The Great Charlatan - A Cultivation Adventure of Trickery and Deceit
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August had always seen himself as clever, rather than brilliant. He was decently brilliant as well when he applied himself - as he was endlessly told - but his real strength had always been a talent for seeming to be brilliant, while never truly investing the time needed to achieve such vaunted heights. He supposed that his talent stretched wider than that, to pretending in all its forms, really. He also seemed to have a flair for understanding people, and what they wanted, and how to leverage that. However, getting good grades in school with very little effort had mostly been the limit of his opportunity to use his particular talents.
But, now that he found himself within a world strange new of cultivation, endless adventure, and a severe lack of computer documentation? With civilizations unlike any of those he has ever known, well, pretending would get its chance to shine, for he would need to use all his cunning, wit, cleverness, and willingness to lie and cheat to catch up and go beyond without anything or anyone to his name. But really, how difficult would it be to safely con people in a world where everyone is superhuman and magic, somefarmore so than others?
Well, at least he has no pesky moral compass standing in his- Damn it all.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2023
- Author
- THE_bird
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- 3.3/ 5.0
- Followers
- 3
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- 865
Chapters(3 total)
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Community Reviews(1)
- Ye old man of the mountainsRoyal Road★★★★ 4.0So, overall, it's a pretty good story with a couple of things to offer. For example, I really like the magic system, and how the worldbuilding makes a lot of sense, especially with how magic, or cultivation, is integrated into the world. Now, the summary promisses an MC with a moral compas, but from what I have seen up until this point, that is... sort of true? He's willing to do some pretty shady and manipulative shit, but he clearly also doesn't really want do that, but just finds it to be the easiest way Other than that, I can at this point only really say that the characters are distinct, and seem pretty complex. But, you know, only three chapters have been released, so there is not a lot to be said be yet on that point.
In terms of style, there is one, and I kind of like it, but it isn't that prominent. Each POV also has their own style, so that is pretty good.
Grammar is fine. Not a lot more to say than that. It is written mostly in british english, if that is important to anyone.
The story isn't that clear yet, but I find each character action to make sense. I don't feel that there is a super clear story path yet, but there is a story path in the works, and we just have to wait and see what that path is.
So yeah, pretty good, worth a read for now.