The Hallowed World [Isekai, Engineering, Progression Fantasy] - Volume I Live on KU!
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When the problem's too tough to solve, you call in an engineer. When the problem is impossible, you call in an engineer with magic.Shawn was an emerging engineer before a portal pulled him and his cousin Claire to Remaria, a hollow world fractured by an ancient calamity. He was told by the person who summoned him that they would save the world with their technical skills.
That plan lasted five minutes before his summoner was attacked by her conquest-obsessed brother and his army of zealots. Facing impossible odds, Shawn imbued himself with a potent power source to fight off their foes, and escape to the hollowed world below.Stranded and with limited resources and allies, Shawn vowed to defeat this mighty foe lurking in the core world of Remaria. He will battle monsters and madmen and delve for resources and secrets within this ancient planet, using his engineering knowledge and his new powers to uplift his newfound allies to jumpstart a magitech revolution.But Shawn's stakes in this are more than just survival: his sister, presumed dead ten years ago, was taken by the same portal as him, and is somewhere in this world. Not even a tyrant god will get in his way to find her...
Take flight into the depths of Remaria!
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What to expect:
* A fantasy adventure into a fractured world, with detailed worldbuilding and complex characters. The main POV is Shawn for 80-90% of the story.
* Weak to Strong. Progression elements are more than numbers--allies will bond, powers will grow, and tech will advance.
* Violence and danger are lurking elements in Remaria, as are mysteries and secrets buried within the depths of the world.
* Rating: PG-13. There's violence, the heroes have old wounds in their past, and some language.
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- Status
- Ongoing
- Year
- 2025
- Author
- Magius Swiftscale
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- Rating
- 4.1/ 5.0
- Followers
- 861
- Views
- 18,549
Chapters(5 total)
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Community Reviews(3)
- goolicRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0First this is a masterfully well executed story
If you are looking for quality this is it. Similar to bog standard Isekai, though I would say it Is a little bellow mother of learning.
It’s a standard Isekai with a bunch of tropes but the MC is not alone and his motivating force is nothing as simple as becoming the supreme murderhobo nor saving the world. Feels a lot more realistic and exudes personality, the MC has clearish long, medium and short term objectives.
The magic system is also somewhat novel, the people don’t interact directly with mana, but instead have to form a simbiosys with beings that do, with the MCs magic system having a snarky twist that is very well written and surprising.
The characters all feel distinct and have personalities and quirks. As of chapter 13 at least 5 characters have show independence, thinking and we’ll developed interactings between each other. This is not a story that the people only do what is ordere$ by the MC.
The world is very rich, interesting and different, almost multiple worlds interacting with each other, I would expect vastly different cultures and civilizations appearing on this story, closer to some soft sci Fi than your average fantasy, but no less fantastical. I would compare this to ring world.
To finish both the summoner/god and the villain/god are interesting and don’t feel overwhelming while also being properly challenging to MC and crew. - SoftDragonRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5This is a fairly early review, so it is hard to evaluate the story or characters at this point. I will try to update this later.
Style/Prose: Clean and functional, barring a few sections i have seen with slightly awkward flow. Nothing amazing, but does not hinder comprehension or stand out as problematic. No weird quirks of repetition or word choice that i have seen, and good vocabulary.
Story: hard to fully evaluate this early, but it seems promising. There are clear plot goals, if not any indication of how (or if) they will be reached. Of note is that most of the usual annoying or problematic isekai tropes are avoided; there is a clear reason for why it happened, it is more than the usual excuse for someone to cram in their shallow SI (never to be mentioned again), and is also not an inexplicable one-off event with complementary amnesia.
There are also not 400 pages of braindead murderhobo grinding before any sort of plot or characterization appears; the story kicks off from page one and fails to become lost, later found drunk in a ditch.
The setting is interesting and seems quite alien and unnatural, but again, it is too early to have seen much of the world. Overall level of magic is very high, and technology is a mishmash (for explained reasons).
Grammar: mostly fine, so far i have only seen a few minor punctuation errors, the dreaded incorrect apostrophe, and one misspelled name.
Characters: they feel like people, or at least feel like they will once we get to know them better. They have clear, differing personalities and goals, and are notably avoiding the common issue of a cardboard cast. Some things feel a little contrived, but it is too early to really understand everyone's motivations.
This is a distinct improvement from the author's prior work i have read, where the characters just felt a bit off and one-dimensional, causing me to lose interest quickly.
Birds: very floofy - fmunoz.geoRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5Just finished reading it minutes shy of the stubbing.
It's not perfect but way above the average on RR.
It has really nice world building but it drags a bit, and in several points you get the feeling of reading the same sentences again.
Cutting things and removing a few chapters could improve the rithm of the story.
It's refreshing to have non stats magic.