The Broken Realm Online

Self-Published

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Description

Unexplained incidents are occuring around the world. Banks vaults being cleaned out while still sealed shut. People dropping dead suddenly without any signs of illness or injury. When Jaese witnesses his partner and several officers killed by a man shooting ice from his palm, he fails to convince anyone what had happened and thus sets out to prove that there are those out in the world able to use unnatural means to commit crimes.

Darith, A high school student and avid gamer is suddenly invited to a game through his phone, and when he accepts he finds himself transforming into his character, gaining video game like stats and the ability to level up. As doorways open between the real world and the fantasy game world that only he and other players can see, the lines between reality and game slowly begin to blur.

As Darith begins his new life in this fantastical game world and Jaese begins hunting down those that play the game, it's only a matter of time before their fates cross paths - and what starts as an innocent adventure into an unbelievably immersive game may quickly turn into a life and death battle for the fate of the world.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2019
Author: Hakurai

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 537
Views: 143,297

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Community Reviews(10)

BlindingRadianceRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I like to consider myself a veteran reader with a lot of experience and while this novel has flaws (minor ones only) it does the majority (98%) of thing correctly if you compare it to the same novels of this genre.
I will recommend it 100% if you're looking to read.
MooshieDRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
i wasn’t thrilled with having multiple povs going on - but the writer really pulls it off nicely. This is a fantastic story - read and enjoy!
AesoirRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Why is this story on the 6th page of actives. It's better than literally 3/4 of the stories above it. The author manages to merge the real world and litrpg (full of mundanes) without killing the story. This is actually harder than it seems, 99% of the time when an author does this, the story is abandoned. Kill ten rats and a number of other vrrmmorpg or system integration stories do this, and died. Here though, it's actually integral to the plot, the consequences to the real world are clearly demarcated, and the author includes it in the world building. Well Done, keep it up man.
KoboldPatrolRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
(as of chapter 29)
Darith, a fat and socially awkward but smart gamer nerd (i.e. the standard RRL MC), gets invited into a strange and secret full immersion-like fantasy MMORP"Game" that is running parallel to the real world and at the same time blended into it, with stats and abilities useable in the real life. That's fun for him, but some "players" take it seriously and for nefarious purposes: Officer Jaese sees his partner and colleagues killed by what can only be called a bank-robbing magician, but as magic clearly doesn't exist, his boss thinks he's taken drugs. Read the story to find out how Darith learns to take the "game" (is it really a game when people die for real?) seriously, how Jaese searches for the killer and how former gang member Gabriel wants revenge for losing (spoiler) to a clearly un-natural turf war mass murder!
Style/Grammar: The story is told in third-person internal style from five different points of view. That's more than usual and while often a bad sign in a RRL story, after a few chapters those plotlines are starting to converge and it's not difficult to see where the story is (probably) heading Spoiler: Spoiler
("the standard party size is five")
so it is fine here. The descriptions and word choice are okay but didn't strike me as exceptional. Grammar is good and there are few typos.
Story: On one hand, this is a classic "fight and train, explore and do quests, get XP and stats and skills" fantasy LitRPG story. On the other hand, the game has far-reaching consequences also for the lives of the real "NPC" people. These multiple layers make it a bit difficult to really put a label on the story as not everything about how the game works and how the game ties into reality is explained (the "City Guard" can somehow undo damage done in the real world and wipe the memory of the non-players, but at the same time Jaese still remembers how his partner was killed). The combination is really fascinating though and the plot development is captivati
Jason MRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The story starts off somewhat confusing, however after reading past the
first 2 chapter you start get to know what each character are with their
pov, and the flaws in which they show slowly through the story.
The author did a good job writing and showing the realism in which, if
this game were real and the possible things that it can change in socity
and ones self if one where to obtain power.
KapRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Imagine a world where people could be their mmorpg character. Simple enough concept. Our cast of characters deal with the various implications of this idea.
Characters are given their own identities and personalities. MC is skilled but not God tier right out the gate and is prone to human screw ups. Warning the majority of the cast are teenagers, including teenage drama.
There are some grammar issues but nothing story breaking. Great Story for fans of video games.
crpgnutRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Don't really care for fat, ugly kid books but I can get past it enough to read the story. I found it completely common but still worth reading.
patoRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I want to like this story but every important character except Gabriel and Liana pisses me off, and that's because both of them are understandably ignorant enough that they can't be expected to do much about what's going on in their respective situations.
Spoiler: Spoiler
Jaese knows that bullets don't work against magical girls criminals, so why'd he run into the warehouse with a gun? Because he's an idiot.
Darith knows how to train his character to gain stats in the game, so why can't he just do the same thing with his real body? Because he's an idiot.
Darith's friends are irrelevant, but they're apparently becoming Nazis who treat all non-players like subhumans.
The villains are comically villainous. They act like would-be school shooters given superpowers rather than former gang leaders and career criminals.
The city guards don't do their fucking job. If revealing the game's existence is bad, then why do they just clean up the messes instead of punishing those responsible?
Elise is irrelevant. Elise's entire family is irrelevant. Elise's father doesn't even have the balls to cancel a business meeting, let alone a bad marriage.
Albert? Alvin? Arthur? Whatever his name is, he's an idiot, and so is his wife. Imagine being so good at games that you'd run straight into a level 160 area at level 5 without a plan.
Anyone who's stupid is irredemably stupid, and anyone who isn't stupid doesn't have the knowledge or skills to do anything about the irredemably stupid people. This is so bad that it goes beyond what can be covered by the "people aren't perfect" excuse. I find myself wondering between every paragraph how the hell any of these folks managed to survive beyond age 5 without tripping on flat ground and dying of head trauma. Feels bad, man.
DrAltRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
It's another good litrpg/urban fantasy mix that managed to pull off multiple POV in a way that worked. (So rare on Royal Road that I had to review it.) The characters act like adults and generally are not stupid, aside from one side character, but we all know someone like that. Game magic becomes real, and the players and law enforcement must deal with it. There's more going on, but the story never finished, so I won't go into that.
If this were completed and edited it could be published. Thanks for sharing, author.
SnidelyRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
It's good to have a real life type litrpg story. Fire balls and Ice shards flying down the street in a modern city is refreshing compared to the fantisy land trope.