In his 60 years of life, he'd built up a good legacy and looked on to spending his later years quietly teaching his students the martial arts he'd cultivated over the years while working as a nurse for his day job. He'd long since saved enough for his retirement, but he just could not leave the profession of helping those who needed it.
In his younger years, he'd traveled the globe and, during his time in Japan, learned a historical preservation of a martial art that claimed to be Ninjutsu. Although, as he would learn, it was actually a Samurai art that the Ninja supposedly learned to infiltrate. Bottom line, it was effective.
His son had even enrolled his granddaughter into his studio in the kid's class. After practice one day, he decided to take his granddaughter for ice cream. This is when everything went wrong.
After the accident on the freeway, he was fine. His granddaughter was not. It was at this moment something supernatural happened. A ghostly vision claiming to be a fallen goddess promised him she could take his vitality in order to heal his granddaughter. In so doing, he would die but his granddaughter would live. Regretting his actions which caused his granddaughter's predicament, he agreed immediately. Next thing he knew, he regained consciousness in the womb of what would be his new mother, and next to him was his twin, a twin he would later discover was the very goddess who helped him to save his granddaughter.
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This story has been discontinued and rebooted under a new name. If you would like to check out the new rebooted version of the story with far better writing, pacing, and characterization, please check out "Key to the Void."
- Announcement: The reboot has been launched. (This version is now officially discontinued.)Sep 13, 2020
- Announcement: Trouble with the custom language.Sep 9, 2020
- Poll: Should I continue, or just reboot now?Sep 1, 2020
- Book 3 chapter 20: The grip of darknessAug 31, 2020
- Book 3 chapter 19: Tactical flawsAug 25, 2020
- Book 3 Chapter 18: OpportunistsAug 17, 2020
- Book 3 Chapter 17: Secret plansAug 13, 2020
- Book 3 Chapter 16: Struggle of identityAug 1, 2020
- Book 3 Chapter 15: Strangled growthJul 25, 2020
- Image: Cover page to inevitable reboot. (And name change announcement.)Jul 15, 2020
- Lore chapter Book 3 act 2: Five meditations of the warrior godJul 13, 2020
- Book 3 chapter 14: Evil BlessingJul 4, 2020
- Book 3 chapter 13: Dark designsJun 24, 2020
- Book 3 chapter 12: Expectations meet reality.Jun 21, 2020
- Apologies for being distracted, here’s my distraction as an apology.Jun 9, 2020
- 2346 reading
- 250 plan to read
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- 111 dropped
Slow, but interesting, with a lot of world-building. At 24th chapter it still reads pretty well, with no crazy developments. I guess these should come later?
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somehow I can't shake the feeling that the goddess is going to somehow f*** up the main character, just like it was done in Death Mage.
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It's amazing. The author could give many professional writers a run for their money.
It's not for everyone's tastes, as can be seen from the second most common review after 5 stars being 2 stars. I have to agree, sometimes it is a bit slow, but usually, it's just right.
The best part yet, and at the same time the most disgusting and horrifying one, was so good it really had me thinking for quite a while. It's a scene which will inevitably turn away many readers, but for me, it was so good I just couldn't stop.
I am glad this story exists, and I hope we'll see it finished, too.
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One of the best novels on the site in my opinion. Instead of rushing its story it takes the time to establish the world and the characters. Everything I've read here — emotions, politics, relationships, etc — has been completely believable and not forced in any way whatsoever.
Rather than your average web novel it reads more like a proper published high fantasy book, and I guess that is enough to alienate some people here. But for the rest of us it's a rare treat.
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This story is great so far, and using death mage as inspiration is cool to that is one my favorites.
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Hi, it is a slower pace than some, but I really enjoy it. It doesn't speed through or focus on one part to have a half built world that makes no sense. It builds a full world and creates enough characters with backgrounds and motivations to turn who you thought was a side character into someone wild. The story doesn't settle for doing bits that would degrade the story to make a bunch of fights without real cause or make dramatic scene. It builds and follows through properly to make everything happen. I just caught up, so no comment on publishing speed. However, I look forward to more at whatever pace it comes at!
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Story is pretty good.
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Don’t misunderstand me I do think the novel is very good in some aspects. Namely the fact it is well written has solid world building and the author most certainly knows what he’s talking about and does his research on the subjects he talks about. But ultimately I can’t say that this novel as a novel is good. It has an interesting setting but the pacing is so incredibly slow that the novel is just boring. I tend to read action novels almost exclusively and this is supposedly an action novel but as of 20 chapters in nothing has happened there the only thing that happens other than the info dumping is the MC training their baby body then going into far too much detail than necessary on why and how his baby development is fast. On top of this the goddess who is his sister in this may as well not exist. She has no bearing on the story and has very little interaction with anything other than one occasion she acted as an encyclopaedia for the MC then went back to being a wallflower. Overall I wouldn’t recommend this story as honestly it is boring.
Very well written though congrats sir author in that regard.
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Well, this 0/5 vote system don't help much, my note is basically something like 7, 5/10; The history is more darken than I expected, and there are many useless texts, some chapters you can just skip and don't will feel anything missing, there are a big amount of useless explaination about the magic/cultivation, isn't wrong try give a explain, but keep this for 3/4 of the novel is only, sad....I think isn't bad when the author try create a detailed world, but the history isn't to describle how the world works, it's to tell us what happen in this world, I think the author need take more care with this, anyway, the characters are enjoyable, I just don't liked
the fact of our protagonist have a double personality
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