
The Runesmith
by Kuropon
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What happens when a man gets transported into a foreign world filled with magic?
Will his knowledge in hardware technology help him out after he discovers its correlation to the words of power?
How will he fit in with the other noble houses as the lowly 4th son?
How will his story play out in a world where skills and stats equal power and status?
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Reviewed at: Glossary of terms
This book has so many annoying thing about it but the worst is he keep say the "The old him would have looked the other way but he has changed"
Which is a complete lie as the character never choose to ignore others problems.
The over explaining of everything breaks the flow of the book. Mainly the fact that the author wants the MC the think to himself on an equal amount as he explain everything
the love and romance for the MC just happens out the blue.
The emotional reunions he has with his siblings are underwhelming.
Even thought I got exited when his identity was revealed doesn't mean It couldn't have been better. But since the author left any plot about his family for dead for hundreds of chapter. Alone his reunions are the exact same as random people recognizing each other from

interventor RKº5
Reviewed at: Chapter 493 – Not Playing Fair.
ta bom so falta sair com mais frequência......
It's good, I just need to go out more often
As resenhas devem ter pelo menos 50 palavras e muita palavra en to vo tão enrolada. mais vem ca essa obre esta otima
Reviews must be at least 50 words long and many words are too long. But come on, this one is great.

Quality drops off later on
Reviewed at: Chapter 269 – Troublesome thoughts.
The actual content of the story is interesting enough. The composition isn't earth shattering or anything, but it's mostly done competently enough, but the problem that develops over the course of the story is that the author seems to be taking effectively entire chapters and spreading them over 3,5, sometimes even 10 chapters. This is done by taking a single narrative event like going from one place to another and rather than having the story resume at the destination, the author describes in mind numbing detail inane over thinking by the character of the events that have just happened. It's incredibly grating to basically read the story and then immediately read the critical review by Roland. What's worse is there is no sense of pacing or initiative to the updates anymore. It's a guarantee if there is something of note happening in the story there will be at least two chapters spreading it out where all we hear or see is Roland's inner dialogue. Which to be quite honest has been consistently on of the worse parts of the story. There are other issues, like many of the women characters really seeming like card board cut outs and everyone's character being boiled down to a couple character traits, but that's pretty obvious from the beginning so you'll know if that's a deal breaker for you. The author should really consider having someone stop him from writing more than five lines of inner monologue per chapter.

A Rough Gemstone
Reviewed at: Chapter 89 – Dog and Assistant.
Protag gets hit by a truck which blasts him into an isekai scenario. Now five years old, he's all set up to be a mage at his awakening ceremony but there are problems in the way.
I want to like the story, and I do like it, but spelling and grammar mistakes flat out get in the way. Author even apologizes that he has no time to proofread or spellcheck. Okay, and the result is a story so full of mistakes that it distracts a reader from the underlying value.
Protag meets a variety of characters during his journey to become a Runesmith. Protag himself is soft-hearted but generally unsocial, seemingly afraid to reach out or get close to anyone around him so the dialog is kind of dull.
The levels, magic, and runes system seems well thought out. Protag advances quickly at first and follows an unlikely hero-level progression afterward but the pace isn't too unbelievable. Changes in perspective are clearly marked and not confusing.
Overall the story is readable, but needs a firm and thorough edit. As it is, I'm frequently pulled out of the story to puzzle over sentences with poor grammar and protag's sometimes meandering inner monologue. With those edits it could be a five star story.

Its good if you can get to chapter 300 and onwards
Reviewed at: Chapter 418 – Visiting A Mage Tower.
The actually story, along with its characters and world building is really good but the grammar and sentence structures make you want to quit almost instantly. It will test your patience but if you can get through it and make your way past chapter 300, everything starts to get a hell of a lot better.
Even then the story itself makes up for the glaring errors, so you should give it a try. :)

My thoughts
Reviewed at: Chapter 80 – Tier 2 trial part 3
The premise of this story is a dude transported to another world.. yes it's the same as most stories here.
Small spoiler
The protagonist finds himself in the body of the bastard son of a lord/baron he is rather bad at using his body but got a great affinity to mana. One thing leads to another and he picks a crafting profession.
end spoiler
It starts of quite well, however it's a slippery slope into mediocrity.
I think that the author is not used to writing. He takes the easy way out, the character is asocial and does not want to hang around other people. This way he doesn't have to write as much dialogue and reactions.
Then there are timeskips, plotarmour, I find myself skipping a couple of chapters every so often.
The world needs more colour and more show instead of semi infodumps

I just can't anymore
Reviewed at: Chapter 106 – First Evolution
It felt like this has so much potential. I enjoyed the premise, the idea was fun, but the execution felt really off to me. There were three major issues I have with this book.
1) The interactions with other people felt like a bad anime. They felt like cardboard cutouts instead of actual ppl with their own interests and motivations. Dialogue was usually very childish.
2) it hit a point where filler became a major issue, where the worldbuilding felt much more like a push for word count than anything else. I can't imagine it's easy to write something like this so I'm not trying to hate , but I found myself skimming more than actually reading.
3) it's crazy how little happens at certain points. After the first big city he was in, It felt like there was no plot, just a bunch of chapters tacked onto each other.
I'm the end, I couldn't keep reading with all of these flaws not only not getting fixed, but getting worse. Best of luck to the author though, and congrats on putting pen to paper and doing the actual writing.

An interesting litrpg crafter's tale.
Reviewed at: Chapter 146 – Report.
An interesting plot and world, but the wordsmithing is clunky. The characters are likeable, if a bit flat, and the world feels consistent. Each chapter feels like it is written without much reliance on the earlier text, which leads to some awkward repetitive entries, and the grammar and wordsmithing feel like an early draft. I've read over a hundred chapters, so obviously I like it, but it isn't my top pick for the portal crafter litrpg genre. An editor's pass and some polish could produce something really nice.

Great!
Reviewed at: Chapter 476 – Runaways.
There’s emotion, aventure, development! A bit of romance and some crisis and enemies. I find this history original.
Start as child, wanting to be a runesmith. Go live his life on his own.
Se errei meu inglês, me perdoem pois estou aprendendo.
Ps: spoiler! please don’t forget his pet, make him develop along the main character.

Quality story but the English needs work
Reviewed at: Chapter 78 – Tier 2 trial part 1
It's an okay read with a lot of good points.
Whilst most of the characters are only there for a short while they feel realistic with some development. It's just that none of them are really around long enough for them to become complex. Also there are a bunch of cliche characters but again most of the side characters aren't around long enough to be developed more than that.
The world building is good if clunky at some points. The system makes sense and is easy to follow, the various towns and organisations feel loved in with a realistic complexity that the character does his best to avoid. The crafting system is engaging with lots of room for the character to grow whilst still being easy to follow.
The age of the MC is an issue, sure he's an isekai so he's mentally old enough to handle himself but physically he's a 10-12 year old and nobody seems to care about that. Living on his own, fighting monsters, negotiating contracts and nobody bats an eye. If he was mistaken for a misfit race or if there were others his age doing the same thing it wouldn't be an issue (feudal child labour being what it is) but nobody cares, they just comment on how adorable he is and then let the child join them hunting the dangerous adventurer killing monsters or at one point drag him of drinking against his will. It would work for a mid teenager but not an obvious pre teen
The real issue however is the quality of the writing and grammar. It's riddled with errors and badly/confusedly/straight-up-wrongly worded sentences that completely disrupt the flow of reading it. There are bits where the author repeated the same fact as though he forgot it was in the last chapter and there are parts where it feels like their are gaps that the author didn't properly explain what they meant.
It's worth reading if you have the time but it really needs an editor or beta reader to go over it and refine the quality of the language.