Manhwa/Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon

A LitRPG about a low-level skeleton soldier who discovers that every time he dies, he wakes up with all his memories and experiences intact. The first time he dies, he returns to the moment when he was first raised by a necromancer, twenty years ago. He wants nothing more than to find the succubus who ruled over the dungeon in his previous life so that he can protect her this time around.

Chapter 12 just came out. It's pretty good so far, and updating at a reasonable pace. There's some political intrigue going on in the background, too, so that's interesting.

We have a page.

Edited by Discar on Jul 26th 2018 at 8:04:07 AM

Hmmmm I think I'll give this manhwa a shot.

Chapter 13 is up. We find out that the town where Rubia was murdered a while ago is in the thrall of a drug kingpin. And they're breeding monstrous spiders in the nearby dungeon.

Huh...What an interesting plot twist

Is this a Nameless Narrative? There's not a single proper noun on our tropes page.

The skeleton soldier is nameless (his stat screen specifically says he has no name), but other characters have names. I also suspect he'll get a name sooner or later.

Inb4 his name would be Momonga brick'd

Jokes aside... Just read chapter 13 and man, the town right now is having a miserable lives thanks to the evil lord and that opium trade... Oof

Edited by ElfenLiedFan90 on Jul 28th 2018 at 12:34:44 AM

I'm getting the feeling we shouldn't get too attached to any character besides the Skeleton Soldier. As the title hints at (and which the trope page even points out), "Failing to protect people" seems to be a theme here.

Edited by M84 on Jul 27th 2018 at 7:03:28 PM

Chapter 14 updated. Magical flamethrower and looots of spiders.

They've translated Chapter 15 so quickly which is nice.

Chapter 15 updated. I'm kinda raising my eyebrow at that magical flamethrower—it's a bit too technological for what we've seen so far. But anyway, the spider queen is intelligent, the locals have enslaved her, and Rena needs an antidote to spider venom.

Chapter 16 updated. So... apparently skeletons melt in magical fire? He was surprised too, so I guess he doesn't have to worry about normal fire. And that percentage thing has me worried. Is that how many resurrections he has left? Because I originally thought it was about his connection to the old dungeon, and why he briefly turned mindless.

I'm wondering about something. Is this manhwa will ended up becoming a pointless grimdark thing where bad things mostly happened to the character or will it still have an intriguing story. I've been thinking of reserving this manga for CM and MB discussion date by the by.

I don't think so. The pattern seems to be "everything gets darker than expected, skeleton warrior dies and is able to use that knowledge to prevail." He mentioned in the early chapters that there was a large war coming and dismissed it as not his problem, but I suspect he's going to end up trying to stop it, or at least reduce the number of casualties.

So it turns out the "fire retardant" powder was the reason he melted. The blacksmith wanted to make sure he died too because he realized he wasn't human.

You just can't trust people these days...

Edited by M84 on Jul 31st 2018 at 9:49:32 PM

Chapter 18 up. Skeleton skips talking and goes straight to burning everyone—a little more carefully this time. I think he should have tried negotiating with the spider queen, though. She's clearly intelligent, and also not fond of the bandits.

Who's translating this, anyway?

I did notice the percentage thing-y started going down right after the death where he was getting a bit lost in his revenge. So maybe its related to his humanity?

Chapter 19 is up. Spider queen got a sad death. And she dropped a ruby, but in such a way that I think it might be a magic gem instead of just some vendor trash.

Chapter 20. Rena forgives him because treasure, and then takes him to an orphanage guarded by a slime.

And here I was just wondering how long he'd stay a plain skeleton.

I know we can't link the chapters, but you can at least say that chapter 21 is updated.

Anyway, I'm guessing even if he evolves into a new monster, he'll still visually be a skeleton. They're not gonna invalidate the title this early on, and the series cover shows a skeleton in fancy armor using magic.

Well, I guess I just kind of assumed it went without saying, but I suppose not.

Huh, this actually sounds very interesting. Any recommendations for trucks to look in back of in case this is falling off anywhere?

I have no idea what you're talking about. What am I supposed to do, recommend the website mangadex? That would be illegal.