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 stats and skills equal power and status?
Come and find out as we embark on his journey.
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The story's progression is slow like really slow. But I would be lying if this was something that was relatively new to me or if this was slower than what is acceptable. A slow-paced story can become boring. Secondly, this novel has somewhat of a pattern, get a bit stronger and go somewhere else. This pattern doesn't stick at the last "arc or whatever u wanna call it". One of the good things though was how the author introduced female characters and then left them. I really would have hated it if the MC took them with him. The main reason why the progression was slow is that the author established a long goal and didn't give the MC any shortcuts other than just being better than anyone else. I would suggest more interesting things to happen in the future. Ex him going and killing off cultists with iron man armor and stuff. Don't do that though it would be funny but dumb.
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Great story :)
Finally an iskeai that focusses on a crafting class! I like the way the runes work like a program. The MC is also understandable and pretty cool. He is mostly stoic and severly antisocial though, so dont read this if you want lots of dialogues. He is a guy that loves his craft and sometimes goes adventuring (dungeons and stuff) but only for money haha. Steady progression into becoming stronger; right now (ch 137) he is not OP yet, but he is stronger than people of the same rank. Definitely OP potential for the future though
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I binged in a couple of days because it was so great. I would consider this fiction more like an entertaining "Let's Play" than a meaningful tale: It stimulates the reader's imagination more than clashing ideas and their antitheses with a moralizing conclusion.
Pacing: it's perfect because it's easy to get into.
The plot promises are set within a few chapters. We want to see an op runesmith assert dominance over a family of jerks. This desire is fostered in the reader alongside the MC as he discovers the setting.
Characters are introduced slowly. There's no excess of useless characters with overly detailed descriptions.
Slice-of-life are a big component in the life of an craftsman. MC is conservative and a crafter, yet the author manages to put him in harm's way in a natural manner. (That world is a bloody fiesta)
Moreover, those sections are easy to identify. If you're like me and aren't interested in mice extermination, you can easily skip those parts without missing anything vital for the plot progression.
(Unless the freaking poison rod actually serves the plot later)
Same for technical blurbs (in electronics, engineering, metallurgy). I skimmed through the paragraphs without having any problems when I felt tired. The author says it himself early that he's not a circuitry specialist and only wrote what made sense to him. It's not a school manual and you won't have problem to understand just because you missed a term in an equation.
Characters: heterogeneous depth
The MC changes very slowly. He remains a lonewolf, smart and foreseeing throughout the story. But he learns how to cooperate with people as he hops from party to party.
He's portrayed in depth while the other characters are depicted at surface level stereotypes. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because there's enough words spent on non-plot section anyway.
Technical content: To be honest there are some weird stuff.
But considering that the MC worked in an electronic repair shop, he has no reason to be expert in other engineering domains.
For instance, MC said that blast furnace would make more refined steel. Or that cold forging would weaken the metal. Or that repairing over and over the same tool will scrap away the surface metal.
I found the whole energy shenanigans with mana a mess too. Engines or generators convert energy from one form to another. So the MC made a mana powered water boiler to propel a wheel to generate electricty and store it in batteries... (mana->thermal->mechanical->chemical energy->electricity when needed). But the cutting mana-powered machines were already introduced (mana->mechanical). And i'd wonder why not just mana->electricity.
Or maybe I skimmed too much to understand and I'm a freaking fool.
Despite the oddities, it's still funny to follow the MC into his technological journey. I wish there were more failures, coffee addiction and descent into madness to increase the scientific realism.
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Fantasy world with good level system and Good Mature MC
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I really enjoy this. I've always been a fan of crafter-based stories. With the addition of the combat, I find this series very enjoyable. This is currently my favorite thing I'm reading. So naturally, I very much like this series.
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It’s a casual read that focuses on the MCs progress in rune crafting. I like that it sticks to the crafting as a main point and not everything else. I like that his crafting is not op and he has to work for it. I like it’s not stupid harem bullsh*t and while the boy is a teenager and a little weak to girls, it’s the normal kind. I like that the kid is not a overly much considering that he a kid now and was barely not a kid in the past. The world building is good and getting developed.
It is vague on personality building for most characters. Human interaction is basically nothing. Even if he had pets it would be better cause without any interaction it’s a bit dry.
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Progress-es really well. Ha! Good read.
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Meh its alright. This would be really good if the MC wasn't so whinny. He complains about everything. In fact, I think he complained about something every chapter. It gets annoying after awhile. I understand that he was a loser in his old life and old habits are hard to get rid of but its not fun reading about a MC that's like this. World building is great and most of the side characters are great but the author just introduced a tsundre trope and I am less that pleased to read about her. Even more so when she and the MC interact with each other. All in all, good story but would be better with a better MC. So 3 stars and I hope it gets better.
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I might as well write a review here. I've been keeping up with this web novel for about a year now and I think that says enough to give it 5 stars. There are a lot of things that I don't like (Some parts are a bit of a slog, some of the characters seem hollow) but overall I just keep coming back. Compared to similar novels like mech touch and legendary mechanic I think this one is better. Roland is grumpy but not a total ass like in those two other webnovels. Yeah, there are not 1000+ chapters but I think if kuro gets there it would be better than some of the similar ones out there.
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I recently started reading this and I have noticed there is a repetitive avoidance in building relationships, the MC begins to meet people but their interactions seem a little forced so does their parting, for example, the half gnome girl, the author was insistent on including her in almost every chapter since she was introduced and then she just left, I'm not that sad cos I didn't like her very much but the pattern of meeting people and parting ways and never hearing from them continued with every new character,
there is the issue of the mc's life being repetitive and boring, there's nothing wrong with his focus on his work, but he needs to get a life of some sort outside of work, he does not have to be involved with major characters or big figures in his world he can just try avoiding interactions with people and there should be some build up on the relationships he's somewhat developed in the past. it would be helpful to do some povs of some side characters from time to time because our view on this world is very limited to the knowledge the MC possesses, we know nearly nothing about other classes and their merits and demerits, organizations and powers, and other important parts of the world unless the MC comes across them by chance
I like the style of writing, it is focused for the most part and slightly engaging also the system in place is quite innovative, it heavily focuses on training skills repeatedly to make progress and not some stroke of luck, and the process to get new classes is very well put together. However, I feel he needs a logical big boost in personal strength because it is becoming too slow for my tastes, there is also an emphasis on the most irrelevant parts of his work- a whole paragraph dedicated to how he melts something- I get that he's a rune smith but there's not nearly enough focus on the mechanisms and technicalities of the crafting of runes on his weapons, the descriptions seem to lead somewhere then they stop like the link Roland made between runes and electrical circuits, I felt it could have developed well but the author just dropped it- so far I have not seen it being mentioned again.
overall it's a good idea but it's far too slow and the world-building is not very good.
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