Is there a novel that has a group cultivation. Not one that has a MC and a few friends/followers that goes leveling in the background. But one that it's not ONE MC but a group instead.

The closest that I saw was "Martial Asura" but that couldn't be called a group level... the friends of the MC are there just to motivate the MC they don't have they own development nor spotlight

    MichelAyres changed the title to Group novel, not only MC.

      You mean like western style fantasy, where viewpoints switch around a lot like Game of Thrones?

      I don't think there is any. A lot of novels have groups around the main character, but it's always the one main character with his special lineage / magic item / system / spirit animal and sometimes all of these things concentrated on one person.

      Also it's difficult to write viewpoints in a webnovel which is released chapter by chapter... you can't just leave MC behind for a hundred chapters just to build up some other character. You would lose your readers. Webnovels definitely cater towards the more linear stories with simple plotlines.

      That is the concept of these novels, you're supposed to see yourself as this character, using cheats to rise above everyone else, everyone hungry for this one fantasy because reality is so bleak you just can't succeed whatever you do.

      Closest I can think of is a Japanese novel that was also turned into anime, called Overlord. It has an entire game-guild transfer over into a fantasy world. It does switch viewpoints sometimes. However, at the core of it, it's still one player who is king.

        rumokun Thanks for your reply. I was wondering if there was some novel that had a plot or an enemy as the main character and the viewpoint of the others that would go challenge it. More like One Piece than Game of Thrones.

        I was almost certain that it would not appear. There was a novel that was close to it, but it's Korean "The Tutorial is Too Hard" where he has a clone and some auxiliary characters are well developed

            Like One Piece, hmmm. That is a difficult one.

            Luffy is the main character and the guy who has to save the day in the end, he's the most powerful one. At the same time he's a complete moron, like how he drowns a lot, or only thinks about eating, has zero clue about navigation, etc. This is important to the One Piece story because if Luffy was a genius, he'd not need his friends after all.

            It is fun to watch a powerful idiot in a manga/anime, but "idiot MCs" usually do not work well in a novel at all. After all, a novel usually shows us a lot about what characters are actually thinking, and in One Piece you can't tell anything at all, Luffy is acting by pure instinct most of the time.

            So what makes One Piece work in a manga / anime, is very very difficult to pull off in a written novel. I currently can't think of one.

            "Release that Witch" would be a candidate, which has a MC incapable of doing magic, and he has to depend on witches (which he rescued or otherwise helped) so that kind of puts a lot of focus on his harem, but... he's still the sole powerhorse as he brings technological knowledge and scientific methods. And in the end he does learn magic regardless after all.

              Zefipalu True, RTW is an amazing novel and fit my request. But I already read it ... >.< But the idea is very similar to it.

                  MichelAyres Do you know about Royal Road? Its so common there that the tag 'Multiple Lead Characters' exists.

                      Um... there's my novel? Music system has multiple POVs (junior brother and senior brother and some other random characters), and it's set in a Cultivation world. However, it's slice-of-life. No plot. At least...not yet. Muahahaha!
                      Plus, I don't develop the secondary characters as much. I'm not sure if you'd like it... maybe only for the crude comedy.

                        There is one I know of: Heaven Awakening Path. It has high rating and more than 900 chapters. Though translators bailed on us. They stopped translating at around chapter 70. Even only so little chapters, you could see the group of friends are going to rise up as one happy family like straw hat pirates.
                        Everyone is waiting for QI to pick it up, but so far, no luck.

                        Wow I didn’t think such a concept as this even existed in the webnovels platform. The only stories I’ve seen just focus on one mc and practically ignore everyone else. It lowers the quality of the entire concept of you ask me. This is why I never believe webnovels can trump real novels. Lack of character development.

                          Undefeated wargod
                          World of cultivation
                          Basically novels made by this author.
                          Only there's a definite main character but lots of well flesh out characters even antagonist with well crafted multiple point of views. Just that the endings are pretty meh to say the least. But try it out if you want.

                          I actually look for the exact opposite. I feel like most novels stop developing/spending much time with the MC after 150-200 chapters and switch to other POVs to introduce villains, love interests, side characters, political ploys etc.etc.etc..

                          Most likely the MC gets his screentime at the end of those arcs to faceslap or fight, but overall it feels like the MC often becomes an side character.

                          And this becomes worse the later it is in the story... the more 'trump cards' the MC has, the longer drawn out are showdowns where MC is the side characters. And when he gets his action, it's like the author works down a list of all his special powers/abilities/etc. one after the other, just to get a bit of tension.

                          To be honest; most of the time I don't give a fuck about the side characters perspective. I don't want many informations that the MC doesn't have, since that's only frustrating to me.

                          Actually that's the main reason I stopped reading real published books. I enjoyed the 1-perspective-aspect of LN/WN at the time. Now it changed. Everybody thinks it's good writing to waste half of the chapters/arcs or even more to exposition, while the MC acts like a faceslap-template.

                          Fuck multiple POVs.

                          Edit: This is extra frustrating, when multiple POVs are used to repeat informations 3 times, plus observer comments. (in a non-funny/thoughtful way)

                            tales of the demons and gods... well the mc is op because of his knowledge but he helped his friends grow stronger as well... but there's no multiple pov I guess so... I think not.

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                              Leialeial Amazing description! Sorry for the late reply, I was away from the forum for a very long time. I'll check out your novel! Thanks for the indication :)

                                  MichelAyres My novel can probably be considered close to such a thing? There's more then one MC, but they all share a body. Also, it'll be awhile before the book gets to the point when they can operate independently from each other but this will come. Seriously check it out, might be close to what your interested it.

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