The Statsguy's Mag 3 A Sorcerer's Journey

Website : qidian china

Views : 3.88million

Rating : 9.3(709)

Chapters : 2100

Status : completed

Word count : 5.17

Author : Flying White Ergets

author level : lv5

No of works : 2

Disscussion : 3278

Year started : 2014

Translated works : - - - -

Genres : Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, School Life, Xuanhuan

Tags : Academy, Amnesia, Antihero Protagonist, Arrogant Characters, Artifacts, Books, Calm Protagonist ,Clever Protagonist, Fantasy Creatures, Male Protagonist, Monsters, Multiple Realms, Mythical Beasts, Orphans, Politics, Romantic Subplot, Ruthless Protagonist, Survival, Sword And Magic, Weak to Strong, Witches, Wizards

Popularity : Not much popular in china

Last edited : 22/Nov/2018

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Website : qidian international

Views : 1million

Rating : 3.9(152)

Chapters : 138

Rank : 160

Status : ongoing

Schedule : 5ch/week but translating at 3ch/week

Translator : John_Cui

Popularity : Not much popular here

Last edited : 23/Nov/2018

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Synopsis : "With my knowledge, give me a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world!"

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Sorcerer Continent—a world where sorcerers exist. Wielders of arcane knowledge. Masters of all elements. Sovereigns of s.p.a.ce and time. These sorcerers governed the world with their unrivalled prowess. One day, a young man awakened into this world with his past forgotten and no place to call home. Follow along as Glenn, by relying on his luck and wit, tries to survive and advance in this unforgiving world. Entangled within the machinations of fate, political schemes, power struggles and wars, he forges his own path and creates a place for himself.

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POSITIVE REVIEW :

FINAL EDIT (I think) : at (c570)

This has now become one of my top ranked novels. (Again, try not to judge it in the first 100 chapters). Very engaging storyline, and not just a linear progression of power ups. Incredibly rich world building : as time goes on you get exposed more and more to how vast the story world really is and just how much potential it has for more adventures, without getting the feeling of it just being a variant to the bigger world outside the world thing that IET's novels usually have.

There's quite a bit of character progression, not just in terms of the MC but of the side characters as well. The author explores a lot of the human moments and frailties that the character goes through, and not just his successes.

I believe this novel's formula for success is that the author avoided rus.h.i.+ng the MC through power ups, thus avoiding the spiral of having to find ever better loot and general OPness that pervades a lot of novels in this genre.

Spoiler

It's only at the 560th or so chapter that the MC finally got to upgrade himself to a 2nd level sorcerer (sorcerer apprentice -> 1st level sorcerer ->.... -> 9th level

Very highly recommended

EDIT 2: (at c237)

b.u.mping up my review to a 5. For whoever's going to read this, try not to judge it too harshly based on the first 100 or so chapters. After you get past the initial cliche stuff (annoying audience included), you get treated to a nice story with epic battles.

The MC isn't OP : while he's on top of the food chain for his level, he's not capable of jumping up the ranks so to speak. Instead, he constantly uses his wits and intelligence, and along the way you get treated to his viewpoint which is kinda unique IMO.

Instead of becoming just a series of power ups, you really get treated to a journey across different worlds.

EDIT: (at c150ish)

Fortunately, the novel is progressing better as time goes along. No more instant power ups, more story exposition and character improvement. It reads and feels like a unique novel, not just one of those cloned stuff. Happily upgrading my rating to a 4.

ORIGINAL:

The basic premise is ok, with pa.s.sing similarities to Warlock of the Magus World, at least in the academy phase. What kinda ruins it for me is how easy the author makes it for the MC

Spoiler

Something the MC researched gives him the ability to make a pheromone perfume. Because of this, he gets into a partners.h.i.+p with a businessman which leads him to earn thousands of magic stones (currency) a month, while the rest of his fellow apprentices can earn around 4 or 5 a month.

For me, the advantage is too much, and not realistic.

The way he keeps running into stuff that he'll need / can use isn't realistic either. A more balanced approach would have been a lot better IMO. Also, I don't like it when scenes events feel like they happen just to give the MC loot. I want a better sense of the story. So far there are also a LOT of author's notes in parenthesis (at least compared to other novels) and more often than not they break immersion.

Anyway, if you can accept that (I guess OP MCs aren't really that rare), so far it seems OK as a binge read. Different varieties of magic plus mad scientist like experiments are a welcome change to the usual xianxia body cultivating thing.

-BY Stark3 (NU)

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NEGATIVE REVIEW :

I really enjoyed A Sorcerer's Journey at first. I was intrigued to see where the story would go, I wanted to learn more about the setting, and I didn't have any issues with the main character early on.

My first major problem with A Sorcerer's Journey was the romance. First of all, I personally dislike romance in fiction in general. Out of the thousands of books I've read in my life, I can't actually recall any examples of romance subplots I enjoyed, although I do believe there have been a handful of those that I did actually like. Therefore, when I say I dislike the romance, it would be fair to say that this may matter far more to me than the average person. That said, the romance in A Sorcerer's Journey feels particularly bad to me. The main character and the character's love interest go from being strangers to being "in love, " far to quickly from my point of view. I suppose you could justify it one way or another but I can't suspend my disbelief here. It just feels tacked on and rushed.

The second problem is more like an amalgamation of small things that irked me as I read A Sorcerer's Journey. For example, there's this quote "With my knowledge, give me a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world!" The first time I read this was in the description of A Sorcerer's Journey. Then I actually read it within the story. If it had ended there everything would have been fine. Instead it is used even more, with less effectiveness each time. By simply overusing that quote, the author began to really disrupt my ability to enjoy A Sorcerer's Journey. It seems like such a small issue but things like that can really ruin the reading experience, especially when there are already other problems.

The third problem I have with A Sorcerer's Journey involves an odd writing choice. For most of A Sorcerer's Journey, events happen in chronological order. Then that changes with chapter 47 I believe. Here, a small time skip occurs. In the very next chapter, events from the skipped period of time are covered. As far as I could tell, there was no reason to skip forwards and then backwards in this scenario. It felt almost as if the author was in a hurry to write a specific scene, then realized he still needed to cover events that happened before that scene. Perhaps this isn't a big deal for other readers but this really disrupted my reading of A Sorcerer's Journey.

I'm sure there are more things I could bring up if I were to go back and skim through the chapters I read again but honestly I'd rather not. A Sorcerer's Journey isn't terrible and I can easily see some people happily reading this. I'm not one of those people though and I hope that this review helps others like me save themselves from a waste of time.

-BY Jamond Aroth (NU)

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My thoughts : I feel like this maybe an underrated novel but I don't know as I didn't read it myself.

In my library : NO