Augmented Aspects [Steampunk], [Progression], [Gamelit]

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Cassie is about to have her dream retirement, joining her favorite gaming world, Biprism Realm. A world filled with magic, portals, pocket realms, towers to eternity, monsters and most important of all, steampunk elements.

Most people would have balked at the idea of spending their retirement in a virtual world. Selling their pension for a chance at a better start in a new world filled with magic, mayhem, and monsters.

Fortunately, Cassie was one who wished to sell everything.

Rather than banking on possible restarts, Cassie decides to throw everything she has into one glorious start. Throwing away her future for the best possible start imaginable. With this, she will attempt to do what many before her have tried and failed at before her.

Unlike everyone else, Cassie has a plan, for this will be the rebirth of her new life.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: Lykanthropy

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 2,394
Views: 943,799

Chapters(275 total)

What readers say about Augmented Aspects [Steampunk], [Progression], [Gamelit]

“Greetings! Just found this story today and i am all ready on chapter 10. Planning on a binge reag the rest of today and tonight. Rain cold chicken soup and a good story... can't get better than that! A fun take on progression, 2nd life, and steam punk. Game…”
JohnDelvfarRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“I’ll categorize this as an advanced review more for sheer word count than a focused evaluation… and maybe I’m just processing my own spirituality in the story for the is review. I cast MY INTERNAL MUSINGS: I love this story, just imagining magic being set a…”
4iiiidnerdRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

JohnDelvfarRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Greetings!
Just found this story today and i am all ready on chapter 10.
Planning on a binge reag the rest of today and tonight. Rain cold chicken soup and a good story...
can't get better than that!
A fun take on progression, 2nd life, and steam punk. Game mechanics, enhanced starts, smart work arrounds
fluid AI enhanced game world. Lots to enjoy with this story.
I am eagerly looking forward to what comes next.
New review at CH 20 tomorrow!
John Delvfar
4iiiidnerdRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I’ll categorize this as an advanced review more for sheer word count than a focused evaluation… and maybe I’m just processing my own spirituality in the story for the is review. I cast MY INTERNAL MUSINGS:
I love this story, just imagining magic being set aside to a game environment while it is also more at the same time, and instead of killing and killing and more killing it forces the main character to the position of actually dealing with their problems. We get so excited about the endless and mindless slaughter of so many stories, stories I’ve loved and still do, but it feels we’ve been fed that solution instead of… a pacifist path, sort of. This story takes the mindless slaughter and puts it where it belongs, in a place of tragic distraction, something that’s been done and keeps doing, but it’s not the story, not really what is happening. After all, when you take all the killing out of a story, you’re forced to get into the actual content, passion, faith, and creation, since hitting the delete key isn’t the actual content, though that is SUPER AWESOME when it’s got the cool explosions associated, maybe jets, fancy ships and guns. The delete key really has a great marketing department with insane momentum but no actual content… losing content, in fact. This is a story where something meaningful is brought into the world and begins to show that something meaningful has more power (and is maybe much more horrifying) than spamming the delete. Sure, committing our lives to our eternal end is cool and all, but, maybe our lives aren’t about that, maybe there’s something amazing and wonderful about being passionate, faithful, caring, imaginative creators. Maybe this isn’t about all that, but maybe some of this story is not just story… amazing stuff, excited to see more of this, thanks so much for this story!
A GalaxyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Surprisingly, for this one, before dwelling on the details, I can only advise you to check out the first few chapters for they set the tone of the story for the following hundred chapters.
I’m not joking, the first few chapters perfectly represent the story, so if you wish to swiftly decide whether to go on with this story or not, just read, like, the first 3 chapters.
Now, onto what you can expect long-term.
Grammar: Unperfectly readable. Hit the exact mark between a translation novel that feels off for some indescribable reason and exquisiteness incarnate.
Gramar clearly isn't a bright point, but clearly not so bad that you can come to be put off until you read at least like 100 chapters (1 000 pages+) straight, at which point you’ll actually feel so empty inside that you’ll start power-skimming.
Style: Well, excuse me for my straightforwardness, but I find myself pretty speechless faced with this part considering the abhorrent degree of chaos present therein.
To rationalize any consistent style from this book is the equal of gleaning sense from nonsense, it always shifts, sometimes heavy on blue screens, sometimes heavy on descriptions and exploration, sometimes heavy on dialogues, sometimes full of very uninteresting lines, sometimes captivating, sometimes perfect…
Yup, I like(?) it.
Story: Chaotic. Don’t expect it to be smooth except in 20/20 hindsight. There’s a protagonist. There’s an approximately planned plot you can perceive. There are twists and turns. There’s a story to be told. The story leads somewhere. I think.
Characters: “There’s a story to be told.” This doesn’t deserve to be a part unto itself so much as it is a subcategory of the Story part.
The same way there are arguments for worlds that either revolve around protagonists or the exact opposite, for this one, characters very much are an integral part of the story and not the opposite
So integral, in fact, that you’ll only remember them for their role in the storyline until… things happen. Later.
GryffynsSinRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I really love the Start of this story, with a good protagonist and setting. Happy to continue reading it! Maybe some small flaws with a character that is really smart sometimes almost irreally so, but that is quite part of the charm.
The system part of it is coherent with the settings of an afterlife game, and seems still quite balanced (except for a reaaaally lucky protagonist I guess). Loved some things done with the flaws that are on point like the broke part or the consequences of being a child.
The protagonist is well written with a good analysis of her thought process. The beginning of the story with the island is quite good.
All in all a really good take at the genre, and also the fact that for once the protagonist was a septuagenary that worked hard before going in the game with some really random events instead of yada yada chosen one from the get go is a small brease of fresh air.
CyuriaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I will start by saying this story does a lot of things very well, the MC is just op enough for some minor power fantasy without it getting boring. This is also helped by other characters who are much more powerful, but in different ways to the MC to avoid overlap and make the story feel like the MC is needed, but the world isn't entirely dependent on what their presence.
I wish there were more chapters, but fortunately the author seems pretty good at sticking to their schedule (which is better than every other book I follow on this site rn), I can't really comment properly on consistency though, as I only just caught up recently.
All in all the book is really good and engaging. It's probably the best gamelit I've found to date. I only have one criticism.
Where is the steampunk?
There are very occasional references to steampunk, but when I think of steampunk I think of hot air balloons, which to be fair there are blimps, but I don't see any of the descriptive aesthetic I would expect. I would expect to see grandious halls, gilded with fine gold and almost royal scenery combined with steam powered turbines and maybe a monocle somewhere, but this just isn't the case.
The story is still incredible however, and checks every box except the steampunk stuff, I would highly recommend giving it a try, ideally without caring too much about the steampunk aspect and instead treating it as you would any other gamelit/progression novel. I think there's some saying about the mistakes sticking out, just pretend I said it here. If the biggest problem is the descriptive language not fitting my vision of steampunk, then it's a bloody good story.
A_LRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
One word. Amazing!!!🤩
The Main Character is a pacifist. No other story has this.
The Grammar and Style are Perfect.
The World-Building and Character Development + Introduction is perfectly executed.
This story is set in a world were after you retire you may start a new life inside a virtual world. In other word, you "die" in real life and start a new one in a world of Magic.
You can't keep exploiting a bug you find. You may use it the first time only. Afterwards they patch it up, to keep the "game" fair and just.
Bruce cRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Cass is a hyperactive child with a collection of yard-long PixieStix, but holding it together in an enduring, improbable fashion. After a normal 72 years of life, she fully commits to a new life uploaded into a virtual game. She picks a ridiculous combination of merit and flaws and begins an Indiana Jones-type rollercoaster ride of non-stop mayhem and adventure. She further decides to follow a relatively strict no-killing approach based on her first encounter in the new world. Quests are found and completed at an insane pace resulting in quick growth for her (and anyone else present for that portion of the ride).
The story has a frenetic pace with highly improbable encounters mixed with hard work, imagination, and a touch of scientific approach. The world is quite detailed, with a bit more attributes, classes, traits, and bloodlines than most LitRPGs. A minor gripe of mine would be the dearth of steampunk elements if only because it is in the story title.
The grammar, particularly in the first 100 or so chapter, is fairly bad... but it gets quite a bit better. Unlike many web novel, there are few uses of the wrong word (to vs too). Unfortunately, there are a LOT of run-on sentences and page-long paragraph.
The characters are quite fun and most are likeable and consistent, especially Cass. An interesting quirk is she is stuck in the body of a child so she is shielded from any romantic encounters. Others around her can't help but be drawn to her, despite her being a "helpful hurricane."
Flea04Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Litrpg, reincarnation, gamelit, FMC, and steampunk.
Made me laugh a few times. Was really sad when I ran out of pages to read. The main character was smart as hell and the author is a genius to think of these crazy quest lines and how the MC solves them. The magic aspect was fun and interesting and I was hooked from the beginning.
Definitely adding this story to my favorites and following the author.
ChazlcanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
tore through the 3 on kindle and am glad to find the rest of the chapters here to keep reading. currently on book 5 and will probably hit book 6 very soon. really enjoy the lore diving and showcasing of how the system works.would definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys gamelit where combat isn't the primary focus of the character.
Napalm078Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Some great work here with this book. Cass is a great character and she deserves all the love. It is interesting to note that while steampunk is literally in the title, it seemingly a side focus/ background detail to the story. It is a great story.
I do so love the way the progression has gone, and the clarity that is granted by the system the author made. A bunch of mechanics like skills, titles, classes, and traits, with few limits on what is actually possible. And the way in which what is on the status sheet (that actually gets quite monstrous, glad I was able to binge this far and not have to read the once a book full status sheet multiple times) is not all that is available to the people of this world.
A great system of logic of how the world works and how people and their choices actually make sense. A very good story. I do think that this author uses speech to text. A fairly large cast of relatives and relationships that are revealed and expanded in a way that makes sense and is cool.
Cass herself is devoted to Magic, or as becomes more apparent as time goes on, magic: all things magical in ways that are also beyond just spells and spellcasting, in willing the world to work as dictated.
Augmented Apects also makes the child MC work very very well, and continues to do good things with that. Perhaps some grammar mistakes are apparent, but the story itself is very very good. Binged it in, what, a week? I'm not certain, but it definitely entertained me all that time.
Definitely read this if you have the chance.