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Minute Mage: A Time-Traveling LitRPG Progression Fantasy
Arlan can go back in time by one minute, once per day. To lift himself out of the poverty of... Read more
Arlan can go back in time by one minute, once per day.To lift himself out of the poverty of peasantry, Arlan traveled into the monster-infested wilderness, aiming to acquire the Swordsman Class. While exploring, he encountered a Demon with powerful time magic, and after a battle gone wrong, he ended up with something different than he’d hoped: an unheard-of Class named Minute Mage.Now, lost in the woods without any training to use magic and not even a usable weapon, Arlan must rely on his new Class’s one unique power: the ability to turn back time by a single minute. Nobody in the world has ever heard of this Class, so he can’t rely on community, the knowledge of his peers, or any of the studying he’s done until now – only instinct. And when he explores further, he finds that this forest isn’t what it seemed – that Demon had to have come from somewhere, after all. But he’ll fight to Level up, increase his strength and time-traveling power, and break out of the fatal forest with his life intact.What to Expect:-Numbers. This is a LitRPG written by someone who loves LitRPGs. It won’t be overwhelming or confusing, but if you dislike the genre, this probably isn’t the story for you. Blue boxes ahead!-Meaningful progression. Characters are always working to grow more powerful, but doing so is difficult. Level-ups are hard-earned and bring with them meaningful change in characters’ abilities.-Tactical fights. Fighting is as much a battle of wits as it is a battle of muscle, after all.-No harems.Chapters average ~2750 words, though earlier chapters are a bit longer than that. Currently updating daily at 7 am EST for about a week while I work through the rest of my backlog. Will eventually to something more sustainable, like 3, week or something.Enjoy!
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Antihero Protagonist, Game Elements, High Fantasy, LitRPG, Time Loop, Magic, Male Protagonist, Multiple POV, Mythology, Character Growth, Secret Identity, Strategist, Strong to Stronger, Time Travel, Wars, Military, Time Manipulation, Special Abilities, Unique Cultivation Technique, European Ambience, Not Harem
is this that kind of novel that the mc is a mage but end being a melee fighter?
Half his kit is melee, yes.
Much better than your average reincarnator/regressor/cultivator with unlimited cheats and luck999999. Saw review complaining about MC making mistakes, how f#cking unexpected humans make mistakes, just wow. I am not saying that it is interesting to watch retarded MC who is plainly stupid, but everyone for some reason always wants to see MC who makes no mistakes(regressors hello).
mediocre work, you can read if things are thin. ms is incredibly dumb. 1. tells everyone that he has a rare class.2. moves in time to do the same, I know that nothing will change (chasing at night with a scorpion) 3. does not think about others when fighting, I constantly hear, "I forgot to throw debuff again"4. I completely became reckless with timeand much more..an author needs to graduate from the school of sanity before starting to write
ILL ADD THIS TO BOOKMARK CAUSE I SAW "NO HAREM"
Have read up to current chapter here (67) as well as 10 more patreon chapters I found elsewhere (77). Overall it's pretty decent, but i'm dropping it both due to how annoying some of the side characters are, but mostly because the MC keeps becoming less observant and kinda stupid.There are some examples of him being stupid within these current chapters as well, such as taking a dangerous fight (whilst not having a rewind use) and making stupid decisions during it Spoilerwhich is explained away as being caused by the fact that he is addicted to casting a spell and becomes angry and reckless if he doesn't do it regularly. This fight puts him in a life threatening state, but despite levelling up he doesn't utilise his stat points at all despite the fact that they would definetly help Spoilerthey could have increased his stamina recovery rate so that he is able to use Regenerate more often to regain health, or he could've put it into strength to help him a bit during the trial to prove himself. it takes until after he has recovered and gained another level to realise this.In a meta sense I think i understand why the author made him not utilise these stat points. MC has made it clear that currently he needs to prioritise things that will help him in the moment rather than long term. Currently every single stat point he gains he just dumps into Conjuration to increase his MP and MP regen. In that situation, more conjuration would have been useless. So rather than bring it up and have him put the points elsewhere out of necessity, author decided to make it so that MC just forgets about the points entirely until he is in a position where he is able to just dump them into conjuration again. The main examples of all these issues are between chaps 67-77, so will put it in spoilers. For a non-detailed summary: MC takes way too long to notice something fairly obvious. SpoilerIn a fight where he is against a group of Infernals and Humans, he notices that the Infernals have a ring on their hands, when they never have before. He also notices all the soldiers also have the ring on too. The Dryad rushes forward but a sudden explosion under her feet blasts her back. He notices that there are mines everywhere, but that the enemy aren't triggering them. He also notices that his spells that lower the enemy dexterity aren't having as much an effect as usual, and that when his teammate chucks fire blasts at the enemies, they all go flying much further back than usual.For some reason his first thought is that they could be remotely triggered mines. It isn't until his 2nd time through that he properly links the rings to the mines. But even then he somehow thinks that they are contact mines, despite the fact that the enemies are just walking over them. He has to take a ring off a dead soldier and the system has to make him aware that it has an enchantment that reduces weight by like 70% for him to consider that it is weight based. EVEN THEN, he decides to confirm that by chucking the dead body onto a mine, which causes an explosion, for him to be certain.It is then shown that, with the ring on, he can jump much higher than usual and goes flying further when hit etc. but somehow, other than when the enemy got hit by the fire blasts, there are no mentions of them going flying or jumping higher etc.MC has a spell that will clearly help things, but waits until he has run out of rewind uses before using it. SpoilerHe has a spell that increases gravity by just under 50% yet, even when he finally realises that the mines are triggered by weight, he doesn't use that knowledge until he uses up his last rewind. MC makes a plan and decides to rewind in order to utilise it and does so without getting any benefit from the rewind before it.SpoilerHe manages to successfully get away on his 2nd run, but decides he will rewind in order to get more benefits from things by triggering a massive chain reaction of explosions from the mines. He doesn't have much MP left, granted, but the gravity spell only takes 10 mp per second and the last time we are shown his MP he has 7. With his stats it would take him abough 16/17 seconds to regen that. Given that they are in the clear and are running away, he could easily continue til he has that mana back, then double back and try to get a bit of extra EXP. His rewind happens automatically after death, so that wouldn't have been a risk for him. Even if he ended up messing up the timing, or only causing damage and no kills, the fact he didnt try at all and just rewound seems really dumb. Elite soldiers become insane levels of stupid.SpoilerThe king was always stupid and becomes even more so. Of the elite soliders, the one who was against killing the innocent MC just gets killed instantly by the Devil as well as one more of her team. Of the other 2, one just decides to spill the truth even though the Devil has made it clear that he doesn't care at all about anything. They manage to live since the devil decides on a whim not to kill them anymore, but he says that they will go through a week of torture. When it comes to the torture chapter, it ends with one of them deciding to blame the MC for it and vows to kill him when it is literally not his fault in any way. It makes sense this way, since that is how the king acts and they are also idiots who went along with it, but the fact that after 1 day of torture he directs his hatred towards the innocent guy they're trying to kill just because the Devil says so vs the Devil who ordered the torture or hell, even the ones torturing them, is just stupid.The female lead is also just kinda...there. After his stupid decision that almost killed him, he agreed with her that he will listen to her more and she will get involved more in planning etc. But in the main fight after that, mentioned in the spoilers above, she is just...there. She doesn't figure anything out. She doesn't really give any advice or help other than firing a fire blast to protect him from something/someone during a fight like twice. SpoilerGiven that her sister was an Enchanter and that she, previously, seemed to know about enchantments, she could easily have helped out identifying the rings or the effect, but even during their short discussion after the first rewind, there's basically none of that at all.
I haven't read the novel yet. But I know that I have nothing to do. One synopsis is enough. X2
Good start, by 50s the protagonist starts to drag on you a bit
The time control is the best here
Rank D+
At ch 63Enjoying the read3/5Story premise is goodBut mc is mage with low heath and no protection. He pick up close combat spells and use all extra attributes stats to increase mana.So with high mana and low health he should be doing hight damage range spell. Story try to justify picking close combat spells but I am not sold on it.Fights are always 10 or 20 level higher then mc.Mc use time loops always on some xp boots and i would say I thought the same idea as I read discription on talent.But wasting life saving skill on some xp is not worth it.And the scale of story is goes to high to soon as mc is quite weak and whole kingdom after him and on top of that we have a army of power devil on top of that . Realistic speaking anyone on same position as mc would be dead early.There is more thing that way nonsense or we can say it doesn't make sense.I enjoying reading it despite it many major flaws.So if you like to pass some time and enjoy it without thinking too much then read this novelPS. The hell part is so fun to read and name convention of devil is crazy.
- Chapter 229: Welcome to Hell. And Welcome to Someplace Else.
- Chapter 233: Assembling in the Battlefield
- Chapter 236: A Tone of Stress
- Chapter 239: Going to Win
- Chapter 1: Disastrous Day
- Chapter 4: Field Test
- Chapter 7: Ambition
- Chapter 10: Departure
- Chapter 13: Companionship
- Chapter 16: Customer Service
- Chapter 19: Hunted
- Chapter 22: Arachnid Adversaries
- Chapter 25: Talented
- Chapter 28: Earthquake?
- Chapter 31: Mapping Things Out
- Chapter 34: Life-Giving Water
- Chapter 37: Drakelings
- Chapter 39: Fighting for New Lands
- Chapter 42: Rescue Operation
- Chapter 45: Welcome to Hell. And by Hell, I Mean the Overworld.
- Chapter 48: Something to Kill
- Chapter 51: Venomous
- Chapter 54: Faerie Village
- Chapter 57: Challenge
- Chapter 60: So Long, Goodbye
- Chapter 63: Welcome to Hell. What the Fuck is with this Guy?
- Chapter 66: Fireflight
- Chapter 68: Halt
- Chapter 71: Opportunity
- Chapter 74: Magic & Monsters
- Chapter 77: Welcome to the Kingdom: Hell
- Chapter 80: Wasteland
- Chapter 83: Wasted
- Chapter 86: Paths to Travel
- Arlan's Fully-Expanded Character Sheet as of Chapter 67: (Not a Chapter)
- Chapter 90: Interrogation
- Chapter 93: Welcome to the Outlaws: Spectating
- Chapter 96: Meeting Allies
- Chapter 99: Disastrous Dragon
- Chapter 102: Failed Negotiations
- Chapter 105: Cliffside Camouflage
- Chapter 108: Alp Attack
- Chapter 111: A Name
- Chapter 114.1: A Battle’s Beginning
- Chapter 115.2: A Pair of Guards
- Chapter 117.1: Interviewing
- Chapter 119: Choosing
- Arlan's Fully-Expanded Character Sheet as of Chapter 120: (Not a Chapter)
- Chapter 122.2: Welcome to Hell. Where Are You?
- Chapter 125: Warning
- Chapter 128: The Killing Spree
- Chapter 131: The Confrontation
- Chapter 133.2: The Goodbye
- Chapter 135.1: The True Battle Begins
- Chapter 136.2: The True Battle Rages
- Chapter 139: Welcome to the Kingdom: Demons and their Hostility
- Chapter 142.1: Determination
- Chapter 144: Information
- Arlan's Fully-Expanded Character Sheet as of Chapter 145: (Not a Chapter)
- Chapter 147.1: Examination
- Chapter 149.1: Ingestion
- Chapter 151.1: Welcome to the Kingdom: Executing
- Chapter 152.2: Infiltration
- Chapter 154.1: Exploration
- Chapter 155.2: Interpretation
- Chapter 157.1: Distortion
- Chapter 158: Apparition
- Chapter 160.1: Welcome to the Kingdom: Takeover
- Chapter 161.2: Work
- Chapter 163: Raid
- Chapter 165: Pets
- Announcement: Short Break
- Chapter 170: Retaliatin’
- Chapter 173: Dragon
- Minor Announcement
- Chapter 178: Truth and Treachery
- Chapter 181: Confrontation and Compromise
- Chapter 184: Caution and Crisis
- Chapter 187: The Dragon's Assembly
- Chapter 190: The Dragon’s Aftermath
- Chapter 193: Welcome to Hell. Wake up.
- Chapter 196: Afternoon Machinations
- Chapter 199: Welcome to Hell. Tell Me Something.
- Chapter 202: Spell it Out
- Chapter 205: Fear of Death
- Chapter 207: One Man’s Trash
- Chapter 210: Disorientation
- Chapter 213: Grief
- Chapter 216: Frustration
- Chapter 219: The Inciting Incident
- Chapter 222: The Monologue
- Chapter 225: The Execution
- Chapter 228: The Change of Surroundings
- Chapter 242: What She Wants
- Chapter 246: Reunitement
- Chapter 249: Adventuring Ailments
- Chapter 230: Arriving in the Outskirts
- Chapter 234: Provocation in the Dunes
- Chapter 237: Take a Risk
- Chapter 240: Start the Test
- Chapter 2: Taking Inventory
- Chapter 5: Deprived
- Chapter 8: Payoff & Plan
- Chapter 11: Arrival
- Chapter 14: Safety?
- Chapter 17: A Job Well Done
- Chapter 20: Explosive Conclusion
- Chapter 23: Run it Back
- Chapter 26: Date
- Chapter 29: Not an Earthquake
- Chapter 32: Chased Away
- Chapter 35: Nymphs
- Announcement!
- Chapter 40: Angels and Demons
- Chapter 43: A New Friend
- Chapter 46: Upgrade
- Chapter 49: Welcome to the Kingdom: Deception
- Chapter 52: Desperation
- Chapter 55: Trials
- Chapter 58: Dryad
- Chapter 61: Welcome to Hell. Cut Out the Weak Link.
- Chapter 64: Welcome to Hell. Nice Place you got Here.
- Chapter 67: Collapse
- Chapter 69: Infiltration
- Chapter 72: Explosive Growth
- Chapter 75: A Conversation
- Chapter 78: Welcome to Hell. Shut Up.
- Chapter 81: A Ghoulish Foe
- Chapter 84: Trolled
- Chapter 87: Making the Choice
- Arlan's Fully-Expanded Character Sheet as of Chapter 87: (Not a Chapter)
- Chapter 91: Murder
- Chapter 94: Enter the Edge
- Chapter 97: Mountaineering
- Chapter 100: Welcome to Hell: Walled Off
- Chapter 103: Offering
- Chapter 106: Elevated Encounter
- Chapter 109: Concealed Clash
- Chapter 112: A Short Respite
- Chapter 114.2: A Battle’s Beginning
- Chapter 136: The True Battle Rages
- Chapter 117.2: Interviewing
- Announcement (plus free Chapters) (but this, itself, isn't a Chapter)
- Chapter 121: Welcome to Hell. You’ve Been Terminated.
- Chapter 123: Watching
- Chapter 126: Welcome to Hell. Do You Want to Live?
- Chapter 129: The Frantic Retreat
- Chapter 132: The Conversation
- Chapter 134.1: The Last Stand
- Chapter 135.2: The True Battle Begins
- Chapter 137: The True Battle Ends
- Chapter 140: Welcome to the Kingdom: Humans and their Schemes
- Chapter 142.2: Determination
- Chapter 145.1: Calculation
- Chapter 146.1: Welcome to the Kingdom: Plotting
- Chapter 147.2: Examination
- Chapter 149.2: Ingestion
- Chapter 151.2: Welcome to the Kingdom: Executing
- Chapter 153.1: Connection
- Chapter 154.2: Exploration
- Chapter 156.1: Welcome to the Kingdom: Entering
- Chapter 157.2: Distortion
- Chapter 159.1: Salvation
- Chapter 160.2: Welcome to the Kingdom: Takeover
- Chapter 162.1: Hunt
- Chapter 164.1: Town
- Chapter 166: Task
- Chapter 168: Arrivin’
- Chapter 171: Goblin
- Chapter 174: Welcome to the Kingdom: Initialization Phase
- Chapter 176: Alliances and Accusations
- Chapter 179: Trust and Tensions
- Chapter 182: Fear and Trust
- Chapter 185: Exertion and Encounter
- Chapter 188: The Dragon’s Ascent
- Chapter 191: Twilight Determination
- Chapter 194: Morning Connection
- Chapter 197: Evening Escapades
- Chapter 200: Welcome to the Kingdom: Meeting
- Chapter 203: Just Deserts
- Chapter 206: Fire with Fire
- Chapter 208: Curiosity
- Chapter 211: Anger
- Chapter 214: Wrath
- Chapter 217: Bewilderment
- Chapter 220: The Shocking Reveal
- Chapter 223: The Clash of Ideas
- Chapter 226: The Inspirational Speech
- Chapter 232: Information in the Unconscious
- Chapter 244: Welcome to the Overworld. What’s Your Name?
- Chapter 247: Welcome to the Overworld. Let’s Explore, Shall We?
- Chapter 250: Bitter Bout
- Chapter 231: Preparation in the Desert
- Chapter 235: Killing in the Killing Fields
- Chapter 238: What to Do
- Chapter 241: Welcome to
- Chapter 3: Welcome to Hell. What’s Your Name?
- Chapter 6: Ray of Hope
- Chapter 9: Welcome to Hell. Have a Revelation.
- Chapter 12: Decisions
- Chapter 15: Welcome to Hell. Let’s Go to War!
- Chapter 18: Confrontations
- Chapter 21: Back to the Familiar
- Chapter 24: Anticipation
- Chapter 27: Welcome to Hell. Get Ready to Die!
- Chapter 30: Survive
- Chapter 33: Aftermath
- Chapter 36: Stripeks
- Chapter 38: Looping Time
- Chapter 41: Demons and Nymphs
- Chapter 44: Welcome to Hell. Let’s Have a Chat.
- Chapter 47: Execution
- Chapter 50: Divine Intervention
- Chapter 53: Village Journey
- Chapter 56: Cheating
- Chapter 59: Skirmish
- Chapter 62: Welcome to Hell. Learn Your Place.
- Chapter 65: Welcome to Hell. Now Leave.
- Arlan's Fully-Expanded Character Sheet (Not a Chapter)
- Chapter 70: Don’t Mine If I Do
- Chapter 73: Tasty Titles
- Chapter 76: Welcome to the Outlaws: Figuring Things Out
- Chapter 79: Getting Closer
- Chapter 82: Welcome to Hell. This is Your Last Shot.
- Chapter 85: Worn Down
- Chapter 88: Welcome to the Outlaws: Getting Used to It
- Chapter 89: Move Quickly
- Chapter 92: Through the Ashes
- Chapter 95: Information Intake
- Chapter 98: Disastrous Drake
- Chapter 101: Welcome to the Kingdom: Release
- Chapter 104: Draconic Dealings
- Chapter 107: Sierra Smuggle
- Chapter 110: Draconic Dryad
- Chapter 113: A Crash
- Chapter 115.1: A Pair of Guards
- Chapter 116: A Berserker
- Chapter 118: Bonding
- Chapter 120: Theorizing
- Chapter 122.1: Welcome to Hell. Where Are You?
- Chapter 124: Traveling
- Chapter 127: The Arrival
- Chapter 130: Welcome to Hell. Can I Kill You Again?
- Chapter 133.1: The Goodbye
- Chapter 134.2: The Last Stand
- Chapter 136.1: The True Battle Rages
- Chapter 138: The Finished Journey
- Chapter 141: The Anticipated Future
- Chapter 143: Elevation
- Chapter 145.2: Calculation
- Chapter 146.2: Welcome to the Kingdom: Plotting
- Chapter 148: Inspection
- Chapter 150: Instigation
- Chapter 152.1: Infiltration
- Chapter 153.2: Connection
- Chapter 155.1: Interpretation
- Chapter 156.2: Welcome to the Kingdom: Entering
- Erani's Fully-Expanded as of Chapter 157: (Not a Chapter)
- Chapter 159.2: Salvation
- Chapter 161.1: Work
- Chapter 162.2: Hunt
- Chapter 164.2: Town
- Chapter 167: Tale
- Chapter 169: Fightin’
- Chapter 172: Invadin’
- Chapter 175: Secrets and Disclosure
- Chapter 177: Dark and Light
- Chapter 180: Welcome to the Kingdom: Execution Phase
- Chapter 183: Conscience and Conviction
- Chapter 186: The Dragon's Convergence
- Chapter 189: The Dragon’s Fall
- Chapter 192: Dawn Discovery
- Chapter 195: Noon Infiltration
- Chapter 198: Nighttime Activities
- Chapter 201: Monkey Business
- Chapter 204: Welcome to Hell. Goodbye, and Thanks for Nothing.
- Announcement!!! (Free Chapters!)
- Chapter 209: Anxiety
- Chapter 212: Guilt
- Chapter 215: Dread
- Chapter 218: The Prelude
- Chapter 221: The Dramatic Buildup
- Chapter 224: The Self-Sacrifice
- Chapter 227: The Negotiation
- Chapter 243: Old Friend
- Chapter 245: Return
- Chapter 248: Resurgence
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