Deteoh – A Glitched World’s Isekai Story
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When you die, you're supposed to just go to either an afterlife worthy of your exploits or get reincarnated and start all over.Or you can be like me and volunteer to play hero to save a world!I even managed to negotiate immortality as a reward, although I have to become a vampire for that, but it's not half bad.
Glitched skill system?God devouring artifacts?Death counts in scientific notation?What do you mean, I just killed the heroine?What have I gotten myself into...I get the feeling I'm playing on impossible difficulty.Also, why does everyone make such a deal about how I died?Just because I don't understand the scientific principle at fault, doesn't make it important, right?
[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge - 2022 Q2]
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2022
- Author
- 3QGN73
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- 3.5/ 5.0
- Followers
- 173
- Views
- 194,278
Chapters(159 total)
- Ch. 56 – Evil MathJul 5, 2022
- Ch. 55 – Early RiseJul 1, 2022
- End of Arc 1 – SummaryJun 7, 2022
- Ch. 54 – New PerspectivesJun 6, 2022
- Ch. 53 – Girls Night OutJun 3, 2022
- Ch. 52 – SpeechcraftJun 2, 2022
- Ch. 51 – Morning TrainingMay 30, 2022
- Ch. 50 – PreparationsMay 26, 2022
- Ch. 49 – Next stepsMay 23, 2022
- Ch. 48 – RevelationsMay 19, 2022
- Ch. 47 – Foiled againMay 16, 2022
- Ch. 46 – AversionMay 12, 2022
- Ch. 45 – ResearchMay 9, 2022
- Ch. 44 – HarvestingMay 6, 2022
- Ch. 43 – SymbolismMay 4, 2022
- Ch. 42 – Acceptance?May 3, 2022
- Ch. 41 – Second ContactApr 30, 2022
- Ch. 40 – Wrong WarpApr 27, 2022
- Ch. 39 – BreakoutApr 24, 2022
- Ch. 38 – Monsters are the real humans?Apr 23, 2022
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Community Reviews(6)
- BloodyDeepPlotRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Main Character chooses to become vampire and be immortal.
This story has everything:
There are glitched skills.
Gods devouring artefacts.
Death really counts.
The premise is interesting, and it's used not ignored. There is an overreaching plot, no mini-arcs where the author makes up each section on the fly.
With fantastic writing, an interesting story and a plot that doesn't get side-tracked away from the goal.
Regardless, in terms of grammar, I did not really notice any glaring mistakes and it seemed to be well structured. In terms of style, I did quite enjoy it. Characterization is extremely well done compared to the rest of the books on this site.
Honestly, I was compelled to keep reading every moment I had as I wondered may come next.
The progression is gradual and the main character at a base not overpowered. Ways of action are fine tuned to pit against stronger opponents and the character suffers set backs and frustrations all the same. The characters make mistakes and are not infallible, as well as changing their response to new circumstances appropriately. While their power grows, they experience hard limitations to their growth and are not able to overcome anything even while cooperating with others.
The writing style is interesting. Grammar is very well done, I honestly couldn't find any obvious mistakes. - DenebRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5First of all, I have to say, the description of the author of the story is spot on. One of my biggest pet peeves is when the description doesn't match nearly good enough or is meaningfully ambiguous. If you are considering reading this, and you like the intro, read ahead, you won't be disapointed.
Style: Excellent use of artistic devices. Framing of scenes seems natural. Unlike many a web novel that wastes time describing a scene where, in the end, you still can't make heads or tails of it, this story moves right along, hitting the critical details. No padding the story with wasted words here, none of that, "it was a bright sunny day" time wasting fluff.
Story: Almost 100% relatable. Gets the reader into the story with minimal difficulty. Story proceeds at a good pace. No lucky coincidences. Cause and effect seem to be maintained consistently. World building continues through actions of characters, not infodumps.
Grammar: Could be better. Too many errors for 5 stars, but the use of vocabulary is good, not to high or low for the story.
Character: All of the characters are consistent, 3D, interesting, and purposeful at the time of writing this review. Let's hope it stays that way. Too many stories gloss over characters that have an important function to play in the story, this one is the opposite. Some stories throw in too many characters, I believe, to try to add depth or interesting events. This story falls solidly in the middle, where good stories do.
It looks like the author is setting up for a long haul, and I can say, I'm looking forward to the journey. - IbisRoyal Road★★★★ 3.5As for positive points, I think this story has potential:
1. its system has strange mechanics like the mansion, about which almost nothing is known yet but which could be interesting in future chapters.
2. The bugs part hasn't had much relevance so far but it also leaves the possibility of there being bug exploitation mechanics later on.
As for the negatives:
1. I tend to be in favor of "info dumps", but it seems like there has been a lot of information and we still don't know much.
2. Another problem I see in the future is the amount of things in the state: 10 classes with 3 skills each, several races with their respective skills, 20 titles, etc. In the end a complete character will have more than 50 skills. I think it would have been better to have fewer classes, titles and subraces but with more meaningful abilities.
3. Furthermore, 25 "long" chapters have passed and the protagonist still has no clear goal or plan to work on. And the exp that MC earn right now seems ridiculous, let's say 500 exp every day: after a month you might have one of your classes at level 10 (and you have to level up 10 classes, 5 races, and 20 titles). I assume that in the future he will find a way to gain more exp or that immortality will be used to say something like: the protagonist has been following his training routine for years and has leveled up. I suppose the autor wants to give some realism to the difficulty of leveling up but the way to achieve it seems to be somewhat defective: it is not entertaining to see how day after day the MC repeats his routine to go up from level 1 to level 3.
4. And finally , so far the dialogues between characters have seemed a bit boring to me, it seems that each one is minding their own business without forming a story between them. Furthermore, it is strange how a single conversation can change the opinion of some characters so much and also how little the protagonist interacts with his environment (he has been in the same place for 1 or 2 weeks - NIK220VRoyal Road★★★★ 3.5It really is what it says on the cover. This LitRPG is glitched and that's the gimmick. Not in the fun way, not in the OP way. Just plain out doesn't work how it "should" most of the time.
The story is incredibly slow-burned by design (by chapter 40 MC is still weaker than an average fighter his age). Guess I can't complain much since it does what it says, but nothing to write letters about either. - TaxibutlerRoyal Road★★★ 3.0TL;DR:
The story itself is decently unique, but combined with everything else (super slow burn and number central) and the way it plays out just doesn't feel very good. The glitchy stuff is cool though. The author seems to want the story to play out very specifically, gets off track, then changes the MC's personality and forces events that don't make sense at the time.
3/5 -- Average
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I enjoy the premise of the story, but it has a few flaws. Firstly, so, so, SO many numbers. This is an even bigger problem with the amount of "system" prompts that come up pretty consistently. Each prompt gives all info, every time, with tons and tons of numbers in every category. I think this could be somewhat better if the stats and such were segregated a bit differently in the tables, where instead of the numbers being on the side like this:
1 Stat
2 Stat
...
It could instead be:
1 2 3 4...
Stat Stat Stat...
Other than that, it is still just way too much information, especially with the MC's status coming up about once a chapter, and has so, so many numbers and skills and stuff. I had to skip over practically all system prompts except the titles because my eyes would just glaze over. I was also slightly annoyed that monster creatures don't have a name at the top, but instead listed as a class. It isn't really a huge problem, but I would tend to look at the first line and then realize it's somewhere in the wall of system prompts.
Something a bit more weird to me is how in one chapter (don't know the exact number) and the next, the MC's personality just completely changes. It's like the internal dialogue is completely different from what they do. One example is with Darius, who has a third-person perspective of the MC, but the way the situation plays out is just so weird (railroading?), or the situation with Chloe after the dungeon. Another somewhat larger example is the interaction with Lucia, wh - Comotose_TrinityRoyal Road★ 0.5The way this is written is stressful to read.
from the very beginning everything said is practically side tangents (on a time limit?), round about writing (they say a lot of useless shit and then constantly remind the reader of the time limit), and a main character that has memory loss to an unknown extent just so the author can say he knows some random things and doesn't know other random things when ever he wants and to any extent he feels.
Not to mention "morals". constantly brought up at the beginning but everyone seems to have a lack of them except MC who almost comes of as one of those doormat self sacrificing types at the beginning.
funnily enough the MC passes an reincarnation option because of the doormat trait that would be imposed upon him, and then proceeds to act like a said doormat with how easily he is sways. They try to say that the MC won't risk his life without benefits only for the benefits to be
1. "info" something that was already promised him (great condition dipsh!t)
2. "that the random dude he just met hits the boss" shouldn't matter to him like at all. why does he care so much and why do they bring this up every other sentence!? (another terrible condition. you are going to a dangerous planet, but let us care about this boss of a guy you don't even know that seems hella shady at the begining. (the author must hate his real boss a lot for this sh!t))
3. "Immortality" finally something that wasn't on the table before this 'negotiation?' that may actually aid the MC in staying alive in this world that 50+ ALREADY DIED IN!!!!!!
So yeah I dislike the MC from the get go and in the few chapters I could stomach he shows no signs of getting better.
Writing style doesn't improve either so far.
Feel free to give this a read. If you don't mind the writing style, and can deal with a (In my opinion) brain dead MC. The overall story might be entertaining. So take my review with a grain of salt and enjoy.
P.S If you are the author.... why???