Centifire: Deciphering Magic

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2017

Author

Rainli

• 40 - Shinsekai [END]
  May 23, 2020
• 39 - Firestorm
  May 18, 2020
• 38 - Trust No One
  May 16, 2020
• 37 - Soko's Caped Crusaders
  Jan 13, 2020
• 36 - Call Signs
  Dec 27, 2019
• 35.5 - Winds of Change (pt2)
  Dec 16, 2019
• 35 - Winds of Change (pt 1)
  Dec 15, 2019
• 34 - Return Home
  Dec 9, 2019
• 33.5 Pisces and the Library
  Dec 1, 2019
• 33 - Pisces and the Library
  Dec 1, 2019
• 32.5 - The Void Crystal and Gushi pt2
  Jul 30, 2019
• 32 - The Void Crystal and Gushi (pt 1)
  Jul 29, 2019
• 31.5 Achievements pt 2
  Jul 26, 2019
• 31 - Achievements (pt.1)
  Jul 25, 2019
• 30 - Awakening
  Jul 21, 2019
• 29 - A Reminder
  Jul 12, 2019
• 28.5 - The Path of Least Resistance pt 2
  Jul 6, 2019
• 28 - Path of Least Resistance
  Jun 25, 2019
• 27.5 SIM pt 2
  Jun 23, 2019
• 27 - SIM
  Jun 3, 2019

Reviews

Community Reviews(5)

• Omi NyaRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Writing quality is superb, marvelous, beyond words. The style is astronomically good. The way the authors uses words and build them up in sentences is terrific. The same goes for grammar.
• rewashingtonRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Glance Review!
  So I decided to skip the side stories for now and go straight to the story I was pleasantly surprised with this story. Right away I was immersed into the world. The world is well developed and with lots of fun tech. Sometimes I was a bit overwhelmed by the information, but mostly because everything was so new. I really enjoyed it.
  Right away we get a feel for Lark's personality. He's a bit snobby, but likable. He was a character that I enjoyed right from the start with a strong voice. As the story goes on we are introduced to some nice action mixed with worldbuilding and Lark's true character shines through.
  More and more of the world is shown and with it questions that definitely keep me going. Though I finished reading the story, I'm looking forward to continuing.
• MovenpickRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  [Accurate as of Chapter 15]
  Among all of the fictions I've read on RRL, this is one which I feel doesn't have a singular theme but rather encompasses multiple aspects, ranging from science fiction, to LitRPG to fantasy and even interdimensional travel.
  As a result, it's nearly impossible to define the genre of this story so explicitly, but definitions simply come from our arbitrary need to name and label things for the sake of clarity. Instead, I'd prefer to see this immense diversity of themes as room for plot growth in the future chapters.
  Spoiler: Spoiler
  This is clearly evident when the main antagonists of the story have been introduced, as a whole lot of possibilities have been opened thereafter with the introduction of magic and multiple worlds.
  In terms of character development, as pointed out by another reviewer, the 1st 10 chapters essentially make for a very long prologue, which is more than sufficient to develop our main protagonist Lark Rune. The other characters have been given some depth as well, especially the people around Lark like his friends and his butler.
  As for the antagonists, I believe that future chapters would provide greater analysis into their personalities and motivations for their actions, serving as yet another possible room for development.
  There are few, if noticeable, grammar slips which are easily rectified by the occasional proofreading so I've no qualms with grammar.
  However, no story is without flaws. The key flaw of this story, in my opinion, is its clarity of ideas.
  Spoiler: Spoiler
  For instance, in Chapter 5, Runesteam is introduced as a new VR platform that allows one to immerse himself in a fantasy game settings. This inevitably gives the impression that the story would revolve around the use of Runesteam, about how our protagonists would navigate the virtual world to solve real problems.
  However, in Chapter 6, without warning, suddenly, the butler Wangshi can use magic in the real world? My question is, where did magic com
• SandsforeverRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  Ch32
  Decent read
  This book feels like the author looked at a basket full of fantasy/fiction genre themes and just dumped them in a pot but even though it's not clear at times it's not terrible
  It will be interesting to see how it develops
• HorstRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  So far the story hasn't really progressed much. It's quite accurate to say that up to chapter 10 everything was a prologue.
  Now you might ask yourself why i am giving a 3/5 rating despite having only read the prologue?
  Well because the whole story is a bit too confusing for me. I just cannot get into the mindset to be hyped or fascinated about the story. My main issue with the novel so far is that i don't understand even the tiniest bit. The world our MC is living in isn't really clear to me ( is it near future, is it pure scifi, is it a different world altogether?, what does it mean for him to be the heir to the runetech company?, what kind of society is the MC living in ,etc etc )
  Long story the 3/5 score is because of my lack of understanding the story.
  To give you an idea what this story is about:
  WARNING THE NEXT PART CONTAINS SPOILERS
  Our MC is the heir to a runetech company (what exactly runetech is, where it comes from and how it works is only explained vaguely as in it's somekinda alien tech ).
  He is going to school and his social life consists of 2 Friends : Mishka and Sky and his butler/driver/caretaker? Wangshi. His caretaker is a trained killer/assassin/bodyguard/torturer? and saved him from some cultist at an earlier point in his life.
  The MC found some alientech from his gramps in the lab and the alientech he found is "pure-alien" tech.
  Back in school he attends some classes until shit hit's the fan and the cultists release slimes into his school.
  After a fight, in which he learns magic is kinda real his friends are taken away by the cultists to another world.
  That pretty much sums up all that happened up until chapter 10
  To the Author keep at it, your story isn't bad.