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2050, AI has taken over the vast majority of jobs in the world. However, one new job appeared that was humans-only; gold farming in VRMMOs (Virtual Reality MMO). Ken worked as a gold farmer in the popular fantasy VRMMO Avantheim Online. However one day, while gold farming in AO, he was suddenly teleported into another VR world, where he soon realizes that he and his NPC allies are far stronger than anyone else in this new world.
2nd Edition, first published November 15th, 2016.
2nd Edition, first published November 15th, 2016.
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Published June 11, 2018
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May 27, 2017
This book is bad. It's an adolescent power fantasy where the author is obviously the main character, see "Marty Stu".
The premise is that the main character is playing a different game, and then gets sucked into a new World. This immediately creates a huge amount of problems.
He keeps all of the stuff and characters from his previous game, so we never see him level up or gain any skills. He just starts off as the strongest character in the game.
Ideally, we want the hero to get powerful, but we also want to feel as if the hero has done something to deserve to get powerful. A hero who already has everything is a story already completed.
Because he's already completed some other game we never see as readers, we keep running into things and people that the character already knows, but haven't been introduced in the story. This leads to large exposition and explanation dumps to explain these scenes and characters, which grinds the pacing down to nothing.
His story doesn't hold internal logic either. For example, the main character worries that he's going to run into higher level players:
"The worst case scenario would be that these other players were not only as strong as he was, if not stronger, but also malicious PKers."
So he's supposed to be scared that other people from the other game might come in and kill him. Okay. But then he states that he's at the level cap for the game.
"The first was that while level 120 was the level cap in AO, and players didn't gain any experience beyond that,"
Well, which is it? Is he supposed to be scared of running into stronger players or is he at the level cap?
The side characters are so useless that they often don't even do anything in the story. In one instance, the main character kills one of his PCs. Here's the scene, where Zhuge Liang, the most intelligent man in existence, explains why his boss did this:
“Of course I cannot hope to match your peerless wisdom, lord Zettou, but if you will allow your loyal servant to venture a guess...” “Go ahead, Zhuge Liang. You have my permission.” “Thank you, my lord.” Actually, there were two other objectives Ken had in mind when he killed the Shikamaru."
Zhuge never actually says anything. That's because the author is more concerned with stroking himself than telling a story. Everyone is just there to act as fluffers to the main character.
Outside from the weak side characters, we have no character motivations. His motivation is that he has a "sister who is sick", and he's farming gold to pay for her medical condition. But he seems to have mountains of gold. How much does he need to pay for his sister's medical bills? We have no idea how much it costs to save her, how far off he is, how long his sister has to live, or basically any information other than he's a heroic hero who is saving his sister.
Likewise, we have a main villain, if you can call him that, of an ogre named "Grimgar". He is 28 years old. Here's how we're introduced to him.
"In addition to the quality of the tribes' warriors, they also worked on the quantity. Right when Grimgar took over as the tribe leader, he encouraged the ogres to mate and reproduce as much as possible. Thus, the tribe which never numbered over 200 suddenly had their numbers almost tripled, and now they were around 500 in strength. Furthermore, most of these younger ogres are now just reaching 20; the age where they are the strongest, physically."
Uh.... Wat? He took over the tribe at the age of 8, so he made them breed 2.5 times their number in 20 years... and now they have an average age of 20? This math makes no sense. That's because these are things called "plot details", and he has no time to give us plot details because he could spend time having people tell the main character how awesome he is.
Every female falls in love with him and spends their time fighting about which one is going to get to marry him, all the men spend their time telling him how wise/brave/masterful he is, etc. It's literary masturbation.
To top it off, the writing is awful. Basic sentence structure, prose, etc. is mangled and garbled. An example sentence:
"Even though VR games with such realism were extremely complex and took a huge amount of computing power to run, hardware improvements have been more than sufficient in keeping up, thus loading times were normally very short, and very smooth."
Finally, there's the final ermm... "fight". He has one of his servants flick the main ogre's head and explode it. Yep, that's our conclusion. The team is in such little trouble that they can kill the most powerful bad guy in the game by flicking their fingers.
It's bad in every which way something can be bad. It's a one-man autoerotic novel.
The premise is that the main character is playing a different game, and then gets sucked into a new World. This immediately creates a huge amount of problems.
He keeps all of the stuff and characters from his previous game, so we never see him level up or gain any skills. He just starts off as the strongest character in the game.
Ideally, we want the hero to get powerful, but we also want to feel as if the hero has done something to deserve to get powerful. A hero who already has everything is a story already completed.
Because he's already completed some other game we never see as readers, we keep running into things and people that the character already knows, but haven't been introduced in the story. This leads to large exposition and explanation dumps to explain these scenes and characters, which grinds the pacing down to nothing.
His story doesn't hold internal logic either. For example, the main character worries that he's going to run into higher level players:
"The worst case scenario would be that these other players were not only as strong as he was, if not stronger, but also malicious PKers."
So he's supposed to be scared that other people from the other game might come in and kill him. Okay. But then he states that he's at the level cap for the game.
"The first was that while level 120 was the level cap in AO, and players didn't gain any experience beyond that,"
Well, which is it? Is he supposed to be scared of running into stronger players or is he at the level cap?
The side characters are so useless that they often don't even do anything in the story. In one instance, the main character kills one of his PCs. Here's the scene, where Zhuge Liang, the most intelligent man in existence, explains why his boss did this:
“Of course I cannot hope to match your peerless wisdom, lord Zettou, but if you will allow your loyal servant to venture a guess...” “Go ahead, Zhuge Liang. You have my permission.” “Thank you, my lord.” Actually, there were two other objectives Ken had in mind when he killed the Shikamaru."
Zhuge never actually says anything. That's because the author is more concerned with stroking himself than telling a story. Everyone is just there to act as fluffers to the main character.
Outside from the weak side characters, we have no character motivations. His motivation is that he has a "sister who is sick", and he's farming gold to pay for her medical condition. But he seems to have mountains of gold. How much does he need to pay for his sister's medical bills? We have no idea how much it costs to save her, how far off he is, how long his sister has to live, or basically any information other than he's a heroic hero who is saving his sister.
Likewise, we have a main villain, if you can call him that, of an ogre named "Grimgar". He is 28 years old. Here's how we're introduced to him.
"In addition to the quality of the tribes' warriors, they also worked on the quantity. Right when Grimgar took over as the tribe leader, he encouraged the ogres to mate and reproduce as much as possible. Thus, the tribe which never numbered over 200 suddenly had their numbers almost tripled, and now they were around 500 in strength. Furthermore, most of these younger ogres are now just reaching 20; the age where they are the strongest, physically."
Uh.... Wat? He took over the tribe at the age of 8, so he made them breed 2.5 times their number in 20 years... and now they have an average age of 20? This math makes no sense. That's because these are things called "plot details", and he has no time to give us plot details because he could spend time having people tell the main character how awesome he is.
Every female falls in love with him and spends their time fighting about which one is going to get to marry him, all the men spend their time telling him how wise/brave/masterful he is, etc. It's literary masturbation.
To top it off, the writing is awful. Basic sentence structure, prose, etc. is mangled and garbled. An example sentence:
"Even though VR games with such realism were extremely complex and took a huge amount of computing power to run, hardware improvements have been more than sufficient in keeping up, thus loading times were normally very short, and very smooth."
Finally, there's the final ermm... "fight". He has one of his servants flick the main ogre's head and explode it. Yep, that's our conclusion. The team is in such little trouble that they can kill the most powerful bad guy in the game by flicking their fingers.
It's bad in every which way something can be bad. It's a one-man autoerotic novel.
November 30, 2016
OMG!! It's to expensive even free
This is terrible. I rank this miserable excuse for a book right down there with every other piece of junk I've tossed across the room. Plodding plot, repetitive information, stupid characters. Pretty much the book I'd write if I was five.
This is terrible. I rank this miserable excuse for a book right down there with every other piece of junk I've tossed across the room. Plodding plot, repetitive information, stupid characters. Pretty much the book I'd write if I was five.
January 19, 2017
Based on the story idea alone, I would have happily finished this book and given it a top rating. Set in the near future, most jobs were gone because everything was automated. MMORPGs were the most popular form of entertainment. Since rich people could pour lots of real money into the games (to buy game items for their characters), "gold farming" (making game money to sell for RL money) was the new most common job.
The story followed a successful gold farmer as he somehow got pulled from one VR game into a different one and trapped there. What a fun, perfect idea for a book! What a great match for me!
Unfortunately the writing was so subpar, the book was nearly unreadable to me. Tense changes within a paragraph, poor/repetitive word choice, etc. Just a poorly written self-published book.
Abandoned at 12% mark.
The story followed a successful gold farmer as he somehow got pulled from one VR game into a different one and trapped there. What a fun, perfect idea for a book! What a great match for me!
Unfortunately the writing was so subpar, the book was nearly unreadable to me. Tense changes within a paragraph, poor/repetitive word choice, etc. Just a poorly written self-published book.
Abandoned at 12% mark.
December 20, 2016
As other reviews have stated, this is not a particularly good book. Not only does it rip off too many elements from the Overlord light novels, it is also lacking in content. The plot has barely started to progress and there isn't enough world building or other instances where we can get a good feel of the setting. This "book" is a very disappointing read overall and I wouldn't waste my time on it if it was a standalone novel.
July 28, 2018
Ehhhh
This is a comedy litrpg. It uses confusing asian themed skills and names.
It honestly is a little frustrating, the book usually goes like this: i cant underestemate my enemy, oh it says he is weak, perhaps he is using a skill that makes it seem he is weak, oh shit, it turns out he is weak "such trash!" He could not possible stand up to me.
35% Stupid over exaggerated drama.
Other than that cool plot. Love the asset building.
This is a comedy litrpg. It uses confusing asian themed skills and names.
It honestly is a little frustrating, the book usually goes like this: i cant underestemate my enemy, oh it says he is weak, perhaps he is using a skill that makes it seem he is weak, oh shit, it turns out he is weak "such trash!" He could not possible stand up to me.
35% Stupid over exaggerated drama.
Other than that cool plot. Love the asset building.
November 15, 2016
Rough start becomes more interesting
Not a bad first book. The biggest gripe I have is how the MC acts since he seems to be stuck in the game (which is never explained). Decent world building (RL and VR), characters are interesting but a little bland. I can see potential here and would like to read more in this world.
Not a bad first book. The biggest gripe I have is how the MC acts since he seems to be stuck in the game (which is never explained). Decent world building (RL and VR), characters are interesting but a little bland. I can see potential here and would like to read more in this world.
October 31, 2020
Can’t wait for the next book
When does the next book come out? If you enjoy Overlord or OP characters read this book. There are several grammatical fixes needed but the story is enjoyable especially for anime fans or those that just enjoy a fantasy series.
When does the next book come out? If you enjoy Overlord or OP characters read this book. There are several grammatical fixes needed but the story is enjoyable especially for anime fans or those that just enjoy a fantasy series.
December 13, 2016
Two similar to Overlord, while it does have potential. Seriously lacking detail of character descriptions. Other than maybe size and age of characters, it was very hard to imagine what they looked like or even associate with their personalities.
December 19, 2016
Very unique and fun litrpg where a max level gold farmer from one game somehow ends up stuck in another game that has permadeath and everything is different. He finds that every character he meets is far weaker then him. The conflict comes as his custom npc's are to loyal and want to kill anyone who doesn't treat him as a god. MC has to resign his npc's in and be careful what he says as they will do it. It's refreshing to see this concept in a litrpg.
December 8, 2016
Worth the read
For a first book it was pretty good. Spelling and grammar doesn't usually bother me when reading indie authors but it did a little here. The story was pretty good. There were some questions I would've liked answered. The vr doesn't feed them by iv as they play and it seems he has been logged in for a few days. I believe he was worried what might happen if he tried to log out. Hopefully this would be answered in the next installment. I would buy the sequel just to see where the story is going.
For a first book it was pretty good. Spelling and grammar doesn't usually bother me when reading indie authors but it did a little here. The story was pretty good. There were some questions I would've liked answered. The vr doesn't feed them by iv as they play and it seems he has been logged in for a few days. I believe he was worried what might happen if he tried to log out. Hopefully this would be answered in the next installment. I would buy the sequel just to see where the story is going.
November 20, 2016
Fresh
I truly enjoyed this book it was fresh I have read many Litrpg books and this will go to reread list will glad when the next ones come out you have found advent follower fight scenes at
Are not necessarily good for all books I truly appreciate your book
I truly enjoyed this book it was fresh I have read many Litrpg books and this will go to reread list will glad when the next ones come out you have found advent follower fight scenes at
Are not necessarily good for all books I truly appreciate your book
November 22, 2016
crap.
What a poorly written drivel laden poop, I have never given up a book so quickly, I even back to give it a second try...waste of effort
What a poorly written drivel laden poop, I have never given up a book so quickly, I even back to give it a second try...waste of effort
November 22, 2016
Great book
I liked the storylines and the ability to see the characters in my mind like pictures. Could use a good fight scene though.
I liked the storylines and the ability to see the characters in my mind like pictures. Could use a good fight scene though.
January 6, 2019
Hated the character and the writing.
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