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俺だけ入れる隠しダンジョン / The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter #4
The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter (Light Novel) Vol. 4
MERCHANT VS. MONSTER Noir needs to make the most of the last days of summer. A letter from his older brother Gillan, studying to be a merchant in a neighboring kingdom, gives him the perfect road trip! Accompanied by his friends, Noir heads to the town of Honest. But when they arrive, they find a city besieged by monsters! Noir’s peaceful summer vacation is about to get way more exciting than he bargained for!
- GenresLight NovelFantasy
332 pages, Paperback
Published June 15, 2021
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April 20, 2022
The honeymoon is over...From the usual 27-30 chapters and over 200+ pages per volume, this Volume 4 has about 200+ pages and just 12 chapters with one bonus side story. It happens to most light novel series. The author completes what he or she wanted to say and thus run out of ideas and imagination. I feel there are a few less illustrations in this volume 4 as well. I worry for Noir, since the illustrations look like he was a 10 year old, doing all of those sensually inclined things with all those different women. I'm thinking of calling child protection services...
In this Volume 4, Noir, uses the second half of his summer vacation from his "Hero Academy", to visit his second brother, Gillan, in Honest (name of the city in another country Rosette). On their way to Honest, they passed by Landen and encountered it as a petrified town. Once they reach Honest they find out that there have been a lot more monster attacks than usual.
In this Volume 4, Noir, uses the second half of his summer vacation from his "Hero Academy", to visit his second brother, Gillan, in Honest (name of the city in another country Rosette). On their way to Honest, they passed by Landen and encountered it as a petrified town. Once they reach Honest they find out that there have been a lot more monster attacks than usual.
October 10, 2024
I loved everything about this book, along with the whole series, but what I enjoyed most about this book, specifically, was Lola’s hidden skill finally revealed. The way she reacted to it was so cute, and even though she isn’t a skilled adventurer like Noir, or an elf healer like Luna, she did say something about humanity that reigns true in this fictional saga and reality, too! The greatest skill humans have is being able to do anything at all we set our minds to do! Lola, my friend, you are so right! Whatever humans of fictional worlds or reality strive to do, we indeed do; and whatever we believe we can’t do, we don’t as well!
Besides Noir, my favorite character is Lola. Yes, I cared about all the characters in reading this book, but I felt a special camaraderie with Lola. Yes, I like Emma as a favorite love interest of Noir’s, and I absolutely love Olivia’s inner monologues at the end of each book, but Lola has risen to the title of favorite character stardom, because she’s the most realistic and relatable; and if she were a real person, I have no doubt that we’d become close friends!
I appreciated the characters in this book, even if they weren’t the most realistic of heroes and heroines. The character whose transformation I appreciated most was Noir’s brother. He was a carefree ladies’ man but transformed into an aspiring merchant, having left many of his girlfriends and working towards a true goal instead of coasting through life as some sort of Don Lothario counterpart, if this saga is to be related to The Sims 4 video game.
I felt excitement as I read this book, wanting to experience for myself everything that Noir went through, and as I neared the end of the book, I felt even more of the literary ecstasy only readers can feel as I realized in the next-to-last book, Olivia would be freed from the Hidden Dungeon, by Noir, and perhaps his friends, too! I finished this book in two or three days, and then I felt bittersweet as I realized this series will reach an eventual end, but then again, Olivia will return to grace this fantasy world and continue her legendary quests, and maybe she’d bring Noir Stardia to worldwide stardom as an adventurer with her!
A scene that shocked me, impacted me, grossed me out to the extreme, and fascinated me all at once was when Noir and his friends came to the realization that the townsfolk who glamoured Lord Gaien as an idol were cannibals and nearly took out Noir’s brother. When they were in denial about Lord Gaien putting them in danger every ten years, on the dot, it was bothersome to me how they refused to believe a word Noir said against the man they honored more than any deity of their world—is that sacrilege for a fictional god/goddess, or is that forgivable in literary standards, do you think…?
This book didn’t make me laugh or cry, but I was so into this major page-turner that I really didn’t want to put the book down; I’m so serious, I felt it was almost a sin to set this book aside for more than an hour in daylight, ha-ha!
There was nothing I disliked about this book, with the one exception of Noir discovering the next level of the Hidden Dungeon far exceeded his expectations in difficulty; however, in that moment, I hoped (knowing Olivia will be freed in the next book) that Noir and the great Olivia would work together to defeat all levels in the Hidden Dungeon once and for all—that would be an epic ending to this entire series, don’t you think?!
There wasn’t a cliffhanger ending, per say, but I did appreciate on all fronts and backs, ups and downs and sides like, Olivia’s monologue at the end of the book about the era she dealt with Lord Gaien 200 years ago, prior to her getting stuck in the Hidden Dungeon. Gaien’s obsessed with immortality to the point of Olivia threatening him to leave her alone, and in the moment he crossed a line, she took something away from him that would be quite the surprise at his eventual end… and her prophecy came true, if a little late, but still!
If I were the author of The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter saga in place of the talented Meguru Seto, there isn’t a whole lot I’d change or alter to make this saga better, because I think it’s already perfect as-is. The one thing I’d consider changing but wouldn’t go through with unless I had outside influence, would be making this book series into a multilayered, interactive video game where Noir would romance his harem of adventuring battle-hungry ladies and be able to marry one of them at the end of the game, if one existed.
I feel as though it would be a crime not to give this book anything less than a solid 5/5 stars rating as well as add this book to my list of favorite quick-read novels of all time. Author Meguru Seto is incredibly talented, and I can’t wait to see where she takes Noir and his friends on their next adventure. I loved the epic high fantasy action, the video game vibes with LP and HP (love points and health points), the interactions these characters have with one another, and all and everything in-between, ha-ha! I’d recommend this series to fans of and players of the old Rune Factory games for the seemingly vintage Nintendo DS, as well as anyone who likes video games of the MMORPG sorts. This book should definitely be on your next-to-read list, especially if you don’t already have one. This whole series is so binge-worthy that it’s a crime for being so underrated!
Besides Noir, my favorite character is Lola. Yes, I cared about all the characters in reading this book, but I felt a special camaraderie with Lola. Yes, I like Emma as a favorite love interest of Noir’s, and I absolutely love Olivia’s inner monologues at the end of each book, but Lola has risen to the title of favorite character stardom, because she’s the most realistic and relatable; and if she were a real person, I have no doubt that we’d become close friends!
I appreciated the characters in this book, even if they weren’t the most realistic of heroes and heroines. The character whose transformation I appreciated most was Noir’s brother. He was a carefree ladies’ man but transformed into an aspiring merchant, having left many of his girlfriends and working towards a true goal instead of coasting through life as some sort of Don Lothario counterpart, if this saga is to be related to The Sims 4 video game.
I felt excitement as I read this book, wanting to experience for myself everything that Noir went through, and as I neared the end of the book, I felt even more of the literary ecstasy only readers can feel as I realized in the next-to-last book, Olivia would be freed from the Hidden Dungeon, by Noir, and perhaps his friends, too! I finished this book in two or three days, and then I felt bittersweet as I realized this series will reach an eventual end, but then again, Olivia will return to grace this fantasy world and continue her legendary quests, and maybe she’d bring Noir Stardia to worldwide stardom as an adventurer with her!
A scene that shocked me, impacted me, grossed me out to the extreme, and fascinated me all at once was when Noir and his friends came to the realization that the townsfolk who glamoured Lord Gaien as an idol were cannibals and nearly took out Noir’s brother. When they were in denial about Lord Gaien putting them in danger every ten years, on the dot, it was bothersome to me how they refused to believe a word Noir said against the man they honored more than any deity of their world—is that sacrilege for a fictional god/goddess, or is that forgivable in literary standards, do you think…?
This book didn’t make me laugh or cry, but I was so into this major page-turner that I really didn’t want to put the book down; I’m so serious, I felt it was almost a sin to set this book aside for more than an hour in daylight, ha-ha!
There was nothing I disliked about this book, with the one exception of Noir discovering the next level of the Hidden Dungeon far exceeded his expectations in difficulty; however, in that moment, I hoped (knowing Olivia will be freed in the next book) that Noir and the great Olivia would work together to defeat all levels in the Hidden Dungeon once and for all—that would be an epic ending to this entire series, don’t you think?!
There wasn’t a cliffhanger ending, per say, but I did appreciate on all fronts and backs, ups and downs and sides like, Olivia’s monologue at the end of the book about the era she dealt with Lord Gaien 200 years ago, prior to her getting stuck in the Hidden Dungeon. Gaien’s obsessed with immortality to the point of Olivia threatening him to leave her alone, and in the moment he crossed a line, she took something away from him that would be quite the surprise at his eventual end… and her prophecy came true, if a little late, but still!
If I were the author of The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter saga in place of the talented Meguru Seto, there isn’t a whole lot I’d change or alter to make this saga better, because I think it’s already perfect as-is. The one thing I’d consider changing but wouldn’t go through with unless I had outside influence, would be making this book series into a multilayered, interactive video game where Noir would romance his harem of adventuring battle-hungry ladies and be able to marry one of them at the end of the game, if one existed.
I feel as though it would be a crime not to give this book anything less than a solid 5/5 stars rating as well as add this book to my list of favorite quick-read novels of all time. Author Meguru Seto is incredibly talented, and I can’t wait to see where she takes Noir and his friends on their next adventure. I loved the epic high fantasy action, the video game vibes with LP and HP (love points and health points), the interactions these characters have with one another, and all and everything in-between, ha-ha! I’d recommend this series to fans of and players of the old Rune Factory games for the seemingly vintage Nintendo DS, as well as anyone who likes video games of the MMORPG sorts. This book should definitely be on your next-to-read list, especially if you don’t already have one. This whole series is so binge-worthy that it’s a crime for being so underrated!
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