manhwa · 2021 · Ongoing
How to Use a Returner
Shared: Regression · System progression · Action
Regression
Apocalypse Online.
A high-ranking player returns ten years before the apocalypse and can absorb skills from weapons he touches.
Also known as: World’s Apocalypse Online · All-Heaven Armageddon Online · 诸界末日在线
Why read it?
Useful for comparing foreknowledge of an event with the physical tools needed to change its outcome.
Where to read
Reading dossier / Research notes
Story, powers & world
Gu Qingshan gets a chance to intervene before a portal catastrophe. His power links what he can do to the weapons he finds.
WEBTOON · Publisher synopsisKuaiKan · Publisher synopsis
- regression
- progression
- dungeon tactics
Read the plot, characters and power rulesOpening premise spoilers · WEBTOON and KuaiKan comic summaries
Plot and turning points
- The sacrifice becomes a second chance
Gu makes a last attempt to stop the Demon Lord during the collapse. WEBTOON places his next awakening ten years before that catastrophe.
Characters and factions
- Gu Qingshan
He has experience as a high-ranked player and remembers the world that fell. This gives him advance knowledge in a world that has yet to face the full disaster.
World and lore
- Portals connect the game to Earth
WEBTOON describes portals bringing game monsters into the real world. The Chinese publisher labels the original comic complete. The English edition has its own release dates.
Powers, rules and limits
- Weapons provide skills
The English synopsis ties acquisition to touching a weapon. It does not specify how many skills can be equipped or how they are combined.
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Rank & reviews
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- MangaBaka popularity
- #5,458 overall
- Popularity in manhua
- #155
- MangaBaka rating
- 75.4 / 100
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Original game concept
Core loop
Read the old timeline, choose one weapon to learn from, then spend that skill changing one event on a small map.
- What the player decides
- Take a skill that blocks the predicted breach or take a flexible movement skill that still helps if your intervention changes the forecast.
- First playable test
- One neighborhood, three forecast events, two weapon skills, and one reaction to a changed event. Ask players which forecast they stopped trusting and why.