Rebirth of the Great Sages

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2022

Author

N. Francis

• 11. Pond of Elvermarzon
  Apr 14, 2022
• 10.5 Void Mane
  Apr 13, 2022
• 10. Escape
  Apr 9, 2022
• 9. Theronhold Part Three
  Apr 9, 2022
• 8. Theronhold Part Two
  Apr 6, 2022
• 7. Theronhold Part One
  Apr 2, 2022
• 6. Walls
  Mar 30, 2022
• 5. The book that hits back
  Mar 30, 2022
• 4. The Wanderer
  Mar 26, 2022
• 3. Turn of a Face
  Mar 23, 2022
• 2. If Circumstances had been Different
  Mar 9, 2022
• 1. Millennia and Now
  Mar 8, 2022

Reviews

Community Reviews(5)

• PercussionPancakesRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Never made an account before but seeing Rebirth with only one review made me want to change that. Rebirth is clearly a take on Progression fantasy but seems to want to play it straight and take itself seriously rather than overly indulge in the self-insert power fantasy you often see in the genre. Editing starts roughly early on but smooths out until it reaches a much more manageable level, and the author has promised revisions of early chapters, which considering the early chapters are largely an introduction to a greater promise of a story is important for holding the reader’s attention. Perhaps the strongest aspect of Rebirth would be the author’s voice, instead of shying away from adding their flair to the story, the author seems to fully embrace adding their personality into the writing, something that makes for entertaining moments where the narrative cuts away for a moment to an almost fourth wall breaking introspection or commentary by the main character. Rebirth of the Great Sages currently doesn’t break new grounds, but it shows promise, so if you enjoy progression stories with the implicated promise of a larger world and story, Rebirth will be right up your alley with blends of action, adventure, and humor that doesn't take away from the gravity of the story beats
• Trumpet_42Royal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  I'm not a big fan of doing reviews, but I felt that leaving this story with no reviews would be unjust. The Great Sages is surprisingly fresh on a site full of the same old tropes. It's neither a masterpiece nor groundbreaking, but it's reasonably well written and isn't too predictable. The story is a progression fantasy story, but I don't think I would call it Xianxia; if you like books with mages and adventurers, then give it a try. However, I would recommend that the author try out Grammarly or something similar to give their work a bit of extra polish. The Great Sages isn't the next Mother of Learning, but it doesn't have to be that to be enjoyable.
• bdf2Royal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Adventure and coming of age story with compelling worldbuilding with a good amount of depth, that is both hinted at and slowly revealed as the sotry progresses.
  Magic system is an interesting mix of cultivation and casting that isn't a strictly defined litrpg level system, but is a lot more potentially free-form.  This leads to plenty of opportunities for brain to beat brawn and for interesting uses of magic to create unexpected results. Many spells and their effects do follow laws similar to physics, though this isn't an isekai, modern understanding of science often ends up underlying how things would work. This is both fun to recognise while reading and can hint at further possibilities down the road.
  Combat is well thought out, gives a good sense of tension, and is kept interesting both through use of the flexible magic system, martial arts, and creative enemies be they man or monster.
  Writing, grammar, descriptions, and general structure of the story is a very strong point throughout.
  MC is dealt a pretty rough hand at the start, so brace yourself for the dark origin story, breaks for the MC are few and far between in the first two dozen chapters. I had to delete and rewrite my review because the MC's situation so deeply colored my previous review. Picture all the hardships of a shonen protagonist, but with little of the plot armor and in a more ruthless/apathetic world.
  Character development gets improves the further in the story you get, as does the diaglogue between characters.  It is quite easy to relate to people in the world and get invested in their journy, how their motivations push their actions.
• visigothRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Let me start by saying that i really find the world and magic system to be interesting and well thought out.
  Where the author is failing time and time again is in his ability to describe scenes/characters. Often times he'll introduce a character but only give the gender as a descriptor. I literally can't picture most people in this story which is frustrating as it robs from the immersion of the scenes.
  The way the author tends to describe settings also has a bad tendency to be vague. In one scene the main character walks into a bar and just describes most of the setting as "fancy" without any other proper descriptors like color/smell to allow the reader to get a more concrete feel for the surroundings of the character.
  This is not to say this is terribly uncommon in a lot of stories from royal road but it is something that needs to be pointed out for the sake of improvement.
• Beetle JonesRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  First of all I'd like to say that I somewhat enjoy the story. One minute the story is flowing but then the next it becomes very frustrating, especially the MC.
  For the MC makes up about 50% of the story in terms of enjoyment levels. So it's quite disappointing to have a protagonist whose character regularly changes as if though he is bi-polar, even though he isn't. Some chapters he has no critical thinking skills or doesn't know how to analyze certain situations which really aren't hard to figure out. Then the next moment he is done sort of Scholar that has figured out somethings about magic that no one has for thousands of years. Then are the moments he is just socially inept, when he has worked together with multiple teams on more than 1 occasion.
  There are some other characters that I really enjoyed reading about, but then they never get really fleshed out and then we never see them again.
  The world building could use some work as well as we never really get to know any of the places the protagonist has been to or even just any other places for that matter.