The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1: Wrecking Reincarnators with My Hidden Dungeon Volume 1

The Invincible Summoner Who Crawled Up from Level 1 (Light Novel) #1

by Shiraishi Arata, Jasmin Thairintr (translator), Yuunagi (illustrator)

It couldn’t get any worse for Shinobu Iijima. After a terrible house fire consumes his life and puts his sister, Megumi, on her deathbed, Shinobu wakes up in his favorite La Vita Online. With all his data deleted and reset back to level 1, the only solace Shinobu has is that his scumbag of a foster father, Ayumu, died with him…only to discover he was reincarnated in the game as well?! A nightmare reborn, Ayumu pledges to get revenge on the siblings, biding his time until Megumi eventually dies and reincarnates in La Vita. While Megumi struggles through her last breaths in the real world, Shinobu does his best to grind his way back up the levels before her reincarnation. Armed with a hidden dungeon, his hard-earned legendary summons, and an undefeatable will, Shinobu must reach the max level in order to protect his sister from their foster father and the other reincarnators threatening to stop him at all costs.

Genres: Light Novel, Fantasy

212 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 5, 2024

Reviews

[Pieter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is not my kind of story. The character being stuck in the game world after death at level 1 while needing to gather power quickly to rescue his sister (who will get into the same world in a few months) is one thing, although it could have been handled better. It is just that the villains are ridiculous over the top villainous and not of the silly kind as you would see in a comedy. The other characters are rather simple, sticking to the tropes, and so is the world (except that there is more than one high level mastermind behind the scenes). The pacing is a tad too high for my taste (he gains 80 levels in the first volume with the maximum level being 90). Add in a cliff hanger at the end, and yeah, not a book for me. If you don't mind action, a few overly dramatic villains and death game feel that it might be more up to you liking.

[Patrick Holste · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started off with a bang, absolutely hilarious, but unfortunately fell off quickly. While there was still some entertainment to be had with the sub-par writing, it ended up becoming boring, or at worst, annoying due to what could have been a genuinely interesting plot (at least for isekai shlock).