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Elinor is just a sixteen-year-old goth going through some abnormal teenage drama; her parents are involved in giving some 'unwanted' humanitarian aid to Venezuela, and they're dragging their daughter along to expand her world view ... much to her displeasure. The jungle sucks and the bus has no air conditioning, and great, she's kidnapped ... The Oscillation happens, monsters attack ... she's a monster. Now, she's in a foreign world, fighting to survive.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2019
Author: Scott Edwards

Chapters(172 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

AnganglerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Yep, as a story should be, intresting.
ChristopherCravenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Fair warning this story has multiple POV and is great with that to develop the characters but if that is something you don´t like don´t blame the author for it.It is a bit dark at the start and it will not be every´s readers cup of tea with Undead rising to build an empire for their Empress in a fantasy world after the once Human girl now Lich Empress was kidnapped from Earth to a new world with magic and monsters.It is a litrpg where the system does not show everything and you need to desire and ask the right question to find out which skill you have and how to advance them.The world is nicely built and has shown now multiple intelligent species form Toad People to Salamanders, Spiders and mutated Gorillas.If you want to read about an Empire on the rise in a strange world it hit the right spot but it needs time and it will you also show the perspective of those that are conquered.
MechaHeartRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
While yes, I'm sure there's some things that Scott could work on in his writing, he always amazed me with his dedication to researching everything for his novels.I've read up to his latest Patreon chapters, and the amount of philosophy and we'll thought out ideas impress me. These novels are not just whimsical power fantasies. They are flawed characters in unjust situations that make the best of what they've got. Well thought out in comparison to a lot of other web novels I've read. Rather than just write a chapter without much thought, Scott has been crafting a wide web of stories which obviously have a great plan to them.I enjoy reading Scott's novels and look forward to seeing what comes next.
Richard DainRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story has a great opening act, and everything is done very well upto this point. But we're reaching the end of the opening act, and I've seen many stories falter at that point. We're not there yet, so 5 stars. Perhaps I'll come and lower it later though.
SagaaaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Most of hrdcore undead lovers thought that the time of good unded empires stories were coming to an end, and we grieved. But now! Now we see there's still hope for the undead!! Now we can once again watch an undead's empire Rise to Glory! Now there's a new story that hails from Royal Road and that soon will be known across the Internet!Don't read BEFORE CHAP 10, potential SPOILERSNow after that, the serious review ("serious").For now it has an intereting start, I'm not sure if it could count as reincarnation, but it sure as hell counts as isekai. Next thing, masacre. It still hasn't been overlygraphic and I don't know if I should hope for graphic gore scenes or not, because honestly I don't feel like they would add anything good to this story.Another thingy, there's a real Devil!!!! Not those typical stuck up devils we normaly see, but one that feels like a manipulative and really powerful one.
SrayanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is an interesting story. Not a standard trope. The story starts with a deadly encounter. And a transformation/ class event for the MC. And there is no tutorial mode startup either, poor MC is dropped in at the deep end. Obviously has difficulty adjusting at first, but luckily she has an epic class and can summon (really good) help. The helpers are also interesting characters.in my opinion the first 9 chapters are basically a prologue while the new empress is making her way to her new base and getting her initial team together. Main story arc is just starting in chapter 11 or so.While there was a tricky startup (starting a noob MC in DOOM mode is not easy on an author) this is shaping up into an excellent story with an unusual trope.
hibigfan100Royal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Book 1 and 2 establish the genre as kingdom and army building, but by the middle of book 3 the genre changes to mythos, mystery, and adventure.The writing is good and I'm sure the quality of the narrative is the same, but the genre it has changed to is not why I originally started reading. I'm just not interested in the new direction.I'm sure the author can agree that book 1 is a bit too slow, but to meet the word count I'll also mention I dislike the use of the LitRPG elements. It has a level of depth that washes over you. DefectivebyDesign said it best in the comments of B1-40. (Personal gripe ahead...)The status page has a level of depth that overwhelms you. The denominations of power are arbritary - from colours, to proficiency, numbers, to directly telling you Elinor is relatively "extremely weak" in a certain category compared to...compared to what? Nobody can keep track of this, and if they could it would matter little as the power dynamics change constantly, as they should, except the status page can't seem to match the changes in the story, not even from the beginning.
dak'konRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
It starts strong, with strong characters and a premise that is both distinct and well-executed.The first chapters are tense, as we learn about the characters and the world around them there are constant challenges both emotional and physical.Towards chapter ten the pacing slows down and then slows down some more. We get a treatise on Architecture, on Government then we get spider girls(like catgirls but a spider, don't ask).Both tension and challenges are absent, without them character progression is limited.It's especially jarring since the author can do better.It seems like only the first chapters were planed plotwise.If the author can recreate what he did in the first chapters this story may become one of the best on this site.As it is Undying Empire is above anything else is a disappointment.
Elle B.Royal Road
★★ 2.0
The base story is rather interesting and has encouraged me to power through the major issue with this story: the talking. Everyone talks. All the time. About everything. In exhausting detail.The story itself starts out strong and managed to give me an impetus to keep going, but as soon as the major event turn happensWhen her parents die and she brings them backEverything turns into philosophy lecture hour. The pacing crawls to an almost halt while the characters talk about everything, overanalyze everything and discuss every little action and reaction. To be clear, overanalysis as a character trait isn't a problem overall, but please keep it more low-key - we as the readers don't need to know everything. We're smart enough to put things together without reading the entire thought process. Less is more in this case.I've skimmed over 50% of most of the chapters past about 5 and stopped to read the narrative, skipping over the dialogue, and felt like I lost nothing in the action.Most of the dialogue in the middle of action is also unbelieveable. This isn't how people react to danger, like a 1970s cartoon where everyone describes every action they take as they do it or react to it in real time with dramatic pauses for needless expository dialogue to happen.Words are time passing, and so many words pass but so little timeactuallypasses in the story that it's quite literally unbelieveable.I'm going to soldier on for a while and see if the quality improves, because I really do want to see what happens to Elinor and her burgeoning empire, but the lack of brevity isreallydifficult to get past.
EliareceRoyal Road
★ 1.0
My greatest pet peeve with books is when authors refuse to allow time to pass. The hero can't just spend a few month training to learn their new power, no. All conflict must be resolved within the week.This story takes it to a new level. The entirety of book 1 happens within 30 hours, during which our main character :Changed world, went from a normal teenager to a fully proficient lich, founded an empire, a religion, and conquered a region.One character falls out of the story because...they went to sleep.Some part of the story were still interesting, the world seems interesting, the lich powers are cool, it feels like a character focus story. The writing is very dialog focus, which I usually like, when there's at least some conflict