Contention: Revised Edition - Book One
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Revised, restructured and rebuilt from the ground up, Contention gets a new coat of paint.
Contention: Book One(Revised Edition) -AmazonContention: Book Two(Revised Edition) -AmazonContention: Book Three(Writing In Progress) -Patreon
Book One:August Marlow has been stranded on an alien world with nothing but a strange system to guide his way. To survive, he must summon allies, conquer the dangers of his environment, and uncover the mystery of Devil's Nest—and maybe he'll learn what it means to be a leader along the way.Book Two:August Marlow has managed to find a tenuous balance with the interface, the environment and the artificially created race of beings known as the Voithos. The goal has changed from simply surviving Devil's Nest to making the island home, and to do that, they must come together to leverage stolen knowledge on runes, uncover forgotten technology and build up a society that can harbour the rest of their people. The problem is, they aren't the only ones who call this planet home, and so one question remains—where are the Children of Gaia?
Book Three:August Marlow has learned that an even greater threat exists and that they weren’t quite as alone as he had originally believed. There are other people hidden somewhere on the island, and when he encounters one at the crash site of an Anemoi Transport, it quickly turns violent. There is something distinctly wrong with the Children of Gaia on Devil's Nest, and August soon discovers that the answers lie within the Personal Drone Interface of one Elard Mantos.
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- Completed
- Year
- 2025
- Author
- Elbowsnapper
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- 4.2/ 5.0
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- 459
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Community Reviews(7)
- UnknownRiverRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0It's quite unquie story about surviving in another world. The slow pace makes it feel like a diary of a survivor and find that very different than many of the stories on Royalroad. Also find that system is fairly different to other stories that I find that interesting thinking what it going to do next. My only complaint would be that story is very slow pace and that it was released more often so I could remember the plot better.
- Mister BillRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0It's getting towards base building. Very good litrpg elements. Well written. Quite unique.
Basically a guy out on his own trying to make a go of things from the very, very beginning. Shows a ton of promise, as well. It's a good one so far, for sure. I like the options available and most of his choices. - VinohrRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I like this story a lot. The LitRPG elements are light, the tone is subdued, and it breaks the mold of all the power fantasy that seems to flood this website of late. The world inhabited by the characters is interesting, the relationships compelling, and the overall vibe is pleasant. I think this is best experienced in larger binges, as the chapters can be quite short individually, but I still consider this story highly worth reading!
- TheOnlySharterRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0The way the story progresses with each chapter is a continuation of each day going into the next. I think that with how much you get out of each day with each chapter, it paces well and is easy to follow the timeline. The characters all have unique personality and interaction that makes it easy to follow flow of conversation and what each character might do
- LEGOMANRoyal Road★★★★ 4.0I haven't done many reviews yet but I really like how this story is progressing so far it looks like this story will have a lot of depth and world building eventually we've already seen little snippets from the author hopefully there's more to come. Keep up the good work
- Seeking PolarisRoyal Road★★★ 3.0the entire system as well as the main character seem purely focused on kingdom building. and I don't see any kind of drama or kingdom building tag on the book itself so yeah...
the tags and description heavily imply that this is an action packed survival progression type story, but the first 6 chapters and one particular review from chapter 91 with the most upvotes seem to say the exact opposite.
from what I've read along with that review it seems like a kingdom building slice of life story at best with the realism turned down to support the astronomical ammounts of toxicity and drama. but I won't base my review on another review so I'm giving it 3 stars based purely on what I've read.
not gonna lie it just seems like the tags were chosen because they were the most popular while the more fitting tags were left out because they tend to turn people away from stories, and then the bare minimum was done to match up with those popular tags, but again ima just leave the review at 3 stars based on what I've read rather than the half a star rating I'm highly tempted to leave based on everything else. - Bird of DeathRoyal Road★ 0.5Great world, horrible characters very little substance (couldn't fit the whole thing in the review title)
The world, creatures, system, powers and concept are wonderful. Very fun and interesting, but the characters. The characters are complete and utter trash. Probably one of the most annoying characters that I've read about. At least half if not more of each chapter are of the MCs monologue about his currently perceived problems, sometimes we get monologue about his past problems and from the way that it's described trauma. Most of the chapters are fights (verbal for the most part) between the characters, mind games, passive aggressive arguments with no progress being made even after 91 chapters. It reminds me of game of thrones, but more frequent and poorly written (in reference to character interaction). This is just with 4 characters including the MC. Imagine when more character's are introduced. It's going to take multiple chapters just to finish one argument. It's been 91 chapters and not one problem has been resolved and I don't count suppressing something or sweeping it under the rug as resolved (between the characters). I would not consider a single one of the characters as a sane or fully functioning adult (A fully functioning person is one who is continually working toward becoming self-actualized. This person has received unconditional positive regard from others and does not place conditions on their own worth. They are also capable of expressing feelings and are fully open to life's many experiences). So far the characters are manipulative, scheming, aggressive, pushy, weak-willed/ spineless, passive-aggressive, indecisive.There's probably more that doesn't come to mind at the moment. My point is that the characters and their interactions completely ruined the story for me. I expected there to be some progress at this point that's why I didn't drop the novel earlier, that's why I gave it a chance for this past 10 months. But all I got was slight very s