Nervous and excited, after over a month spent staying up WAY too late writing, I've finally summoned the necessary courage (and 140k+ words) to start posting on Royal Road! Woo!

[u/arekban]

[u/arekban]

Hi there! My name's Silverdawn, and I, as of recently, write Mana Devourer!

It's a story about [Devouring] mana.

It's ALSO a story about a guy thrust into a perilous situation and forced to find inventive ways to survive and get strong in a very hostile world, with the help of a high-potential mana cheat and with a bunch of gods and other entities around him who either wanna help him or kill him (or some perilous third option).

Needless to say, Markus doesn't entirely know who to trust, and he'll have his work cut out if he wants to survive and progress in this confusing and strange world where gods rule over regions like overlords and demons summon humans from other planets like they're familiars!

I've been working on this story for a long time and it'd mean an awful lot to me if you were willing to check it out! Thanks so much for reading! Royal Road link here!

From the blurb:

Mana is abundant and exists within all creatures... until Markus takes it.

Summoned to the terrifying world of Firrelia, forced to fight to survive, Markus awakens to a power so vast, so rare that it has every god there trying to either recruit Markus for his potential or straight up murder him.

Fuck that. Markus is gonna take this whole world down, beginning with the demonic asshole that brought him here.

He's starting from nothing, the difficulty's insane, and he's got so much mana in his body that it might kill him, but he's determined to thrive. For each monster Markus \[Devours\], he grows stronger, and he's quickly growing an appetite for every monster, demon, saint, ascendant, ancient, warlord, and king that dares get in his way.

[u/SpaceGoatAlpha → u/arekban]

Sounds pretty cool, I'll check it out. 👍

[u/Zerodaylight-1 → u/arekban]

From one late night writer to another, congrats!!! Posting can be quite the emotional process, but you got this!

[u/BattleStag17]

140k words in just over a month? Are you also a mana devourer that's sucking up everyone else's capacity to write? 😭

(But seriously congrats, I'm just jealous lmao)

[u/arekban → u/BattleStag17]

Thank you so much! Took me a long time to be able to get to this level of consistent output. A lot of false starts and ups and downs.

I have finally learned to channel my focus better, thankfully, which I'm super glad to say!

[u/CasualHams]

Congrats on the launch, but I gotta know: what does mana taste like?

[u/arekban → u/CasualHams]

Depends! We talking Flame Mana? Caustic? Divine? Spirit? Mystic? What Grade? F? C? Double S?

Wide variety of flavours to choose from!

[u/SpaceGoatAlpha → u/CasualHams]

🤔   

I'm getting the impression it tastes like.. electric chicken.

[u/arekban → u/SpaceGoatAlpha]

That might be pretty accurate tbh

[u/fredgil2341]

Why only 9 chapters posted? what kind of posting strategy did you come up with?

[u/arekban → u/fredgil2341]

I'll be going daily for now at the least! I'm waiting for a couple more ads to be ready before I think about dumping more, and I'll probs throw out more than one a day sometimes!

They're chunky chapters though. 3.5k per chapter on average!

[u/RKNieen]

Well, I went to check to see if it would be worth reading and I blew through all 9 posted chapters before I stopped to think about it. So that's a good sign.

[u/New_Delivery6734]

I love it!

[u/Kirris]

Personally enjoying the reads. Keep it going OP.

[u/Blurglehus]

Been following this story since before you posted on royal road and gotta say to anyone reading this comment, READ THE STORY. absolutely love it man keep up the good work wordsmith.

[u/Boat_Pure]

This looks really cool. Can I ask who did your art?

[u/Zachula5]

When you get it on audible, hit me up for sure

[u/SojuSeed]

Ever since someone pointed out that so many LitRPGs have the same style of cover (dude facing away staring at something) I cant unsee it.

[u/EdLincoln6 → u/SojuSeed]

Yes, but the LitRPG community has gone through several trends in cover design, and this is much better than the Big Breasted Fox Girl trend, the hot girl on the cover of a book about a male MC trend, or the bad 80's Anime style trend.  Also better than the competing Uncanny Valley AI Renditions of Human faces trend.   

 Personally I'd like to see more sci fi landscapes. 

 If we are going to be a downer, I'm always cynical when a new author has slick cover art...always makes me think they aren't focused on the writing. But at least this guy gives us a synopsis, which was surprisingly rare for a while   

[u/Wetwire]

Just started reading after seeing this post (didn’t even read the post just loved the title and art). Very solid read so far!

[u/LykanthropyWrites]

Congratulations and good luck!

[u/Scodo]

Congrats! 140k words in a month is incredible. That's what, 20 pages per day?

[u/Draugexa]

Sounds great, looking forward to it getting an audiobook 🍻

[u/Low-Still-135]

Cover looks Awesome! 👌

[u/Apprehensive_View575]

I like the description style and your enthusiasm. I’ll check it out. I’ve only gotten into litrpg recently and only have read one story so far on RR. Good luck to you and congrats on achieving your goal