Magic: A Friendly LitRPG Adventure.

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Description

I decided to write alitRPG book (or more accurately aGameLit - a litRPG that doesn't focus heavily on visual statistics), following the fate of one individual inhispath of power. I wanted to see him tame his magic and grow as an extremely powerful mage. But since I didn't want to just give him everything on a silver plate, I decided to imagine as clearly and realistically as possible the choices and the consequences of his actions. At first I wanted to send him on crazy adventures and bombard him with annoying young masters, greedy and bloodthirsty sociopaths and other cliches from the genre. Very quickly I decided against that. But there was a price for all this. Not giving the MC super powerful cheat skill, meant I had to give him an opportunity to build his own skills. Which made the start of the book a bit slower. Usually the best way to start a litRPG on RoyalRoad is to make an explosive first chapter, full of action and overpowered MC. But I decided to take the risk and start a bit slower, but go a little bit deeper into the motivation and the realism of the story. Wish me luck :) See you at the end of the book.

p.s.

I want to make it absolutely clear again (for the two people giving me 0.5 stars at the chapters introducing the starting area and the starting skills). This book is not going to have strong-from-the-start main character! The whole idea is to make the MC work very hard and slowly gather his power. This book doesn't have some goddess giving free skills, nor did we have 1000 years old reincarnators. Naturally since we don't have a super strong hero, he also starts on a relatively safe place, called "The tutorial island". But he still is going to fight every day, learn alchemy, make money, engage in politics, go on interesting adventures and fight strong bosses. His action will matter, not only for his own survival, but for the local human (and sometimes other than human) population, and even, on some small and personal level, the fate of Earth itself.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Bate Ivo

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Rating: 3.7/ 5.0
Followers: 308
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Community Reviews(4)

rta22bgRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The book is good, but it isnt character driven, but story driven instead. Its a harder thing to do for new autors, but so far the story is fine. Also I really like the MC and the world. The story is going a bit fast then most books and I like this. I hate slow books!
I highly recommend this story to everybody. Even if you don't think you'll like it from what you hear. Not only does this story dodge every single pitfall that comes its way, it absolutely obliterates them.
There are no romantic interests so far, but I prefer my novels romance free so its a plus in my books!
It honestly more than deserves a full score, each chapter makes me crave more chapters, and the chapters are quite beefy as well.
Conclusion
Overall, I recommended this story to anyone interested in fantasy. I think it will be especially appealing to anyone who enjoys magical settings or progression fantasy. As a fan of both sub-genres, it scratches all the right itches for me.
The grammar is good, nothing outstanding mind you but it is doing the job.
I like the hummor of the Author and the style of the book. No whining teens there thankfully.
The story starts as somewhat typical tower apocalypses lit rpg, but quickly changes to something much more. There is no stats, no "system" (well not exactly) and yet the humans have access to mana and grow in a unique and logical way.
FirefighterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I can see that this fic is very controversial. It starts slowly with a relatively weak protagonist, exactly as stated in the book description. I don't know what b**shit some people expect from a book with a “Friendly lit-rpg” in the title. Comparing it to some random anime for little children or hating the book for not being something else. I especially like this comment: “Main character is powerful, smart and rich. On top of that he gets a rich kid background.”
Well I see most of the “top” books outhire have exactly opposite negative commentary - people very often complain how stipid and unreasonable the MC are. Well in this book, at least so far, the MC is very reasonable and defently not stupid. !!!!!!!!!!!!BUT IT IS NOT SUPER OVERPOWERED FROM THE START!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - stop fk complaining about it! There is a tag “strong from the start”. This book is the opposite!
Or this other comment “little truly stands out about the story that makes me think it has its own unique style and feel.” Well…
The uniqueness of this book is that it is very realistic. No bullshit fights every second, no ridiculous plot armor, not super luck and goddesses giving free skills. but this is not for everyone. Especially not for stupid kids, that got beaten everyday at school or whatever, seraching for some “hero” to beat the bad guys with zero effort.
And that is the problem. A lot of people are searching for something else and are giving negative reviews.
Now about the book:
Grammar: The grammar is OK. Compared to most web based fiction, it is actually very good. It doesn't have any big mistakes and you can clearly understand everything. Naturally, as a new fiction, from a new autor, it is not on a professional level yet, but no one expects it to be.
Story: The story starts a bit slowly, and as promised in the description of the book, tries to imagine, realistically, what will happen to a 1000 people caught in a lit-rpg adventure scenario. Besides fighting, there is cri
JohnPlumeRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Grammar Score
There weren't any major parts of the grammar that really turned the story off for me. I have read stories on royalroad where it felt like it went through google translate multiple times. That issue is not present here. There are not horrible grammar mistakes, though it is not perfect.
Style Score
I don't mind the slow buildup of the story. In some ways, it is more realistic. The issue I have is that in many ways, both the characters and setting are a bit bland. I have tried to give the story its fair shake in that I read 16 chapters. For other stories this would be half a volume or even a volume. However, even after reading that long, little truly stands out about the story that makes me think it has its own unique style and feel.
Character Score
The character is not unique enough in my opinion in that he has a slightly cliche combat class that he does not do anything unique with. All that stands out is how "efficient" the class is without being very surprising or entertaining in the process.
As a summoner who shoots crossbows from afar. His summons are cliche in that you have a normal bear and an imp which does not do much. They don't really have much of personalities to really keep me engaged in their fights nor do they do anything truly amazing in their fights to keep me engaged. The closest thing is when the bear jumps from a huge height and the character compared the bear to a pro wrestler. Now that would be interesting, a pro-wrestler bear in costume.
Similarly, the challenge itself is cliche in that the protagonist faces a very common beginner monster in fantasy/tower novels with no real different spin on how the monster is presented or defeated. They don't really allow the character to really shine on a deeper level besides the idea that the protagonist is efficient at grinding.
The challengers have to test themselves against a wave of zombies where they can earn points at a system store for items, this is not really that creative. Many fantasy
BerusellaRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
At first i thought i could get throught some wierder parts of the book, but it finally got me. Frustration build up enought that i have to write this negative review.
Story is told by protagonist himself. He is looking into his past and telling everything he did, said and thought from start to an end. Except he sometimes doesnt. Sometimes he randomly write what diffrent characters did, saw and thought in places he wasnt in, like DIFFERENT PLANES OF EXISTENCE. How he knows what happened there? In summary: inconsistent style that creates loopholes.
World build by the author is kinda nice. As far as i read i couldn't find any problems with it except that is extremely limited and i still dont know where in the world still are noble houses that hold any political power. Progression system is fantastic. Making characters gather enough points to buy themself lessons from various teachers is more reasonable solution than "upgrade skill and get instatnt benefits". Becouse there is so little of world building i sadly cant wrote much about it.
Grammar is definitely one of the thing that put me off the most. I dont think there is even one chapter where there is no multitudes of grammar mistakes. I got loteral eye pain from seeing them.
Protagonist is unreasonable when author definitely tried to make him clever. Only he magicly thoughts about most obvious anwsers but doesn't bother to get help and for example collapse one of most valuable ruins without getting almost any of its various rewards. For some reason he is also the most narcissistic character in the whole story BUT presented as most altruistic person that helps everyone. He is the only character that requires that others call him "sir", "marquis", "lord". Maybe its even worse that everyone is calling him just that. Moving on to side characters. Every one of them is bland as toilet paper. And that because, every one is almost the same. Every one is speaking the same. Every one is wholeheartedly agreeing with whatever pr