Corruption Wielder (book 4 stubbing on 3/15 (FOR REAL THIS TIME))

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April 3rd, 3:46 AM. Planet Earth merges with the magical world of Arcadia, and a system gives humanity a choice: 40 years of indentured servitude, or entering a tutorial as a user to fight against the chaos incursion.

Will doesn't hesitate—but the system thanks him for stepping into the fight by throwing him into an impossible tutorial. With little chance of survival, Will has a simple response: “Fuck it. Might as well fight fire with fire."

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2024
Author: Slifer274

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
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Views: 216,255

Chapters(11 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

ashewyntrRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love Will's snark, I love that he has to pay heavy prices to get commensurate rewards, and is willing to suffer to get the job done.
I love how he cons gods. Repeatedly. He's pragmatic, clever, and stubborn as hell.
The world isn't fair, Will gets it, and just deals.
InslayerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A prohibited one at that. Unfortunately, our system user didn't have the ability to decide. Thankfully, however, he was more than prepared to take any and all advantages to survive.
Inside a corrupted tutorial, a corrupted dungeon and against corrupted enemies, he's got only one thing going for him, he's in his element.
Against the odds fights and actual training inside his tutorial, he might have a chance to survive... a small one, but a chance nonetheless. His chances are and are not helped by making stronger enemies more pissed off at him, but he gets an ally, and the most trust worthy of them; the enemy of his enemy.
So strap in and clench your teeth, you're in for a wild ride. It doesn't reinvent the wheel (not to say it doesn't have its unique flavor), it's a system apocalypse, and a darn good one at that.
Reaper of the Setting SunRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great story so far with a HWFWM feel to it. MC is a bit of a dunderhead but is good. No weird grammar or spelling stuff so far.
Assistant is unhelpful in a good way that progresses the story.
I like how it’s a bit more gamified and will continue to follow it.
YakuzibRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Not five stars because it lacks some amazing features.
But 4.5 stars because it is really really good overall. Everything seems really natural in the story : there is no moment where it is the plot armor doing all the job. It is always a good use of the rules of the world.
I like it.
You may too, why don’t give it a shot ?
rrname12321Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The best parts are the fighting in this story. This is a story about an over powered main character who gets all the good stuff and destroys all the enemies. There is even a global leaderboard which no doubt he will be #1 at some point in the story. The worst part of the story is the OPness of the MC, and the huge amounts of abilities and items and equipment that have unique effects. These effects will be in in full display in paragraph length many times in the middle of fights annoyingly. Grammar and style are decent, but the story lacks tension in any way since it is super obvious the MC will come out fine. There really is no one in the story I feel attached to as well. Ok story.
Benw8888Royal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Normally I love the concept of a “hell difficulty tutorial”. However, this story doesn’t scratch that itch.
Problem 1: The system is too verbose. Imagine constant long paragraph descriptions of everything, the system saying phrases like “luckily for you”, etc.
Problem 2: I prefer minimal systems, and this really isn’t a minimal system. Constant title acquisitions, inventories, minimaps, automatic looting of enemies- basically, too much “game” and not enough of what actually makes systems attractive to me (skills, quests, and classes that are “earned”, narratively connected, and more than just stat boosts)
Problem 3: There doesn’t seem to be anything special about our MC narratively. He just lucked into being gifted an “affinity” and is bumbling his way across. He doesn’t have the foreknowledge of a regressor, doesn’t have an innate special skill (being gifted an affinity doesnt count), and isn’t special for choosing to select a hell difficulty tutorial (because 2.5billion other humans chose the same tutorial, even if the MC ended up sent to a harder tutorial by accident).
Problem 4: The tutorial isn’t structured in an interesting way. It’s just him fighting monsters in a cave. No interaction with other humans, little connection to a wider plot, just monster fighting.
Overall, this story feels like an attempt to copy other successes that were mildly interesting at the time, but without the same benefit of novelty. Maybe it gets better if you keep reading, and other people may like it. But it’s not to my preferences.
Domego321Royal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This is a decent story. A man is out of bounds for a normal safe zone and so he gets sent to an extreme difficulty tutorial. From there he goes on within months to become more OP than people who have specifically been training to be the strongest and using the system for hundreds of years.
One of the main problems I have had with this novel is inconsistencies. For example the author will say the MC has a skill that does A, B, and C to whoever he can see or sense, and he immediately uses it as such using his senses he gets from an early weapon to target a goblin, but later on he states that it only works on those he can directly see. That same skill was used in the chapter I just read (chapter 78) where the MC says something along the lines of
““You know,” her opponent said, closer to her last summon than she could have predicted, “It’s nice that all of these have stealth skills on them, but it turns out that when they’re marked for death, I can see them through the walls just fine.”” then a little later he talks about how he defeated them using just about everything but that one specific skill because it might have caused him a problem if he did use it because the summons had anti drain skills (even though the MC’s skill doesn’t have any drain effects. It has a bonus that heals the MC based on how much damage he deals, but that is a different type of skill).
That is not the only skill nor is it the only time there have been inconsistencies, there are several times that the author states one thing then immediately backtracks a paragraph later. Anywhere from minor things to major plot points that could’ve gone entirely different without the inconsistencies. As is, it seems like the author isn’t keeping notes on what things do what, and isn’t sure of where he’s going or where the story has been. Which is a bit disappointing because I’ve read and enjoyed several of this authors novels that either didn’t have these problems or had them but they were very minor and neglig
SIX12SDRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
To preface; this story is not bad and given a rewrite eventually it could actually be really good. However, it is held back a lot by several glaring factors that I'll get into.
Main issue: Style
The style delivers some scenes with really well-written and vivid detail but mostly skims over details that would add a lot more.
Fights are described mostly by the outcome of each move without detailing the characters using them and their positions relative to each other. This often makes fights sound more like someone playing with action figures in front of you while narrating how effective each attack is rather than the characters sounding like they're actually moving in any complex manner, this effect is exacerbated by the next point.
Environments that make up scenes are almost never described outside of specific parts of it relevant to what the characters are doing and for example; if there was a ledge that the character needed to jump up to in a cave, usually the only details you'd get about the environment is that it is a cave, it is dark, and there is a ledge, the rest of the environment and thus it's effect on the actions of the characters are mostly overlooked such as what the footing in the cave is like, any stalactites or stalagmites, bends or elevation changes.
Characters' body language aren't described when speaking leading to them seeming like talking heads more often than not and their emotions while happening are barely ever given any description (this is more relevant in the character portion.
These lead to the biggest stylistic issue; the world building.
Corruption Wielder has some very good ideas that blend the He Who Fights With Monsters power system with the typical System-multiverse apocalypse genre which hooks the reader at the start.
However, it's refusal to slow down and add details where sorely needed represent the world as almost empty of anything that doesn't immediately move the scene or plot forward.
This is a huge problem given that the novels
DreamsRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
I wanted to like this one more than I did. I always enjoy post apocalyptic scenarios where the MC is isolated in a hellish environment, and I did for this story. I enjoyed the setting, a somewhat unique take on goblins, and the potential world building possible for the future of the story. Grammar is simple and solid without any huge errors. The system is a riff on He Who Fights With Monsters which was setting up to be interesting in the long run. It's got an assistant AI who takes about 2 chapters to hint at some nefarious or weird position about them and their role in the galaxy.
So why a 2.5 star out of 5? Well our MC is a fairly normal guy grinding a dead end job whose background was mixed up by having TWO, not just one sick parent he was earning money to help. Where does it all goes sideways? Well the characterization of the MC and the first other character he meets. It takes all of 24 hrs before our MC has turned into a no fear marvel superhero, taunting in the middle of life and death, making quips that wouldn't have you believe 10 hrs ago he was an everyday joe working on his computer, and of course he takes to weapons like they were made for him due to his strip mall martial arts lessons taken as a kid. He also is apparently super adept like a stalking ninja and able to ambush NPC's that are literally ambush predators due to him sneaking out of his house as a kid. If you think I'm making it up, I'm not, that's straight up the reason given. It's trying so so hard to be quirky and funny but it ends up invoking eye rolling. Then the first person he meets is trapped, about to be viciously murdered, her friends/party have already been murdered right in front of her. Would you believe she also is just like a marvel superhero movie as she makes constant quips and disparaging comments about the MC in a literal horror show setting after having all her companions murdered and death coming any second. To be fair, these things have been popular for a reason, but it's j
StonespitterRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
It starts out as obvious railroad plot and has just continued in that vein, just at a increasingly frantic pace. There's no chill, there's no build-up and there's a lack of a proper hook to really get you engaged with the story.
Style: Tries too hard to be comedic in a otherwise hellscape apocalypse. The threats escalate so fast, and are overcome even faster, that they lose meaning after the first 20 chapters. Anything after that just feels like a foregone conclusion.
Grammar: minor spelling mistakes, swapped letters etc. Not really a big deal, but 5 stars is perfect, which this isn't.
Story: There's no clear goal for the story other than "survive". Hints have been doled out, but with such miniscule granules that they may as well not matter currently, considering the frantic pace of the story with ever increasing threat levels that are smashed out like a game of wack-a-mole.
Character: the Main Character comes off as a 2D try-hard comedian. His entire personality is killing shit and shooting the shit with any and everything. That's it. His plot armor is so heavy I'm surprised he can crawl, much less fly. Probably one of the most unrelatable characters I've ever read.