Oracle by Default

Self-Published

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Description

Your average save the world trope with a dark twist.

Oracles were known as divine handouts passed down from the Holy Creator to give guidance to the people. What does it mean if the title of Oracle is bestowed upon an individual?

A call for adventuring, dungeon diving, slaying monster, right? Maybe. Before an individual named Kihet could fulfill his dream of embarking a grand adventure, a tragedy from his past returned to haunt him.

Kihet couldn’t remember much of an unfortunate accident that left many important hunters and loved ones dead. He only recalled a vague memory of a mysterious man etching a mysterious marking on him and recited some words from an ominous book in hand.

"For the reckoning that is to come, all are tested.Thou shall be the shadow of which valiant souls shine and guide thee through harsh trials.Till oblivion comes, do not turn astray but to continue down the path thou chosen to walk.Lastly, thou must not see eye to eye with, but against the world."

What does it mean? Does it relate to the mysterious Tower only Kihet and his friends could see? What dark secrets unfold as he tried to look for answers?

Note: Main story starts at Chapter 12.

New chapter on Saturday. High fantasy, progression focused story, no LitRPG here (Sorry)

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2019
Author: Cerealisdelicious

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Rating: 3.5/ 5.0
Followers: 29
Views: 48,243

Chapters(124 total)

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★★★★★ 4.5
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Tldr: a nice, albeit unpolished, story if inconsistencies are looked over.
Summary: supposedly powerful dude finally leaves starter town after almost 2k years. Cue relationship/identification hijinks, ignorance hijinks, ghost hijinks and saving the world eventually. And poison. Delivered in elephant sized bites.
Style+grammar: jumps between first and third person. Has been settling into first. Mostly in past tense, some sentences in present break immersion. Occasional word drops or misuses. All in all easy to read past. At no point am I confused as to what happened.
Story+characters: realistic characters and a nice plot. I find myself putting off applications so I can find out what happens next.
Personal annoyances: mc is heralded as being incredibly powerful and a millennia old. He is decently powerful but not to the level that is written elsewhere. Also, for being a millennia old, he constantly needs to get corrected by people fractions of his age. Honestly would be so much better if author just left out all the 'OMG he so good' parts and stopped emphasizing his age so dang much. Also, sharing a problem that many save the world type books here have is that he is way too casual about his task. He risks his life for stupid things and meanders through his tasks like I do on my homework. Again, I just shift my perspective most of the time from 'save the world!' to 'go explore!' do these corrections to get the most out of this book.
I am mobile user, excuse any ouef