Levin wakes up six weeks ago with a Level 1 mage class that can’t level up with all the social baggage that came with it…
Except there was something no one else knows.
His mana pool grows with every kill. Endlessly. With Every. Single. Kill.
Follow Levin Kai as he navigates a world of fantasy, mythical creatures, a broken down inn with only three tenants and twenty empty rooms, a tiny cozy town, and gets an apprentice without intending to while walking down the road.
Adventure and absurdity collide in a LitRPG comedy.
Levin navigates guild politics, trains recruits (with spectacularly unconventional methods), makes dragons quiver and beg for mercy, and turns ordinary errands into epic wins.
OP Mage MC • Infinite Mana Growth • Cozy Fantasy • LitRPG Comedy • Accidental Mentor
Another slopper story. Could be somewhat interesting if an actual author would write it instead of cheating through the process and compiled a sad stack of stolen words generated by billionaires intent on destroying humanity.
This book lived up to its blurb. It's exactly what it purported itself to be. It's very satisfying. There's a bit more of an internal monologue with the main character that I thought there would be, but the author has good pros and sense of style. The violence isn't extreme or bloody. There is really no sex. There's a a the bearest hint of a romantic subplot which I'd even hesitate to label that, but I read the whole thing in a day and I was entertained throughout. I didn't feel like it was a wasting my time and I'd happily read the sequel. I apologize for any spelling errors or confusion on writing this review with voice to text
This was such a fun read. Most descriptions are very long and some redundant. The rest are so sarcastic or deep wisdom that I was rolling laughing at them. It is for sure worth the read. Just skip any long description that doesn't tickle you. The rest will have you laughing.
I found this really frustrating, I was interested in the plot but I felt like it was about twice as long as it needed to be. It was such a slow read, there were so many repetitions of the MC doing daily activities- and every time we get a chunk of prose to tell us what he's doing. I must have read the following seq1uence every 15-20 pages: He pours tea, counts to two hundred and sips before brushing the floor with the broom which tries to pull left etc etc sometimes he thinks about clouds, sometimes about his mana pool while he's doing it. It was excessively dull to read these little moments by the end of the book, there were multiple similar 'sequences' that I'd recognise and skim to the end because it was the 10th/20th/30th time I'd come across it.
There's also a lot of phrases/actions that don't make sense- I know this seems nit-picky, but the writing is so repetitive that everything that would be an minor annoyance went from irritating to infuriating by the time I'd read it the 30th time.
Every time Levin makes tea he pours the tea and then leaves it to brew- that's not how you make tea! It's not tea until after the leaves have been added, you pour hot water onto the leaves and then let it brew, when you 'pour tea' you're pouring the finished tea, brew time doesn't matter after that.
the author is really flaky on the numbers used, they seem to change what they mean- we are told at the beginning of the book that his mana pool 500% is roughly five times what it had been on his first day and later that 600% is Six hundred times his original capacity. the first matches how percentages actually work (200% is double) and the second matches to how the power is actually described in the book, where his capacity is described as starting as a thimble and growing to a bucket/pond/lake (and 6 thimbles is clearly not the size of a lake). The MC is obsessed by the percent of his mana pool so we repeatedly hear the mismatched percent/size, I feel like if you're going to write so many paragraphs dedicated to percentages of a mana pool you should figure out what they mean and be consistent.
the three-quarters full moon looks like a coin that had been sat on I've never in my life had a coin that got bent from being sat on, does the author think coins are made from wet clay?
This books was very relaxing and amaxzing . It completely deviated from a usual leveling system . But . I love that in this story level don’t define a person and the main character call that into question . An a moly within a world where number and levels matter . Beautifully done
Since the MC is over powered, combat will be simple at best. So why the author decided to make him with no drive or personality is beyond me. At no point do you connect with the character. There is no story, just events that happen around someone.
Good concept for the magic, that's the best thing I can say. The clinically depressed MC was boring too, though the apprentice has some promise.
Overall, the author needs to learn that 'brevity is the soul of wit.'
Repetitive descriptions of routine action; don't need it and gets annoying. Drastic overuse of snark; snark is to be used sparingly. It tried too hard to be clever and 4th wall breaking, but the effort is apparent. I would guess based on style that the author is a 15 year-old who wants to show off their vocabulary. This needed a ruthless editing, but didn't get it.
Dropped it due to the annoyingly bad writing style. I personally don't like books where the writer keeps extremely short sentences, and where the interaction between characters is similar. There are few sentences that are longer than a dozen words. The conversations and descriptions for a lot of things feel very clipped, making it an annoying read for me. This is not a twitter message or something similar; write out what you're trying to say!
The story had an interesting premise. The CONCEPT of the characters were interesting. But the execution of the characters was very poor. Not a single character seemed to be more than a paper cut-out. They all felt like masks worn by the author. What i mean by that is that it was almost as if all characters behaved as if they were all members of a hive mind. They all generally shared the same sense of humor, same way of speaking, similar opinions, etc. One thing is said by the MC to one person, and everyone else acts as if it was said to them too. Some things that were not shared but just experienced by the MC . . . everyone else acts as if they were aware of it. At one point, the MC mentions that they had only been in this world for 6 weeks, and there is ZERO reaction to this information. And i mean literally ZERO. as if the MC had never said anything in the first place. Not a single question about that fact reveal.
It felt like the author was trying to imitate Terry Prachett in how he describes and phrases things. I have no issue with that intent, but the author took it to eleven, and not in an entertaining way.
At one point, a monster was being described, and just the description was so many paragraphs, full of so many similes, that i lost all interest in the events of the moment. I just wanted the description to end.
Everything was given a 'whimsical' and 'funny' description to the point that it lost all meaning, and when everything is described that way, nothing has anything special about it.
Towards the end of the book, i started just skipping paragraphs at a time when a new description began, and the few spot checks i made (going back to read what i skipped to make sure i hadn't lost anything) proved that i lost nothing meaningful in the paragraphs i had skipped.
This book was a challenge of maintaining any sense of immersion or suspension of disbelief.
There were numerous continuity errors, glaring world-building issues (at one point a fishing pole is described as having MonoFilimant line . . . which makes about as much sense as having a desktop computer in a fantasy setting). At another point, the MC and a companion travelled to an Educational Institute 3 days travel from their village. While there, they took a break for a day and went fishing. The location they fished at was described as being at/near the village, but then they spoke of seeing one of the professors 'tomorrow' . . . in a location THREE DAYS TRAVEL AWAY.
The author gives no thought to any level of consistency, continuity, or character individuality. Every aspect of the story felt like just props, scenes somewhat disjointed and done at the whim of the author.
It felt less like reading an immersive story showing a rich and interesting world, and more a person changing masks while telling a story, every character had the same voice, all settings were contrived.
I would not recommend this book to many.
I will probably check the first chapter of book 2, but if the same writing style is used there, i won't be reading any further.
fun read. be prepared to skip some pages here and there.
The author has some absolutely brilliant one liners in here. The overall book vibe is absurd comedy similar to Phules Company, or the stainless steel rat. The only real downside is that sometimes the author gets a little carried away with their cleverness, and will put 2 - 10 pages of detailed irrelevant description between interesting parts of the book. As long as you’re prepared to read for 20-40 pages of interesting, a half page, read 10 page, skip five, read 30, skip eight, then the book is fantastic. The chunks were the authors in peak form Make the rest of it worth it. That’s not to say it’s worth reading the less fantastic parts, but much like Atlas shrugged, you can kind of figure out where those parts are and skip over them without missing anything important.
If I had one piece of advice to the author, it’s get an editor who understands your writing style, and let them edit your work down by about 20%. That will make the whole book a much tighter, focused and more consistently funny experience. Don’t let them try and change your sense of humor. The lines about the bar being on the ground, or the dignity are being in the ditch before < redacted> arrived are brilliant and should be kept. the long descriptive chunks between the good parts break the flow a bit. You need a few of them for pacing, everything can’t be hysterically funny all the time, there has to be straight storytelling too, with opportunities for those readers brain to recover, and be surprised by the next bit of humor. Being funny all the time, versus selectively, is the difference between the class clown, and Johnny Carson. Overall, a good book, and I’m looking forward to the sequel.
This seems to have been written by somebody who thinks novels should be like high school creative writing projects.
For what possible reason would an intelligent, loquacious individual use but a single, simple word when a sentence - nay, a paragraph, will suffice far better?
Three paragraphs describing tea. A paragraph describing a bucket. A paragraph describing a broom. Many paragraphs describing the thought process that the protagonist assumes a merchant is having.
The only reason it didnt get one star is because it appears to be technically well-written. I don't know if that trend continues, since I only managed to get through two chapters.
I'm 95% certain that this is entirely AI-generated text; I haven't made it far enough in the book for it to be possible to find plotholes, but the prose is bad enough. It's nonsensical, written for the sake of being fancy. I have never heard a "cat in a theological debate," so it's not a very helpful description for what the "scream" of a stair step sounds like (which, as noted, happened no matter how gently it was touched.) It is neither physically possible, nor is it sensible. It is wasted space. And honestly, that probably describes about 30% of the text in the pages I read. It is exhausting to read.
I have seldom read a book as entertaining as this one. The best I can describe it is as a combination of The Hitchhiker’s Guide sense of humor and LitRPG with fewer stat notices. I really hate books with long detailed stat notifications. I’m not a gamer, never will be, and find most LitRPG fiction to be less than desirable. I was happily surprised at this book. One review described the humor it contained and I decided to take a chance. I am glad I did. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and even recommended it to my son who loves those sorts of games. To the author: Well Done! To the rest of you: Worth the read! I eagerly await the next one.
For me this book was a pleasant surprise holding many things I often miss in the litrpg genre like Quality writing. It was a cozy, slice-of life-story, containing humour and warmth - and it is vividly written. It kept me reading. Page after page.
If it turned out the author was a famous author under alias - I would not be surprised. Now I will move on to the authors other books in hope to see if them hold the same quality. I hope so!
I give this book 5 of 5 stars. Will be Reading it again and again, in front of the fireplace With a glass of wine.
So an interesting story, even more interesting prose. The ever powered MC is certainly not new. But this one has a lot of gaps in Information on the system itself, Which is on purpose. So it seems the point of the series is to understand the MC as the MC looks to understand the system. Said system,It seems, has evolved from what everybody else has. Yeah that. But he does have a sidekick fangirl. Levin,the MC, is very low key, but it gets the job done. Should be an interesting series. You Just got to get by the unusual prose.
Although not a bad book. If you took out all of the unnecessarily descriptors of every pencil, desk, wall, and leaf the book would have maybe a 10th of its size. it really reads like somebody fed too much information in the AI and let it just go with a very minimal plot line. I got so tired of hearing how every broom leans left. often being told this three times in one paragraph
Honestly this little gem popped up in my feed today, saw it and figured id give it a chance generally not a huge fan of the OP MC characters but I like levin. I think he is a guy who just wants to exist in life and enjoys where he is at. Yes he is over powered but isnt a murderhobo. He just exists in this universe I do hope book 2 picks up the tempo a bit more exploration, more loot. Maybe a new pair of boots for the guy.
I love a OP character and the MC lived up to the troupe. My issue is I don’t enjoy when authors make everyone around the MC 1) dependent and 2) nothing but sycophants. All the kowtowing is annoying, and the way he patronizes everyone around him is maddening. If the author could write a plot were a little more motivation shows and the side characters are removed (MC goes Solo) or written with their own competencies it wouldn’t be too bad.
Deserve five stars but the author lost track of his own timing
A dry sarcastic life story of a guy who lives for peace, tea, and a broom that pulls left. An apprentice that believes rosemary is the key to happiness, and a cat that could care less about what people do.
A lot and nothing happens, but it is a fantastic reminder of peace, and that even the universe will laugh at you if you give it a reason.
This book was a slow boil. Not to say it was boring, just a lot of character building. And your still keeping secrets. Now I have to KNOW! Will try to be patient for the next book, but HURRY. I see the buildup. It feels wordy at first but it comes together nicely. I guess the greatest compliment for an author would be a reader wanting more. I want MORE. Thank you for sharing.6
I know there are a lot of people who do not like OP characters because there is no struggle. If so, don't bother with this book. If you like slow, "slice of life" stories where the action parts are inconsequential and only there to show the MCs internal psychological struggle with what he is then this might interest you.
I read a lot of books, and I found this book to be one of the best stories I’ve read in quite awhile. The author’s use of humor, intellect and a great pacing made this start of a series thoroughly entertaining. I’m truly looking forward to reading more from these characters.
I have a friend with your facility with words. He endlessly entertaining also. I shared a paragraph from your book because I could never properly describe such a word-Smith. Thank you for hours of enjoyment and some profound insights snuggled in amongst the verbal meandering. You kept a smile on my face.
I put on an old shirt, the shirt agreed it was old. Pages of this type of prose. If this is the style you like, this book is for you. I have to speed read these and try to find the story hidden in the poetic prose. I assume it is half generated by artificial intelligence.
And in a good way if you like the books of terry pratchett then you will love this one, a mage level one but will not let the level define him, lives in an inn and on his journey he will meet goblins with a boot fetish a troll with bridge problems plus the system seems to be not working no matter how many monsters die or floors get swept by the left turning only broom.
A great alternative to Terry Pratchett. I can't rate this tale enough. I found myself laughing out loud throughout this magnificent story. In a world that seems ever serious, we all need to be reminded, there is joy to be found in reading a great book. Looking forward to the next installment.
The story has a great concept, but reads like AI fluff. Details change and information overly repeats. Metaphors are overly used inconsistently with the storyline. Great idea in plot, but needs lots of work.
I found this to be fairly unique within it's genre. No idea where it's going and I'm enjoying the ride. Or the meandering walk. Low stress and written well, and sometimes pretty funny.
It wasn't bad, but it didn't keep me engaged through to the end. I guess I've just been reading too many Litrpg books lately, but they're all starting to blend into one large pile of literary mush.