Journey of a Scholar

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Description

What would you do if you got reincarnated ?

Our MC has to answer that question as he is reborn in a fantasy world: full of magic, martial artists, watchfull gods, exotic races and dangerous monsters.

But fate isn't on his side, as he has to start from scratch, without strength, magic, riches, nor any cheatlike power.

How can one survive as a poor commoner's child in a dire world when his sole strength is the knowledge he retained from his previous life on Earth ?

Discover Erendia and its mysteries alongside him, on a journey, full of hardships and struggles, walking the path of a scholar, with a pen mightier than any sword.

NB : chapters on tuesdays, fridays and sundays.

Expect a slow start, more slice of life oriented till around chap 20 as our MC is an infant discovering a brand new world.

PS : English isn't my mother tongue, so please do point out any mistakes so that I can correct and edit them.

PPS: tags are here mostly so I don't have to worry about censorship. There will be some gory moments, some psychological violence, some dire situations and maybe some sexy ones, but do not expect smut.

participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: Tynian

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 883
Views: 561,585

Chapters(72 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

duens5Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story does a good job of presenting a world that is different from our modern one not just by having magic but also on a more basic level, different writing and numerical systems that all make sense in the context of the world. The author does a good job of showing how even the bedrock of our society that we take for granted can be revolutionary. The reader can see that the small innovations the main character is introducing are going to pay huge dividends for his entire society. Certainly, a story worth watching has the potential to be one of the greats.
Triangular DingusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Slow-burn, but has a lot of potential. Characters feel realistic. MC is interesting and smart. He plans for future steps and tries to do best in current situation, whilst being in a kid body.
Overall I liked it. Great story to spend a weekend on. With the new Writiton finished there is even more chapters!
obranRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There is a god named Oreo. That is all that needs to be said. Five Stars and end of review.
Don't get me wrong. For those of you who would say, having a God named Oreo tells us nothing about the story (which is great), the plot (awesome), the characters (also awesome), or the grammar (who the hell knows I'm terrible at that shit). But I don't care, need I mention again... Oreo.
And for the people who ask me would I read this web fiction if none of the major gods were named Oreo. To them I would say, damn straight. I would read this even if an unimportant secondary character who only appeared once or twice and had no effect on the plot was named Oreo, and would still anticipate each new chapter with joy and fear.
I'm only glad I don't need to say any of this because there is a God named Oreo and I am content.
P.S. I'm not entirely sure how I would feel if there was a god named Chips Ahoy.
Publius Decius MusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
EDIT: The author fixed up the grammar, at least in the new prologue it looks somewhat better than it was, so I presume he also fixed up the later chapters. I still spotted a basic capitalisation mistake in the third sentence of the story though... ("i" instead of "I".) But it looks cleaner than what I have previously read from the author. Also, the prologue improved on the story issues somewhat, I think. I adjusted the score accordingly.
The five stars for the grammar don't reflect the current level of the book. See example above, or the consistent use of spaces before question marks - which is the correct punctuation in French, but not in English.
But I respect that the author puts effort into fixing the grammar, so I bumped the score up for now.
Original review:
The idea, that our isekaid hero has no mystical power or divine help to rely on is close to my heart. A hero, who is your average baseline human, and can't rely on anything but on his knowledge, wits and perseverance while he has to survive in a hostile world. There have been many good stories built on this premise, timeless classics like Now and then, here and there; Gregor Man's saga or Leigh Brackett's Eric John Stark books.
So the premise is given for a good story, but sadly, the execution fell flat.
Syle:
An awful lot of infodumping interspersed with weird wordings and expressions.
Story:
The author decided to start the story from the very beginning, as in literally from the childhood of our protagonist in the isekai world. We get to know his family, his immediate surroundings, his childhood friend and his everyday activities in excruciating detail. It is an interesting choice, that could have turned out well, but it didn't.
As it is right now, it is too boring and slow-paced to be your usual action-packed isekai, but it is not endearing enough to be a slice-of-life. To me the novel reads as ruminations about a plethora of subjects, with some plot added in as an afterthought.
Grammar:
I am hardly one
Ethernet StoryhunterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Starts off smart.( Keep me from dying please,) kind of addittude sends our mc forward in his adventures.
Not as bad as it sounds but he is forced to reveal information very young.
As is normal for this type of story the protagonist knows to much about to much and remembers to much about the old world despite time.
The characters though are likeable, most plot points are reasonable. ( I would make my own alphabet because I was board out of my mind as well)
This character at least by chapter 50 is definitely not op. The mc is still struggling to understand parts of the world around him and making a few fopas. ( Strategic/ social mistakes)
This is an excellent read top quality? No but really close some polish and this ends up within spitting distance of the top.
Also ps the y named redshirt was a nice touch ( star trek reference)
An_Amazing_UsernameRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Journey of a Sholar is a story that follows the journey of a man reborn in a new world. While this is a some what common theme, Journey of a Sholar sets itself apart by having the MC die of an illness after a rather short life, though a well lived (-ish) one. He is reborn in a fantasy word as a commoner and then the story begins. The story is a really interesting look into an evolving world, it is well written and so far it has been rather comprehensive.
TanulliRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
So far it has been a pleasure to read and I anticipate more chapters.
If there are grammer/spelling mistakes I have not noticed as I have been too engrossed reading.
Early chapters which correspond to the MC's infancy seem more realistic compared to other novels whilst also giving world building in small enough chunks that it does not overwhelm.
camperbeeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A satisfying read. Some elements are too long and patience will be needed at some points in the story, but the the characters have depth and fit in. The mc isnt overpowered but plays a big enough role through other means. Interactions are great and nothing seems to be to thinly written making it enjoyable like a long ass series.
I'm looking forward to more^^
Review at ch 70.
Hephaestus0Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
There is nothing wrong with the style.
I always love stories where the protagonist is introducing all types of new ideas, so I gave it 5 out of 5 stars.
The main character is well rounded, but the side characters need some more work.
The Grammer has improved a lot in the rewritten and later chapters. I find it more than acceptable for RoyalRoad.
please do give it a chance; the writing becomes noticeably better in later chapters.
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The grammar is quite bad. For a test, I copy-pasted the first chapter in the free version of Grammarly "grammarly.com", and it became immediately clear that the author had not done this. I would recommend the author to do this because the grammar/spelling mistakes can, for a large part, be removed without almost any effort from their side. Please do consider that Grammarly is not perfect, and at times it makes wrong suggestions. This means that you can not simply accept all of them without thinking. As a second check, I also usually paste my work in Word, but I do not know if the author has access to that program. Grammarly also has a plugin such that it can be used on other websites. That might also be an option if the author does not wish to copy-paste their work into another website.
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I needed some extra words, so I thought it would be nice to thank the author for posting this story. It is greatly appreciated, and I hope that my Grammarly suggestion is of use to you.
PaulTBRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This is a good story, albeit with somewhat dubious grammar. The worldbuilding is very strong and the characters aren't bad.
But (rant start) the MC makes some decisions that just don't make sense. The comments in Chapter 28 cover a couple of the oddest. First, he's given a book of (extremely expensive!) paper to work with but rips some pages out to sell and to give to his poor child friends. Any way you look at this it's extremely suspicious!
Second he is determined to stick to using (and teaching) the decimal system even though everyone else on the planet uses numbers based around 16 (the number of gods in the pantheon). Why? The only answer is 'because he's used to it' but he's had the whole of his new life to learn to use the new system and, frankly, hexadecimal is not that hard. He's even got a god's blessing that (apparently) makes it easier to memorize things.
Back to the author. There are a couple of race names that really bug me. First, the 'fungi'. 1. It feels weird to talk about a race of sapients as if they were a bunch of mushrooms. You could use something like 'myconid' or 'fungoid' but that brings me to 2. they aren't fungi. They get energy from photosynthesis so that means they are plants or maybe lichen.
Second there are the elves. Lots of stories have elves, Tolkien made them super popular. Only these aren't actually elves? One of them is called an elve (not elf) which I was (for obvious reasons) sure was a basic grammar mistake but no apparently it's deliberate. Deliberately confusing, that is. If you're making up a new race name, why make it exactly the same as an existing name but only in the plural? What's next? Dwarves and Dwarve?
Oh wait, next is 'Serves'. Because 'Serfs' wasn't good enough? There are, IIRC, Serves, Free Citizens, Blades and Shield Lords. If you don't like 'Serfs' then there are alternatives, like 'indentured' or you could come up with a new name that doesn't look like a spelling mistake.