Spell Crafter's Journey

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Description

A professor of physics disillusioned with bureaucracy associated with academiabecomes transmigrated into the world of magic and rediscovers his love for research in the field of spell crafting.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: BadScribe

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 965
Views: 120,607

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Community Reviews(10)

AltarusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It just keeps getting better, an amazing start to a story with a lot of promise. Solid character development and a system that has been given thought. I hope the world keeps developing in the direction it seems to be and don't turn into a generic fantasy setting. I thing this is my first 5-star review on RR. Keep at it!
An_Amazing_UsernameRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It is a bit early to tell how this story will do in the long term, but as it stands it is a phenomenal story and well worth reading.
It has a interesting main character and a cool premise, that said I could see this story going a bit sideways if the author is careless but that seems unlikely.
CookieMonster012Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is actually really good! The premise is interesting and the story is really well written. It keeps you wanting to know more. I just hope as the story progresses the mc will keep his interests into actual researching and that it won’t just become a tool to make him overly overpowered.
acausalRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a great start, I'm excited to see where it goes from here. I look forward to seeing many updates to come, hopefully. The character's stat imbalance is interesting, as well. It definitely keeps the protagonist from being OP immediately, but lays the groundwork for strong gains in the future
Tera-RoosterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There are some very light spoilers in this review:
The author is trying to make the most out of every possible moment within each chapter, bringing the main character and the reader deeper into the world. So far, within 10 chapters, only a day and a half has passed.
For some readers it might be considered slow, but to me the chapters do not feel bloated and each is trying to say something interesting about the main character or the world around him. This makes the story more immersive without big power jumps every two chapters, like in some stories where the main character wakes up as a baby and then practices meditating for two years straight whilst he can't move, and by the time he is ten the main character is a level 100 wizard that can one-shot every enemy.
To be fair he does have high mana but so far every spell he is capable of is weak due to his low understanding of magic, and based on what the author is hinting at, he has the potential to become powerful, however it does not feel rushed so far and I hope that the author keeps it up!
hsteinvallRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The writing is atrocious but it is a fun read, in the classical way of old-school Chinese web novels.
This is what you get:
A well educated, modern world man is transmigrated into the body of a recently deceased prince. The Prince was sickly and therefore the black sheep of his family of warriors. His brothers hate him and the MC needs to grow strong quickly in order to survive. That won't be a problem though, because the mc is spoon-fed op handouts 24/7. Most of the story is just the mc breezing through one magical advancement after another.
ZairaphineRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The author threw a bunch of genre stuff into this fiction that I think detracted from the storry. Such as the main charicter being from our world reincarnated into a locals body, and him having unreasonably high stats. I honestly think the story of the sickly but very cleaver barrons son would have been a more simpathetic charicter, and lowering the stats would more easily allow for stakes while dealing with the scale the author has thus far emplyed in the storry (chapter 22). All that being said I enjoyed the authros take on how expicet game mechanics would influance a culture, and the sickly young mage trying to win the aproval of his warior father is a fantasy staple for a reason.
YardSaleRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Yes, this review is a bit early in the story. However if people abandon a story after the first chanpter, then it doesn't really matter how well written the rest of the sorry is.
Right now the big problem is the main character comes off as kind of an ass in the very first chapter. In the prologue it seems like the author tried for righteous anger at petty beaurocrats standing in the the way of progress. What we actually get is self important jacka#% upset that people don't shower him with money.
He's very upset that corporate beurocrats nixed his research proposal because they were too spineless to risk a few nickels in order to be pioneers (and maybe change the world). What is the world changing reasearch? Is it a cure for cancer? Nope. Is it research that will fundamentally alter humanities understanding of the universe? Apparently not. No, it's computer chip R&D. Those nickels? Well that's only a multi-million pound investment, you know pocket change. So the MC is pissed that a company decided not to invest millions in computer chip reasearch with potentially limited or no return on investment? How dare those spineless beaurocrats be fiscally responsible.
To make the MC more relateable consider changing up the topic of his reasearch, or expand on why his reasearh is important. Somone trying to improve or elevate humanity as a whole is noble and sympathetic. Somone making a slightly better widget really isn't.
Also consider the reworking or expanding on the rejection of his research. For instance Being rejected because he filled out the wrong form is amusing, and potentially relateable as the one of the ills of beauracy for anyone who has been in a dmv. Or you could find some other beaurocratic snafu to use. If you want to go with denial of funding like this, then consider having the MC personally invested in in the project with significant personal negative consequences for failure, and spelling these out for the reader. If the MC is taking a
Fin139Royal Road
★★ 2.0
I really hate the fact I wasted time on this as I did initally enjoy what is here burApparently this has been abandoned as las update was over 2 years ago. I wish there was some warning before I start reading something then after getting hooked find out I will never know what happens
malinizgeldiRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
overpowered mc OK , AI OK , system OK , god given golden spoon ( it's a metaphor , meaning that everything serves mc ) OK , overpowering from day one is OK . It has no difference and creativity from the series I've read so far (from 2017). if there is a difference, it is throwing several series into a boiler and mixing them and putting them on rr. There are at least 3 4 series of the same in rr.