{"id":11967,"date":"2024-12-08T05:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11967"},"modified":"2024-12-10T14:50:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T14:50:27","slug":"the-strange-adventure-of-a-broke-mercenary-9-how-i-became-king-by-eating-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-strange-adventure-of-a-broke-mercenary-9-how-i-became-king-by-eating-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Adventure of a Broke MERCENARY #9 &#038; HOW I BECAME KING BY EATING MONSTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the disappointment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/the-hero-laughs-1-5-broke-mercenary-8\/\" title=\"The Hero Laughs While Walking the Path of Vengeance a Second Time #1-5 &#038; The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary #8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kuitsume Youhei no Gensou Kitan&#8217;s eighth novel<\/a> I wasn&#8217;t really expecting anything (besides further disappointment) from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0DKSMTQZW\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the follow-up<\/a>. Fortunately though it turned out pretty decent and more or less on par with the earlier books. Guess I won&#8217;t be dropping the series just yet after all.<\/p>\n<p>Picking up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0DF77DL8K\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Monster no Niku o Kutteitara Oui ni Tsuita Ken<\/a> on a whim, I ended up pleasantly surprised that it&#8217;s primarily a misunderstanding-based comedy somewhat in the vein of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/hollow-regalia-2-let-this-grieving-soul-retire-1-2\/\" title=\"Hollow Regalia #2 &#038; Let This Grieving Soul Retire! #1-2\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nageki no Bourei wa Intai shitai<\/a>. The protagonist here however isn&#8217;t a dissembling coward and it gets quite a bit more graphic in the combat department. That said, the beginning is pretty rough with how he basically gets brow-beaten into adopting his training regime and it doesn&#8217;t truly pick up until after he becomes king about a third of the way through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the disappointment of Kuitsume Youhei no Gensou Kitan&#8217;s eighth novel I wasn&#8217;t really expecting anything (besides further disappointment) from the follow-up. Fortunately though it turned out pretty decent and more or less on par with the earlier books. Guess I won&#8217;t be dropping the series just yet after all. Picking up Monster no Niku o Kutteitara Oui ni Tsuita Ken on a whim, I ended up pleasantly surprised that it&#8217;s primarily a misunderstanding-based comedy somewhat in the vein of Nageki no Bourei wa Intai shitai. The protagonist here however isn&#8217;t a dissembling coward and it gets quite a bit more graphic in the combat department. That said, the beginning is pretty rough with how he basically gets brow-beaten into adopting his training regime and it doesn&#8217;t truly pick up until after he becomes king about a third of the way through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1021,28,565,564,1020,29,510],"class_list":["post-11967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-daken","tag-fantasy","tag-kuitsume-youhei-no-gensou-kitan","tag-mine","tag-monster-no-niku-o-kutteitara-oui-ni-tsuita-ken","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}