Trinity of Magic

Ezekiel recognized early in life that he didn’t want to follow in his parent’s footsteps and spend... Read more Ezekiel recognized early in life that he didn’t want to follow in his parent’s footsteps and spend the rest of his days as a mere farmer. No, his eyes are set on a grander stage, a place where tales of monster hunters, mighty generals, and benevolent heroes hold court — A world of Magic and mysteries.One day, the opportunity he had been waiting for arrives. Without a second thought, Ezekiel throws himself headfirst into the adventure. However, not everything turns out to be as magical as he had dreamt it to be…THIS IS A SLOW BURN FANTASY PROGRESSION LITRPG STORY:Even though you are not going to see blue boxes from chapter one, I guarantee you that this IS a LitRPG story. This is, however, NOT a pure «game world»! Instead, I have tried to integrate the interface elements of a LitRPG into a world with a very thought-out magic & power system, which will be explored over the course of the first book.This world doesn’t work like a game, where you can put '5 points in strength' and the body somehow changes magically into a stronger version of itself. It might take a couple of chapters for the world and magic to start to make sense, but I feel like a power system built on solid principles is a lot more rewarding in the long run (…and more IMMERSIVE!).RELEASE SCHEDULE:Regular release Schedule: 3 Chapters a week; Mo, We, Fr. Collapse Game Elements, Urban, Dungeons, Wars, Handsome Male Lead, High Fantasy, Sword And Magic, Male Protagonist, Mythology, Age Progression, Ruling Class, Strategist, Overpowered Protagonist, Military, Weak to Strong, Academy, Accelerated Growth, Adventurers, Army Building, Battle Academy, Beastkin, Blood Manipulation, Bullying, Character Growth, Clever Protagonist, Conspiracies, Death of Loved Ones, Determined Protagonist, Discrimination, Dragons, Magic, Mind Break, Race Change, Skill Creation, Slaves, Spatial Manipulation, Subtle Romance, LitRPGIs it worth reading? Sure. However, this is just a wishful story or a "fairy tail". This isn't really a cultivation LN. Things happen because they author says they happen not really due to rules of common sense or rules of cultivation and levels of power, they just "are". This is like a bedtime story you tell at bedtime.... It doesn't go very deep into the cultivation nor does i go deep into how the magic works. It has some depth into how magic works, but at the same time it seems to be completely ignored and at times you really wonder if that was even a spell or just the author claiming it's a spell. The MC goes up against monsters and the author never tells you what their power level is. Then the MC goes into a dungeon like place (old hidden ruins) that have all these monsters in there that should probably be powerful, but once again no power levels are ever mentioned, yet the very weak MC kills them without issues....SpoilerIn the old hidden ruins they find out that they were the ruins of a very advanced civilisation that specialized in mind magic, one of the tree magics the MC has a specialty in. All the knowledge of mind magic is horded away by the emperor and his family of mind mages and they don't allow other mind mages to really advance in real mind magic. So the MC decides to destroy EVERYTHING because the ruins old residence did a large amount of their research on unethical ways to use mind magic. The MC did not spend time searching for mind magic teachings and spells and training in the ruins at all.... No one outside of this crappy countries emperor has any real knowledge of mind magic and it's spells and they won't teach anyone that information nor their spells. Lets just destroy all of this FREE knowledge and not learn stuff that even the emperor of this crappy country probably doesn't know.. He doesn't have to use the stuff he finds to be unethical. There is so much more there than this unethical knowledge, but he just goes ahead and destroys it all..... This MC is stupid...Great story. Before listening to the reviews saying it's bad, at least read the first 30 chapters and then make your decision.All I can say is that this is a fantastic novel, I wish I had a better word, because the charm of this novel is wonderful, in the final chapter of 'B3' I could only shiver with excitement And anxiety, mark my words, it's going to be one of the soap operas that your mind won't have a choice in if you don't follow it, it may seem silly at first, but the more you go on, the more eager you are to see what the Initially the storyline is ok....but it become bad, after the story is told in third person point of view it lacks character interaction it is all in narrative and spell formula is lacking, it says inscribed/inscription correct me if I'm wrong, inscribing the core with a spell is the way to breakthrough to become a True mage but what should be inscribed, there is nothing should they just inscribed intentions or inscribed geometric formula of the spell, runes, or letters....nah...it just so lacking . If you want for a pastime reading waiting for updates, then I recommend this novel but for serious Nah....just skip this onestory started out ok but it got freaking stupid later onNovel seems to have some sort of weird usage of words that seems a bit off, not much character development honestlyWhen I wrote this review I was in chapter 44 SpoilerI have to say the author should stop calling these abilities of his spells, because there is no weaving of mana, no spell construct no manipulation of magic in anyway even the first two "spells" its was the same he should just call it an ability or skill matter of fact they should just give the MC a system because the way he is learning his spells is the same way people other novels with system get and level their skills by repeatedly doing the same thing till he gets a system message the only thing that's kind of unique nd is cool is the engraving of the "spell" in their core buts still I'm not happy... for that I'll give it a 2/5 Agreed. These "spells" don't even seem to be spells or magic in the normal sense of magic spells. As you said there never seems to be any weaving of magic or mana. The things that the author does is more like very limit or singular use of LAWS that you get in cultivation LNs. It is very oddly written. It seems more like a wishful story or a "fairy tail" you would tell at bedtime, than a magic/cultivation LN...Really I really enjoy this novel, it's one of my favorites on the Royal Road and every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I'm always on time to read the new chapters. My comment is not a recommendation but I urge you to read this book. The author is a good friend of mine and he does illustrations of each character and they're pretty descriptive. Everyone who says that it sucks try at least to read half of the present chapters2.5/5What can i say? It's forced. The characters are forced, not smart or intelligent.In the empire that mc is, elemental mages (fire, water, earth and wind) are more valuable, only because they are the majority and have further developed their techniques.Minor spoiler cap 5 where mc awakened / discovered your elements.Elements: SpoilerBlood, Mind and SpaceYeah, after of you know the elements, know that happens? MC is treated like crap and starts the famous bullying ARC. Anyone knows that the elements of mc are strong and have countless possibilities, but still, the author wants to make the ARC of bullying in his story and tries to give unconvincing reasons for mc to be treated like this.I don't know if the novel gets better later on, but I can't get past the beginning of it.Wdym forced and unconvincing?There are plenty or reasons why Mc gets shunned and bullied and people don't think his elements are good. To start the elements he uses are employed by enemies of the empire and the earth, wind, fire, and water clans actively make it so that other elements are shunned and those with strong bloodlines of other elements are killed so they don't form their own great clans. Wdym " Anyone knows that the elements of Mc are strong and have countless possibilities"? No, not everyone in the setting knows that. You and I might know that his elements are strong with our modern day knowledge and knowledge of other novels and the fact that Mc is going to become strong in the future but in the setting the people don't know for very obvious reasons. Not just that but having a tri or dual affinity is usually a bad thing in the setting, and in the setting they haven't perfected knowledge of magic.All of his elements have limiting factors. One is strictly controlled by the royal faction and barely anything is taught about it, another is used by an enemy empire and spells aren't taught for it in the empire and it is also shunned because it is used by the enemies who are at war with the empire (his teacher at the acadmy literally treats it like a curse to have the element), and the other is expensive and not strong at lower levels as its easily counterable. Not just that but he is a commoner, with a tri affinity which is also looked down on, and only has elements that are looked down on. They all seem rather convincing reasons for the bulling and fit the setting of the story.Ok, I understand you, but I have other opinions."people don't think his elements are good" - Friend, the mc had element Mind (same of King and your royal faction), no good? no strong?- Second element Blood, element used by an enemy empire, really no strong? It's impossible for the enemy empire not have others elements and only Blood, like earth, wind, fire and water are basic elements. Other point, if it's your enemy main element, you need study and understand all yours skills or abilities to win wars, and not ostracize all peoples in your empire who has this element.- Element space no good? Ok, here you might be right that i know with modern knowledge, but again, like a new element, need to be studied and understand its possibilities."having a tri or dual affinity is usually a bad thing in the setting"- as far as i read, only 2 problems that are time to train all elements and money. Not big issues for me.mind- no good? no strong? yes because the imperial family want it to be no good no strong for anybody other than them and he can do nothing about it.blood- no good? no strong?- yes because the empire dont care about it. It knows how to deal with not how to use it.space- no good? no strong?- you figured out the problem yoursef.his situation is:he went to agriculture school in uganda but the only thing he can learn is rocket science psychology and playing rugby and he must learn all three of this subjects that they dont teach at the same time,and everybody in that school hates rugby playersCongratulations friend! You have succefully ignored one of the first plot points used by the author!Yes, the discrimination based on cores is cliche as hell, true. But the author makes a whole construction of the why, how it came to be, and the merits and disadvantageof the structure based on the 4 elements.And the two main reasons for the bulling were quite simple too:First, he is a commoner-born. Second, he uses a 'secondary' element as main (Blood) and one used by one of their enemy nationsSpoilerMain Advantages of the 4 'Main/Primary' Elements:-More spells created-Easy to find resources (element/energy stones are created naturaly in a respective environment. Ocean/Lake produces water stone and such)-More definined personalities (it was latter theorised and almost confirmed to influence the attribute of the core)-Existent structure (the main elemental families of the Empire already have their respective places in their nation. Army, intelligence, defence, and more, making easier for people to find their path)Main Disadvantage:-Limited fighting style due to the existent structure and heritage-Too used in dealing with their fellow 4 elements, causing a glaring hole in the training of future soldiers/powerhouses (except for the elements used by the nations currently/formerly in war, like the Light/Darkness/Blood elements)-Lack of actual development in many fields unrelated to war due to the fixation with what they already have (funnily enough, this blocks them from improving their military as many things made for/by civilians may as well spark a whole change in technology)While the plot point is VERY cliche, I ended up quite impressioned with how well the author developed it as the world expanded.RubbishAmazing review