My Civil Servant Life Reborn in the Strange World
A Korean civil-service hopeful dies just after finally passing the exam and is reborn as Denburg Blade, the son of the chief of the fearsome Crow Tribe. Gifted with monstrous talent, Denburg is already hunting magical beasts as a child and grows up under brutal training that makes ordinary danger feel trivial. But overwhelming strength is
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A Korean civil-service hopeful dies just after finally passing the exam and is reborn as Denburg Blade, the son of the chief of the fearsome Crow Tribe. Gifted with monstrous talent, Denburg is already hunting magical beasts as a child and grows up under brutal training that makes ordinary danger feel trivial. But overwhelming strength is not the life he wants. Remembering the stable career he nearly achieved in his previous life, he escapes his clan and heads for the imperial capital with one goal: become a civil servant and live peacefully. Unfortunately, his family, powerful magic, eccentric companions, and a conspiracy surrounding the empire keep dragging him into exactly the kind of trouble he hoped to avoid.
This reincarnation fantasy reverses the usual power-fantasy motivation. Denburg is already absurdly strong and comes from a battle race that expects him to inherit leadership, but he wants security, routine, and a government paycheck. The story mixes action and magic with workplace comedy, family pursuit, imperial intrigue, and the constant joke that the protagonist's attempt to live normally only proves how abnormal his abilities and upbringing really are.
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The comedy comes from the gap between Denburg's absurd strength and his modest ambition. He is raised as the heir of an overwhelmingly powerful battle clan, yet his real goal is stability: escape the Crow Tribe, reach the capital, pass the civil-service exam, and live as quietly as possible. Family pursuit, imperial politics, magic, and conspiracies continually make that simple plan much harder than expected.
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