The Demon Lord's Seal

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Five thousand years ago Derek Thorne's namesake helped to seal the Demon Lord. For five thousand years his clan has continued to maintain the tenets of their founder. They have maintained the ways of the Demon Warrior, using holy magic and their ancestor's techniques to defeat the Demons of the Hell's Gate Mountains. They are an ancient family and they have the hubris to match.

When Derek leaves the mountains, he encounters a world where ninety percent of the population believes demons to be mere myth. The rest imagine the stories to be overhyped nonsense. Cut off from clan, what will Derek make of himself in this world?This story has been dropped.Edit: Thanks to Jean D. Racc for the alternate cover. Thanks to the readers for voting on it.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2019
Author: gary0044187

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 353
Views: 213,653

Chapters(77 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

Oslur (D. M. BandiC)Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Lots of potentials. That's what this story culminates to. It has the makings to become a really entertaining story.
Will update this review once I make it to the latest chapter!
JeanDRaccRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Hi there Raccoon in a Trashcan here.
So I have read all till the last chapter. For the first chapters, I was a bit skeptical because it took me some time to read. Then I found the author leaving little bytes of 8bit information.
It was easy to overlook it. So I had to reread. I got hooked around chap 10-12. The story starts to become extremely interesting there. It can be hard to understand the terms the author used but after reading well you will get the meanings behind schema, essence and the tiers.
The grammar is very good. The plot seems interesting until the last chapter available. I suggest reading carefully and enjoying. Do not skip much or you'll lose the little things the author left.
In summary, a must-read to understand the Thornes, a demon hunting family with lots of traditions and conflicts.
PS: In the review title 'thorns' was on purpose. The clan is named Thornes.
ADVANCED REVIEW:
I decided to give a little more in-depth review since the author approaches several chapters that make it possible.
Style: I like the style, its good and maintains you wanting to know what happens next. If we are strict the style gets 3-4 stars. It is secondary to the initial part which has strange writing that keeps you from wanting to read. This is solved in the chapter I told above. So its a must to persevere through the first part. After that, the style flows on its own and the story becomes very interesting.
Grammar:
Raccoons are bad with this, they have black eyes and scratch their pranking phone. No, we don't study symbols... We study plot-holes or trashcans. So this is not my area. But, in summary, it has correct grammar, better than mine probably. More than 4 stars in my opinion but I can't give a decent report here.
Story score:
It's a bit slow-paced, which I like but makes most people that want fast start to runaway. The plot is still starting to take off, and seriously stories should have many chapters to have a nice review. But in RR you can review them even at
KwayzyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Characters are interesting and they seem to actually exist in the world, rather than just being pawns written for random reasons.
I like the style overall. There are one or two info dumps, but they are well written and the author has chosen to put these in purposefully. They describe the world and the system well, so no real issues.
No major issues spotted with Grammar, nothing annoying to me.
Story is progressing at a good pace. Events happen for a reason, and they all push the story along interesting directions.
Nomad1791Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Silly review title aside. Only at chapter 12 but story is solid, well written and characters are cleared out not 2d or super predicable. Grammer is good with small mistakes that don't take away from story.
motthiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Alright so I have been reading up until chapter 43 and I must say, the beginning was rough but when Derek leaves his village, it feels like the world just gets more vibrant. Also, Derek seems to be maturing in his own way. The info dumps become less heavy and more to just show how much of the world that Derek has yet to experience.
Though I do feel that Derek needs to stop collecting gods like pokemon. Honestly, I feel it would be more interesting if he became a hero with the blessings he has than drowning in the approval of every god he comes across. I would also like for more actual dialogue than being told characters talked.
Oh! And Alicia honestly feels like a non-character. Why is she there? No one knows! I think should either give her more character or just get rid of her entirely because right now she's just this pretty girl that has no purpose.
FinairoRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
It starts off well and the first arc is interesting as you get to know the MC and watch him grow but as time goes on the chapters become much less focused on the MC and are more into developing side characters. This makes me feel less attached to the main character.
Around chapter 38 or 39 The growth of the main character slows and seems to plateau. The MC also seems to be okay with his lack of growth or so it seems as there is little focus on any training he is doing to grow. Which isn’t in line with his past actions where he seems to be addicted to trying to grow stronger.
Spoiler: Spoiler
This is especially weird because although he left the Thorne clan he still knows about the ever present threat that the demons are and has been told on multiple occasions that he should build strength because a storm is coming. He is also tied to one of the seals and knows that he is a prime target for being assasinated. Which I feel would be motivation to become stronger or train harder.
Also, the main character repeatedly sacrifices his own growth for the growth of others past the point where it can be considered kindness. Which I find slightly off-putting as it makes the main character seem to lack drive.
I also find myself not caring about the side characters. In most stories, there is a group of at most 6 “main” side characters that the MC spends most of his time building relationships with. In this story, there are many many more. The author introduces so many people so fast that the reader doesn’t really feel any connection with these characters. And the main character seems to build extremely strong bonds with a few of these characters very fast which is slightly unbelievable.
Overall the idea behind the story is very good as is the grammar but the writing comes across dry as you care very little about the characters.
ISLANDSRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
It is not an original read but it will give you something to get occupied with your time.
The start is as much as you can expect to these kind of stories, and if you read as much as i do (i read quite a lot) then it might not be for you.
Tho i must be clear that the story is NOT bad in anyway (I REPEAT, THIS STORY IS WELL WRITTEN WITH FEW PLOTHOLES) other than that it has the same plot as any chinese cultivation novel's deprived or bullied Mc to someone who can dish out justice with their own hands.
READ IT for yourself to know if this will be your next to follow story or next favorite. But in my case, it is not. Kudos to the author for getting on the trending!! Your the man! (Or woman.. i didn't check...)
PrimalShadowRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
The MC lives with his sick mother, and largely due to the influence of a particular clan elder the two are poorly treated in the clan. This is to the point where at times they didn't have time to eat, which further hurt the mother's health. That is fine; I've seen this type of intro to wuxia novels before, and even if it is a bit cliche it
works. Except...
Spoiler: Spoiler
the MC and his mother are ALSO surrounded by powerful allies, including the MC's grandmother ("the most powerful Archmage of the modern Thorne Clan"), a blacksmith who is the MC's master and the master of his late father (someone who later takes all of one morning to fufill a comission which brings in more money than "The Thorne clan earns ... from all of its holdings every year"), and a Swords Master sworn to his mother's service (someone mentioned to be "quite possibly the most dangerous man in Redwyrm"). Any yet, somehow, surrounded by these powerful people, the MC's family is somehow put in a position where they can't afford substinance? Hard to believe.
sunthedeepRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
An interesting premise that has a lot of potential with technically sound writing. However, 60+ chapters in and the MC feels very flat and mary-sue ish. Other than some childish jealousy against his mother's apprentice which is somehow resolved off screen, he can do no wrong.
The writings style is equally flat, with lots of telling and little showing. Lots of paragraphs of declarative sentences about the MC's thoughts or actual events rather than describing them with any emotion or color.
The book is fine if you want a pretty standard cultivation style novel but there is definitely a lot of room for improvement
UlvlarRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
Thought it was gonna be good, was so wrong. I thought it was gonna be like the cradle series, but no, this series is so far i have read info dumps, and forced plot.