Return of the Runebound Professor [BOOK 8 STUBBED]

by Actus

Warning This fiction contains:
  • Graphic Violence
  • Profanity
  • Sensitive Content

[STUBBING MEANS BOOK 7 (up to ch634) IS UP ON AMAZON, NOT ENDING]. ALL OTHER CHAPTERS WILL REMAIN ON ROYAL ROAD UNTIL SUBSEQUENT BOOKS RELEASE. THAT MEANS YOU CAN CONTINUE READING AFTER CH559 UNTIL THE NEXT BOOK COMES OUT!

Books 1 through 8 are available on Amazon here. 

Lives are a currency, and Noah Vines is rich.

Reincarnated into the body of a poisoned magic school professor, Noah is given more than just a second chance at life. Every time he dies, his body reforms. With infinite variations of runic magic to discover and with death as a painful soul wound rather than a final end, Noah finally has a chance to wander the lands of the living once again. 

And this time, he plans to get strong enough to make sure that he never has to wait around in the afterlife again. 

Schedule: Monday - Friday 2k word chapter uploads at 11:15 AM CST


Book 1 Chapters: 1-90

Book 2 Chapters: 90-202

Book 3 Chapters: 202-296

Book 4 Chapters: 296-377

Book 5 Chapters: 377-476

Book 6 Chapters: 477-559

Book 7 Chapters: 560-632

  • Overall Score
  • Style Score
  • Story Score
  • Grammar Score
  • Character Score
  • Total Views :
  • 2,316,125
  • Average Views :
  • 17,285
  • Followers :
  • 15,047
  • Favorites :
  • 6,018
  • Ratings :
  • 4,340
  • Pages :
  • 965
Advertisement
Remove
Go to Table of Contents
Fiction breaking rules? Report
Advertisement
Remove
Author
Actus

Actus

Achievements
5th Anniversary
10,000,000 Views
Royal Writathon October 2023 winner
15,000 Followers
First Explorer
Word Count (17)
3,750 Comments
200 Review Upvotes
Fledgling Reviewer (V)
Top List #50
Royal Writathon April 2021 winner
Advertisement
Remove

Leave a review

Reviews
Sort by:
heatray
Overall

Definitely not the best book ever

Reviewed at: Chapter 727: Half past

I enjoyed the first 20-40 chapters. Since then, worldbuilding, environmental descriptions, system development, and most of all dialogue and character development have decreased in quality drastically. 

Almost all characters are heavily flanderized (this character only likes food, this other character is only lazy). 

Story tone is all over the place (Supposed ancient godlike beings sit on sofas and eat popcorn while gossiping about the main character on TV, previously were serious immortal cosmic entities; dangerous assassin repeatedly talks about picnics and sandwiches now). 

Barebones environmental descriptions. 

Main character doesn't act like a (music) teacher despite it being part of the main premise, more like a moody teen or teenage anime protagonist. Very little introspection, lots of jumping straight to asymmetric violence.

 

EmergencyComplaints
Overall
Style
Story
Grammar
Character

Our protagonist has been isekaied into someone else's body, and he'd rather nobody find out he's not the original owner. Of course, that means he's going to have to figure out a lot of stuff real quick. It doesn't help that the previous owner wasn't well-loved by his colleages.

There is so much mystery packed into this story, and I am here for it. What was the deal with the original owner? What's up with this magic system? Some other questions that I'm not going to spoil here.

The prose is solid, the grammar basically perfect. The story itself is engaging and my only complaint is that there's not enough of it to binge yet. Given the author's promised update schedule, I feel like anyone reading this review in a month or two won't be able to make that complaint.

My biggest gripe is ultimately a small nit-pick. Other characters seem far too accepting of the protagonist's lack of knowledge on, well... everything. The in-story excuse used to justify it is not, in my mind, solid enough to protect him from the consequences of his questions. But maybe we'll see the fall out of that and I'll be back updating this to a 5-star across the board review. Time will tell.

 

Ernesti
Overall

Noah, hmmmmm

Reviewed at: Chapter 4: Arbitage

Does seem pretty cool, but haven't read too much just yet to give my full ideas

Liking it so far, probably will update later if I read more but looked at this mainly because of the name of the mc

Just wanted to say... Noah... infinite... (found it funny how the names are pretty similar to another novel i like)

Blahgubber
Overall

Fast paced action adventure

Reviewed at: Chapter 121: Rest

Fast paced action adventure with mostly likeable characters. 

 

The good:  The magic system is neat and pretty well fleshed out.  The characters are fun.  The prose and dialog are great and snappy.  

The not as good:  The bad guys are not very smart.  Not all of them are stupid but like 40% of intelligence and prone to bad luck. It makes it a little less satisfying when they are dealt a setback.   The characters can also be a little one dimensional.  

edibleface
Overall

fantastic story with a great cast of characters

Reviewed at: Chapter 128: Noah

Overall a very enjoyable read. The characters are interesting, the world building is fantastic, the magic system is unique without being too over the top. The protagonist of the story is both clever, and a decent person. A breath of fresh air compared to other somewhat similar Isekai.  I binged the whole thing over a few days and regret that I don't have more to binge.

Nicebagdad
Overall
Style
Story
Grammar
Character

This is a story about a character with some past issues being reborn into a cool new fantasy world with a cheat ability, It is fairly cliche in its base concept, however the exectution is done incredibly well, also; the story has many cool unique twists that slightly change the elements making it feel different enough in many ways that it doesn't feel like a copy+paste at all.

If there are any grammar mistakes then they haven't been noticeable enough for me to care, so thats another department that this story nails.

The writing is very well done, with very believable characters, the reactions of people to the man character do feel a little strange sometimes, this however is explained by the fact that the original "host" was a social outcast making said interactions easier to believe.

The one complaint I may have is how slow things seem to be moving at this point, not to say that the story is filled with filler, however I do feel like this story will take a very long time to finish in its entirety and I truly hope the Author can stick around for that long. Either way, A very good read and definitely worth a follow.

AvidReReader
Overall

Really love this story. Fun pacing and great chars.

What else to say to fill the word count... One of the few stories to really mess up my sleep cycle from bingereading. Love the mix between worldbuilding and action. This needs to go on for quite a while longer! 

Lee is one of my favorite chars. 

Lucky croissant l
Overall

Sorry about copying review.i just wanted to fill limit and give 5 stars

 

It's a slow burn story. I love it. I've no idea where the story is going, but I love the path Actus is taking us down.

 

 

 

Also, if the Author is reading this. Some people don't realize that making relationships (friendships) takes time, and you have to be in the right mindset to accept it. And that takes time as well.

 

 

Just_Min
Overall

My new favorite! (also cool death power)

Reviewed at: Chapter 730: The old classic yoink

I absolutely love the mc main gimmick, from what i see there isnt many stories involved the mc able to come back to life infinitely other than death loop power but this one is wayyy better and more fun (able to kys in front of your friends many times and they remembered? Heck yeah!) I also love how the mc uses his power and very good at talking and bullshitting his way out.

My only problem is some arc feel drag out and some characters feel so one sided.

Overall 9/10 im addicted to this:’)

AnOkayPotato
Overall
Style
Story
Grammar
Character

An Epic in the making

Reviewed at: Chapter 322: Hungry

No spoilers in this review!

This story is fantastic. I have spent the last 5 days reading basically non-stop (25+ hours), it has taken over my entire focus in a good way. 

The worldbuilding is fantastic, every character introduced has a purpose, a role to play in the greater plot. The students feel like students, how the characters treat each other feels natural. The main character is neither a good or bad guy but feels realistic for what he goes through and how he develops. 

At times the characters make "objectively" dumb decisions but it never feels out of character. The main character is impulsive and sometimes careless but for good reason (can't say more without spoilers). 

Character growth is slow and steady and has yet to feel forced or too fast/slow.

The power system is complex and wonderful, the author never feels the need to explain it to you as if your dumb like I've seen in similar stories. Even at 300+ chapters, we know most of how the system works but there are still questions which I love! 

The fight scenes are great. The characters use their powers in interesting ways when they need to and aren't afraid to mix it up when it's not working. The fights are well described and the monsters (the intelligent ones) actually fight in a way an intelligent creature should.

I cannot recommend this story enough and I eagerly await seeing where it goes from here.