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

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Description

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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Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: Lykanthropy

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 2,395
Views: 933,852

Chapters(274 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

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!
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."
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Stranger JRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An Op no killing mc. The plot is simple, mc focus on a problem, then proceed to solve it while gaining cool skills, magic and some attributes. The mc carry much of the story with her interesting choices and actions. Almost no strong emotions are felt while I read this. It is a simple, quite lighthearted, fun and enjoyable story.
TheGreatLake(0_0)Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This story is a power fantasy through and through, everything from the crazy luck to the absurd advantages the main character make it a textbook power fantasy. I love it because it is a great power fantasy, personally I feel the author has toed a fine line in writting this and I am happy to see how this plays out in the future. If you are not a fan of power fantasies or absurdly fast growth I would not reccomend this, this is a story about a character munkining her world with a frankly absurd amount of luck.
GibsterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The author has made a world where when you die, you are uploaded to a game. You have multiple lives in the world, but when you die, you die. The MC sacrifices all their extra lives to make one extra powerful life. It ends up with a character that is hobbled with flaws, but excells never the less. I really enjoy this story. The MC finds out that they despise killing so ends up as a thief and healer. This journey from nothing to become someone special is diverting and gratifying.