Bloodbound Regression [Fantasy litRPG]

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Twenty-six years--that's how far into the hellscape that the Earth became Ethan survived. He'd become an old man in a world where even the young died by the millions. But those years were hardly the years he lived, as he simply struggled to survive. Untl, one day, a fairy-like creature he met by pure chance promised him something he thought impossible--a chance to redo his entire life post the Descent. Keeping the creature merely as a companion, with no hope of ever actually going back, he was that much more shocked when he opened his eyes and realised he was standing in the middle of his hometown, in front of his apartment building, precisely two days before the Descent--and before the entire world changed irrevocably and forever.

With a new chance, and a class cast in blood, he'll undo the things that broke him, and fulfill his end of the contract to become strong enough so that his against-all-reason redo wouldn't end up in yet another pointless tragedy. The world may become mad, but he had already become madder, and nobody will stand in the way of his goals--not the monsters that will come flooding the Earth, nor the people endowed with newfound magic and greed. All would be his, by will or force.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: beddedOtaku

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Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 1,107
Views: 468,182

Chapters(86 total)

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Community Reviews(9)

HRMichaelHRRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
First review ever on a book. So favourite LitRPG book is probably Reborn: Apocalypse. I think, if the writer does not abandon this story for some reason, this might be my new favourite story. The writing.. holy moly… the potential for not just strength progression but character development even more so…
Perfect start and best on RR already imo. How I can say that at ch 11 idk
VanyakiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Great book. Great story. Great writing. Great characters. Was sucked into the novel from the second chapter. Would definitely recommend to read it. Looking forward to more chapters!!
Ignore pls: Since it must be 50 words. Since it must be 50 words. Since it must be 50 words. Since it must be 50 words. Since it must be 50 words.
Woodstock WoodRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Man Ethan is such an oger I love it nothing better than a smart, powerful mc with a really good story and at least one person they would destroy the world for plus the story is getting a bit more mysterious. Thats great hey man I think i don't have enough juice I'm me to do 50 words
WuffRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It is a good book MC is strong but isn t to overpowered. And he dosen t have that hero or villian mindest He only really cares for his sister. I also like the class system with different classes depending in each other like Blood devote depends on His class.
RocksNPebblesRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This story is around 50% psychological meanderings which are oddly dressed up as psychiatry. I’ve known a few and certainly they do not offer any help or understanding or counselling to patients, they are pure pill mills to dish out prescription drugs of dubious benefit to anyone other than their own egos and inflated wages. Outside of research you’d be hard pressed to find a psychiatrist who talks to a patient for more than 15 minutes once and 5 minutes to write new scripts thereafter.
I write about this at some length as this is a primary fixation eating up half the page count of the book with varied analysis of other characters by the MC. It is incorrect, indulgent, a distraction from the story, and a clear assertion of the author’s worldview rather than an act of world building or characterisation. It is also repetitive as we are shown Roland being weak, indecisive, and deferential and then are told all of this in much greater length with psychobabble about his mother.
Rather than failing to show, not tell …or worse …tell, not show…we instead have a show and tell format which is repetitive. Showing is already enough, no need to then spend half a chapter in unrealistic dialogue.
While a few psych undergrads will fixate on these topics and think themselves very clever, there is no reason for two software engineer undergrads to be so keen or persistent or even tolerating such long philosophical meanderings about who and how they are or what kind of person they want to be in the apocalypse.
They’d probably spend a lot more time playing around with and exploring their magic! You know…testing out its limits like engineering students would be inclined or really any normal person would be inclined. I’d expect the jaded regression MC, who is really an old man in his 60s, to be filled with regret and reflection, but not a couple of 20 year olds who have barely come to terms with their future being stolen and their world ending.
Despite so much effort being put into their
grand_idiotRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
I think overall, the plot is very interesting. However there are some issues with the execution.
The writing is great compared to standard RR. Story and world building is great.
However, there are constantly moments that have the readers scrambling their heads and taking them out of immersion.
He had a couple days to pack supplies and he didn't bring any security cameras. Then he hired some sophomore college students to create an app to turn his phone into a security camera.
You can literally find an app on the app store for motion detection. Also as a computer science student and software engineering intern. It's also very unrealistic to accomplish this while basically being a slave for a week.
Then he offhandedly also asks them to create another piece of software to track the web at all times to flag up whenever there are interesting keywords. Which is again simply impossible without using a lot of money to spend on cloud infrastructure and technology to accomodate for a lack of computing resources. You are looking at FBI level infrastructure haha.
Maybe it could make sense if these were senior developers.
Another thing, it happens pretty early on but might be important so spoilers!
Anyways later on, they pick a class that makes themselves subservient to him and essentially forced to be his slave. They suffer stat decreases if they spend time away from him. So his idea of making them do errands is already running into a wall.
Moreover, the dialogue reads like a script from a marvel movie. Every moment doesn't feel real, it's just a collection of jokes and quips. Even when he tries getting to know them, he just asks once and gets a few sentences in reply.
Then he psychoanalyses them based on their sentences, sounding like a very bad sherlock holmes.
Psychiatrists don't do this in the first place, it's very bad practice and he must have misdiagnosed a lot of people in his career and be on the verge of getting his license revoked.
One of my uncles is one, they are mo
rrname12321Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
While the writing is pretty decent there are aspects of the story that need work. The first is the dialogue and character actions / reactions. They do not really act human like at all. The guy murders at the drop of a hat for really no reason, and honestly it just puts me off. He reminds me of those crazy killers that belong behind bars. The second is overall goal is really weird. He wants to own a cult and have followers, and I guess he is like Charles Manson or something. Not something I am liking.
OnlyBliss :)Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
The idea of a post apocalyptic world with some guy regressing to just before everything goes to shit isn't new. Classic trope, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But a saturated genre like that needs some twists or just be exceptionally good.
Most things are pretty good but there is one thing I have a pretty big problem with. Basically the story is just very hard to believe.
It starts out with with a big tsunami that devastes coastal europe and most island nations in the atlantic ocean. Now, MC is pretty far away from that, specifically somewhere near the rocky mountains. Despite that, everything goes to shit basically instantly. They still have electricity, they still have internet, and the US has more food than they can eat. I get that there would be some unrest, but you can't tell me a stable western country who was barely affected would collapse in the way the author describes it.
But I glanced over that one. Next thing was much worse imo. 14 days after day 0, 3 college kids come close to his cabin. Mc confronts them, kills one of them for running away, and makes some vague promises to the others to join his cult. So what do the others do? Well they are extremely excited to join his cult and do whatever for just an ounce of his power. Obviously. I stopped reading when the woman instantly offered mc sexual favors. I'm sure he refused, the nobleman he is. Same way I'm sure that they get together later in the book.
So overall just very unrealistic. Oh yeah, and mc is also extremely op which makes stakes almost nonexistent.
azranoxxRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Ethan, as a psychiatrist-turned-jaded-veteran starts out with a much more lively dynamic than the average edgy blowhard protagonists you get in some particularly grim novels. He's got traces of empathy and an understanding that he needs people to follow and work for him in order to survive.
The problem is, he then goes on to follow the playbook for other ultra-manly self-described sociopathic protagonists. The party gets left behind because they're badly trained and under leveled.
If your training and leveling plan does not produce people who can keep up, that's your fault for being a bad trainer and a poor leader, my dude. You are the one from the future. The worst part is, this would have worked so much better if he put any effort into building his people up, instead of giving them halfway decent advice and then wandering off after insulting them twice "as a joke."