An Ordinary Reincarnation

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Life is best in a flow, but what if something breaks that? Alfred Lunenberg, a talented engineer of the 21st century is one such person who's flow is broken. Thrown into the void of existence, he experiences reincarnations of unordinary circumstances. Will he find a place that sticks? Or will he forever be trapped in the maddeningly endless cycle of reincarnation?-----------This story, following the aforementioned Alfred, shows his life(s) as he navigates different worlds. After each death, he takes over a recently deceased person's body and mind. Through his extreme will to live, he fights tooth and nail to rise up and change his fate. Still, terrible, sad, happy, and tragic times follow the inevitable conclusion that is: Death. All he has left to ask himself is: "What's the point?" Torturous death, betrayal from a leader, and a lonely assassination. All are ends to lives that could happen should he follow this question to its bitter end.Each reincarnation in this story has something new to offer. Be that alien technology, steam punk and guns. a battle filled gladiator arena, even swords and magic. In which one will he find that "point"? How will he claw his way to the top of it all?----------------------Notice: There are some graphic scenes, If you aren't into that, you've been warned.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Caesar Of Oedon

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Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
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EdLincolnRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
This is a gory story about someone who keeps dying and getting reincarnated in horrific situations in worlds reflecting different speculative fiction genres. He learns abilities and attitudes in some of those lives, which shapes him into an Action Adventure hero...like a Quentin Tarantino charecter without the wit. The idea of learning new abilities in each life is one of the best parts. The other good thing about the story is the high quality editing. Some of the early martials arts & Cultivation scenes are quite good.
There are a few problems with it., though. The action scenes ultimately seemed kind of pointless. It was never really clear to me what he was fighting for, and the character never really questioned this. He ended up a slave gladiator and just rolled with it, never even thinking about freedom. He was nominally fighting to survive, but for him death was just a "reboot" and it was also unclear if he really wanted to survive...he seemed suicidal at times.
The character also became kind of flat, with no hobbies, relationships, or personality traits beyond "dark & tortured". He was nominally from our world, but showed no real signs of it, and became a battle mad psycho pretty quickly. The martial arts training started out good but dragged on a bit, as did the action scenes.