore ~~dont ask~~ and they delivered. Very descriptive in both.
Story-wise, amazing as well. There is a main cp
I was a little hesitant at first cause the plot summary was a lil confusing, but it's pretty much a story about a guy who is a guide, someone who can calm and heal hunters with their body, and four hunters that are a part of a team that he was forced to join so they will save his brother from death.
As you read the story though you learn more about each of the characters and their story, it gets heartbreaking and you can see how they turned into the f*cked up people they are now.
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2023-07-17
Chapter 1: Calamity
It's sh*t I don't know how these type of novels always get high rating. Why do you all give high rating to novels filled with r*pe and abuse? I need the answer people, you all give low rate to good novels but give such novels high ratings, people nowadays are obsessed with these abuse type of genres, you all are crazy in the head I hope you know that yourselves.
Ok now moving on the reason I hate the mls:
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They sexually harass him,
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They don't care whether the MC gets hurt or not,
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The innocent face one who choked MC hope you choke on your own shit,
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They don't care about mc's feelings,
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They treat MC like a plaything,
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They don't know about consent,
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They only care about their pleasure,
These are some of the reasons but there are more.
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2023-07-17
Chapter 5: Wild Hunt
this novel is... what should I say..... like the author has this really cool (what's the word) vision (?) for the worldbuilding they want to create for their work, but like, their need to write smut won?? and I say this in the positive way jdfahkgjk
dungeon crawling novels are the most generic and everywhere you can find type of novels in kr novel world, and in the bl side, guideverse novels are also like hunterverse and omegaverse mash-up, most of the time, melodrama, smut filled novels.
and profundis here actually managed to like have this really cool solid hunterverse/guideverse worldbuilding in the background, very realistic, gritty apocalypse backdrop, and lovecraftian horror type monsters (omg I fricking love the monster in the novel).
BUT THEN boom the smut fest............
i mean it's not really THAT bad, as far as most r*pe harem novels go. the mls knows what they are doing to MC is r*pe, the MC knows what is it, and all the parties acknowledge it and even say the word on screen. I mean.... I know many novels that don't even use the r word and just shove it under the rug lol.
the saving grace is the MC baek yugeon. I thought he was going to be like most bottom MCs, where they suddenly change from strong ch to weak ch in the vicinity of the MLs. tbh he's an ant in the middle of the elephants from the very start. the fact that he didn't go insane is just.... the way his personality remained unchanged until the very end was very earning as a reader. that was the reason why his decision to stay with the scum ML was somewhat understandable... because I know he is going to be happy with his choice. he didn't forgive the ML, but he will be happy, they are both striving to better themselves, and they are going to happy and that's enough.
10/10 for word building, and for satisfying my craving for lovecraftian horror
7/10 for romance
10/10 for character likability (baek yugeon is my baby)
10/10 for smut (*consensual s*x scenes - they are some of the spiciest s*x scenes ive ever read)
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2023-07-17
Chapter 1: Calamity
The translation is incredible, really well done and flows beautifully.
Ultimately this is a pretty dark story filled with very flawed characters who are searching for their own destructions (salvations). Despite that, the plot and characterizations were very vivid, and despite the dark/cruel/horrific moments, there was a lot of delight as well.
The story is much longer than you think from 13-ish parts. Every chapter was packed with stuff and very long as well. The pacing was well-executed, the slow moments were staccatoe'd with quick actions. I wish there was a bit more of slice-of-life elements, but the story is gratifyingly "tight." What I mean by that is: every element and detail contribute to the progression of the plot, so it's very low on filler material (except some of the smut).
The worldbuilding is pretty excellent though it does draw from a few cliches in the genre (like dungeon attacking / gates / monsters) that are pretty typical, but it does its own spin on things.
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I also thought the r*pe/non-con was handled well as well as the power dynamics in the relationships because of that. Unlike in some other novels, there are no excuses made for it. It's openly acknowledged as a horrible act done in a cruel and horrible world. The MC is really a very strong character and takes revenge in his own way.
I'm really grateful to the translator for bringing up such an excellent translation!
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