Slumrat Rising

He would sell his soul to escape the slums. Nobody's buying. Truth Medici has to fight... Read more He would sell his soul to escape the slums. Nobody's buying.Truth Medici has to fight every step of the way to get out of the Harban slums. If he fails, his parents will sell him and his siblings to the brothels and gangsters. The slums are short of everything except cruelty. But it doesn't have to be that way. The Starbrite corporation offers wealth, power, a dignified life to those blessed enough to make it through their brutal selection process. The truly driven can even get access to the System Astrologica. The System that can turn an ordinary person into a Demigod. In a world where angels and demons are hired help, "Demigod" is achievable.Of course, power like that, wealth like that, you have to fight for it. And if there is one thing Truth can do, it's fight!Updates Monday-Friday at 12:00 PM EDT Collapse Reincarnation, Urban Fantasy, Age Progression, Antihero Protagonist, Male Protagonist, Satire, High Fantasy, Sword And Magic, Mythology, Overpowered Protagonist, Weak to Strong So so very slow, and convoluted, terms get thrown around with little explanation and from just reading the first 5 chapters I feel like I know less about what's happening than the mc. The mc has a 180 degree personality shift from violence won't get you as far as hard work and determination to slaughter happy. With almost no explanation. Find it very hard to understand but maybe those di-hard fan of System novels will understand. Wow. Just amazing so far. This novel is ... strange... but so good. No info dumps, the story is told and we are learning about the world as the MC encounters it. Writer is one heck of a professional, a genius.The world seems to be some sort of dark sorcery thing crossed with cyberpunk. Fetishes, talismans, corporations, AI, flying carpets instead of taxis, half magic half cyberpunk drugs, that sort of thing. The MC, as told in the summary, was a slumrat who wanted to cultivate to break through to lvl 1, pass his SAT, and get a job with the local big corporation to get his brothers and sister out away from their parents and out of the slums. That story itself was simply amazing as the intro - especially with the breathrough and killing of a swarm of ghuls that creep around in the dark as one of the dangers of the slums.He does his time in the army, rated a combat savant, then goes to work for that corp as a security specialist. Think of a mix of bodyguard, SWAT, Navy Seal, and Starship Trooper (amazing novel) clad in high tech/rune covered armor. Thus the story, worldbuilding, and adventure continues.MC isn't very smart. Or good looking. The only talents he has in maintaining talismans and some sort of ultimate genius of combat and any weapon system he touches. I don't want to reveal more spoilers, so nuff said on that. Personality? Unassuming, quietly competent, highly disciplined. A silent type with self esteem issues, mostly because of his origin and parental abuse.Side characters? Not a lot in the beginning, they're there in his work - his sergeant, captain, ect. Not real in depth, his job has a lot of missions that take him away for days to a week or 2. Bodyguard someone, slaughter a building a cultist slavers while leading a team, and so forth. Then something happens and there are more permanent side characters, with a neat plot twist and "oh $hoot, no way" about the world. How cool is that lao tzu didn't see that coming?The descriptions of battle? Oh man... GREAT. Think of the novel Starship Troopers. Think of the Wheel of Time where Rand, or his father Tam in the last battle sank fully into the dance.If you're wondering if you should read it, think first of how disappointed you're going to be when there's no more chapters available yet. My dad died when we couldn’t remember his blood type. As he died, he kept insisting for us to “be positive,” but it’s hard without him. It's quite complex and confusing, as the author focused a lot on the mystery in the initial chapters, which if you're a beginner reader you probably won't read, even for me who's been reading for a long time it's confusing, it's lot philosophy lol.The positive part is that if you manage to get past the beginning, you will be pleasantly surprised because the author is building a beautiful world setting. That's just my point of view of the novel. current chapter:46What the hell is the author even thinking? The story is turning weirder chapter by chapter. This whole everything is a mystery is getting annoying to read. We literally know nothing and some of the chapters are just philosophical bullshit.Would not recommend to beginners its just confusing as hell to read.The world building and character growth is good.Overall-3.5/5 One of the best world building.the world is set in modern-slightly futuristic times but everything works on magic, demon, angels, and gods and its shows. The best part nearly nothing is wrote how humans get to this point of technological advancemnt but you can clearly imagine it and how fck up some situations could be at some times.I dont know if the author study theology or something like that but the religion is way deeper that "belive in god, whatever the god is in charge of follow it somewhat and all guci".the power system is mostly cultivation where every lvl give you spell slot and once again everything works on magic,devils,angels and gods even spells and cultivation and once again the spells have thoughts behind them.Mc is peticuliar because the enviorement and other stuff he have problems and the problems in my opinion are little too much of a focus.I dont know why this have satire in the tag here maybe my idea of satire is different but I would never put this tag for this novel.overal 9/10 novel really recomment big plus is that author is consistent to the minute and patreon is 20 chapters ahead for like 2 euro. Another royal road novel, I have a good feeling this will be really good after he gets the system and also seems interesting that it is actually multiple individuals other than mc can have it cuz a lot of novels only have mc with system. the rating is good Satire and antihero tags oh well looks goodshortsJoin the ranobe discord, link in my profile