Martial Arts vs Magic, Book 1

Mana Cultivation (A LitRP Progression Adventure)

De: The Veiled Man, Hikaru Genji

Narrado por: Sylvester Frost, Ellory Lane

Someone once asked: What is stronger? Martial arts or Magic?

I answered: Why not simply use both?

In a new world brimming with possibilities—Levels, Classes, Skills, Dungeons, and Monsters—I found myself reborn as a noble family’s troublemaker son.

As a gamer, a magical world and a lazy life as a rich noble's son should have been a dream come true. But there was a massive catch. An absurd quest threw everything into chaos.

[Quest: Make a cult; Save the World.]

How could I, in the body of a useless noble, survive in a world dominated by jealous Gods and nefarious Devils, while treading on their domains?

Thankfully not all hope is lost. A few things can help me accomplish my quest.

A fiancee that also happens to be a vampire. A Magic Academy where I can find minions and allies. Finally—A Mysterious System.

©2025 Hikaru Genji (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

voice acting was great

so the story was good but it's nothing special or unique really. but if you like dying and being reborn in another world stories you'll like this. the performance was amazing and there was nothing specifically wrong with the story. I had a great amount of action. I just feel like this trope's been down a lot but they did it well

it's not bad

not a bad book. I came here to say, remember the harry potter joke? "HARRY POTTER DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE?!" Dumbledore asked calmly. the difference between book and movie. ya your going to get that in these books. the female narrator sounds great but it's like they just sent her all her voice lines with zero context and just said give them a random emotion. it's not every time she speaks but you will notice it. the male narrator is better in that aspect but i assume that's cause he's actually reading the book.

I really enjoyed the story.

Ok just to let you know this will be all FTB and not very spicy. But the story definitely is great. I enjoyed the Mc and the reincarnation aspect. Always love the useless or crippled body. The side characters could use some work on flushing them out. Great fight always epic big fights.

vas felt off

dont get me wrong, I 100% prefer male and female vas in a book but between the male va's weird pronunciations for words like "strength" or the female va who sounds like shes trying to get the lines out as soon as possible, I couldnt not put it in the review. overall story has been enjoyable. though I think the author overdid it with the mc trying to hide his origins. I understand it gives you more to write on but some of the stuff he tried keeping to himself just sounded forced. annoying but not enough for me not to get the next book. still, the amount he lies and holds back on saying stuff is getting really old. why bring it up like (spoiler: when he decided not to say anything about the alchemist's lover) maybe itll come up later but his dishonesty got to the point where I was getting frustrated. some of it makes sense but not all of it

Not his best.

Parts had gawd awful writing. To start, the description is incredibly misleading. He doesn’t have magic at all. The financê is out of the story after the first 20mins except a few random mentions and then just a little in the end. The academy? He’s there only the last 10mins.

The fiancé’s mom mentions her once offhandedly like she had no clue about her then shortly after the mom somehow knows that the MC is engaged to her daughter…wtf. THEN without any development, everyone seems to know.
Then there’s the GRINGY names for every technique. These demigods “are so powerful they can destroy planets” yet their full power attacks just wreck a bunch of buildings.

The worst part of this all? The writer has a pretty good series going.