An Endless Advance

Self-Published

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Description

“Welcome to the Dormitories, Player.”

One day(?), Lucian Noxlear woke up in a dusty, doorless room.

Realising he had a partial case of amnesia, awakening near a cupboard clearly trapping something within, and welcomed by a voice lacking both emotion and inflection, the man was confused, to put it mildly.

All he could do was listen carefully and abide by the letters clawed into the ceiling's cement…

No matter how suspicious they looked at a glance.

If Lucian wanted to find out more—about his missing past, about why he was here, and about the organization in control, this so-called ‘Nightmares Unlimited’—then he had no other choice but to play along…

Even if the unknown blurred his path and monsters impeded his way.

…

For now.

Currently on Volume One: Dancing shoes upon Bloodsoaked wood.

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

What to know:

Inspired by Infinity Genre novels without making use of preestablished worlds (movies, games, anime, etc.)

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Frosted Wings

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 3
Views: 6,930

Chapters(29 total)

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Community Reviews(1)

DanchiveRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The first thing that jumped out at me regarding An Endless Advance was the structure. Now, I checked the latest chapters, and the structure seems to be consistent (which I thought might've been just an early rendition), but I do feel that this may be an initial turning-away point for many readers.
I do like these video-game style fictions though, they're always fun and Frosted Wings seems to have a pretty good grasp on the digital aspects:
"Name: Rune of Corrupting Hoarfrost [Fragment].
Descriptor: A sculpted chunk of obsidian imbued with magic by the Arcane, twisted after its creation to suit the Deep’s purpose.
Remarks: Collect 10 fragments to reforge a single Rune."
I'm not particularly familiar with the 'Infinity Genre novels' (are they a writer since 'Genre' is capitalized? Publisher? or genre?), so I can't say much about it. However, this genre of writing seems familiar with your usual dungeon-crawling, amnesiac-protagonist, action-adventure types, especially those with isekai, virtual reality and other tech-death game aspects. So if you are a fan of those, you'll probably enjoy this fiction as well (though I'm not sure if that's what 'Infinity Genre is'.
I feel like the dialogues could use some work (“W-What are y-you even talking about? H-Handle? Do you really t-think this is a v-video game or s-something?! T-That’s not funny, you k-know!” and my favourite quote is “It’s time for us to get out of here, Cardinal, Julia! The thing chasing us is finally catching up, and it’s a huge, motherfucking wheel!”), but overall, the descriptions, imageries and grammar are all good and the characters are fine (I mean, the main character is amnesiac.)
Overall, I would give this novel a 4/5. I believe fans of the dungeon crawler genre with a sprinkle of death game will feel at home in this rendition.
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