Our beloved (?) MC. Strong, smart, beautiful... she has it all.
But at what cost?
Jisha's best friend with whom she regrets losing connection.
Frei | Abandoned Snow - A newbie in Uval Hamlet that Jisha was compelled to help out.
Emmi | Hearth Ember - Abandoned Snow's elder sister. Former Tier 7 player.
Bren Tchan | BrenT
??? | Allux
??? | Molotova
??? | Kenshi
??? | Adverse
??? | Liuzhi
??? | Rizako
A supposed real-world martial artist Jisha encounters near Covan.
Characters that are unlikely to make a second appearance. Usually just appear to get destroyed.
Vadium/Euphrates - Hearth Ember's two suspicious party members.
Dharr - Brookie's friend.
Razor - A monk-like figure who specializes in esoteric martial arts knowledge.
Shahar - Razor's duo. Deceased. Lilliana is his adopted daughter.
Shop owners:
Rai - Uval Hamlet's frontier shop owner.
Shia - Evon Hamlet's materials shop owner.
Sidio - Covan's warehouse owner.
Quest-givers/Other:
Bourdois - The old guy in Uval Hamlet who requests a woodcutting service from Jisha and Abandoned Snow.
Kayla - Covan auctioneer.
I kind of wanted to put all mobs here (because they would belong in this category) but that would take too long.
- Living Wood
- Magma Slime
- Corrupted Tamaskan Devil
Jisha's guild from her previous life.
Melee Starter Stick - Deals 1-5 HP of damage. Infinite durability.
Ranged Starter Pellet - Deals 1-5 HP of damage. Does not disappear upon use. Infinite durability.
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Melee+ Starter Stick - Deals 10 damage. 50 durability.
Ranged+ Starter Pellet - Deals 10 damage. Disappears upon use. The system gives 50 to start with.
Fuseable consumable items that are often used for enchanting other items.
Known shards:
- Heat
- Darkness
- Corruption
- True Essence
Name: Wooden Sling
Type: Weapon
Class Restriction: None
Description: Slingshot's standard weapon.
Rating: Level 5, Common
Abilities:
Passive: +33 ATK, -67% AS while equipped.
Targeted Sling: Sling a projectile at the system's designated target. Cooldown: 10 seconds.
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Name: Golden Sling
Type: Weapon
Class Restriction: Ranged-branch
Description: Have you considered becoming a professional pitcher?
Rating: Level 5, Epic
Abilities:
Passive: +50 ATK, -50% AS while equipped.
Targeted Sling: Sling a projectile at the system's designated target. Cooldown: 8 seconds.
*>Name: Shahar's Nightwalker*
*>Type: Armor (Accessory, Drape)*
*>Description: "From darkness, bring them to the light."*
*>Rating: Unique*
*>Abilities:*
*>Absolute Anti-Appraisal (Passive, Toggle: No cooldown): When equipped, user name and level will be hidden from all parties. You may reveal them to anyone at any time. Exception: Rexian's Eyes.*
*>Anti-Paparazzi (Passive, Toggle: No cooldown): While enabled, all attempts to record you will become corrupted.*
*>Breeze (Passive(s), Toggle: No cooldown): While enabled, stamina drain is reduced by 50% and/or Presence is decreased by 50%. While out of combat for 5 minutes, Top Speed is increased by 200%.*
*>Night Walk (Toggle: No cooldown): Presence -99% for up to 10 minutes. Time remaining: 10:00.00. Cooldown: 1 week.*
*>Object Impermanence (Toggle: No cooldown): Gain up to 5 seconds of Incorporeality. Time remaining: 5.00. Cooldown: 1 week.*
*>Shahar's Blessing - Item Cloak (Rank 0): Mask the Presence of up to 10 Rank 0 Consumable-type items by 99% for one week. Items cloaked: 0/10. Cooldown: 1 week. Upgrade this ability using Shards of Darkness. Shards: 0/1.*
Vbian line: 01 and 02. Jisha owns the latter. According to her, it's a trash helmet.
Uval - Jisha and Abandoned Snow's starting location.
Erian - Syny's starting location.
Evon - Hearth Ember & co's starting location
One tier up from Hamlets.
Eclian - The Coalition's first visited Village.
Covan - Home of the auction house of the first "Beyonder" auction.
Uval/Shahar's Cemetery - Resting place of the legendary NPC Shahar. Near the Starter Hamlet Uval.
Home planet.
A monarchical territory in the Northeastern region of Etmos. Jisha's home country of which she is a princess.
The most prestigious school in the Northeastern region of Etmos of which Jisha is an alumnus.
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Meet Jisha Slyker, otherwise known as Fae Sol, as she and her family are assassinated both in VR and in real life. However, thanks to Deus Ex Machina, Fae Sol was time-traveled back to the past with all of the experience and knowledge that she gained in her first life. Watch as our MC uses everything in her repertoire to grow more powerful than the first time and change the future for the better.
Before even getting into the characters, world-building, or unique events, I'm met with two fundamental problems: set-up and pacing. My one complaint with the two beginning chapters is that the author doesn't go into much detail about why Fae Sol needed to play in the VRMMO better; I need something better than just a three-sentence explanation about how the VRMMO affected society in reality deeply. How did the game affect society that much? Maybe it's explained later in the novel, but as a beginner reader, I need something more to immerse and convince myself to read further.
The pacing (or focus) after the start is, in my opinion, not very good. I'm reading the MC take one action in a fight scene, and then a 3-5 sentence explanation about the viability of said action. Then the MC takes another action and enemies react, which is followed up with a 12-sentence explanation of the enemies' analysis of the MC, etc. If that wasn't enough, there are approximately six chapters that repeat the same events we read through in one chapter, but in another perspective. It's thanks to this 'tell rather than show' philosophy that I found myself frequently losing focus in these chapters.
There may be some interesting world-building details, unique character moments with Fae Sol planned in future chapters or even fantastic game classes that capitalize on good skills creating synergy with each other. However, the author's habit of focusing too much on small details or other uninteresting characters takes away Fae Sol's (the MC herself) time in the spotlight and prevents me from reading any further.
Counter-argument: I acknowledge that the frequent insertion of information is what some people prefer; some readers desire to have a lot of details given to them no matter the duration of any scene. I personally don't like this style of this info delivery and just prefer to read this info during the set-up of each scene. If you don't mind this dispatch method of info, then give this novel a try (at least for a few chapters).
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The pacing is spotty and inconsistent, with very little sense of time passing between events. Worldbuilding feels incomplete, with many of the details only about the impressiveness of Synergy compared to its contemporaries, and information about the world outside is practically nonexistent. We are given little information as to the MCs motives aside from the fact that she wants to get ahead to prevent what happened from repeating itself.
Fae Sol herself is an arrogant, exploitative character, who despite supposedly having real-world friends, shows next to no compassion towards others. While her future knowledge should assist her to a degree, it occasionally comes off as Mary Sue-ish due to just how much she knows about the game. Most of the time she is either irritated, smug, or stoic, with little variation in how she acts/feels between situations. She also arrogantly assumes that Synergy will go similarly to how it did before, completely ignoring the Butterfly Effect.
The longer scenes can feel very drawn-out, with a lot of text being about Fae Sol's unchanging emotion or the frustration of others regarding her. The action scenes are typical overpowered protagonist flair, with her never being in any real danger. It's good for turning your brain off, but little else.
The story has a jarring shift towards futuristic tech after chapter 30 rather than the fairly realistic stuff that had happened up to that point.
Despite this, the story has its moments, and has consistently good grammar. Many of the problems here are the type to be fixed in a re-write, which I'd recommend looking out for due to the good story lying underneath.
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Revenge story and mystery? About her whole family's killer and about the creator of the synergy and the god?.
Slow pacing like litterally 1 day 40+ chapter.
Earlier chapters is confusing, The world building is good the game elements and the way MC creates her path even in limitations of the classes there are confusing parts and the character interactions are fun.
Imma stacking chapts now that I caught up waiting when MC starts training in real world and The assimilation of the mc's real look and her avatar???
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I enjoyed this novel, it's a little whimsical and focussed on the reborn aspect. It has it's flaws like often derailing from the main objective or focussing on a random day activity like playing a horror game with a friend, but it does make the story feel alive.
It's unfortunate it went on hiatus.
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When I started reading the premise was promising and held my interest. Soon after reading the. First couple of chapters the tone shifted and was tending towards a comedic science-fiction regression fantasy and I didn't like it at all. It only held this for short while then returned to being more serious. Well, as serious as a regression fantasy can be. Book 1 comprised an interesting assortment of actors and plot lines to be interesting and willing to follow up on. It had a good transition but not such a great incline or rising action. Tension never tightened so much as it was just a constant simmer the whole way through. Book 2 is wholly worse as the narrative isn't coherent with where the story is expected to go. Book 2 transitions nicely from the end of book 1 but doesn't lead to anything meaningful. There are leads to follow and avenues of intrigue I'd like to see explored, but instead what happened was significant writing put towards a horror game simulation and a mundane visit to the DMV. There was also mention of cultivation which had no precedent anywhere else in the novel and should be left out. There is significant emphasis on war and military but not much narrative goes into detail solidifying... the details. Countries, nations, maps, alliances, first battles, later battles are all left out and presumably is something the author didn't want to deal with until later. Anyway, that's how it's read for me so far. Thank goodness there's no romance. Most things from book 1 seem okay and is worth reading except for the tone at the beginning, and it need better rising action. It was also rewritten I think and it shows. Everything after (book 2) isn't good.
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