The grind never ends. The stakes have never been higher.
Chuck Taylor thought he was just getting good. Now he's the only one left.
After losing his closest companion in a catastrophic raid, Chuck sets aside his prized weapon and takes on the the Tower of the Last God. One hundred floors. No checkpoints. No second chances. No one’s ever made it past sixteen.
Armed with backup gear, raw grit, and a new dual-wielding ability, Chuck must conquer twisted trials, face the personifications of the Seven Sins, and outfight the Tower’s deadliest champion—Lucifer himself.
The reward? A forbidden artifact that could bring his friend back from oblivion. The cost? Everything.
The first book was fun. Interesting premise, and was a pretty fast read. The story continuation in this book was fun...except for the very graphic and completely unnecessary scenes of sequel encounters . I realize this story is literally the fantasy about becoming the best ever through persistence instead of bloodline, special powers or unique circumstances, but the sex scenes were *gross*. Even skipping past them was too much information about the author's fantasies. I do NOT recommend this book. I was very disappointed.
The book is a slog. Repetitive stats. Endless status updates on levels and damage and the wholes lesbians concept nit liking men but wait....man with a good penis in bed will cure you. Very, very, very....HARD pass. Skip thus book and author. Not worth the time to read.
This book has gone down the Royal Guard Publishing smut hole . Unbelievable and terrible awkward sex scenes out of the blue. The entire story is a tower climbing with his ridiculous stats but not getting hit the same way with his author armor. No real substance in the book. Just a robot running around.
I like the potential of the book but it was inconsistent.
I loved the first book I read it while ago so I can’t remember what it was like much but the recap helped but I remember I really liked it. I’ve only read about 40% of the book at the time of this review and I think love the potential of what the book could be more than the product I’m reading atm. The first quarter of the book is solid, it’s consistent, but so far in just the 10% from 30%-40% it changes. Not totally, the main premise is the same but there is just lots of small details about the world that change and decisions that the character makes that just don’t make sense. As an example that isn’t too much of a spoiler, at one point he learns to dual wield but then never utilises it with his main weapon ( at least from what I’ve read so far) which is crazy considering the bonuses it gives. Also that things like he is wearing 8 pendants so far at the same time, more than the max amount of rings, paying to bless weapons that are redundant and were temporary when the blessing has a time limit that is short and I could go on, it’s literally every other page something pops up that doesn’t make much sense or doesn’t flow with what has been written before. The thing that annoys me most is that a lot of it was very preventable if a couple had read the book and pointed these things out. Sorry for the rant. Im going to keep reading this book because the underlying framework is good, and I think it’s going to be worth it to stick with it and push past the small things. I recommend that other people give this book a try despite what I’ve written here today because behind details the book is a good one. Sorry to the author for the slightly negative review. Just wanted to put my honest opinion out there, I hope you keep writing more of this series. You just need a better proofreader to really elevate the book to the level in my eyes.
I love the characters, their personalities are definitely fun. I kinda wanna finish just to see what happens, but… I don’t know if I’ll continue the series after this. It’s just level grinding per usual which gets pretty boring, esp when he’s like level 19 v.s level 50+ monsters (world bosses / major floor bosses) and still breezing through w/ no real difficulty… It kinda defeats the purpose. Especially if it would’ve took 3 guilds to even put up a fight against them 😐
I didn’t mind his sword being w/ Napa Cat for like, a small chunk of the book though and Chuck unlocking his inner Kirito ⚔️ Although, when all those # starts appearing? I just phase out so bad 😵💫
Also, the spicy scene is the most awkward spicy scene I’ve ever read lmfao. I mean, it’s within their characters personalities to be that awkward, but I could’ve done w/o it 😬 It’s an interesting development ‘cause of how our MMC usually processes feelings though.
Mario, Lu, and Frog being a teleportation company via portal pipes will always send me, dealing w/ dragons in a castle pls lmfao. Esp the way Luke Daniels narrates them 🤣 Also, Lucifer had my attention when he was introduced— It went an interesting route after that, but… Santa and now Seven Deadly Sins, I feel like we’re just throwing a bunch of things into this now & I don’t know how I feel about it. I did like the ending for what it was, but I think this will be the end of this story for me. It seems like this is kinda Kenny King’s go to storyline reading the synopsis of his Monster Rancher series as well… Love that for him though!!
Speaking of, Luke Daniels did an amazing job narrating. He adds so much personality to all the characters 🎧
As I said in the title, it's a grind. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but this book needs some serious pruning, or to perhaps have been released as two books with the ascent given more breaks. Outside of the tower, the story is interesting as these books go. The author is attempting to resist the harem themes which choke this genre, but I suspect it's coming in one form or another. But as I said, the fight scenes need a good trimming. Fight blends into fight with a certain weariness, I'm not sure if this is the author attempting to impose the grind on the reader as a kind of sympathetic plot device, but the constant machine gun statistics are just boring, to be brutally honest. And despite his amazing gear, the protagonist has miniscule HP compared to his opponents, yet by chugging health potions and great reactions, he always manages to survive. The return orb shard mechanics somehow disappear halfway through the book, never to return and he never once uses his rank up or ability points. Same for class selection at level 20. I'm sure that'll be explained in book three, but this is still actually a very good book, that with decent editing and proofreading would be elevated to something very rare in the LIT-RPG genre, a good fantasy book. I live in hope! I like the MC, he's a dick, but he's funny and Witch is genuinely interesting, and is actually the more believable of the romances. I'll be reading the next book and would be willing to wait longer for issues like I've mentioned to be ironed out. Interesting.
My reviews are my own. If you liked this book, I’m glad you enjoyed it. If not, I respect your opinion. This is merely my opinion, so let's keep it courteous.
Author - THANK YOU for the recap at the beginning of the book. Too many repetitive stats, same as the first book.
For the Harbinger fight, I would have liked a bit more research, especially considering how technical the MC is. I don't get Myras's psycho tendencies. The MC has never shown any interest in her, and she keeps acting like a cheap slut. Also, if they genuinely care about the MC, they will accept him just the way he is, with his weird behavior and all, and trust him.
If they add "romance" to the story, I'm dropping the series. She is just a psycho, pushing her own agenda on someone who has never shown any interest in her. To me, she is just an opportunistic slut, sleeping on the same bed; it's just ridiculous. She is just acting like a dog in heat, then the witch comes and kisses him, so is this turning into a harem? So mad, with this book. What I like most about the first one, he was not interested in females, which is perfectly acceptable to be asexual. Actually, I would love it if all of these adventure books would keep romance out of the way; it just cheapens the story. Then the witch also complains about the MC and the way he is. They don't deserve the MC.
I enjoyed the adventure part, just like in the first book. But the whole "bitches" behavior spoiled it for me on this one. Dropping the series.
This book felt like the author was a 12 year old given an unlimited supply of candy and locked in a closet for 20 minutes until the candy kicked in, and was told... go write the next book.
The main character is all over the place in the first 10% of the book. He had an established personality in the first book; a pedantic, high functioning sociopath, who only cared about what makes his numbers go up efficiently. We saw that he can interact with other people, but he only looks at them as tools to be more efficient. The highest praise the other people get are that he isn't annoyed by their presence.
In this book, his personality is turned on a dime. Apparently the main character realizes he has friends. One of them is dead in a ... permanent? way? So he doesn't go for revenge but to kill the creature that killed his friend in order to get the resources that might possibly bring him back. However, between everyone around him acting like he had a deathwish, to him maybe having feelings he isn't aware of, suddenly at 10% of the book he has sex.
No. Just No.
I don't care if the main character has sex, but this scene literally did NOTHING to enhance the storyline or enhance the character. I have no idea why this was written in, except to confirm that the author really needed to see his own Big Busted character naked.
Anyway, it was annoying and not in the nature of the main character or the story that has been established from the first book. I quit it. Didn't care and was annoyed.
Great World building but seriously lacking in execution
Authors writing stories are much like Directors who write and make movies. And we see just how many good movies get made… or in a lot case, bad movies get make. This seems to be a series with a lot of good material and world building. However this author currently lacks the skills to fully realize the potential of the material. Or he’s just lazy with the use of all the material he’s presented in the story. For example, this main character has earned a ton of Skill and Attribute points and has not once used them to grow stronger in this entire book. The MC keeps saying he needs to pick a class but has failed to do so in the story. Yet the MC will complain about needing to grow stronger to accomplish his goal but forget all that potential power growth just sitting there waiting to be used. This author is annoying inconsistent with his MC. Case in point, Chuck will negotiate with terms for fight club but never negotiate with all the loot he sales or buys. I love that he’s incredibly generous but he lacks common sense in many situations. So this book was really a mixed bag.
lot of problems with this book- fast, erratic, a bit one dimensional, relationships that are slightly off, and the biggest one for me was the fairly generic "reason" for his grand tower rampage being to bring back a dead friend, who's sole reason for dying was so the mc would grind the tower. It would have been more realistic for him to have looked at the tower and said "that's the most efficient way to grind xp and wealth-that will definitely make the numbers go up".
But despite that I didn't actually feel like I had to force myself to finish reading it, so I won't drop it below 3 stars.
Probably the funniest (and possibly most realistic part) was witch backtracking on boning in the woods. Definitely not nearly as glamorous and fun in practice as it sounds. so I got a good chuckle out of that.
What a *&^* show! Ironic as it's a book about numbers
Apparently the author was on a deadline and didn't bother to record everything or even bother to proofread. For a protagonist that is concerned with numbers and efficiency, this is the most boggled mathematics i've ever read. The storyline keeps contradicting itself and most of the time , the numbers don't add up. Which is funny and ironic. Examples include the hero killing five groups of three or more , but only getting five kills, or offended cheese that the chapter before were at thirty percent are now at twenty five percent. It's a good story but it kept throwing me out.Because nothing added up. He also changed quite a few thanks from the first book and made them different in the second.
Allow me to explain why I have given this book only three stars. I was disappointed in the first volume when the character picked his name. I find the name childish and offensive. I thought that the writing was good and entertaining so I continued to read the first book. The character development was decent. The main character was overpowered. However, the author actually offered a viable reason for the character being overpowered. However vol 2, has at least two sections that are downright pornographic! I did complete this book. And it too is entertaining despite the pornography. Beware before you let your children read this book.
This is a great book, but for a person who suppose to be obsessed with numbers the author sure got a lot of the numbers wrong. And can please have the character choose a class any time soon. It is sad to had the main character at level 49, and not have a class. Any other they would be choosing their second class by now. At least evolving their first one at this point.
I like that the book doesn't take itself too seriously, and it still has some good humor. At times, while listening to the audiobook for several hours, I felt like I couldn't remember anything that had happened. I also think that what actually makes the MC "the world strongest" is the support they get from the side characters. Not the basic attacks. All the side characters are more interesting that the MC in my opinion.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Interesting character development; gratuitous sex scenes; weird challenge ptogression - 100 levels might have been a bit much though Dante’s Inferno had too few there‘s the same vibe; very interesting description of a molecular gastronomique meal; supporting characters could use development but solo main character action doesn’t provide much opportunity
Excellent portrayal of a (likely) autistic lead, without self esteem issues, as a main character. I very much enjoy this series.
That said, he definitely has no idea about what 2 women would do with each other and overestimated how different being with a man would be over being with women (and missing most of the ways it would be).
OMG I FOUND THEM THE KEVIN'S ( EWWWWWW GIRLS ) A SEX SCENE why do men complain about anything sexual in a LitRPG its hilarious 😂 grow up boys people perv out and touch girls or boys. But for some reason the KEVIN'S freak out if even the mention of adults doing adult things is the worst thing that could ever happen
Good basic story, but got too monotonous in the middle
I like the story and I like the idea like that you kept the personal relationships to a minimum didn’t care for the statistics as often as they were, didn’t need to see them every single hit and they didn’t add up correctly
Liked this second book even more than the first. Our hero goes through quite a bit of personal development and an interesting storyline is introduced that kept me hooked. Looking forward to the next one!
Absolutely loved this book. Went through all the emotions. Certainly laughter alot especially on the last chapter. I you like litrpg books. I highly recommend you read this series
over all ok what really was a pain in the ass was in the audio book, it had 25 min of a dude with autism getting a blowjob from a fat self proclaimed lesbian. not really in to that visual. it wasn't necessary to go in to the detail it did.
Simply put. If you liked the first book, then you'll probably like this one. Sure, there are some parts that drag on, but those are pre few and far between.
It’s so obviously AI that it hurts. Countless inconsistencies, the same “AI-isms” repeated over and over. It’s obvious that it hasn’t been edited. If you’re gunna use AI to write your book, at least read it before publishing it.
Might be my favorite one yet! Love the tower climbing, the build up to a potential book three, and Lucifer! Also very appreciative to finally get to see sentient sword action!
Book two . I can’t wait to read book three. Action from start to finish with some laughs and emotions.this is turning out to be a series that I will keep.