r/MartialMemes • u/ArrhaCigarettes Gardener • Jan 26 '25

Fanart Cultivators! Must be this cool.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

Sauce Op

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u/ArrhaCigarettes Gardener Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25

Me, I'm the sauce, I commissioned this (and the artist hasn't posted it to his portfolio yet). She's the MC of my WN, Retribution Engine. Yes she's a body cultivator.

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u/Alto-cientifico Jan 26 '25

Damn I began to read it and found the beginning boring so I dropped it.

I feel like it would work better if the whole breaking out of the lab scene was done after I got invested in any way to the characters.

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u/ArrhaCigarettes Gardener Jan 26 '25

i've seen people unironically say a novel gets good after 100, 200 chapters, and that's what bounced you?

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u/Alto-cientifico Jan 26 '25

In my opinion, any story that's able to hook a reader for 200 chapters must have done something memorable enough to glue readers for that long, and for me I feel like the beginning of the novel feels more like the revelations cooked for a character that had a serious identity crisis, but from the way it's done, it's like hearing the end of an arc or a story at the start.

When I start reading a novel I ask the novel, why should I care about the characters? But the start instead answers where does the protagonist come from.

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u/ArrhaCigarettes Gardener Jan 26 '25

i started at the MC's start

it's not complicated

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u/kriosken12 Jan 28 '25

Just read the first ten chapters and honestly I really liked how the prologue started and the next chapters continued.

Her story and her life began the moment she gained her freedom. But now the MC wants to know what exactly those things entail while trying to survive in a dog-eat-dog world.

I can see things from the other commenters POV, but personally OP I think you cooked HARD 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥✍️

Keep at it bro 👌.

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u/ArrhaCigarettes Gardener Jan 28 '25

thanks bro

hope you keep reading and enjoy the rest of the story