Master Caster [Isekai LitRPG]

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Description

What would happen if a human from our world woke up in a virtual reality RPG where every player was a member of an alien civilization that worshipped humans?

TheHierarchy of Elis a brutal galactic hegemony where your species determines all: what you do, who you serve, and whether your life has value.

And in the Hierarchy, no species has a higher position than the long-vanished, near-mythical humans, creators of the hyper-advanced simulation at the heart of their civilization,the Colosseum.

For ages, the subjects of the Hierarchy have all been sold the same dream: be either lucky or useful enough to be uploaded to the Colosseum, where you can live a life of immense personal power—if you survive.

But something has happened which could upend the Hierarchy forever.

A human from our world has found himself at the start a new ladder season, and the system has given him two things: a powerful legendary boon card, and a cryptic warning:

Tellno onethat you’re human.Theyare about to find Earth.

If he wants to know what’s going on—and possibly how to stop it—he has only one choice:

Play the game, and play to win.

What to expect:

Release Schedule:Updates Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

A fresh ladder season:everyone starts at level 0 and scrambles to make it to the top.

Overpowered protagonist vs overpowered antagonists:MC has a powerful Chosen Boon that grants him two classes—but he’s not the only one.

PvP, and lots of it:the rules of the game itself heavily incentivize PvP and the formation of factions.

Aliens!Sapient trees, fungi, and lobsters are playing as dwarves, elves, and beastkin. Expect strange motivations, values, and behaviors from some of the supporting cast.

Spells—lots of spells:This is a system-heavy LitRPG. MC chooses between multiple abilitiesevery level, and these are supplemented by skills, passives, and equipment. I don’t pad the story with needless system text, but the system text Idoneed is still fairly heavy.

No romance. No harem. No sex.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: T. S. King

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 431
Views: 266,629

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Community Reviews(5)

ArcaniusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Seriously, its a really awesome VR RPG that I haven't seen in a while.
The stakes, the action, the grammar, the story, all of it is awesome.
Got them sweet three-dimensional characters that we all love, and a story exciting with its possibilities and grandeur of future encounters. We know he's gonna beat everyone's ass, but we're here to enjoy seeing him doing it, all the while needing to plan and sweat for those wins.
Just the action sequence near the end of Book 1 alone is worth reading the book xD
I give this a 10/10, can't wait for more Book 2 chapters!
If you loved stuff like Ready Player Two (yes, two, the immersive complete VR book sequel :3), you will love this.
LilleneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is a fun story with character development, intrigue, fights, and lots of system stuff.
The fight scenes deserve a special note - they're fun, exciting, and understandable - and the characters actually use all of their skills (or spells as the case may be). I'm reading it for the story, but the fight scenes definitely don't detract :-)
As of when I write this, we haven't reached the actual explanation of what's going on, but the setting is actually important to the story. It informs the people you meet and some of how you interact with different groups.
Plus, there are aliens. Well, they're alien outside the MMO and that matters even though everything so far has been inside.
I probably shouldn't rate everything at 5 star, but ... the style is easy to follow and supports the story, the grammar is fine, I'm enjoying the story, and there's actual character development.
At this point, there are only two main characters and one villain, who you really don't know that much about (but it's enough). There are quite a few side characters; we don't get to see much of their character development, but they react like real people and are distinct enough for the scenes they appear in. I can understand the villain's motives, and they're completely understandable as long as you remember that this is only a game to him...
It's not the fastest story; it takes the time it needs. It's also nowhere near the slowest. I find it a good balance, but as always, others will think differently.
Shades98Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So the basis of this story is that a Space Culture is based around the fact that Human Beings are have Evolved to be the most perfect, They built a game that allows the people of the Empire to become human. They are also always expanding, which leads to our MC, a TRUE HUMAN.
So the MC receives a note when he wakes up that Earth is in trouble because the Empire is coming for Earth and his only way to stop them is to play the game and win.
This is a cool fiction due to the Author being able to write points of view that are completely different and make the characters around the MC be more life like and so not human that it give colour to the whole story.
CrystalLily1302Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The style of writing works quite well for the story, the actions scenes are described well and don't get bogged down in numbers while still keeping the litRPG element of the story. The game screens can be awkward to read at times but it seems the author is working on that according to reccent ANs.
The story has been keeping me hooked while giving the characters space to breathe and develop even if the real time pace has been quite intense, the story doesn't push the exposition too hard and integrates most of it pretty naturally, and the characters don't just whip out history textbook entries when asked questions.
The grammar is the weakest part and sometimes makes me need to re-read a sentence but I was able to manage pretty well and it seems to be getting a bit better over time.
The characters take time to really develop but the main characters don't feel perfectly static but like they are slowly moving, which I actually like since at this point, despite many words having been typed, not too much time has passed in universe, so having drastic shifts in perspective would be quite unnatural. The "humanoid" antagonists seem rather one dimensional but ample world building has been provided that it is quite easy to see what kinds of social pressures and societal environments could produce someone like that.
All in all this story is quite good if you like litRPG elements and get a big dopamine boost when the MC levels up. Good job author!
ConsumedCryptRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This story is a rather solid VRMMO Isekai. If you view the genre as a baseline, you can expect something above the standard quality for action writing, (seriously, it's hard to write combat, and especially bad when ability names are used as a lazy substitute for actual descriptions of attacks.)
Character-wise, there's definitely something to be desired in the main character's portrayal. He seems... blank but not in a way that's passive or aggressively bland. There's just very little given about his backstory and he's not really emotionally impacted by his arrival in the game world or very many of his early encounters. (admittedly, that's a failing of a lot of stuff in this genre) That said, he acts in an otherwise believable way, as just a regular, decent (but not overidealized) human being caught up in a world he doesn't understand. The more recent chapters seem to leaving hints at deeper relationships with more people though (not romantic, but friendship), and I hope the author continues on that front. It does wonders for drawing you into the story.
Besides the main character, the female lead is the only strongly characterized one, and her portrayal is compelling enough, I suppose.
Where this story shines is its greater world/plot. There's a compelling mystery from the first chapter, and as pieces of the world outside the game start to reveal themselves, it gets more and more interesting. Part of this is due to personal preference (I'm a sucker for this sort of thing), but it's definitely introduced at just the right pace where it maintains interest without distracting from the quotidian struggles of levelling, fighting, and hiding identity.
To the author: Keep it up, you've got something here. I can see each chapter being written better, which is not something that's the norm once you reach a certain standard of quality.