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Return of the Wind Mage: A Time Regression LitRPG Adventure
The past isn't a gift, it's a battlefield.
What would you do if you had the chance to rewrite your greatest failures?After eight years of brutal war, victory is finally in sight.
The forces of North America stand united, one final enemy stronghold left to conquer.
Santiago Silva - Santi to those who know him - leads the charge, his magic commanding the winds.
But just as the end seems near, a desperate enemy ritual goes awry, flinging Santi back in time.
Now it's days before the System arrives.
A rare opportunity to change everything emerges.
This time, Santi has the power to rewrite history.He will save his loved ones.He will stop the enemy before they become unstoppable.And maybe, just maybe, he will uncover the real purpose of the System itself.He knows how the story ends -now it's time to rewrite it.
Except he's not the only one who remembers. Or the only one with a second chance.
Six Apostates -remorseless foes from the same future- have also returned.
With all they know of what’s to come, they will stop at nothing to twist the future to their will.
Now, Santi must race against time to out-think, outfight, and outlast them before they destroy everything he’s fighting to protect.
Return of the Wind Mage is a story of resilience, strategy, and second chances. A journey of slow-burn growth from weakness to power, where true strength is found not in stats alone, but in the bonds we forge, the choices we make, and the human spirit that refuses to break.
What would you do if you had the chance to rewrite your greatest failures?After eight years of brutal war, victory is finally in sight.
The forces of North America stand united, one final enemy stronghold left to conquer.
Santiago Silva - Santi to those who know him - leads the charge, his magic commanding the winds.
But just as the end seems near, a desperate enemy ritual goes awry, flinging Santi back in time.
Now it's days before the System arrives.
A rare opportunity to change everything emerges.
This time, Santi has the power to rewrite history.He will save his loved ones.He will stop the enemy before they become unstoppable.And maybe, just maybe, he will uncover the real purpose of the System itself.He knows how the story ends -now it's time to rewrite it.
Except he's not the only one who remembers. Or the only one with a second chance.
Six Apostates -remorseless foes from the same future- have also returned.
With all they know of what’s to come, they will stop at nothing to twist the future to their will.
Now, Santi must race against time to out-think, outfight, and outlast them before they destroy everything he’s fighting to protect.
Return of the Wind Mage is a story of resilience, strategy, and second chances. A journey of slow-burn growth from weakness to power, where true strength is found not in stats alone, but in the bonds we forge, the choices we make, and the human spirit that refuses to break.
- GenresFantasy
325 pages, Paperback
Published December 20, 2024
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January 20, 2025
It's a fairly standard LitRPG, but it's still worth the read. All in all, it's a pretty entertaining read, somewhat cliche, but enjoyable.
Recommended
Recommended
January 11, 2025
Good start to a promising series
This book is a good example of LitRPG. The stats are important and their use shows through the action rather than just being numbers without meaning. The system information is present without being overwhelming.
The action sequences are good and well-described, which is a saving grace as most characters seem fairly flat and two-dimensional. That said, we see enough to know the author can write interesting characters, but the main character starts out in a position where he simply lacks time (and motivation) to form those bonds. Thankfully, that seems to change as the book progresses, leaving me hopeful for more character development in future books.
Well-written and well-paced, this is an excellent start to a series.
This book is a good example of LitRPG. The stats are important and their use shows through the action rather than just being numbers without meaning. The system information is present without being overwhelming.
The action sequences are good and well-described, which is a saving grace as most characters seem fairly flat and two-dimensional. That said, we see enough to know the author can write interesting characters, but the main character starts out in a position where he simply lacks time (and motivation) to form those bonds. Thankfully, that seems to change as the book progresses, leaving me hopeful for more character development in future books.
Well-written and well-paced, this is an excellent start to a series.
July 14, 2025
Worth a read but not the best Main Character
The story is fun enough, whole LITRPG regressor and apocalypse by the system thing. With the add flavor of him not being the only one sent back unlike most of these regressor stories where only one person is sent back with future knowledge. Seeing how all that can change events making it so they cant take advantage of unique opportunities as much it is a good blend of not OP knowledge but still with more advantage than most.
Now for the negative. First the MC is a coward. He doesn't act like it sure but he is. He picks mage the first time because he was afraid to fight. That's normal and all that. Yet he has some sort of mental block to keep focused on mage this time too. Even though he has a stat advantage, due to titles, to make him a deadly hybrid melee mage combatant he sticks with mage. Seeming to want to ignore the physical and just do magical, making him less than he could be. He even skips over rarer classes that are hybrids to stick with pure mage. Since the title of the series is 'Return of the Wind Mage' I don't know if he'll ever get over this and seems a complete waste. Like he can't see that all the time he's fighting up front and he IS A FRONTLINER. not a backliner mage. Even way later in the series he is still like this, saying one thing and doing another. It just comes off as him being scared and mental block to commit to being a melee fighter with magic.
Now, for the second negative aspect for me. He is lazy. He talks a big game about how once he gets back it will be 24 hour training and fighting, leveling and growing. How he'll take every advantage he can and future opportunity. Yet...he doesn't. Besides the very first rift in the start of this book. He does nothing. No future knowledge events he goes to do to get rewards. No big titles, No 24 hour training. In fact he falls behind most people. This guy with future knowledge should be double everyone's level at least but he's usually behind in levels of average people. Instead of going out to fight solo and gain levels, he takes nap. He cooks. He hangs out with friends. He knows what's coming and he even swore he'd be leveling and fighting '24 hours a day' as he put it. Yet he barely ever fights and only when with his team.
For all his big talk about how this time it would be different. He doesn't really do anything big to change it. Everything that happens is really stuff that would have happened naturally by others leading. People surviving, people banding to make a community, some dying, some rising. Nothing special. Yes maybe in this one town a few hundred more survive because of him, but nothing that would change the world. No huge big changes that his future knowledge made possible. No big titles or feats, no super rare or legendary classes. No unique items that were found in the future that he gets to first. No secret realms that only he knows about or high level rifts that had great rewards that he got to first. Nothing
By book 3 there is literally nothing that puts him apart from everyone else and thanks to him always going pure mage and basic clasess, he didn't even use his future knowledge to get a better start.
Honestly at that point, it really makes one wonder why the author even made this a regressor story if not going to take advantage of it.It seems it's more a way to have the MC have goals instead of stumbling around in the dark and finding out things than any real advantage. Just a way to make the story easier to write.
The story is fun enough, whole LITRPG regressor and apocalypse by the system thing. With the add flavor of him not being the only one sent back unlike most of these regressor stories where only one person is sent back with future knowledge. Seeing how all that can change events making it so they cant take advantage of unique opportunities as much it is a good blend of not OP knowledge but still with more advantage than most.
Now for the negative. First the MC is a coward. He doesn't act like it sure but he is. He picks mage the first time because he was afraid to fight. That's normal and all that. Yet he has some sort of mental block to keep focused on mage this time too. Even though he has a stat advantage, due to titles, to make him a deadly hybrid melee mage combatant he sticks with mage. Seeming to want to ignore the physical and just do magical, making him less than he could be. He even skips over rarer classes that are hybrids to stick with pure mage. Since the title of the series is 'Return of the Wind Mage' I don't know if he'll ever get over this and seems a complete waste. Like he can't see that all the time he's fighting up front and he IS A FRONTLINER. not a backliner mage. Even way later in the series he is still like this, saying one thing and doing another. It just comes off as him being scared and mental block to commit to being a melee fighter with magic.
Now, for the second negative aspect for me. He is lazy. He talks a big game about how once he gets back it will be 24 hour training and fighting, leveling and growing. How he'll take every advantage he can and future opportunity. Yet...he doesn't. Besides the very first rift in the start of this book. He does nothing. No future knowledge events he goes to do to get rewards. No big titles, No 24 hour training. In fact he falls behind most people. This guy with future knowledge should be double everyone's level at least but he's usually behind in levels of average people. Instead of going out to fight solo and gain levels, he takes nap. He cooks. He hangs out with friends. He knows what's coming and he even swore he'd be leveling and fighting '24 hours a day' as he put it. Yet he barely ever fights and only when with his team.
For all his big talk about how this time it would be different. He doesn't really do anything big to change it. Everything that happens is really stuff that would have happened naturally by others leading. People surviving, people banding to make a community, some dying, some rising. Nothing special. Yes maybe in this one town a few hundred more survive because of him, but nothing that would change the world. No huge big changes that his future knowledge made possible. No big titles or feats, no super rare or legendary classes. No unique items that were found in the future that he gets to first. No secret realms that only he knows about or high level rifts that had great rewards that he got to first. Nothing
By book 3 there is literally nothing that puts him apart from everyone else and thanks to him always going pure mage and basic clasess, he didn't even use his future knowledge to get a better start.
Honestly at that point, it really makes one wonder why the author even made this a regressor story if not going to take advantage of it.It seems it's more a way to have the MC have goals instead of stumbling around in the dark and finding out things than any real advantage. Just a way to make the story easier to write.
August 5, 2025
As i already readother, better series in the genre, i found the book underwhelming
DNF at 60%
The plot is a mix of Terminator's plot and the Russian rift stories (Hunter's code., Dark healer etc) . Just weaker and more juvenile.
The enemy uses time travel to wipe out the saviours of mankind and the MC follows to prevent them from doing so..
Sadly, the protagonist uses his superior knowledge only at the start and the story focuses on the students survival, which is rather boring and trivial. Neither the protagonist nor his skills made the story more compelling. At 60% of the book i was so bored that I stopped reading..
DNF at 60%
The plot is a mix of Terminator's plot and the Russian rift stories (Hunter's code., Dark healer etc) . Just weaker and more juvenile.
The enemy uses time travel to wipe out the saviours of mankind and the MC follows to prevent them from doing so..
Sadly, the protagonist uses his superior knowledge only at the start and the story focuses on the students survival, which is rather boring and trivial. Neither the protagonist nor his skills made the story more compelling. At 60% of the book i was so bored that I stopped reading..
July 14, 2025
I thought it started out well but kind of spun its wheels towards the end. He just isn’t that likeable and the action starts to feel rather same-y.
October 5, 2025
Excellent!
This is a fast moving, action packed, time regression story. The next book in the series is in my library and I am going to start reading at 2 a.m.. Worth it!
This is a fast moving, action packed, time regression story. The next book in the series is in my library and I am going to start reading at 2 a.m.. Worth it!
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