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The Runesmith
What happens when a man gets transported into a foreign world filled with magic?
Will his knowledge in hardware technology help him out after he discovers its correlation to the words of power?
How will he fit in with the other noble houses as the lowly 4th son?
How will his story play out in a world where skills and stats equal power and status?
Will his knowledge in hardware technology help him out after he discovers its correlation to the words of power?
How will he fit in with the other noble houses as the lowly 4th son?
How will his story play out in a world where skills and stats equal power and status?
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June 26, 2025
The version of this web-serial that I read ended at chapter 426, which was about 2000 pages long. I'm not sure if more will be written but I'd still be reading if there were.
Confession time: I skipped at least a third of the text. Huge swathes of copy was devoted to the protagonists planning and his thoughts on progression options/paths. It added nothing to the plot. Skipping it helped keep the story digestible.
While it got better toward the end, this book contains some of the worst grammar I'd seen. Blatantly obvious mistakes were left in, as if the author hadn't given it a single proof-read. If that sets your teeth on edge, walk away.
I won't go into the things I enjoyed, since they are common to most Isekai/progression stories. I'll just point out that I happily finished this door-stopper of a book. That's all the endorsement you should need.
Confession time: I skipped at least a third of the text. Huge swathes of copy was devoted to the protagonists planning and his thoughts on progression options/paths. It added nothing to the plot. Skipping it helped keep the story digestible.
While it got better toward the end, this book contains some of the worst grammar I'd seen. Blatantly obvious mistakes were left in, as if the author hadn't given it a single proof-read. If that sets your teeth on edge, walk away.
I won't go into the things I enjoyed, since they are common to most Isekai/progression stories. I'll just point out that I happily finished this door-stopper of a book. That's all the endorsement you should need.
March 13, 2023
⭐️
Royal Roads isekia clean litrpg story. Slow cultivation but entertaining for me. Needs some editing and in the later chapters I started to skim a bit.
Following writer on RR, waiting for more...
Royal Roads isekia clean litrpg story. Slow cultivation but entertaining for me. Needs some editing and in the later chapters I started to skim a bit.
Following writer on RR, waiting for more...
March 18, 2023
read up to chapter 312, the latest on royal road at the time of this review.
As with most web serials it's somewhat hard to judge as it both the story and the writing vary over the course of the novel. It started of well writing and with fairly decent grammar, at least for the first 50-70 chapters or so. I assume these either got some additional editing or were rewritten as the quality drops somewhat after that, but considering I liked the story it is still within an acceptable range.
One aspect that annoyed me somewhat in the later chapters is how much the same train of thought is repeated sometimes even twice in one chapter. Generally written in such a way as to have the MC space out, which not only has no merit, especially since it also happens during combat/active scenese where the MC is otherwise very attentive during those. Together with the pace slowing down a bit, I think this is mostly a result of it being a web serial. Once I caught up the repetition wasn't actually that bad, though I'm still not a fan of the spacing out and never have been.
To offset the above, there are of course the good bits which kept me reading. First up, the system is pretty basic, but it's well executed. Similar for the cheat skills the MC gets, they're enabling enough to get the story started and give the MC a lasting advantage, they are not the actual overpowering abilities he later gets, and even those aren't all that bad. The same goes for many aspects of the storyline, it strikes a good balance between highs and lows.
What draws me the most to it however is the mix of preparing/crafting and combat. Both aspects interact well together and the outcome isn't predictable either, sometimes things go great, other times there's major setbacks.
As with most web serials it's somewhat hard to judge as it both the story and the writing vary over the course of the novel. It started of well writing and with fairly decent grammar, at least for the first 50-70 chapters or so. I assume these either got some additional editing or were rewritten as the quality drops somewhat after that, but considering I liked the story it is still within an acceptable range.
One aspect that annoyed me somewhat in the later chapters is how much the same train of thought is repeated sometimes even twice in one chapter. Generally written in such a way as to have the MC space out, which not only has no merit, especially since it also happens during combat/active scenese where the MC is otherwise very attentive during those. Together with the pace slowing down a bit, I think this is mostly a result of it being a web serial. Once I caught up the repetition wasn't actually that bad, though I'm still not a fan of the spacing out and never have been.
To offset the above, there are of course the good bits which kept me reading. First up, the system is pretty basic, but it's well executed. Similar for the cheat skills the MC gets, they're enabling enough to get the story started and give the MC a lasting advantage, they are not the actual overpowering abilities he later gets, and even those aren't all that bad. The same goes for many aspects of the storyline, it strikes a good balance between highs and lows.
What draws me the most to it however is the mix of preparing/crafting and combat. Both aspects interact well together and the outcome isn't predictable either, sometimes things go great, other times there's major setbacks.
June 30, 2025
Story is okay. Writing is basic. Objectification of women is high - with the majority of the description of any female character a description of the size of their boobs. Unfortunately, this is common in this genre - so I have to choose between reading a different genre entirely and reading LitRPG that has a high probability of being authored by someone who view women as mobile fun sacks that sometimes cool and clean.
On chapter 248, but I might drop this for the baffling inability of characters to grow other than the size of the women’s boobs the author describes. And seriously, wtf is up with authors who seem to have never actually interacted with a woman?!? And this isn’t Benny Hill - your lecherous secondary characters are just POS tools and the MC isn’t noble because he only bangs one woman since he is satisfied with her cooking and cleaning and body. Ffs.
On chapter 248, but I might drop this for the baffling inability of characters to grow other than the size of the women’s boobs the author describes. And seriously, wtf is up with authors who seem to have never actually interacted with a woman?!? And this isn’t Benny Hill - your lecherous secondary characters are just POS tools and the MC isn’t noble because he only bangs one woman since he is satisfied with her cooking and cleaning and body. Ffs.
February 21, 2022
An interesting progression fantasy with a protagonist who has reincarnated as a minor noble scion into a world of knights, mags, and adventurers. He decides to become a runesmith and leaves home as a boy to carve his own path independent of his unloving familu.
WIP through chapter 190 here: https://www.lightnovelpub.com/novel/t...
WIP through chapter 190 here: https://www.lightnovelpub.com/novel/t...
May 23, 2023
Really my fave type of story but is way too slow paced, feels like the writer do this purposely in order to reach a minimum amount of chapters per week. Unfortunately it makes for a feeling that 1 chapter has in actually no content/progress even after reading 5 chaps in a row can feel like nothing has happened
July 22, 2022
Tried reading a bit of this on Royal Road. It appears to be all about crafting... Not my bag, really.
April 13, 2023
Royal Road Web story.
Isekai, Dungeon Diving and crafting.
Isekai, Dungeon Diving and crafting.
Want to read
October 13, 2024amaazing
September 2, 2025
B: At chapter 385
It's overall an alright story. Nothing about it is amazing. But if you enjoy reading crafting stories then you should check this out.
It's overall an alright story. Nothing about it is amazing. But if you enjoy reading crafting stories then you should check this out.
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