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My Necromancer Class: Part 7 - Infestation
This part collects chapters 193 to 227 of My Necromancer Class
The mage hunters, the heavily armored elites of the Astratan royals are tasked to deal with the, let's say, undesirable types.
Every so often, a variant arises; One who gains a magic class so powerful it could threaten the very foundations of the kingdom.
Other than killing, there was only one way to stop a through suppression. And so, a legendary hexamist constructed a network of magic conduits.
When someone touches these conduits, they receive their magical class - however, these same conduits also suppress any 'unwanted' powers from arising.
Yet there were always some who slipped through the cracks.
“Status,” Thought Jay, checking his class.
[Necromancer - Level 1]
Through plotting, secrecy, and sometimes by merciless carnage, he can only attempt to survive in this hostile world. Join Jay as he struggles against all odds and misfortune, against a world that wants him dead, as he secretly rises and bends this world to his will.
The mage hunters, the heavily armored elites of the Astratan royals are tasked to deal with the, let's say, undesirable types.
Every so often, a variant arises; One who gains a magic class so powerful it could threaten the very foundations of the kingdom.
Other than killing, there was only one way to stop a through suppression. And so, a legendary hexamist constructed a network of magic conduits.
When someone touches these conduits, they receive their magical class - however, these same conduits also suppress any 'unwanted' powers from arising.
Yet there were always some who slipped through the cracks.
“Status,” Thought Jay, checking his class.
[Necromancer - Level 1]
Through plotting, secrecy, and sometimes by merciless carnage, he can only attempt to survive in this hostile world. Join Jay as he struggles against all odds and misfortune, against a world that wants him dead, as he secretly rises and bends this world to his will.
271 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 6, 2023
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April 27, 2024
Nose dive after 5%; dropping the series
I got a 20th into the book and I can barely stand it. There are so many slim chance contrivances only to recreate the same story that we've all seen over and over again and with infuriating characters causing it to boot. Doing so in a chopped up long form format where it takes several novels for anything to happen.
I'm barely holding on. I'm going to skim the rest of the book and if that can't convince me then I'll probably drop the series and the author (he seems to use unusual marketing practices, which barely effect me as a KU reader. Though it does effect story pacing which has been grinding on me a little).
Update: I skimmed. I'm dropping. I just don't like where the story is going and find myself incapable of reading past the debacle. From what I can tell, what this author has in mind is most likely unenjoyable to me. With a decent chance of the story grinding from one tension source to another but in an unatural and contrived way like a lot of thrillers do. The slowburn narrating of every cough format that the author uses requires me to actually enjoy where the MC and or the world is at. Otherwise it's a stalling tactic. "Things will be better once 'X' get's done" you can't really argue that it's just covering a dark world because of how contrived the circumstances were.
Also, it looks like there are higher powers of the sort I'm not interested in: "Mercy comes at a price. Forgiveness has a price." If it has a price remotely in the way that it implies then it's not truly mercy or forgiveness.
The deeper I dig the more reasons I find to never read this author again. He must not be for me.
FYI- until that point I was intrigued where everything was going and looking forward to the possibilties. It dragged a bit but I was willing to forgive it if I enjoyed it enough. I don't enjoy the universe bending over backwards to make the MC suffer for no good reason.
***spoilers*** (rant)
The odds that you had a mage that came to those specific conclusions while that specifc opportinity arose. All while ignoring the most likely outcomes being nothing like what he wants... I don't have the words other than irritating. He could have easily approached it a million diffirent ways. A good chunk of them wouldn't work or would have otherwise left the MC safe for long enough. His listening device was a bit of a stretch too along woth no mention to not go through Losla.
Likewise, mister spoiled brat who's oddly dedicated now seeing Anya running and coming to the specific conclusions he did RIGHT when the bell rang. That was the last straw. He probably doesn't even get what he deserves. Just yelled at then get's secondary MC halo benefits. That's how low my faith is in this author right now. He's going to somehow succeed despite everything just to have a confrontation with the MC. Not to mention the somewhat rediculous and specific security procedure that leaves no wiggle room for bringing someone extra. Not to mention the spoiled brat was unaffected by all the traps. The anti-teleport device was a personal device not an area affect device.
But ultimately it was just a stupid and infuriating outcome that killed the series for me. The rest of the book (what I skimmed) killed the author for me. That and his obvious stall tactics. He isn't writing a story he's writing a paycheck. I'm willing to put up with a lot for a happy MC and a happy ending. The further you get from that the more solid the rest of the story needs to be. It's impressive when I still like a story despite lacking those but it's hard to do.
I got a 20th into the book and I can barely stand it. There are so many slim chance contrivances only to recreate the same story that we've all seen over and over again and with infuriating characters causing it to boot. Doing so in a chopped up long form format where it takes several novels for anything to happen.
I'm barely holding on. I'm going to skim the rest of the book and if that can't convince me then I'll probably drop the series and the author (he seems to use unusual marketing practices, which barely effect me as a KU reader. Though it does effect story pacing which has been grinding on me a little).
Update: I skimmed. I'm dropping. I just don't like where the story is going and find myself incapable of reading past the debacle. From what I can tell, what this author has in mind is most likely unenjoyable to me. With a decent chance of the story grinding from one tension source to another but in an unatural and contrived way like a lot of thrillers do. The slowburn narrating of every cough format that the author uses requires me to actually enjoy where the MC and or the world is at. Otherwise it's a stalling tactic. "Things will be better once 'X' get's done" you can't really argue that it's just covering a dark world because of how contrived the circumstances were.
Also, it looks like there are higher powers of the sort I'm not interested in: "Mercy comes at a price. Forgiveness has a price." If it has a price remotely in the way that it implies then it's not truly mercy or forgiveness.
The deeper I dig the more reasons I find to never read this author again. He must not be for me.
FYI- until that point I was intrigued where everything was going and looking forward to the possibilties. It dragged a bit but I was willing to forgive it if I enjoyed it enough. I don't enjoy the universe bending over backwards to make the MC suffer for no good reason.
***spoilers*** (rant)
The odds that you had a mage that came to those specific conclusions while that specifc opportinity arose. All while ignoring the most likely outcomes being nothing like what he wants... I don't have the words other than irritating. He could have easily approached it a million diffirent ways. A good chunk of them wouldn't work or would have otherwise left the MC safe for long enough. His listening device was a bit of a stretch too along woth no mention to not go through Losla.
Likewise, mister spoiled brat who's oddly dedicated now seeing Anya running and coming to the specific conclusions he did RIGHT when the bell rang. That was the last straw. He probably doesn't even get what he deserves. Just yelled at then get's secondary MC halo benefits. That's how low my faith is in this author right now. He's going to somehow succeed despite everything just to have a confrontation with the MC. Not to mention the somewhat rediculous and specific security procedure that leaves no wiggle room for bringing someone extra. Not to mention the spoiled brat was unaffected by all the traps. The anti-teleport device was a personal device not an area affect device.
But ultimately it was just a stupid and infuriating outcome that killed the series for me. The rest of the book (what I skimmed) killed the author for me. That and his obvious stall tactics. He isn't writing a story he's writing a paycheck. I'm willing to put up with a lot for a happy MC and a happy ending. The further you get from that the more solid the rest of the story needs to be. It's impressive when I still like a story despite lacking those but it's hard to do.
April 10, 2024
I am going to sound mean and I apologize for that. The readers need to know what they are in store for books 7-9.
Extremely lazy writing. The author needs to go back to school to learn how to set up a story arch/ending as well as character development.
As Jay travels through the forest and comes upon a dungeon, you the reader are about to suffer endless troubles in reading it.
There are obvious spelling and grammatical mistakes that could have easily been fixed during editing. The author also tends to not pay attention to what they are writing in the sense that at some point during this dungeon run, there is a creature called an OVA... for about four pages, the author forgot and called it an ORA. There was also a moment when the three lettered named hero Jay was called Jy by the author (INEXUSABLE... how do you forget to write the name of your own character?).
The worst part of the next few books is that it just ends. As an example, in one of the books coming up, the book basically mentions, As Red helps Jay out of the skull; and that is it. How do you leave a book ended with him reaching to get out of a skull? When you get to this part, you will realize just how much more agonizing this is in the context of the story.
Anyway,
Jay keeps bouncing back and forth in his mindset that maybe he is an evil character as he wants to cause harm and revenge in his own thoughts before realizing that is stupid for the long run. Here we see that Jay is growing only to see him go through the same situation repeatedly (No true character development mentally).
Jay gets stronger but the author draws out long battles that eventually for me became boring and repetitive, so I actually skimmed most of the fights and realized that if you follow the experience notifications to the end, it is the fastest way to get through the fights.
Jay gets darker and darker in his idea that as he justifies kidnapping, lying, and allowing his skeletons to become more vicious and blood thirsty.
It is interesting to see where Jay is going, the only problem is that he really hasn't gotten very far at all.
Extremely lazy writing. The author needs to go back to school to learn how to set up a story arch/ending as well as character development.
As Jay travels through the forest and comes upon a dungeon, you the reader are about to suffer endless troubles in reading it.
There are obvious spelling and grammatical mistakes that could have easily been fixed during editing. The author also tends to not pay attention to what they are writing in the sense that at some point during this dungeon run, there is a creature called an OVA... for about four pages, the author forgot and called it an ORA. There was also a moment when the three lettered named hero Jay was called Jy by the author (INEXUSABLE... how do you forget to write the name of your own character?).
The worst part of the next few books is that it just ends. As an example, in one of the books coming up, the book basically mentions, As Red helps Jay out of the skull; and that is it. How do you leave a book ended with him reaching to get out of a skull? When you get to this part, you will realize just how much more agonizing this is in the context of the story.
Anyway,
Jay keeps bouncing back and forth in his mindset that maybe he is an evil character as he wants to cause harm and revenge in his own thoughts before realizing that is stupid for the long run. Here we see that Jay is growing only to see him go through the same situation repeatedly (No true character development mentally).
Jay gets stronger but the author draws out long battles that eventually for me became boring and repetitive, so I actually skimmed most of the fights and realized that if you follow the experience notifications to the end, it is the fastest way to get through the fights.
Jay gets darker and darker in his idea that as he justifies kidnapping, lying, and allowing his skeletons to become more vicious and blood thirsty.
It is interesting to see where Jay is going, the only problem is that he really hasn't gotten very far at all.
February 14, 2023
An improvement.
Getting the MC from the guild setting has improved the story quite a bit. The interactions were very forced and only worked with the MC being portrayed as an idiot. Now there is room for growth. A start in the right direction.
Getting the MC from the guild setting has improved the story quite a bit. The interactions were very forced and only worked with the MC being portrayed as an idiot. Now there is room for growth. A start in the right direction.
February 22, 2023
Good series
The story is actually good. There are a lot of points in the story where MC could have made better choices. The progression of the abilities is really interesting to watch evolve.
The story is actually good. There are a lot of points in the story where MC could have made better choices. The progression of the abilities is really interesting to watch evolve.
February 8, 2025
That "Waking Up" thing you have going something I never considered. Very Cool.
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