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Path of the Deathless Book 2: A LitRPG Progression Epic
Some trails stand beyond even death.Shiv is no longer the Pathless street rat who was kicked off the edge of the world. He has become the Deathless, whose power grows with every gruesome demise. But even that might not be enough for to prevail in the darkest reaches of the Abyss.
When Shiv is thrown into the heart of Gate Theborn, a slave-running fortress ruled by a sadistic Demon Lord, he finds himself at the center of an international conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the Yellowstone Republic. To save his home and the few allies he has left, Shiv must navigate a landscape of bureaucratic nightmares, child-killing tyrants, and a Greater Demon that hungers for human minds.
And on top of that, he must face a metaphorical demon growing within as his brutal encounter with an reincarnating orc has left him affected on a level deeper than the flesh.
Death might have granted him power, but it will take more than brute force to stop his soul from being consumed by the dark forces on Integrated Earth...
When Shiv is thrown into the heart of Gate Theborn, a slave-running fortress ruled by a sadistic Demon Lord, he finds himself at the center of an international conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the Yellowstone Republic. To save his home and the few allies he has left, Shiv must navigate a landscape of bureaucratic nightmares, child-killing tyrants, and a Greater Demon that hungers for human minds.
And on top of that, he must face a metaphorical demon growing within as his brutal encounter with an reincarnating orc has left him affected on a level deeper than the flesh.
Death might have granted him power, but it will take more than brute force to stop his soul from being consumed by the dark forces on Integrated Earth...
904 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 6, 2026
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May 8, 2026
The book was overall quite nice, but there were a few annoyances.
Bio- and Psychomancy are weird and seemingly overpowered
You are telling me that a normal-sized person who has enough toughness to survive a planet killer attack would be able to be instantly killed by an adept biomancer as long as the person has no magic resist and no Biomancy?
Psychomancy would be similar although the killing appears to take a bit longer.
Necromancy also seems to be pretty ridiculus.
You just have to be hit by a Necromancy attack, and you lose skills for potentially ever?
What's the point of toughness if there are so many means around it, especially if so many people don't have magic resistance at all, from equipment or at a low level.
Shiev's allies make him weak/limit his growth, especially Uva with her Psychomancy.
It's one of his biggest weaknesses, but because he relies on her, his level in Psychomancy is at the end of the book still level 12, afaik.
Which should mean that if an adept Psychomancer manages to ambush him while Uva or another friendly psychomancer isn't nearby, he is dead forever?
I hope this gets handled in the future.
The main Character doesn't try or even ask to get killed by his overpowered allies.
An example would be the Composer, although I can imagine that the composer might be unwilling or unable to do that because of gods not interfering with mortals, but Shiev could have at least asked her or someone else if she would be willing.
And another example would be the Legendary dragon knight. Marikos even asked for a duel, and there was no mention of why Shiev doesn't try to get himself killed against him.
I dislike that Automatons have different minds than "normal" people, which results in Psychomancy not really working on them easily. Every being should have similar enough minds for Psychomancy to at least somewhat work well.
I dislike stories which do "chosen one" stuff.
With which I mean stories where the Main Character has to do stuff and more stuff and more stuff and can never rest because if he did, a lot of bad stuff would happen.
It's endlessly escalating problems, which are never over.
I like it more when the MC is just allowed to do the stuff he likes without any big urgency.
I hope after the current big problem is finished, this story moves at least a bit in that kind of direction.
I would give this book a 4/5, and I gave the first book a 4.5/5.
I hope that future books get better again and fix annoyances/problems instead of causing more like this book.
Bio- and Psychomancy are weird and seemingly overpowered
You are telling me that a normal-sized person who has enough toughness to survive a planet killer attack would be able to be instantly killed by an adept biomancer as long as the person has no magic resist and no Biomancy?
Psychomancy would be similar although the killing appears to take a bit longer.
Necromancy also seems to be pretty ridiculus.
You just have to be hit by a Necromancy attack, and you lose skills for potentially ever?
What's the point of toughness if there are so many means around it, especially if so many people don't have magic resistance at all, from equipment or at a low level.
Shiev's allies make him weak/limit his growth, especially Uva with her Psychomancy.
It's one of his biggest weaknesses, but because he relies on her, his level in Psychomancy is at the end of the book still level 12, afaik.
Which should mean that if an adept Psychomancer manages to ambush him while Uva or another friendly psychomancer isn't nearby, he is dead forever?
I hope this gets handled in the future.
The main Character doesn't try or even ask to get killed by his overpowered allies.
An example would be the Composer, although I can imagine that the composer might be unwilling or unable to do that because of gods not interfering with mortals, but Shiev could have at least asked her or someone else if she would be willing.
And another example would be the Legendary dragon knight. Marikos even asked for a duel, and there was no mention of why Shiev doesn't try to get himself killed against him.
I dislike that Automatons have different minds than "normal" people, which results in Psychomancy not really working on them easily. Every being should have similar enough minds for Psychomancy to at least somewhat work well.
I dislike stories which do "chosen one" stuff.
With which I mean stories where the Main Character has to do stuff and more stuff and more stuff and can never rest because if he did, a lot of bad stuff would happen.
It's endlessly escalating problems, which are never over.
I like it more when the MC is just allowed to do the stuff he likes without any big urgency.
I hope after the current big problem is finished, this story moves at least a bit in that kind of direction.
I would give this book a 4/5, and I gave the first book a 4.5/5.
I hope that future books get better again and fix annoyances/problems instead of causing more like this book.
May 9, 2026
Should be lower rating than 3
This book, and really the entire series, has no plot. A couple thousand pages in and things just happen. Oh, they talk about a lot of things that SHOULD be plot, but none of it ever comes to fruition. They've been going on for 2000 pages about how they have to save Blackedge, but there has been zero progress in that task. Just a neverending deluge of side quests and distractions.
And don't get me started on the ridiculously convoluted avalanche of conspiracies, traitors, twists, and convenient interferences. They go on and on about how much they despise slavery, but have yet to do anything meaningful about it, and just expose more and more about the world that makes it inevitable. The entire society and history of the world is wrapped up in mind control, abuse, and manipulation.
It's just become exhausting and I think I'm done. I don't see any way this doesn't just drag on forever with nothing ever being improved or resolved.
This book, and really the entire series, has no plot. A couple thousand pages in and things just happen. Oh, they talk about a lot of things that SHOULD be plot, but none of it ever comes to fruition. They've been going on for 2000 pages about how they have to save Blackedge, but there has been zero progress in that task. Just a neverending deluge of side quests and distractions.
And don't get me started on the ridiculously convoluted avalanche of conspiracies, traitors, twists, and convenient interferences. They go on and on about how much they despise slavery, but have yet to do anything meaningful about it, and just expose more and more about the world that makes it inevitable. The entire society and history of the world is wrapped up in mind control, abuse, and manipulation.
It's just become exhausting and I think I'm done. I don't see any way this doesn't just drag on forever with nothing ever being improved or resolved.
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