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Glory of Formation Emperor #1
Path of Darkness
Jon's days are numbered.
The mine will consume his life any day.
Will this offer to farm inside a game be any better?
He wants nothing but to farm in the real world, and he’s given that chance in a VRMMORPG. With a new lease on life, he accepts it.
But when he’s robbed of his only tool to farm sufficient quota, he has no other option but to enter the deadliest forest of the region and die at the hands of a druid to obtain a skill that will help him reach his goals.
However.
Death awaits at every step in the forest, and he can’t die more than thrice.
What will Jon do?
Find out more about Jon's epic journey in BlackFlame Online.
You can expect below things from this book series.
1) Farming.
2) Unique Classes.
3) Town Building.
4) Epic large scale battles.
5) Forbidden Spells.
The mine will consume his life any day.
Will this offer to farm inside a game be any better?
He wants nothing but to farm in the real world, and he’s given that chance in a VRMMORPG. With a new lease on life, he accepts it.
But when he’s robbed of his only tool to farm sufficient quota, he has no other option but to enter the deadliest forest of the region and die at the hands of a druid to obtain a skill that will help him reach his goals.
However.
Death awaits at every step in the forest, and he can’t die more than thrice.
What will Jon do?
Find out more about Jon's epic journey in BlackFlame Online.
You can expect below things from this book series.
1) Farming.
2) Unique Classes.
3) Town Building.
4) Epic large scale battles.
5) Forbidden Spells.
- GenresFantasy
223 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 11, 2019
183 people are currently reading
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July 19, 2020
Yikes...I've gotten so used to sexism in litrpgs but I was honestly surprised to see the homophobia. Some guy is trying to convey important information to the MC 'John' while he is in the bath and John's first thought is "Omg is he gay? Eww." Which...WTF. Then in another scene he faints and wakes up to another guy looking at him and he exclaims his worry that everyone might be gay and how his village may be the first gay town/community and how the thought of that grosses/creeps him out because all the people in the village are men so he needs to attract some 'beautiful talent'. Someone trying to tell you important info while in the bath or making sure you are ok after you faint doesn't make them gay AND EVEN IF THEY WERE IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE PREDATORS TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF MEN!
John is so far up his ass thinking that he is god's gift to women that he is afraid that he also attracts random men.
The game world also sucks. Stop with the constantly snarky AI the attempts to be clever makes it obvious that you are not. Sometimes it can get annoying if an MC just enters the game and gets a unique class but honestly if it is done in a unique manner I tend to not care but the MC is just given 2 unique classes back to back with one just conveniently found buried on his own farm.The authors seemed to just throw everything at a wall hoping that something would stick. Nothing about John feels earned even his farming goes from poor to excellent in less than a week which doesn't even make that part of the book interesting.
John is so far up his ass thinking that he is god's gift to women that he is afraid that he also attracts random men.
The game world also sucks. Stop with the constantly snarky AI the attempts to be clever makes it obvious that you are not. Sometimes it can get annoying if an MC just enters the game and gets a unique class but honestly if it is done in a unique manner I tend to not care but the MC is just given 2 unique classes back to back with one just conveniently found buried on his own farm.The authors seemed to just throw everything at a wall hoping that something would stick. Nothing about John feels earned even his farming goes from poor to excellent in less than a week which doesn't even make that part of the book interesting.
July 2, 2020
Another book about a homophobic beta male
Really wish people would stop writing books about stupid main characters with backwoods ideals.
If you like stories with 1 dimensional characters that with "holier than art though" morals and a deep fear of anything not approved in Sunday school, than you are in luck. Just another example of a beta writing a fantasy book with thier own home school ideals.
Really wish people would stop writing books about stupid main characters with backwoods ideals.
If you like stories with 1 dimensional characters that with "holier than art though" morals and a deep fear of anything not approved in Sunday school, than you are in luck. Just another example of a beta writing a fantasy book with thier own home school ideals.
February 7, 2020
1 - Evil game-company.
2 - Forced to play.
3 - "Snarky" AI.
Trifecta, skip this one.
They write "f-king", because writing "fucking" is too much, and "effing" too hard I suppose. Or fething, facking, fekk, feth, eff'n...
It's a LitRPG book, and spends 5% of the volume info-dumping the stats. Anybody who'd pick this up already knows what the stats mean, just... stop it.
2 - Forced to play.
3 - "Snarky" AI.
Trifecta, skip this one.
They write "f-king", because writing "fucking" is too much, and "effing" too hard I suppose. Or fething, facking, fekk, feth, eff'n...
It's a LitRPG book, and spends 5% of the volume info-dumping the stats. Anybody who'd pick this up already knows what the stats mean, just... stop it.
January 6, 2020
Alert
I hate trying to write reviews because there are really only pass/fail results for me. Did I make it all the way through? Yes? 5 stars. No? There would be nothing here to read. In all fairness, if an author holds my attention from page one to the end, they’ve done their job. Anything less than 5 stars is petty criticism from someone incapable of even doing the job let alone doing a better one.
So in respect for the author and their work, I am going to start pasting this along with a generic review I found somewhere. “This was a fun book. I am glad that I read it. You should try it too.”
Cheers
I hate trying to write reviews because there are really only pass/fail results for me. Did I make it all the way through? Yes? 5 stars. No? There would be nothing here to read. In all fairness, if an author holds my attention from page one to the end, they’ve done their job. Anything less than 5 stars is petty criticism from someone incapable of even doing the job let alone doing a better one.
So in respect for the author and their work, I am going to start pasting this along with a generic review I found somewhere. “This was a fun book. I am glad that I read it. You should try it too.”
Cheers
January 13, 2020
Interestingly enough, I found this book completely by mistake. I wandered off into the wrong section of the kindle app after upgrading my ios version, and it showed interface elements I'd not seen with the older version I'd been running. Now I can see the recommended for you section that wasn't there under IOS 10. Running IOS 13 is a completely different animal, and even if it did brick my phone that had to be taken to the apple store to get it working again, I'm not sure if I like the new layout of the kindle app, it distracts me from actualy doinw what I want, which is to read, but I suppose offsetting it by finding other books can't be all bad.
At any rate, I found this book, and discovered I liked it very much. I was hovering between 3 or 4 stars for the review, but finally decided on 3 stars, mostly because while it was a pretty good story, it didn't envoke in me the joy of speculation I like to get from books that fire up the imagination with their endless possibilities. It's definitely a good story, and well deserves it's reading, and any LitRPG fan should certainly add this book to their shelves if they haven't already, especially since it has some interesting game mechanics, and the glimpses of the world outside the game hints at much larger mechanics to come no doubt, it's just that I like the building, (I almost always like the building), the main character didn't exactly fill me with awe at his lackluster perfomance, though he certainly did what he could with what he had, it started out trying like hell to overcome, and ended with taking what was owed, and that progression bothered me, though I didn't realize it until I started reading the second book, which I will definitely comment on in the review for that book when it's finished. But, anyway, to make a long rambling review short and more to the point, if you enjoy crafting/building/growing, you'll enjoy this book, if that isn't your sort of thing, then you might want to give this one a pass, though if you can bring yourself to do it, I'd say go ahead and read it, it is entertaining enough to hold the attention even if you're not a big fan of LitRPG material.
At any rate, I found this book, and discovered I liked it very much. I was hovering between 3 or 4 stars for the review, but finally decided on 3 stars, mostly because while it was a pretty good story, it didn't envoke in me the joy of speculation I like to get from books that fire up the imagination with their endless possibilities. It's definitely a good story, and well deserves it's reading, and any LitRPG fan should certainly add this book to their shelves if they haven't already, especially since it has some interesting game mechanics, and the glimpses of the world outside the game hints at much larger mechanics to come no doubt, it's just that I like the building, (I almost always like the building), the main character didn't exactly fill me with awe at his lackluster perfomance, though he certainly did what he could with what he had, it started out trying like hell to overcome, and ended with taking what was owed, and that progression bothered me, though I didn't realize it until I started reading the second book, which I will definitely comment on in the review for that book when it's finished. But, anyway, to make a long rambling review short and more to the point, if you enjoy crafting/building/growing, you'll enjoy this book, if that isn't your sort of thing, then you might want to give this one a pass, though if you can bring yourself to do it, I'd say go ahead and read it, it is entertaining enough to hold the attention even if you're not a big fan of LitRPG material.
December 20, 2019
Town building/stuck in a game
I enjoyed this book it was a quick read and I finished it in one sitting. The book reminded me of the Shaman books with the chess set although the mc is a little darker and when the city building element began it followed the life reset books. Overall an enjoyable book and the only reason it lost a star was because it followed a generic storyline seen in many other books. I will buy the next instalment though.
I enjoyed this book it was a quick read and I finished it in one sitting. The book reminded me of the Shaman books with the chess set although the mc is a little darker and when the city building element began it followed the life reset books. Overall an enjoyable book and the only reason it lost a star was because it followed a generic storyline seen in many other books. I will buy the next instalment though.
December 14, 2019
Blackflame
But of a slow start, but this book really took off towards the end. The classes were nice, the leveling was a little slow but great storyline. This book makes me want to go and read every other book in this author's universe. You know what, that's what I'm going to do right now...
But of a slow start, but this book really took off towards the end. The classes were nice, the leveling was a little slow but great storyline. This book makes me want to go and read every other book in this author's universe. You know what, that's what I'm going to do right now...
April 21, 2021
I liked it and even though I'd give it a 3.5 I will round it up for fun! Another Life inside a game, but this one as the good ones has a twist. Farming in this universe is really an adventure and it seems it can work to your benefit.I got lucky with this book but I figure my love of LitRPG is showing in this review.
December 28, 2019
Fun read
Fun read. I will definitely read the next one in the series. There are a few typos and a few rather odd ideas about farming, but they didn't really detract from the story. Just sit back and enjoy.
Fun read. I will definitely read the next one in the series. There are a few typos and a few rather odd ideas about farming, but they didn't really detract from the story. Just sit back and enjoy.
January 17, 2020
For Litrpg fans this is a delight!
Awesome development of progression system, story line and village upgrades/construction. Very well written story with good chars that you'll want to play. I go read as one book.
Awesome development of progression system, story line and village upgrades/construction. Very well written story with good chars that you'll want to play. I go read as one book.
June 15, 2021
Good Read
This story of a prisoner stuck in a mine getting to go online and farm a beer weed crop instead was a very interesting story. The only upsetting thing is he is so so stupid it makes you want to pull your hair out.
This story of a prisoner stuck in a mine getting to go online and farm a beer weed crop instead was a very interesting story. The only upsetting thing is he is so so stupid it makes you want to pull your hair out.
December 22, 2019
Good holiday read
Good character creation, like the town building addition and likeable characters. Look forward to the reading the next instalment. Thanks
Good character creation, like the town building addition and likeable characters. Look forward to the reading the next instalment. Thanks
January 24, 2020
Oh I like it.
We love that we do... What a great book now I'm off to read the next two books in the series Wu-Tang score..
We love that we do... What a great book now I'm off to read the next two books in the series Wu-Tang score..
June 4, 2021
Story is OK, but almost every problem that MC has seems to be solved by deus ex machina.
April 7, 2024
A classic litRPG. I enjoyed the whole series.
August 7, 2024
some homophobic shit
December 6, 2024
Good. Some unique plot ideas in this LitRPG. My main complaint is it's too short.
December 29, 2020
Brilliant
Amazing read. Great characters, worldbuilding & storytelling. The magic system is great too, a druid it isn't often you find books with druids.
Amazing read. Great characters, worldbuilding & storytelling. The magic system is great too, a druid it isn't often you find books with druids.
November 1, 2022
fun book
Really love this book and can’t wait for the next one. I can’t wait to see how he build up the town and if he will foil that corporation
Really love this book and can’t wait for the next one. I can’t wait to see how he build up the town and if he will foil that corporation
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