Rise of an Adventurer

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Dust... was only human, weak, and fragile in spirit. He had experienced loss, and tried to move on. After seeing him spend his most recent days as an adventurer at the bottom of the barrel, fate decided to give him another chance.A lucky encounter leads him to meet valuable friends and advance beyond his originally mediocre fate.Dust and his companions traveled together, growing stronger and fighting against difficulties as a team. Everything was going well......But sadly, all stories have tragedies.Will he succumb to the sadness? Will he fight on, only to find that his efforts were for naught? Realize his own weaknesses and collapse under the weight over his shoulders?This... is the story of how an ordinary adventurer rose to the top.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mature tag for occasional gore and cursing, plus the occasional fanservice and planned sexual scenes. If it ever goes [17-18+] though, a warning will be placed on the chapter's title. Also, there will not be any big tragedies in this fiction.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2016
Author: Zeitlos

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Rating: 3.9/ 5.0
Followers: 40
Views: 28,178

Chapters(18 total)

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FrustratedEgoRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The first few chapters start off with the standard boy metes world for an adventure because of parental issues nonsense. We get ranks, goblins, quests, and of course a heroine to be interested in. There's a lot in here that feels vaguely rehashed but not actually 'bad'. The brief blerb on the fiction page implies impending tragedy but none is apparent yet with the released content. I kept reading expecting someone to lose an arm or be gutted by a level one rabbit. No dice thus far.
Said heroin of course is standoffish with the main character. There's a semi naked 'are you a perv don't look at me *man*' scene, which typically bother me. It's more likely a woman will bitch about dealing with periods while adventuring about then worry about who's peeking on them naked. Lets see a male writer try to work in logical explanations for that one. Magic, I assume, because fantasy world. That aside, if a man can be trusted to watch your back and stab monsters for you, a little side boob really shouldn't even be an issue, in fact it should be low on the list of things to care about when creatures about are more likely to eat you before the main character can get his pants off. #endrant
Actions, thoughts, descriptions, and character reactions are all worked in at regular intervals. There's a few spots where smells or tastes might help but that seems to be a common issue in my mind. Immersion or being fully in sync with the main character however is hard. It feels more like passive observation rather then storyline enthrallment. There are pictures of the characters after chapter 8, so that's neat.
Chapters go by quickly but aren't super short. Words very most of the time It's not simplistic but easy enough to read. Repetition issues show up in multiple places. One scene describes fighting goblins and uses the actual word 'goblin' over and over rather than calling them something else. Like short little freaks, green skinned mess faced monsters, slobbering chuckleheads, or fecal ma