The New World by Monsoon117

Breaking news! After 11 months of nothing, They have started adding chapters again

is it still on hiatus? its the deciding factor for whether i will read this or not

Ooh , I remember reading this forever ago on gravitytales. Fun light reading from what i remember

Oh damn... This is the second time I heard Author mention The Legend of Randidly Ghosthound on 2 separate occasions. I've only checked the cover of the novel, and damn... It's a long one. Like a long. long one. I believe it was around 2.5k chapters.

Score:1/5 as of chapter 273.
I will start by saying that the only reason this even gets 1 point is because of this concept. Although similar to Randidly they are nothing alike. Their only similarity is that they have an encompassing system and there are trees that are upgraded through points gained when you level a skill. The similarities end there. In New World the system offers comprehensive attributes , rewards , quests , guilds and "rights". The way attributes are handled in this novel is novel. Constitution can increase your density , material makeum , etc. Strength can optimize your muscles , making them denser , stronger , etc. In most novels attributes aren't handled like this but as stength = more damage. You don't get an explanation why anything happens. So this take on attributes is refreshing. The skill tree lines are quite different from Randidly. These are given according to your achievements. The more amazing your feats the better rewards you get. Quests are procedular and depended on a situation not some generic shit. Here guilds take the role of organizations that organizes players in the effort to combat the eldritch. Lastly "rights" are a decent way to disguise a job behind a privilege.

Now onto the problems of this novel and are they serious. First and foremost the author isn't putting much effort in this project. The same problems that plagued this story continue without much effort in solving them. One such problem is that a lot of things don't make sense. Like how is it possible for someone that is a dimension to still need oxygen or food ? How is it possible for someone that already has hundreds or thousands of points in endurance or constitution be sill shackled by mortals issues as common food and oxygen ? This author even using his own story's logic fails to make sense. Much of his logic is similar to Warhammer 40k. Although that collection of stories are amazing they lack sense (mortals fighting literal demigods and still winning). The difference is that New World wasn't written on time of Warhammer but now where we have a lot of other fantasy novels. A similar point to this is the mechanics of behind some aspects of the system like regeneration. It is like there is somewhere infinite energy and nutrients that allows all this regeneration froms chunks of bodies that is happening constantly. How is it possible to asphyxiate when you are generating matter out of nothing (not even energy). Author didn't even bother do some research as you expect from all his breaks. He just slapped some scientific and fantasy terms and thought it's enough. Disappointing to say the least. The characters are even worse. You have cartoonish representations of certain traits. You have the goofy , the knowledgeable , the seemingly leader guy who seems to be able to everything (but actually knows nothing but pretends he does know). Daniel also hasn't had any real character growth. Despite acquiring all those point in his intelligence , perception and with all those related perks he hasn't changed much compared to day one. He still acts with "I smash" mentality. The longer he evolved you would expect him to make better decisions , acquire some wisdom through all the shit he went through but no. Still the same person unchanged. The worse is when author is dumbing down other actual smart characters to make him look better. Not to mention he is delusional. He always talks how he doesn't want to be like Yahm but doesn't actually do anything to prevent it. He continues to walk the same path as him and he is even worse for doing it. At least Yahm was being corrupted by the cipher , he isn't being corrupted. He is doing that all willingly while finding excuses.
There probably are a lot of more problems but I don't have the mood to either scour my memories or the chapters for something that I am missing. To sum it up into a single sentence : " Nice concept , horrendous execution".

it's disgusting how the whole beginning of the story is an almost exact copy of the Randidly Ghostround... dropped~~

Good story, only downside for me is inconsistent updates. Every once in a while he’ll take a few months break

IMO you should read this in batches. Check up on it every couple months for binge reading.

This book is super fun, honestly if you're comparing it to randidly, randidly is a 3-4, while this is a strong 8-9 (relative to RDGH). The system is very similar if not the same, but everything else is different from the other worlds, to his progression and way of doing things, also his name is not randidly (i mean wtf author) and thats a 10/10 in my book lol
The main issue is the release dates/consistency of releases, maybe thats what the bad rating is for.

This novel is hype as hell, the MC makes actual rational decisions, and the power scaling is a better than RG, but the worldbuilding is a bit less as a tradeoff. Either way, every named character has an impact on the MC and the romance is rock solid and pretty cute. MC works inside and outside the system and his OP'ness is most definitely earned.
Solid read, 4/5

Above is one of the more hype quotes, especially with all the buildup that came before this

This is not it's literally the same thing. The power system is the same, the level of cringe is the same, his abilities are the same, his personality and past are the same... It's just plain old plagiarism. If he at least changed the character's powers and made him agility based or strength based or magic based then it would be bearable, but he literally gave him the EXACT SAME powers a Ghosthound, with the overpowered regeneration and everything.
Edit: I'm dropping this. I can't read a novel with this much f#cking edge. It would have been fine if I was a chuuni, but I'm not, and the way the mc thinks, the system relays messages, and the author describes things all scream "28 year old chuuni who thinks he has a dark power sealed in his left testicle." There's nothing wrong with that, but it's not for me.