How to Survive a Summoning 101

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2016

Author

Durrendal

• Chapter 2: Knights, Grandmas, and Dreamcatchers
  Jan 16, 2016
• Chapter 1: Yanderes, Gifts, and Nurse Uniforms
  Jan 8, 2016
• Prologue: Gods, Contracts, and Frogs
  Jan 6, 2016

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• TheLoserEllimistRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This is great stuff! I look forward to reading more of your work.
  #followed
• JeeyzzzRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Started kinda messy but it kept getting better! Cheers!!👍
• NuitBlancheRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I will be short and concise, this is an amazing work in progress, long chapter, deep development.
  You won't regret sacrificing some time to read this story !
• CaliberusRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Good dark fantasy, made me cringe and gave me feelings of wanting to stop reading it....but its just so addictive. However title doesn't really show clearly how dark the story is.
• StormbringerRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  I did not rate it 5 stars because I think that the author insist too much on some emotions, (especially with the elf)i know that it is a central part of the story but I find I enjoy it less now than I did at the beginning. But it might be because there are not enough chapters and as a result it is less diluted.  This is however a matter of taste i believe I think the reason I am so critical is because I am comparing this story to the broken empire series where the main caracter also did whatever it took to aclompish his goals  .Overall the story is really good and is one of the best on royal road and has a lot of potential i can't wait to see where this will go
• PunchManPartyRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Your story, my dear good sir has a good pacing which for me, is a key factor to even read the whole story.
  Style is great, not confusing for me on what  the current chapter is pertaining to its reader.
  Grammar is not sore on my eyes in the least.
  The character building of the MC is great, not getting OP too much and too soon is really a great treat for me. It's like I always have something to look forward to in your story.
  Just something though about the ones being close to the MC always in the face of danger...it's just too unsettling for me like..will every girl of the MC suffer worse than the previous one? I can't rest easy after reading a chapter if you know what I mean and it's GOOD is what I'm saying. It makes me go anticipate that something fair will happen for the MC. Well, 'tis just my thoughts though.
  Four stars for me. definitely worth to read.
• The Bus LurkerRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  As of this point, there are 16 chapters out.  I'd say to those of you who have standards when it comes to chapter length/# of chapters released that the chapters feel flush with words. Although I certainly respect you guys, because if I wasn't so bored I would've waited too lol.
  So the first three chapters are kind of confusing, but once you pass that gap it evolves into a standard transported to another world story. Then it evolves again into a standard revenge story. I'm sure it will evolve a third time, but that's where we're going so far. The MC is not boring, but doesn't really get interesting until he's in bartertown. The motivations of other characters are kind of standard, but there's no issue with me about that.
  Story is relatively fast paced. It's chapter 16 and we're already gearing up to move to our third location. No complaints there, but it's to early to tell what kind of growth the MC has. It's kind of vague whenever he uses his powers, or maybe my brain glossed over it? The fastness of the story leaves some things unanswered. Like I want to know more about his powers, more about the monster at the bottom of the lake cave, how he went and skipped? the passage of might to using the god's power. I totally don't remember him getting his might power, the way he gets his powers from the god of sacrifice had me lead to believe it was gained in stages, but I guess we're dropped hints since the first kill...
  In closing, this is an interesting story that isn't painful in the least to read.
  Note to the Author: It seems that your (insert adjective here) effort for reviews has worked.... -The Bus Lurker
• CestarianRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  Read up to chapter 16, it started out fairly interesting until the insanity themes kicked in. I don't know about others, but reading about meaningless temper tantrums, bursts of negative emotions and voices in heads isn't my idea of a good story. The depiction of insanity in and of itself is reasonably realistic and everything, it's just that I hate the theme. This is why I dropped the story.
  It starts off with a bad mix of dark fantasy and silly humor (by silly I mean bad, really damn bad), the two things mix like water and oil (i.e. they don't mix at all) there were a few ok characters built up in the beginning, like 3 of em maybe.
  Then after a forced plot point that felt no better executed than one of those silly jokes the adventure (read: tragedy) starts. all the jokes die down, everything is bleak, everyone needs to die.
  For what it is, the story is pretty well written, acceptable grammar (not professionally acceptable, but close enough) and pretty decent narration, pacing is also acceptable, if I were to sum up the writers writing skills I'd say 'half-decent' but still a few steps away from being 'good' (e.g. he's better than the majority of writers on this site). At least until the whole insanity theme kicked in where every chapter becomes bloated with 'kill them' 'rip them apart' and 'break them' lines as the protagonist is slowly losing his sanity and with it his own personality becoming nothing more than the human shaped animals he's been killling up till this point.
  He's on a journey to kill gods as was a given from the very first chapter. He's looking for weapons that can kill gods too. It's just that in the grand scheme of things he's a complete weakling, he's certainly not gonna be killing any gods within his lifetime at the rate he's growing, sure he's a bit stronger than the average human, but apparently the average elf is a bit much to ask of him still, after 2 years of more or less constant training/fighting. 2 years that were mostly time skipped.
  
• soloflyteRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  Still at chapter 21. Am impressed at the raw concept of the storyline. Needs polishing and more checking though. But the MC just keeps being on the brink of death. Hehehe
  With his AP and other powers, he could just crush hearts. Same with the voices. He could just direct his hate and anger at them to shut them up and control them.
  Still.... two thumbs up!
• whomightub3Royal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  Why is this so highly rated? The page one hook was... okay? But the chronology is nonsensical. B occurs, flashback to A, straight to D, no sight or explanation of C. Then the irritating and poorly implimented language barrier, and the story kind of disolved into unreadably nonsense and insanity there. The comedy has no build up or punch line, just fat hippo nurse lady. Who what where when why how, is it anthropomorphic, does it have fingers, does it talk in a high pitch falsetto and walk everywhere by highstepping and tiptoeing while wearing jinglebell anklets made of cow-bells? No? Just... fat hippo nurse lady? Are the doors all 5 feet wide and 12 feet tall to cater to someone of such size? Are the toilets like swimming pools of horror?