Elfandrael: Lucky Soul [LitRPG] [Fantasy] [Progression]

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[Write-a-thon Winner October 2022]

Truck-kun got me! I was gonna be Isekaied! I knew all the tropes. I had a plan. So, how come I kept earning [Evil Points] and [Chaos Points] when I was [Lawful Good]? Come and listen to my story (there may even be some Bubbling Crude). It's gonna be told from my perspective, without much of a filter. To quote one of my fellow Earthlings, “I'm not stuck in here with you. You're stuck in here with me!”

Author's notes: Ignore Eric, he's a just a little excited that his story is being published. He's normally a little more level-headed than that. This will be a Slice of Life, LitRPG, Progession Fantasy. There will be mild Profanity, Gore, Violence, and Traumatizing Content. I'm not kidding. There will an intimate explorations of math and math related concepts. High school algebra will haunt some people forever. It won't be too explicit. You won't have to do calculations, but if you can't celebrate when the min/maxing comes around, I'm sure you'll feel judged.

Lastly, this is not a comedy. This is story that will have snark. Being snarky is not about being funny. It's about seeming funny. You can say something snarky, and it will work if your delivery is right, even if it's not funny. Being snarky is about being cool. Snark is using poise and wit to hide your insecurities by verbally dominating others. And well, I can't even keep my poise through these four paragraphs introducing my book. Most of this story is going to be about living a mundane, wizarding life. Don't expect the intensity in this introduction be in every chapter of this Slice of Life novel. I mean, it's LitRPG. You gotta have XP popup notices, and that's basically foreshadowing with math. Very mundane. You can't be cool all the time. If I was going to be Isekaied, I'd want that world to be simple enough to have fun, deep enough to be engaging, and complicated enough to suck you in. I hope you get sucked in. All I'm trying to say is that I want you get killed by being run over by a truck, because I believe you probably deserve it.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Arcane Wind

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Rating: 3.6/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(2)

Pluto9Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
An actual complex system with multiple different facets is a nice change from the norm, I've seen similar attempts before, but the story always suffers as they try to explain the system. This story doesn't fall for that and has a very engaging storyline so far as well. There is a nice balance of action and exposition, it has great potential going forward, overall 5/5
AtroRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
There's some interesting ideas in this one. But there are just much bigger problems in my view that prevent it from being a more enjoyable tale.
The MC has spikes of personality. But mostly it's hidden behind the apparently perfect plan that he was handed out behind the scenes in the first chapter. And he follows it like an obsessive gamer with an old school game strategy book.
The system could be interesting. Something involving the classic alignments in fluctuating form. Lots of numbers and mathematical usage. But all the numbers are irrelevant, or if they matter there's no attempt to explain it. Are the thousands of alignment points he started with out of the ordinary? Is there any relevance to the alignment magnitudes that has been mentioned thus far. Do the stats have any effect? I don't know and probably neither will you.
Personally one of my favorite parts about a system story and one I expected to see given the mention of math and builds in the blurb is that it's a coherent and understandable thing, you as the reader can theory craft and consider what might happen in the future. But not here, because as with aforementioned ball game if everything isn't made up on the spot and the rules constantly change then it does a very good impression of it. I won't go into detail but suffice to say that you can't know what the next step is because you don't know what it or any of the preceding steps meant. The only thing you know is that it'll be absolutely optimized because of the strategy guide that the Max must follow possibly for life that has every detail already nailed out, but never explained. Which is unfortunate because if it wasn't so the MC could muse about their options and maybe reveal some of the underlying mechanics, if there are any. It definitely feels more and more wish fulfillment to me.
Grammar is spotty. Not terrible but definitely a place to improve.
The author gets a bit too descriptive about some rooms for my taste. Which is odd only in that most