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On book 17 of Defiance of the Fall, my skimming over the cultivation skills has leveled up!
Holy stat inflation. When this series started he was really trying to get his strength up. Hitting 20 was a big deal and as he got close to 100 I was thinking, he'll probably just shift to other stats. He did, but that didn't stop inflation. His strength is now 495, 413 with 256% efficiency. This means he'll likely be over a million pretty soon. They did mention that he's up there with most gods so maybe that means we are towards the end of inflation...naw. Other than that it hasn't been a bad read, probably my only other huge complaint is that nothing happens without it taking several chapter. I mean nothing. Like he has to travel for a day to get somewhere..he's going to run into a time dilation that takes 80 years. He decides to stop and consolidate his gains (that means think about them) it'll take a week. Ill be glad to move on at this point
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My biggest problem with it is that there's just too much for him to upgrade.
He has his three daos, his heart, his soul, his body cultivation, his weapon, his pet vines, his core, his bloodline, his nodes, his hidden nodes... and I'm sure I've forgotten several things.
he duplicates it all with a second body meaning he has to do it all twice
It drags the story itself to a screeching halt repeatedly.
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Been going down Chrysalis, on book 3. The commie aligned ant is uhh, I guess fitting but a bit off putting at first. Book 1 was kinda hard to get into. But I've found myself enjoying it more in book 2 and 3. I like the tidbits with the human characters more than the main story, but the main story isn't bad either.
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Finished book 1 of "I'm NOT the hero" and rather enjoyed it. Just now starting book 2.
Both friends mesh well and the pacing is pretty decent. I really like the fact that though they have advantages they don't level insanely fast and the power vs. Level isn't skewed too bad.
Both friends mesh well and the pacing is pretty decent. I really like the fact that though they have advantages they don't level insanely fast and the power vs. Level isn't skewed too bad.
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I've been listening to Chrysalis too, also on book 3.
Similar thoughts. I'm enjoying it from a systems perspective, I like the monster evolution system the author presents.
I'm also wondering if the author was a teenager or close to it when he wrote these back in 2022. The main character is 15, and the author does a solid job of writing from the perspective of a 15 year old mind. Either he's very good at that, or he was a teenager himself when we started writing them. The author is credited as "RinoZ," one of the first obvious pseudonyms I've come across in LitRPG.
-edit- I tried looking it up and I guess he's an older dude with a family. He does a good job of getting into the mind of a 15 year old, the book definitely feels like it's a kid lol.
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I am willing to believe that the writer is a teenager because he writes his teenage characters so annoyingly well that I hate them. So much drama.
Can Orrin PLEASE stop being a pussy.
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I thought something similar. I figured the author is quite young to make his characters so annoying or has teens of his own.
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The writer was so preoccupied with whether or not he could that he didn't stop to think if he should.
Why the heck would you choose to put annoying teen drama into your supposedly serious book.
Can we go back to levelling please.
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Yeah the first book is almost like the shared suffering book common in this genre that the reader has to go through before they get to the enjoyable part, just to make the story more enjoyable.
In this case you have to suffer through Anthony being alone before he joins his colony and because of that suffering, you enjoy the colony more. Or something.
I don't really mind dealing with a book of drudgery if there's a payoff, and there definitely is in that series.
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Chrysalis is a series about The Colony and its growth to power. The first book is largely spent with the MC looking for the colony and saying, "MAN IT SURE WOULD BE GREAT IF I COULD GET TO THIS COLONY I'M SO LONELY AND INCAPABLE OF DELIVERING THE FULL PROMISE OF THIS PREMISE ON MY OWN". I can't remember when in the first book Anthony gets to the colony, but iirc it's not until the second book where the series really revs up. It's not that the book is bad, it's just that it sets up for the later parts. And if the series just indulged the MC and readers with Anthony rejoining the colony in the first few chapters it wouldn't feel as earned.
It's kind of like Breaking Bad or any number of slow burn stories where you're waiting for the premise of the series to reveal itself.
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