Salting enough ground can turn a jungle into a desert.

Actually, enough blood to change the color of the soil does not fertilize it - it contaminates it. It becomes Dead Ground. The build up of salts in blood both prevents plant growth and can kill what is already there. It was part of the process in ancient times of "Salting the Fields" of your enemies to prevent the foes from growing food.

Fate - preordained Luck - barely missed getting shot Fortune - walking away with the dead guy's wallet

Fate, Luck, Fortune - three completely unrelated things that a lot of people get mixed up. They cover technically absolute conceptual domains that do not intersect, but which can influence one another. All three concepts come from completely different cultures: Fate (Greeks), Luck (Irish), Fortune (East Asia).

What is told is mostly from the ma's understanding. Since he shouldn't know, then the MC essentially explaining things made no sense. It is likely a problem with how the author wrote it, but often the MC knew things he should not.

Generally, it is single word repeating for emphasis. However, it is also for major statements as reinforcement of an issue. It's the second one that is annoying, because it can mean seeing the same paragraph repeated frequently...

Sounds like a good tactic, but...now it's on your shirt. Touch shirt? Now it's on you! so... 😵

MC: "System, put all my available points into Dexterity!" Sytem: "Sorry Host, I don't know what that is." MC: "Okay... Put them all into Luck!" System: "Luck?! Sorry Host, I can't." MC: "Then put it into Wisdom, Bloodline, Qi, Perception, or Fortune!" System: "(...)" System Admin: "Due to a breach in the user agreement, a factory recall of your system has been initiated. Please stand by as you are deleted. Deletion in progress...please hold..."

In cultures where being illegitimate was frowned upon, bastards were often treated as slaves, and most became slaves of their own family. I don't mean figuratively. They were placed in shackles and irons after birth or young and often sold or given away to others "Masters" around adolescence - "for the family's benefit". The shame the father felt for having a bastard child could even lead to him killing the child out of hand for no reason - "Cleaning the stain on his honor".

The only real case where the term bastard might apply, is if the father isn't the highest authority, such as King or Emperor, and the concubine isn't of high birth/standing/background. In this case, the family/parents may treat the legal marriage of the son as never having happened, then believe the resulting child to be illegitimate - a bastard.

[Occupation: Count Regent of Othniel Levavot Kingdom, Guild master of ****, Student Initiate] you know, I started to list him as a Bastard son at first, but if his mother is a concubine, that would be incorrect. Concubines are legal wives, while the Queen is the First wife. Now, if the king had a son with a servant, slave, or other out of wedlock, THEN the son would be a bastard child (male or female). However, being the son of a concubine just means he would not traditionally be in line for the throne. In England - as an example - he would first be a Prince and later a Duke at most, unless the entire direct bloodline of the Queen died off, then the bloodline of the 2nd wife/1st concubine/head concubine would become Crown Prince. That is unless the King specifically changed the order of legitimacy in writing. It gets very complicated, but in essence, this is the basics. He isn't a bastard if his mother is a concubine...

Uh... He may be his biological father, but no Father be he.

...except the fallout would kill you if you lived in the woods... example: (modern) nukes are a lot stronger than the originals - if one were dropped on Washington DC, the fallout could be lethal as far as California. This ignores the fact that it could also CIRCLE THE GLOBE.... But if it were dropped into Yellowstone Park instead? Well...that is a sleeping super volcano (the surrounding mtns are the lip of the volcano. 😶). The world? Would die. Everything...

Honestly, if you causally knock on an interior door, you are very likely to put your hand through it....

If i remember right, the way it was written made it sound like he was driving or riding in a carriage one second, then poof he wasn't but suddenly riding a horse...🤔

like the classic Gremlins movie. A cult classic! But before the Gremlins show up, it is boring as hell. pure tedium.

Always thought that the title was interesting. But the "Modern" part kinda throws it out the window for me. It makes me think the book will be as interesting as "Watching Paint Dry". So...

Yeah...nope! The moment it said King Author, I lost all interest. Probably because if it is not related to Merlin, it's not a real King Author tale which can only exist in high fantasy. Now if it is Historical King Author? Those people were nothing to look up to, as they were more brutish and deviant than vikings/Saxons/Angles/Nords/etc... "More beast, than mortal man." A historically accurate tale of King Author would leave a person longing for an anti-radiation decontamination shower, they are that disgusting. As for this book? No clue. I can't get past King Author to find out.

It's not that - he goes completely against common sense. For both a human AND a monster... Neither one would do what he does. Nor would his mothers do what they do. It is contrary to what and who they are. It is basic Psychology...