Shadow Ascendant

Self-Published

Community Rating

Description

This series has been reworked and launched on a new fiction page, this is the old version!

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Arnos, a first-year student at the prestigious Celera Magic Institute, came from humble beginnings, having been raised in an orphanage. Gaining admission in Cellera—a school dominated by nobles and renowned as one of the greatest magic institutes was already a significant achievement for him.

All Arnos wanted during his time at Celera was to keep a low profile and avoid conflicts with the nobles. However, fate had other plans. On his very first day, he crossed paths with the princess, who wasted no time reminding him of his place.

His hopes of staying under the radar were further dashed when his mana was ranked at an elite level, earning him a place in Ares Dorm, a residence reserved for the best of the best.

"Now Sharing a dorm with powerful seniors and the princess who once mocked him Arnos life at Celera promised to be anything but quiet."

What you can expect:

- Power Progression ✔️

- Magic Academy ✔️

- Multiple character POV ✔️ (Long pov swap)

- Mythical & Fantasy Creatures ✔️

- A reasonably overpowered MC ✔️

- Adventurer's Guild (My favorite) ✔️

- Inter-school and within-school battles ✔️

- Dungeon ✔️

- Harem ❌ (I kinda dislike that trope)

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2025
Author: KPS_writes

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.4/ 5.0
Followers: 993
Views: 199,196

Reviews

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Community Reviews(10)

airuRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Story going well so far, I'll leave a 5 star rating pending newer chapters but the ones currently released have me hooked! Keep up the good work!!!
Upon clicking the submit button I have been told that I need 50 words.
The multiple pov currently feels imbalanced towards the latest chapter but I expect it to pick up later when the story has more space to jump around different POVs
The characters feel well fleshed out and are enjoyable to read about, I can see people having certain favorites depending on the genres they prefer ~
LJ KnightRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I really enjoyed my time in Shadow Ascendant! This is a really good start and shows a lot of potential. I love the worldbuilding and the range of characters we get to meet so far. I'm looking forward to reading more about Arnos and the gang as the story progresses!
Kacey EzellRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Shadow Ascendant is an enjoyable romp featuring a fun cast of characters attending a well-imagined magical academy. Readers will enjoy the snappy dialogue and interactions between the characters, as well as the beautifully described worldbuilding as the cast goes about their various adventures. This is like one of those comfort reads you come back to again and again. Well Done!
sherbie182Royal Road
★★★ 2.5
Interesting world building and some cool mechanics.
Spelling and grammar are poor and detract from easy reading. Dialogue is stilted and unrealistic unfortunately. There's a strange blending of archaic and modern phrasing and behaviour which makes immersion difficult.
The author has used multiple points of view but the characters are somewhat shallow and it's difficult to develop a relationship with any of them given frequent swaps of viewpoint. Most seem cartoonishly childish and the frequent mentions of anime-esque behaviour like hands on the back of heads (which no-one does in reality) to signal embarassment are irritating.
JMottRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
The story seems like it could be interesting, decent MC that feels slightly too mature for his age. Host of supporting characters that feel like that could be interesting. Seems like the MC will be powerful, but haven't gotten far enough to know about the power system to really tell
However, it has a couple of glaring issues for me that make it hard to continue reading including:
the dialogue is hard to follow. In the first couple of chapters the PoV switches multiple times per scene with no indication making it pretty jarring for the reader. Less important, as it is a much easier fix, closing quotations are frequently missing. Which is sometimes confusing when what is said aloud transitions to a thought.
Also, the MC starts of saying he wants to lay low and not interact with nobles only to do exactly that instead of trying to extract himself from potentiality bad situations. It seems like the story was setting up for him to be forced to come out of the background, but he basically did it himself on the first day. There didn't seem to be anything that forced him to interact, ie group practice during the 3 person class or forced introductions by an instructor.
Based on his initial motivation it felt like it should've taken a bit of time. Like he does avoid the princess on the 2nd encounter only to walk right up to the 3rd encounter. He doesn't really try to distance himself from the Duke's son until they've already talked for a while and tries to do nothing to distance himself from his senior after a one sentence interaction.
The princess does a 180 way too quickly. She instigated the issue and basically immediately had a character changing revelation with one conversation from a fellow noble. Didn't feel like earned character growth. It has a lot to do with the magnitude of the first encounter. If it was more reserved maybe it would make sense, or if MC had started the conversation given what has been alluded to about her past.
Chapter out of chronological order in
DrBeevsRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Story premise seems ok, but the writing is very unpolished. It's not much beyond "he said.... She said... This happened..."
Tried it out for a while, but the writing quality is putting me off, so I think I'm going to drop this story and focus on the ones I enjoy more.
ShadowblackFWRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
I gave this story a try because the synopsis sounded interesting. It turned out that the synopsis was more interesting than the actual story.
It's not a bad story, but there's nothing to grab me and make me want to read beyond chapter 44. I never really cared about any of the characters, not helped by the story switching the POV character from Arnos to Erik for an extended period of time. But the bigger issue for me was the dialogue: it just felt off a number of times.
I think I can see what the author was going for, but the execution leaves much to be desired.
ElectricdjinnRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
I slogged through almost 20 chapters, unfortunately. The characters are awkward, and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. It is with great relief that I'm dropping it from my follows. I was hoping it would get past the initial lack of flow as the author practiced, but it just kept dragging.
morde24Royal Road
★ 1.0
Decent story idea, but the execution is super immature.
The characters are all comedically good or comedically bad, absolutely no middle ground or indication that it will get better.
The MC is supposed to lay low, so the first thing they do is gawk in the middle of the entrance room? Hanging out with high class people? Author seems to be split between wanting the MC to randomly surprise everyone by being super strong, but also the MC is in the highest class after doing no work to get there? And then the MC immediately reveals he has a hidden secret of some sort?
My recommendation is to go back, story board where and when you want things to happen over the arc, and try to write smarter characters with their own motivations. You don't need to (and shouldn't) just character dump onto the reader. But you should know your characters back stories and motivations. To help them be more believable and not the stereotypical brat I'm always right grovel at my feet.
MikernarcianoRoyal Road
★ 0.5
Not sure if the author is a non-native English speaker but the dialogue is really awkward and a lot of the story doesn't make sense like maybe there's gaps? Not sure but it's hard to read and follow what the author is trying to convey. I only made it a dozen or so chapters I think .Best of luck to the author.