The Mage Returns: Speedrunning Earth!
法师归来，速通地球！
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- Ongoing
- Length
- 729k Words
- Genre
- Sci-Fi
- Subgenre
- Super Tech
- Updated
- 3d ago
- English
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I can't think of anyone else on Qidian who respects Li Jiapo the most besides that person. And you're still saying you're not him???
The author blocked too many negative comments. The book started off okay, but then it became just empty filler. That's it.
This book will not have a reader group. Due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter, it is easy for monsters to appear in the chat. We hope all readers will understand.
It feels like if you remove the mage and just focus on AI-driven black technology, there's not much difference. Basically, it's just using the mage motif to attract readers in that area.
Holy crap, Apple requires all software to be adapted for foldable screens within a specified time, and Qidian (the app) has also adapted, but on my Honor foldable screen, the forced dual-column reading is like a dead horse.
Write quickly, write quickly! Tomorrow I want to see a million words of Chen Jianguo returning to his loyal Chenjiapo.
What kind of idiots are those who ask authors to write stories with multiple female leads in the comments section? Remember, wizarding novels, mage novels, scholar novels—any novels that involve research and contribute to the advancement of human civilization—must be free of female leads. Anything else involving women is considered a waste of time. For example, if the protagonist is someone who pursues truth to the death, and you make him have women and a harem, you are ruining his character.
Forage
I initially thought it was a genius-themed story, and if it had followed the initial writing style, like a top student with a high-tech system, it would have been a masterpiece. Unfortunately, it turned into a Celestial Being style, and the protagonist directly transformed into a Super Saiyan.
It was supposed to be cola, but you insisted on adding water. Do you think that's appropriate, author? Ugh!! Answer me!
It's getting increasingly padded. The latest introduction to CC still takes two chapters to write. Your plot is ridiculously weak.
If this was written by Crow, it's really disappointing; it's a drop in quality from his previous book. Is Qidian (a Chinese online literature platform) promoting light novels? Several platinum-level books by top authors that I'm following have switched to the light novel genre.