Bail's edge, from bail, old style of bath shaped like a barrel
Instead of jerking her hand, however… she jerked up her entire body, pushing the two of us away from the bail's edge.
God Of Crafting
Urban · MotivatedSloth
mother's slipper, the ultimate weapon of asian moms. indoor, open footwear
It was but a single episode of my childhood… yet one that, through the slipper of my mother, ended up deeply ingrained into my mentality, now appearing as an indeliberate choice of words and comparisons during a cultivation lesson.
God Of Crafting
Urban · MotivatedSloth
He has an account, just like you have your own when you watch random stuff on yt.
Good point, will fix once I'm done with writing for the day, thanks!
It was a strange feeling, to be aware I wasn't lucid and yet… loose the track of certain parts of reality.
God Of Crafting
Urban · MotivatedSloth
As someone who soldered for quite a bit, it is not. Or rather, I wish I had as much of an innate talent (or better tools) as you, because it would save me quite the judging stares my father gave me when he saw what I ended up "making" >.>
In my first attempt, I ended up heating the soldering agent on the pin of the soldiering gun for too long, rendering it too dry to make it usable.
God Of Crafting
Urban · MotivatedSloth
And way above the scope of my own understanding of it :D To be honest, whenever I'm testing some idea before writing it, I just call my dad and ask for his take on it, same reason why I didn't write about them combining different usb cables to increase the input (because I wasn't sure it would work that way and I don't like to write BS)
This certainly is a way... But so you could say about the Gus drug lab in Breaking Bad. The idea of the problem here isn't about using it sneakily. Just by the effect of scale (which I'm only touching softly because I'm not gonna fall down the hole of using specific numbers, especially when I only have a loose grip over the technicalities of electricity), if the charge you can get from USB is already meaningful (2.5w), then imagine using as much as you would for a gaming PC (up to 1kw). Just by looking at my recent bills, between my chunky PC, AC and all the other stuff, I've used like 300kwh in a month. That's 300 hours of using 1kw AT ALL TIMES! Now, I can only imagine how much a fully fledged mansion would consume. Now, imagine hiding it within one of the factories Chihiro owns (he's not rich just by the benefit of being high-level cultivator) It's not about hiding something because that can easily be done. It's about preparing for the day when, inevetably, someone simply stumbles upon it either intentionally (while investigating the clan) or by a total, random accident. Otherwise, good point :D
Oh, and thanks a lot for the review, it was the bucket of cold water that made me realize this issue was even more pressing than what I already thought!
Welp, this deserves a bit deeper answer so here we go: Is there a bit too much romance in this novel? Yes, there is. And there are several reasons behind it, ranging from plot-warranted, going through practical and at extremely simple ones ending. Plot-reasons: There are some things that I simply hate in novels. And it's slow-burn romance. We've read it/watched it a thousand times and them some more. No one needs another story where two characters that like each other/are destined to be with each other/etc, to come to this realization over a span of a thousand chapters. I, on the other hand, much prefer to make it burn quickly and then give warmth and light throughout the story. In this sense, this novel only has a bit of a romance early on, where it later turns into more of a partnership. Second plot reason: I follow the story as it goes. And while sure, I'm still a pantser at heart, my outlines relate to the story at large, not characters themselves (save for some major points). So if the story just happens to go in a direction that invokes more interaction between MC and FL, then that's where it will go... but it's always moving towards next plotpoint. For example (Here we enter spoiler teritory for those who didn't read: When Tim and Claire go to an auction house, they are together... but the focus isn't on their relationship all that much but rather their shopping, purpouse, goals and later the small drama that happens as they leave ((which further delves into deeper plotpoints despite being simple on the surface))) Practical reason: Romance is really easy for me to write (just like smut) and it allows me to cater to my bias of slow-burn for the story (I'm extremely stingy when it comes to revealing secrets and deeper lore). That's why, if you see a lot of romance... then you shoudl look deeper cuz I'm likely using it to hide something much more important! 2nd Practical reason: In this novel I go along with a simple rule - never make the same thing happen again. If Tim and Clarie had a series of smut chapters... then this kind of smut will never appear again as a scene in the chapter. If there's Bj, its the only time it will happen. If there's rearaction, self-pleasuring play etc, they all only going to happen once. If they are ever invoked again, it only happens as a segway or off-chapter mention. Lazy reason: I've wrote the early premium chapters pretty much in one go... in a single day. So, after certain point, my brain was simply too fried to write more complex stuff and I just went with the flow >.> So, to sum it up, TL:DR: Yes, I'm aware there's more romance than people would expect early on No, it's not the promise of the general trend of the story but more of me checking the boxes early on to move on Yes, I'm already moving to rectify the problem (But legitimately, with a proper reason rather than doing so abruptly, paying no mind to the flow of the story just to introduce this change). If that's still too much for you, I understand, I apologize and I will do my best to avoid this mistake in my next project (I'm a slow learner so I already noticed it often takes me an entire novel to fix one part of my writing >.>). If you still have the patience and trust in me, however, I would encourage you not to give up just yet! All the best! :D
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original God Of Crafting
4.78 Recently Updated
For five years, I've lived the life of a failure. Smashing my hands against the wooden target in hopes of entering a meditative state; a necessary step to becoming a cultivator. For five years, I've faced nothing but disappointment, looks of pity, and meager attempts at encouragement. But everything has to come to an end. An end, that for me, became a new beginning! Circuits, wires, and capacitors? Or maybe spirit powder, Spricur crystals, and Qi gathering formations? In a world where cultivation is, for most, merely a hobby and the worlds of mysticism and science are divided, I shall be the one to craft a bridge between the two! Why rely on ancient arrays to harness dense Qi? Isn't it easier to buy one of my converters, plug it into the wall, and be done with it? Is your gaming console malfunctioning, yet no tech shop can find the cause? Have you tried this the exorcising swatter 3.0? And you! Yes, you, the one whose reflection appears on the screen on your phone once you block it! Why would you buy static figurines if you can come to my shop... And get your hands on waifus that will actively flirt with you? Come all ye troubled souls, and allow this God to craft a solution to all your problems! ***Technical side of things*** Daily release: 2ch/day Sunday release: 3ch + accumulated bonus chapters from mass release goals listed below ////////////All Milestones are subject to change/////////////// For every 100 winwin unlocks: 2 bonus chapters For every 50 ps: 1 bonus chapter For every 3 reviews: 1 bonus chapter Supergifts: 3 bonus chapters Me having a good day: 1 bonus, not-mass release chapter a day on days it applies >.>112 Chs 1.7k Collections
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My 7th Hero Summoning Brought Me Home To Fight The System?!
A hero summoning. To anyone aware of the term, it is a fairly straightforward deal. Get summoned, learn that now you are a hero of some sort, defeat the Big Bad Evil Guy, and save the day. All of that for the sake of returning home and living a peaceful life. If you are lucky, you might keep some of your abilities after going back, if not, you are at least left with an appreciation for the kind and peaceful world of today. But what if, once everything is said and done, rather than going back home... You are sent to save yet another world? And then another? And then again, and again and again... What if, after six entire lifetimes, when you grew accustomed to your new, bleak reality of ever-increasing hardship and challenges... You were to return home? And could you really say you've returned... or was it your home world that summoned you back? And what's with the system making its appearance now, six lifetimes after it should appear? *** 1 chapter per day (will try to upload them sometime around daily reset, either before or after it :3 25 Power stones - 1 bonus chapter a the next week 50 Power stones - 2 bonus chapters a next week 75 Power stones - 3 bonus chapters in the next week Up to 20 reviews, every 2 reviews - a bonus chapter (in other words, up to 10 chapters that I will try to do within a week, but might take up to two.) Genre/info/basic lore drop in pinned Author's review117 Chs 1.9k Collections
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One Last Reincarnation All My Talents Are Multiplied by x11?!
Completed
I've lived ten lifetimes in the service of the fake bitch-of-a-goddess. And even when it came to getting my reward for all my bloody efforts, that damned witch screwed me out! Robbed of my golden-spoon life so that some king could prevent an inheritance dispute, I was forced to start over as a damned commoner, with nothing but a deadly wound in my chest? And why can't this goddess just shut the hell up and stop yapping about all those talents I supposedly gained? I would love to just tell her to womp womp... But wouldn't that just encourage her to keep going?16 Chs 91 Collections
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Riches and Bitches: I have a gate to an isekai and leveling-up system!
4.18
"Be better" Peter was cursed by those words, the very last words of his dying mother. Cursed to be better. To be above the small squabbles... And so, the last five years of his childhood, he spent as a target of bullying, both in school and in his adoptive, step-family. But it all changed, when a portal to another world appeared in the middle of his shed! ***** Every supergift (castle or above) = 3 bonus chapters467 Chs 19.4k Collections
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Lord of the Rifts
It's been seven years since humanity figured out the portals. Seven years since the world's biggest corporations monopolized the technology and made billions by scouting and exploiting other habitable worlds. Seven years during which they threw close to seventy percent of the world's population into the unknown, hoping that at least some of them would reach livable dimensions. Seven years of thousands upon thousands going into rifts, only for few to come back... and usher in the riches offered by the corporations for the job well done. And today, along with his birthday and the beginning of his adulthood, it's time for Leo to gamble his life away and throw it down the probability well. //*******// - Chapter update rate: 1-2/day - Discord link: https://discord.gg/HJxY8xsPg4 (working to make it less dead) - Ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/motivatedsloth63 Chs 390 Collections
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Chaos Prophet
4.51
It was supposed to be a quick, simple beta test of the new generation of the first VR. A day where both my random discovery and my unyielding efforts to develop it were supposed to bear fruit. Get in, find a way out, and get out. A mission that simple couldn't be hard, right? RIGHT?! So why did I end up as a powerless sacrifice in some stupid tournament, rigged for a certain noble to win? How come somehow surviving would lead me to be chased by a powerful noble, the heir of whom I fell in said tournament? And why is a damn imperial princess chasing after me like a rabid dog? Wait, isn't that a freaking saintess always standing by the princess' side?! *Takes a sip of the ale* If you think the above is too much, then let me tell you, o foolish traveler. I once thought so too. And then I learned, it was only a freaking prologue! For the powers that my presence stirred into action are far beyond anything I ever expected to encounter. Is this world even virtual? Am I even myself? And how come, this supposedly simple mission, led me to ask those questions? ***** Discord: https://discord.gg/pJTVGZZ More technical info: Author's Review86 Chs 599 Collections
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One Last System
4.08
Scorned by the world he was born in, Arthur had no other choice but to learn how to deal with it. Yet, just as his hard work and dedication were about to pay off, the hate towards his origins brought him to his death. But that wasn't his fate. His future wasn't supposed to end with his head cracking against the edge of the stairs. His bloodline could not die as that would be against the wish of the universe itself. Thrown to another world, he found himself in a situation where the skills and craft he honed would be no longer of use. His patience, his creativity, his logical thinking were no longer in demand in a world where strength reigned supreme. Or was it? "My system is overpowered. I'm not shameless enough to deny it." "Scores of women and slaves all around? Those are the wishes of a naive kid, not mine." "Lower the price of those apples by a quarter and we will have a deal!" "Dear, stop, I cannot hold any longer!" Jump in and follow Arthur's adventures as he proves that even the illogical world of sword and cultivation has its own rules. Laws, that one can learn, laws, that Arthur sets off to use to his own advantage! **** This novel will have some comedic elements, but it won't be the core of the story. I also won't hold back any punches when it comes to dark humor, heavy elements or morally ambiguous aspects. If you are looking for a fckboy/edgelord/cliche, then his novel is not for you. Discord: https://discord.gg/PNGgcMr509 Chs 23.6k Collections
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Leveling Up Wives In The Apocalypse
3.9
Mathew survived the entire two weeks of the apocalypse. A great score for someone blessed with brains over the brawn. Yet, even he fell after just fourteen days, giving his all to save the one person he cared for. But why does a death looks like watching himself from the third person perspective? Is this the purgatory to watch over his own shoulders at the mistakes he made? A punishment for Mathew's sins to repeat those mistakes over and over again? But wait, what are the three clocks in the corner of his vision, one of which only five minutes away from ticking out? And most of it all, why does the school looks like it did just a moment before the apocalypse began? ********** Discord link: https://discord.gg/PNGgcMr **********410 Chs 21.9k Collections
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Bloodmancer: Hero of Ruin
4.8
To be a hero is a curse, not a blessing. It's a simple truth Leon learned in the most painful of ways. He heroically slaughtered all the enemies of his president. Heroically purged those who opposed his master. And heroically brought doom to those who cried under the boot of the world's dictator. Leon saw the death of his family; a result of the events he set in motion himself. He saw his beloved city turn into ruins, scorched by the radioactive flames of the nuke he set off. His title was as cheap as his life. And in the only act of rebellion he could find, he heroically put an end to his life... And the world he helped to destroy. 'All of this happened... But why am I hearing a self-entitled voice calling me a failure?' Leon couldn't help but ponder. 'No, that's not it...' he quickly corrected himself. 'How can I hear anything if I evaporated in the wake of the nuke I detonated myself?'105 Chs 1.9k Collections
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Dungeons Online
4.15
"Hello, sir. Are you cashing out or leveling up?" Dungeons Online was the first game that cracked the system. Let nerds earn by nerding, and they will nerd forever. And Dungeons Online did just that. Noobs turned into middle-class workers. Pro-players turned into celebrities and multi-millionaires. And there was Tom. Likely, the only top ranker that lived off the scraps and cat-food. A courtesy of his father that went and disappeared, leaving Tom with just enough money to survive until his graduation. Until the day where the option of cashing out would appear. Dungeons Online. A game where developers never shared a single bit of information. A game where the death of one's avatar is permanent. A game that can turn a beggar into a lord just as quickly as turning a celebrity into nobody. But where does all this money comes from? How is it connected to the unnatural disaster that all governments across the world buried any information off? And how is this all connected to Tom's missing father?191 Chs 5.2k Collections
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Genius Mage in a Cultivation World
4.1 Completed
Layn's life was relatively simple. Married to a princess, working as the top archmage of the country... Everything would be great if he never learned that his wife was actually cheating on him! Instead of getting his revenge, he put up with the humiliation. For three long years. Three long years he needed to prepare for what would go down in the annals of history as the greatest revenge ever! That is if his actions didn't aim at rewriting the history in the first place...242 Chs 17.3k Collections
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While Others Cultivate, I Use My Unique RPG Leveling System to Cultivate Smut Romance With Their Girlfriends!
4.27 Completed
Did I reincarnate? Or was I transported to an Isekai cultivation world? To be honest, I have no clue! What matters is that I turned from being useless, bullied, and trash, to fully-fledged garbage in my new cultivation world! But what is this strange bleep that keeps ringing in my ears? Is this some kind of system? Oh God! Did you gift me such a cliché, right at the start of my journey? Wait, why are you trying to kill me? Did I do something to you? Stand back or I will be forced to use unstoppable Exhudia! Tell me, what did she do for you to treat your significant other in this way? Let me show you how girlfriends should be taken care of! Wait, everyone was always telling me that demons are bad, so why is this demonic queen trying to seduce me? Wait! KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY FROM MY PRECIOUS SWORD! I just came back from a mission and was promised at least a half a year of break. Why are you bothering me again with something as silly as subjugating a devil general? ********************** Discord link: https://discord.gg/pJTVGZZ ********************* DISCLAIMER: I do not own the cover. It was made with the help of fellow author(ess?) with the usage of possibly copyrighted images. If you own the rights to any part of the cover and want me to take it down, please, inform me on my discord or comment.641 Chs 37k Collections
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While Others Cultivate, I Use My Multiverse System
3.97 Completed
Take a look at the cover. Now take a look at the synopsis. Now take a look at the cover once again. Did you manage to see anything else outside of two big plots on it already? Then let me tell you this - if I'm willing to use this great cover for this novel, then surely as heck I am confident in the first chapter making you read more! (Yes, it's male-lead. Try to catch on what this fact and the cover means together)226 Chs 15.9k Collections
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Undying Alchemist
4.6
Sebian reached the peak of his world, only to be banished from it by the so-called god. Stripped of his cultivation, he was thrown bare and naked to another world, with nothing but his vast knowledge. Making use of the handy curses that the fake god gave him, Sebian will regain his title as the strongest alchemist to ever (always) live!41 Chs 363 Collections
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Rebirth of the Phoenix God
4.65 Completed
Within less than a day of the Inquisitor’s arrival, Fen ends up bound to the stake. As he stares down at the face of the friend who sold him out, the stakes are lit as the execution begins. "I will burn you for this treason!" Those words resounded in Fen's mind as his body gave up, releasing his soul into the flames Only for it to be cleansed, and reborn from the fires! Now, the age of the dragon is over. It's time for the return of the Phoenix! Discord link: https://discord.gg/pJTVGZZ196 Chs 12.9k Collections
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Road to the Crown
4.47 Completed
Political marriage, war taxes, subsidies, a tribute... All those terms sound nice when one juggles them from behind the screen of his trusty computer! Junk food? Check. Sugary drinks that will cause me diabetes? Check. Two weeks of leave from the work? Check. A fresh copy of the newly released game finishing downloading as I'm going back from the grocery store? Check. Oops! My emotions got better to me, and I tripped on the stairs. I'm so silly! Then... Why the hell am I kneeling in a throne room, watching the marriage and coronation ceremony of the King, dressed in the noble robes with the game itself only flashing in the corner of my eyes? Discord link: https://discord.gg/pJTVGZZ335 Chs 18.4k Collections
Nah, its one and the same, just a manner of naming something
To say that this mystical world was filled with eye candy would be a gross understatement with just how much creative freedom some of the women took with their clothes… Or how the mere effect of handling mana made pretty much everyone on the street a whole league more beautiful than an average mortal.
God Of Crafting
Urban · MotivatedSloth