My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

Get past the name and cover of this story and what you find is a semi entertaining man child wishfulfilment plot. It's better them some work because it is not pure smut and there is an actual story here. The trouble is it really needs an editor. The style whilst flowing is simple to a frustrating degree. Characthers are just there to enable the MC and the challenges faced simply feel overly contrite. 

It's really a shame as I love the creative dungeon lore and uncommon class and job system. 

The title alone should tell you that this is a wish fulfilment, so the rating I gave it is only in ocordance of wish fulfillment. All in all its not bad. Nothing great but not bad. The only problem that I have with it is that the chapters are small. It's worth giving a try.

Are you on a toilet and have nothing better to do? If yes then this is the story for you!

Are you searching for a new story that will make you smile with every new chapter released? Sorry, i would not recommend this.

I am not a big fan of the standard review format so i will just wing this.

I started reading the story thinking this is the first story of a new author that will grow and get better as time progresses. I was wrong.

This author has his own website with a lot of stories and hundreds of released chapters. So if you happen to like this story i would recommend going there, its a nice website.

Upon reading the first few chapters i noticed grammar errors and they don't go away. I read up to chapter 50+ and the grammar stays the same. People who are bothered by things like this be warned.

*The author marked where one chapter ends and a new one begins so this next paragraph is outdated. Props for that. It makes the whole reading experience much nicer.

Sometimes in the middle of a chapter you might notice that the story seems to shift, as if there's a paragraph missing. Upon further investigation i noticed that its because the chapters we get here are the combination of  2 or 3 chapters on the authors website. No indication was made where one chapter ends and a new one begins, making the flow of the story really weird. It was most noticeable, at least for me, in chapter 2 where the guild receptionist out of nowhere suddenly knew the MC is a support class. I read the chapter 3 times and concluded its because she has an identify skill and was expecting it to be explained later on. I was wrong. It was just the beginning of a new website chapter and the MC probably told her hes a support class in-between the chapters.

The way the MC acts just rubs me the wrong way, hes just such a man child. Hes a walking stereotype to the point that his actions sometimes hurt my brain. As if that wasn't bad enough, fate itself seems to bend in the MCs favor too many times for me to just ignore it. Some coincidences that happen are just out of the world. But to the authors credit, the story is interesting enough that you don't really notice it as long as you don't question why some things are happening.

The sex scene that will happen later on was one of the most generic, boring ones i have ever read. There was no passion, no greater detail in moments where there was a need for it. It just felt dry and i would be much happier if the story just didn't have sex scenes if that is the way they are written.

After all those bad things i must say though, the game system of the world seems interesting. If nothing else i will check every chapter for level ups to see what new skills pop up and what they do.

I must admit I love this story. I love the rpg elements, I love the girls, I love the adventures. I just have one major problem. I understand where the MC's lack of confidence and understanding of women comes from, but I can only read so much of it before I have to stop. I'm currently around chapter 550, and I feel like at this point, Deek should realize that the girls all love him, want to stay as his slaves, and want to have sex with him. Like I said, I understand where the feelings come from, but I feel like enough's enough. Overall, a good story, and I would recommend it, however, that's a big sticking point for me.

NSFW ahead.

Basically, its the title. It's a wish fulfillment with loose thread for sex scenes with various women, how they hunted for more women who are all absolutely devoted to him and wants sex.

Even if it's a snu snu, even that part isn't done right. There is no variance other than the type of the woman in bed. Aggressive, passive, shy etc. If these were really taken into account, at least the anu anu could have been better described accordingly.

Unortunately the variations in the MC's intellegince is just to vast.  He can strategize fight attacks and plan moves..  However he never tried Portal to get out and back to Lydia and Mikki at the start of dungeon .  The author reduced his intellgence to almost nothing so he could keep Lydia and Mikki from meeting Celeste after the Trap.  Then all of sudden the MC doesn't understand what the Term "Harem Hero" means and is confused like a buffoon.    Going to try and push through, but if this Rollercoaster of the MC keeps up will probably drop.

Also he knows his dungeon bonus for Slaves is huge and key to his success, yet constantly wants to free them. I can't tell if he just plans to make them Slaves when in a dungeon or if he really plans to get rid of one of his strongest attributes...

So I read as far as the nsfw chapter... And yeah it was crap, like a transcript of a doujin a particularly bad one. 

Like many other stories around here it has a strong start before evening out before rapidly descending. This is usually around ch. 20-25, not long after they usually plummet. In this case the cringey protag. and the dialog and interaction between him and the love interest does it.

So yeah not really anything to see here, will probably be bumped out of trending soon.

So right out of the gate, I will admit that the Harem trope doesn't bother me all that much and as long as it is done in a way to add to the story in a believable way, I am not going to complain. Per the works of E.William Brown, I am familiar with the concept and have seen it work well. 

The Isekai segment of transporting to another world is honestly the only lazy part of the story thus far. No real effort appears to have been put into explaining how this came to be and seem to be mostly ignored. 

The Class/Job system is also frustratingly vague but due to the short amount of chapters available, it may just be material that has not been presented yet. I also find it odd that nobody in a room full of seasoned adventurers has ever heard of a support job much less the White Mage class. If this is meant to be a rare class, the gravity of his choice is left entirely to interpretation and for each of the readers to draw their own conclusion. 

Beyond that, the characters presented seem dynamic and only time will tell how things develop. I can see a shield hero/Raphatalia thing developing between the MC and The Tigress Swordsman (slave girl) but again we simply don't have enough chapters to truly make any real calls. 

So for right now, I will give 3 full stars that may as time goes on and more chapters are added I may increase or decrease depending on the writing.  

So maybe it ain't high art, it never claims to be.

It's exactly as advertised, and several points above average in every category for this site.

The language is good, never distracting or obstructive.

The story is your basic lit rpg, no masterpiece but it's fun and entertaining.

I'm sad I let the reviews make me skip over it for so long.

If you need your lit rpg to preach sophmkric morailit at you, or need to virtue signal your purity on the interwebs then maybe skip it.

If you need a way to kill a few hours then you will only regret it a little :p  barely noticable at all!

Targets specific audience and delivers what they want. Nothing less, nothing more

While it isn't a masterpiece, it's way better than the usual harem crap you can find, and makes a lot of cliches more berable. Decent read if you come for harem, good read if you read everything with harem on it