The Oddity: The One Who Does Not Belong

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A purple ball descended from the sky, a gift from the primordial dragons, granting many races of the world access to magic. Unfortunately, humans were not one of those. During the great war, the magicless humans were nothing more than fodder, meat shields. Until one day, their powers awakened. After the war, with the ability to now wield, fire, water, earth, wind, or lightning, powerful magicians gathered to build a safe haven for humans, the Kaldora Empire. Before the humans had magic, other races prospered with it. But, within their midst, there were... oddities. People with an affinity for two elements. Each one leaving some sort of disaster in their wake. Each one, not quite fit for this world. A young boy's family, killed in an accident, only he and his sister survived the night. After that, they were split up, each taken in by a different relative. It has been eight years since the flames engulfed his home and most of his family. With his magic powers finally showing itself, he goes off to a magic academy to better learn about his newfound powers. But as he grows, something else does as well. The voice inside his head, the thing that influences his thoughts, the monster that he wish was gone, the devil inside his heart. This is a tale about connections. NOTE: The story will be slow for many of the chapters and the time will also match it, ex: goes by day by day. The time mostly will be used for introducing and adding to characters. It won't pick up until somewhere in the twenties but there will be action and events earlier on such as the missions. Just a fair warning.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2015
Author: Eyeball1844

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Rating: 3.8/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

troper3Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
My first review.
The novel is right up my alley. I love the main protagonist and how his story progresses. The pacing is fairly good but some arcs are slower than other. The premise is interesting and there are lots of mysteries surrounding the world and events that are happening. One of the better reads on RR.
hukRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Pretty good fiction. Idk why you take what people think so serious, just do what you want and enjoy, the story is quite interesting and its's one of the few that has a realist feel to it. Good job, keep it up!!!.
UnderminerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Your story is great. How he can/is a very strong character with strong morals. It is keen on his life, and some scenes just remind you the ugly, truth of humanity. The story is great, but unfortunately you can\'t stay away from the usual stereotype scenes common in all light novels or ficions. The characters are great, but sometimes I am just left wondering how they came to be, it doesn\'t explain the characters background. And your grammar is far better than mine. But keep at it and hopefully the next update will be soon.
IrooRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I have currently read chapter 43 and i m writting this review
The only problem i can find with this one is that is going slow and you propably need a proofreader (but dont worry you don t have anything too big)
But the extra time you give to the characters leave time to the readers to understand them a lilte better.
For those who perserved and read after the 4 chapter (please don t give reviews so early especialy if you just want to just to be a bich) they understand that MC has a lot going on his plate to deal.
I love the fact that i don t have to see all the training of the MC.
And it seems you ve got a lot planned for the future a we see the MC and also a lot from the rest to steadily revial their past. And it s not all honey and sugar.
I also like how you played with the story starting with now and giving flashback or mini selfdialogs for past events. Generally i found your storywritting refreshing.
I am awaiting for more .
Satou HiragaRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
As much as I like this story which is a lot considering I binged over 60+ chapters in one sitting; there is a few issues I'd like to point out starting with Rainen.
Now I'd like to start this off by saying I like the MC; Rainen is a pretty decent character but his most glaring flaw is procrastination. As much as Rainen admonishes himself for being too weak, he never does anything about it. Immediatly after giving himself shit for not being strong enough he'll go right back to doing what ever it was he was doing just a few minutes prior.
Sure we've heard all about the training he has done with his teacher before but since then we have not seen nor heard of any kind of training that Rainen has subjected himself to in his quest for strength. Instead he sits down and make's a promise to himself to gain power but what happens then? The answer is nothing. Now I don't expect him to just magically gain power out of nowhere but for a guy who want's be strong enough to help people he cares about; he sure likes to sit around and day dream about that training.
Now I don't know if Rainen's lack of gains is due to the plot or lack thereof; not that I mind too much about a missing plot but sometimes there just doesn't seem to be one but as of B2 Ch-13 that seems to be getting remedied but the lack of progress on Rainens part in my opinion is the lack of focus on his PoV which by the way; there are too many PoV swaps.
Most of the PoV's are from Rainens perspective but there are also a lot that are not. Ellar is one character who's PoV I don't mind seeing; I like Ellar, she add's a perspective of the MC that we don't normally get to see but a lot of the random character PoV's we see; at least in my opinion do not add much of anything to the story.
When I get to a part of the story where I'm reading the PoV of a character two nations away and three cities to the left; I end up not caring about it at all and I just skim the chapter until their part is over and the reason is because it
magefeanorRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Probably one of the slowest series I've ever read.
The first book can be a bit difficult to get through, but with the authors growing experience things start flowing a lot better. You might find it difficult to follow with constant pov switches, but it all works out in the end.
The characters are very well written, so much so in fact that I hate the two mc's. Side characters are diverse and quite frankly very interesting.
Grammar is for the most part fine, very few mistakes I as a non-native speaker pick up on.
The story and lore is incredibly fascinating, just don't expect too much in the beginning. There's a very slow trickle of information through-out.
All in all well worth a read, but get ready for some frustration when it comes to character interactions.
tarzan123Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Well the story started a bit...awkward I wasn't really sure if I even want to continue with it. But after all these chapters I think it's pretty decent and at least worth giving it a shot.
decemdiesRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Accurate as of chapter 10.
EDIT: Accurate as of the latest chapter 48.
First, I will be correcting one reviewer who misunderstood the character’s rage. The MC doesn’t go into unexplained rage. It is heavily hinted that the seal on the MC has to do with being unable to control his anger. The MC also goes into rage as he sees another person being beat up. So dear reviewer, i think it is rather unfair for you to say that it is unexplained. The cause behind his rage is unknown but not unexplained.
With all that said and done, here's a proper review for this story. I made a quick review a month ago and I have to give any potential readers a proper review of the story.
My review will be following the basic reviewing guide: http://royalroadl.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=21996
Style:
When talking about style, we are talking about consistency in story telling. This means when we describe a chronology of events or a scene happening, we can clearly see the flow of events.
Now, EyeBall1844 doesn't have the best writing style. With the way he's writing, it seems he has yet to master the first person story-telling perspective. Mind you, this first-person perspective is very challenging to write well.
When EyeBall1844 started telling the story, he switched POV too many times. I've not checked if the earlier chapters have been edited or what not, but the POV switching made reading a kinda difficult.
HOWEVER, he has improved. At one point in the story, he decided to mainly tell the story through the protagonist.
However, this has some weakness. He tells the story through the protoganist too much now. Because he tells the story through the protagonist, there are points in the story where it would be nice to hear of another person's POV or thoughts or motivations. We do get the backstory of a few minor characters but they're not really the characters we want to see in action.
If you're reading this, EyeBall1844, I strongly recommend to let us see Axel grow. I mean you finally reveale
lxg1k1Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
Did this review when i was at b2ch8.
My review is going to be brief.
The intro of this story is good and gets you hyped for the next chapters but that stops after a while and gets very annoying by the time i get to B2.
There are 2 main reasons for that:
Too much focus on side characters. IT'S SO ANNOYING. If you delete half of the scenes from Ellar p.o.v there story would still be good. I dont mind them when it's to explain things from another pov or its something core for the story, but in your case you use them for useless dialogue and useless interactions between Ellar ,Elis and Iris. Once in a while it's okay but like a saying from my country "neither 8 nor 80"(basically neither too little nor too much).
The mc growth is WAY too slow either in strengh or character. This is mainly because of the first reason but still i can not see improvement on rainer. He doesn't figure absolutely nothing about what is inside of him, his past is way too blurred for us readers, etc. The good aspects of his growth are the interactions he has with the '12', the headmaster and a few other characters. That part IS good but because of the focus on Ellar we mostly get those useless conversations between E.E.I. .
I'm only a reader and not a writer so the tips advices i'm going to give are based on my experience on the thousands of books i've read(literally thousands).
You probably figured this out already but i have to mention this again . FOCUS on the MC. Mutliple p.o.v. are only good on certain stories like Game of Thrones because they use the p.o.vs to explain the world and it's politics, your story isn't like that so keep the p.o.vs to a minimum.
This is a tip that coincides with the first. I can see you want to grow Ellar characther (obviously) and that is not bad if it doesn't ruin the mc growth which it does unfortunatly. You should either change the story to a duo mc story with ALOT more background on Ellar making her more interesting to read (but still tone down the interation
thunderhillRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Two stars for effort. Sadly, the story fails to convey a compelling story of a boy\'s struggles to reach \'supposedly\' the pinnacle of training.
The characters have very little semblance or impact on the readers.
Still a good try.
Background, setting and lore is explained in a disjointed way, shunting the flow of the story. The world, the author has created is vague and seemingly unimportant.
In the Prologue of the story, the author tries to use some foreshadow hinting to the MC\'s abilities, though it was told with little impact seeing a nightmare about the MC\'s parents could not rattle him - a child. I can see that the author wishes to establish a story with two parallel Main characters with various sub-characters, unfortunately, both sets of characters are shown to have little \'substance\'.
The Use of changing perspectives is an interesting one, though used awkwardly evoking annoyance in many readers.
Though the synopsis is passable.