The Challenger's Return: Rebirth of the Rainbow Mage

Easily the best original novel on the website right now. Yes, I've read the top one's, and the only one that comes close is the Oracle Paths. I won't even try and list the reasons. If you keep trying different novels over and over and face palming, or young kids being sexualized - or characters lacking backbone, or mindless murderers(btw reverend insanity is not the same hehe) etc etc. This is the same high stakes novel with a more reasonable touch instead of whatever other description you want to give to those others. I want to give it a 4.9 because nothing is perfect, but I can't so a 5 will do.

To put things into perspective - it's slow(as LOTM was at least in the beginning - also author realized story was a bit on the slow side in recent chapters and already started to adapt) but it flows so well. One of the few novels I look forward to reading. Hopefully the writing quality remains the same.

Thank you for reading my book. It's my first novel, and I'm still learning, so I give four stars!

Here's what you can expect:

The Good

The story flows well, and grammar and sentence issues are minimal.

Otto, the MC, is smart, ruthless, pragmatic, rational, and powerful. He loves his schemes, but is NOT a genius, an edge lord, a simp, or omnipotent.

Each floor could lead to an entirely new world! The worlds are unique, and feel real...this is not a copy cat novel hehe

The Bad

Pacing! It starts fast but slows down too much...something to work on
No romance...
POV shifts could be introduced and inserted better.
There are moments where it may seem contrived...this is my first story so I'm working on this too

All in all, I hope you can give it a chance.... I don't think you'll regret it!!!

I won't say this is the best or most original novel here but i will say its one of the best (If not THE best) executed novels on the website with very few weak points, all the scenarios the author sets up are engaging, all the fights are rock solid and thrilling, all the powers are comprehensive, diverse and well thought out. There's 0% fat in this novel, nothing ever feels like "Filler" or unnecesary (Besides maybe the skill descriptions that you can just skip if you already know about it)

As for weak points (Author, if you see this, i hope you take these in consideration), there's only 2 of them and they're easily fixed, the characters have little going on besides wanting to be stronger, which is understandable since they're thight on time, but having them do something else besides training and bicker in the background would be nice, playing cards, watch TV (There should be some kind of entretaintment besides VR capsules) or even go to a strip club would add some life to their characters, given them a hobby or something that has nothing to do with getting strong, have them interact with other people and see how they solve their problems without the MC, have a bit more chapters about them and what they think of their situation and what they want to do with their lives, but its not urgent either (And its not like he didn't do any of these, i just think its lacking).

The other weak point is that the world, although well thought out so far, also has little going on besides getting stronger/richer, not that there's any problem with that since since these are all broad strokes about the setting and its factions we are just getting to know, so far the framework is solid but it lacks color.

All in all i always felt execution always trium** over originality and this is the closest to a 5/5 in execution i saw so far, great stuff, i hope he doesn't drop it.

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This light novel is so decently written and the story is so compelling, that I wish I did not, discover this until a year later and this had way more chapters in it, so I can binge read all of them.

I highly enjoy this novel and I think that the author does a really good job keeping you interested in the first chapters to see what happens next. Hook Line & Sinker

Cmon man please start writing again. I literally can’t read other novels cause their quality feels subpar now. I’m addicted and favourite drug dealer isn’t selling me my drugs. I need your product. Come back...

This is really a top tier book so far.
I didnt notice any sort of bad writing quality, but I am also not particulary picky.
Since there are only 19 chapters out atm, I cant really judge, but what I can say is, that the chapters are all VERY long. I really love that. They also dont feel stuffed or as if he tries to reach some wordcount, so I am happy.
Cant say much about the story yet, but so far its very solid. However, my only negative point with this is that there will be no romance according to the tags, which is actually a shame. I dont need a harem or anything, but a book is just not 5 Stars without romance. Maybe Author can be persuaded to add a romance of some sort?
Character design seems solid, they dont all have the same personality and seem to have realistic motivations and stuff.
The world background is very nice. I like the whole setting and the explaining of the world is certainly not dry. Some parts about the world are unclear yet, but I assume that the MC will find out or reveal it later in the story.

So, all in all, seems like a solid story so far. But for the love of god, PLEASE add romance. Doesnt have to be fanatic or smth, just some playful banter and stuff with a gf so he wont be lonely at the top.

Over one month without updates or an announcement.

Is the author still alive? We'll never know just as we'll never know the end of this novel.

The story is pretty decent maybe it'll get revived at some point.