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Horizon of War Series by Hanne

The thousand-year-old Imperium is crumbling, and war looms on the horizon, bringing with it both... Read more
The thousand-year-old Imperium is crumbling, and war looms on the horizon, bringing with it both brutalities and splendor.

Caught in the midst of this chaos is Lansius, an office grunt and veteran MMO player who has been transformed into a medieval peasant.

With no wealth, status, or magical abilities, and armed only with his basic knowledge of the art of war, can he endure and thrive in this realistic medieval fantasy realm?

Follow Lansius as he moves from one occupation to another, striving to survive during these turbulent times.

What to expect:

- Introverted Male Lead; the world has magic, but the MC has No Magic or superpower

- 3rd POV

- Army building, Strategy, Dynasty building, Slice of life Collapse
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    At chapter 67 currently.
    Personally, one of the best Isekai novels I’ve ever red.
    Story: quite unique Isekai story, no magic mc, kingdom building but without ridiculous OVER 9000 moments; the flow of the story is balanced it doesn’t make you feel like event being crumped in 3 years of story; no absurd plot convinces for mc; clever implementation of mc skill set.
    Characters: they are decent; mc dynamic of character progression is reasonable and consistent. Stefi isn’t just f#ckmeat for mc, she looks like a distinct character. Other second plane characters- let’s say I see that author have done set ups for their development and I hope they will get progression as the story goes on.
    World building: well, it’s decent as well. There is a world map, cultures and carefully implemented magic system.
    Writing: though writing is generally good, there are issues with it. Some side character backgrounds may be considered to rushed and abundant which makes it an info dump, does it harm story flow? Kinda, you can skip some of them without loosing plot points, but it just means they are unnecessary for the story. So, overall it is good, but needs a bit more work to it.
    If you wanna read kingdom building but without overpowered mc, this is your choice.

    P.S. I would say it’s a far better version of ranobe about genius prince or whatever it’s name was, that story was plagued with plot convinces, thus making world look like a giant farce.
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      Well, you can forget about what I wrote there. It’s nothing but astonishing how this LN managed to become opposite to my expectations.

      Author cramped in one year several arcs. It would be alright if he decided that while MC dealing with refugees invasion behind the scenes, he would shift all narrative to other regions. How cool it would be to see perspective from mc’s brother who is on the another part of the continent. We can see his straggles and points of view on events. But no, let’s again concentrate all attention on the MC and make LN as stale and plain as possible.

      2/5 good start but really disappointing later on.
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        It's better this way. We can see things from mc's perspective. And any potentially bad decision will only be known later.
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    It's a good. The battle are also great. It's one of the few war novel where there is good use of strategy and the importance of logistics is mentioned.
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    Man, this novel is as boring as it gets...
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    It's a great kingdom building novel. As for magic? It's in there but it's not prevalent, maybe because they're not in the center of the empire the mages in his territory are only 3. But the mages he met are still only at 5.


    I thought panic will not have a chance to upload it in here since it's already stubbed in royalroad.
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      I love the fact that it keeps the basic facts..... Rare things remain rare through the whole novel.... And it has a natural development
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    If the medieval world in itself is scary, imagine one with magic?
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    I have read this and it's an amazing novel. Starts with the MC living a normal life trying to survive then evolves into him becoming a super intelligent ruler.
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    Everyone, what does it mean that the novel name includes series, does it mean like it will contain multiple different books of it or what, or is it just the name of the mmorpg.
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    A novel like this + MC having an ability to rewind time or only be used in battle.
    I dont want magical war, I want army wars + tactical wars, do you have any suggestions?

    MC should not be a mage. Or he must have bad magic skills. It would be nice if he started with a baron and progressed.
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      Hmmm I know of a novel that probably fits some of the criteria you look for, not sure if it fits all but I think you would probably like it, it recently had a manhwa. I believe it was called the knight who eternally regresses…
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    no magic or superpower in a world full of magic ? kinda shit peepo025
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    Die and go to a world with magic and you can't use magic, I'd rather stay dead
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