Heavenly Viewpoint [A God POV Fantasy]

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Description

The life of people is fleeting for a God, more so one that spends his time watching over the comings and goings of the beings living in his world. From the joys, victories, and celebrations, to the pains, losses, sorrows and deaths. His job is simply to watch over the world and ensure that nothing strange comes out of it, while making sure that it goes in a direction appropriate for a new God to be born from it or other Gods to enjoy the fruits of its existence.

That was, until after following the life of a prince, a young woman named Eleanor suffers a terrible injustice and is thrown into a Void Dungeon; places of unknown dangers where not even the eye of a God can gaze into. It is because of this, that this God decides to satiate his curiosity by descending a piece of himself in the shape of an animal to both see what is inside one of these Void Dungeons, and find out if this young woman is able to survive whatever is beyond the black veil of this dungeon.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: spjones

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 62
Views: 21,999

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Arcane ArtisanRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
This series offers a new and fresh take on the all-too-familiar turn of events where the main character is forcefully thrown into a dungeon full of dangers. The story is told from the perspective of a god who, in the form of a cat, follows the adventures of a naive and timid noble girl inside the mysterious Void Dungeon. No major divine interventions and advice only in the form of some gestures, we follow the pair as they delve deeper and deeper in hopes of reaching freedom one day.
Instead of a survivor protagonist who overcomes every obstacle with sheer force of will and wild combat instincts, our Eleanor is kind of hopeless, almost to the point that I want to scream to her to get a grip. She sometimes even needs outside influence to get things done, but despite all of that, she somehow ends up surviving against all odds, which I find extremely amusing as a reader. Those very flaws make her feel like a well-thought-out character — something much more interesting than a perfect superhuman. I'm genuinely looking forward to how she'll grow and change as the story progresses.
The power system of the world seems to be refreshingly simple. You kill a monster and obtain some power as a reward, no levels, skills, realms or any of that complicated stuff. There is also magic, but the story is currently at its infancy so we haven't delved too deep into that yet. I like LITRPGs and system novels, but it's nice to have something simple like this for a change. It clearly works as well.
The dungeon environment and monsters are also well crafted and could even interest those who like horror and mystery genres. You can clearly see that the author has gone out of his way to think about the encounters instead of copy-pasting goblins and orcs like many other authors do. This creativity makes the fights more appealing and even shows in other aspects such as the other characters.
The reason why I'm only giving this story 4 stars is because of the language. The story is readable and doe