I Tried To Get Away, But I Got Somewhere Instead (Itinerant Ritualist #4)

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Mastery over all physical reality through magical rituals seems like a sure route to power and prosperity until you end up working regular hours and performing nothing but company-approved rituals. Commercial Ritualist Dirant Rikelta, fresh out of school, has to wonder what that point of his education was. Until he meets a god who lets him know the true purpose of his class, that is.

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Status: Completed
Year: 2023
Author: Gaherest

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.9/ 5.0
Followers: 125
Views: 118,448

Chapters(227 total)

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Community Reviews(8)

OceanflexRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The writing is not easy-to-read and uses some archaic and out outright foreign words all the time, and very flowery and useless speech seems to be in fashion. It's really not your standard western junkfood webfic. But if you can stand some weird word choices and roundabout dialogue, it's got some really amazing dry humor gems all over the place.
The main character is an academic, who spends the pre-adventure chapters in an analytical headspace, and pomp and circumstance seems to be the theme song of his life. Once he meets the god, he gets shocked out of that headspace and into a "academic on a field expedition" headspace instead. He even gets sore from horse riding.
I see a world that's full of people who either want to be entertained by our protagonist's misadventures, or just want to move him along so he can be someone else's problem. If I have to deal with Imperial Pride and Academic Skepticism to accentuate the embarrassment, I'm ok with that.
FroginatophatRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story as it stands is a LitRPG but done echoing the style common in the early 1700s. Specifically, the prose reminds me of Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift, yet while Swift in particular completely failed to present any reasonable degree of humor, this work excels at it. While it is admittedly an extremely dense read, and can be exhausting, I think it is well worth it. The chosen prose also tells you far more about how the main character views the world than any form of simplified writing could accomplish. By far one of the best stories I have found on this site, to the point that I made an account just to review it.
Wishful_seer_AngelRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Remember this. The story starts quite good with some dry humour and the plot is interesting. The world is also an interesting one, I like the wit and characters. And for the first part this was more than enough for me,
the verboseness was an issue, it took me twice the time to read the same amount of content . But that was manageable. It was the nouns that stopped me. It’s like they were all designed to be as hard to read as possible.There were chapters that just felt like sledgehammers to the head as I tried to read and parse names I could barely pronounce. Any swift reading was stopped in its tracks by one of these
It was a most unique experience and I recommend you at least finish book 1
TheHuscarlRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This story is satirical in nature. This might not be too evident from its description. The genre(s) it satirises aren't all clear to me, but LitRPG is definitely one of them. And contra to many LitRPG's, its worldbuilding is actually really good, even if large parts of that can be ascribed to vagueness and abstraction.
The deadpan humour is great and almost as abundant as the insane naming schemes. One of my favourites from the first book is something akin to "'x' country far to the south, or the east, or the southeast, what a long country 'x' is".
The writing style is an obstruction, at least to me. It's dense, often metaphorical, written from varying POV's and time perspectives, again has an insane naming scheme, and is often metaphorical. Translation is a key aspect of the story, so characters will have intended poor language usage in some circumstances. This aspect I actually like, but there's also just quite a lot of errors like missing words, repeating words, weird sentences and I believe missing sentences (that last part may just be my eyes glazing over in a spot of weakness tbf), this doesn't really mesh well with intentionally 'poor' sentence structures.
Overall I'd say give it a chapter to see if you can survive the style, and 5 chapters to see if you like the humour. Both stay quite consistent.
Kara92Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
As an other said, read the first chapter, you will like the style or not. The style of writing is special, and therefore an important part of these books. It conveys a certain atmosphere, reinforcing the world building. And it serves the dry humour.
If you like it then embark on a strange journey very unlike the others books you can find on RR. A victorian world with fantasy and a bit of RPG (very light).
5 🌟 for the 1st book
4 🌟 for the 2nd
3,5 🌟 for the 3rd
4 🌟 for the 4th
The stories are different but the style and the MC remain the same.
I will continue to read this series with interest.
jimminycicadaRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Entertaining so far. A tad verbose but still pretty flowing and coherent. That said it is fairly confusing exactly what holzd is the god of. Its pretty good so far and I’m quite interested in seeing where this goes.
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filling words
bibbity bobbity
why are so many words needed
KrisMastersRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
I tried to read it. At times it feels like I am reading a research paper more then I am a novel. If you like it after the first chapter, you'll probably like the rest. If the first chapter confuses you, it's not going to get easiar. The conversations don't feel like actual people speaking, but rather people engaged in intellectual debate.
ZAxisRoyal Road
★ 1.0
This is awfully hard to read. It feels like there is no pov at all. And topic jumps in all sorts of random directions. And sentences are weirdly structured. And dialogue and lore are mixed in in a way you can't keep track of either. And no sense of time whatsoever. And events come out of blue.