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Welcome to the Multiverse #5
Contention: A Litrpg Apocalypse
With less than a month left to prepare the Earth for what is about to happen, Silas must pull out all the stops to save as many people as possible.
Of course is one system wasn't bad enough, Earth has been declared a contested world and now it isn't just the Earth competing any longer but at least two systems trying to gain control of the Earth.
Of course is one system wasn't bad enough, Earth has been declared a contested world and now it isn't just the Earth competing any longer but at least two systems trying to gain control of the Earth.
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Published November 4, 2024
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November 18, 2024
There are too many threads and none of them are being handled well. Some how his team is keeping up with him despite functionally being ignored for the last three books. He is strong arming the US government but ignoring the rest of the world. We see him fly around and put out fires on behalf of his... Contacts? Subordinates? in the government, but he is not engaging with anyone outside of his crush and sister. He is allegedly delegating but it is poorly executed. Other than some empty latitudes, I cannot see a justification for any of the five star reviews
April 16, 2025
Series turned into OP MC numbers go up with little to no value beyond that.
MC decides to design a house? Spend an afternoon doodling and now you can make magic Blueprints. Need to make new armor? Sure! Now he can do smithing! Or enchanting or whatever random other skill he wants without any effort.
It's become boring and I won't bother to continue the series (that looks to be more of the same)
MC decides to design a house? Spend an afternoon doodling and now you can make magic Blueprints. Need to make new armor? Sure! Now he can do smithing! Or enchanting or whatever random other skill he wants without any effort.
It's become boring and I won't bother to continue the series (that looks to be more of the same)
June 15, 2025
This series, through five books, has yet to rise above average quality in my biased estimation. The main issues holding it back, for me, are a lack of context for character and relationship development, an overly complicated and flippant magical system, but mostly it’s the constant use of plot contrivances. What this series does well is telling a story with interesting elements, engaging combat, and decent payoffs. However, I’m not sure I would recommend this series for a casual reader. Someone who reads a book a month or so can find more rewarding uses for that time, so this series is really for folks like me that read a book every couple of days and don’t mind an occasional dose of pulp-level mundanity.
My first criticism is the lack of context for the MC’s character development over the course of the series. Yes, he levels and progresses in those areas. Yes, he faces new challenges and overcomes them. Yes, he has a large burden of responsibility. But, I don’t see the context for this in the page. Basically, it boils down to the MC is the system-recognized leader of Earth, and I guess we’ll see what happens. That’s the MC’s approach to it all. The other issue is the forging of relationships with others, especially his girlfriend. It’s such an awkward situation because of the lack of effort, by the author, put into making this relationship feel right, much less feel believable.
As for the system issues, yeah, way too many abilities, spells, cores, hearts, stats, titles, achievements, etc. In the audiobook, it takes the narrator ten minutes to read the MC’s stat sheet. It’s an amorphous, confusing mess made all the worse by constant contrivances which I’ll touch more on in a bit. There’s at least four systems now with a primal origin system on top of the mountainous stat sheet for this one system. It’s cumbersome, and leads me to constantly not knowing what abilities the MC has, where they are, what he could use, what he’s not using, and so on. Not that it matters, because whenever MC is in a real fight, he gets help on a silver platter delivered by the author, I mean system, called contrivances.
And this is my biggest, “this is bad writing”, gripe of the series. The constant use of contrivances to make the author’s plot play out. To explain, imagine I have two points. The first is where I am at in the story now, the second is where I need to get to tell my imagined story. This author… just draws a straight line. Any other lines of plot that may cross this line, as a contradiction or plot hole, the author simply draws a hook route on them before they hit our line with usually a simple off-hand explanation. Whereas a good writer, would weave his line between those two points in and around the rest of his plot so it all comes together organically and seamlessly.
Let me provide some examples. This biggest plot hole of the entire book so far rests on how the system forced a second place on Earth. Because of the author’s first book set up, first place means the planet is left in relative peace, no monsters or wild dungeons, they get to join the multiverse in a safe manner. Second place means dungeons and monsters and usually a 90% pre-induction fatality rate. Why is this a problem in this book? Because last book the earth’s forerunners killed every other forerunner from every other world in the induction competition and won a system event, the wild hunt. They even surpassed all other worlds in total points. But because of “reasons” they are locked into second place. Not so bad except for there are many systems. The system inducting earth is trying to recruit the MC to be one of its champions. How is threatening the MC’s species, world and his loved ones on it, going to endear the system to the MC? Especially by flippantly rug-pulling the promised rewards for winning?
The MC even refers to himself as the system’s “golden boy”, not to mention the countless custom, specific boons the system is continually gifting the MC. This is a massive plot hole that’s never addressed. And it’s only done because the end point the author is drawing his line towards needs to have conflict on the earth. I understand that need and agree it’s a better narrative decision, but why not simply have the earth lose to another world in points? Easy fix.
Here’s another example, the incursion event. MC is barred from any non-earth residents helping fight this battle. Why? The system sent him his preliminary team, his off-world allies, specifically to earth to help. But they can’t help. Oh wait they can help, cause after the MC goes into a solo battle with the incursion’s champion, then for some reason when he gets out of the fight his team had cleaned up the riffraff in his absence. The whole point if this contrivance is so MC is the best quality candidate to fight this other system’s champion. If his epic-grade buddies were there, they could clearly take his place. This is what I’m saying, the author draws a line, and diverts contradictions with flippant, off-hand explanations like “not allowed to compete” instead of weaving the situation organically.
By far the most egregious of contrivances is the constant help the system gives specifically to the MC in a customized manner. Every fight now the MC unlocks some new ability/whatever thanks to the system that always comes with stats, ridiculous uses, and new titles/achievements. The system is basically, “here’s a plot device, and here’s a title for me giving you this plot device”. The MC does very little to earn this stuff. His instincts are always spot on. The author is trying to paint the picture of a guy who’s stats and abilities give him luck and intuition that pays off like powerball jackpots, but getting a jackpot every five minutes stops feeling like the outcome of progression investment and more like lazy writing the more it happens.
Those are my main issues. Before I get to the praise, I have a few minor annoyances I am too undisciplined to ignore. The first is Normandy isn’t on the Mediterranean Sea. Neither is it on the southern coast of France. The generalizations about Pakistan are not fair, they have a secular government. They may have a corrupt country with a small fraction of people sympathetic with fanatical religious ideologies, but that doesn’t apply to the government. It’s one of the United States’ stronger regional allies, and that’s why we have diplomatic issues with India.
Final gripe, I promise, is the constant punching down, figuratively, the MC or his supporters do on the overly blundering politicians and skeptics. It feels like I’m watching a Taylor Sheridan “drama”. It’s just as overly dramatic and unrealistic as those shows.
What I like is the story elements, not necessarily how they come together as I’ve already explained. I like the numerous refugee alien species he brought to earth and what that does for the story. I like the political conflict between earth nations in this story. I also like the off-world elements of allied worlds, corporations, institutions, etc.
The combat, though more and more often now ended with a plot device out of the magic hat, is still overall robust and engaging. And the payoffs are rewarding. A mountain of rewards, loot, evolutions, grade ups, and wins over baddies to revel in.
All in all, I’m going to switch over to kindle, so I can speed read, for the next three available books. But for now, I’d only recommend this series to the prolific readers of this genre who don’t have qualms reading mundane series to pass the time, and they’re free with KU. I can’t recommend this series to the casual reader, way way way better series out there, feel free to check my profile of my rankings for current favorites in progression fantasy.
My first criticism is the lack of context for the MC’s character development over the course of the series. Yes, he levels and progresses in those areas. Yes, he faces new challenges and overcomes them. Yes, he has a large burden of responsibility. But, I don’t see the context for this in the page. Basically, it boils down to the MC is the system-recognized leader of Earth, and I guess we’ll see what happens. That’s the MC’s approach to it all. The other issue is the forging of relationships with others, especially his girlfriend. It’s such an awkward situation because of the lack of effort, by the author, put into making this relationship feel right, much less feel believable.
As for the system issues, yeah, way too many abilities, spells, cores, hearts, stats, titles, achievements, etc. In the audiobook, it takes the narrator ten minutes to read the MC’s stat sheet. It’s an amorphous, confusing mess made all the worse by constant contrivances which I’ll touch more on in a bit. There’s at least four systems now with a primal origin system on top of the mountainous stat sheet for this one system. It’s cumbersome, and leads me to constantly not knowing what abilities the MC has, where they are, what he could use, what he’s not using, and so on. Not that it matters, because whenever MC is in a real fight, he gets help on a silver platter delivered by the author, I mean system, called contrivances.
And this is my biggest, “this is bad writing”, gripe of the series. The constant use of contrivances to make the author’s plot play out. To explain, imagine I have two points. The first is where I am at in the story now, the second is where I need to get to tell my imagined story. This author… just draws a straight line. Any other lines of plot that may cross this line, as a contradiction or plot hole, the author simply draws a hook route on them before they hit our line with usually a simple off-hand explanation. Whereas a good writer, would weave his line between those two points in and around the rest of his plot so it all comes together organically and seamlessly.
Let me provide some examples. This biggest plot hole of the entire book so far rests on how the system forced a second place on Earth. Because of the author’s first book set up, first place means the planet is left in relative peace, no monsters or wild dungeons, they get to join the multiverse in a safe manner. Second place means dungeons and monsters and usually a 90% pre-induction fatality rate. Why is this a problem in this book? Because last book the earth’s forerunners killed every other forerunner from every other world in the induction competition and won a system event, the wild hunt. They even surpassed all other worlds in total points. But because of “reasons” they are locked into second place. Not so bad except for there are many systems. The system inducting earth is trying to recruit the MC to be one of its champions. How is threatening the MC’s species, world and his loved ones on it, going to endear the system to the MC? Especially by flippantly rug-pulling the promised rewards for winning?
The MC even refers to himself as the system’s “golden boy”, not to mention the countless custom, specific boons the system is continually gifting the MC. This is a massive plot hole that’s never addressed. And it’s only done because the end point the author is drawing his line towards needs to have conflict on the earth. I understand that need and agree it’s a better narrative decision, but why not simply have the earth lose to another world in points? Easy fix.
Here’s another example, the incursion event. MC is barred from any non-earth residents helping fight this battle. Why? The system sent him his preliminary team, his off-world allies, specifically to earth to help. But they can’t help. Oh wait they can help, cause after the MC goes into a solo battle with the incursion’s champion, then for some reason when he gets out of the fight his team had cleaned up the riffraff in his absence. The whole point if this contrivance is so MC is the best quality candidate to fight this other system’s champion. If his epic-grade buddies were there, they could clearly take his place. This is what I’m saying, the author draws a line, and diverts contradictions with flippant, off-hand explanations like “not allowed to compete” instead of weaving the situation organically.
By far the most egregious of contrivances is the constant help the system gives specifically to the MC in a customized manner. Every fight now the MC unlocks some new ability/whatever thanks to the system that always comes with stats, ridiculous uses, and new titles/achievements. The system is basically, “here’s a plot device, and here’s a title for me giving you this plot device”. The MC does very little to earn this stuff. His instincts are always spot on. The author is trying to paint the picture of a guy who’s stats and abilities give him luck and intuition that pays off like powerball jackpots, but getting a jackpot every five minutes stops feeling like the outcome of progression investment and more like lazy writing the more it happens.
Those are my main issues. Before I get to the praise, I have a few minor annoyances I am too undisciplined to ignore. The first is Normandy isn’t on the Mediterranean Sea. Neither is it on the southern coast of France. The generalizations about Pakistan are not fair, they have a secular government. They may have a corrupt country with a small fraction of people sympathetic with fanatical religious ideologies, but that doesn’t apply to the government. It’s one of the United States’ stronger regional allies, and that’s why we have diplomatic issues with India.
Final gripe, I promise, is the constant punching down, figuratively, the MC or his supporters do on the overly blundering politicians and skeptics. It feels like I’m watching a Taylor Sheridan “drama”. It’s just as overly dramatic and unrealistic as those shows.
What I like is the story elements, not necessarily how they come together as I’ve already explained. I like the numerous refugee alien species he brought to earth and what that does for the story. I like the political conflict between earth nations in this story. I also like the off-world elements of allied worlds, corporations, institutions, etc.
The combat, though more and more often now ended with a plot device out of the magic hat, is still overall robust and engaging. And the payoffs are rewarding. A mountain of rewards, loot, evolutions, grade ups, and wins over baddies to revel in.
All in all, I’m going to switch over to kindle, so I can speed read, for the next three available books. But for now, I’d only recommend this series to the prolific readers of this genre who don’t have qualms reading mundane series to pass the time, and they’re free with KU. I can’t recommend this series to the casual reader, way way way better series out there, feel free to check my profile of my rankings for current favorites in progression fantasy.
January 25, 2025
Modern geezer
At this point the main character is over powered and god-like. The idea is a basic kid gets powers and more powers and everything works out for him and everything magically pops up to solve his problem "literally". At this point in the series, five books in the list of abilities and stats has gotten to about 10 pages long, adding other characters to the mix even more so. This book has some nice scenes but it's loaded with filler and oddly enough feels like it's written by a ninety year old militant living in a bunker with a bunch of signs in his yard. The dialogue reads like those old Buck Rogers scripts and in this book he's adding in a romance but handles it like someone who hasn't left his cement bunker in 80 years and women are an alien creature from far far away. Pretty sure he's got post it notes on each character and it's a one sentence description.
If you're reading the whole series at this point, this is a good place to step off.
There seems to be a rule for these role play gamer books and when you've read a few it starts to feel like it's just one guy writing them all, the side characters the team building the progression of abilities all with very good world building and clever situations but other than the main character they just plug in the same stereotype. There's the dumb guy a smart guy an over driven female who hides in the background generally a rogue type and the slightly shady one who turns out to be good in the end they all get their catch phrase and they say their one line over and over.
In the end of reading about 70 of these things I get the feeling this might just be AI generated content because a human would know that people don't talk like this. He gets his mother super powers but she's stuck in that kitchen where women belong plus 1 for making cookies.
At this point the main character is over powered and god-like. The idea is a basic kid gets powers and more powers and everything works out for him and everything magically pops up to solve his problem "literally". At this point in the series, five books in the list of abilities and stats has gotten to about 10 pages long, adding other characters to the mix even more so. This book has some nice scenes but it's loaded with filler and oddly enough feels like it's written by a ninety year old militant living in a bunker with a bunch of signs in his yard. The dialogue reads like those old Buck Rogers scripts and in this book he's adding in a romance but handles it like someone who hasn't left his cement bunker in 80 years and women are an alien creature from far far away. Pretty sure he's got post it notes on each character and it's a one sentence description.
If you're reading the whole series at this point, this is a good place to step off.
There seems to be a rule for these role play gamer books and when you've read a few it starts to feel like it's just one guy writing them all, the side characters the team building the progression of abilities all with very good world building and clever situations but other than the main character they just plug in the same stereotype. There's the dumb guy a smart guy an over driven female who hides in the background generally a rogue type and the slightly shady one who turns out to be good in the end they all get their catch phrase and they say their one line over and over.
In the end of reading about 70 of these things I get the feeling this might just be AI generated content because a human would know that people don't talk like this. He gets his mother super powers but she's stuck in that kitchen where women belong plus 1 for making cookies.
January 12, 2025
Utter nonsense
Honestly I was extremely disappointed in this book, so many dead ends and so many plot holes let alone the trash that is supposed to be story content. So much of this and the prior book content could have been left out of anything it would have made more sense to have left it out.
Honestly I was extremely disappointed in this book, so many dead ends and so many plot holes let alone the trash that is supposed to be story content. So much of this and the prior book content could have been left out of anything it would have made more sense to have left it out.
December 28, 2024
Epic as a epic class shard
What can be said that the world has gotten so much more interesting after the events of this booksl, enjoy the volume I look forward to the next book because this one had everything we wanted and than some.
What can be said that the world has gotten so much more interesting after the events of this booksl, enjoy the volume I look forward to the next book because this one had everything we wanted and than some.
March 12, 2025
4.5 stars. The author has created an interesting twist to the apocalypse genre by giving us five books before the full event. I look forward to seeing where he can go from here.
September 1, 2025
DNF at 60%. This pissed me off halfway through. This is book 5 of a series; the fifth book read by me in this series. I've been here for over 4 books and THIS is what I get.
You know the feeling of betrayal when reading a good book that suddenly takes a turn for the worst and ends horribly? Imagine that same betrayal, after 4 promising books. Ugh
Based on how often the author makes references to He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon, I think it's safe to say that the author loves that series. I do too. Maybe you will as well, read that instead. For all its faults, HWFWM at least has complex characters.
My update at around 40% turned into somewhat of an essay-length rant about some major faults with this book, I won't repeat all of that again here.
You know the feeling of betrayal when reading a good book that suddenly takes a turn for the worst and ends horribly? Imagine that same betrayal, after 4 promising books. Ugh
Based on how often the author makes references to He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon, I think it's safe to say that the author loves that series. I do too. Maybe you will as well, read that instead. For all its faults, HWFWM at least has complex characters.
My update at around 40% turned into somewhat of an essay-length rant about some major faults with this book, I won't repeat all of that again here.
July 22, 2025
This installment of the series differs quite significantly from the previous four volumes. Until now, the driving force has been the competition for the fate of Earth, but at this point the focus shifts to events taking place on Earth itself. At the beginning of the book, as it became clear what this part would center around, I was excited and followed it with sharp interest. Unfortunately, the political intrigue quickly fizzled out, falling short of my expectations in that regard.
Although the final few lines of the book hint at a possible future “complication,” at present—and even in previous volumes—the main character is simply too perfect. This already started to bother me in the previous part, but by now it has completely steered the story in an overly idealized, fairytale-like direction, away from the realistic, limitless potential it originally had.
Even though the previous two volumes managed to elevate the series to a five-star level for me, this volume shifted my attitude in such a way that if the next one follows the same direction, I will probably not continue reading.
Although the final few lines of the book hint at a possible future “complication,” at present—and even in previous volumes—the main character is simply too perfect. This already started to bother me in the previous part, but by now it has completely steered the story in an overly idealized, fairytale-like direction, away from the realistic, limitless potential it originally had.
Even though the previous two volumes managed to elevate the series to a five-star level for me, this volume shifted my attitude in such a way that if the next one follows the same direction, I will probably not continue reading.
November 7, 2024
Good
A bit of nitpicking…
The LitRPG authors, from the home of LitRPG, Russia that basically founded the entire genre, would disagree with the actions of Russia in this book. And the effectiveness of the South Korean missile defense, umm, sure…. Not to mention no mention if hypersonic missiles.
And Chess originated in Iran. There is a reason that Persians dominated their area for much of history.
A bit of nitpicking…
The LitRPG authors, from the home of LitRPG, Russia that basically founded the entire genre, would disagree with the actions of Russia in this book. And the effectiveness of the South Korean missile defense, umm, sure…. Not to mention no mention if hypersonic missiles.
And Chess originated in Iran. There is a reason that Persians dominated their area for much of history.
November 8, 2024
Time to join
It's now time to join the Multiverse as we finally run out of time but Oswald dies some great action scenes and expansions on this book giving an intriguing look deeper into the systems and of course what else could come into the next few books.
Loved this and a lot of cool in the know references with a few touches of humour.
It's now time to join the Multiverse as we finally run out of time but Oswald dies some great action scenes and expansions on this book giving an intriguing look deeper into the systems and of course what else could come into the next few books.
Loved this and a lot of cool in the know references with a few touches of humour.
April 25, 2025
Still good, but…
I can’t tell if I genuinely liked the book or if I liked it because I’m invested in the story. Felt a little rushed. No real character development, so I don’t really care about any of the characters. I love when characters upgrade, but when it’s a constant addition of new spells/skills/abilities you never really come to appreciate them. Not to mention the main character’s complete lack of uniqueness or personality. Silas is constantly changing his progression direction in every book, as if the author can’t settle on what he wants the character to be. I don’t like when MCs are too OP in every way instead of just one, or if you’re gonna write an across the board OP character the character should be unique, or interesting, or have a flaw of some kind. Oswald also picked some pretty low hanging fruit, whether intentional or not, by giving the Chinese character a profession that solely allows him to mass produce things. The stereotypes extend to the other countries of Earth, taking away from the story imo. Rather than making the story relatable by writing in our current world going through the preparation of being inducted, it worked to slow the overall story down and make me realize how ridiculous some of the scenarios in the story were with how unbelievable the interactions were. Idk, It’s almost like I read these books to escape from the real world, maybe it’s just me. All I can say for the writing is that it’s not his best, and had a different feel to it than his other works. I gave it 5 stars because I still liked the story (probably because I just like litRPG) and am hoping that this was just a necessary work to progress the story in a fun direction by getting rid of boring story anchors
I can’t tell if I genuinely liked the book or if I liked it because I’m invested in the story. Felt a little rushed. No real character development, so I don’t really care about any of the characters. I love when characters upgrade, but when it’s a constant addition of new spells/skills/abilities you never really come to appreciate them. Not to mention the main character’s complete lack of uniqueness or personality. Silas is constantly changing his progression direction in every book, as if the author can’t settle on what he wants the character to be. I don’t like when MCs are too OP in every way instead of just one, or if you’re gonna write an across the board OP character the character should be unique, or interesting, or have a flaw of some kind. Oswald also picked some pretty low hanging fruit, whether intentional or not, by giving the Chinese character a profession that solely allows him to mass produce things. The stereotypes extend to the other countries of Earth, taking away from the story imo. Rather than making the story relatable by writing in our current world going through the preparation of being inducted, it worked to slow the overall story down and make me realize how ridiculous some of the scenarios in the story were with how unbelievable the interactions were. Idk, It’s almost like I read these books to escape from the real world, maybe it’s just me. All I can say for the writing is that it’s not his best, and had a different feel to it than his other works. I gave it 5 stars because I still liked the story (probably because I just like litRPG) and am hoping that this was just a necessary work to progress the story in a fun direction by getting rid of boring story anchors
June 7, 2025
Silas should cut Asta loose. . .
Silas is proving himself more every day, exceeding everyone's expectations, even the System's. His heart, mind and soul seem to be in exactly the right place -- always putting his planet and humanity first, without being afraid to stand against those who violate his code of ethics and morality. This is why I don't believe Asta's meant to be his forever. Silas is so unselfish, and puts others before himself; Asta thinks about Asta first, despite her need to help animals who are mutants/monsters, as well as the downtrodden. Ultimately, it's all about Asta, and what's best for her, and Silas is the guy she's latched onto.
I just think she's a huge wild card, and not in a good way. She's broken Silas's trust more than once, sneaking peeks on his stats. Why would she do that, especially more than once, if she wasn't being selfish? He's too nice, and deserves better, because he is awesome, more so than he believes himself to be. Yes, he has confidence in his abilities, but he's never condescending or smarmy about it. Her, I don't have warm fuzzies about. And, how was J II ang okay with Silas letting her keep the cream of the loot and rewards from the Wild Hunt? That was too obvious on her part.
Anyway, great book - I am a bit weary of all the stats, spells, titles, and abilities getting repeated whenever he levels up, and, if course, his obsession with Miss-I-am-so-traumatized-and-hurt-by-what-Dad-did-to-me.
This author had wonderful world building skill and imagination. I'm fascinated outside of the Asta deal.🤗. Four point five stars.
Silas is proving himself more every day, exceeding everyone's expectations, even the System's. His heart, mind and soul seem to be in exactly the right place -- always putting his planet and humanity first, without being afraid to stand against those who violate his code of ethics and morality. This is why I don't believe Asta's meant to be his forever. Silas is so unselfish, and puts others before himself; Asta thinks about Asta first, despite her need to help animals who are mutants/monsters, as well as the downtrodden. Ultimately, it's all about Asta, and what's best for her, and Silas is the guy she's latched onto.
I just think she's a huge wild card, and not in a good way. She's broken Silas's trust more than once, sneaking peeks on his stats. Why would she do that, especially more than once, if she wasn't being selfish? He's too nice, and deserves better, because he is awesome, more so than he believes himself to be. Yes, he has confidence in his abilities, but he's never condescending or smarmy about it. Her, I don't have warm fuzzies about. And, how was J II ang okay with Silas letting her keep the cream of the loot and rewards from the Wild Hunt? That was too obvious on her part.
Anyway, great book - I am a bit weary of all the stats, spells, titles, and abilities getting repeated whenever he levels up, and, if course, his obsession with Miss-I-am-so-traumatized-and-hurt-by-what-Dad-did-to-me.
This author had wonderful world building skill and imagination. I'm fascinated outside of the Asta deal.🤗. Four point five stars.
May 23, 2025
Rating 4.0 stars
This is it. Time is up. It is now earth's turn to join the multiverse. Despite winning the competition, the Earth is contested so they are still going to become a dungeon planet. Silas spends the whole book preparing the earth for the new reality. He doesn't want to be in charge but there are too many people still clinging to the old way. The new system considers him the leader of the world and everyone else will need to come to terms with that. There is always one thing in each story that annoys me a little. In this one it is Silas's back and forth on the system. Overall, still a very good series.
This is it. Time is up. It is now earth's turn to join the multiverse. Despite winning the competition, the Earth is contested so they are still going to become a dungeon planet. Silas spends the whole book preparing the earth for the new reality. He doesn't want to be in charge but there are too many people still clinging to the old way. The new system considers him the leader of the world and everyone else will need to come to terms with that. There is always one thing in each story that annoys me a little. In this one it is Silas's back and forth on the system. Overall, still a very good series.
October 20, 2025
This book focuses on Silas prepping for earth's induction to the multiverse as it is only a month away and he has a lot to do to prepare. In the process he brings another race of beings to earth to save them, fights with devils and wins a contention event. I always appreciate the hard won battles and the scene with the devil in the contention event was almost that but not quite, it could've been a little harder for Silas even though he did take a life threatening injury. I wasn't personally a big fan of the media apperances as those just didn't feel authentic to the story. CeCe is taking on a more leadership role in this series but she always has kind of been in a bit of a leadership position since her induction but this was more on a national level. Silas does go on a bit of a killing humans spree but I guess you could say it is warranted all things considered.
Overall, the book was a bit more slow paced than other books, focused more on crafting and his occupation but it was still interesting. There was still a lot of action and adventure in the story, the romance was a bit more prominent in this story than it has been up to this point.
Overall, the book was a bit more slow paced than other books, focused more on crafting and his occupation but it was still interesting. There was still a lot of action and adventure in the story, the romance was a bit more prominent in this story than it has been up to this point.
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November 27, 2024
It's good
If you like the previous entries in this series, you're going to like this one. Same flavor, same vein. Same action great group battles clever use powers. Nice growth of abilities Nice viewpoints from other characters a good ending to the series. Or at least I think it's the end. He could easily do another book if he really wanted to, but he tied everything up quite nicely in this one which I appreciate a lot of authors can't end a book series properly. I didn't detail any of the plot because I really didn't want to provide any spoilers, just more of an overall impression. If you like the previous books in the series, you're going to enjoy this if you didn't. I don't know why you kept reading and if you're starting here don't go back and read the first one. Hope this helps. I apologize for any spelling errors or lack of punctuation. I'm writing this review with voice to text.
If you like the previous entries in this series, you're going to like this one. Same flavor, same vein. Same action great group battles clever use powers. Nice growth of abilities Nice viewpoints from other characters a good ending to the series. Or at least I think it's the end. He could easily do another book if he really wanted to, but he tied everything up quite nicely in this one which I appreciate a lot of authors can't end a book series properly. I didn't detail any of the plot because I really didn't want to provide any spoilers, just more of an overall impression. If you like the previous books in the series, you're going to enjoy this if you didn't. I don't know why you kept reading and if you're starting here don't go back and read the first one. Hope this helps. I apologize for any spelling errors or lack of punctuation. I'm writing this review with voice to text.
January 12, 2025
This is the fifth book in fantasy/sci-fi LitRPG series with a system apocalypse looming. This book focuses on Silas and friends preparing Earth for the induction. They have to deal with politics, terrorists, and otherworldly threats. Not many LitRPG series go into more detail like this into what it would be like trying to convince the world that a system apocalypse is coming and that is interesting. This is the last book of this series that is available now but there at least three more coming about once a quarter. Due to the author's great recaps at the beginning I'm leaning towards trying to read each one as they come out without rereading the entire series.
Kudos to the author for...
- Recap of previous books at beginning
- Several chapters spread out in the book that purely give Silas' character sheet
Kudos to the author for...
- Recap of previous books at beginning
- Several chapters spread out in the book that purely give Silas' character sheet
February 27, 2025
It's been a great series so far, but it's starting to get boring. At this point the MC is unbeatable and the numbers go up so fast that they don't even matter. I didn't even bother to read a single stat sheet in this one because they're just ridiculous. The lists of titles and abilities are so long that it's impossible to keep track of them all and he never uses most of them. A lot of the book is taken up by the MC going around impressing people with how great he is.
On the plus side, the universe just keeps getting bigger and more complicated as more of it is revealed. I enjoyed reading about traveling to other worlds to meet different races of aliens with unique cultures, although really that part was better with earlier books in the series.
On the plus side, the universe just keeps getting bigger and more complicated as more of it is revealed. I enjoyed reading about traveling to other worlds to meet different races of aliens with unique cultures, although really that part was better with earlier books in the series.
May 15, 2025
Exciting and clever
This book has the challenging task of ending one section of a series and starting another. It uses the timer framing device and associated time pressure very well to create the feeling of finishing up all the last little things at the end of a project.
The character development for this entry is minimal, but the setup for future growth and development is both stable and interesting.
The world building and plot consist of many small and individually interesting parts. It feels a little like a series of short stories with just the hint of how they will all connect.
As lot of my feelings towards this book will be determined based on how the ideas are developed going forward but, for now, it feels like it's brimming with potential new story threads.
This book has the challenging task of ending one section of a series and starting another. It uses the timer framing device and associated time pressure very well to create the feeling of finishing up all the last little things at the end of a project.
The character development for this entry is minimal, but the setup for future growth and development is both stable and interesting.
The world building and plot consist of many small and individually interesting parts. It feels a little like a series of short stories with just the hint of how they will all connect.
As lot of my feelings towards this book will be determined based on how the ideas are developed going forward but, for now, it feels like it's brimming with potential new story threads.
March 3, 2025
good book, excellent story with some issues
Good book, good storyline, good power progression. The only issue I have with this book is the MC acting like he’s a 14-year-old kid with overactive hormones when he’s actually supposed to be 27 and a grown man. Check that, the second issue I have is leaving your subordinate out there to fight for his life while you’re getting frisky with your girlfriend That’s not the way an MC/leader should behave. I thought that part of the book was poorly written. You have a subordinate who is out of contact but you don’t go check up on him. The MC‘s guilt about that was kind of glossed over., the MC‘s guilt Should’ve been more heartfelt.
Good book, good storyline, good power progression. The only issue I have with this book is the MC acting like he’s a 14-year-old kid with overactive hormones when he’s actually supposed to be 27 and a grown man. Check that, the second issue I have is leaving your subordinate out there to fight for his life while you’re getting frisky with your girlfriend That’s not the way an MC/leader should behave. I thought that part of the book was poorly written. You have a subordinate who is out of contact but you don’t go check up on him. The MC‘s guilt about that was kind of glossed over., the MC‘s guilt Should’ve been more heartfelt.
November 4, 2025
It is a book written for children, the use of the English language is very simple.
The MC is 7 years older supposedly going from 20 to 27 years yet he still acts like a naive teenager as he did in the first book.
He invites all kind of aliens to earth, yet he never even talked with the people in the Middle East but just murders them all.
So many cringe lines throughout the book.
All the main characters are never in real danger or face death offering no chance for a serious sense of danger or character development
It is all a children’s Disneyland including acting like a child around presidents.
The MC is 7 years older supposedly going from 20 to 27 years yet he still acts like a naive teenager as he did in the first book.
He invites all kind of aliens to earth, yet he never even talked with the people in the Middle East but just murders them all.
So many cringe lines throughout the book.
All the main characters are never in real danger or face death offering no chance for a serious sense of danger or character development
It is all a children’s Disneyland including acting like a child around presidents.
February 28, 2025
The world expanded and the powers increased in this book, which I usually enjoy--but the characters got simpler and less believable. They never made any mistakes. They almost never had any doubts, even. And though they're late teens and early 20's, they confidently dove into international politics and city design with perfect wisdom that none of the adults could keep up with.
They were so perfect that it was boring to read. No problems were big enough that I was worried until the grand finale--and then a few pages later it was perfect again.
I think I'm done with this series.
They were so perfect that it was boring to read. No problems were big enough that I was worried until the grand finale--and then a few pages later it was perfect again.
I think I'm done with this series.
June 20, 2025
Better than the 4th book. I think that the battles are boring in this series but the relationships and interactions are strong. As earth is approaching induction they are preparing. Everything leading up to this was fun to see play out. I enjoyed those aspects of the book. This series is still very similar to other system apocalypse series. Right down to dealing with demons etc. The short length of the books keeps me going. I think I would have dnfed if they were long like some series. Onward to book 6.
November 11, 2024
Good continuation!
I liked this addition to the series a lot. Their were some formatting issues in the middle of the book and some easily fixable grammar errors. But I still enjoyed reading this story especially with all the division between crafting and fighting. There's A new forerunner so I'm excited to read more about here. And I was wondering about Dutch?! Looking forward to next book!
I liked this addition to the series a lot. Their were some formatting issues in the middle of the book and some easily fixable grammar errors. But I still enjoyed reading this story especially with all the division between crafting and fighting. There's A new forerunner so I'm excited to read more about here. And I was wondering about Dutch?! Looking forward to next book!
December 1, 2024
Fascinating
First off, this book deserved another star for the actual story but I held it back due to the stupid grammatical mistakes that kept pulling me out of the story as I tried to figure the sentence out.
I enjoyed the vague descriptors that are meant to be popular anime references or other book references (CLIVE'S WIFE!!)
I am not sure that I enjoyed the need to add all of these different types of systems to the story. So far four and counting.
Have fun!!
First off, this book deserved another star for the actual story but I held it back due to the stupid grammatical mistakes that kept pulling me out of the story as I tried to figure the sentence out.
I enjoyed the vague descriptors that are meant to be popular anime references or other book references (CLIVE'S WIFE!!)
I am not sure that I enjoyed the need to add all of these different types of systems to the story. So far four and counting.
Have fun!!
March 24, 2025
I enjoyed this book as the Earth is going to be inducted. It was interesting that this book didn't really seem to have anything happen in it (Until the Very end).
There was an invasion in Asia from outer space and Silas allows the other forerunner to handle it.
Silas is trying to prepare the world for the Induction and appears on TV and shows off a bit etc...
Not much else sticks out, but exciting nontheless.
There was an invasion in Asia from outer space and Silas allows the other forerunner to handle it.
Silas is trying to prepare the world for the Induction and appears on TV and shows off a bit etc...
Not much else sticks out, but exciting nontheless.
March 31, 2025
Just good, but could be great.
This is a fun story, but the logic of Silas' actions has degraded significantly, and a lot of discontinuity and rules logic errors are creeping in. The last 2 (maybe 3) books need a really good edit and rework. The overarching plot is great, and the storytelling is wonderful, but the details are holding the potentially fast story back to just good.
This is a fun story, but the logic of Silas' actions has degraded significantly, and a lot of discontinuity and rules logic errors are creeping in. The last 2 (maybe 3) books need a really good edit and rework. The overarching plot is great, and the storytelling is wonderful, but the details are holding the potentially fast story back to just good.
April 8, 2025
Series review (1-5)
Is quite good and interesting.
The first book was a bit boring, but after it, I was really interested in the story.
Noticed pretty much no major mistakes in the story and my biggest complaint would be that the author often makes battles which should be easy too hard, which results in a far too long battle against enemies which the main character should be able to easily take care of.
Is quite good and interesting.
The first book was a bit boring, but after it, I was really interested in the story.
Noticed pretty much no major mistakes in the story and my biggest complaint would be that the author often makes battles which should be easy too hard, which results in a far too long battle against enemies which the main character should be able to easily take care of.
November 7, 2025
“What did Mom say about pretending to be stupid?”
Keep mashing that fast forward button by the dragging Silas into weirder and weirder temporal silliness.
A lot of action on Earth before the induction, lots of bullying politicians, Forerunner charisma tricks, and “fine, I’ll do it myself”.
Space crystal easy come-easy go, unless it can still be a mother crystal while living inside a baby demigod.
Keep mashing that fast forward button by the dragging Silas into weirder and weirder temporal silliness.
A lot of action on Earth before the induction, lots of bullying politicians, Forerunner charisma tricks, and “fine, I’ll do it myself”.
Space crystal easy come-easy go, unless it can still be a mother crystal while living inside a baby demigod.
November 7, 2024
Oh boy, that's good+
This series has been exceptional. We are now on book five and things are still moving along. This book managed to build and maintain tension over the MC's head from another perspective so well that it grips the reader deeply into the story.
Such a great book.
This series has been exceptional. We are now on book five and things are still moving along. This book managed to build and maintain tension over the MC's head from another perspective so well that it grips the reader deeply into the story.
Such a great book.
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