Apex Predator

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Description

Earth is a fairly small place,but it's all Bath has. It's the only home he's ever known for all of his 500-or-so-million years of life. One day, Bath realized his treasured Earth was being drawn into thenextmass extinction ahead of schedule. So, fascinated by the humans and their quick rise to power (after all, setting off a mass extinction is a pretty sizable achievement),what's a nearly all-powerful, somewhat bored, morally ambiguous, savagely violent, shapeshifting alien entity to do other than assume the form of a humanand do some front-line investigating?

Little did Bath know he would soon stumble upon a mysterious human organization with a gate leading to planets eons away. And that's just the beginning...

A story with aliens, intergalactic space travel, mind powers, and an abundance of adventure!

Author's note:

ON HIATUS!

Hello and thank you for reading! Constructive criticism and grammar-policing are both appreciated.

Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are complete at 1271 pages! Part 7 is in progress!

If you've ever read any other web serials, you might've noticed that authors get better with time (that is, their art or writing improves). Wutosama of Metaworld Chronicles noted that the first 20 chaps are always a mess.

This is also the case with Apex Predator. The first two parts (ranging just under 30 chapters, or 161 pages) are absolutely subpar. While I have edited them as of 7-10-18, they require a rewrite, which is currently in the works but not complete.

For a sample that gives insight into what the latter ~80% of the story's writing style is like, check outchapter 56.

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Cover: original work done by me, the author, caerulex.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2017
Author: caerulex

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 1,877
Views: 3,050,163

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Community Reviews(10)

AsureZealotRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great character, with a long build up for nearly all of them.
A style which takes you in the dance's circle, wishing for more and more.
A few word out of place, but nothing breaking the immersion.
A great story, thank to cae for this awesome story.
BullerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Being fully honest, there was no love for this story in the first 50 or so chapters. Powerful guy does powerful stuff, but the guy is actually a prehisorit monstrosity feared amongst the entire cosmos. Not the worst thing in the world, I suppose, and it is definitely better than most other things here for that alone.
I also liked the psionic part of the story. REGIS fit so well with the personality, and the idea about how to crowdcontrol people was very interesting to read. 5/5 from me overall. A great read.
callmesteveRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a bit of a weird premise, really. An ancient entity wakes up on earth and tries to fix global warming via a clever human disguise. Then he conquers the world. It's quite fun to read and there are some really unique creatures and places in here. Some of them may not be that realistic, but this is fiction!
The first few chapters almost feel like they are from another book, though.
Warning: there have been some recent adult scenes involving side characters, of all things. I just find that weird.
I'd give another star for the awesome cover, if I could.
djma45Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
this story is among the few that has me hooked from the first chapter. i do hope that you dont nerf him later in the story to make it fair for his enemies but rather keep him as he is a being beyond their scope of understanding. also have fun he his overpowered but that what make this story fun for me. if possible keep the slowburn and wait with the action until he is in adulthood. and let go trough the childhood of human from where he is now to college and maybe he can plot for world domination later that where the action part comes in altough its gonna be a loopsided battle.
i would say starting his own corperation is the best way.
anyway cant wait for more but maybe you should slow down the pace u write chapters so you dont burn yourself out of ideas or come to a dead end cause you dont know where the story shall go.
lamnetRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I know a five stars all around might seem like a bit much but if any story deserved it, it would be this story.
Caerulux's style of writing is seemless. I fell into the story without noticing and genuinely enjoyed it. For example, usually I dislike different POV's in a story but Caerulux makes them in a way that I cant help but enjoy them and the characters.
The story itself is a gem that takes you for a ride. There are unexpected twists and turns that give the story life and there is a consistency and flow that allows you to immerse yourself in the story.
The grammar I didnt really pay attention to because of the story but I saw no glaring mistakes.
The characters are all full of depth and are constantly developing so they do not become stale. Caerulux takes care in developing each character with realism and genuity that shows in their interactions. He has managed to capture the essence of what a billion (or more) year old beast would be and has managed to make a character that evolves and progresses out of it.
One of the best stories on rr that I would definitely recommend.
LegaltRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Honestly, I put off checking this story out because of the MCs name, Bath... and it was a stupid decision. He's grown on me A LOT. Remember, never judge a book by its cover.
Seriously, this has been awesome. Story has been great, characters have been great (especially Bath and Lisa), grammar has been super good as well, far above a lot of other stories on here. Overall, it's just really well written.
So yeah, definitely check this out and give it a shot, especially if, like me, you mainly found this because of the tags...I PROMISE you won't regret it!
ZethuronRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall this story is one of my top favorite webnovels for so many reasons, and i cant really list them all. I myself expect to read and enjoy this story for a very long time.
This is one of the most original Sci-Fi stories i have read so far, i even compare this to some of the Sci-Fi classics in literature.
Honestly said, the first arc is lacking in quality compared to the later arcs, a main reason for this is the MC's goal of saving the world from global Warming caused by humans and his stupid idea's at attempting it, this goal soon shifts to something FAR grander and the story does improve a lot .
Just the sheer scale of what is written in the story should say enough that this story will grow MUCH bigger. The story just barely started on the worlds, all of which are original ideas you would expect from a Sci-Fi story. With the scale of it all the author has done a very well job at the many different worlds so far in the story, even if they only appear for a couple of chapters they are still explained in some way, along with the (sometimes weird) flora and fauna of that world.
The characters are pretty well written, especially the two main characters.
Bath, our (friendly) alien from Modern Day Earth, he is a OP intelligent super-Predator that tries to blend in with human society, and somewhat fails at that.
Along with Lisa, his (human) childhood friend they go on a adventure that spans the universe, on their way to the center of it all, at the current chapters, they just started finishing the first steps.
I would say, just go give this story a try and please try to keep on reading if you do not like certain elements of the first arc, when it ends the story improves so much.
WingsolutionRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
While I didn't give a perfect score(I'm a bad technical reviewer so I have to go by instinct). I do think this story is one of my new favorites. It does have a slow start, though it's rather nessisary. I think this world is great and I hope the author takes his time finishing the story. I hope for many many chapters before the story ends. (and once it does there's lots of potential for a spinnoff series). I gotta say the meat of this story so far has the feel of a classic SF adventure novel, and shares attributes with a minishark(from Terraria).
Iori AngelRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
That's a fucking disappointment again.
The novel named "Apex Predator" is about a practically immortal 500 million years old beings that can shapeshift into anything they want and have a domain around them where they can do whatever they wish to do, and it decides to join human society... and 17 chapters in and nothing fucking happens. He's just living a normal human life and that's about it. Novel focus is on him trying to fit in as a baby, or him getting his first friend, and him talking to stupid boys 'his age' in college.... Fucking shit.
Pile of fucking bollocks.
The whole point of him doing so is figuring out a way to postpone climate change but so far nothing whatsoever happened to imply he's even thinking more than a little bit about the issue.
RoboRoyoRoaRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
In the interest of saving my fellow reader time and sustaining their interest in web-novels:
Overall: ⅖, the novel is weak, but not total trash
Style: ⅕, there is no subtlety, nothing clever, it’s not purposely funny
Story: ⅗, the premise is uncommon, but cannot deliver on its concept
Grammer: ⅗, inoffensive
Character: ⅕, tiny cast, poorly realized, unperceptive, immature drivel
Progress: 35/177, it took a lot of effort to endure this much, but effort is not rewarded
Note: might be interesting if you enjoy delusions of grandeur
My opinion is subjective and just a summary, obviously.