The New World

Self-Published

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Description

An AI calling itself Schema has assimilated earth into its system. As a consequence, everyone gained access to status screens, power-ups, and skills. This AI turned these concepts from fiction to fact. It's easy to become intoxicated with leveling up and becoming stronger. To some, it's too good to be true like living out a dream.

For Daniel, however, it's closer to a nightmare.

He's in a bit of a predicament. Cracks in our dimensional fabric have unleashed terrifying beasts from dark, abyssal places. Schema organizes these cracks into dungeons, giving the native species of the planet a chance to fight back. Daniel finds himself trapped in one of these dungeons. Not long after, he discovers there's only one way out.

Kill or be killed.

First book is out!Hello everyone. I've finally accomplished a lifetime goal of publishing my work, and in a form I'm proud of. Getting it out there has been preying on my anxieties in many ways, but I've pushed through and handled it. I could never have done this without all of your support. It's genuinely made an enormous difference. You guys can continue to support the story through the links below.

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This is a lit-RPG inspired by the Fallout series of games and the Legend of Randidly Ghosthound.

Schedule: 2-3 releases a week of around 3,000 words.

I have other fictions! *They're of questionable quality*

Here'sMonsters Dwell in Men

If you want to support me and maybe see other content, check out my patreon:Patreon

Here's my Youtube Channel as well,Monsoon117

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2017
Author: Monsoon117

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Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Followers: 1
Views: 250

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Community Reviews(10)

SetelRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Personally for me the story is compelling it's new it's something I haven't seen before and well I must admit I really enjoy it the descriptions are thorough the ideas are well played and very very unique from what I've seen and overall it's just a good story to read I can't help but keep reading I had to read this for 4 days straight just so I can read a lot of it the story gets me compelled and I hope to see it more in the future😀👍
SimplyPancakeTheDevourerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've not got much to say, but what I can say is this story is the best summarization of a Lit-rpg that I can possibly think of. I Love the MC, the Love interest, and all the friends & enemy's made along the way. I Find it extremely interesting that they've also found a Very Sentient, Elderitch that can Control their hunger. The story is getting very interesting indeed.
GoulherRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
One hundred percent impressive. The universe the author created has next to no flaws for now, or at least nothing contradictory and that's something to be reckoned with when we take the complexity of it into account. Characters have a depth that is easy to understand and fully blend with the universe, what's more, the story in itself progress at a good pace while Daniel is as insane as ever. I really like it and hope the author will keep up to surprise me again in the future ! Good luck !
Edited : After being a Patreon for more than a year, i feel like it's just not worth it anymore. The plot is still interesting but is slowly being 'corroded' by Daniel's personality, he just doesn't have any goal.
He could be so much more but just keep being pushed around by basicaly anyone and is not what is exepected. Daniel's motto has been slowly built up since the first chapters, been refined, just to end up as bland and could be resumed as "paying back my debts towards thos I love", nice, but not interesting. Long gone are the days when we actualy wanted to see what Schema had in store for Daniel or how Daniel will face Old Ones. Now we have a new badass enemy who isn't one ? and want to ally with Daniel to do... what ?
Overall, the story just doesn't have anywhere to go. Too much foreshadowing (i looooved it, if only it came true one day (which is the basis of foreshadowing ahah)), the strong personality of the story is still here, but nothing happens so..
By the way, Sovereign skill ? Enthropy mana ? Feel like my dad who went to buy cigs : saw him once and never heard of him again.
PS : Everyon has an opinion about Patreon and supporting a writer. I gave Monsoon money because i felt it would encourage him to continue and here i am, maybe having read the story 10 times, being there waiting for chap for 4 years now, supporting Monsoon for more than a year and no chap for 4 months. I am not kind enough to give money to someone who doesn't reciprocate.
DrMonotoneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Sorry about my spelling XD
Anyways, love this story! Had it in my bookmarks for a while so I supposed it was time that I gave the good ole thumbs up! If you like characters who dont take shit no matter who or what you are then this is definitely the story for you.
Heavily based on LitRPG, even more so than some other Lits I know of so if thats your thing I once again recommend you give this baby a try.
Pretty much all I can say without spoiling this beauty, escalates very quickly so don't worry about chapter after chapter of fillers! -It helps that there are around 2700 pages at the time of me writing this!
monoboy13Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Really awesome! Good story line, character is not typical hero. I enjoyed the leveling system, skills and trait and other aspects of the character development. I really enjoyed the portion where he is in the cave and is trying to get out, and the whole "the world is ending main concept.
DarkDRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Before I start, keep in mind I'm intentionally rating the story in a way that won't affect the rating much. My actual rating so far isn't based on a lot of chapters and I don't wanna actually hurt the novel based on a small amount of reading. My actual rating is probably 3 so far. I'll come back and update this if I can motivate myself to keep reading.
So honestly I don't know if this author is any better than Ghosthounds author, but I'm guessing you haven't stumbled as massively as he did. Or maybe you chased away the Ghosthound haters by admitting it's a clone from the start.
Right from the start, the author makes some really ridiculous story developments. Tell me, if blue screens started popping up in front of you. You know the litRPG screens you can't really touch and moves with your vision. Would you think it was a prank from a friend? This author does. Remind me not to trust ANYTHING the author says he's "seen" in the future, I don't think his judgement is any good.
I call this author a chuuni fan because there was this one line in the text that I can't forget now that I've read. It was where the protagonist called the flavor text he'd been reading "so damn cool". This is why you never compliment yourself. Now I can't bring myself to read any of the flavor text because I have visions of "Dark Flame Master" from the anime reciting the line. Especially when you have flavor text like "You feast on hatred". I just can't take that text seriously....
Also, the skills and levels feel meaningless when they come in so fast. He has skills at level 53 by the time he's killed his second enemy. And I'm pretty sure he's got about 15 or so skills by then as well. This is the problem with the Ghosthound formula, dozens of meaningless skills blend together and become clutter in the story rather than actually contributing to it. I doubt the author even remembers more than a few of the protagonists skills and has to keep complicated spreadsheets on them.
IndigoSharpeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This is a good story. It was a bit of a slog at first when it was just the one guy fighting stuff. And the grimdark elements were whatever because at a certain point that kind of thing just feels like trolling from the author because it's all about things going from bad to worse and being super unforgiving. But...when the story really got going, when there was more cast and they were more fleshed out this really became a highly engaging little marvel set in a thoroughly fascinating world.
Better yet unlike the work that inspired it, the author was able to raise the stakes without doing that annoying things where author's low key need their characters to play up the drama or add random penalties on the protagonist for successfully surviving the plot. What I mean to say is that the writing is satisfying without getting boring.
LVL. 1 SUBSIDYRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I like the story idea and the writing style. Its just some minor grammar issues that make it hard to understand what your trying to say.
Other than that, the story is pretty good.
Some in depth explanation would be good for the story. Not asking for 5 paragraph explanations but try to cover all the important parts just to explain how things happened.
t2oRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Update - 2 @ chapter 236: this has turned into a totally different story, in terms of it's quality. compared to what it was during the initial chapters the difference is just astonishing. every single problem mentioned before has been rectified. this is my first time seeing an author's dramatic improvement through his work.
Update - 1 @ chapter100: most of the below-mentioned problems are slowly but surely improving, and the difference is palpable between, pre ch. 50 & post ch. 65.
so ya the story is getting better slowly but steadily.
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my previous comment was deleted (by mods) and i can see why, I WAS BEING AN ASS, i'm sorry for that. and i apologize if had hurt the author's feelings.
i also did not know the author became a full-time writer (just checked his patron) so, sorry for sounding like i wanted you to stop writing (i didn't mean it that way though) .
i haven't read the latest chapters, but up until chapter 50 (yes, i have & will continue to read till i catchup). Here's everything that i think needs to be worked on,
1) un-necessary and annoying "I"s & "me"s,
2) characters fell lifeless,
3) inconsistent characterization,
4) the story doesn't feel serious despite trying to be. it just feels childish.
5) un-natural behavior, no one would act/behave like the characters do, if we imagine a world like that exists.
6) The world feels dead in the absence of M.C. it's chaotic, inconsistent, and everything revolves around him with him (mc) as the base line
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1) remove all the redundant "I"s & "ME"s from the chapters, it makes the whole thing sooooo awkward to read (redundant because, we know he is the one doing the action/speech.)
instead of "*I* stepped forward & *I* delivered a kick" just write "stepping forward, I delivered a kick"
instead of "he rolled away from *me* and threw the shards at *me*" just write "he rolled away & threw the shards a
SkyblueRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
I remember reading this story when it started a couple of years ago. There were only five or six chapters. I remember enjoying it, but because there was still only a little to read I forgot about it.
When the story reached the trending page, I finally remember about it. So I start reading again from the beginning. Unfortunately, I can only read to chapter 37 before I stop again this time.
Now, in my honest opinion, there is nothing wrong with the story. I dropped it only because the choices that the author made that doesn't sit well with me, not because the choices are wrong, but only weird in my opinion.
Spoiler: Spoiler
Lack of interaction with other humans. For a post-apocalyptic theme, the stories usually have an element of interaction between survivors. But surprisingly, until chapter 37 the interaction is very limited. One of the great points for Randidly Ghosthound is how the author handles the interaction between the MC and the other humans (humans in his world).
Choosing boxing as the main style for MC. Not even considering the fact that boxing only uses fists to attack, modern boxing is so underwhelming compared to other stand-up martial arts. With the glove and strict rules in professional boxing, modern style of boxing emphasizes more on getting points than knocking the opponent out. Of course, the MC doesn't only fight using his fist; he uses his head, legs, and even mouth. But it doesn't change the fact that his main style is modern boxing.
The armor. It's a heavy armor; he boxes with heavy armor on. People in middle age use heavy armor because they know they can't evade every attack, so they opt to wear heavy armor so they can concentrate more on pounding their opponent. I understand that the armor is part of him and it shouldn't hinder his movement or something like that. But it just felt weird imagining a knight with heavy armor on is moving dexterously like a gymnast evading his opponent attacks. It's like saying I have a gun that looks like a ban