/lit/ - Literature

>>21989718
>I haven't read enough of Azarinth Healer to form an opinion on Ilea besides "she's basically Goku except horny so probably the author's waifubait".
There's a scene in early AH, around 200 chapter I think, where Illea takes a semi-autistic classmate of hers into her house, then seduces him and takes his virginity, saying things like 'you can touch my breasts now' and guiding his anxious ass through every step. Shit's wild. I cannot imagine it was written for any other purpose than to provide self-insert for the author or the audience to vicariously have sex with Ilea.

>>20471622
>I can not get past chapter 10 of Azarinth Healer, my brain has an internal filter that recognizes that there is no underlying structure and filters it faster than the n word on a New World algorithm. I could not care less if the system is coherent if the overall plot isn't.

First 10 chapters of AH are shit. Like, it's so bad I can scarcely believe the author decided to continue. But after first 15~ chapters? It blossoms. It's still similar quality of writing itself, but it keeps getting better and once the protagonist goes to the caves near the city the story hits its stride and becomes what people have loved for over four years now. Salvos does have advantage here, I'm convinced the original 'starting in hell as a cute slug' beginning bought a lot of people into the story, and AH had, like, almost the opposite of a good beginning. Still, AH does explore the protagonist's character, morality and her place in the world even more than Salvos, and in greater depth.

I could probably spend a day reciting all Azarinth Healer's flaws, but I still read it because of how damn fun it is. Salvos is downright boring in comparison, despite the author trying to write (meaning: steal ideas from others) well, he falls short all the damn time. Meanwhile AH's author does battle maniac protagonist traveling over the world and I still read it 900 chapters in. AH is literally open-world Action RPG in literary form and it's excellent at it.

Btw, I believe AH has much better story structure and arcs than Salvos, I'm actually convinced Salvo's author doesn't know anything about actual storytelling, I rad around 4 books of Salvos and I can't recall a single actual arc, it's all just random events strung together.
PS: Speaking of power systems, you are right in principle about MoL's not having an actual in-depth magic system, but not a single existing story has one, not really. What an author is supposed to achieve with a power system is VERISIMILTUDE of having one, putting a cardobard so life-like you don't think about what's beneath. That's why the author of Delve fucked up extremely by doing hard litrpg system, sentencing himself to years of autistic fixes and in-depth system crafting that only 5% of readers actually really care about, while he could do it lighter and not waste so much time, instead writing actual STORY. Trying to be overly precise might be the single worst litrpg idea any author can make.

>>20427228
>>20427340
>You fucking asshole low level fights are the best part.

Azarinth Healer starts when the MC goes to the caves near the city. Until then it's barely readable, and that's with a rewrite that the early chapters had gotten at some point. Then Illea, the main character, starts fighting for real and the story shows its claws.

By the way, Azarinth Healer may be the most fascinating webnovel ever written. It's bad. Like, writing is genuinely bad, and the world-building for the first few hundred chapters is not just uninspired, but not even original as the author shamelessly inserted things from popular games without restrain (straight up adding Dwemer's lost civilization from Elder Scrolls, with only the name changed, probably the most shameless thing I've ever seen).

And you know what? It's the most purely enjoyable webnovel I've read. Royalroad's darling, one of the most successful stories on Patreon, with 3.750 patrons at its peak, most paying 15$. The amount of raw, unpolished joy this power progression story gives is staggering. No other story has such a good balance of LitRPG numbers, actions and progress. This webnovel is the definition of 'Guilty Pleasure.' I drop webnovels left and right for any offense, but AH I've been reading for years. To make it funnier, the author hasn't improved a lot, the writing still reads kinda horrible.

But the story? It's pure adventure. Like a singleplayer Open World RPG game, but as a story. Any aspiring writer should study Azarinth Healer to discover how to write something that succeeds in spite of all its flaws solely due to how damn FUN it is.

By the way, the irony of the most juicy popcorn power fantasy LitRPG having a Female Main Character is hilarious beyond belief. I remember having mad amount of respect years ago for the author when he wrote the character having sex with a MAN. It might sound silly, but a lead female character having straight (well, Illea is bisexual, but whatever) sex is a big no-no, people literally can't bear it and drop webnovels over it, even curse the authors. That's why every lead is male or at most female lesbian.

>>20312938
It's a very funny, enjoyable book, but do skip the other two. The second is only decent, the third jumps the shark so hard I thought it was written by a ghost writer. The author supposedly had a lot of shit happen to him over the years that most likely influenced the quality, but it's just bad.

>>20312858
Azarinth Healer webnovel. It's incredibly trashy, despite writing few thousand of pages throught the years the author still haven't improved enough, the writing itself is clunky as fuck. But it's one of the more popular LitRPGs for a reason, it's insanely juicy progression popcorn. Too bad the author had a breakdown recently, which somewhat influenced his decision to end AH in the close future, we are on the last arc. But I think it will be a just ending to the series, one the first great LitRPGs, I had weeks when all I could do in life was wait for 5 PM to read another chapter of it, the highlight of the most depressing weeks of my life.