Knowledge and Power: Reincarnated Into A Society That Only Values Strength. (A weak to strong fantasy story)

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This is a slow-burn isekai story about a young girl named Siya who was born with a weak body into a world that only cares about Strength. Because of this, she isn’t able to even use the only thing she has going for her, a knack for strategy, which is the last thing that the nation of meat heads seems to care about.

She faces many hardships and trials, struggling through abuse, grueling training, and seeing death around every turn. Despite all of this, she presses on, grasping at straws and using everything at her disposal to survive. Turning to divine favor, unique abilities, and even magic and dark magic later on, they each come with a new problem. As she finds unlikely friends and deals with unthinkable betrayals, she struggles to finally stand tall and place herself in a position of power where her true abilities could finally shine.

This is NOT a revenge story, but that isn’t to say the main character magically forgives people either.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Lions Quill

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

Aksu1Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I read all up to the current chapter in one go and it got me hooked right away. I like the character's and their descriptions.
The story is a bit slow paced but that is not a problem for me personally and I like the very descriptive and immersive storytelling.
My thanks to the author keep up the good work :)
Marshall75Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great story so far. It’s definitely a unique isakai /portal story. The conflict of the story is the consequences of a really twisted culture that emphasizes “strength” more than any other value. Or at least what that type of thinking does to a particular family. It’s pretty awful and hilarious at the same time how twisted and dysfunctional the family is and how the MC takes the measure of such a place. Only one member of the family is “evil” or sadistic, but they all end up doing pretty horrible things to each other without knowing better. I especially love the mother and younger sister’s relationship with the MC. The MC is pretty bad ass. She really gets hammered down again and again and gets back up and moves forward. Interested in how the story will evolve when the setting expands to the wider world.
Mrfox1234Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
In this interesting story in a culture that strength is everything a young girl is born into a noble faimly that spared her life, wither it was due to sympathy or hope that she would later become as great as her sibilings, she was raised to make her as "strong" as possible even with her weak constitution so that no one would find out that they raised this "cursed child", with this storyies interesting relations to greek mythos, in real world ideals this story becomes grounded, and even more fascinating. I highly reccomend this story because it gives you a charectar born into a sickly body, and later becomes a strong mage, struggling to become stronger, and prove herself to her faimly, in hopes to stay alive as long as possible, all while getting a chacter growth in the mother who used to hate, and attempt to kill her in the past has even grown, to be somone you can like.
Scott CrosswhiteRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's not at all what I expected from a standard isekai. The main character struggles a lot. It's slow paced which makes you feel a lot more attached to the characters, and the writing is of a higher-than-average quality, making it easy to read.
Each character feels unique, like they have their own stories, regardless of how long they appear in scene for, and while the story is slow, it's not too slow and is quite good.
There are very few grammatical errors that I can point out and the text flows smoothly with good sentence variation.
Overall, I would say that anyone who enjoys this type of story that filled with serious struggle but also heartwarming moments should give this a try.
It's not packed full of action scenes, but when they do appear those are also very well written.
The only criticism I have is that there are not really any li RPG elements, although the author has stated that they become significantly more prominent in soon-to-be-released chapters.
If I had to liken it to some other stories I would say it's a bit similar to the ascendance of a bookworm, but more action packed. It flips the overpowered trope around with a weak protagonist, but unlike in other stories the protagonist can't stay weak and get covered for all the time or she will die.
StoicLRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Most stories that say they are weak to strong MC’s spend some small time introducing the characters weakness before placing them on a one way escalator to strength. This does not. Siya has her gifts and she has her hurdles. The biggest being she lives in a culture that doesn’t care how she’s gifted. That may seem simple but truly does Not encompass the up hill battle Siya is fighting just to be allowed to live. The author does an excellent job at showing how a culture that venerates strength both needs and resists the change Siya represents.
There are times when I wonder how ‘strong’ Siya really is or it seems inconsistent. It’s hard to know for sure given the only perspective we have on it is Siya’s and she’s got no idea herself. Which does allow every fight to feel dangerous and at times hopeless. Something that keeps me entranced because the stakes matter. Every fight I wonder ‘will she win?’ And ‘at what cost?’ Siya’s emphasis on strategic thinking also makes me aware the win condition is not always ‘I beat them’.
If you’re looking for a weak to strong power wank this isn’t for you. If you’re looking for an MC you can relate to and root for as she grows and learns this is 100% the fic for you.
HazzaloftaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Good story but the typos get and some of the grammar get a bit hard to read sometimes.
Exactly what you'd expect from a good week to strong story and it also deals fairly well with the social and familial circumstances of the main character.
Overall well done, just sort those typos out!
KT CorbettRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Like the author says in the blurb, this one has a bit of a slow start. The first chapters also have a certain awkward pacing, like when the main character and her mother/trainer have an extended philosophical dialogue in the middle of a training session. The author seems to have improved pretty quickly though, and it never feels like the characters are just stopping in the middle of what they were doing to debate abstract matters.
The setting and thr Isekai set-up are pretty standard, but what sets this one apart is how much it makes you feel. The main character's inner workings are described in a way that feels believable and intimate. You can almost feel the warm hug she receives from her father after being severely injured after almost no one has shown her any kindness. And I at least felt a strong loathing toward Mara--even if you can understand why she does what she does, her indifference toward her own daughter makes you really hope she eventually gets some sort of comeuppance.
There are a few grammar slips here and there, but the author seems to have caught most of them to the extent I only noticed one every few chapters. From a stylistic point, the prose isn't anything fancy and there could be more physical descriptions to match the psychological ones, but these are fairly minor issues.
Lemon snakeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
A good approach for an isekai. It's not going out of beaten paths but still present lot of elements that shows the author is a good writer.
Character side :
For the MC, I do want to express a bit of a frustration about her not showing any particular acumen in strategy yet.
To be fair, as of now, there was not a lot of opportunities for her to use her own talent due to a very well thought slow burn type of backstory building: her family and what surrounds her value strength, and their strength is so overwhelming that there is almost no room for negociations.
I guess it is kind of a trade off since we get a very well built introduction to her family, what they thrive for, what kind of people they are.
The obstacles she encounters molds her with the world she is in instead of her being the one in total control like other isekais.
I feel her pain, see the horror of the ways of the culture she got reincarnated in. A very smart way to set up goals for the MC. It's not the "me born from modern world and shall save the world cuz everything around is bad and I felt like it" kind of approach.
Her family? It's really f'd up, and man, I FELT the PAIN and the BETRAYAL when MC felt it. The more we dive into the story, the more element of each character's psyche is unveiled.
Since this is more of an early review, and we seem to still be in the beginning, I cannot give more stars on the story side.
Overall? I recommend starting to read this light novel and will definitely add more to this review later.
malekithauRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Reading the blurb you'd expect that this story is about someone being reborn into another world and becoming a great general, right? Perhaps that is the intention, but it reads like a torture slice of life. 107 chapters and maybe a year has passed since the story properly started, it may even be less time. There is some character growth but it is so infinitesimally small that it's submerged beneath the constant abuse the MC undergoes. There's lots going on but there is very little forward movement due to the pacing.
There are other issues like the lack of world building and the way a young noble woman is allowed to spend so much time with young men with no problems for either.
It's not a bad story by any means but it drags.
BuckMeowRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Obtuse, Unengaged, and Aloof would be my description of Siya. In the first 30 chapters the MC is routinely beat, gaslighted and manipulated by her parental figure.
Neglected by the entirety of her family, but doesn't do anything in reaction. Siya just sits back, mentally disengaged thinking about nonsense. All the while her tormentors are free to poke and prode on how her complete lack of agency affects them. Her first experience with hospitallity ends with once again being mistreated, gaslighted, teased, blantantly manipulated by Mara.
The classic cop out, reincarnated and amnesia. Gives the author free reign to make the character behave exactly like a self insert without the tag.
The plot so far is very poor even if the grammar and puncuation. are fine.