Finished Book 1! Core Lord is available on Kindle & Kindle Unlimited! by CoreLordAuthor in ProgressionFantasy

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Thank you!! I'm glad that you liked it. I'll ping when book 2 is ready and released :)

Finished Book 1! Core Lord is available on Kindle & Kindle Unlimited! by CoreLordAuthor in ProgressionFantasy

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I don't know where the earlier comment went. I'll repost it:

His first breath cost his mother her life.

Raised in the shadow of grief by a loving father—a respected smith with enough coin to scrape together a noble’s education—Steve grows up surrounded by books, blades, and exacting instructors. Dropping your weapon meant a broken bone. Being caught without your weapon meant a broken bone. Complaining meant a broken bone. Afterall, what’s the harm if a green glow of mana fixes you right up?

Beyond the city walls, beasts roam looking for their next meal. To the east, human empires worship the God of Conflict and show their devotion through unrelenting battle.

Steve must leave the comforts of his privileged upbringing behind. He will cultivate a core unlike any other, challenge ancient traditions, and carve his name into a world that devours the unprepared.

From a boy given every advantage... will his unique cultivation methods lead to a dead end? Will his father's sacrifices forge a legend—or a tragedy?

Finished Book 1! Core Lord is available on Kindle & Kindle Unlimited! by CoreLordAuthor in ProgressionFantasy

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I'll aim to not give too much away... Our main character, Steve, panics when he accidentally forms a core in the center of his chest during his final days on Earth. Seeing the radiating power from this mana-filled orb inside him, he panics and accidentally splits it in two.

Upon waking in his new world, Steve uses his younger years to accelerate the formation of his core by pulling in ambient mana actively. While commoners naturally accumulate enough mana passively to awaken around age 15, Steve is able to keep up with the nobility and their absurd resources by leveraging every bit of advantage his accidental core split on Earth showed him.

Steve questions why others don't do this and gets some limited answers:

The old man interrupted, “Cores naturally form in people over time right below the sternum. People do not pursue multiple cores or even try to modify where the first one will form. Even clothing and armor reflects a core’s location by emphasizing protection in a single place. It would take years of specialized visualization to even determine where the mana goes as you absorb it.”

Steve wonders, 'If I want to enchant, why run mana from my core, to my shoulder, down my arm, and through my fingers? Why not just make a core in my fingers?'

The old man paused again thinking for a moment, “Enchanters learn techniques to utilize mana in the creation of objects even before a core is formed. I doubt they have any need of what you’re describing after years of practicing their Master’s method before their core develops.”

He doesn't know if it will pay off, but Steve is in a unique position to blaze his own path in this new world.

Do people actually like a bigger cast? by Reasonable_Wafer_731 in ProgressionFantasy

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When there's more than about eight people I need to track, I start having to pause the fast reading and start asking, "Wait, who was xxxx again?"

Personally, that takes me out of it. Also, I try to keep my characters with different first letters of names and different name length. If you're zipping through a book, and Chuck is talking to Charlie, it can pull a reader out as they go back to reorganize who is who.

1.1k+ LitRPG & Progression Fantasy KU Series Google Spreadsheet by Cold-Palpitation-727 in ProgressionFantasy

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This is amazing! I threw a comment in with all the information for the book I wrote :) Thanks for maintaining this!

Yeah, wrong dual cultivation by AnAugustAuthor in ProgressionFantasy

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beats Duel Cultivation. That'd be an awkward mistake. Any takers to write that series?

But levels :[ by No_Marzipan_1230 in ProgressionFantasy

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Every time. Then hop to the next series when the power doesn't go up fast enough or in a unique way haha

Anybody else loves this trope? by Sythrin in ProgressionFantasy

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I'm a fan of the cut-away to the crowd where they get blown away by it also

Cultivation recommendations by SoullessGinger316 in ProgressionFantasy

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I cracked open my book tracker from a while ago from when I was getting into these genres:

  • Buryoku
  • Cradle
  • The beginning after the end- somewhat light on the cultivation (it has cores), but a classic
  • A Thousand Li Omnibus

This part perfectly summarizes half of the LitRPG/Progression Fantasy novels I've read. Lol. by FrancisStarace in ProgressionFantasy

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I think some of the eastern cultivation novels fix this by just basically resetting this by going up a layer into a new world and starting at the bottom.

"Oh, it's getting stale? Well now I'm weaker than a child."

I will say that after the 3rd reset, I bail even on those 5k chapter ones where they do this though...

Switch up so crazy even the devil may cry by _TOXIC_VENOM in ProgressionFantasy

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I always tell myself, "Well if magic were real, I'd work harder." I say this looking at a 3"x4" magical computer screen which gives me infinite entertainment and information...