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Warlock of the Magus World
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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.When a futuristic scientist is transported into the body of a young man in a fantasy world, his curiosity and desire for power push him to pursue magic. In a world without mercy, Leylin has no qualms about doing anything if it means benefits. He is cold, ruthless and calculating, never forming attachments that could impede his ultimate goal…
Honor? Who needs that… Hmmm… that guy seems too powerful for me to take on now… I better keep a low profile for now.
You want me to help you? What do I get out of it? Nothing? Bye.
Hmm… that guy looks like he might cause me problems in the future. Better kill him before he becomes a problem…
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One entry per lineVu Giới Thuật Sĩ
WMW
Wujie Shushi
巫界术士
WMW
Wujie Shushi
巫界术士
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Nothing special here. The usual transmigration 'backstory' we've all read. His past life is basically none existent. All we know that he was some kind of 'scientist' back on old earth somewhere in the future, I guess. Anything beyond that isn't important of course because weak exposition skills.
Nonetheless, what I liked was that we were thrown right into action, it was fast paced enough for my personal taste. The worldbuilding in the beginning was slightly above average, I'd say. The Problems The first problem I have with this novel obviously is his super op cheat item. At the beginning it was okay. I mean, I can live with some plot armour and ridiculous OP-BS. But the author shouldn't stretch it. And he did it again, again and again.
How it is possible for the item to even grow stronger is absolutely beyond me. It's not like its sentient or anything like that.
The first 300 chapters were good! Leylin was portrayed as a genuine scientist. We're introduced to the world's science and alchemy. We are given examples of his experiments how he made progress with his research, explaining his ingredients his research steps yada yada. But sadly, more and more things are dumped on the cheat item without any explanation whatsoever. The premise of the novel is first and foremost, Leylin being a former scientist and second, Magi being known for their research and how they made prowess by experiments and observation. The author sadly couldn't connect Leylin becoming stronger without abandoning the original premise, him being a scientist. I don't need several paragraphs of mumbo jumbo but here and there a rule or an example why this worked and that didn't would have been much appreciated, after all Leylin is a scientist. I especially hated the last 300 or so chapters - The World of Gods arc.
The entire arc plain and simply makes absolutely no sense.
This is complete bullshit. You can't halt progress, especially not in a world in which foreign powers are competing with one another. Gods need the people's believes to retain their strength. People would eventually make progress. Knowledge would eventually flood to all social groups. Since this would benefit everyone. Heck, gods themselves would be heavily promoting the 'distribution' of knowledge and wisdom since the benefit of intelligent believers is much higher than believers who just follow out of no good reason whatsoever. By creating a safe environment for their believers, gods could inhibit plagues and illnesses. Gods who rely on illnesses and plagues, the fear these calamities induce, would eventually weaken and fall. Prior devote believers of 'evil gods' would migrate to other gods, gods that offered safer environments.
Then his ascension! The author kept pulling gods who were never mentioned before out of his ass. Suddenly this god was a true-god who conveniently holds the same domain as him. I mean, these gods have lived for millions of years. How come that they don't have any trump cards up their sleeve? How come that Leylin is the only person intelligent enough to compete against them. Beings that lived for eons whereas he hadn't even lived for 400 years?!
There is absolutely no character growth. Which baffles me. Our MC hails from earth, a 'civilized' environment that is governed by law and order. Not by system that relies on the strongest cultivator or strongest sect. So, one could now imagine that a scientist, someone who was bound to his desk might be somewhat startled, afraid, unsure what to do and effing hesitant to kill someone. But he just isn't, he adapts to his new environment way too quickly. I don't understand why even bother including that he transmigrated from earth? He's quite cruel at times. Okay, well. I mean, okay. I don't really care honestly. I would have much rather preferred an explanation for his descend into cruelty and evil. But again, exposition or describing character traits such as appearance and behaviour isn't the author's strong suit. But the saving grace of this novel are the close-up views during war situations. Here I must give the author some credit! This was done quite skilful.
See, it becomes very difficult to emphasize with a sheer omnipotent being like Leylin. He MC, he not die.
Giving us some closeups, focusing on certain people who might be unimportant in the bigger sense of the war, give a sense of urgency and show a different angle of the conflict. Sure, shooting a meteorite into the crowd letting fire rings descend – killing everyone, is mindboggling and interesting, but that's about it. Giving us Barton, a knight who has suffered all his life and sees a chance in this war, for himself and his woman, to have a better life and thus fighting with his life on the line creates tension and emotion, a sense urgency. Or in that case pity since we know that he will perish by Leylin hands. (Batron doesn't exist, no spoiler) This again is more of a personal taste, but the world feels static. It's like nothing happens until the protagonists makes a move or the author, well – vomiting out what to happen next. In the earlier chapters, the author bothered to include other aspects or to say, the cast, was interesting and contributed to the story. Later, not so much which sadly didn't benefit the story. The reason for the other characters becoming unnecessary was of course his ridiculous progression speed. Antagonists
Oh well. Something what occasionally happens is the author writing himself into a corner. Leylin conveniently gets saved by either his cheat item or some plot armour. I can't remember one memorable antagonist. They were all bland, sometimes we were gifted with a backstory but apart from that there weren't any memorable ones. ---
And I'm not even going to talk about the hefty 'inspirations' the author took of another work that was published on Qidian a year earlier.
A protagonist can only be as intelligent as his master. It's evident in the later chapters, I'd say around the 8-hundreds, the author had absolutely no idea where he was going with the story. Some things just don't add up. Characters being introduced, never mentioned again, inheritances found without any explanation whatsoever, rules being broken etc. Numbers are nice and everything but without any context they are worthless. Giving us his stats is nice but not knowing what they mean in comparison to other powerful Magi is s*upid. What does a strength of 52 mean? Are the other Magi more powerful than him? Something I liked in the earlier chapters, we were given actual stats of other Magi. Is a vitality of 44 high or is it low in comparison to other Magi? This was something that actually help grasp the MC's power somewhat. I still don't know how he is more powerful than other Magi after a breakthrough without any evidence, anything to compare it to. It breaks the immersion and makes it difficult to follow through. Edict
It's an okay read. Nothing special. The first 300 chapters are pretty engaging after that it stagnates somewhat picks up around the 5-hundreds to the 7-hundreds before being bad. The last 300 chapters were pure garbage. I'd say, give it a try but don't hesitate to skip certain chapters or you will be angered to death and spurt three mouthfuls of blood. 2 stars because the beginning and the story was engaging enough up the 500s, but it gradually deteriorated after that. Nevertheless, the translations are superb, and it's finished, so pick it up and decide yourself! Love and longevity <3
what do you do? Bully the weak? What is the point? Will that help you to grow stronger? After reading for a while. I kept feeling that instead of being anti-hero, the MC is just plain evil. Lacks empathy and antagonizes the weak. I also like anti-hero. But not like this. There are alot of anti-hero novel out there.