Dungeon Devourer [Cultivation - LitRPG]

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2023

Author

VexyLight

• Chapter 1: Desert Village
  Apr 11, 2023
• Prologue: Fallen From Grace
  Apr 11, 2023

Reviews

Community Reviews(8)

• Jackie BearRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I have just started reading it but I absolutely love the narrative and style! The story definitely triggers me to be curious about the new world, and the description are detailed and well-written. I think the MC is likeable too. I can't think of any complaints, so I am giving a five star.
  (I hope this review can also serve as a thumbs-up for the author!)
• JikkuryuuRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  [Review written 05/31/23, after reading prologue and chapter 1]
  I don't know if this story is good or not, but I'm not going to be the ***hole who hangs a .5 star review on an entire story 'til the end of time based on two chapters.
  I was so exhausted from the prologue that I merely skimmed through the first chapter, and still felt I got the full experience. I like words, I love seeing "torrent" and "gust" used to spice up a sentence. But the prologue was just reams of charged, explosive, nothing. The first chapter contains some objects, emotions, characters, a person interacting with the world. And if that was the first thing I read I might have stuck it out to see if I liked the story. But after paragraphs of irrelevant prose insulating the barest seeds of a story, my investment in anything new was abraded completely smooth.
  Suggestions:
  Any god conveying a personal stake in the traitor's fate, good or bad.
  Possibly some commentary (spoken/thought) from the traitor themself. "Ow." "Sorry." "I hate this." "I deserve it." Unless that conflicts with the intended direction. Maybe they can't speak?
  A little less of whatever 'suffer as a mortal does for all time' is supposed to be. Are they a mortal (can die), not mortal (lives for all time), or maybe carrying their memories through every death and reincarnation (can die over and over)? Vague stuff is fine, but contradictory vague stuff is telling me to stop trying to understand (ie: read) the story.
  Surprisingly, a little more would help. The traitor is about to do something they probably shouldn't, right after being punished for doing something they shouldn't have. Is this a habit? Is it their nature to break things?
  Sorry, this should be more helpful but it's all vague since I just haven't read enough to know what shape this story is trying to take. I'm not asking for monotonous, flavourless records of events or an omniscient/prescient perpective if that's what this sounds like.
• Sig KusanagiRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  How in the world am I the first person to leave a review? That is a crime most foul and I can't believe it's the case specially considering this is one of the freshest releases in a long time.
  If you've been craving a story that wraps you up in the snug embrace of village life while also tickling your adventurous taste buds with dungeon shenanigans, then you've hit the jackpot.
  Dungeon Devourer has stolen my heart (and made me super hungry) with its incredibly cozy and scrumptious food descriptions that'll make you drool.
  I mean, seriously, the slice-of-life vibes in this tale are a DELIGHT! VexyLight has an amazing way of capturing the spirit of village life that I've been looking for far and wide. You can practically hear the laughter of the townsfolk and smell the freshly baked flatbread. It's like a warm hug from your grandma, but with more action!
  Speaking of action: we're only in the beginning of the dungeon escapades, but, they're shaping up to be just as lovely. The mix of LitRPG and cultivation elements is like a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room – you didn't know you needed it until it hit you. It's keeping me coming back for seconds (and thirds, and fourths.)
  Really: I wish I could do what VexyLight is doing with the feel of this story.
  Essentially, Dungeon Devourer is like a gourmet meal, perfectly balanced with the comforting flavors of slice of life, the zesty excitement of dungeons, and the spicy kick genre blending. Each new chapter is a tasty morsel I can't wait to "devour," and I'm super stoked for the next helping!
• KinokawaRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Redwall's feast descriptions are somewhat legendary,  but this work can proudly take it's place as a runner up. And, while Redwall's fare is usually European, this time you can enjoy Arabic/African inspired(?) foods.
  Beautifully thorough descriptive writing in other areas, too.
  Only reason I gave 4/5 stars is minor quibbles with style, paragraph layout, etc. As in, some times the following paragraph basically has the same content, just reworded.
• SosseresRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  After a full book length we have arrived near the end of the first dungeon, with 70% of the time spent on village life and some training. For me personally this slice of life was not interesting and did not make me care about the characters portrayed.
  Even in the dungeon, half the content is things happening outside, reducing pacing and tension massively.
  The book does succeed in showing a wide world with interesting options for progression. The early scene with high level adventurers showing up was well done and showed us what we can expect from the series.
  It also has few gramatical errors and the language works well. A lot of effort was spent on research and terminology for this novel and it shines through.
  It just isn't what I want to read and it doesn't keep my interest.
• MeallowWrathRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  I started reading this story thinking it would be flawless...
  And it's not.
  But that's my bad.
  Only managed to make it to the first few chapters.
  I think the author if writing this more as some fun side project than profesionally (nothing wrong with that!).
  The writing style is.... a bit all over the place. The vocabulary can feel a bit too self agrandizing, the dialogue though, is not the strongest point.
  The author seems to be having fun writing this, so that's what matters most.
• R1ckRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  I struggled with the intensely overwrought descriptions of nearly everything.
  Everyday occurrences, common food, people going about their daily life, descriptionwise everything is on the same level as mighty heroes, life-or-death fights, grand feasts...for me it mostly slowed everything way down and eventually made me skip paragraphs, because I knew the next ten lines or so were just fluff description of people sitting down under a tree.
  Action scenes also would gain immensely from a more snappy writing style. It is hard to care, because actions and effects seem a bit disjointed. I read to chapter 13, maybe it gets better later.
  Three people - powerwise really only one step above common villagers - fight some bandits. While what everyone is doing is described again too grand I think (the archer hitting masterfully with shot after shot, the melee guy seemingly easily crushing his opponents with pure strength, the mc casting powerful spell after spell) there's little detail as to how that relates to the combat as a whole. It's more as if the bandit party loses health points until they collapse all at once - not because someone killed them individually but because enough generic "fighting" was done. There's no idea of how each side is doing, how many enemies are left or what kind of injuries anyone sustains while the fight is going on.
  Progression seems to happen mostly behind the scenes which I also found not ideal. Maybe slice of life and litrpg just do not mix well or maybe that is due to my personal tastes.
  On the plus side, grammar is really good and the author seems to have fun with describing everything in glowing colors, which is nice.
• Andrew616Royal Road

  ★★ 2.0

  I only got a few chapters in, so this review is based on the authors writing style.  I couldn't get into the characters at all.  First, the intro is about someone, who did something, so is punished for some reason, yet is left with enough power to come back and screw with those that punished "them".  The use of they/them/their was poorly done, and I couldn't really follow along with the chapter well.
  Next we have the MC isekied into this world, with no real connection, she's just here.  And I couldn't connect with her either... so woth no connections ,and a lot of confusion I dropped the story early.