Eldritch Blade: Knight With A Thousand Eyes

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Achilles drew his father's sword......and gained 1,000 eldritch eyes!When vicious orcs attack his village, weak human Achilles defies them by drawing Virgil, an eldritch sword god from another dimension!Achilles claims a system class and spends his 1,000 eyes to boost his stats and gain special powers.He'll use this unique ability to become an Imperial Knight and kill the Demon Lords who invaded from another dimension, who make monsters stronger than humans.But the world is filled with vicious warriors, mages, and rogues, all fighting to achieve their own ambitious dreams—can Achilles survive long enough to become an Imperial Knight?Watch Achilles evolve in the system with 1,000 eyes!

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: ArgyleInsect

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Rating: 3.6/ 5.0
Followers: 24
Views: 11,128

Chapters(24 total)

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1212BRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
"Eldrich Blade" presents us with a world where humans have been relegated to a sidenote in history by demons, scampering to survive in the resource barren lands which the demons consider more trouble than they're worth.
Our main character — a naïve and weak farm boy — dreams of becoming like his father, and does get a chance to, as his village is attacked and makes a pact with the sword and the entity within it, which his father sacrificed his career to seal and keep hidden.
I really like this premise. I also enjoyed the hard limit on the tokens our main character can use to gain an edge in a fight.
But the story itself... So far I am unconvinced.
Style / Grammar:
I could find no grammatical mistakes or typos to speak of, barring a singular tense slip-up, which made me stumble while reading.
The style... I feel it changed a bit throughout the chapters. The first chapter is just 100% dry exposition, the action packed afterwards predominantly dialogue.
In more recent chapters it feels like the prose has found a good balance between the two.
The fight scenes work decently, though every time DND terms are brought up, or dice rolls are mentioned, I am a bit taken out of the immesion. Personal preference and biases and all.
In general, the writing feels a bit... Dry. I don't think it evoked an emotion in my a single time during reasing, though I believe the story ans characters are responsible for that in part.
There is a span of chapters where the perspective switched rapidly, which I also thought was a but jarring. Especially since the tone in those perspectives was quite different.
Story / Characters:
As it stands, our story is mostly driven by our main character's desire to become stronger, to follow in his father's footsteps.
The conflicts that have occurred so far have mostly been resolved within a few chapters. They are introduced as quickly as they are resolved and since most of them didn't really have any personal connection to the main character I didn't have an