The Oracle Paths

Let me just start off by saying: this novel, is wonderful. Truly. Especially when it comes to world building, descriptive fight scenes and characters, the author actually does a great job in building them. Though the main character, Jake, is indeed not the most intelligent MC, his character development really shows. It's all in all a well written story. At times, the power scaling and the "plot armor" that the characters receive can be annoying, but it isn't to the point where it is a complete turn off. In fact, I am quite lenient with ratings, and I'm not really a connoisseur of novels, so I'm used to giving at least 4 or 5 stars on ones I actually bother writing a review on. Why the three stars, you may ask? This is because of the d*mn upload schedule. Now, I don't know what it is the author is going through in order to write so little chapters, but it is REALLY annoying. His other novel, "Blood Legacy" has so much potential. Yet, that one is also on an indefinite hiatus. All power to the author, he may be facing troubling or difficult times, but having such a pathetic upload schedule is truly a turn off. Regardless, I do recommend that those who have chanced upon this novel to read it, as story wise it is at least much, much better than average.

I was introduced to this novel through the author’s other novel Blood Legacy. The novel features game elements, blood lineages, and science fiction. The action scenes are out of this world (pun intended) and the MC is overpowered. The quality of writing and the story itself is above average. Definitely recommend.

This is one of those kinda realistic novel when you just one day got a bracelet that would change your life. -Mc is also a human, his character is slowly developed. But nonetheless, he becoming great. -The world building is cool, and there are some lores behind it. -Side character is are still side but well-written. *This is one of those qualities and well-paced? novel that are top tiers* *It deserves to be at the top spot(real top ones), plot is interesting and reasonable, peak for sure. *

The story, worldbuilding, powers, and charactors are all awesome. The problem however is A- around chapter 800 the plot starts to fall apart. 50 chapters of power ups or cool stuff just to be deemed useless. It literally makes around 150 chapters absolutely pointless. Next is problem B- Ruby. A garbage charactor the ruins everything. She is forced into it all and everything about her just ruins the story. The author tries to make you sympathize or care about her at some point in order to make her seem important and relevant, EVEN THO ALL ANYONE WANTS IS FOR HER JUST DIE ALREADY. Istg if anything borks this novel its her.

This book in my opinion is really good, there are only a few problems with it being that the first arc of the book is a little confusing but if you manage to push forward until the 3rd ordeal it starts to get really good, the only real downside with the book is that it has a wide story and can get confusing at times if you don't remember some details.

All the bad reviews is only because they haven't reach the 3rd or 4th ordeal that's when this novel becomes godly, everything about this novel is well written and top tier, that is if you reach a certain chapter

Great story. I don't know why I'm so hooked, but it was enjoyable. I think it should be at least the top 50. I'm excited to see how Jake would handle the multiverse and not just his mirror universe.

Positive - This story concept is really interesting. The mc is good, the side characters are sometimes good. The power system is cool in concept. The writing is consistent and generally if you think about it enough most this make sense (sans the trials, but i feel like trials in all these novels tend to be ridiculous w/o reason). Negative - Because of how the power system works characters personalities change to the point of them doing stupid stuff that actively goes against what they desire (this is intentional by the author). The trials (forgot what they're called) are stupid. The first 4 are supposed to be non-lethal and aren't supposed to have a major negative impact on you. Despite that, they're all like 150 chs long and them being nonlethal obviously doesn't stick the way it's supposed to. I got so annoyed in one of the trials I skipped to the last 20 chapters of the arc and felt like I missed nothing. The story also has a weird balance between everything being a joke and it being a hopeless grimdark situation where there is no point to anything.

This novel is highly underestimated due to the low publication rate and many interruptions it has had in these few years. If there were 2-3 uploads per day, it would probably be among the top 5 web novels. This novel has a unique and perfect world (I didn't see anything), realistic characters and full of surprises and new things. Everything in this novel is unique. It is one of the best systematic novels in the novel world. The main idea of the system is from another novel that is not as good as this one, and the stories that use the same system are usually not comparable to this one. I have been following the novel since it had about 100 episodes, and I must say that despite all the interruptions and the low publication rate, it has almost always been ranked between 20 and 40 web novels. Once it was not updated for several months (maybe more than 5 months). This point is important to show the value of this novel, because in comparison, almost all top rated novels (perhaps all of them) have 2-3 daily uploads without interruption.

The story was really enjoyable until the second Ordeal. Everything started to decline in quality, the interactions, the worldbuilding, the characters, the logic, everything. Some Characters have their personality change on a dime and become completely unlikable while almost every single villain lives for hundreds of chapters. You can pretty much skim dozens of chapters and nothing of importance will be lost as that is how much each arc gets padded. There is a tag of Weak to Strong yet the main character conveniently is always weaker than every antagonist, but always makes it out on top.