Defiance of the Fall

Self-Published

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Zac was alone in the middle of the forest when the world changed.The whole planet was introduced to the multiverse by an unfeeling System... or God. A universe where an endless number of races and civilizations fought for power and dominion.Zac finds himself stuck in the wilderness surrounded by deadly beasts, demons, and worse. Alone, lost and without answers, he must find the means to survive and get stronger in this new cut-throat reality.With only a hatchet for his weapon, he'll have to seek out his family before the world collapses... or die trying.

Release Schedule:

3 Chapters a week; Mon-Wed-Fri.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2019
Author: TheFirstDefier

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 18,789
Views: 2,305,539

Chapters(100 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

realitybendRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The strong, engaging story drives this work, and the writing doesn't detract from it like on so many web novels. I appreciate the work you put into this, and love the steady but not unbelievable growth the MC experiences.
KnightfireRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Interesting story so far. Hopefully it maintains its momentum as some stories lose it after the first arc is done and the main hero meets society again.
Naotsugu-97Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This series is truly one of the best. It will say this review is posted at chapter 760, but the truth is that I swapped over to Patreon and made this only the second series I spend money as a Patreon on! What pushes this series ahead of its competition? Read on!
Style. The author does a good job of pacing, maintaining POV, and transitions are generally well thought out and easy to follow. There are few instances where the reader is left going "wait, what happened?" because of jarring plot transitions.
Story. This story is not screamingly original, groundbreaking or anything else. What sets it apart is the universe building depth. What starts out as a run of the mill system apocalypse/litrpg/cultivation story quickly differentiates itself as the author doesn't just build a world, but an entire universe that has backstories, in depth characters, and does a pretty decent job of explaining what the whole "system" is! Really I think it's one of the best, most well developed stories out there. Think of some of the best fantasy authors and their world building. Tolkien, Martin, McCaffery. That level of world building.
Grammar. Okay, better than most. Remember, this is RR. There is a bump up from Patreon to RR, then another bump to Amazon. This is common in the industry. Don't expect mistake free here. However, the most offensive and egregious grammar mistakes are not present. The author is a solid writer from a grammar nitpickers perspective. (At least this one grammar nitpicker!)
Character. The MC is generally pretty dang awesome. Yes there is definitely OP foreshadowing going on, yet it is offset by the MC willingness to put in effort and hard work. And also to realize that rushing blindly ahead can be damaging, so he stops and works on polishing his fundamental foundations from time to time. This can be frustrating for some readers who like action. Because to those readers, the arcs where Zac is cultivating are boring. However, any reader who has progressed irl beyond l
nrsearcyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall:
As far as I'm concerned, this story is one of the best representations of the genre. It's not too crunchy with the numbers, but they do seem to matter. The skills are fun, and the progression is slow enough that it feels rewarding when Zac gets a power up. It gets better and more interesting the longer you read, which I love.
Style:
The style isn't flashy, but other than a few strange syntax choices (like when the author says something along the lines of "the face of Zac" when "Zac's face" would sound so much better) and a few words that become crutches for the author, it's perfectly fine. That lets the story shine through.
Grammer:
Not a ton of noticeable mistakes.
Story:
It's a good example of constantly escalating power and an overpowered hero who has to consistently fight more against more powerful enemies. Not heavy on the romance, instead focusing on the more action- or cultivation-heavy parts of the story.
Character:
Probably the weakest part of this story. Zac's a bit bland, but I think that's intentional because he's meant as a bit of a reader insert. Ogras is awesome, and I really like some of the character introduced in the latter part of the story. All in all, it's the weakest part, but it's still pretty good.
AayushRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This novel has got a lot of things.
Nice world building
Nice characters
Nice development, always something going on
MC always in trouble 😵‍💫 There is a good mixture of cultivation and system. We get space traveling, monster hunting, survival, it has got it all.
Overall I highly recommend it..
BeehiveRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I don't know about some people, but I appreciate well built and explained world. The MC is alright, but really I read to learn about the world not the MC. Sadly since he is a mortal the author doesn't really explain how normal people do it in any great detail. Still, I've read all the chapters and eagerly wait every weekday for the next chapter. Plus the author knows proper grammar, a lot of writers have a decent story, but they do first-person or just terrible word usage that leaves me cringing. But the author knows how to write and that shows if it didn't I wouldn't be reading it.
PJAuthor1Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
An enticing story with lots of hooks. Enjoyed the many hours with Zak and crew, grinding down the odds. His core and direction are not where I would go, but for sure I'm enjoying each development as he progresses up the ladder of eternal strife that has become his life. How will he get to his goals? I can't wait to find out.
Miner KnightRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I enjoy both the story and the characters. I'm especially grateful that the story didn't devolve into the author's sexual fantasies like so many web fictions and self pub books do. The only issue I have with the fiction is the large amount of grammatical errors that seem to get more common in the later chapters. It is mostly small things like double words or a sentence that repeats itself (as if it was written one way then the author went back to rewrite part of it without making sure the sentence made sense). These are pretty easy mistakes to fix and should be easily noticed if the rough draft was put through a grammar checker or even copy pasted into a google doc.
GarrdorRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Update: this story pretty quickly becomes your standard "Dao of Luck" xianxia fare, with the MC stumbling into treasures and powering up from near death experiences (that should have killed him). You better believe there's a settlement that he wants to protect at all costs and his motivations for becoming stronger are "because I need to". Biggest bummer is his fighting style devolves into "I hit the other guy harder, so I won". I'm still reading, obviously, but I'm definitely less enthused, and my earlier review may create unrealistic expectations.
I really like this story. Here are some bullet points of the things I like about it.
Survival- The MC is lost in the woods during a system apocalypse. Always like when a character needs to survive and acclimate to dangerous surroundings, both when it's happening and in the future when the MC gets compared to other people. That seems a long way off, though.
Realistic Knowledge- Related to above, this story actually has an MC who doesn't know how to immediately game the system. There are a lot of functions of the system that he doesn't know, and even more that he doesn't know he doesn't know, simply because he missed the tutorial. Rarely, you'll see him do something and say, "what an idiot that's clearly not the optimal choice", but all his choices are rational given the amount of information he has. He's super ignorant of what's going on, but using context clues to help himself rather than an deep knowledge of "What to Do when the System Arrives for Dummies".
System- Its a cool system, fairly background, and kind of sentient. He doesn't immediately get skills and upgrades, it's honestly him surviving as a (albiet super strong) human.
Struggle- The power creep is good, he struggles for a while, figures out ways to overcome those struggles, and then new stuff pops up to struggle against. Not in the "he'll never see or get hurt by level one mobs" way some xianxia stories do, more like they're there but no longer as much of a
entropiceffectRoyal Road
★ 0.5
Defiance of the fall started off strong with meaningful character progression accompanied by a well-paced story. The events were exciting and every chapter left me wanting more.
The writing has since degenerated into a word count fluffed mess. It's now filled with internal monologues, lengthy explanations, and frequent roadblocks where the story doesn't progress. One can easily skip multiple paragraphs or even sections and miss next to nothing.
90% filler + 10% story = .5 rating