Port Town Mage

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Callen and Callia are twins reborn into the kingdom of Tassia. Join them as they scrape their way and go from surviving to thriving in a world where ancient monsters and aggressive evolution have been compounded into a society where all but the strongest need to hide behind walls. With a unique take on the interactions between willpower, language, and magic all wrapped up into an omnipresent system. From dangerous ideologies to fanatic researchers, a kingdom brimming with extremists and strife. Only overshadowed by the looming threat of even greater monstrosities. Will the twins survive? Can they make a difference in a world of incentivized killing? Even more, what will they lose on the way to fulfilling their unique potential? For all those who have chosen to try my story, Thank You! I hope you enjoy my it! (My first work all feedback is appreciated) (I have another novel being posted alongside this one calledAstral Product Deviation.) What to Expect : updates (12:05 MST) on Monday-Friday Chapter lengths from 1K to 2K words with the initial chapters being around 1k and later chapters at least 1.4k Includes : 1. Chat GPT images 2. Side stories for extra lore, perspectives, or foreshadowing If you want extra content early I also have a Patreon that is currentlyahead of Royal Road. https://www.patreon.com/cw/PortTownMage_Chylore Book 1 is available on Amazon as paperback and ebook covering chapter 1-106 as double the length of a standard book. If your interested check it out here!https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B0FYSNMY8R

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: Chylore

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.1/ 5.0
Followers: 694
Views: 310,354

What readers say about Port Town Mage

“This book strikes an ideal balance between intricate world-building and compelling plot progression, seamlessly weaving together richly developed characters with distinct personalities. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Another standout feature is the unique approac…”
GideoooRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“Love the character development. The multiple paths of the story line make the story very entertaining. I was late to start reading. Made it nice to be able to read a couple chapters at a time. Now I'm caught up reading the one chapter a day and I can't wai…”
cashislowRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(6)

GideoooRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This book strikes an ideal balance between intricate world-building and compelling plot progression, seamlessly weaving together richly developed characters with distinct personalities. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Another standout feature is the unique approach to reincarnation, where the main characters gain fresh personalities while retaining their core knowledge, making for a captivating read.
cashislowRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Love the character development. The multiple paths of the story line make the story very entertaining.
I was late to start reading. Made it nice to be able to read a couple chapters at a time. Now I'm caught up reading the one chapter a day and I can't wait for the daily chapters to come out.
Really like the tie between worlds. I didn't want to give anything away.
The idea behind this book is new, at least to me. I have not read anything like it. This has been the most pleasant surprise. Makes me try to guess what direction the book is going to go. So far I haven't been close to right - which is a very good thing.
AzothTreatyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The writing prose is a fresh take on the genre and the magical ideas are good. However, so far the plot is really meh. The world building is flat af. The whole power hungry duke that leads to an almost feral daughter is a weird plot frankly and idk if im drunk but it really doesnt make sense to me.
however I acknowledge that maybe it gets good further on, idk but i wont be reading this again
William WrightRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Unusual insofar as the main characters are perpetual pranksters and their behaviour and actions are just hilarious. Otherwise a well-built storyline with plenty of scope going forward. I am looking forward to reading the rest of the book and any further books written by the author as it is well worth reading.
OverlyCriticalRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
I don't want to be too negative, especially as I didn't read very far but this story is pretty rough. The PoV randomly drifts between first person and omniscient third person all the time, the tense flips between present and past about every other paragraph and there are plenty of language mistakes that go well beyond simple typos or even awkward language. Words are used incorrectly (as in they don't mean what the author seems to think they mean) and some sentences are grammatically incorrect to the point where it is difficult or impossible to understand what the intended meaning even is.
The gimmick is that there are images that go with the text. Unfortunately the text is not very descriptive and the AI images produced based on it are equally nondescript and add nothing meaningful to the text. The latest one I saw was supposed to depict a harbor town but had a nonsensical pile of partial building, horribly malformed ships, a fortress gate facing toward the town with no fortress behind it and the cherry on top was a waterfall facing away from the sea.
The litrpg elements are very boring. We are constantly bombarded with character sheets full of skill names and ever changing numbers that reflect absurd things like babies competing to train their mathematical skills.
nano282nyRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
Twins in a litrpg magic world who start specializing in different paths BEFORE birth is cool. But it would be just as cool if they started specializing at 3 years of age. And if that were the case, there would be no need for them to have transmigrated from Earth...it feels quite stale that the protagonist transmigrated after dying on Earth...unnecessary.
The writing, morever, needs a lot of revision, not just to break up the run-on sentences and add the 90% of commas that are missing, but the descriptions and progression is also strange...feels like the cart comes before the horse sometimes. Or the horse comes first, but it gets described twice for some reason in the same paragraph, and the first description was confusing. This is makes my AI radar tingle. Apologies if it is not, in fact, AI, but I'd be surprised. You can see my comments on Chapter 2 for specific notes on the writing.