The Ascendant: Endless Reincarnation

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Description

My name is Richard Brooks. I died while saving a kid.

Kicking the bucket at 28 was really depressing, you know? There’s so much I still wanted to do.

But instead of passing on, I was thrust into an endless series of reincarnations. Whenever I die, I earn Karma points based on my achievements and growth. These points can be exchanged for weapons, spells, or other bonuses to make my next lives more interesting.

“What kills me only makes me stronger!” Or something like that.

Honestly, it feels like I’m stuck in an RPG. The difficulty setting can be pretty ridiculous too.

Sometimes all I can do is grit my teeth in frustration as I die an ignoble death.

But I won’t complain. Even when it’s dangerous and painful, I love life. This is all an opportunity; I’ll do my best, no matter what kind of sadistic fate the System throws at me.

I will swing the warhammer of justice! Craft and enhance the most amazing artifacts! Overwhelm opponents with a barrage of auto-casting spells! Lead powerful vassals in Domain wars!

All for the sake of creating an eternal sanctuary.

With my unique power of Runecrafting, maybe I’ll even become strong enough one day to overturn fate… or at least find out what the hell is really going on.

It might take a few hundred or a thousand lifetimes, but what’s the rush?

I have all the time in the world now.

(Note: R15+ This is the work of a very inexperienced author with a full time job. Please expect an erratic release schedule.)

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2017
Author: TheDreamForger

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 3,031
Views: 602,704

Chapters(20 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

Lord SodiumRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is the first I'm leaving a review on. Yay!
First of all, I personally think the idea of a new game+ rouge-like type of story is genius, the MC isn't unnecessarily OP at the start, but you can see huge amounts of potential in the future.
Referencing common tropes and having the MC be a semi-gamer is awesome. Can't explain it accurately, I don't usually write reviews, but great work.
Despite you saying that you aren't an experienced writer, I'm enjoying your story a lot. The only issue I have is the pacing (as of chapter 13) is a bit too slow for a story about reincarnating multiple times, but it just could be because it's currently his second life, and kind of a tutorial. It doesn't take away much from the story either.
One of my favorite parts of this novel is the grammar. Correct your, you're, there, their, and they're, basically. I'm enjoying noy having to reword every other sentence in my mind.
Loving the MC and other characters so far.
I highly recommend this to everyone, your time will not be wasted. If only rhe author would upload more, eh? (Nudge nudge)
Rye_RyeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
this is my second novel review and first time giving a 100% or 5/5for a novel. Story really makes u get hook on with a bigger chance of potential being on 1st spot on best novels, creative theme uve done on famous rpg themes where redundant ways how being portrayed by
So all in all a good job
Ps. Still alive bruh??
ChocolateMintChipmunkRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love the story! I know you haven't updated it in a while, but I decided to follow it in case you ever decide to revisit it.
I'm currently reading another that has the same story premise, The Many Lives of Candace Lee. And I do have to say that the idea of following a reincarnation along their many lives allows for multiple interesting stories within a story. I will admit, I am expecting the main character to die the next chapter, which might have been why you stopped, its hard to let go of a specific story line and then you have to come up with something new.
XiniochRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
reviewed at chapter 4
This is an interesting premise, the world contains people that reincarnated if they meet certain unrevealed at this time criteria. Depending on how the author handles the reincarnations of the MC I can see this being a very interesting story.
kirosyamchaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
great book so far, read all chapters to 13, the only thing i think should be different is the age progression other than that its great!
MalRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
What a good story. Very realistic keeping the MC from being a fighter-type in his second life. Well, since he seemed kinda like a puss in his first anyway. Lots of growth potential. Slow growth at least. While the synopsis and actual written story do not correlate, I can see that changing if you do continue writing (40 days with no updates at time of review). The last few chapters were mostly side-character or possibly just backstory-filler type chapters, which made me sad. Here's hoping you decide to continue with this project.
MastersgtjamesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Enjoyable so far, like everything i have seen.
NEED MOAR!!
Vibing DopamineRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Really like the idea behind the story and great execution as well!
crusaderbondRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Turned out to be endless for an entirely different reason. haha. deducting a star for awol author.
A Talking RockRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
I think maybe once it gets past the life thats hes in right now it will either kick off or go in the drain. Its a little slow right now but i still highly suggest this book because unlike most books the charcter can be op but has to work towards it and doesnt give the excuse of the MC starting Op becuase we started like halfway into his life cliche. How he got the body he is in and how that part of the book goes is something that needs worked on but still decent.