I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I’m the Strongest? I’m Not Even an Adventurer Yet! Volume 4

I Parry Everything: What Do You Mean I’m the Strongest? I’m Not Even an Adventurer Yet! (Light Novel) #4

by Nabeshiki, Kawaguchi (Illustrator), Jason Li (Translator)

Beneath the Theocracy’s Cathedral, in the deepest stratum of the Dungeon of Lamentation, Noor stumbles across an earth-shattering revelation—one with the potential to turn centuries of history on their head. Meanwhile, his companions work to bring an equally devastating (yet far darker) secret to light.

The true form of Holy Mithra and the past of the adventurer known as Astirra are the keys to unlocking the Theocracy’s sinister conspiracy. But will our heroes escape their respective trials alive, or will the Dungeon of Lamentation claim yet another set of victims?

Well, you know what they when in doubt, [Parry] your way out!

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

220 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 18, 2023

Reviews

[Taryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

this one I struggled with

I am enjoying the story, and while every chapter is from a different character’s point of view, it fleshes the characters out and sometimes is necessary to explain the misunderstandings that run rampant. Plus it provides more depth to the world, which is nice.

However, this volume was a struggle. There is so much going on in the main set of plots and then we abandon those to go off on quite a few historical tangents of folks we know from earlier volumes that aren’t involved currently and folks we just met who are so far, only slightly involved in the story. It’s kind of frustrating and a bit boring to me. I’m sure it will be nice to know later and it did confirm and explain some things; but for right now, this is the cliffiest cliffhanger I’ve run across in a while.

I am hoping the next volume will go back to the rampaging skeleton and the falling Noor, or even get us back to Ines and Rolo. Heck, I’d even settle for Lynne and Tirence at this point. But yeah, this book was a bit of a push and I do hope we can get things moving in volume 5.

[Joshua Heer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Waste of time, all filler and backstory exposition for side characters.

Half of this book has absolutely nothing to do with the main party Noor, Rolo or Lynette. It's just 1 giant exposition dump for the backstory of the side character Oken and the antagonist Astria. Most of the book is dedicated to the past and the formation the Holy Theocracy of Mithra and why they hunt demons. Even the big
ending isn't concluded in this book. Honestly save yourself $7.99 look up a recap/synopsis of the book and move on to the next book in the series you won't miss much that will affect the rest of the series.

[Tony Hinde · Rating 3 out of 5]

Despite the fact that the lore related to the Black-sword has been cracked wide open, I won't be continuing this series.

The author thought it would be a good idea to stop the story on a cliff-hanger, in the middle of the book, and use the remaining time for the back story of a bunch of side characters. Half a book of flash-backs, and we didn't even get to resolve the cliff-hanger. That's a bait-and-switch with no reward at the end. Not cool Nabeshiki!

[Chad Smith · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolute rip off

This book continues the story for mature 1/5 of the book the rest is flashback that has either already been described or inferred. Then at the end it is revealed that the publishers made the dedication to split the content into 2 volumes as there was too much for 1. I. E. Complete money grab. Don't waste your money.

[Ghostea · Rating 3 out of 5]

As mentioned by many others. The flashbacks are pretty dull inclusion into the story. But this has been an issue with the series in general with Nabeshiki over explaining everything.

I am still enjoying the series but it is polarizing how many bad chapters there are for the ones that work well and are entertaining.

[Dantegideon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one is actually pretty good, but it just ends right in the middle of the story so they can sell two books instead of one. Are they going to do this with every future volume until we’re reading an infinitely small fraction?

[Justin · Rating 5 out of 5]

In my life I have seldomly ever read a story as captivating as this, it kept me on wanting more and more. Reading the book in one sitting. I usually loathe exposition and so-called “flash backs” however the prose is something else. I am at a loss for words.

[Allie King · Rating 1 out of 5]

FILLER!! what was the author thinking

I read this series to hear about Noor the main character. 70% of this book is filler about a side character.

[eros · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5 stars

Not really a big fan of this arc because we didn't see Noor enough. Oken's backstory was interesting but it was too long, I skimmed pretty much a lot of it.

[kevi kincaid · Rating 1 out of 5]

This starts off well but 1/5 of the way through the book just stops and does a flashback for the rest of the book that has nothing to do with the MC.
If this book were to be made into a 12 episode anime the 1st 3 episodes would continue the story and be great, but in the middle of a major battle filler/flashback episodes would start and finish out the season. Very disappointed in this and will no longer read this series due to the drastic change.
To be clear, I really enjoyed books 1-3, however this story could have been added to the end of book 3 and this book could have been releases as 3.5 with a subtitle indicating its only a sidestory.