Monarch of Monsters

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Description

To awaken and improve their abilities, talents, skills, and stats, everything must level up and consume specific materials. Caesar is no different.

Although his parents had given him great boons to start, they had disappeared soon afterwards, fleeing from a threatening foe. Driven by his urge to find them, Caesar consumes the greatest gift they left behind: a catalyst of supreme power. It grants him the ability to summon back monsters he kills and fuse them together. With it, he will explore complex dungeons and secret areas to devour their resources and gain the authority he needs.

But others won't be willing to let him take everything. He and his summons must rise above them all quickly enough or be consumed in conflict. And Caesar will have to decide which monsters to use and how far he should go in order to accomplish his goals. Through his journey, he’ll uncover the origins of his powers, his monsters, and the world itself.

Cover art fromAsvilokawithin this thread:https://www.royalroad.com/forums/thread/110578

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Zetomil

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Rating: 3.8/ 5.0
Followers: 175
Views: 79,915

Chapters(61 total)

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Community Reviews(4)

RenegadeSageRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Great story so far, the MC has a cool head on his shoulder but it doesn't stop him from attempting soloing a dungeon. Really like his golden finger too, reminds me of Seoul Station's necromancer in terms of summoning power!
It starts in medias res, so expect lots of action scenese in the early chapters! The author leaves a layer of mystery over the world-building, it will be up to our hero to gradually unfold the secrets one dungeon at a time!
NecroTreantRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The powers are cool. The setting is interesting. I'm completely lost.
The main problem is the pacing is fast and transitions or bits and details that explain why something is happening or why someone is doing a thing just aren't there.
Warning spoilers from beyond this point
An example of this is whenever he names a summon. one moment it's just wolf then its name is max now. no line about naming it just an author's note. The same with the dopple ganger.
Also we don't know his thought process for sacrificing the changing face that does mental damage and the flash golem that is tanky to get a doppelganger. He states he wanted a summon to carry stuff but how does he know combining them would give him one. story wise this was done to get a companion to have dialog with it serves the story. Simler to when the mc didnt use the suiside bombing abomination before he got the perk that let him combine it with the horse. that made me realize my major hang up. I don't know why anyone did anything except for thats what the author wanted them to do. We have the mc getting potions thrown at him left right and center. We have him in the dungeon fighting monsters with his team then suddenly the noble is apologizing saying that this was a plot by his brother and there were goons that caused this what?? We go from him saying he'll leave the dungeon to him already showing up at the town gates.
Now for the good. The powers are cool. I always love summoner classes. The balance is ok losing the summon on death makes for stakes that can be realistically lost ie you know the mc won't die because there's still like 10 more ch you have left to read but his cool pet could be lost. The setting is generic fantasy but there's a charm of having the MC not being reincarnated into it. im not the best at grammer but I can read the story so thats a plus.
Over all past the first couple chapters it feels disjointed and like the author is hopping from plot hook to plot hook without doing the plot in betw
ShadowKnight6992Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
Okay I am really annoyed at this novel if it went in a slightly different direction it would've been amazing, but it hasn't and so here is my feedback. The story is iffy, first WHO RAISED HIM like he was what 10 or little atleast and left alone for 8 years like what happened to him. Second his use of his power seems to really on the author and not the Mc you might think o it's not that bad then, expect when he chooses a crap ability that has no use at all only to need it specifically later on. Third the synopsis was misleading on his ability I thought it meant he kills monster's and then stick them together into an abomination which is funny cause his first skill book is just that except he never uses it, I thought we would get a lumbering mass of flash with 8 heads each spewing a different element and rotting flesh that falls off to crate more monster but instead we get normal monster's that are okay. also doesn't it say dominated monsters can't level up? And they level up by themselves really quickly so that's a lie
HassanthenoobRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Disclaimer, contains spoiler but only up to 13 chapters that I read.
World: The world building here needs a lot of work, the system is not clearly explained given how often it is mentioned. You get a new rank every 20 levels??? So everyone has to awaken at 18 and they level up and then rank up. Except it doesn't seem that difficult, it's been 2 weeks and our mc is close to getting his first rank up, which is pretty quick considering after 3 ranks you're at powerful noble level.
Story: At the age of 10 the MC's parents left him and he wants to get stronger to meet them, which is very odd. Maybe I'm weak but if at the age of 10 both my parents left me I'd develop severe trust issues. It's also never mentioned who took care of him after his parents left, did they leave him money? But surely you didn't leave a 10 year old with a lot of money because they'll just spend it on stupid shit. Did they have people take care of him? Who were they? And as far as I've read the mc is very solo, all he does is just get stronger quickly.
Characters: 3/5, nothing stands out as positive or unique or interesting, but nothing stands out as negative either
Writing: it's more tell than show
Tldr: world building needs a lot of work, everything else needs work. Good set up for an interesting mc but execution leaves a lot to be desired. Easy 4/5 with better world building and a personality to go with the main character