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スケルトンから『存在進化』を果たし、グールを経て「屍鬼」へと至ったレント。
次なる目標は――銅級冒険者。同じ冒険者であるライズ、ローラの二人組とパーティーを組んだレントは、長年の知恵と魔物の特性を武器に昇格試験へ挑む。試験を終えたレントは、なぜか受付嬢のシェイラに呼び止められてしまい……。真実を迫るシェイラに対して、レントはついに覚悟を決める。その話の最中、頻発する冒険者行方不明事件の犯人として疑いを持たれていると知ったレントは、迷宮には潜らず、孤児院の依頼を受けることに。
――依頼は、薬に使われる《竜血花》の採取。
竜血花の生息地は怪物タラスクの縄張り《タラスクの沼》。危険極まりない所にレントは一計を案じて脅威を回避しつつ、採取へ向かうが……!?
強大な魔物と戦い、多くの謎を暴き、そして強くなる。死してもなお遙かなる神銀級を目指す、不死者レントの『冒険』、第２弾――！
次なる目標は――銅級冒険者。同じ冒険者であるライズ、ローラの二人組とパーティーを組んだレントは、長年の知恵と魔物の特性を武器に昇格試験へ挑む。試験を終えたレントは、なぜか受付嬢のシェイラに呼び止められてしまい……。真実を迫るシェイラに対して、レントはついに覚悟を決める。その話の最中、頻発する冒険者行方不明事件の犯人として疑いを持たれていると知ったレントは、迷宮には潜らず、孤児院の依頼を受けることに。
――依頼は、薬に使われる《竜血花》の採取。
竜血花の生息地は怪物タラスクの縄張り《タラスクの沼》。危険極まりない所にレントは一計を案じて脅威を回避しつつ、採取へ向かうが……!?
強大な魔物と戦い、多くの謎を暴き、そして強くなる。死してもなお遙かなる神銀級を目指す、不死者レントの『冒険』、第２弾――！
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March 15, 2019
Where the first novel in this series tackled a fairly interesting and unique take on fantasy tropes and fantasy light novels in general, this novel felt like it was treading upon a path far more walked.
The reader follows more of the protagonist's journey as he continues to live as one of the undead, all the while keeping up appearances of being a living, breathing adventurer. He learns more about himself while doing some world building for the readers, giving in depth glances at how adventurers and the Guild itself work. I found this personally interesting as a lot of light novel authors don't really go into detail as to how their worlds work, especially when it comes to adventures. The testing method is actually really neat to see and a cool concept. A real world application of leveling in video games or pen and paper games. (and without the use of magic to tell people what level someone is, as seen in other light novels)
The writing is stronger than the first book, which shows the evolution of the author, which is always a good thing to see. I also really enjoyed the author's statement to the reader at the end of the novel, which helps to make him come across as far more human and helps to create a bond between writer and reader, something that is distinctly lacking here in the West.
I will state that the ending of this book felt very anticlimactic. As far as a final battle goes, it was fairly bland, with the protagonist basically being shown how to defeat the monster rather than figuring it out himself. This left me feeling a bit like I was ripped off. After all, the monster was something that was extremely hard to kill (and in D&D, is a terror to rival dragons), and our protagonist basically one shots it.
Still, I did enjoy this novel, and will continue to read this series. Everything is handled fairly well, and I am curious as to where everything will go as things progress. If you are looking for a well done fantasy light novel, this would be one for you!
The reader follows more of the protagonist's journey as he continues to live as one of the undead, all the while keeping up appearances of being a living, breathing adventurer. He learns more about himself while doing some world building for the readers, giving in depth glances at how adventurers and the Guild itself work. I found this personally interesting as a lot of light novel authors don't really go into detail as to how their worlds work, especially when it comes to adventures. The testing method is actually really neat to see and a cool concept. A real world application of leveling in video games or pen and paper games. (and without the use of magic to tell people what level someone is, as seen in other light novels)
The writing is stronger than the first book, which shows the evolution of the author, which is always a good thing to see. I also really enjoyed the author's statement to the reader at the end of the novel, which helps to make him come across as far more human and helps to create a bond between writer and reader, something that is distinctly lacking here in the West.
I will state that the ending of this book felt very anticlimactic. As far as a final battle goes, it was fairly bland, with the protagonist basically being shown how to defeat the monster rather than figuring it out himself. This left me feeling a bit like I was ripped off. After all, the monster was something that was extremely hard to kill (and in D&D, is a terror to rival dragons), and our protagonist basically one shots it.
Still, I did enjoy this novel, and will continue to read this series. Everything is handled fairly well, and I am curious as to where everything will go as things progress. If you are looking for a well done fantasy light novel, this would be one for you!
March 2, 2024
I really wanted to like this series. It checks all the boxes that I look for in a light novel involving adventurers. Unfortunately, the writing really gets in the way of the story, bloating it unnecessarily and sucking the life from it with the passive MC.
The prose reminds me of academic writing. There's a distance involved, like the author is discussing a topic of study from the other side of a microscope instead of from ground zero as a visceral experience. I don't know how much of this is the original author vs the translation, but the book suffers as a result.
Despite the 200+ page count, there are really 50ish pages of real story bloated by redundancy and info dumping, followed by random side stories that most light novels do that I rarely care about.
It feels like this started with an interesting premise, got bogged down by creative 'notes' from marketing types, and then destroyed by the writing. That's probably not the actual case, but it sure feels like it.
I'm calling it quits on the series here. I might check out the anime adaptation to see if they adapted it to be more appetizing, but I'll go in with low expectations.
The prose reminds me of academic writing. There's a distance involved, like the author is discussing a topic of study from the other side of a microscope instead of from ground zero as a visceral experience. I don't know how much of this is the original author vs the translation, but the book suffers as a result.
Despite the 200+ page count, there are really 50ish pages of real story bloated by redundancy and info dumping, followed by random side stories that most light novels do that I rarely care about.
It feels like this started with an interesting premise, got bogged down by creative 'notes' from marketing types, and then destroyed by the writing. That's probably not the actual case, but it sure feels like it.
I'm calling it quits on the series here. I might check out the anime adaptation to see if they adapted it to be more appetizing, but I'll go in with low expectations.
July 31, 2018
Much like the first volume, this has an excellent story, but is translated literally rather than literarily. You can see this in set phrases such as "____ is what I would like to say, but..." and "none other than" and other Japanese expressions which have an established and inflexible literal translation.
January 3, 2021
Want to like it but it's getting worse
Read volume 2 and it's about the same as volume 1. There's just too much of this non-stop inner dialog explanation that doesn’t end. The action is almost non-existent and it's just an extremely boring. I've lost interest already and I probably won't continue. The concept was cool and interesting but it's just too drawn out and boring.
Read volume 2 and it's about the same as volume 1. There's just too much of this non-stop inner dialog explanation that doesn’t end. The action is almost non-existent and it's just an extremely boring. I've lost interest already and I probably won't continue. The concept was cool and interesting but it's just too drawn out and boring.
June 27, 2024
So much rambling
I'm a big fan of the anime and love the manga... But I'm finding the light novels almost painful. The author puts so much rambling in the narration that there are multiple pages of really really long paragraphs between a couple lines of dialogue. Most of it is repetitive musings of the main character over analyzing and over explaining everything. It's almost as if he's explaining what he's going to say next and why he just said what he said even though he explained why you was going to say it in the first place. Now that's just an example of the rambling, sometimes it'll be multiple pages of rambling as a digression from a small thing mentioned in a conversation. It makes the dialogue sections incredibly painful to read, because by the time you get to the next part of the dialogue you forgot the first part!
So, since I've read the manga and watched the anime and this volume is still within the realm of old material I can actually experiment with my reading style. I found that skipping or lightly skimming the sections between dialogue to get to the next dialogue chunk was the best solution. This technique is a little trickier when dealing with the rambling outside of dialogue sections. For those sections it is recommended to start skimming just before you realize you're bored. Because of how much redundancy goes on in the rambling you can definitely skim stuff and not have to worry about missing something important. It's unfortunate, but this series could seriously benefit from a heavy-handed editing. If there were a cliff notes version or abridged version. Honestly, I would love to have an abridged version of two or three volumes put together as an abridged omnibus. I think the story would benefit and improve quite a bit as an abridged omnibus.
I'm a big fan of the anime and love the manga... But I'm finding the light novels almost painful. The author puts so much rambling in the narration that there are multiple pages of really really long paragraphs between a couple lines of dialogue. Most of it is repetitive musings of the main character over analyzing and over explaining everything. It's almost as if he's explaining what he's going to say next and why he just said what he said even though he explained why you was going to say it in the first place. Now that's just an example of the rambling, sometimes it'll be multiple pages of rambling as a digression from a small thing mentioned in a conversation. It makes the dialogue sections incredibly painful to read, because by the time you get to the next part of the dialogue you forgot the first part!
So, since I've read the manga and watched the anime and this volume is still within the realm of old material I can actually experiment with my reading style. I found that skipping or lightly skimming the sections between dialogue to get to the next dialogue chunk was the best solution. This technique is a little trickier when dealing with the rambling outside of dialogue sections. For those sections it is recommended to start skimming just before you realize you're bored. Because of how much redundancy goes on in the rambling you can definitely skim stuff and not have to worry about missing something important. It's unfortunate, but this series could seriously benefit from a heavy-handed editing. If there were a cliff notes version or abridged version. Honestly, I would love to have an abridged version of two or three volumes put together as an abridged omnibus. I think the story would benefit and improve quite a bit as an abridged omnibus.
October 5, 2021
Rentt still has his goal of being a Mithril-class adventurer, but he can't exactly use his old registration with his current body. With a new name, he faces the ranks again . . . this time able to rise higher than ever.
I don't like how the hints of fetish go and ruin what are otherwise serviceable characters. Like Sheila, the guild receptionist who likely has a crush on Rentt. Automatically writing down that she'll become his personal slave as a contract penalty, really? That takes away any respect I had for her agency. In a world where slavery is a real and magically-binding thing, I find it very hard to believe she'd be so flippant about it (and as a sideways proposal it absolutely sucks).
That said, this was decent otherwise. Rentt still over-explains everything, but at least when he's focusing on somewhat novel areas of the world, like the difference between mana, spirit, and divinity, it isn't as irritating. His evolution is progressing, and not often in the best of ways.
I do like that he gets some reminders here that he's actually a monster. The story so far has been very light on the drawbacks of his condition. Other than requiring a robe and mask, he hasn't really suffered from it. Many of his old companions recognize him despite his poor acting, and they don't seem willing to give him some leeway considering something bad obviously happened.
Overall this is trending upwards a bit from the first book. I'll probably keep going for a bit more to see how things go. I rate this book Neutral.
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I don't like how the hints of fetish go and ruin what are otherwise serviceable characters. Like Sheila, the guild receptionist who likely has a crush on Rentt. Automatically writing down that she'll become his personal slave as a contract penalty, really? That takes away any respect I had for her agency. In a world where slavery is a real and magically-binding thing, I find it very hard to believe she'd be so flippant about it (and as a sideways proposal it absolutely sucks).
That said, this was decent otherwise. Rentt still over-explains everything, but at least when he's focusing on somewhat novel areas of the world, like the difference between mana, spirit, and divinity, it isn't as irritating. His evolution is progressing, and not often in the best of ways.
I do like that he gets some reminders here that he's actually a monster. The story so far has been very light on the drawbacks of his condition. Other than requiring a robe and mask, he hasn't really suffered from it. Many of his old companions recognize him despite his poor acting, and they don't seem willing to give him some leeway considering something bad obviously happened.
Overall this is trending upwards a bit from the first book. I'll probably keep going for a bit more to see how things go. I rate this book Neutral.
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September 12, 2018
This chapter was just ok. Not as exciting as volume 1.
For one, there's really no romantic development. Of course, Rent doesn't think romance or marriage is in his cards, although he may still hold a fleeting interest in it. As the audience, we know he puts himself down too much, and that some characters are interested in him, though in this volume there wasn't as much romantic attraction on display from those characters, more just care and support.
We actually get an influx of youth in the tale, meeting some younger adventurer hopefuls, orphans, and even one "sacrifice" Rent has to try and save. This chapter felt more about building up the cast, while not developing a whole lot of them fully. It builds up Rent's good nature as well.
There just wasn't as much here that kept me on the edge of my seat. The few characters I'm interested in were mostly homebodies this chapter, Lorraine just practicing cooking and alchemy skills, the guild attendant with the red hair (Sheila?) making some discoveries about Rent and entering his inner circle, but pretty much Shiela was just there for a story reason to guide Rent away from the town so we can see more outside of it.
For one, there's really no romantic development. Of course, Rent doesn't think romance or marriage is in his cards, although he may still hold a fleeting interest in it. As the audience, we know he puts himself down too much, and that some characters are interested in him, though in this volume there wasn't as much romantic attraction on display from those characters, more just care and support.
We actually get an influx of youth in the tale, meeting some younger adventurer hopefuls, orphans, and even one "sacrifice" Rent has to try and save. This chapter felt more about building up the cast, while not developing a whole lot of them fully. It builds up Rent's good nature as well.
There just wasn't as much here that kept me on the edge of my seat. The few characters I'm interested in were mostly homebodies this chapter, Lorraine just practicing cooking and alchemy skills, the guild attendant with the red hair (Sheila?) making some discoveries about Rent and entering his inner circle, but pretty much Shiela was just there for a story reason to guide Rent away from the town so we can see more outside of it.
June 15, 2021
A fantastic LN (light novel) with the classic anime scenes. MC is as per usual of the Japanese to make the mc completely lost when it comes to female suggestions, bit annoying but a classic point of the genre.
MC has clean progression (growth, leveling) stages; skeleton, ghoul, and so on. That's a nice factor, the story is definitely well written | translated. It's kind of like a clean overlord minus the evil lol. there is some boring dialog, but don't let that hold you up, it adds depths to the characters.
Would definitely recommend the series.
Happy reading.
MC has clean progression (growth, leveling) stages; skeleton, ghoul, and so on. That's a nice factor, the story is definitely well written | translated. It's kind of like a clean overlord minus the evil lol. there is some boring dialog, but don't let that hold you up, it adds depths to the characters.
Would definitely recommend the series.
Happy reading.
August 9, 2022
I was floored by the wholly misogynistic reduction of why women worked at the guild. The redundant exposition continues in this one. And, I realize that light novels are published originally in parts so some repetition of details are seen as necessary for reframing the plot progress, but the rehash happens often from one paragraph to the next and slows down any momentum the story may be making. I have one more volume of the series on my bookshelf, but it is sure to be the last I’ll read.
November 8, 2022
Too much exposition
I really really tried. I like the story, but...
Between EVERY action, there are at least two, sometimes FIVE, pages of useless exposition. It's awful.
"That said...."
"Of course, ...."
"With that..."
It gets increasingly bad. I regret spending money on this turd.
I really really tried. I like the story, but...
Between EVERY action, there are at least two, sometimes FIVE, pages of useless exposition. It's awful.
"That said...."
"Of course, ...."
"With that..."
It gets increasingly bad. I regret spending money on this turd.
January 20, 2021
Great development in stories
June 4, 2021
Good
A good entry into the book series, I am looking forward to seeing what happens in the next book released.
A good entry into the book series, I am looking forward to seeing what happens in the next book released.
January 1, 2022
Still rambling. That’s the style, I guess. But not bad.
May 29, 2022
This volume has the same dull overly redundant writing style as the first one and doesn't make up for it with anything special.
November 29, 2022
Je vais poursuivre cette série, ce second tome m'a convaincu.
December 22, 2022
I. Love. This. Series. I am hooked!
January 13, 2024
The story loses some steam but parts of it that relates to the struggles of the undead adventurer is still interesting. Let's see how the next book is.
February 26, 2024
good book!
Very good story so far started this after watching part of the anime can’t wait to see how this story progresses!
Very good story so far started this after watching part of the anime can’t wait to see how this story progresses!
April 23, 2024
I say this quite often, Isekai are quite popular at the moment, having a simple fantasy story out of Japan is a nice change.
July 5, 2025
Still repetitive, but love the mice!!!! This one is less boring than the first one and it is more "adventure" centered. On to my next adventure, Happy Readings!
February 22, 2023
Rentt's story continues, depicting some of his struggles with being an undead while trying to chase his dream of becoming a mithril adventurer. Some of these events deal directly with his struggle, and how he became an undead in the first place (and old friends realizing he is still alive), others are more typical adventurer stuff.
Much like volume 1, it is an intriguing story with likeable characters and a decent (if somewhat slow paced) plot, especially the second half is more about world building and character development than dealing with the main story. And much like volume 1, the author has a tendency to overexplain in a bit of a rambling fashion. The cliff-hanger ending does not help.
So, all in all, an entertaining quick read, but if you were struggling with the explanations and writing style in volume 1, things will be the same in this part.
Much like volume 1, it is an intriguing story with likeable characters and a decent (if somewhat slow paced) plot, especially the second half is more about world building and character development than dealing with the main story. And much like volume 1, the author has a tendency to overexplain in a bit of a rambling fashion. The cliff-hanger ending does not help.
So, all in all, an entertaining quick read, but if you were struggling with the explanations and writing style in volume 1, things will be the same in this part.
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