Lost Souls and a Demoness [A LitRPG Adventure]

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Book 1 is available on Amazon and Audible!

https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B0DXWFDW7K

Can a demon save the world? It may fall on one to do just that.

After thousands of people suddenly vanish from Earth, former gymnast Jade Callian finds herself thrust into an endless dungeon filled with magic, monsters, and far too few instructions. When Jade receives a mortal wound soon after her arrival in this new world, she is forced to pick a new race that has the power to save her. There's just one problem: Her only choice is to turn into a succubus.

If she wants to protect her home Jade will have to defy her demonic instincts, find trusted companions, battle monsters, and unravel the dangerous mysteries surrounding this ancient labyrinth. She just wishes that she had more than demon seduction magic to help her.

Oh well... At least she got to pick her class.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2025
Author: LunarEntity (N. C. Lux)

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Community Reviews(10)

BalenssRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The style of the story more easily relates to popular Isekai mangas. I think it is a fun and refreshing take to see a non-human character. Aside from vampires and werewolves they are shockingly uncommon in the general fiction genre. I think the author is also starting to get into their stride. At the beginning, it was hard to understand what the style of story being told was actually going to be. But very early on that became not only incredibly clear, but there I say, masterfully done. I can feel a lot of passion behind the writing style, I imagine that this character has lived in their head for a very long time, and that the story has been in their dreams almost. The writing of invokes are sort of mysticism, or some of the sorts.
The story is quite well paced, While the start may be a little slow once it starts going it does not stop. From chapter 3 onwards, you will feel every moment is not only important, but gripping. I myself have found reading it at night is almost a guilty pleasure.
The grammar is excellent. There are many sections, where certain words get a little repetitive. However, the author has clearly taken a lot of effort in editing, whether that be doing it themselves or hiring an outside source. Grammatical, errors are between.
The character is fantastic, however, and is truly the highlight of the series. I would love to see more side characters, fully developed and expressed in the story. But as is it is fun to read about our bubbly hero navigating a world of danger.
4.9/5 (If they keep writing you’ll be able to say I knew them before they got famous)
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JamesGreenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is in a way unique start of the story. Story so far is logical and has good flow. Grammar is from my point of view very good. Now I can't wait for next chapter. Author, stay strong and prosper? 🤔🖖 P.S. Please do not overkill it with sex and stats pages. Please 🥺
Kiri OponeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Superb style. Exposition is swift and clear, even when it's the focus of a section it still doesn't feel like it's weighing anything down. Narration captures action and thought with equal precision. Dialogue feels pretty normal. It's hard to describe good writing in an exciting way—in short, it just sounds how it's supposed to sound.
Story feels well-angled. The premise is great, and it's being followed through on well. Every new detail seems to just be slotted into place effortlessly.
There are some minor typos, but they're clearly just typos—the actual grammar is well practiced. Nothing distracting or hard to follow.
Character writing seems very grounded and intentional. The point of view character is very immersive. Not much to analyze 11 chapters in, but I have a little hunch that the author'll be a dab hand at managing a wide cast—looking forward to more characters on-screen.
Overall, no slips, no zits. I've seen far bigger stories with issues far more glaring than this one's. And, while it is weaving an excellent foundation, it doesn't read like setup. Just these 11 chapters are a good enough read on their own, and I'm glad to have followed.
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Okie SamRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Can't believe I got caught up already. The whole story's been great, nothing about it feels forced. I like that the erotic scene is inferred, been left to the imagination. There's not a whole detailed chapter dedicated to it. The group development was done nicely the back and forward is always funny. Just thought I'd leave a review so keep up the good work and thank you
David Niemitz (M0rph3u5)Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I think I tore through the chapters posted in less than twelve hours, and I am eagerly looking forward to more.
The story features a dungeon/tower - in this case a labyrinth - of truly massive proportions, and you can really feel it right from the get go. We've only seen two environments so far, but each is distinct and precisely drawn, with two very different feels.
The reason for the MC acquiring the succubus race has real urgency, makes perfect sense, and is contrasted to the other party members' hesitancy to change their own races. I like that the MC isn't quite comfortable with it yet, and I'm curious what she did to qualify for it in her backstory! The succubus powers hint at just a bit of spice to the story, and I'm looking forward to seeing how Jade walks the line in using them to survive.
The supporting characters are already appealing, and in only a few chapters time is already being taken to build relationships. I'm very interested to watch this party gel, and I already like the addition of an elf!
The prose is good, with grammar and clear attention to proofreading. Occasionally a typo slips through, but that happens to all of us and its never enough to break immersion.
Hopefully, I will be reading this for many chapters to come!
HappyNomsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
One of the better litrpg, easily recommended.
There's a lot to like here, from the aesthetically pleasing writing style and nearly no grammar or spelling errors, to the author doing a solid job plotting and outlining, to the author clearly doing edit and re-edit passes and caring about the reader experience, characters with appropriate motivations and flaws, a judicious eye to how often to put in stat blocks and abilities descriptions versus keeping the action flowing, an avoidance of lazy tropes, combat that largely respects the established world and spell rules. It's just good. It's refreshing well written and intelligent and just well done.
The first fifty chapters / book 1 have been an excellent start. The author has indicated in comments he has a clear arc/endpoint in mind, aimed at about trilogy size. I wouldn't mind a stronger world building reveal to why the labyrinth integrates worlds, but I'm inclined to believe the author has a later plot twist / reveal in mind for that down the line.
So far, my favourite part is from the opener, where the protagonist has the sense to grab a backpack, change of clothes, and scissors. Just, chef's kiss to pragmatism. There's no lazy writing tropes of naive protagonists, or arbitrary horror movie victim panic, contrived unpreparedness, or uncritical acceptance of fantasy/litrpg hot nonsense. The character actively questions the world building setup, generally to its credit.
Occasionally the pacing warbles, sometimes action, sometimes world building exposition. It's fairly well paced, but sometimes finding it's pitch and blend. For a first novel, it's well above expectations.
The author is also notably strong at good descriptions, without employing excessive or fancy words. It's colorful and evocative without sending lay readers to the dictionary, which shows some real writing and editing talent.
I'm not completely sold on the pitch perfectness of the protagonist's (competative gymnast) psychology. It's certainly
HiFishRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Some nice Charakters and great Action sequences. No doom and gloom. The start is a bit confusing, but Things start making sense Quick enough. I am looking forward to find out more about the World. Some Light humor where apropriate, but basicly a serious Story. Also, very nice chapter length. I Hope I wont Catch up to Quick.
Reader1606Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
It isn't what i expected from title.
I wanted to read a story about being a scubbus, using scubbus powers and seducing people but as strong willed and logical this mc is, she doesn't like being scubbus.
She didn't used her scubbus life draining power once. She found some normal people in tutorial and wants to live as how she lived as a human. There is no conflict, no betrayal, no drama. At least for now, but it has been 29 chapters. Story's pacing is slow too. I don't have a problem with that as long as it's interesting but it wasn't. There are tons of stories like this if we only gonna do adventuring. I am bored, my expectations weren't met, I am out.
But it's well written. Might be what you look for. Classical adventure and friendship. And characters are acting realistic. But nothing you expect from a scubbus is there. At least for 29 chapers. Maybe will start to change at chap 129? Maaaybe.
jumpsplat120Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
For clarity, we have read up to the middle of book two on Kindle Unlimited.
Our main character Jade gets her (and her apartment) yoinked into The Labyrinth, where she nearly gets one shot by a monster, forcing her to change into a succubus to avoid dying from the poison. And from there on its mostly just a litrpg™️ fic. The labyrinth is kinda neat, and there's some fun world building in the history and different races and stuff. It's all perfectly serviceable, but nothing really... jumps out at me.
Jade's transformation into a succubus is important to the story, but she really could've just been any other demon, really. The sexual nature of her new race is mostly just an awkward inconvenience, and really it's the other demonic urges that feature most prominently. If you've never read a litRPG before this would probably be a very cool book, but it sort of feels like it's just ticking off boxes. Check this out if you have nothing better on your To Read list.
Ciao LimitedRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
There's nothing offensively bad about this story, it's just woefully generic. The heroine, as of chapter 13 or so, has no striking personality, she's just a generic middle class white woman in a magical setting. All the generic reactions of a middle class white woman to a magical setting are covered (shock, disbelief, this is like a game, etc) with no personal spin. She's not annoyed because it's like the games her brother played, or nostalgic because it's like the games her brother played, or panicked because the games her brother played were violent, she just recognizes stuff because it's like the games her brother played.
Everything is a tasteless, personality-free sequence of action and reaction. Plenty of things happen, but nothing of consequence.