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You got my interest piqued. Where to find "The Strongest Sword God in a Magic World"? I tried finding it on CN sites, including chinese qidian, but only found some removed book.

The plot is not my cup of tea, but the novel's rather decent. If you enjoy reading about gods and mythology, give it a try. Review as of chapter 30.

Oh rip, to think that I have read the novel not so long ago and just now wanted to go back to check something. Well, I'll read author's note as to why he dropped the novel. If you want the access try searching with original title 这个巫师只想带学生 , more than one site should pop up.

I have read up to the latest chapter in CN. The beginning (Dalang kingdom) reminds me a bit of "Immortality: My cultivation Has No Bottleneck" - both MCs try to avoid conflicts, they stock up on supplies or try to find a shelter with powerful forces or people to be safe. I enjoy this flow. But in this novel, especially later on, MC is more active and not just an observator from behind the scenes, and instead of showing us the passage of time he talks about rotten world and being a good person. The novel isn't packed with much action in the first 300-400 chapters, until a plot twist happens and MC is thrown to underworld for a dangerous adventure. And when he discovers the existence of the grand plot encompassing the realm, he realises that his enemies, just like him, are weak people at the bottom who suffer and don't really have a choice. And that wiping them out won't really change much, as they are easily replaceable by greater forces, it's quite pointless. So he somewhat changes his approach, also thanks to his abilities, and no longer cares that much about wiping out those who target him or fight him to death. The plot is well thought-out and probably still in its infant arcs. Only a corner of the mortal world, the underworld and outerworld unfolded and the world sure is vast. It's not a masterpiece, but it's interesting enough even with the parts with no fights. I'd want to read more, but sadly, have to wait for more chapters.

It's a good novel. Reminds me a bit of Immortality: My cultivation Has No Bottleneck, but this Grinding one is somewhat more realistic, the MC isn't as extreme in avoiding karma and conflicts and there seems to be more action.

It's one of these novels packed with action, where MC can barely find time for rest as he is almost always on the run & in high stress environment. Quite good in the first 27 chapters, but not sure how it will unfold later. As for the story, as far as I understand it's an apocalyptic/horror world setting in which humans survive in several isolated divine realms based on some entities. But these divine realms need power to operate, grow or shield its inhabitants from danger, and it just happens that the divine realm MC lives in is quite weak overall and starts to run out of power, then becomes a sieve penetrated by evil from main world and begins to fall apart.

Yeah, in the author notes, he wrote that a novel wasn't his plan when he first got encouraged to write a fragment or essay in some chat group. He also mentioned that later it was supposed to be a pet novel, with a system of teaching pets, but when he saw so many pet novels, he switched to something else. After the beginning chapters with focus on teaching, the usual sorcerer novel seems the main part, with the team of apprentices as an addition. I don't mind. The plot is in my opinion already gentler or less complicated than the older famous sorcerer novels, while fights and solving ,,bosses" are quickies, they flow more naturally. Just due to that, these opponents may feel somewhat weak or lackluster.

It's actually quite similar to the serious bloody sorcerer novels from the past, just that the MC isn't a lone wolf, but grows through cultivating apprentices. He can bind an apprentice to a slot permanently and once the apprentice learns something new e.g. a spell, he can obtain a modified, better version of it. If the apprentice is in proximity, both get a buff. Etc. And although he has few slots to assign apprentices, he doesn't only cultivate the apprentices in the slots and ignore others. His life goal is apparently to make the sorcerer world a better place, which also means a better place for these cannon fodder apprentices whose death he thinks is often meaningless, apprentices who are exploited, cheated, treated as toys by cruel, stronger wizards.

So this will be my next novel, I decided.

As of chapter 618, well, not really. They are pretty much in name only. First it was one monster girl plot-forced on him due to political reasons as a concubine, but she isn't really his concubine anymore, it was just a design on MC. Second, a young warlock's apprentice that was originally sent to observe and spy on him. He proposed her to join his forces, took her as concubine due to her status, it was convenient. She acts more like his right-hand as a dean of an academy of warlocks. There's nothing romantic going on between them, but she's still his concubine. Then there is one shy and weak princess, also plot-forced on him, she was finally saved and moved recently to his territory and they treat each other with cliche words of husband and wife. But that's pretty much it. In the arc she awakened her bloodline, there was a foreshadowing that people with this bloodline are all ambitious and that she might not remain so simple. Looking at the plot, she might become some new unstable factor for MC, like, she might be some ancient guy lurking, no idea as of now.