Sailor's Rise: Cultivation in a Merchant Republic

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Elias Vice, a supposed nobody from the backwater town of Acreton, has already written his destiny, and it ends with him building the greatest business empire Sailor’s Rise has ever known.

But to get there, Elias will need to turn a pocketful of relics into a company worth millions. The Rise’s caste-like business and political system stratifies power and access in the dock-ringed merchant republic, and Elias is starting with neither.

And yet he isn’t the nobody he first believes, as Elias’s connection to an enigmatic people—airship travelers with a unique mastery over space itself—will both help and haunt his ambitious endeavor. Elias, it turns out, is a collector.

What to expect:- Epic worldbuilding, compelling characters, and vivid prose- A unique cultivation system where Elias grows more powerful by collecting and consuming relics, the shattered remnants of a bygone age- Business building as Elias cleverly expands his company from nothing, earning relics while climbing the political and social ranks of Sailor’s Rise- Also: airships, pistols, and rapiers

This story is on a long hiatus (see latest update).

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Dremen

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Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 534
Views: 106,106

Chapters(31 total)

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Community Reviews(6)

MrStalemanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This review has been adjusted now that a sufficient number of chapters have been released.
Before I sing the story's praises, I'm going to say outright that if you're not looking for a slower paced cultivation story, you should hold off on reading. Slice of life with hints of mystery and action have defined the current arc of the story and I am uncertain if there will be a pace change in future.
Sailor's Rise, as it stands, reads like a bucolic watercolor painting of a fantastical countryside. Amidst a sea of cultivation works that place emphasis on the mechanics of growth, this story has taken its sweet time to progress in that department and has done so to its benefit.
Cultivation in the world is a broken and disparate mystery for the character, and the audience, to discover. And in that mystery lies numerous implications for what future adventures await and what challenges our characters will be contending with.
Sailor's Rise has the fundamentals of a gripping story down to a T and despite the slow pacing, I was engaged with Elias and his dreams from Prologue to 20.
Grammar: The story has been written with a deft application of the English language. Periods and commas are where they're meant to be and the author has been smart in sentence structure and paragraph pacing that allows readers to easily flow from one thought to another. Action is clear to the mind as well.
Style: I am enamored by the way that the author has made reading through the story feel like I'm standing barefoot in field of green pastures. Whether its by way of imagining Elias with a drawl in his voice or the descriptions of Acreton and the surrounding landscapes that the people of Sailor's Rise travel to on their flying ships, the world is oozing in sepia tones and watercolors in equal measure.
The authors other work, Trial of the Alchemist, read similarly. By style alone the story is worth engaging with, if only to take pleasure in the act of reading through sentence after sentence.
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SmaugBeiberRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I liked it. Well written its an interesting beginning with airships and the promise of a cultivation system. The Trial of the Alchemist was strong and was pretty highly rated so going by author following which I usually do this one will probably be pretty good too.
The story has a lot of style in the prose which is nice. Same as the last novel It's clean, but not in a completely transparent way sparce and yet entertaining. It has a voice but doesn't appear to be trying to hard. It looks like its going to be an orphan power fantasy in the good way.
Story has good set up. Has that Last Orellean thing where the action happens then the growth starts off which is a nice story shape. You know the character is so weak and set back that there is growth to come, I like these poor/weak to rich/strong stories.
Grammar is tight. Didn't notice anything, saw a note in the comments and that was word choice more than a mistake so its good.
Character is solid right now it is just the main character. What Elias wants is clear. How he's going to get there not so much. Obsticles are clear. Well set up.
Woolly GoatRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I am a longtime fan, and this latest story does not disappoint!
More great fiction from a rising star. Elias Vice is the hero we all need.
Everyone loves money. It solves all the world's problems, and it causes all the world's problems.
Add airships, pistols and rapiers to this fantastic world? I'm sold. Write more.
enaira_butcherRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Early review. I may update this down the road as more pages come in.
I read Dremen's last fiction on here, Trial of the Alchemist, and really loved his writing style. So far, Sailor's Rise seems more adventure-packed and fast-paced, with so much happening in these first chapters. If it's anything like his last book, we're in for a wild ride (this time on a flying ship!)
The world seems pretty cool - steampunk sort of vibes with the guns and the ships, sky rifts, a city on a mountain. Plus Dremen's promised two progression systems. With the disappearance of a relic in Elias's hand in this chapter, I think it's safe to say there's something magical going on there. I eagerly await more details on this system. Elias seems like he's starting from nothing, so nowhere to go but up!
Elias and his friend Bertrand already feel like fully formed characters, and I'm into the sass coming from Briley. I can already tell she's going to be one of my personal favorites. Lots of mystery with the green-eyed woman who guided them to safety. I don't know if Elias will go back to where he's from but his childhood friends seem nice too.
Anyways, I think it's worth a read and wanted to help spread the word. It's not often I come across something of such high quality on here.
wait a minuteRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The start seems a bit slow but THATS FOR A REASON!!!
Think pirate x flying x money money money x cultivation. At first i was like "hmmm" but then I was like "hMmMmmmMm gimme gimme." It's like a royal blizzard; it starts off good but then you get to the fudge (DQ goers know what I mean).
Can't wait for more chappies!!
Slightly_MorbidRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This is a bit too early for a real review, but i'll make a stab at it. As of yet, I'd call this the standard YA fare. A young man with ambition sets out in the world to make a name for himself. His chosen path seems to be the merchants.
I'd say the writing is workmanlike. No obvious grammar errors, but also nothing that really sticks out in the writing. Worldbuilding is interesting, but doesn't really fit fully together (even if this might change as the story develops). Our protagonist succeeds more due to luck than to wit, also getting a cheat power early on that he gets much quicker than he is told to expect.
As a whole, it is not a bad book, it just doesn't seem to be the thing for me. A younger me would have been a better fit.