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Mother of Learning
by nobody103
Zorian is a teenage mage of humble birth and slightly above-average skill, attending his third year of education at Cyoria's magical academy. He is a driven and irritable young man, consumed by a desire to ensure his own future and free himself of the influence of his family, whom he resents for favoring his brothers over him. Consequently, he has no time for pointless distractions or paying attention to other people's problems.
As it happens, time is something he is about to get plenty of. On the eve of the Cyoria's annual summer festival, he is killed and brought back to the beginning of the month, just before he was about to take a train to Cyoria. Suddenly trapped in a time loop with no clear end or exit, Zorian will have to look both within and without to unravel the mystery before him. And he does have to unravel it, for the time loop hadn't been made for his sake and dangers lurk everywhere...
Repetition is the mother of learning, but Zorian will have to first make sure he survives to try again - in a world of magic, even a time traveler isn't safe from those who wish him ill.
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Next Chapter Target Date: 7th of April, 2019
The story updates with a new chapter every 3-4 weeks. I aim for one chapter every 3 weeks, but real life sometimes interferes with that and I end up taking an extra week to finish things.
If anyone is interested, I have a story-related worldbuilding site that can be found here. I don't update it as often as I should, but there is a fair amount of content there already. It also contains a page with all the fanart, fan translations, audio books and the like - you can reach it directly by clicking this link.
I have a patreon account for those kind people that want to give me money. It also contains info for those who want to donate via paypal.
The story was originally posted on fictionpress, back in 2011. When I reached chapter 91, I started uploading the story to RoyalRoad, one chapter per day. The story will continue to be updated on fictionpress as well as here, and can be reached by clicking on this link if somebody is interested, though at this point there is nothing there that isn't also on RoyalRoad.
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The cover you see on the side has been made by a fellow RoyalRoad user Sydorow. Thank you for your time and art skills.
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Fantastic Story
I wasn't expecting this story to come over to RR but Mother of Learning is a fantastic story and well worth reading if you haven't already.
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AWESOME!!!
Been following this story for 3 yrs nice to see it on royal road
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One of my favourites ever
Can't stress how good this is. The world building, the character development, the twists and turns of the story, the grammar, everything is top notch.
One of the best web fictions there is.
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One of my favorites
Not much to say other than this is a great book. I've read a lot of it on another website. Great pacing, great characters, and an amazing plot. I can't wait to finish reading the story.
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YES YES YES......
Don't waste your time reading my review, read it, do it. Do it Now!!!
. I might be biased but this is one of the best novels I have ever read, it has rational characters, expanding plots with explosive payoffs and twists, really good character dynamics and much much more. the novel is in its final stages with +90 chapters but its here on RRL now
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One of the best webnovels out there
I have been reading this story for over a year now and all I can say is wow. This is definitely one of the best webstories out there. The only thing that could be improved is the frequency of new releases, but if that's the price we have to pay for this masterpiece so be it.
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How To Start Reading This Story
Step 1: Press Follow
Step 2: Press Favorite
Step 3 (optional): Contact work, school, friends, family, etc. Inform you will be taking a leave of absence/ Do Not Disturb for the forseeable future.
Step 4: Click on Good Morning Brother, Ch. 1
Step 5: Read content to end
Step 6: Press Next Chapter
Step 7: Repeat Step 5 and 6 until unable.
Step 8: Navigate to
https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/1/Mother-of-Learning
Step 9: Select subsequent chapter from dropdown list.
Step 10: Read content to end
Step 11: Press Next Chapter
Step 12: Repeat Step 10 and 11 until unable.
Step 13: Resume normal daily life while obsessively checking for updates.
Been reading the monthly releases for a long time, excited to see it here, maybe converse with the author. Only hope it doesn't slow down release Ch. 91 is a massive plot shift.
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Event Connector
Mother of Learning is a fun read. The author connects seemingly normal events, actions, and people to larger entities, so to speak. The book focuses on the growth of the main character, both his understanding of what will happen, what has happened, and what must be 'happened. '
The world building is great, the characters are mostly well-defined, grammar is flawless, and the magic system is inspired.
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This serial has been going on for 7 years...
This is definitely my favorite web serial of all time, and it's great to see it appear here at last. I believe the story is almost finished, but I could be wrong.
This is my first review on RR, so if I screwed it up, it should have 5 stars. There's really nothing bad I can say about it... It does the whole concept of time loops extremely well, great characters, plot, world building, etc.
If you haven't read it, you should. Unless you have extremely specialized tastes in writing...
Better than most published fiction...
(Even though I haven't done any reviews previously, I've mostly lurked here for a few years.)
Although the older chapters are flawless gramatically, some of the new chapters, right after being posted, do have a few typos & errors. The author seems to do a good job of fixing them eventually, and they never are very bad. It's quite possible that all of them will be fixed before being posted here.
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One of a kind
This is one hell of a masterpiece, i can't recommend you enough to read.