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“With my knowledge, give me a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world!”

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Sorcerer Continent—a world where sorcerers exist. Wielders of arcane knowledge. Masters of all elements. Sovereigns of space and time. These sorcerers governed the world with their unrivalled prowess. One day, a young man awakened into this world with his past forgotten and no place to call home. Follow along as Glenn, by relying on his luck and wit, tries to survive and advance in this unforgiving world. Entangled within the machinations of fate, political schemes, power struggles and wars, he forges his own path and creates a place for himself.

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Vu Sư Chi Lữ
巫师之旅
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jon95
jon95 rated it
February 25, 2021
Status: c87
first of all this only my personal thoughts of the novel and may not necessarily represent how it really is or how other readers feel about it.

at the beginning I thought it's a novel with deep story and decent settings but it turns to be another shallow CN novel with the MC (even without a cheat) accomplishing nothing other than showing off and killing people.

The author wanted to give the MC a smart lowkey personality but I can only see him as musclehead id*ot who use power to solve almost... more>> everything and the few times he uses his brain don't look that smart to me

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when he just started learning sorcery for few months, the MC created a perfume (that official sorcerers could not make) and became the richest apprentice in the institute (his wealth even rivals official sorcerers from merely a perfume)

I don't know if this author is an id*ot or has other intention but he used the method of training heartless selfish killing machines to train people for whom seeking knowledge should be the right path (body, there are different paths to train killers, soldiers and researchers. You can't just use random things and except everything to be fine just because you are the writer) but the strange thing is that the characters here are just like robots who can do anything the writer want no matter how illogical it's without a problem

Every now and then there is a competition of killing each others. If you like killing this much but don't have the ability to make a complex story with character growth, emotional and ideological struggle, just use the simple wuxia world instead of a complex sorcery world

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This might be a little off the point but I can see many Chinese novels (basically most of them) look down on noncombat individuals. If you can't fight you are a worthless tr*sh, I read this phrase and similar phrases a lot. It's true that I like action and adventure (which need the MC to know how to fight) but not because they are better than noncombat individuals or anything like this. Even a chimpanzee if given some intelligence will realize the importance of pure research and outstanding non combat personal to an advanced civilization

The reason that I prefer combat MCs is that they can bring some excitement, different feelings and colors to my dull life. If I can't feel anything when reading a novel or watch a show then it's not worth the time I spend on it.

Some say that the novel improves later, maybe I should give it another chance but I don't have any high hopes based on the logical development of the chapters I read. This only my own thoughts not everyone may agree with me so you can try it yourself and see wither you like it or not. <<less
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omgitsaray
omgitsaray rated it
May 13, 2020
Status: c245
Notice all the 5 star reviews are only for early chapters. I think the reviewers need to come back and update.

Our MC is a orphan peasant that joins a sorcerer school after being tested. Of course, he eventually becomes stronger and goes off researching stuff to rise up in a sorcerer's world. He finds out this world has may kinds of sorcerers and one of the things they do is go out conquering worlds for their resources.

Now the reason I rated this novel as average is because I couldn't relate... more>> to the MC and he could live or die and would probably not affect the novel at all. The novel was also not funny, scary, exciting, or entertaining - it is very bland to me. It was kind of like reading the life of an uninteresting person through their diary.

The early chapters were actually quite good but once it reached around 140's, it took a steep nose dive. Years and decades would pass and all the MC has been doing is researching stuff. His first world exploration is extremely drawn out with, once again, uninteresting fights and research. I think It's been close to 100 chapters and the conquest is still not over for that first world. The author also throws in lots of made up names and terms so as you keep reading, you eventually come to a WTF moment where you have no clue what the novel is talking about anymore.

I say give this novel a try, but I'm going to be shelving this for now. <<less
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Morglay
Morglay rated it
April 6, 2023
Status: Completed
I have read lots of CN webnovel since 2014, and this is among the best, the same tier as record of mortal journey to immortality.

Good start, exciting ability development, expansive world building, exciting journey, struggles and the taste of success, interesting side characters and adversary, all are here. This is just good. A little bit of ramance is also there.

The only thing that are lacking is emotional development, there are some, but not as determining as Renegade immortal. And also, the end is a bit difficult to follow, because of... more>> the bad machine translation :)

Aside from that, this is a must read. <<less
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Dg2
Dg2 rated it
February 6, 2021
Status: c650
There is two issue with the fic. One the author has multiple time skips and two, the author doesn't explain anything in great detail other than the numerous battle scenes.

This makes the fic a chore to read later on, but it does have a change of pace between world invasion arcs. Having our MC be a professor, mayor of a town and being there when his friends pass away in old age.

These things give a more realistic take on the wizard world, but there is a lot of clichés. Including,... more>> arrogant copy paste fodder, our MC always being right and the plot armor being directly addressed, which is later used as an excuse for his sudden power creep.

Also, it takes about 150 chapters for him to be a wizard rank 1 and an additional 450 to become a stage two wizard. This means alot of the fic over explains the battles while leaving out key development in his powers. Using time skips similar to: a whole hourglass later, a dozen hour glasses, 2 years, 200 years and anything else in between. Apparently the author believes if enough time passes our MC will auto solve all his problems. Which makes me salty that such a key thing such as researching/experimenting was avoided in order to make room for the Shonen type battles.

As of now the fic has 643 chapters translated. Giving us the most recent arcs being a crap arc about the nightmare realm, a crap arc about purple rocks/demon blood and a cool arc of him returning and helping his teacher fight off an invading academy. Overall expect the author to strike out more than he succeeds in this fic. However, the arcs that are done good are worth it over the general mediocry of the fic. <<less
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Pixeldrum
Pixeldrum rated it
March 11, 2018
Status: c68
If you stumbled upon this novel because of people recommending it off of WMW, then perhaps you should actually give it a try. The MC has the same kind of alignment as Leylin would, as in that he places higher power as his goal, and killing people is definitely something he is willing to do. Even so, he is definitely a lot more emotional and less calculative than Leylin would be.

One thing that you want to keep note of is that this novel, in my opinion, is definitely worse than... more>> WMW. The "romance" is actually just as bad or worse than it is in WMW, and a lot of things are incoherent and incongruous. I don't think it is the translation, as there are just many parts of the plot where the author barely mentions or just skips it over, to only just be talking about it 20 chapters later.
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For example. the daughter of the son telling MC about a lot of things...I never read this, but apparently she explained them to MC, and it gets mentioned a lot of times

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Another thing. People who say that this novel is better because it does not use the AI chip trope. WRONG. Instead of author writing down: "AI chip, analyze the life matrix of my body, " the author writes down "[an amount of time] has passed, " and MC miraculously makes a breakthrough in his research.

OVERALL: Decent read, but definitely a grade worse than WMW, and not a masterpiece. Would I recommend it? Yeah, but just barely. <<less
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KirbyReviews44
KirbyReviews44 rated it
December 11, 2021
Status: c20
I will give this novel 1/5 stars. This novel starts out as a tropey magical fantasy story. You got your protagonist with magical potential, heading off to a magical school to study magic, and you have various dangers and adventures he meets along the way. Aside from the basic premise, this novel does absolutely nothing well and I only rate it as one star instead of zero stars because the author tried to create something unique, emphasis on tried.

In a sense, the author tried to create something from scratch, not... more>> following the tried and true and tired cliche plot lines of chinese webnovels, aka young masters and face slappings. But their writing skill is simply really really bad and incapable of stringing together a coherent story.

The world? Boring middle ages european style with nothing unique at all.

The magic system? Not explained, nonsensical, just ideas slapped onto the page.

The characters? Uninspired, too many pointless characters pop out one after another.

The plot? There literally is none, just the main character on a journey to become a mage.

The author would have served himself better plagiarizing Harry Potter, they would have learned more about writing a proper story that way. <<less
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lordlytactician
lordlytactician rated it
October 21, 2021
Status: c530
I really love the world the novel is set in. Its a very realistic world with a history that actually makes sense and is coherent. The characters are not idiots and are pretty realistic and act like a normal human would. None of that hero demon king bs which actually makes no sense. I also like that there isnt a reincarnated protagonist which would just ruin the plot. The protagonist while not that interesting, I like him. Not unreasonably superpowered. His character progression actually makes sense for once, that shift... more>> from an intelligent but naive boy to a man who is cold yet not unfeeling. I really like that once humans arent completely ret*rded and there is none of that arrogant young master bs after a certain point because progression using heritage isnt possible in this world and people have to acquire knowledge to become more powerful which acts in its favour because a powerful person is usually an intelligent person and once MC steps into those ranks all the characters are rational and dont kill people just because they looked at them funny. <<less
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IMakeCopperMirrors
IMakeCopperMirrors rated it
November 7, 2019
Status: c75
Rating: 6.5/10

This is a WMW-wanna-be. It is supposed to be a knowledge and ruthlessness-jerker, but it is quite a spectacular fail because:

  1. The author just repeats obsessively the saying "give me a fulcrum and I shall move the world blahblah" and throws around sciency words, but is comes out cringy and awkward. It is like other novels but instead of comprehending and deducing techniques and dao, here it is called scientific discovery and knowledge.
  2. MC is supposedly focused on gaining power but still cares about looks. Also he becomes c*cky/arrogant very soon after he gains a tiny bit of power relying on a lucky discovery that brought him money and thus powerful equipment.
Biggest downside is the vermenous romance which creeps me out. It like the girl suddenly becomes a yandare for... more>> him, he accepts it like it's normal, but still ignores her voluntatily and only sees her one a year... hard to explain but full awkwardness.

Plot is very fast, maybe so fast that backgroung world details are glanced over too quickly and the characters are jsut basic models for their roles (most insipid master ever), zero touch on personality and motivations. Also, the MC has it very easy getting stronger with seemingly no effort or outstanding talent. The plot ideas are varied let's say, but far from well exploited, nothing new you didn't read elsewhere. <<less
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Noveltime
Noveltime rated it
July 25, 2019
Status: c139
ive read all the translated bits and so far it’s my favourite novel so far.

I have read many novels over the course of the years of reading novels on novel updates, but this one is so unique and interesting. I literally created this account to write this review because this novel deserves it.

honestly like one of the other people reviewed all the right itches are scratched, character isn’t OP, not a genius and learns everything at the beginning, the character continuously learns and is perfectly paced in my opinion.

if you’d... more>> like a good read this is definitely a good choice. <<less
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corvax
corvax rated it
July 6, 2017
Status: c56
I like the story and it's an interesting read, but in the end it failed to get me hooked on it. I give it 3 stars because even if a novel is good if it doesn't captivate the audience it has failed in some way. Note this novel has a western feel similar to wmw
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kieleich
kieleich rated it
October 15, 2023
Status: c42
MC goes to magic school, Harry Potter style. Students kill each other, great!

Nothing makes sense though. MC keeps using abilities that weren't mentioned before, we don't know where/how he picked them up. Nothing is explained, infodumps in footnotes,...

Terrible writing, quite unreadable.
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Axis
Axis rated it
December 8, 2021
Status: c1240
Half way done with the novel, not too much complaint about it except one point.

Almost every time the author mention MC, he will describe him as mysterious, knowledgeable, full of wisdom, how his eyes has seen through everything, how just by being around him can bring happiness, how dependable he is.

Not sure if the author is trying to describe himself or jerking the MC off, but it is very annoying to me. It's like 90% of the time.
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timma
timma rated it
April 16, 2019
Status: c60
Author shouldn't write romantic relationships. He's really bad at it. Rest of the stuff is fine. Big translation mess up or author screw up around chapter 47-50. Like he skips a chapter or summaries one, it's confusing as a reader.
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chucke
chucke rated it
December 31, 2018
Status: c74
The story itself is interesting as the author introduced a fascinating and in a certain sense kinda morally ugly world. The sorcercy itself is kinda old-school which makes it interesting and refreshing to read. Characters are not bad, though they are not that greatly developed.

What is the main bummer here is.. Pacing. For some reason every arc feels rushed. Seems kinda opposite to dragged down story, but here you have no time to savour the arcs at all - as soon as you feel that "it is really interesting and... more>> I wonder how it will end" it concludes. Which leaves some awkward feeling and sigh. <<less
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