So the web novel I’ll be talking about is Abe the Wizard by the mass of eating melon seeds. And I already know what you’re thinking. Yes, that is the author’s actual name that he has on his web novel. At least it’s something original. the novel has 1,512 chapters, averages about 14 chapters a week and has a rating of 4.1 stars and 8.4 million views.
This novel brings me back to when I was reading a web novel that dear to my heart and one of my favorite fantasy and wizard themed light novels. Supreme Mages by Legion 20. This was before the time I got into the system genre vortex of web novels. Anyways, it’s good to be back in the good old fashioned wizard fantasy stories for as close to us old fashioned wizardry as we can get within a web novel.
Our story starts off with our protagonist Abe being reincarnated into another world. In his previous world, he was a bodybuilder trainer also when he was reincarnated to the other world. He was able to bring the Horadric Cube from Diablo to our main character gets reincarnated to a ten year old boy named Abe, who’s the son of a knight.
The story starts off with him being trained up as a knight. He develops fast because he was a bodybuilding trainer. So he understands how the body works and how he can train his body even more in an efficient manner. Every isekai Web novel has a trope that gives the main character a huge leg up compared to the people in the new world.
And the whole Roger Cube is in the Horadric Cube For those who aren’t familiar with Diablo II gives him the ability to combine three objects at a time to create an even higher tiered item. Also, this gives our main character the ability to see item stats of whatever he puts in. Even though he doesn’t technically have a system per say, the Horadric Cube essentially fills the requirements of a system, but not really.
The Horadric Cube is able to combine all types of items like potions, food, and any other items you can think of, which gives this main character a huge advantage in his development. You’ll understand once you read the novel, the story takes place in a medieval magic world. It currently lives in the holy continent. The holy continent is made up of numerous kingdoms and races like elves, dwarves and etc. the kinds of species you would expect in a fantasy novel.
So far in my reading. Abe hasn’t left the continent yet, but there have been some hints from the author, like the world is much bigger than it seems and the holy continent is small compared to the rest of the world. You’ll be able to travel when you’re stronger. A lot of authors do this type of thing so they don’t have to constrict the world they’re building and they can further develop the world later.
Or they haven’t thought the rest of the world through. Explain to the reader what abe the wizard story has to offer. So the world building is pretty vague. If I’m being honest. The humans biggest enemy in this world are the ogre race. They’ve been at war with the humans for thousands of years. So far, all we know is that the ogre wage war against the humans because the ogre population grows too fast.
So what the ogre leaders do is send hordes of their military to invade the humans, to thin out their population, for them to survive. The ogre in this story are a very poor race compared to the other species. They have to steal human resources to develop their own because of the constant growth of their population. At the beginning of the novel, we know that MC is around his 30’s the 40’s when he died.
So the main character should be pretty mature for his age, which he is compared to the other kids in the novel. But as the reader reading the character, he doesn’t really come off as acting mature.
It’ll be interesting to see how the author plans to unfold the relationship between the two, but not expecting too much concerning this. A lot of authors lack the ability to build a compelling relationship story between the main character and a side character.
I feel that if age doesn’t progress as fast as it should. Not sure if the author is young and doesn’t know how to write a character that ages, or he’s taking his time with it, but at a grueling pace. This protagonist has made so much development. The multiple feels like knighthood, wizardry, forging runes, Smith, Alchemist and a Druid.
Like, come on, how is this main character still a teenager? I get that. It’s an overpowered main character, but at least try to give him a realistic time frame for him to develop. It makes no sense to me. The main character needs to grow up. Like, how can you have all these fields he’s good with and be so young.
Like, come on, how is this main character still a teenager? I get that. It’s an overpowered main character, but at least try to give him a realistic time frame for him to develop. It makes no sense to me. The main character needs to grow up. Like, how can you have all these fields he’s good with and be so young.
I know abe the wizard is a fantasy novel and all, but let it have some sense of realism. Some of the ways the author plugs the main character’s old life into his new one, and because the main character has had some experience in a given field, it makes him a master in this one. The MC is a bodybuilder trainer who knows three types of martial arts, knows how to forge because he saw a TV program about forging and knows how to hunt and build bear traps because he was hiking in his other life.
Character design is decent, I guess, but I wish the author would be more descriptive and use more descriptive words to explain a scene. Character, a fight, and etc.. It may just be the translation that was done for the novel because it does have its grammatical issues and a lack of descriptive words.
I’m not going to lie. It does have its issues. But you know what? Web novel doesn’t. I do genuinely enjoy reading this novel. It is enjoyable and fun to read, especially for those who enjoy decent storytelling, a decent OP trope and excessive plot armor on steroids.
