Badges 15
Moments 147
When does this part end? I've basically checked out since Thomas went off on his side quest. I genuinely do not care about any of this stuff. Supporting characters don't *need* to have their own dedicated arcs. Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger never did, and their development never suffered for it. A strong supporting character may not be able to carry their own storyline.
ch 405 Left Alive?
A Bored Lich
Fantasy · Random_writer
When in doubt, language is a push to the bottom. What's the least amount of effort I can expend to communicate? Enunciating is hard, so let's slur our words so our tongues, lips, and jaw have to move as little as possible. Let's use as few words as possible to convey a meaning. That's, of course, not to be confused with efficiency. Someone dedicating no effort to communicate will almost always spend magnitudes more energy trying to communicate the same meaning as a more eloquent person, as their judgement of 'least words possible' is very, very rarely actually enough, so they'll have to spend extra time and energy clarifying that meaning.
Both Aya and Eve were silent people, so during the entire trip, none of them spoke up a word.
Science/Magic
Fantasy · Aidka
"neither of them spoke a word." There's only two of them, so a generic descriptor like 'none' that doesn't specific quantity, while literally accurate, is not really proper to use here. That's just one of those tribal knowledges about the language that you'll really only pick up from great familiarity. Using a descriptor like 'none', based solely on a person's experience with the way it's typically used, implies more than two people as a bare minimum. Same with the phrase "spoke up a word." I'm sure some bored linguist in some ivory tower somewhere has come up with some absolutely confounding rationale to justify why this phrase is awkward, but normal people with interests in things other than esoteric, soon-to-be-outdated grammar rules just know intuitively that it is.
Both Aya and Eve were silent people, so during the entire trip, none of them spoke up a word.
Science/Magic
Fantasy · Aidka
Am I the only one tired of capture arcs? They're never satisfying, almost always actively frustrating, and just as frequently require plot armor of some kind to justify. Don't even get me started on the escape and recapture variant.
ch 1740 Mankind’s Path (Part 2)
Supreme Magus
Fantasy · Legion20
"A full set for *me*. You guys are on your own."
"Agreed." The others replied in unison.
Supreme Magus
Fantasy · Legion20
Probably the same thing Thrud's great grandma does: not my problem.
"Even my aura is dangerous, let alone my touch." She just leaned on the Headmaster's desk, crushing it as if it had been made of paper. "I'll stay here until I can at least restrain my new powers. Once I master them, I can finally start my war!"
Supreme Magus
Fantasy · Legion20
That definitely is more the wyvern's fault, not Thrud's. Thrud and Jermuun just provided the rope, it was the wyvern that put it around his apprentice's neck. And honestly, between abducting undead children and the Academies just in general, Thrud's still on the least evil side.
"Even my aura is dangerous, let alone my touch." She just leaned on the Headmaster's desk, crushing it as if it had been made of paper. "I'll stay here until I can at least restrain my new powers. Once I master them, I can finally start my war!"
Supreme Magus
Fantasy · Legion20
Am I the only one that's sort of starting to root for Thrud?
"Even my aura is dangerous, let alone my touch." She just leaned on the Headmaster's desk, crushing it as if it had been made of paper. "I'll stay here until I can at least restrain my new powers. Once I master them, I can finally start my war!"
Supreme Magus
Fantasy · Legion20
Name one.
"I call them [Lovers' Ring]. These rings allow you to feel the state of each other at any moment. Moreover, you can use them to communicate with each other as long as the distance is not beyond two thousand kilometers."
Science/Magic
Fantasy · Aidka
Yep. They're also installed on literally every microwave oven (those black dots on the glass are effectively a Faraday cage).
Not just him, though, but everyone present within the room was staring at the tense-faced general's hand. He slotted the USB stick in the terminal and video footage began playing on the giant screen installed on the wall of the conference room.
Solo Leveling(Only I Level Up)
Urban · 추공 (Chugong)
He has to upload the file to the USB drive in the first place. Keep in mind also that STUXNET got onto a closed network via a USB drive. Even if the computer isn't connected to the internet, or even if its not a computer at all, a motivated enough programmer can get it pretty much wherever they want it.
Not just him, though, but everyone present within the room was staring at the tense-faced general's hand. He slotted the USB stick in the terminal and video footage began playing on the giant screen installed on the wall of the conference room.
Solo Leveling(Only I Level Up)
Urban · 추공 (Chugong)
Kilot the weaponsmith? Sounds like Killgrave the murdering psychopath.
"And the winner of the national commoner's knight tournament is Jameson!" The announcer's voice boomed throughout the crowd. "He has won the dragon's spear. It is one of the four master weapons made by no other than the famous Dwarven blacksmith, Kilot."
A Bored Lich
Fantasy · Random_writer
Just FYI, it took me about 4 hours to walk 10 miles, including elevation changes. As such, this is probably the only time in a minor webnovel that a numerical estimate has actually been correct.
Doevm unrolled the scroll Reginald gave him and laid it down on the floor. It was a map of the entire world. He pointed to the country they were currently in, the Acrin Kingdom at the south part of the map. 'Let's see,' he thought, 'We're at a little north-east, so the nearest blacksmith should be about twenty miles to the north. That's about a day of walking.'
A Bored Lich
Fantasy · Random_writer
Yeah, Kamila's definitely grown on me.
ch 1348 Home and Grief (Part 2)
Supreme Magus
Fantasy · Legion20
Has the author ever been in the very rough vicinity of alcohol? Because being drunk is as good a generator of lies as it is uncomfortable truths.
What was a better way to loosen their tongues than buying them free drinks? It would make them drunk and drunk people tell no lies.
Hitman with a Badass System
Action · don_offl
I wonder how Noah will react when he finds out his arch nemesis saved both his sister and his cousin.
ch 191 Lending a helping hand
Hitman with a Badass System
Action · don_offl
On the one hand, I'm glad the author had the sense to have someone be suspicious of a stranger feeding an unknown liquid to the unconscious girl. On the other, I wish they were consistent about it. A very powerful stranger rides up to your gates with five corpses and the unconscious body of the daughter of your lord and you don't even take her from the stranger? A very brief eexposure to the elements as part of the handover is not going to kill a sick person. Even someone suffering from acute hypothermia could survive that. Then, on top of all that, you don't even question it and immediately lead the stranger to a girl's private rooms. Escorted or not, that's a violation of privacy at the best of times, let alone when the owner is unconscious. Lead hhim to the most comfortable yet remote guest room available. As soon as she's indoors, immediately separate her from the stranger and escort him away, politely but firmly.
ch 189 Ghost at Noah’s home
Hitman with a Badass System
Action · don_offl
No matter what, a dukedom cannot ever be called small. Otherwise its not a dukedom, by definition.
The Winston family domain's border was adorned with mother nature's wonders such as rivers, waterfalls, ocean of trees, and grasslands. Until the Winston family's young generation, they were a small noble house under Duke Marvin except now they had become one of the powerful and influential noble families in Pen Town.
Hitman with a Badass System
Action · don_offl
Alright, cool. I try not to complain about the direction an author takes their story unless it doesn't make sense. There was nothing logically wrong with these arcs, so I didn't feel it was my place to speak up. It's kinda gross to me when people watch someone put a bunch of time, effort, and passion into something and respond with, "I'm boooored!"
ch 405 Left Alive?
A Bored Lich
Fantasy · Random_writer