Imperator's Path: A Sci-Fantasy Xianxia

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Adrias Lucion lives in the Dominium, an interstellar empire where twelve races of mankind follow Paths inspired by the Olympian gods and seek to advance their Rank. Adrias was born a lowly slave but is given a chance to be something greater.

TL;DR: Red Rising is going for a jog when Will Wight's Cradle mugs it at gunpoint and then Warhammer 40k shows up with a steel chair while Percy Jackson and Mistborn eat popcorn in a corner.

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Status: Completed
Year: 2022
Author: Hathsolan

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Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 303
Views: 314,196

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Community Reviews(7)

OrphicleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Binge read this whole book in 2 days. I'm shocked it isn't higher on popularity ratings as it is really good. There are patches of other styles like red rising and wuxia but it is balanced and makes sense. There are some rushed peices and the mc doesn't have a lot of depth besides destruction but its all he's known so it makes sense.
Note to the author: please don't abandon this novel. Its so close to being finished and i can't wait to see what the conclusion is.
XablauRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
What can I say but I was surprised?
Surprised that how good it would become, advance, but I'd didn't look like an artificial growth of the quality and story itself, but a natural growth that doesn't make the earlier chapter any less so.
The story is amazing, no needless drama, the right amount of drama for an action but with enough for it to truly shine.
One aspect that I really liked was how the use of myth was organic, I didn't feel like a synthetic work, but a believable fiction.
It seems like a crime I only knew about this story because of a recommendation from a random discord channel, it was like my nostalgic feeling at buying a random PS1 game only to discover it would become one of your favorites. I'm glad that I was luck to find it, and I will keep reading, and if the author makes other works after the story ends I will probably will have to control myself so I can binge some of the chapters and feel this ride again.
There are some grammar issues, but not really that lower the style and confuses the story.
Thank you author for your work.
Edit: finished it really a well rounded story and end, mythological fast fast and furious but with good story.
danyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is just the story we need more of.
Worldbuilding is absolutely best intervowen with the Greek myths
Writing Quality and Grammar is More than Sufficient , Better than most of the stories here
Protagonist has an arrogant streak but is presented with sufficient challenges and setbacks , so not an overpowered Murder hobo
Will Love To Have More Of It .
HansRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Imperator's Path is exactly what it says on the cover. And it does what it does well: being a fast paced story of a former slave romping through all of his former enemies and rapidly slaughtering his way up the galaxy-wide power scale.
If you like the first few chapters with him just pushing himself, winning and getting better, it pretty much continues like that, even gets a bit better in most aspects later on - with more refined side characters, more interesting locations and flashier fight scenes. The MC is a (martial) hero, he is willing to work, he is willing to kill, and it is really refreshing to have someone who follows the straight martial path to his clearly stated aim.
If you do not like the first few chapters, it unfortunately does continue like that in the (for me) negative aspects, too: The MC is only ever in danger to set him up pull some insanely unfair superior power out of his behind and win easily. He does not win by planning, even in the few cases when there is planning involved. He does not loose. He wins alone, if others help him they do less of the work. He has no real equals, only ever much weaker (followers and cannon fodder) or seemingly unsurmountable enemies and allies. Does he make any hard choices? Maybe, but they do not feel hard. He does not change his mind, and in one case where I thought "Well, finally, he really fucked up in the spur of the moment here, now it will get more nuanced" he is later proven right in his stupid decision and ends up better for it, which is - to me at least - the worst thing that could happen narratively speaking.
That pattern makes the whole story popcorn cinema in written form, and good popcorn cinema, but it could be more (and sometimes, as mentioned, it seems to start doing so, only to snap back the simple romp).
The grammar does his job and is good for royal road standards, but nothing special. It gets the job done, but both sentence structure and word choice could be more varied. I am no native speak
Enzo300Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
It gets better after a few chapters. The first few are mainly a rush of exposition and set up that's pretty rushed, but after that yeah, it gets better.
I like it when people changes a few things around and not following the cookie cutter dozens of the genre, this changes the settings.
Instead of ancient Asia, this happens in the far future where the gods of Greece still live. I have a pretty good idea where the Greek influence cam from. Wink wink. Bit not a copy, just influenced.
roarkindrakeRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Just read up to 76 and i like this story alot but I have three main issues with it.
Each chapter more or less is a cut down piece of a larger story arc, I feel like especially the 60-76 chapters were short as hell. There was atleast 3x the length in detail and storyline to add in to it.
The other bit is some of the transitions are a bit wonky. It's not horrible but Adrian can be on a rant then swap to something completely different.
Third I think the differences between the bronze imperators could be shown rather than told every other line.
Overall I really do think it's a good read and with a bit of editing could end up with a trilogy or more of solid books at the end.
CimmerianRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Im a constant reader on this site and am pretty forgiving, but 4 chapters was my maximum effort for this. The author can use words to create very dramatic imagery, but he fails to explain what the heck is going on. Lots of brooding looks, thunder flashing, punching, and cool comments. However no explanation regarding background (personal or world), thoughts, feelings, motivations, plans, etc. We’ve got a guy who was a slave, put on a ring, and suddenly grew 2 feet and is now able to crush heads with his bare hands. Is it magic? Cultivating? Nanotechnology? Mutation? Rage? Mysterious martial arts?… who knows? Why is he suddenly leaving home??? Why do people listen to him? What year is it? Nothing is explained and it is confusing as heck.
The little bit that is explained makes little sense. There are 12 paths, which include some things which are jobs (doctor), some that seem like titles (champion), one that is a social class (slave)… somehow they are paths, but obligatory based on genetic predisposition, and encompass all that anyone can be? (But can a doctor be a champion or slave, or vice versa? Professions? Who keeps society running and builds things like spaceships, robots, clothes, food? … seriously only 12 things you can do including the “Whore Path”?
Maybe this could be a good story with some work, a preface, structure.