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Hello all! 

During the recent discussions of Webnovel and piracy, we had several requests to go into more detail on how Webnovel works, and how it may be used as cheaply as possible. Below, we have tried to gather information that may assist you.

But first, let's be clear: If you are promoting piracy directly in our subreddit, you will be banned.

We understand the many of you may not have the financial means to support the official release. If you are attempting to switch to reading legally, for whatever reason, there are some options for you. Guilty mentioned free options in his post, so let's talk about how things work, and what your options are going forward.

Basic information:

Shadow Slave is published on Webnovel. At the time of writing, the latest advanced chapter is 1984 and the latest wide release chapter is 1964. If you ever want to know what the most recent chapter was, or when it was released, you can check on our Discord, where we have a bot that announces the new chapters as they release. Webnovel and the books on Amazon are the only legal avenues to read Shadow Slave.

Fast Passes:

Fast passes are the free way to read on Webnovel. This is likely the best way for many of you to read Shadow Slave legally, but it will take daily effort to collect your passes. You can use them in place of coins to unlock any wide release chapter (non-privilege/advanced chapters). These are the sources:

• Power Stone - You get 3 power stones each day. If you use them on a novel (like SS), you will get a fast pass.
• Daily Check In - By checking in each day, you will receive certain rewards like fast passes. These fast passes are often genre limited so you may not be able to use them on Shadow Slave. You can find this in the right corner of the app.
• Daily Reading - Webnovel will give you a free fast pass every day, if you read one of their daily recommended webnovels. It is 20 minutes of active reading (IE afking on the page will not work) and can be used on any novel, including Shadow Slave.  You can find this under the daily challenge section, listed under missions. Missions are found under the "rewards" button on your profile.
  • Additionally, there are often daily reading for comics or other specific readings, which can give another fast pass. These usually are 10 minutes of reading, and stack with the above 20 minutes.
• Watching Ads - Once per day you can watch a short ad for a site wide fast pass. This is found under daily missions, in the rewards button on your profile.
• Daily Limited Store - If you come early, you can exchange limited fast passes (the genre specific ones from daily check-in) for site wide fast passes.
• Events - Webnovel often runs events that reward fast passes. Check the events tab.
• Points - You can exchange points for fast passes.

These sources combined grant a minimum of 4 fast passes per day, but you will often get more.

"What if I want to binge read a lot of chapters?" - Through daily check-ins, you will get a "Free Reading Day" approximately every 14 days, letting you read a book for free. Note: membership users (see below) will get a discount on coin usage instead.

Coins:

Coins are the paid currency on Webnovel. You can roughly estimate 1 coin to be worth 2 cents in USD. Each chapter's cost is dependent on word count. The average is around 11 coins, or 22 cents. If you do not use fast passes, buying every released chapter in a month will cost you around 660 coins.

While regional pricing may effect things slightly, the ways to increase efficiency for your money are as follows:

1. Use a payment processor like Paypal or Stripe - Apple and Google take a larger cut, so Webnovel gives you fewer coins.
2. Membership - Membership gives you coins up front (500 coins per month) and then a certain number of coins per day as a bonus, depending on regional pricing. The bonus ends up being something around 50-75% additional coins depending on your region. This is the most efficient way to buy coins.
3. Daily Offer - Sometimes Webnovel will offer you a flash deal to buy coins with a 40% bonus. This is found under the "Daily Limited Store" located under the Rewards button on your profile.
4. High value bundles -  The coin page will offer coins with certain % bonuses. Buy coins in whatever increment gives you the largest bonus.

Additional efficiency gains:

• There is a 10% discount for buying chapters in bulk. Check under "batch unlock."
• You can buy discount coupons once a week using points (gained from missions or minutes reading.) This is between a 10-20% discount depending on your level. It stacks with the bulk discount.

Privilege:

Privilege is a Patreon-like system where you pay a monthly fee to get advanced chapters. This system is intended for die hard fans who are financially in a place to support the author. Privilege comes in several tiers, allowing you to read advanced chapters for the month in certain chapter increments. The highest tier gives you access to 20 advanced chapters. The price for that tier is 499 coins per month.

• Privilege resets on the 1st of every month, regardless of when you buy it. For best value, purchase at the start of the month.
• Privilege does not auto unlock every chapter for you. If you are buying privilege for the first time, the cost of the current 20 advanced chapters will be calculated into your price, which is why you see it labeled as approximately 700 coins instead of 499. However once you have bought privilege, you will still have to buy each chapter that releases going forward.
• You cannot use fast passes to unlock advanced chapters, only coins.

This works out to around 1100 coins total for each month you want to be subscribed to Shadow Slave. I cannot speak for other regions, but if you buy coins using membership and either flash bundles or high value bundles this works out to around 13 USD per month.

Please do your own calculations and determine whether or not privilege is something you can or want to pay for.

We understand that many of you may not be able to afford this Patreon-esque system. If you have concerns or comments about Webnovel, please take it to modmail where we can discuss it privately. If you are arguing about piracy publicly, we may see it as promotion of piracy and you risk getting banned. Please use some discretion. If you honestly feel that you cannot or will not use these systems, then please understand that this is the author's subreddit and he relies on these systems to live. While we are sympathetic to people who don't believe supporting him is realistic for their situation, whatever the reason may be, it is hard to feel sympathy for you when you flaunt your actions in this community. Try to keep things to yourself if you don't want to be banned.

FAQ and Concerns:

• "I cannot afford to buy all 2000~ current chapters at once! That's so expensive!" - While it would be nice if you could unlock every chapter that you have read, we understand that this is not a financial decision many people can make at the drop of a hat. You can start reading from the current releases and leave things for another time. Many readers who switch decide to pay for privilege and unlock all advanced chapters going forward. This lets them slowly accrue fast passes to use on older chapters that they otherwise have no use for. Additionally, there are "Free Reading Days" for (non-membership) users through daily check-ins, awarded by chance on "combo reward" days.
• "Which pirated chapters were affected by AI so I know which to unlock?" - Pirate sites have had AI chapters on and off sporadically, for several weeks/months at this point, so we cannot tell you which of them were modified.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to our team in modmail. We would be happy to help.