Class: Mash

Self-Published

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In a world full of magic and power, where strength is defined by classes and levels. Follow Mash, a young boy who gets to experience the wonders of the world, from receiving his first class to realizing his dreams, and all the little progress in-between. Although things don’t go as he predicted. His first class defined him as something he was not, yet it offered him a new opportunity. Only through gaining experience and levels can he even begin to reach his dreams, whatever they may be.

After having his first real fight, Mash catches a glimpse into the profound wrongness in his world. In this moment of revelation, Mash’s life takes a new path, one he will have to carve for himself. A path that was not for knights, heroes, or kings, instead one for gods, of power beyond even his own understanding.

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: ANutty

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.1/ 5.0
Followers: 2,060
Views: 3,313,545

Chapters(395 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

cipiycRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is an interesting take on the super OP character. I love the progression of the story and the acknowledgement of a character recognizing they need to try and blend in with the crowd despite their natural inclinations and the attempt of the System to change them.
That said, if there is not a time when someone yells out "It's the Monster Mash" (canonically; April's Fool, crossovers, or side stories don't count), I will be very upset. Bonus points will be provided if "It's the Monster Mash" is immediately preceded or followed by "caught on in a flash" or "graveyard smash"
BBZRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This is really good as of Ch 18. The pacing is great. The characters are unique and consistent. They mc is interesting as he's a bit psychopathic but not entirely as he does emotionally connect to his siblings and friends and he's not just another murder hobo. The world setting and class advancement are pretty standard but solid. There is a bit of uniqueness in how the classes change at various levels that should be fun to follow as the characters progress. All in all, I'm looking forward to reading more of this one.
hovenRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The stories weakest point is the style. The author has (especially in the early chapters) a tendency to tell rather than show, and lacks the easy natural flow of very well written stories. This improves significantly in the later chapters (at 31 now which is the newest chapter at the time of the review). The style didn't stop me from enjoying or following the story clearly and one of the early chapters has already been rewritten (with more set to be as I understand it).
The story is a fairly normal young man grows up in a world with a system and begins advancing his classes. He doesn't feel overpowered or like he has a "cheat" yet though that may change with time. In general he just feels a little more able then average. It is not masterful writing or a groundbreaking story, but the fundamentals and foundation are there and it feels original and enthusiastic which does a lot to make it enjoyable.
I don't pay a ton of attention to or care about grammar a great deal. I didn't notice any obvious or glaring problems with during my readthrough. I would generally notice something if there were frequent or egregious errors but I can't think of anything as I write this review.
All the characters have distinct but understandable motivations and voice, and have stayed true to both. We mostly see things from the main character's point of view who has a bit of "unusual" perspective on things. Details on why he sees the world and has the emotional reaction he does are explained as the story progresses and make sense within the context of the world. It is still fairly early on so we don't have a lot of depth with the characters so far, but what we do have is very solid and a good foundation for further development. Given that the characters have had consistent development so far I am optimistic that the trend will continue.
Of other note, the author has been very good about taking feedback from some of the readers in the comments and has released at a very consistent
McReaperkingRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The classes and skills are presented so amazingly well and are so amazingly built I love it. They progress at a steady pace with clear goals and one of the 200 chapter gap between advancements you see in some other series.
My only complaint is how Red is absolutely shafted in the class department compared to the rest which essentially apotheosize
Oh and I also don't like how the group doesn't appreciate Mash's hard work and sacrifice. Power comes easy to almost all of them (except red)
RBrockRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Flow, Pacing, Prose. This book has none, the writing is incredibly awkward and cringe inducing, and for some reason most writers on this site never seem to know how to write character interactions or dialogue at even the most basic level, I always almost end up wanting to drop each novel when bad interactions are written, which is almost everytime so far. And this writer also didn't follow the most basic rule in existence as a writer, Show don't Tell.
The setting has great potential, the class prospects look really good, first time I've seen a nature based MC with a quarterstaff, good combination. The main character has a blanket goal, to explore far away places, a good one to have before you refine their finer motivations. I've always hated spatial-storage items in fiction, just makes it so convienient to carry things and prepare food and supplies in advance, streamlining things too much; I enjoy it when the MC works to survive in the woods, scrounging for berries, working to set up camp and overall slowly becoming an expert in outdoors survival on their journeys, a spatial-storage ruins all of that.
It's a 3 and a half stars because the potential is there but bad writing is dashing my hopes so far.
TeraSvRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
The premise is good. I don't have much to say about style and gramar, which means it is also (at least) not bad.
The Characters are not bad, but did not realy connect with me eather. That combined with a somewhat meandering storry and not enough agency of the main caracter led me to drop this.
ElektrikhitRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
So start with the good, this story is decent. The fight scenes are good, the power system is mysterious, and there is definitely good buildup for the future plot. Now for the bad. A big thing is that there is basically zero world building in the story. We know the name of the country, that there are at least 2 continents, the name of 2 cities, and that it's a feudalistic society. That's it. I don't know the politics, the regions, the various cities, nothing. I don't know how people live, or how the baseline power compares. I don't really know anything about the world itself. I don't even know what the stats actually do, other than the generic "strength makes you stronger". The second thing is that the characters have limited personality. I see broad archetypes, and they're not emotionless, but outside of the main group, the side characters are basically faceless set pieces, and even within the group I don't see much personality. I don't see the characters emotions, and if they ever do have them I'm told, not shown. The third problem I have is that there is not much detail. We see descriptors of the main character, and some of the side characters, but it's very hard to understand how they look. What does the environment look like? What does the city look like? The last issue I have is that the story moves at an absolutely breakneck speed, with very little rest periods in between. It feels like the main character is bouncing from crisis to crisis, with the rare half a chapter of relaxation. A bit of calm would benefit the story greatly. To sum it up, a pretty good story with solid plot, fight scenes, and good setup, but has its flaws.
YosarianRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
To be fair, I was able to read only about the first seven chapters before I stopped, so perhaps it gets better later on.
The main character just isn't interesting to me. He's kind of a sociopath, even at the age of 5, but not in an interesting way. He killed another child by accident and didn't care, felt nothing, didn't seem to understand why other people seemed upset. He spent two weeks in a dungeon and didn't mind. All he does for his entire childhood is spend all his time obsessively exercising to raise his stats. There's not a clear motivation either, there's no specific reason he wants to get more powerful, he doesn't seem to especially want anything or need anything or fear anything, but that's all he does anyway.
Otherwise, the writing is fine, the litrpg elements are fine, the plot is coherent although not much seems to be actually happening. I just don't care about the MC or the plot and as a result the story didn't catch my interest.
The_Eternal_PalaceRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
I need to be careful how I say this so as to not give spoilers.
The story is aiming for "Something". It drops a few hints, but never explicitly stated what that "Something" is. The Author wants to keep it as a surprise.
I'm pretty sure I know what the "Something" is, but I won't say it here.
"Something" is going on. The author is setting it up from early on. However, the way the author is setting it up is... Questionable.
Character development is the main problem. It is aiming for a certain goal, and technically fits that goal (if my assumptions are correct). But the author hasn't explicitly said what that goal is to the readers. As such, the character development path is giving the wrong message to many readers.
As it stands now, it is too easy to give up on the book during the early chapters. And it is too soon to say if the later chapters will make it worth sticking with, because they haven't gotten to the "big reveal" yet.
EDIT - I'm throwing in the towel.
30+ Chapters in and "the big reveal" hasn't revealed itself yet. Not the one I've predicted at least.
Thinking over what is instead of what might be, I'm getting more and more frustrated with the story. Everything is too easy for the protagonists. How easily they travel between cities. How easily they clear their first dungeon. How easily they level up. Mash only got his wood class less than a month ago.
BorbbyRoyal Road
★ 1.0
The start of the book was really great and really absorbed me into it with the class system and even tho its pretty basic, its still interesting to read. The issue comes with how the MC is written and the fact that he's insanely bipolar when it comes to morality. Sometimes he'll kill multiple people without any issue and mercy kill alot of people just for "power" but then will spare someone who tried to kill him (multiple times) and his friends which genuinely makes no sense. Then there's the stupid concept of introducing morality of not killing "people" even tho the entire system is based off growing stronger on killing people??? It doesn't make any sense and i dropped it when the story become an incoherent mess where most chapters talk about the MCs mental health which is "broken" since chapter 10. I did actually kinda enjoy the side stories about the other characters and i still don't understand why the side characters have far better writing than the Main character? Honestly the novel had great potential but its sad to see it fail.
This novel fell off so hard and the author cannot write a good character.
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