Divine Bladesmith

Self-Published

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Description

In one city, a mysterious bladesmith of considerable skill appears. Nobody seems to know much about the person, or even seen his face. What they do know, however, is that the skill of the enigmatic bladesmith could swing any number of undercurrents in the city, the kingdom, and maybe even the world itself.

Ah, hello there! A bit of a word from the author—or me, since I am the author. Suprising, ain't it?

Anyway, I just wanted to warn you that this is pretty much a sand-box fiction. A test-bed of sorts meant to try out ideas, improve on various concepts, and see what does and doesn't work. As such, this isn't one of those great and flawless fictions. There are plot holes. There are dropped themes and ideas, and things tend to jump around. I'd advise you to not take this fiction too seriously, since it's not really meant to be serious.

Thanks, and I hope you enjoy it regardless!

Information

Status
Hiatus
Year
2016
Author
RivertheRoyal

Tags

ACTIONFANTASYADVENTUREMAGICANTI-HERO LEADFEMALE LEADTRAGEDYMARTIAL ARTSGENDER BENDERREINCARNATION

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.3/ 5.0
Followers
2,649
Views
2,217,625

Chapters(90 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

  • LollypopzRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    This story is brilliant. I love the main character and can't wait to find out more about Kai. I'm sure there's more to come and I just can't wait! Well, I can and I certainly will wait :D
  • AquillanRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Main character seems a little over-powered at times but if you keep reading it gets better and better!
    While each little story-arc has its own fight/win/progress, these have all seemed to build up to something intense and it's awesome
  • SciFiAddictRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    This is a fun story.  I have to say that I enjoyed more the earliest chapters, while the MC was on the Human Continent, but it’s still a fun read.  The character has gotten overpowered but there are other over powered characters and the author has made it quite clear that there are greater dangers out there in the larger world.  In my opinion, the story has kind of a super hero comic book feel to it.
  • lifebloomRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    I know that I will Trigger most people by saying this, but, The author needs to scale back on chapter rate. One overy two-four days during college is a feat that I do not want anyone to attempt to undertake. I have tried writing a story before, and I can say that as a middle school student, it was hard for me to get beyong a chapter a week if I pushed it. Taking in increased workloads, as well as better concentration, I think that an update schedule of Once every six-eight days is an amazing form that would stay frequent enough to satisfy readers, but still allow you to do other stuff and still rest between chapters. Wouldn't hurt the quality of the Chapters, too.
    Other than that, I love the story personally. The only other story I have read that looks at Smithing in detail is Insania Online, and that is very different from this work. One problem: Every time something goes right for the Main Character, something of equal or greater negative value happens! that just doesn't work! Accounting for Murphy's Law, she should get a break once every six months, even with a luck of nil, right?
  • KycomputerRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    No complaints on grammar or style from me, but so far the characters don’t really hold their own even though they have personality. I really hope we get to see them get more fleshed out and enriched as you go on!
    *Up to Ch.6 at point of this review*
  • UnknownForkRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    I really do like this story, so much that it motivated me to write my first ever review on RoyalRoad.
    The plot of the whole fiction is intriguing and goes at an adequate pace, and the characters are well-described, maybe too described in some cases, and I like their personalities.
    Only real fault I see with the story is a rather high amount of spelling mistakes.
  • bubbleduckRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    I think it's about time I stop clogging up this fiction's second review with outdated information from nearly forty chapters ago.
    I'll leave my previous review at the bottom if you want to see the way I felt about the story back then. I haven't changed the title, as I feel the essence of what I was talking about has not been changed.
    Now, in seventy chapters, I can say that this story has come a long way. However, in a similar fashion to what I observed in the first thirty chapters, it seems to be constantly changing what it is a story about. I'm not going to give examples because those would be MAJOR spoilers, but I can say that the dimension hopping and power scaling will probably reach a Xianxia level at some point in the story. What I mean by this is that everything achieved in the start of the story is rendered meaningless except as a stepping stone for what comes later, as the character's strength and later achievements leave anything they managed earlier in the dust.
    Style: It's pretty good for RRL or a light novel. As Horius mentions, it's not up to a published novel standard, and he seems to be a better judge of it than me. But then again, this is RRL, you're probably not here for the style. Although to be fair, in recent chapters, the bubbles, e.g.
    (Kai:) I went to the shops today.
    have been replaced by more traditional indications of who's speaking, e.g.
    "I went to the shops today," Kai said.
    So you can see that the author accepts feedback.
    Story: Now here is where my problems lie. The story seems to jump between settings all the time, without looking back. The city where Kai spent the first fifteen or so chapters has never appeared again in the story, alongside the characters in it, and as of this moment it seems unlikely that it will. There are about five characters that have appeared in more than two of the five of the settings presented in the story so far - and the main character is one of them. Many of these will come back, I'm sure, but many won't,
  • SovietWeebRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    The story isn't great and I found myself not liking a fair amount of stuff. But that doesn't mean I am not a fan. I do kind of love Kai and her not caring personality.
    Two issues I find the most prevalent, Are that the story doesn't really seem to have much of the main storyline. It's mostly the MC going from point A-B with things happening along the way. I am actually a fan of stories like this that don't get bogged down by some overly complicated or annoying main story. But I do feel like something more interesting should be taking place over the story. I think it'd be cool if the main story was to search for Kai's mother. With big revelations coming out as they go on.
    The second thing would be that the first 20 or so chapters are very different than the rest of the story. We got nice and mysterious chapters about Kai hiding their identity in a town and dealing with everything. After that, the story does escalate into more about the MC being super OP I don't really mind as I find those types of stories fun.
    I do kind of wish the MC wasn't so experienced in reincarnation and kind of wish it was their first time. But I also understand that it wouldn't be Kai without their multiple incarnations
    I still find the story really fun to read through. I still ship Kai X Bea or Kai X Mute girl!
  • HoriusRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 3.5
    I can read good works of fictions and I can read bad works of fictions. What I can't read are unpolished jewels, the kind of fiction which makes one realize how great it could be if annoying not-quite-mistakes would be worked on. For this reason, this review does have the first five chapters as it source.
    The style is definitely my main problem, but mainly because the style doesn't harmonize with the story. The author does have a very detail-rich way of writing, which is unusual in casual fantasy while being more often found in epic fantasy.
    Sadly even there the details would be destructive, for the simple reason that the descriptions go too far. A good author knows to show and not tell.
    For example, a character does have black stains on his/her hand. Now, you could tell "Character A does have stains on her/his hand," or you could build it in a conversation: "A, stop rubbing your hands for a second, it makes me nervous," grumbles B. "Sorry, but that damn midnight dark ink seems intend to taint my skin for eternity," says A irritated.
    This conversation is also a good example to how conversations should look like. Leave the bubbles, for (Character A): "I have ink on my hand." looks terrible and is a very bad style. I understand that new authors have problems in showing who said what, but the bubbles ruin your work for many.
    If you use my conversation as a example, I have to give the additional tip that you literally can't use 'ask' and 'say' too much. I know, it feels bad writing 'say' dozens of times, but in a conversation the focus should remain on the conversation, if you elaborate too much on your vocabulary there, the reader will jump text.
    The story seems well planned, but fails in it's presentation. For example, the readers are in the second chapter simply not invested enough to read a memory of the main character. The spark of the story - the main reason and motivation of the main character - would have been much better addressed in a prologue or much later wh
  • VatanRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 3.5
    Honestly this is a good story and well written too.  But I can't recommend it to anyone due to chapter 17. Honestly someone who does not hold a grudge against the person in large part responsible for her mother's death makes no sense considering the vindictive and cold personality type that was set up in the beginning of the story. Although this plot development allows for the transition into the next arc of the story I can't help feel that it was rushed and not well planned out.