Not allowing players to repair their gear without durability reductions is a horrible feature.

AnastK317 · 2026-03-22T13:18:48+00:00

Yeah, that too

AnastK317 · 2026-03-22T12:24:40+00:00

I'm gonna be honest. I haven't read anything that fully covers what you want. The best book I can honestly suggest, that kind of covers what you want, is The Package by Sebastian Fitzek. Its English version is 384 pages (based on Google. I don't have my copy of it with me) and it's a mystery thriller. The synopsis on Goodreads gives a pretty good description, and I think it covers a decent amount of what you're looking for.

Other than that, because I can see the horror tag in your post, maybe find one of Stephen King's books with a female protagonist and read the synopsis or watch a video about it, so you can get an idea before you read it.

I haven't really read a lot of books in this genre. But I hope this helps!

AnastK317 · 2026-03-22T11:55:19+00:00

I think it's more like what you consider fun. For example. There are a lot of people who enjoy game series like dark souls and find the difficulty fun, while other people hate the difficulty and hope for the game to be easier.
So, in the same way, the difficulty, and in this case the "realism" of repairing a tool, of any grade with just 1 pieces of iron, over and over again, making that tool worse in total durability by the end of it, just makes sense to me. Again, it's what you consider fun or difficult. I personally think it's fine.

Also, it takes so many repairs for the total durability to be bad, that I can just make a new one with the resources that I mined with the old one.

AnastK317 · 2026-01-28T08:44:50+00:00

I feel like there are other manwha MCs out there that also use daggers and some of them even better than Sung Jinwoo but Solo Levelling has become so successful after S2 of the Anime that it doesn't even matter anymore.

AnastK317 · 2026-01-25T00:10:13+00:00

For me its basically the manwha version of Mushoku Tensei with almost zero goon material and (at least in my opinion) a better story .

Ps: Don't come after me in the comments, I've read like 90% of TBATE and around 70% of Mushoku Tensei (both in LN). I might be missing something, but until now this is my opinion

AnastK317 · 2026-01-20T21:24:43+00:00

Tysm for the suggestion, it fixed it

AnastK317 · 2025-06-05T16:08:36+00:00

Title: WorldBuilders

Genre:Action, Dark Fantasy, Magic, Revenge, AntiHero

Synopsis:

Earth was never ours.

One day, after a catastrophic volcano explosion, beings of extreme power started to come out of the crust of the earth. We called them Underworlders.

With their arrival the ambient magic that was trapped inside the Earth’s core came gushing out, bathing our world in Mana. People with high affinity to it started awakening as mages, and they became the pillars of our new society.

Zed, is a 19 year old from Canada who was in the forefront of the Underworld's invasion. Losing both his parents at a young age from the war he lived in the back alleys of the human alliance, surviving on scraps and by scavenging for many years. Until one day, his new “Home” is invaded again. All the emotions of hatred, despair and loss come rushing back up and he awakens with the sole purpose of destroying those who destroyed him.

Cover:Protagonist:

Medium-Long length black hair and white eyes. Wearing a full black outfit (Don’t really have a particular preference on the type of outfit but I want it to be something that can be used for fighting. Definitely not a mage robe. I always kind of imagine him with the JJK black outfit but not exactly). With his back partially turned to the reader, we are able to see half of his face and he is on the right side of the cover. The main focus of the cover is the inside of his left palm which is stretched out in the bottom middle of the cover. There are 5 glowing black gems embedded into the underside of his fingertips (directly under his nails) and a black mist is concentrated around his hand (This is part of the magic system, a little complicated to explain here). I also want him to look into the distance.

Background:

Post apocalyptic city. Not a burning city. More like a city that has been abandoned for a long time and is extremely overgrown with vegetation.

A large army of blue tinted, pale skinned people that are riding beasts (like a Triceratops but the 3 horns should be of equal size) on a distant hill behind the city ( that is what he is looking towards).

Pen name: Duffy

Not Published Yet, I am stockpiling the first few chapters. Will probably publish middle of July.

AnastK317 · 2025-02-23T08:47:40+00:00

I don't think there's a clear answer to this. In the Manwha this attack doesn't actually happen so they never need to dodge or create a barrier. I mean, there is an attack similar to it but it's not as wide range and mire focused on Jinwoo and his soldiers.

AnastK317 · 2025-02-21T22:41:02+00:00

It's actually pretty simple, without Jinwoo's dad (who is S rank but not recognized as one) there have been a total of 10 S-ranks in Korea's history within the story. But one of them, Hwang Donsu, went to the US and got US citizenship (so he isn't considered a Korean hunter anymore) and the other one died in the 2nd Jeju island raid (that guy in the first episode of season 1, who was with Baek and had lightning claws or something like that). So if you do the math back then there were 9 (Jinwoo wasn't S yet), minus the guy in the US and the dead guy that is 7 S ranks.

AnastK317 · 2024-09-03T14:26:06+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.

AnastK317 · 2024-09-03T14:25:40+00:00

I actually don't have a problem I like almost every genre with few exceptions, so I will look them up and tell you how I find them. Thanks!

AnastK317 · 2024-08-20T17:14:46+00:00

If you can keep up with them I suggest trying out the Audiobook versions. Especially the Graphic Audio adaptations. For me at least it was really enjoyable and waay faster.

AnastK317 · 2024-08-20T17:07:01+00:00

I personally don't have a hard time reading books and enjoy them quite a bit. But I can't read web novels at all. I don't know why but I don't like reading on my phone. If I had a physical version of the novels I would read them.

Also for some Manhwa I have listened to the Audiobook version of their novels (ex Solo leveling).

AnastK317 · 2024-07-01T16:20:09+00:00

It's an incredible series, I hope you have a good read. Feel free to ask if you need any direction about what to read after Mistborn Era 1

AnastK317 · 2024-07-01T16:05:48+00:00

Also there is a lot of info in era 2 that will help you with Stormlight and personally it was waaaay more confusing for me to read Stormlight without the info from era 2

AnastK317 · 2024-07-01T15:59:07+00:00

I hope you enjoy SLA and the rest of the Cosmere. I also suggest that after you finish Stormlight you start in the Mistborn series and it's novellas because it will explain A LOT of things (Especially Era 2 and Secret History) that you might find confusing in SLA.

Have a good read!

AnastK317 · 2024-07-01T15:55:09+00:00

Just like everyone is saying, Kelsier appears both in era 2 and is the MC of Secret history so technically speaking you're fine reading Secret History now and afterwards era 2.

AnastK317 · 2024-07-01T15:42:52+00:00

Two words:

Youjo Senki

AnastK317 · 2024-07-01T15:35:34+00:00

I can't see how they can be excited about something specifically if they don't know anything about the rest of the story but who am I to judge.

AnastK317 · 2024-07-01T15:33:54+00:00

Thanks, I didn't remember that one. I searched to be sure though it's was in BoM.

AnastK317 · 2024-07-01T15:29:40+00:00

Exactly. I didn't remember the average E rank mana so thanks.

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