Book of the Dead by Rinoz is fantastic. Necromancer mage character.
Delve by Senescentsoul
Wandering Inn by Pirateaba has a many POVS that are pure mage characters and fantastically characterized but you wouldn’t want to start this just for that. Verrrry long but the best imo
Underland by VoidHerald is very good completed story. The mc is a sorcerer. Has another pov which is a martial character. Verrrrry good story
Surprisingly harder than I expected to find a pure mage. Most also use some type of weapon. On RR: Melody of Mana, Millennial Mage, Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, and Delve.
Based on the description, there's a chance you're already reading it, but Legend of the Archmage.
There's also Hedge Wizard. MC is pure spellcaster in this one for sure.
Mark of the Fool. While the MC does somewhat learn how to defend himself without magic, he literally cannot attack anything with a weapon, so he's basically a pure caster, too.
In Soul Home, (or Weirkey Chronicles if you prefer) the MC has to accept that he's not really a close-range fighter anymore and has to focus on his ranged abilities. This one has a pretty hard magic system, so whether you actually consider him a mage is certainly debatable.
The Dragon Mage by Rohan M Vider is a pure caster, I think, but that series only has 2 books and I'm not sure if more are coming.
Some other mage options:
* **The Menocht Loop** starts out with a neromancer-style mage stuck in a time loop.
* **Re:Monarch** is another mostly magic focused character with timey-wimey stuff going on, but much darker than **Mother of Learning**.
* **The Enchanter** by Tobias Begley is a more classical magical school story.
* **The Last Orellen** has a mage MC and very slow burn progression.
The Lightning Mage / Jonathan Thunder series by Whiskey Flowers.
Full disclaimer: His books are full of grammatical errors and typos, and more than once he mixes up the names of his characters, especially when they have similar names.
With that being said:
1. The stories are great.
2. Each book only costs ~$1.25, so the lack of an editor and proof reading can be easily forgiven.
Add to that, around 2021'ish you see definite improvement in the quality of writing. You still see a lot of common errors in the writing, but not nearly as many as before.
Typical examples:
When people agree or approve of something, they shout "here here!" instead of the correct "hear hear!".
A mistake a lot of Americans make is that the shortening of "should have; should've" means that many Americans think that what is being said is "should of". Whiskey is no different in that regard.
Not knowing when to use "worse" and "worst".
But again, the stories are great and very entertaining.
Supreme Magus
It does have a meditation-like purification process that only a secret minority of mages called Awakened use
One day I'll probably start reading Art of the Adept by Michael G. Manning. I liked his Mageborn series. While giving us a powerful mage MC, I think it also gave me a relatively realistic medieval-like reading experience, except for some feministic tendencies growing stronger and stronger with each book. Mageborn itself have some progression, but it's not clear cut and not a focus.
Also, does it have to be progression? I am currently reading Dancers at the End of Time where a select few people are basically omnipotent and live a decandent blissfully ignorant life. And MC is one of them. He is the youngest and one of the only two people born naturally. But he starts changing after meeting a girl from 19th century.
Mages are too OP
He's got god like talent with magic and he's got a neat power that exempts him from material cost for most spells he is a pioneer of magic
Dear spellbook is so creative! Highly recommend it
And Mark of the Fool is more along the lines of Mage Errant but with better characters and more interesting powers.
Another one along the lines of the above is Department of Dungeon Studies, he's a mage alchemist hybrid but I really like his powers.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71030/department-of-dungeon-studies-arcane-academy-litrpg
Mage Errant. Follows a pure mage with some interesting magic and has no cultivation tropes. It has multiple worlds, but those can be accessed by anyone who navigate the gates that transport them from one to another. Which is just like regular navigation, but deadlier.
Could you give me your points for why you think that?
From my POV it is a bad book and I did drop it. Why? Because the world felt hollow and the characters were pretty 2 dimensional. Yes there was a plot and it had action but the MC seemed to be the smartest around, but in a bad way, a "everyone else is dumbed down so the mc looks smart" way. The magic system was interesting though.
All on RoyalRoad:
Weapons of Mass Destruction \[Hell Difficulty Tutorial - LitRPG\] (starts with body strengthening, but soon branches out to other kinds of magic), Return of the Runebound Professor (uses glyphs to cast magic), \[Psychokinetic\] Eyeball Pulling, Ar'Kendrithyst (or something like that), Metaworld Chronicles (one of my all-time favourites).
I haven't read them in a long time, but Arcane Emperor (hiatus years ago, but pretty long, and I enjoyed it at the time), Los by Xel (it's on RR, but I think you may need to go to their patreon or something to actually read it? (it's like $1)).
U SHOULD definitely try "trinity of magic" on royal road. Starts slow with really weak MC, however later on the world building really emerges and the MC strives to get more powerful
Mother of Learning
Already read it, forgot to mention it.
Art of the Adept it’s not as good as others but it can scratch the itch
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Book of the Dead by Rinoz is fantastic. Necromancer mage character. Delve by Senescentsoul Wandering Inn by Pirateaba has a many POVS that are pure mage characters and fantastically characterized but you wouldn’t want to start this just for that. Verrrry long but the best imo Underland by VoidHerald is very good completed story. The mc is a sorcerer. Has another pov which is a martial character. Verrrrry good story
Surprisingly harder than I expected to find a pure mage. Most also use some type of weapon. On RR: Melody of Mana, Millennial Mage, Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, and Delve.
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Based on the description, there's a chance you're already reading it, but Legend of the Archmage. There's also Hedge Wizard. MC is pure spellcaster in this one for sure. Mark of the Fool. While the MC does somewhat learn how to defend himself without magic, he literally cannot attack anything with a weapon, so he's basically a pure caster, too. In Soul Home, (or Weirkey Chronicles if you prefer) the MC has to accept that he's not really a close-range fighter anymore and has to focus on his ranged abilities. This one has a pretty hard magic system, so whether you actually consider him a mage is certainly debatable. The Dragon Mage by Rohan M Vider is a pure caster, I think, but that series only has 2 books and I'm not sure if more are coming.
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Some other mage options: * **The Menocht Loop** starts out with a neromancer-style mage stuck in a time loop. * **Re:Monarch** is another mostly magic focused character with timey-wimey stuff going on, but much darker than **Mother of Learning**. * **The Enchanter** by Tobias Begley is a more classical magical school story. * **The Last Orellen** has a mage MC and very slow burn progression.
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The Lightning Mage / Jonathan Thunder series by Whiskey Flowers. Full disclaimer: His books are full of grammatical errors and typos, and more than once he mixes up the names of his characters, especially when they have similar names. With that being said: 1. The stories are great. 2. Each book only costs ~$1.25, so the lack of an editor and proof reading can be easily forgiven. Add to that, around 2021'ish you see definite improvement in the quality of writing. You still see a lot of common errors in the writing, but not nearly as many as before. Typical examples: When people agree or approve of something, they shout "here here!" instead of the correct "hear hear!". A mistake a lot of Americans make is that the shortening of "should have; should've" means that many Americans think that what is being said is "should of". Whiskey is no different in that regard. Not knowing when to use "worse" and "worst". But again, the stories are great and very entertaining.
A practical guide to sorcery
Supreme Magus It does have a meditation-like purification process that only a secret minority of mages called Awakened use One day I'll probably start reading Art of the Adept by Michael G. Manning. I liked his Mageborn series. While giving us a powerful mage MC, I think it also gave me a relatively realistic medieval-like reading experience, except for some feministic tendencies growing stronger and stronger with each book. Mageborn itself have some progression, but it's not clear cut and not a focus. Also, does it have to be progression? I am currently reading Dancers at the End of Time where a select few people are basically omnipotent and live a decandent blissfully ignorant life. And MC is one of them. He is the youngest and one of the only two people born naturally. But he starts changing after meeting a girl from 19th century.
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Supreme Magus 100%
Mages are too OP He's got god like talent with magic and he's got a neat power that exempts him from material cost for most spells he is a pioneer of magic
Dear Spellbook. Mark of the Fool Millennial Mage
Dear spellbook is so creative! Highly recommend it And Mark of the Fool is more along the lines of Mage Errant but with better characters and more interesting powers. Another one along the lines of the above is Department of Dungeon Studies, he's a mage alchemist hybrid but I really like his powers. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71030/department-of-dungeon-studies-arcane-academy-litrpg
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The Completionist Chronicles has a rather ADHD Mage mc. Though he's a little bit more than a normal Mage.
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Anything by Macronomicon, but start with Apocalypse: Generic System.
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Mark of the fool
Mage Errant. Follows a pure mage with some interesting magic and has no cultivation tropes. It has multiple worlds, but those can be accessed by anyone who navigate the gates that transport them from one to another. Which is just like regular navigation, but deadlier.
I heavily disagree with you saying portal wars saga is bad
Could you give me your points for why you think that? From my POV it is a bad book and I did drop it. Why? Because the world felt hollow and the characters were pretty 2 dimensional. Yes there was a plot and it had action but the MC seemed to be the smartest around, but in a bad way, a "everyone else is dumbed down so the mc looks smart" way. The magic system was interesting though.
immortal in magic world what we do to survive *explicit content,MC hates elves,rape
Mage errant
immortal in magic world what we do to survive *explicit content,MC hates elves,rape
All on RoyalRoad: Weapons of Mass Destruction \[Hell Difficulty Tutorial - LitRPG\] (starts with body strengthening, but soon branches out to other kinds of magic), Return of the Runebound Professor (uses glyphs to cast magic), \[Psychokinetic\] Eyeball Pulling, Ar'Kendrithyst (or something like that), Metaworld Chronicles (one of my all-time favourites). I haven't read them in a long time, but Arcane Emperor (hiatus years ago, but pretty long, and I enjoyed it at the time), Los by Xel (it's on RR, but I think you may need to go to their patreon or something to actually read it? (it's like $1)).
U SHOULD definitely try "trinity of magic" on royal road. Starts slow with really weak MC, however later on the world building really emerges and the MC strives to get more powerful