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princess-of-purple-prose · 9 months

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hi, if you don't mind me asking (since i saw you reblog a post about the orv webtoon): how far into the novel is the webtoon, approximately, now that it's starting the dark palace (?) arc? is there still a long way to go, would you say? sincerely, a huge webtoon orv fan who is trying to muster up the strength to pick up the novel

Hi, anon!! I'm so excited you asked this, because I myself picked up the webnovel right around the dark castle arc! So, um... yeah, chapter 172 of the webtoon is chapter 151 and a good portion of chapter 152 of the webnovel, and there are 551 chapters of the webnovel total. (To be even more precise, with the formatting I have on my phone, chapter 172 covers up to 2290 pages out of 8807 pages-- just over a quarter of the way through the story both ways.) There is, uh, QUITE a ways to go

That said!!!! I literally cannot recommend the webnovel enough, and this is from someone who started with the webtoon as well and then transferred straight to the webnovel where it left off at the time! The webnovel is such a different experience, since there are so many small characterization details that the webtoon doesn't adapt, and I actually bitterly regret not starting the webnovel from the start (I'm in the process of backreading, and I find new things to scream about every day!). There's no rush at all to read the webnovel all at once when the webtoon will take so long to finish, but at the same time, the pacing is so addicting that you'll probably speed through it till you're caught up or even beyond regardless! In case you'd like it, here's some info on accessing the epub file :) Happy reading!!!!

#i would honestly highly recommend not only starting from the beginning for the completionist factor #but because it'll ease the adjustment of jumping from a graphic novel format to the webnovel's writing style!!#i remember being thrown off and confused for the constellation banquet (the first arc i read fully in the novel)#and starting from the top def would've changed that #not to mention that once again you'll pick up on a lot of context and characterization that's woefully omitted from the manhwa #and again anon! while the novel is undoubtedly a fuckin Commitment‚ it is SO so worth it. one of the best goddamn books i've ever read #so please don't be intimidated by length!! start from the top to use the opening as a litmus test for the writing style #and then you can skim or skip around from there if you want! (but also don't do that. read all of it. it's so worth it)#my sincere apologies for this getting so long and possibly incoherent but that's because i am SOOO passionate about the novel #and i REALLY think you should give it a try if you're already a fan of the webtoon!!!#you can always think of it this way: the manhwa's already gonna take like 6 years to finish‚ the book can't take you much longer!#asks #anonymous #kay talks #orv #orv rec tag

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