Original COMPLETED LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai Slice of Life Adventure Fantasy High Fantasy Magic
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A social worker father and his adult daughter crash land on a desert full of crystal plants and little else. The city walls of Ar'Kendrithyst rise in the distance, but as the pair hike closer they see those walls are more like mountains, and the mega-metropolis is long dead.
Luckily, the adventuring city of Spur is alive and green and hospitable, and well outside of Ar’Kendrithyst’s shadow.
Follow Erick Flatt as he tries to make a nice life with new friends in a new home with his daughter at his side, but this land is rarely as kind as its people, and Erick will need to change if he wants to live the life he wishes to live.
What to expect:
Slow burn storyline, worldbuilding, father-daughter relationship, Erick is the MC, Jane is the side character, slice of life, numbers in blue boxes but also high fantasy, trying to understand magic, creating new magic, living the easy life but forced into dealing with problems, problems becoming very large, massive changes, traumatizing content, and most of all: character growth.
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The story had some good potential but I can't stand an idiot MC. He's relying on magic to make a living and to survive in this world yet has a dislike and no interest in learning magic because it's too ordered. He loses his phone, dismissing it as 'dead weight' since it was broken. If this MC was in another story where he was stranded on an island he would throw a paperback survival book away because he only likes hardback books. If you can overlook this issue please give it a read.
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So this story got mentioned in the Afterword of "Frameshift". I came over to check it out since such shout outs are how I tend to find new stories. Now it is a few days later and I can remember I have other hobbies.
I found the story well written and engrossing but staying up for 'just one more chapter'* made my sleep cycle go a bit wonky.
*=its never just one more
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I feel compelled to write this review since quite a few of the prior ones don’t do it justice.
I am currently up to date in chapters (42), and I can say that it is an excellent book, definitely worth reading.
A few havesaid that the main character is flawed, which is true, and while the progression is SLOW, it is there. EVENTUALLY things pick up. At some points in the story I just wanted to go in and smack the mc around for being stupid, but it is picking up.
Still, the overall style, original plot, system Design, and world building, give it a 5.
Just a warning, if you are not patient, the mc will frustrate you.
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Ar'Kendrithyst is a story that, despite the odd first impressions, is one of the most interesting stories on RR, and one of the best isekai i've ever read - instead of everything being a pure power fantasy that is only about the main character getting stronger (though he certainly does), its real strength is just the sheer amount of time and thought it spends on the consequences that magic, the system (known as the Script), and monsters have had on society and the world.
A lot of thought is put into how just having obscene killing power doesn't really let you solve a lot of problems unless the only solution you have to a problem is to kill everyone involved. Erik becomes very, very powerful, but if he actually wants to improve the world he has to actually put serious thought into how to apply this power if he doesn't want to cause unintended consequences or to just make things worse, and this is the real fascination of this novel.
Highly recommended.
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I have literally never read any other book/series that make me just want to read more and more and more.. the story simply draws me ind like no other i have ever read and i love to read! its incredible hard to put down between episodes (i am not up to date yet) its always just one more "small" episode :D
Cant wait to get back to more reading!
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Greatest story on royal road (at least that I've found) i love Erick and his family. I love how the author handled gods and power creep. One of the most fantastic fae rules of modern storytelling, most authors make fae into silly elves. Weirdly one of he only stories that actually understand how a multiverse should work even though this is a fantasy book, I've seen sci fi ignore how a different universe would have different physics so this addressing that at all is kinda amazing even if it's not because of "physics" here. I just want to thank the author for making a story that i enjoyed this much. This story will stick with me for probably the rest of my life.
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Didn't think I'd enjoy it as much as I did. Random title didn't help. However it's been on of my most pleasurable non-hyperacticr reads for a long time.
I can relate a fair bit to father, although his blandness and acceptance was maybe a touch too much for me
Did have to increase the font size due to prolonged eye strain!
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1300 pages in, and on the edge of my seat. Great slow moments, great fast moments. Feeling very invested in the characters. Love the in-depth exploration of magic! The politics and progression outside of what we’re being shown is great, feels like the world is actually alive. Some good dry humor throughout. Sometimes the power leveling can be a bit much for me, but that’s a personal preference, but there’s always a build up when taking advantage of it, which I appreciate!
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I've read a significant amount of works on royalroad and similar websites. This slice-of-life story is just great. The character development is outstanding. It honestly surprises me when I read the individual character dialogues, and how they are kept so unique. Praise to the author, please never stop writing.
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Deciding to read Ar'Kendrithyst was a life-altering choice.
My life for the past month or two has been Sleep, Work, Ar'Kendrithyst.
Where's eat? I ate while I read. Hell I read while I worked too when work was slow enough.
Prior to reading this, I would've responded to "What's your favourite book?" with "Magician by Raymond E. Feist" with zero hesitation. This has been the case since I was in high school (over a decade).
Now there'll be some hesitation, and should Ar'Kendrithyst be published somewhere as a single novel, it'll be the fav hands down (otherwise I'd need to see where the books start and end to decide).
It is a slow start, and it doesn't pander to me specifically in a lot of different ways that would normally prevent me gushing about a thing.
However, much like The West Wing, and The Newsroom, the quality was enough to bridge that gap.
It was a satisfying read, and has a satisfying ending, and yet every piece has me wanting more of it.
Authors skipping chunks of time for brevity is great right, keeps the pacing good and doesn't bog down the reader right? I want to read books worth of content set during those times.
It's so good, go read it now!
Edit: Holy crap, I just crunched the numbers. It took me ~40 days to read it all. That's 110,759 words a *day*. Magician, the entire novel that was split into two for US audiences to be more palatable, by comparison... ~150,000 words!
