
After the Hero Retires
勇者退休之后
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 1.6M Words
- Genre
- Eastern Fantasy
- Subgenre
- European Fantasy
- Updated
- 8d ago
- English
- Request a translation
Synopsis
Other names
- The Hero Cleared the Game, but the Story Goes On勇者通关了,但故事还在继续Alternate title on Fanqie
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A great Western fantasy novel! If possible, I hope you can write about the daily lives of the hero's three teammates, and occasionally switch perspectives to depict people and events in other countries and regions. I'm really looking forward to the next story, and I hope the author will keep writing! 😘
It's alright. I quite like the setting of a sword and magic world, but there are some minor typos and sentence errors.
Haha, I'm rambling again. To sum it up first, the author writes very well; it's considered top-quality on Tomato. But I want to say, wasn't the school a bit too complacent about the cult's invasion? After all, they knew the cult had infiltrated the school and were planning something, but the school actually sent everyone away for a ceremony, leaving no one to guard the base, resulting in a…
Please, please, have a look at the child. Okay, I'll just give myself a perfect score too.
It's quite good, but the duel with the saintess ends too abruptly, lacking continuity, which immediately diminishes the reading experience and is very frustrating. I wouldn't recommend such a discontinuation. The subsequent handling of the elf teammates' situation is much better; the protagonist's perspective only returns after the problems are resolved.
There's a reason it gets 8 points; it doesn't have any major flaws, but it also doesn't have many compelling reads.
It's quite good-looking, and it looks a bit like the fake professor from Magic Academy 😘
It's really good, very comfortable to watch, with the main storyline subtly integrated into the seemingly mundane side quests.
I've read up to chapter 99. I like the book's premise, but I'm even more eager to see the story of the hero and his teammates. I initially thought Yue was just a supporting character, but it turns out she wants to be the female lead! Please write more about the hero's team soon; writing about their past adventures would be very interesting too.
Although the characters are set as top-tier combatants in the main cast, with the protagonist being the absolute powerhouse, the plot so far is generally fine. The multiple character perspectives and different storylines are one of the motivations to keep reading. However, the combat is somewhat lacking.