Ascension

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2014
Author: MiniSid

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Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Views: 87

What readers say about Ascension

“This is well written and full of juicy content! And the best thing is, it doesn't waste anytime getting the fun started. Sevs is a great character with a lot of room for growth, both in personality and power. The dialogue is solid and the descriptions are…”
CashewRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Overall I have to say this was a great read. The transition between the first and second arc was well written and truly drew me in. Hope to see more in the future. The progression of the MC throughout the story is comfortably paced allowing you to build tha…”
DrspethRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

CashewRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is well written and full of juicy content! And the best thing is, it doesn't waste anytime getting the fun started.
Sevs is a great character with a lot of room for growth, both in personality and power. The dialogue is solid and the descriptions are clear. There are few errors making for an easy, clean read.
DrspethRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall I have to say this was a great read. The transition between the first and second arc was well written and truly drew me in. Hope to see more in the future.
The progression of the MC throughout the story is comfortably paced allowing you to build that connection. The sci fi underlay adds an element that is well thought out and wonderfully implemented.
MenilikRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Such an interesting creative idea.
I sat down to read a few chapters. Then next minute I knew I was at chapter 12. It's a mix of "Ready Player One" and "Day in the Life" type of story. I laughed when I found myself engrossed in a story where the MC goes to the gym with his dad's employee. But I just couldn't stop reading because I wanted to find out more about the simulation (or ascension) the MC keeps talking about.
Great story and keep up the amazing work. I plan on reading more and completing this review later.
OrvyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Better style and faster progression than roomba. I came here for roomba, got bored and found this unappreciated gem. The characters in v1 have personalities and ambitions of their own, not merely a robotic cliche shells that support or fight the protagonist as their only goal. Most characters show personality progression as well, but I'm sad to see that the story is soon coming to a close. I think there's still a lot to be explored in the crew's personal idelolgies and motivations. With such high charisma and being near his team all the time, his crew's basic personality appear to be outlined less than mentions of their specialization. This was a great read but the upload schedule seems to be once every 10-20 days.
I hope the author steers Ascension toward a satisfying ending!
QueenInRagsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great story so far - ten out of ten
Grammar - ten out of ten
Story ideas - Very unique - Big Enders Game Vibes and that is something very special.
Overall reads like a hardback novel. All my praise goes to the author. Read it.
The main statement Ima make is that this novel is long. Like web novel long. You know that kind of long that only a web novel can do with each arc being like a whole ass book worth of material. If that aint your speed, or if you're not down for the slightest possibility that this book might not finish or take a good year or two to finish... well...
Character-wise I have fallen in love with our Main character and have grown attached to many of the introduced people. Overall amazing job author, you have delivered something incredibly special.
VVerityRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a nice little sci-fi story that works at a quick clip and wants you quickly going into the action. Sevs is an interesting kind of 'almost-everyguy', or rather it feeels like Sevs is the sort of dude you'd be friends with who sort of gets into weird stuff all the time. You're following Sevs on the ride, so to say, but that's nothing bad and in fact makes things more enjoyable!
Since it's pretty briskly paced, if you're looking for a slower walk through a high tech setting this might not be your thing, but if you do like faster paced things then I can recommend this!
tripleblacktriRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I dove right into this story, and I do not regret it one bit.
Grammar is good. Almost no errors.
The story is probably my favorite part so far. I haven't read anything like it and it keeps me intrigued enough to move on to the next chapter.
Characters are great as well. I haven't gotten too far into it but the red head seems to be good at her job :) The other supporting characters seem to have a good basis for development in the future.
Overall, I have no problem giving this a 4.5 out of 5. It's nearly perfect. Bookmarked for sure.
DrAltRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Our MC starts by hitting a wall and starting over. He did everything he could in his current virtual world but didn't qualify to ascend. He's been at it for centuries and is frustrated at himself. Then, for the first time, he tries a charisma build, and everything clicks for him in the new life, which is the story's best part. Extremely relatable writing.
After he 'grows up' his new character, he picks a space-death scenario world. There are some lessons here, but the author ran out of steam and hit hiatus before the extended personal revelations that typically lead up to ascension. The end goal is the ascension, and while the MC thinks he might be getting closer by being a charisma-based leader, it's very nebulous. This is where the story hit hiatus as the space death scenario doesn't connect (with me as a reader) like the 'growing up' scenario.
Overall, the virtual space world wasn't that interesting and needs pacing revision to be good writing. (Drop the extra POVs.) If the author ever returns to this project, I think it could be much more than it is now. I recommend reading the 'growing up' scenario for good personal development slice of life, if you like that.
WaryorWearyRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Fake life in a server shard #37afk69ni_e was/is boring. The tutorial that we saw made no sense (in the same way that a fever dream makes no sense, but does at the time) and was charmingly nonsensical.
The framing that humans still have bodies, but those bodies live an incredibly long time within pods (but are capable of popping out and grooving about on a whim) immediately takes me out of that feel-good nonsense into "whut?" territory.
Life in the virtual space force is nothing like Basic and makes no sense, but it's supposed to be one of the most realistic server shards. Also he's not in a 1 person sandbox anymore, which means the fever dream is over and now everything that makes no sense is (simulatedly) happening with 20 people (all striving for an individual Zen goal) witnessing/participating in that event.
Going from 1 person to many slows this story, being (simulated) "realistic" in a future spaceship war slows this story, changing POVs ditto, all the charm is gone.
And that's my take.
ElDaniRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The review was written after reading chapter 10 (of book 1). I'm aware this is currently about 75 behind the latest posting, but I'm checking out here and wanted to give a short bit of feedback and write down my thoughts.
Don't get me wrong, I'd be down to learn more about the world and the singularity, but the early chapters only provide little bits and pieces of that. Instead we're getting distracted by the protagonist growing up in yet another randomly generated tutorial world, where he's likely only interacting with NPCs. The pace feels glacial and after trying to pick up on hints for more of the overarrching plot under every rock and not finding anything, my conclusion is that this has been a pretty boring tale so far.
The story begins ...
... with the protagonist dying in a virtual reality after he tried to make his build work for the past 38 years. Apparently there's nothing left to do in real life, when you can spend decades in a tutorial world trying to advance toward the singularity and then keep repeating the same step over and over. The singularity is, I suppose, where you ascend to after you leave behind your flesh and blood body? At least that's how I understood the framework of the little bit of worldbuilding we got to see so far.
All of that sounds interesting enough in theory, but in practice the beginning of this story feels like a very slowly paced slice of life tale, where nothing of interest happens. Sure, the boy's mother died, but she was neither his real mother, nor a real person. Then I reached chapter 10, which was about our protagonist typing on a keyboard. Yeah. So, I thought to myself, is this worth reading? And the answer was an easy no.
It makes my head explode that someone would be even remotely okay with relieving randomly generated childhoods multiple times, including the need to behave like a real kid to not make NPCs suspicious of you - or they'd alert some government agency to your existence, which would then experiment on you. O