Summary
A brief description of the manga The Beginner, Formerly Ranked Number One in the World:
A beginner who was once ranked number one in the world.『Prophecy Online』 is what is known as a scam game. It was said that those who managed to clear it will be able to obtain unlimited wealth, and the protagonist, Endou Rei, believed in those words and risked his life to challenge the game.
However, what awaited him after clearing the game was its end of service, and a remaining balance of 3,584 yen. Rei wallowed in despair, thinking that it was all over, but… just a week later, the world went through a great change!Monsters started appearing in reality, and a message from the game 『Prophecy Online』 appeared in front of his eyes. While everyone was shocked and frightened, Rei, who knew about every strategy and information in the game beforehand, realized, “this is my chance…!”
“I will turn this power into money!”
Fearless in the face of money, his exciting solo run and money-making adventure begins now!
- Chapter 50 19.02.2026
- Chapter 49 27.06.2025
- Chapter 48 20.06.2025
- Chapter 47 13.06.2025
- Chapter 46 06.06.2025
- Chapter 45 30.05.2025
- Chapter 44 20.05.2025
- Chapter 43 16.05.2025
- Chapter 42 09.05.2025
- Chapter 41 02.05.2025
- Chapter 40 25.04.2025
- Chapter 39 18.04.2025
- Chapter 38 10.04.2025
- Chapter 37 10.04.2025
- Chapter 36 28.03.2025
- Chapter 35 03.02.2025
- Chapter 34 03.02.2025
- Chapter 33 03.02.2025
- Chapter 32 03.02.2025
- Chapter 31 03.02.2025
- Chapter 30 03.02.2025
- Chapter 29 14.01.2025
- Chapter 28 14.01.2025
- Chapter 27 14.01.2025
- Chapter 26 14.01.2025
- Chapter 25 14.12.2024
- Chapter 24 14.12.2024
- Chapter 23 14.12.2024
- Chapter 22 14.12.2024
- Chapter 21 13.12.2024
- Chapter 20 06.12.2024
- Chapter 19 06.12.2024
- Chapter 18 06.12.2024
- Chapter 17 06.12.2024
- Chapter 16 02.10.2024
- Chapter 15 28.09.2024
- Chapter 14 09.09.2024
- Chapter 13 09.09.2024
- Chapter 12 07.09.2024
- Chapter 11 07.09.2024
- Chapter 10 02.09.2024
- Chapter 9 25.08.2024
- Chapter 8 30.07.2024
- Chapter 7 30.07.2024
- Chapter 6 30.07.2024
- Chapter 5 08.07.2024
- Chapter 4 08.07.2024
- Chapter 3 08.07.2024
- Chapter 2 27.06.2024
- Chapter 1 27.06.2024
- Chapter 0 27.06.2024
6/10 not bad but kinda boring. no idea what he is gonna do with all his money: he’s been collecting money from the start and not using it.
honestly I would bookmark this but the date of release does not match other sites. Same amount of chapters but apparently chapter 49 was released in Jan 2025 other sites while this is only released in June? Also its a huge gap from June till now.
edit: according to: mangaupdates(.com):
“49 Chapters + Prologue (Complete)“
so idk if there will be more chapters. doesn’t look complete to me tho.
3/5 or 6/10
Tbh not that bad but its pretty hard to deal with the MC personality, shenanigans and bullsh*t.
*MC tries to farm aura because he have negative aura…
We about zero context (outside the horrible explanation from the first three chapters, 0 included) about why MC wants so much money, he did not reincarnate to explain some kind of advanced exploit using money and there is no such thing as a shop exclusive to players, so his money drive until now is just a strange perversion.
Also as pointed by the others comments, the first thing we notice is the similarity between MC “Soul Eyes” and “Eye of Gluttony” from Solo Max-level Newbie that gives random “funny” sub-quests to gain something, but this one gives material to use his skills instead of copying skills. Also in the similarity category is that the game came into reality, MC also is the one that finished it and they also founded a “lucrative” guild, though it makes sense for Kang Jinhyuk’s context and exploitative contracts for no good reason…
MC here only have a sub-class “SoulSmith” (until chapter 49 as i don’t know about the future content) and it’s stronger than all the main and hidden classes disponible (or so it seems) until now. He doesn’t open his status windows for god-forsaken reasons, i think the first time we get to see it is at ch 49, not sure if I ignored it before, and we have to believe that his status is really enough until then, but at ch 49 we discovered that he is at level 62 his status makes no sense as we don’t have anything to compare and don’t know how does it increase.
MC also don’t need items and items don’t have level or status requirements as at level 1 he defeated a boss, dropped a dagger and it still is his main weapon until now at level 62.
What else can I say? At least he is not a necromancer;;;
dont bother with this. this is just a worse, money obsessed version of solo max level newbie
So, basically a greedy person who does solo runs? Where have I read this before 😒
No point to read past chapter 30. As this series was released with 43 chapters in some pay site and all other sites have only 35 so it be massive cliffhanger in chapter 35.
So best to wait when these 8 chapters are released and then pick it up again. And it seems the story ark starts in chapter 30 and be a lot of stalling.
At first it was fun that the mc want money but he gets so much that it gets boring. What does he even do with the money as there dont seem to be much of a goal for what he needs it so much.
Never mind that the world is garbage when top 10 players from the game seem to be weaklings as from top 2 to 10 that is. And then the system to give rank on people based on what job class you have. You can have S rank power but when you dont have job class then you be still in the bottom as E rank. We already seen that weaklings get like B rank while not even played the game to know anything
It’s decent but the author loves to ass pull situations and fights to make the MC look good. Also there is a cycle of: MC is underestimated, MC does a thing, People/enemies are amazed, which becomes stale pretty quickly.
One of those MC’s that never kills his enemies even when they try to kill him.
lotta these people have never consumed any “game becomes real” content except solo max level newbie i see. lots of stories have the same base concept yall. and who cares beyond if the reader finds it enjoyable or not? no one is making you read.
So it’s the same premise as Solo Max Level Newbie
Chapter 4 and 5 just refreshes the page and shows up to Chapter 3
This is another game based one that is for stupid people or young kids to enjoy.
Nice start after (just) 3 chapters. So far some fun “bullying the bullies” vibe, which is always fun. Let’s see what happens
It like solo max level newbie and it actually good
potential currently similiar to solo max lvl newbie




































I rate this with 1 star for the reason that chapter 49 was released 7 months ago and it left with a cliffhanger and now the chapter 50 is same as chapter 49 but with different art and different font in the text. And also end on the same place as chapter 49 but with added page of Season 1 ends.
Never mind that the story is annoying with the love of numbers and changing currency from dollar to yen all the time. Talk big numbers like 10 billion dollars and few pages forward it’s 10 billion yen. The difference is like night and day.
Also cause they dont show the level of the mc in the story at all. They just talk about rank only that is also total waste as people get ranked based on the profession job they have and some power level where MC is E rank while have power to be SSS rank and then give B rank to total rookies while B rank is minimum to be a guild master. Also MC at the start of the story get level 36 in 2 weeks but in this chapter 49 is the first time after that where we see MC level and it’s only 64 So what is the deal with the level up when have like hard core missions like crazy all the time but just dont level up. When getting to level 36 at start was just small fry dungeons that they skip as the first 2 weeks of the start of world ending game