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DicerX
DicerXLv22yrDicerX

Actual hogwash! A 100 chapters in, and the author is just copying concepts from Lord of Mysteries and Advent of the Archmage, I'm usually very forgiving with this, especially with shameless pirates, but the author is insufferable. So far, no originality, zero world-building, absolutely no character building you'd expect from Lord of Mysteries. If the plot were spoken to me in monotone, I would believe it. An incredibly dull plot that moves from A to B as fast as they could, and the author needs to learn that word "curiosity" exists instead of using curious whenever he wants. Jarring grammatical mistakes, but that could be fixed with an editor. I think he's an upcoming author, and I would like to encourage him to continue, but I'll be brutally honest here and hope he can work something better in the future.

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DicerX
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Maybe my comment was too harsh, but I meant you copied concepts of the novels and not the whole plot. That would be ridiculous. And honestly, the other reason why I was critical of the novel's grammar was that it was mostly fine but at random a jarring times grammatical jumps in disrupting what I was engrossed in reading. A Grammarly account would probably solve this issue for you, and frankly, your writing was terrific. If you can pm me, I can share my Grammarly account with you to help out. Hmmm, honestly, talking to you made me want to give the novel another chance. And I'll do so in time, but I can't stress how essential descriptions are. I was thrown out of sorts with how fast the plot was progressing when I wanted to explore the MC's situation and environment more. Again, I realise that I might have been too harsh, but I was pretty upset as I loved the concepts of the novel but didn't enjoy the execution of it. No author is born pro, and no one can be perfect, but I hope that I came off as critical in an effort to help rather than throwing around insults.

Ak02
Ak02AuthorAk02

Well, it's my readers' response. I received similar review and decided to ask my readers whether I should write or drop the novel. And, this is their response. If any one reader said similar thing like you, I would have long dropped this novel. I'm writing for the readers to enjoy the novel. Not for some dollars. Again, this novel is inspired from Lotm, not a copy. There is a big difference. And, most of the readers are reading for the world building. It's just not your type of novel. In your review, you said you've read 100+ chaps. If so, you should've known that how much I spent time to built the plot. Just saying that its a copy is plain insult to my hardwork. ✌️

Ak02
Ak02AuthorAk02

Well, I'm not a native english speaker and the descriptions are not on par with Lotm or other novels. Cuttlefish wrote everything in a very descriptive manner and he spent 6 months just for the world building itself. Comparing my novel with his one is not a good idea. I'm just a beginner while Cuttlefish has completed more than four novels. But what I'm disagreeing with you is about my novel being a copy of Lotm. That's not copy, that's called Inspiration. If I copied that novel, I wouldn't have gotten the contract invitation from Webnovel. So, this is not a copy. I'm a big fan of cuttlefish and by saying that I'm copying his work is hurting me more than other things.

Ak02
Ak02AuthorAk02

First volume is more about MC finding the anomalies one by one and getting away from enemies' clutches. I already rewrite the plot 3 times before posting it on webnovel. In my opinion, first volume is good. And, most of the readers liked it a lot. Rewriting a novel is not an easy thing. I already wrote more than 400 plus chapters and none of the readers said that first volume is bad or anything. Well, most of them liked it a lot. If you don't believe me, you can go to chapter 80th comment section and see it for yourself. You are expecting too much from a original novel. If I write this novel in my native language, maybe I could've live up to your expectations. It takes time to write a good descriptions even in one's native language. So, I haven't reached that level yet.

Ak02
Ak02AuthorAk02

Nah, I'm actually using the Grammarly premium account for the corrections. But I didn't use it for the first volume and that's where I got messed up a little. Currently, I don't have time. If not, I would've revised the vol-1 twice or thrice by now. The next is descriptions... Yeah, I was pretty much bad at this in the beginning. Later, I managed to give more importance to it. But still, I need a lot of improvement in that part. As for copying the concept, most of the Webnovels are the copy of others. I think you haven't read these types of novels before. For example, the Night Ranger also has a similar Class based system like [Ranger- Night Walker- Ruler of the Night- and Legend Class.] The same goes for the Abyssal Domination novel, The Amber Sword, Advent of the Archmage, and so on. If you look at the Japanese light novels, you'll find most of them have a similar class system. I picked up the classes from Dnd and then my previous novel and made a unique one similar to LOTM. But unlike LOTM, there are many power level systems in mine (Class Gem pathway, Divine Pathway, Bloodline Pathway, and Ancient Mage pathway). If you take the Ranks and skills, most of them are completely different. The same goes for the world. Lotm mostly revolves around a single world, but this one has multiple worlds like Edhen World, Fire-elemental plane, Dream World, Faith Realm, and so on. It's not that I don't have any idea to write novels, but I want to create a novel with an RPG-based class system. Copying the concepts happens in all the novels. Take Warlock of the magus world novel, the author even copied the first volume story from Wizard world. But I only mimicked Cuttlefish's sequence system. Even for me, it took more than three days to complete the class chart. And, I also spent more time thinking about which skill would be suitable for each class. It may be easy for a reader to say that this novel is a complete copy of Lotm, but any author would feel a little heartbreak if they hear such harsh comments. I also read much about plagiarism and knew what to do and what's not to do. If I even copied the sequence system, I wouldn't have gotten the contract invitation from Webnovel itself. Nah, I would've put this under a fan-fiction category. Anyway, that's for the review man. I gotta go and write.[img=recommend]

DicerX:Maybe my comment was too harsh, but I meant you copied concepts of the novels and not the whole plot. That would be ridiculous. And honestly, the other reason why I was critical of the novel's grammar was that it was mostly fine but at random a jarring times grammatical jumps in disrupting what I was engrossed in reading. A Grammarly account would probably solve this issue for you, and frankly, your writing was terrific. If you can pm me, I can share my Grammarly account with you to help out. Hmmm, honestly, talking to you made me want to give the novel another chance. And I'll do so in time, but I can't stress how essential descriptions are. I was thrown out of sorts with how fast the plot was progressing when I wanted to explore the MC's situation and environment more. Again, I realise that I might have been too harsh, but I was pretty upset as I loved the concepts of the novel but didn't enjoy the execution of it. No author is born pro, and no one can be perfect, but I hope that I came off as critical in an effort to help rather than throwing around insults.