A Guide to Safe Use of Magically Enhanced Chemical Weapons

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After a massive earthquake ripped the west coast of North America into a new archipelago, an easily accessible form of energy was discovered to be pervading the atmosphere from the rubble. After a surprisingly quick global recovery, reports of demons tearing through reality and being fought off by people wielding strange weapons and magic surfaced worldwide. Nicknamed Magical Girls and Magical Guys- or just MGs- these figures quickly became the new center of society’s attention and pushed the world into a new age of uneasy, but mostly complete, peace.

If you ignore the demons.

In stark contrast to the traditional image of an MG being selfless, caring, and trustworthy heroes, Silvia feels much more at home committing petty theft and getting into places she really shouldn’t be- out of simple boredom and an opportunistic personality. This roguish streak makes it all the more surprising when a Semiseelie offers to form a contract with her so she can become a Magical Girl- just after she got back from her most recent ‘excursion.’ And just before demons are set to open a Breach practically on top of her head.

Now living the dream of almost everyone but herself, Silvia is forced to navigate many of the things she hates: attention, expectations, and the nagging feeling that something is trying to kill her.

Oh yeah, and demons. Can’t forget about those.

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What to expect:

Chapters ~1,500 words in length every Sunday and whenever else I get around to it.A somewhat slow pace, but with many shenanigans.A very- and I mean very- slight touch of LitRPG / system stuff.Not too much filler. I hope.And no promises; my writing process is an enigma to even me sometimes.

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I hope you give the story a chance and find something to enjoy.

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Verifiably_a_human

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Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
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Mike.S30Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great book with a new, fresh take on the MG point of view. Loving the MC and Cleo! I like the twist of her losing/gaining senses
This is where I put in a few random sentences as I am a reader, NOT a writer - I never can fill the review to the required word count
Astral CrystalRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Style: The style is great its easy to understand what's happening although when chemicals are involved it can be a bit confusing since they have weird names. But that's probably just a me thing since I don't know much about chemistry.
Story: The story is great it has magical girls and Demon invasions. There's also big things happening and the mc slowly uncovers more about the world and her place in it. The progression is good with the mc constantly growing stronger and furthering her schemes. She has like 3 power sets, Chemical, Digital and Stealth they are all very interesting and fun and I'd day they are well explored. The story is split between Demon invasions and life in the magical girl facility and there's lot of shenanigans to go around.
Grammar: The grammar is excellent, I don't remember seeing any errors.
Character: The characters are good, the main character easily steals the show with her personality and behavior. She's kind of a Troll with her pranks and schemes and has a more realistic view of the world than you'd expect from a magical girl. Her familiar is also very charming in their own way, and they fit well with the mc. Every other character is good but I feel like they lack more personality. I mainly know them simply by their powers apart from the air one which has a great name a more defined and entertaining personality and also the time one which appears omce. Either way the story is mainly focused on the mc so we don't spend too much focus on the rest of the characters anyway but maybe some more screen time for them might be a good idea.
Conclusion: In conclusion I think this story is great if you are interested in a stealthy mc, chemicals or digital abilities. Personally I really like it but I do think the side characters could get a bit more development.
Zero747Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've just read the first two arcs in a day, and things are shaping up for a fun story
Our MC is a kleptomaniac gremlin who likes petty mischief, which is rather outside the norm for MGs, though fits with their unconventional direction of chemical weapons
The MC is well written and fun so far, especially as petty mischief continues to be amusing, whilst serving as a great worldbuilding tool poking around where others might not. We're still just getting to know side characters so I can't comment much there, but they've been setting up to be unique so far
There's technically some litrpg elements, but they're subtle and unobtrusive
So far we've got arc 0 for the initial contracting, and arc 1 as the first week intro.
Not sure what else to say, the first couple chapters should tell you if you like where stuff is going
Endless PavingRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I’ll be honest, I read this book because it reminds me a bit of Magical Girl Gunslinger right off the bat. In fact it feels like something between MGG and Stray Cat Strut in where it’s going, which makes me think those style of settings is a budding source of writing inspiration that needs even more books. So that I can read them. Y’know, spontaneous monstrous/alien invasions, Magical Girl style supernatural empowered celebrity-ish figures, bunkers and civilians and rescues, LitRPG style hero power progression from monster murdering, and a mysterious inscrutable alien race indirectly empowering these MGs from afar and unilaterally deciding which teenagers get to wield WMD class superpowers using unknown methods and criteria which end up being effectively random or arbitrary apart from the chosen ones being not all that bad kind of people.
Unlike the above stories this one is imo more human society focused somewhat and less on the killing monsters for LitRPG points. The story starts with our Klepto commenting on what kinds of people she is surrounded with and their varying levels of amoral behaviour and also how she rogue thief acts like a Klepto who doesn’t worry about pesky locks or guards, or near high tech bio-scanning door locks. After being empowered this trend continues with just the people she has weird Klepto or paranoid opinions of being changed to more important folk, and her personality being just more profoundly rogue-ish considering she has the social standing of a celebrity and the legal immunity of a strategic military asset with heroic bargaining power.
The grammar os good. The writing does feel like it’s properly trying to narrate a story at times if that makes sense.
And the characters are my favourite part. Kleptomaniac hero protagonist. Says it all. Others characters become more interesting from the sheer fact that they have to deal with this MC and her disruptive criminal hi-jinx (because the MG legal immunity for non-dealbreaker actions thing).
FastFoodNationRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Yep, I don't like them, but I like this story. It's just better when a "delinquent", mistrusting and level-headed person gets turned into a magical girl. Especially when this person has proficiency for mischief. Sometimes the world needs more than heroes, people who can actually think for themselves. I could count what has been done right in the story, but will just say that everything has been done right. I am eager to read what comes next!
FrostPrismRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Starts off slightly similar to another MG story I've read but then makes it it's own story. I like the characters and am looking forward to seeing more of them. Some slight grammar mistakes but nothing that stops you from either understanding what was meant to be said or that breaks the immersion.
Overall, pretty solid and if you like MG stories I'd definitely give it a read.
GleadgeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
We are still in the start of the story but while reading it one thing stood out for me : the MC. She is great ! In the first chapter you understand that she is intelligent, patient and organized while having interesting flaws (that differ from the "I'm too perfect so my flaw is being arrogant" or worse "I'm too perfect but my flaw is that I'm being too humble and don't realise my worth"). Her personality is refreshing.
We haven't seen much of the plot yet as the set up as just finished but a few things have been teased in a coherent way. No abrupt cut to see another place simply to have exposition.
The scene all have purpose and it feels nice to read.
To the author : thanks for sharing the story, hope you will continue as I'm invested in it.
0XShadowStrikerX0Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The story is good so is the mc and her semisilie, it also has some mystery in the story and although it has has some spelling mistakes its not that bad and is still readable my only complaint is that sometimes chapters are filled with pointless stuff that couldve been condensed and that other characters dont get much screentime it sometimes gets dark tho so be warned those tags are there for a reason
EiferRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
I would originally have given it 5 stars if it weren't for the introduction of a specific character that incorporates all 3 of my most loathed tropes in a story. Mind fuckery, Oracles and "mysterious OP person".
After catching up to current latest chapter, I've downgraded from 4 to 3 stars due to the story style of the actions of the semiseelie (contracted partner for the MG's)
where they do some non-consent messing around with the MC's mind and memories, completely throwing off the usual dynamic that's supposed to be mutually supportive. Some kind of justification was tried, but all it did for me was paint the semiseelie as another enemy.
Sometimes cliffhangers can be necessary, but choosing to completely skip the resolution and just move past it until some unspecified point in the future is in my opinion beyond disgusting.
I've seriously contemplated dropping the book, but the rest of the work has been so binge worthy that I have been able to look past it. We'll see if that holds true for the next few chapters.
The story has a some of the same vibes as Magical Girl Gunslinger, albeit much lighter in tone, which is right up my alley, with a MC that is cynical and more.. maybe not quite realistic, but "real" in the way they look at other people and the world.
I've noticed some grammar mistakes here and there, but nothing that really detracts from the story I think. Take that with a grain of salt, English not being my primary language.
To cap off, if you like the magical girl universe but aren't a fan of the happy-go-lucky attitude in a lot of those stories, then this is probably a story for you.
RoseVanHellsingRoyal Road
★ 1.0
It is a great premise for a story, it could even be perfect but the execution is bad. The author is a an okay writer but allot of things are off in a way that makes this story seem A.I written. It severely lacks many aspects of LITRPG and the “fey system” route doesn’t exactly work for the rest of the story. While the MC is likable at first it quickly gets tiring and repetitive. Then we have the “system” itself that is over convoluted and not even in a clever way. It’s more like “oh you can do this fey magic bs but i also need to talk to a computer to do so!” It doesn’t make any sense. I hope this story gets picked up by someone else or gets rewritten.