The 'Why?' Behind Ascendancy

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I was seventeen years old, isolated, and with a ridiculous amount of social ineptitude. There was very little that I had experienced outside of anger and resentment.

I was crippled, someone lacking six of the seven Medians. For 7 years I had toiled and wept, until finally, finally, my resolve hardened into stone.

My resentment burning. My angersearing. And it was aimed at one group of people. One group of people that ruined everything I've ever known, hells, everything I everwill know!

So I left, left a family that controls more planets than the next three empires, and Ifelt free.

And I knew, with that freedom, without those shackles, I would beUNSTOPPABLE.

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A story where there are no perfect companions to help and carry you through turmoil. A story that tells the truth behind loneliness. Once you're alone, you truly are alone. And once it sets in, once society pounds it in – it sticks.

Give it a try. Despite what the synopsis alludes to, he'll be insanely powerful by the time we work our way out of the plot.

Starting plot is enchanter-based schooling. Bit of "alchemy". Will develop into the perfect face-slapping.

Try to get through to the 3rd chapter.

Oh, and I feel the need to include this –––––– NO HAREM.

[Synopsis is temporary. - 4th rework.]

[Chapters average 3k words.]

[There will be a lot of betrayals. A lot of manipulations. And a lot of hopeful good doing more harm than good to our MC.]

[Solo MC.]

[First-person.]

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: CookieMuffins

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 5.0/ 5.0
Followers: 10
Views: 3,573

Chapters(10 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

North WindRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
While my review states that this was reviewed at chapter 1, I have already read up to chapter 9.
This is a great story, I really enjoy it and it comes at cultivation in a really unique and memorable way.
Style: The style is very unique, I've never read a story that approaches cultivation in this way. It's very interesting and I look forward to how it will turn out. Long chapters as well, which is really nice.
Grammar: There are some grammar issues, but nothing too immersion-breaking. Author does look at the edit suggestions.
Story: It's a very interesting story. It progresses really nicely. The main character wants to separate himself from his family, but he isn't foolish enough to throw away all advantages for himself.
Character: Our main character does have some flaws, but nothing bad, and the author shows that he gains character development. He is very smart, and he realized that people treated him well only because of his heritage, so he ended up being a little socially awkward. It isn't too off-putting though, and he is shown to make friends and socializing.
Overall, I really like this story and will be following it closely as the author publishes more chapters.
StraxDWRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The start of the story is pretty good. It got some vibes of typical Xianxia where the young master has trash talent in cultivation, and is looked down upon by his family. But the story is set in a futuristic, maybe even cyberpunk world, with computers, DNA etc.
So be ready for some techno mumbo jumbo. I only glossed through it because tech it's not my forte, but it sounds pretty good to me.
What really hooked me on this story is the main character. Whenever I read his thought process, I get this sentence being shadowed somewhere deep in my mind and it's telling me: That's literally me!
You wanna socially awkward, mentally unstable and sometimes calculative MC you can relate to? There you got one.
There's no time for reading reviews! Go check the story!
I'm not a native english speaker so it would be hypocritical to judge someone else's grammar. But my casual judgement is that there's no issue.