Reviews of Legend of the Empyrean Blacksmith

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I really liked this book. The characters are quirky and funny, but also they are can be realistic when it needs to be. Lino has matured and developed as a person, mentally and physically. But also I’m some ways he stayed the same.

Don't get me wrong, the writing is great but the story itself has a few problems, the main being that the author can't seem to decide what he really wants this story to be. The synopsis suggests that the main focus in the story would be the mc's path toward becoming a grandmaster blacksmith while also walking the path of cultivation and going out and making a name for himself. And that's how things play out... right up until about chapter 7 or 8 where the plot suddenly goes 10 to a million out of nowhere. The mc sets off on his first journey, so now you're thinking to yourself, aight maybe some world building here, a little training and character development there and perhaps he'll take some time to practice and gain experience in blacksmithing to further his abilities. Nope, forget all that noise! The mc barely took 2 steps into his very first outing before he was immediately ****-whipped right into the center of the main plot of the story. One minute our literally level 20 mc is setting off to become a pokemon master and out of nowhere Pallet town suddenly gets lambasted with a crap tonne of level 70+ legendary pokemon and our mc is right in the thick of it, somehow fighting them all off with 2 rattatas, a pidgey and a charmander. It's like the author quickly ran out of patience and threw pacing out the window so he can finally get to show off his writing skills and now we're being constantly bombarded with endless convoluted conspiracies, psychological explorations and foreshadowing. The whole idea of the mc having a dual occupation of blacksmith/cultivator seems to have fallen completely on the afterburner. As of chapter 60 the mc has crafted a grand total of 3 proper items + 3 throwaway items and he barely uses any of them, opting instead to use items crafted by other blacksmiths. He doesn't even have to actually cultivate since the author made it so that his level naturally increases and he can gain experience through killing. And that leads me to my final complaint, the author tries to merge cultivation with game elements but fails horribly at it. The concept of levels and stats, such as attack and defense, is presented in numerical values but none of it actually matters except for the special effects of equipment and even those are hardly ever relevant in actual combat. Even with his inspection ability the mc can't actually see the stats of those who aren't even that much higher than him in level or even that of their equipment and the stats of those lower leveled than him are literally never mentioned, so what's even the point of stats existing in the first place? At the end of the day all that happens is that the mc fights and defeats those stronger than him through plot armor, a godly cultivation method and superior equipment that he didn't even forge himself. All in all it feels like the author figure out what type of story he wanted to write only after he was already invested in a certain plot and decided to just slowly morph the story into what it is now while leaving all the ideas he was already running with to slowly fade away in the background. It would have been better if the author had left the demon invasion plot for later on and spent more time fleshing out the various ideas and systems he introduced into the story at least until they actually made sense while also allowing the mc to actually grow in strength somewhat so that he can face his enemies without having to rely on plot armor.

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Be able to write a novel like this, great work author! I’d love to see more. Do you have a discord for readers to join or any other social media I can follow?

It's good but before ch 42 we already know MC is destined to struggle and fight against the world, and there is this huge plot everywhere, difficult decision, sandnes n drama, got enough of that so im out

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The book is amazing, mc way speaking and his development is unique which gave the novel a new enjoyment and interesting. I really like this novel and it's plot development, I hope author right more books like this with different genres and story thanks and good luck.

Excellent book, I couldnt put it down

While this is my first real review, it is for a book I believe to be the best in all of webnovel. While the first few chapters are all over the place in terms of plot, after this, it gets much better in terms of writing and story and stays on this high note all throughout the book. And while most books have the glaring problem of 10 pages of filler behind a paywall, this book has no such problem as, as plot writing this, the book is completely free, all 500+ chapters. This book is a relic of a bygone era in great webnovel writing and should at least get the respect it deserves as such. Give it a try, as I've said before, IT IS FREE! Read and enjoy!

This is probably the best novel I have read. However the only thing which is getting in the way is that the author for some reason add too much tragedy. I mean it is necessary to have tragedy in a story but beddedotaku sometimes take it too far. In the later chapter he even had to kill his own adopted mother. In some of his other stories the heroine leaves MC for another men for some stupidest reason and MC doesn't even fell sad. However despite all this is really perhaps the best book I have read. I just wish that in the chapters or author's new works he won't add unnessary tragedy or netorare. Wish you good luck author.

Just finished the novel over a couple of weeks and even if my reads are cut off the story and how the author writes it is very good. This was a good novel but I still want a little bit more

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1st chapter got me hooked wtf 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

second review got pulled so this time I'm giving it a 5/5 rating instead of the 3/5 it deserves so maybe it will stay up a little longer same review as last time I found this story disappointing. The first ark was great and I was convince this would turn out to be one of those few 5 star novels I'm always searching for, but I was to be disappointed. In the second ark the street smart kid became a lover of poetry with a mild hero complex. I started reading this story expecting a smart MC who used his brain to plan his way out of sticky situations. Instead he runs in half cocked with little to no planning and relying on dumb luck to survive. Even still I have to give it 3.5 stars since I would read it if there was nothing else to read.

I lover the world building and the consistency of the metadetails. It got a little character heavy at the end but was handled very well and course corrected.

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Just started the book, but so far the story has been great and has steady development one of the best books ive read in this app so far. I hope it keeps up the same way till the end

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