Jon's days are numbered.
The mine will consume his life any day.
Will this offer to farm inside a game be any better?
He wants nothing but to farm in the real world, and he’s given that chance in a VRMMORPG. With a new lease on life, he accepts it.
But when he’s robbed of his only tool to farm sufficient quota, he has no other option but to enter the deadliest forest of the region and die at the hands of a druid to obtain a skill that will help him reach his goals.
However.
Death awaits at every step in the forest, and he can’t die more than thrice.
What will Jon do?
Find out more about Jon's epic journey in BlackFlame Online.
You can expect below things from this book series.
1) Farming.
2) Unique Classes.
3) Town Building.
4) Epic large scale battles.
5) Forbidden Spells.
My Opinion: 231 pages, $2.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
If you are going to have a hope of enjoying this novel, be aware that like all the other stuff the authors’ have written, this novel has a lot of technical writing errors. If you can accept that, you have a hope of enjoying this. It still has other issues that might not work for you, but it also has some neat ideas.
Personally, I liked some of the RPG stuff going on in the story. The main character gets several classes, like Arch Druid, that I haven’t read about before and the authors make use of some interesting class powers. There are lots of item, skill, and power descriptions and plenty of numbers for those that like a crunchy story. There is also some town building here, so fans of that game mechanic may enjoy that aspect.
However, there are lots of plot holes in the story and I noted many times that a story twist just didn’t make sense. It sometimes felt that the authors thought of some game mechanic they thought would be cool or appeal to a reader and created all the rules for it, then sort of just shoved it into the story. Also, combat in the story isn’t great just ok.
Overall, the novel just misses the mark for me. It is an improvement over some of the authors’ earlier works though. I wasn’t bored and had a good time reading about some of the RPG progression, the use of farming and town building. But the story itself didn’t make sense and the regular technical writing issues dropped my enjoyment. However, if those issues don’t bother you, then you may enjoy the story more than me.
Score : 6 out of 10
Path of Darkness: BlackFlame Online Litrpg/Gamelit Universe (Glory of Formation Emperor Book 1)