Elf Empire [An Isekai kingdom building story]

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Leo, an engineer, was Isekai'd across to another dimension. The one summoning him meant for it to be like every other isekai--get a body and some cool powers and right an ancient wrong. But the ritual is messed up, and Leo goes over with a loan shark and his minions--who start building an evil Isekai empire.

Meanwhile, Leo gets stuck in a forest, where he befriends a defective dragon and rescues a stuck-up elf princess that got her whole team killed.

Now, he needs to work to get himself and his team up to snuff, to be able to move back to the path that was supposed to be set for him, by one method or another.

And then he needs to put all his skills as a gamer and engineer to work to build his... fantasy empire

[Litrpg, significant and meaningful rules and options for both character and settlement growth, base-building/empire-building, portal fantasy, adventure, intelligent MC, no sex, no harem, some slice-of-life and found family.]

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Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: Tharsult

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 1,841
Views: 257,309

Chapters(49 total)

What readers say about Elf Empire [An Isekai kingdom building story]

“A seriously enjoyable story. The pacing is impeccable. A lot of stories like this will get bogged down in all the nitty gritty and never truly progress. The appropriate time skips are spot on. Obviously good enough for me to choose as my review note. Charac…”
MrBeeTooRoyal Road5.0 / 5
“I was skeptical when I first started reading but this is really good and I love reading it. Will probably be buying the books of amazon as they come out. I read about 100 books a year usually in this genreish. I LOVE how well done the pacing is and how chal…”
Neverwinter Is funRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

MrBeeTooRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A seriously enjoyable story.
The pacing is impeccable. A lot of stories like this will get bogged down in all the nitty gritty and never truly progress. The appropriate time skips are spot on. Obviously good enough for me to choose as my review note.
Character growth is demonstrable. The leveling elements are well done and consistent. Fun story and does a good job incorporating the 4x elements and the dungeon crawling and personal leveling adventures.
Neverwinter Is funRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I was skeptical when I first started reading but this is really good and I love reading it. Will probably be buying the books of amazon as they come out. I read about 100 books a year usually in this genreish.
I LOVE how well done the pacing is and how challenges are overcome without every single one being some huge epic quest, even those also exist. Time actually passes as well, not everything happens in a 3 week period. Great characters, great banter, great world building.
BestcoasterRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story manages to strike a good balance between getting on with the plot, developing characters, and world-building. Dialogue is smoothly natural, it doesn't feel like anyone is holding the idiot stick, and characters feel like they have a unique voice. It remains to be seen whether the story can maintain these qualities and stick the landing when the plot comes to a head, but for now I rate it quite highly.
My only real complaint is that the size of the character sheets is rapidly heading towards blue-box overload.
A Carps Silent SongRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a good story, mainly because it has a good pace and good ideas that are mostly used at appropriate times. Many novels struggle with this, having too many ideas and too little page to actually convey them in an effective manner.
The only slight critique point would be the flow of dialog and some information, it seems a little forced and just too much at times. A person who the main character never met before suddenly tells them a whole quest like life story. Makes it feel like a game I guess.
Anyway, a great read with nice characters and hopefully soon an epic kingdom in another dimension
B.Z. HardingRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall:
First off, I think this is one of the best stories on RR, period. It's extremely polished.
I thought it was great so far. I'll definitely continue reading it later. There's so much depth to the system and the world and I really enjoyed all the humor infused into the scenes. I like that it doesn't take itself too seriously, and the author seems pretty down-to-earth as well.
Style:
The author's style is excellent. He's clearly a professional or at least highly developed in the craft. I could easily see this work getting pulled straight off RR and published, even easier than countless popular stories I have seen in the past get much acclaim moving to Kindle or with many Patreon subs/a combination. Prose flows very well.
Story:
The story was still good so far, but it's a little slow. I think it might be good to introduce the hook faster, or show us something that the main character can do with his power in order to build intrigue or showcase future possibilities.
Grammar:
No complaints. Again, the author is clearly very strong mechanically. I have pretty high standards for this if I'm going to read something seriously or long-term because poor grammar or style will pull me directly out of a story, and this one hit all them marks. It's enjoyable to read.
Character:
I feel like the story really shines here. The characters have been great so far, and I love the humor. IMO: don't listen to the couple people that said the dragon was cringe or it felt anachronistic, because it's honestly very charming, but maybe add the humor tag to the story.
Thank you for your work on this!
IrjaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Good story.
Theres some litrpg element, but I dont really bother by it as long as its not over the top. And it seems author is consistent between the status sheet n characters' prowess.
Now, to the story itself.
This is kinda rare. A High Elf MC with human soul of Terra. Most authors usually just use elf as side character, supporting character or romance target. This author use High Elf (usually the most pompous race in various stories) as the MC. And, as the title said, MC gonna rebuild the High Elf kingdom (who was probably pompous) and bring back its glory (without the pompousness)
Author apply MC's background to the story quite well. And thankfully....its engineering, not onsen, yakisoba, rice, etc. And author apply the engineering with magic. So far, there hasnt been intense application since magic n leveling up is difficult.
MC isnt OP. He fumble, he screw up. N he work his arse off to improve his stats. An OP MC is usually a killjoy, for me, in any isekai setting.
The world building is nice. But its still quite unclear what type of world is it. MC even question how gravity works in Toth (the name of the world/planet).
The dialogues are interesting. It add more to the story. In some other webnovel, the dialogues are just....dialogues. U could skip it and miss nothing. Here, the dialogues add more to the world n character building.
And the most interesting thing is, MC was an engineer with engineer's mindset...and an engineer nerd. FMC (at least I think shes the fmc n the would be waifu) is history n magic nerd. So, NERD UNITE.
Also, despite the story is about kingdom building, it seems thered be lots of adventuring by MC n his party. And author seems to set up the party with DnD setting (healer, tank, dps, thief, etc) or something close to it...which, again, interesting. Other isekai MC could just do it all, this MC would be flattened if he took a heavy attack head on while his tank buddy could just shrug it off. Oh, n his healer is frail.
Overall, good story,
JusttryingtofindawayRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The ever classical litrpg isekai has yet another book joining its ranks. This one however is high quality stock. The dialogue is top tier, the action is not overly detailed, and the characters are instantly recognizable, smart, and well thought out. Even from the beginning (if you didn't read the synposis) each of the all important Named Characters have their motivations, and strengths laid out for the reader as well as the story impetus. I only with my brotha Leo wasn't a simp.
Style: This story obviously had a very throrough outline. Each and every paragraph relfects that. Even the dialogue is supremely well written. The blue screens do tend to get on my nerves (I've read a million litrpgs) but in this one they're not so bad. Quite easy to understand actually.
Story: The story content itself is quite interesting as most litrpg isekai's don't have others dragged into it. This difference clearly sets the story apart from its bretheren and adds quite a bit of nuance. Also I'm in love with how the author actually correctly described dragons as being lithe and graceful like a Tiger. Dragons ain't just hunks of muscle!
Grammar: No gramatical errors at all that I could see
Character: As I said before all I want is my brotha to not be a simp. I will continue to read until either he decides to no longer be romantically involved, or gets married. There will be no inbetween and I surely hope that my brotha from a fictional motha Leo pulls his head out of his butt and powers up. He gonna need it.
KlondiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Took several chapters for me to really get into the flow of the story, but once things got set up, we get the best of DnD party adventures, and satisfying kingdom building progression fantasy.
Author seems to share the MC`s propensity for slow starts in exchange for big long term payoffs.
For style, which feel is quite subjective, it does lack extensive literary depth in the vein of the more epic fantasy series. It leans more towards light adventure. This story is so much fun, and thats why I read.
For the story, its obviously well planned and overall well executed. I could critique certain things as I go along, but Im honestly not sure those wont be addressed later, and I'd rather keep reading.
There are some minor grammar glitches that could do with a bit more proofreading, but I would probably prefer the author to keep writing more chapters.
Characters...I love these people, I will love them FOREVER. Lol
Is this really not 200 words long?
Ok im just gonna keep talking till the website lets me post this...
Im pretty sure ive read reviews shorter, but it probably seems like it cuz I read fast...
This is ridiculous.
CausaMortisRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Empire building done good awwww yeaahh. Main character feels real. Isn't overly OP (yet) and the side characters are fun! Recommended if you like a main character that needs to learn and actually relies on the knowledge and expertise of his peers. No single handedly carrying it all, but actually deligation of responsibility is hot okay.
RMMulderRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Okay, simply put - this story seriously rocks. Maybe that's too vague of a response... I'm honestly enjoying every minute of it, and I can relate directly with the main character Leo. The story starts off as a middle-aged man who is a workaholic and is on the brink of success - only to have that success ripped out from under him when a mob boss kills him - or at least, almost does. Leo's soul gets sucked through a portal at the last minute and throws his consciousness into the body of an elf on a faraway world. Leo has to learn the ins and outs of this new world, and he's a total noob. This is a clear progression story as Leo attempts and fails twice to shoot a fox with an arrow, but later almost decapitates a deer (fortunately the deer didn’t live long). I thought the sentient beastly wolf who spared his life and even cuddled up to him during the night was a nice touch. Even the sentient dragon was hilarious and I found myself vying for them to become friends. It was good to see a story where every living creature isn’t necessarily an opponent.
This story has made me laugh several times, and although I haven't finished reading it yet, I thought it was important to stop for a moment and share with everyone how truly great this story is.