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Links are NOT allowed. Format your description nicely so people can easily read them. Please use proper spacing and paragraphs.A lowly child beggar, a noble prince, a monster viewed as the enemy of the entire world. If you possess all three identities at the same time, which identity would you choose to help you earn a better ending?
Thales did not have the answer.
He only knew that he came to a different and magnificent world, and he had to face a future that was as difficult to handle as a nightmare.
The glorious Empire had already been destroyed for one thousand years, the dying royal family suffered many problems, the legendary sacred battle had plenty of conspiracies, the divided world was in chaos.
But Thales had nothing.
The only thing he had left was an unswerving determination to preserve his own identity, bravery which would allow him to survive in a perilous situation, and a belief that he would never submit to principles he did not believe.
“A King does not gain respect by virtue of his bloodline. The bloodline’s glory rests on the deeds of the King.”
Darkness will baptize light. Fire will create true steel. The forbidden prince’s story starts here.
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One entry per lineWang Guo Xue Mai
王国血脉
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Release that Witch (1)
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Latest Release
Date | Group | Release |
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07/09/24 | Lírios Translation | c623 |
06/15/24 | Lírios Translation | c622 |
05/09/24 | Lírios Translation | c621 |
05/09/24 | Lírios Translation | c620 |
04/06/24 | Lírios Translation | c620 |
04/04/24 | Lírios Translation | c619 |
04/04/24 | Lírios Translation | c618 |
03/23/24 | Lírios Translation | c617 |
03/13/24 | Lírios Translation | c616 |
03/03/24 | Lírios Translation | c615 |
01/26/24 | Lírios Translation | c614 |
01/18/24 | Lírios Translation | c613 |
01/08/24 | Lírios Translation | c612 |
12/31/23 | Lírios Translation | c611 |
12/20/23 | Lírios Translation | c610 |
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- Every character as some sort of story making them more complex, interesting, and memorable when they are actually some sort of focus
Cons-
- MC gets stronger, but it doesn't matter because he is 7 years old and he powers cannot be known by others too widely. He is never able to defend himself.
- There are any too many "stunned" expressions. It get unrealistic fast.
Conclusion I need to take a break from this novel. I don't find torturing a little boy pleasing.A "mercenary" female assassin who shelters beggar children. A "righteous" knight who won't hesitate to kill. A "just and wise" king who is completely callous to familial relations.
Natural disaster happened. Famine broke out. Everyone rioted. Most of the royal family was assassinated. All that happened within 1 year (named "The Bloody Year"). Huh?? Anyone who studies any world history in school would tell you such nonsense couldn't happen.
Poor attempts by author at describing political changes. The kingdom was supposed to be absolute monarchy, then lost control to feudalism due to wars (lords granted land and powers to assist in governing the country), then back to absolute monarchy again, but everyone is now doing a power grab.
Chapters and chapters were devoted to showing how MC was emotionally mature. He stabbed a gang leader to death, witnesses large scale carnage and massacre, but can regain his emotional control in a span of a few moments. He can even talk down a vampire after being kidnapped.
But when MC meets his callous father (a King), he gets completely tongue-tied like some kinda shoujo. When MC is confronted with zealous fervor of his subjects, rather than argue sensibly that their fanaticism was misplaced despite his own strong misgivings, he goes along with it. SO PAINFUL TO READ.
Whenever MC gets into a difficult situation, it's only his adult mature mind that allows him to assess the situation calmly and see if he can negotiate/use his cunning to find a way out. It never relates to his previous life's skills/knowledge as a bookish academic. What's the point of the PhD?? "Release that Witch"'s MC did something with his knowledge. What is this guy doing?
To figure out how to recreate his power (which appeared to be incited through anger/emotion), MC goes through nonsense exposition of various modern day theorems. Such as:
'There are too few samples, too many variables, and the mechanism is too simple. The overly complicated Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) cannot be used. I can just use the most basic Mill's Methods of induction. First of all, with 'bleeding' and 'losing control' as the keywords, select relevant cases and events.'
WTF?? Why expound all this crap, just go ahead and test it??! And many chapters later, author realizes what he wrote was s*upid, so he contrived a scenario (which should be the normal way of doing things) for MC to activate his power. Because author realized there was no theoretical way to explain what mystic power was. So he came up with this nonsensical crap:
"Blood had acted as a medium with the previous two times he 'lost control' by bringing the dagger, which was a material object, and the mysterious sphere, which was an energy, before him in a mysterious manner. Hence, he made a tentative guess that the power might be related to dimensional teleportation." WHAT??
An entire chapter devoted to a crazed gang leader mu*dering children in excruciating detail. I get the point of the occasional gratuitous violence depiction, but was there a point to this chapter at all? Could have been done in less than half. And this repeated itself throughout the entire novel, likely to make up word count.
Entire chapters with either: Exposition about historical events, which at the end become a fake out and we're told isn't true, OR
Fake pleasantries between characters, then all the pretense drops and we're told all the earlier discussion was false. WTF. This is why other commentators said the plot goes NOWHERE.
- The main character is well written, and comes across as genuinely intelligent throughout the story, which is fairly rare in these sorts of novels.
- Side characters and especially antagonists are all given plausible motivations and histories which complement their actions in the story.
- The magic/mystic subplot is one of my favourite in recent novels. I would definitely read a separate novel completely about a character becoming a mystic or wizard.
Cons:- The real conflict in the story generally comes up as some kind of debate between the main character and his various enemies - which is generally entertaining - but the author immediately sours it afterwards by making sure that none of his actions were of any real consequence, and then immediately introduces another conflict. The pacing is truly abysmal - without any resolution there isn't ever a real climax and the whole plot feels unrewarding.
- The main character is constantly demonstrated to be significantly more competent than his supposed allies, but then denied any form of agency when they refuse to give him any information about the situations he is dragged into, wasting all of his efforts.
- The character never becomes strong - the "weak to strong label" is misplaced. His many layers of plot armour are just contrivances to delay any real progress. At this point I've given up on expecting him to become a mystic - maybe he'll make it by chapter 1500.
- I'm still not totally sure it isn't the fault of the translation, but the ages, dates, and time progression given are totally nonsensical. In particular there were a couple of times where characters would remark upon experiencing events 100 years ago, or talking about things that happen as few as 12 years ago as though they happened in some previous era (that one comes up a lot). I recommend disregarding them entirely.
Overall it's difficult to recommend - maybe if the author edited half of the content out it would be closer to 5 stars.