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Nobody's perfect, but it might be fun watching someone try to be.

This story is about a boy who has yet to realize his destiny, someone naive and uncertain being made to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders, in a world where magic is only given to others post mortem, why try to save the world, if power can be gained from killing.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: P O P E L A M P

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Views: 134

Chapters(30 total)

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William NightstarRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The author's first original fiction, there's a lot to say here, I've been reading this for a while but I wanted to leave this comment so he knows all the views he gets are real and not just bots.
I will start by saying this, the writing is definitely not something everyone will appreciate. In homage to Kugane Maruyama and his works, the author decides to stylize his fiction in the same format. Personally I don't totally agree that it works for the author's advantage but when you read it, if you imagine each numbered section as a different chapter then it works out pretty great, its just the formatting that is a bit abstract because it definitely looks better in Japanese.
We start off in what almost feels like a fever dream with a clueless main character, but once you delve deeper into the story and then go back you realize how genius this is and how that was the author's intention all along. We are watching the main character actively develop from what's basically a vegetable into a real person. I'd say that it is around chapter 6, coincidentally when the main character is exposed to something that is a big turning point in his journey, that the story starts to quickly build up anticipation, hype and intrigue. This is greatly helped by how the author writes the action scenes, definitely some of the best I've ever seen and definitely what shows his promising writing prowess. You can picture every move, the pain the characters go through when they are hit, the desperation to survive and to live on during each battle. The violence is quite graphic and exciting, absolutely top tier.
I'd also like to mention the world building, which the author dumps a little too much about at the start but as the story progresses he manages to subtly insert into the story quite nicely, trusting the reader to come to their own conclusions on critical plot points. At the moment I'm only on chapter 23 (there's only 24 out as of me writing this review) and I can't wait to keep following Eli