Discovering Magic

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Description

“Venture into your mind and into a new world, one where there is Magic. Magic that is nascent and unexplained, one where you can be the one to Discover it, by delving dark dungeons or examining magical Beasts, by studying ancient scrolls or by finding lost gods, your Imagination is the only limit.”

This is what Mike thought he was getting into when he lay down to play a new VR game, but fate had another thing in store for him, he was whisked away to a new world in another Dimension, with an AI fused to his body that refuses to let him treat this world as a game, all the while trying to make it as much like a game as it can. The only Objective he is given is to Discover Magic as he learns to survive and live in this new world, doing the best he can to not die, or even worse.

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Hi All!

This is my story, it has been brewing in my mind in various forms for years. It will be rough, this is the first story I have written in a long time, so please help me make it as great as it can be!

It is a High Fantasy adventure/Isekai LitRpg, it will have action and adventure, levels and dungeons, Elves, Dwarves and Gods.

It is not a Virtual Reality story, though it will touch on some topics of artificial intelligence.

The core focus of the story is going to be the discovery and deep delve in the magic system and fantastical elements of the world. Mana is used so often in LitRPG's but how often is it explained what mana is, magic is used in fantasy, but how often do you understand what it feels like. Magical races like Elves, Dwarves etc. often exist in stories, but why do they exist? and what truly makes them different from Humans and from each other? What is a God and where did they come from?

These are the sort of topics that I want to really dive into in this series, all through the lens of a progression focused LitRPG.

Thanks for reading!

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2019
Author: Signspace13

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Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Followers: 8
Views: 378

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Community Reviews(10)

DiamondninjaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love this concept. Honestly I'd been trying to come up with it find a good fantasy world with AI based leveling systems.
Can't wait to see where this goes. Good groundwork so far for world building with race and lore regarding them. Curious what things the MC figures out!
knifeandkoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A nice mechanics-focused story. Magic feels cool, without being too quick to become OP; MC is not annoying; enemies feel appropriately strong/interesting. The pacing is good enough, and the story reads smoothly. Worth a try for almost anyone.
Reviewed as of chapter 25.
SeleroanRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I really like the concept put forward in this story. The idea of a game AI being isekai'ed along with the MC and creating a game interface for him because that is what it was programmed to do appeals to me. As others have said, however, sometimes the interface can get clunky and the pace is a bit slow. I haven't minded these negatives too much, however, and as of ch, 29, I remain interested. The author maintains editorial notes throughout, and you can see that he takes criticism seriously and works to continually improve his narrative. That deserves praise, I think.
KoboldPatrolRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
(as of chapter 23)
Like it happens to the protagonists in many other RRL stories, Mike wants to enter a groundbreaking VR game but is completely transported into a fantasy world instead. Due to dimensional travel shenanigans, the game AI is integrated into his body as a living tattoo, giving him a system interface with its own mind. He awakes as a prisoner in a nazi-elf facility, destined to be a medical research subject because of that integrated AI. Will he be able to escape before Dr Mengelelf arrives and how will he survive once outside? Come in and find out
There is a big focus on the technical/LitRPG aspects. While I really like numbers and statistics, here it is excessive compared to other stories and compared to the amount of narration going on. This is the biggest fault of the story by far. Stat and skill tables should be a help to visualize and flesh out a story but they can't replace plot. The system itself is interesting with good mechanics, the author has clearly put much thought into it. The stat boxes take up a large part of the chapters, often they are posted multiple times in one chapter with only a tiny change. Not helping is their awkward formatting with needless linebreaks and lots of text in very narrow (and thus long) columns. This has been recently pointed out so it might be rectified soon, as the author asks for and listens to criticism, striving to improve (e.g. the colors of the text are still not great but they seem to be much better than what the early comments/reviews described).
The story is told in third-person internal style from Mike's POV. Grammar in general is okay but there are many run-on sentences. Punctuation and spelling could be better, an editor has just been announced so that might improve as well.
Mike is spending most of his time trying out his new skills and experimenting with the magic, while that is interesting it would be more interesting to see a story develop or a personality shown. The other characters (only two so
th30dorRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Subpar grammar, pretty awkwardish dialogue and the usual royalroadl disease of writers that have no idea about phrase and sentence structure. Paragraphs that run for half the page make for a very hard read.
humblepeasantRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
I literally got headache trying to read purple colored text on a black background. And the light theme is too bright for my eye.
l611Royal Road
★★★ 2.5
The main problem with this story is that, it doesn't know its audience. its rrl so a) if you are not writing a masterpiece then its better for it to be fastpaced and b) we know what the system is, we know what str etc is. the minute changes that you might have to their definitions come after the plot is set rolling.
I read 5 chapters, but was bored to read any further.
AdammaxRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
This web novel has some great mechanics like other people have mentioned. It has a lot of protentional. What it lacks, is Story. I am on chapter 9 now and everything up until now has been 97% info dump 3% story. I am 9 chapters in and know nothing about the personality of the character. Extremely little has happed plot wise. There is no hook. Nothing to draw the reader in to the story. Nothing to make the reader care/interested in the character. Nothing to keep me reading.
crpgnutRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Well, there really isn't a story here. It is a bunch of game rules with the author naming the readers Mike and leading them through the rules one chapter at a time. If there was an actual game to play at the end of this it might be worth it, but there isn't.
Chapter 1: Not a BOOK.
mike karrRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
Interesting concept, horribly flawed execution so far. I only read 6 chapters but so far nothing has happened other than the mc who randomly knows Latin for some unspecified reason