Sixth Finger

Self-Published

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Description

Year 506. The last human empire surrenders to the Great Majin Lord and joins his cause. As the continent in its entirety is submitted to the absolute rule of an undead stories arise of inhuman creatures that led his majesty's armies to terrifying success.

While the demon lord grasps the entire world in his hand, generals and comrades eleven of his most loyal and trusted serve as the extension of his will and power. Common world knows these beings only by their position's names.

Fingers.

Goblins goblinsgoblins... I hate those pesky creatures. Not smart enough to talk, but intelligent enough to kill.

Well.

In this world of madness where blood spills left and right fantasy creatures run rampart alongside crazed devotees of long dead gods all meanwhile the frickinDemon Lord is slowly gaining powerin orderto take over the world precisely without causing its immediate collapse, our little Gob will have quite a chance to find truestrengthand maybe even understand why humans oftendo stupid things for this weird word that starts withthe letter"L".

Who knows, maybe he will even get a better name than Gobin the process...

The story is posted dailyin shortchapters (from 900 to 2000 words per chapter)

The story is NOT anIsekai. It's a high fantasy story withisekaielement'sat best(Majin lord is a Majin after all). I spent some time to create a custom, magic system I hopeto properly exploretogether with you my dear reader.

So what are you doing? Go read those early chapters!

The story is said to only get better after you drink it... I mean read it.

Seriously. After 15 chapters you won't stop.

I just feellikepointing something out.

I never read "The Iron Teeth: A Goblin's Tale" which seems to be the first thing my fiction will be compared to...

P.S. Cover artwork was made by my very own me (hurray me!) PM if you want something painted (no promises).

I sometimes lurk in RR discord.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2019
Author: Martin Root

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Rating: 3.6/ 5.0
Followers: 28
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Community Reviews(3)

claws8367Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
So this novel is diffrent then most novels here on RR.
- no isekai, no system. Just plain fantasy with its own magic system.
- if i had to compare it. It would be similair to the iron teeth: a goblins tail. But of course diferrent in many ways.
- not a fan of the intro. It gives 2 many things away.
Overall this aint a bad novel. It doesnt have that running start that a lot of isekai, reincarnation ans transportation novels have but i see potential.
telcharRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Nice addition to RR in the otherwise sparse pure fantasy genre.
Nearly dropped it because of the poor quality of the first chapters, but it gets better quick. A comb over will really make the story shine.
Although the story is still in the starting stages, the place it really shines is in the pacing and the characters.
It has been a while since I have seen such rich characters on RR.
Will definitely follow if the author continues to maintain the quality of the latest chapters.
Tana NariRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
After a brief prologue that presumably sets up future plot devices, the story starts by looking into the goals and motivations of a goblin- and unlike the countless other stories featuring goblins (it's become something of a cliche since that webcomic in the mid 00s, hasn't it?), it takes the time to *actually treat them like they're not human*. I rarely see writers take the time to make an alien creature seem legitimately alien, and never before with goblins.
Our MC, who lacks a name because that's just how goblins do things, spends his days doing what he can to survive in an ugly, brutish society with his only real advantage being that he's smarter than most of his kind. His degree of 'smarter' seems to only put him at slightly above average for a human, but he's leagues beyond the average goblin.
Pacing, while a bit slow, works well for what is setting up to be more of a character drama rather than an action story. There's little 'filler' time in the story; each character has a goal and pursues it in every scene. They may be low-stakes by High Fantasy standards, but are Life and Death for the characters.
At least... all that's true until Chapter 17. At which point several spoilers happen that take the story in a completely different direction. So different, in fact, that they're like two unrelated stories that just so happen to have the same main character.
This could have been a fun experience, but as I said: it completely failed in the follow-through. Old plots discarded, a large number of new characters, and I think the failure to develop the new ones is an attempt to make them seem mysterious and cool but instead makes them come across as poor copies of people's ideas (it even includes an insane paladin like the aforementioned webcomic), and the slow-paced character drama becomes a slow-paced adventure novel full of random encounters and sparing sessions, none of which advance the plot.
The next twenty chapters are spent trying to rebuild the framework that w