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become a contestant on The Price is Right,
How is that a goal worth mentioning for anyone who games enough to pull a 72 hour session?
bit silly, I do as she suggests and shout “STATUS.”
The only silly thing is shouting it when you were told to you can think it in your mind.
Ill give a pass on this one cos the MC just woke up.
Just like the ones I’ve seen in the role-playing video games I love.
19 year old gamers who pull 72 hour gaming sessions do NOT think "role playing video games".
They think "RPG's". Our vocabulary is full of acronyms even when thinking to ourselves.
never got a status screen in my old world.
Correct! Gamer MC already acknowledges the improvement
I’m sure there are plenty of lovely ladies in this world too.
K so maybe the 19 year old part might take precedence over the gamer part. I'll allow it.
No class? That’s what my ex-girlfriend said when she dumped me,
This was good, until you realise no regular 19 year old has "class". So i guess don't overthink like me.
My gamer brain immediately thinks of all the gaming strategies possible with character stats like this. I usually min/max my stats when I play games but that’s when it’s a game. If I want to survive here, I’ll have to think of a better strategy than maximizing a single stat for the largest bonus.
Min/maxing is about getting the absolute best results you can for your role.
E.g. damage dealers, doing the most dps they can.
So if your role is to survive solo while doing dps you can still min/max your stats to achieve that.
Min/maxing is using your attribute points, gear, and skills efficiently and without waste.
Diablo 2 at endgame was the epitome of min/maxing as an example.
Get min/maxing right.
Try silently thinking ‘Inventory’,”
I guess she too realised how embarrassing it would be to shout all these commands all the time and took pity on the MC
Skills begin at novice level then grow to beginner level, intermediate level, advanced level, expert level, and finally master level.
Why 48 people thought this deserved being highlighted is beyond me. Its pretty standard for most litrpg's at this point.
As I sit, I hear a faint rustling sound. I quickly turn my head to see what is making the noise and see a small, white, furry animal. It’s a rabbit.
Make him at least try to hunt. A rabbit appearing out of nowhere and at a place where someone is making noise isn't believable.
ninjas and how they walk toe to heel and not heel to toe. I try it and notice that I make less noise.
Googled this. First video recommends heel to toe instead.
“Be vewy vewy qwiet. I'm hunting wabbits.”
19 year old making jokes about a cartoon that came out before his time. Bad Dad jokes at that. Yeh nah thats not likely to happen.
I’m a crafty crafter.
We sure this kid is 19? Sounds 40
“I shall name you my horny spear.”
Yup 40
“Ugh, me make fire,” I grunt, doing my best caveman impression.
Dad impression again? This is starting to feel like the author is just pretending he's the MC and he's 19 again in a fantasy world.
Maybe this world is a good chance at a new beginning for me.
No thought of his friends or family by this point.
Rico Suave.”
Fairy from a different world is using references from earth? We need more backstory on her if she somehow has knowledge from a world not her own. BEFORE she starts making earth references.
Thankfully, something happens that takes my journey to the next level and lets me get on track.
Don't do this. Your spoiling it for your readers. Why spoil your own book?
My second week in Terra I’m feeling a little frustrated. The stats I can train have stopped rising and the stats I can’t train just sit there.
The beginning of these chapters are starting to feel like recaps of the end of previous chapters. Like episodes on tv or something. Just no. Stop.
This part is actually true. In my world, my parents really did die when I was a kid. It was an awful car accident that left me alone and put me in foster care for most of my life.
Finally some background on family.
“Mary, there’s no such thing right?” Mary’s only answer is silence. As I roll over to go to sleep I think I hear small giggles.
So now the MC is 14
I wake up unrested. I tossed and turned all night. I kept waking up from dreams of boogie men reaching out from under the bed, grabbing my feet, and yelling “Ooogie Booogie, I AM the Pumpkin King!” Such weird dreams. Thanks a lot Mary.
Make that 12
“M...M...M...Mary! How long have you been awake?” I stutter.
Child MC easily embarrassed. God damn this is painful. Also that's not how you write a stutter.
I quickly put on the clothes on the dresser. I notice they’re a bit loose on me but fit nicely.
This... doesn't work. If they fit nicely they can't be a bit loose. They can fit well enough, fit adequately, or he can make do with them being a bit loose. Any of those 3 would work.
“Your very fate as a destined hero,” Rex responds with a serious look on his face. The room is oddly quiet as everyone looks at Rex. With a loud groan, the silence is broken by Keans. “You’re so serious, Rex. Don’t make it sound like he’s the only hope against a demon horde or anything else from some fairy tale. Boy, we’re just talking about what you’re going to be doing from here on.”
Still don't know if rex was joking or not here. Hope he was. Having people who already know about him or were looking for him, find him already would be annoying. Give the lad a chance to escape all that bs at least.
Also if it WAS just a joke, as jokes go, it was pretty poor. And poorly written, Rex wouldn't be the sort to make a joke like that, you've portrayed him as the grumpy sort.
I bow my head in respect.
He Japanese now?
Not many people in my world would help out a total stranger this much. I’m lucky to have been rescued by them. I’ll have to think of some way to pay them back, though. Then a thought occurs to me.
So he doesn't suspect them at all? Naive protagonist i guess. Makes sense considering his sense of "humor"
I sigh in relief hearing that I won’t be a burden to them. Even though I’ve only known these people a very short time I feel like they care about me.
More like they didn't fall for his half baked bs and figured out what he is and want to use him. Or the author is just forcing the story to go with way unnaturally.
Probably the latter.
It’s been a long time since anyone has cared about me, much less sacrificed their time and money to help me.
Ah so he's just starved for love and easily manipulated by it.
Chapter 12
Well that was a tiny chapter
It still amazes me that only a few days ago this arm was a ruined broken mess. I can still remember the agonizing pain from the teeth of the worg tearing into my flesh and the sound of bones breaking as its jaws clamped down. Magic in this world is truly amazing. I can’t wait to learn it.
Honestly he should be dead. The worgs first attack did 18 damage, the kid has 20 or 21 hp. Then the worg attacked him again, and im pretty sure it woulda done more than 3 damage. Instead it did 0 that we were told of.
Lilliandra begins to speak in a language I don’t understand. At the same time, she extends the index finger of her right hand and it emits a glow as she writes some strange symbols in the air. When she finishes the last symbol, she stops speaking and a bright globe of white light appears about two feet above the table. The light is so bright it partially blinds me and I have to shade my eyes with my hand. Lilliandra speaks a single word, writes a symbol in the air and the light vanishes. I blink my eyes trying to get rid of the spots I see.
So chanting plus runeshaping for spells. Magic in this world sounds inconvenient.
So that’s magic? The whole process took about ten seconds but was amazing. I want to do magic so much more now.
10 seconds for a light spell? One of the simplest spells in most worlds? Can't see magic being useful mid battle unless the author has multiple magic systems in this world.
“I was reading a shifter romance story from your world and ‘Don’t work me too hard’ was what she said.”
Backstory for the fairy already please. How does she have access to books from Earth? She's supposed to be a guide. And the MC is the first person from earth to be reincarnated in this world, so it's not like other earthlings brought their fiction with em.
Rex is ahead of me and can’t see me blush. I try to ignore Mary’s laughter as I leave the cabin.
Honestly people do not blush this often. This isn't an anime.
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Suddenly my body freezes up and I fall backward, axe slipping from my hands as I hit the ground. Rex kneels next to me and says gruffly. “First lesson Armon. Always know your limits. You need to always be aware of how much stamina you have when you're fighting. If you run out, this happens. Even the strongest man in the world is helpless when his stamina runs out.”
Oh come on, he learned this lesson already author. Wtf are you doing?
He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a small vial. He pours the content of the vial down my throat. Blegh, tastes like moldy sweat socks. My body unfreezes. I wipe my mouth of the foul taste and sit up. “What was that?” “That was a bit of a stamina potion. Most groups carry at least one vial in case someone runs out of stamina during a battle. Tastes terrible but better than dying to a foe’s blade.” So they have stamina potions?
So you had the MC be stupid so you can show us that stamina pots are a thing? There are better ways. Also this guide fairy is useless, had a week in the forest to flood him with useful info and apparently told him shit all.
“Good, you’ve learned your lesson. Don’t let pride push you past your limits.” He then walks away and resumes his own tree chopping.
Fuck off. The kids a gamer, so he should already know this lesson for one, since every gamer watches their hp/mana/stamina bars all the time, and he learned this irl on his first hour of working out. Get your shit together author.
I couldn’t help but smile at the stat gain. It felt so good to gain another stat after plateauing with my self-training in the forest.
Really need to show us his stats again about now
he helped me remember that I need to watch my stamina when I’m working or fighting.
3 times you point this out. So 3 times I'll point out the kid already should know this. There's no way he would forget something so basic as a gamer.
She then proceeds to point to the work I completed earlier and comments on several mistakes I made in my writing. Overall she’s pleased with how well I’m doing after only a day but expects me to do better tomorrow.
If he had the fairy helping him why are there mistakes? Also if she's pleased with his progress why does she expect him to do better? Sounds like she isn't pleased with it if that's the case
The only thing I can say to that is a dejected “Oh.” I can’t help but feel a bit disappointed. There go all my grand dreams of becoming a potions master like Professor Snape. “Don’t crush the kid’s dreams, Keans,” Rex calls out from the table. Lilliandra nods in agreement. Mary is giving Keans the stink eye and making faces at him. It loses some of its effects though since he can’t see her.
They all act like he did something horrible. But he was just saying not yet, wtf. Their reactions aren't believable at all.
Also who has dreams of being snape? The fuck.
I smile and whisper “Thanks” to him. He just glances at me, smiles, and winks before going back to his prep work.
We got a female MC now apparently. He's gonna start hugging people soon.
Guess handling that knife for the last couple days counted towards knife training.
What? He's cut things with a knife twice now. How is that "the last couple of days"?
I’m excited to continue my training tomorrow.
Feel like im reading a slice of life litrpg at this point. Siphon except a male MC.
get 5 XP
Shouldn't he be level 2 about now? Spent a week hunting rabbits to feed himself and the fairy, so that's 2 rabbits per night for dinner. Throw in another 2 for lunch or breakfast per day. 28 rabbits.
But then the first lvl 1 rabbit we see him kill doesn't give XP for some reason. Which doesn't make sense in any game or other book, killing something your own level always gives XP.
So unless creatures of the same level don't give XP we have to assume it was a mistake.
So since the lvl 3 rabbit gave 15XP a lvl 1 rabbit should give 5XP. 28x5=140 just from the week of lvl 1 rabbits. Plus all the experience for the first rabbit, then the lvl 3 rabbit, then the quests... Experience to get to lvl 2 is 100XP.
So he should be well over lvl 2 by now.
Overlord God.
Just make it Overgod. Sounds better.
So you want to learn magic.
This doesn't have a place here.
My half-baked training in the forest by myself was nothing compared to what Rex came up with.
From what we heard the MC only stopped his training to feed himself or recover stamina. How is this half baked? If he didn't have the stamina system he'd be dead.
