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Runeblade byBacon Macleod

Runeblade
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Kaius just wanted to unlock his class - instead, he restarted the apocalypse.

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Kaius just wanted to unlock his class - instead, he restarted the apocalypse.

After years of training, Kaius has barely acquired the first two of his family's legacy skills. Powerful and vanishingly rare, the method of creating them is a secret people would kill for.

Now they might be the only thing that keeps him alive.

Narrowly surviving a bandit ambush, he gets trapped in the Great Depths- a world spanning dungeon. To escape, he will have to slay one of the Guardians that defend the exits; a feat no one without a class has survived. Ever.

If that wasn’t bad enough, if he succeeds he will reignite a forgotten trial that nearly ended civilization.

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Posting Schedule: 5x/week M-F, 9:30 am NZT (2:30 pm PST)

Launch Schedule: 10ch dump on launch, then bonus chapters for launch and rs

-Runic-Tattoo Wizard/Spellblade in a world of sorcerers

-Exceptional MC, with some initial Slow Burn elements

-Large scope, inspired by epics such as Azarinth Healer, BTDEM, PH, and more.

-Third Person POV, with a 99% MC focus

-Numbers go brrrr

-Attack Badger (Friendly?)

-Battle maniac MC who is not a murderhobo

-No harem, romance, or VR

Hi everyone! After being a RR reader for many, many years, I have decided to throw my hat in the ring. This isn’t the first litRPG i’ve ever written, but it is the first I’ve decided to post. I hope you enjoy and leave plenty of comments and feedback :)

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    APigCalledMorris
    + 1 ⋅ 3 -
    I think the main thing that needs to be stressed is that the rating is a 4.1 - 4.2, not a 3.8, the novel has good English, well written action scenes and fun-ish character interactions. It's not Game of Thrones, but it's a good novel for it's genre, Action Litrpg.
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    Hansbk
    + 6 ⋅ 1 -
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.... I NEED MOARRRRR forwhat forwhat
    Just as the widespread chaos begins reality sets in. escape
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    Hansbk
    + 7 ⋅ 1 -
    Through the home page i hope to find a masterpiece to sink my imagination into... Yet when i find one, it kills me to see the tiny amount of chapter the story has progressed.

    Panic should make page numbers for the home page so I can go back to the hundreds before this that I might've missed.
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      ABADDA016
      + 1 ⋅ 1 -
      Please do us the honor of sharing some of the artifacts you came across on your long search for a hidden gem.
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    Chanchodtierra
    + 6 ⋅ 0 -
    By the book is frankly most i can say about this work, not a bad thing per se, i believe that there is plenty of people who would enjoy that and maybe i couple of years ago i would be one of those people. Sadly there is only so much formulaic writting i can take right now.
    Chose where you stand in the balancing scale
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    xExekut3x
    + 2 ⋅ 1 -
    Extremely slow pace. A bit much for me. I couldn't get more than a dozen or so chapters in.
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    Scofflaw
    + 3 ⋅ 0 -
    This novel reminds me of "the primal hunter" by Zogarth. The writing style is similar as well as the classes, racial bonuses and other LITRPG stuff.

    I'm only 170 chapters in, but the book has both strengths and weaknesses. One of its strengths, it is a well told story by an english speaker. Making it much more readable. Another, it is quite descriptive in its action sequences. The MC and other main characters are well thought out. Interactions between characters are good.

    As for weaknesses, right now it is a dungeon slog followed by very brief story drivers then more action sequences. The MC is reckless. The world building is poor and doesn't even begin until after the first dungeon and the readers know absolutely nothing about the world for a very minimum of 170 chapters. There should have been some way for the author to do more than mention "elven kingdoms, dwarven kingdoms, outskirt settlements" and the like. We just have no idea of how the world is organized, governed, or how it is made up.
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    Beetle Jones
    + 2 ⋅ 3 -
    The story just feels lacking. Lacking in world building, lacking in tension and even lacking in sense.
    I mean if he defeats opponents 20+ levels higher than him while still not having a class. That just stretches my sense of suspension a bit too far
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      Floodlight
      + 4 ⋅ 0 -
      I don't know, always felt like the MC is walking the edge, barely managing to not tilt over and loose his life, also, as revealed in the later chapters, it seems he will have to face opponents like a 100 levels above him, soooo
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    Renyao
    + 8 ⋅ 2 -
    @ch 131
    I'll be brief:
    Liked the setup and the initial cultivation.
    The beginning tricked me for a bit there, but when the animal companion joined, in true RoyalRoad novel fashion, the dialogue killed off any immersion I had. The further on it went - the worse it gets. Often straight up moronic lines with the manner of speech transplanted from the current year - a pattern so common it's uncanny when it comes to Anglo-RoyalRoad authors.
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    Plat Dragon
    + 4 ⋅ 8 -
    It's worth it. Believe me. The best litrpg I have read in a long while, and shit was that wayy too long of a rut. The first volume is finished, so you can just read the first one and let it be for months to pile up because you do not want to suffer waiting for each chapter. Used to that though.

    I've always loved litrpg that focuses on optimizing the skill and class choices and shit so this is fun as hell. MC is a pretty smart dude though that doesn't mean he's like one of those calculating types (he prob can be) and has a plan for his skills and class and to a certain extent, his future which is a nice change to the clueless-f#ck-around-and-find-out litrpg MCs we usually have (that is not a regressor).

    Since the first volume was just a tutorial basically, I can't say anything about what the story is like but the fights are well written to the point that I can't skim past it, which I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.

    I would read it on RR but man does the site UI sucks there. Put it on SH too maybe and I would consider.
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    turbo
    + 6 ⋅ 4 -
    I couldn't get through first five chaps. I've read royal road novels before but this one had me searching for unfamiliar words every couple of paragraphs, breaking my flow.
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