{Not a Harem story}
Tim wakes up to find he is naked and alone in a fantasy world that has officially labeled him an Ogre in what he believes to be a cruel joke. Before he can get his bearings, Tim is enslaved and put to work killing other monsters for his new masters. Kindhearted and used to being pushed around, Tim must find his spine and turn the tables on a world that would see him dead or in chains.
Intended as a slow burn progression and character progression story, there will be no harems amongst the primary cast of characters. More Gamelit than Litrpg, the text boxes are more frequent in the beginning but taper off as the protagonist paraphrases more mundane information in the same way a normal human being would.
Minor rewrites are coming soon, intended to raise the quality of the first nineteen chapters and split them to a more manageable 7500-ish wordcount each. They will be marked with {Rewrite} once they go live. ETA for the rollout is by the end of August 2022
Released 1/week over the Australian weekend.
I primarily upload on Royal Road, so the release to Scribblehub is sometimes a day or two later due to derp brain.
From left to right, top to bottom. Hana, Emelia, Clarice, Nadine, Toofy.
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Strong start and good writing, but really loses focus and momentum a while after it gets to kingdom building. Steady stream of new characters that show up for a moment and then fade away, while old ones remain underused. Same pattern applies to powers, and even the system gets largely sidelined by a whole new one eventually.
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I honest to god have never hated a main character as much as this dude, Everything from the way he talks, to the way he treats every situation is like watching a guy who’s been neutered with his balls attached to his forehead waltz around like he doesn’t even know that they’re there.
He has ZERO self respect with no actual goal like for instance evolving or gaining any actual levels into his class.
I literally can’t express how much I hate this guy, He’s completely un-relatable with no goal whatsoever, He’s like the perfect slave and I hate that.
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Unfortunately another litrpg where the MC is written as a blabbering idiot, who is incapable of independent thoughts and does things out of plot convenience. The writing style is very clunky and immature. The litrpg - element is barely visible, progress glacially slow. If the MC had any kind of agency and goal, this premise would have been neat.
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Ok so, to start off, I'm going to say that this story will be disliked by the people who hate slow paced stories.
But other then that, you should be able to enjoy it unless your not a big fan of realistic characters. Because each character in the story is well developed, but the author also shows how each character is affected by the events that happen in the story. And for some people, *cough*random reviewer who doesn't like character growth and main characters that are actually affected by trauma *cough*, they don't like that. Which is fine.
Now the story itself is nicely developed, and has a huge amount of potential for greater growth in the future.
(Uhh, I suck at reviews, but I'm giving my honest opinion)
Which is that I've really enjoyed it so far, and hope the author doesn't abandon the story.
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The prologue is a little long but once the MC is in charge it’s a really good story. Not really a spoiler since “Tyrant” is in the title but (apparently) not everyone can read. I think people who hate this story wanted a boring power-fantasy. Instead MC has doubts like a real person. The characters and their relationships are deep and rich. The setting is explored gradually instead of a info-dump/exposition. The pacing... maybe slow?
I recommend you read this story.
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Big, meaty chapters. Thick as an ogre. Lots happens in each chapter without glossing over all the details and deliberations.
MC has a decent human personality, and not too much murder-hobo hero syndrome. There are appropriate challenges.
Writing style and quality 5/5.
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I am enjoying the story thus far. While the pace is deliberate there is still meaningful action being taken in each chapter. I also enjoy that several characters are dealing with various psychological traumas. It opens up interesting avenues of growth. It helps ground the characters in an otherwise violent and bloody world.
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Main character does acts annoying as the other reviewers said but still its a great story, loving it so far.
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This is my 2nd 5 star review. Easily my favorite cultivation story. It starts off extremely poorly, moves to being decent, and then just keeps getting better the more you read it. Just when you think things are going to get stale the story takes an unexpected turn and continues to be very entertaining.
The characters are, for the most part, surprisingly believable and major parts of their personality are usually setup well in advance to anything that is effected by it. There's even a few characters that don't actively work towards their goal in anyway.
I have very few complaints overall. One is that character relevancy operates on a revolving door system, where characters are very relevant one chapter and are then irrelevant the next. Sometimes it's believable and other times it's not. Another is that it's insinuated that Tim spends a lot more time with his family and friends than we're shown, but 99% of it is cut out which also pushes less prominent characters far into the background until the door picks them next.
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