Underworld - Level Up or Die!
by Elorion
A thousand year old succubus has grown tired of devouring men. With the help of a lich lord, she invents a new spell that will allow her to grow more powerful in a much less distasteful manner.
Elorion is just your average high school student lazing around during summer break and thinking about bacon. After a solid gaming session, he removes his VR headset to find a monster waiting to kidnap him.
He wakes to find that he’s not alone. Nineteen other students have also been taken. The last thing he expects happens next. He is given the ability to use magic and level up! There’s a catch. With his dormant talents unlocked he must grow in power to please his new master.
To level up he must face the monsters of the Underworld. If he doesn’t fight he will die. But if he does fight, will he survive?
Note: This book has been published and only 10% of the first few chapters are here on RoyalRoad.com.
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Good start but then it gets bad
Well, this story had a promising beginning. A mc with interesting abilities, that gets stronger relatively fast and on his own.
He is able to exploit his skills to get stronger faster than the others, and he also takes some risks to gain new abilities from enemies (which is good). Risk and reward, that's the way to go. Through the story you can see how the mc takes the lead among his companions in both terms of power and treasures/wealth.
Up to here it's good. Unfortunately all that changed at chapter 13, the moment the author decided to turn everyone in the story into completely generic characters with pretty much the same abilities and level. This totaly destroyed the story for me. Why did the mc go through all that trouble to gain his abilities if now eveyone is able to learn all of them without any effort at all? Why did the mc spend all those hours training without sleep to level up if everyone got a ton of free levels now? Why did the mc bothered to safe money from hunting if now everyone got a ton of wealth without doing anything?
Man, the author completely destroyed everything that made the mc good and turned him into "random guy nº 115". If at least his personality were anything to be proud, I could have bothered to read a little more, to see if the story gets any better. But he is one of those socially awkward guys, shy with women and totaly lacking any ruthlesness in general.
So, I expected more from the story. It's a pity, cause it had potential to become good.
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MOAR
Just read up to ch 19. And now the wait begins. Seriously, this story is fantastic. Read it!
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Really enjoying the re-write. Keep up the good work.
A well rounded piece with thought out characters and just when you think the MC is ok, along comes something to kick his arse^^.
Good balance and enjoyable story. Well worth it if it goes Amazon.
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Ho ho ho Good stuff here
Really good , no bullying just because there are young people , no eliteist assholes or one that openly shows it anyway , not being selfish all being free and easy , god thanks for not bringing real life experiences of angst that other authors include in their works needlessly , or just being parrots copying that from other authors . U sir are someone who can actually see light and knows the principle of "if it can be good , why make it bad?" not just putting in dumb tropes like that to stir up emotions negatively but u can actually do something different , nice job :)
Though would be nice to have something truly unique that only the main char has not including his affinity talent , i mean i kinda like the one for all , all for one vibe u have going but even so sometimes i just like a badass unique main char u know :)
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Great potential and a small suggestion
Keep it up I love this story and I really appreciate how realistic the healing magic is when he is trying to survive I also REALLY love the blue magic that's awesome as hell and I like the way they don't start at level one I never thought of it that way. Now I want to make a little suggestion...make the other survivors a little badass too. Not as epic as the main character who has a serious leg up on them but maybe show off a few intersting characters it would be surprisingly original of you if you did all in all I'm loving this story please keep it up!
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A Truly Promising Beginning
Maybe it's a bit premature, but I really liked it and can't wait for more! Hope you keep this up!
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MClovin it
Funniest synopsis i have read in awhile but really good read
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Holy Firkin Gamer Dude Awesomeness
Chapter 6 and its got me hooked. Great start, action right away.
Great Grammar.
Character development is nice. Not too over the top. I like the loner MC types over others. Interactions with the others provides decent amusement and a bit of fleshing out of characters.
I'll try and rerate this when it gets to the end of a major story arc or the end of "book 1" whenever that might be. Meantime, this is worth your effort to save to a reading list.
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Amazing beginning and promising story
The style and the characters are really good, the history is a bit unique i didnt see anything like that before the MC is promising and i hope you can keep the history going on :D
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An awesome story that's pretty unique!
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