Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG

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Description

August 18, 2018. Earth is at peace.

Then the sun explodes, and the world changes forever.

Sen Salazar, a third year in Dubai's renowned Belmont University, is thrust into a world where only monsters are found aplenty. Resources are dwindling, survivors are scarce, and safety is nowhere to be found. And when it's combined with an otherworldly system designed to bring out humanity's hidden potential? Sen's watched enough movies to know what to do:

Survive.

...He just has to figure out how to stop himself from turning into one of the monsters, first.

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: Dissonance

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Rating: 4.7/ 5.0
Followers: 4,960
Views: 903,198

Chapters(33 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

rdees211Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Binged the available chapters, super fun read. Looking forward to the next arc! Well written with few grammatical errors. Dubai is a new setting for a system apocalypse, and the system for advancement is unique. I don't usually review stories but I felt that this one deserved a five star.
TheRaptorOfHermesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Environment: unique
Plot: interesting but sort of a generic apocalyptic survival scenario as expected in the beginning of stories in this genre since it's still too early to judge
MC: has depth, power\skill levels are reasonable
Conclusion at this point: great start, need more on RR to write a proper review wink wink nudge grovel
camperbeeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
great world building a little more special and thought out then the usual generic fic.
character developmemt and interactions are up there. I binged the whole 22chaps out there.
Just waiting for the chapter updates to continue.
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iRoarRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm only two chapters in but if this quality of writing keeps up, this has the potential to be the best novel on the website. I've read dissonance's other piece lost in translation and the quality of writing was also incredibly high. Characters were amazing, grammar was flawless, story was great, but it wasn't quite my type of story. Anyways, stop reading my review and start bingeing.
Edit: K, I've read all that's available and it only gets better. The best way to describe the story is that it feels alive. The characters behave in a relatable way and the style of narration just makes it better. Cannot recommend this story more
powered_by_coffeeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG is another tasty masterpiece by Dissonance, the talented indie author of fantastic Lost In Translation!
This time, our artist, singer and goodly word-weaver Dissonance takes on the theme of System Apocalypse, in which the sun decides to hug the earth with Withering, boiling humans out of their skin. It's not a pleasant experience for the thirsty masses, but at least they get to enjoy floating text in their eyes that tells them exactly how thirsty they are, so they have that going for them, which is nice.
Also, the sun will explode soon.
Also, they are blessed with vampire zombies. Setting them on fire does nothing.
The MC: Is a regular normie, named Sen. He liked to water his flowers until the apocalypse killed them. He is a third year student in Mechanical Engineering and also plays Football.
2nd MC: Is Em. She doesn't like the long version of her name. Do you want more? Read the book and stop reading this review.
Maybe they fall in love or die horribly. You'll never know!
The style: is as smooth as always, without any spelling fails, as is tradition, whenever Dissonance reaches for the keyboard. I enjoy the use of awesome words like "acquiesced". I'm stealing this one for my own book and you can't stop me.
Overall:
An excellent start, totally recommend!
Curiosity44Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Review as of chapter 32.
I've seen a few reviews with people's complaints and all I can say is they are either incredibly picky or out of their minds. As someone who really loves litrpgs and apocalypse genres, I think this story is amazing so far.
the comedy and engagement between the MC and em is perfect. The witty humor is the glue that holds things together very well and I would love to see more. It reminds me of Sovereign of Judgement, a terribly dark story whose only real saving grace was the comedic dialog between a few characters and its system progression.
and that's another thing I love about this so far, the system was a bit confusing at first, but I'm loving how it goes so far.
the MCs personality, the world setting, em, the pure creativity, it's working very nicely.
if I had to add a personal request, it would be to always let the Mc be his own boss. Never folding over command to another. I like solo hunts but I can rock a small team of close allies as well.
thanks for the work so far. Hoping for more.
Blackbird0Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The first chapter was masterful writing. You laced mystery about the dying plants, the unnatural heat and thirst so that I had to continue reading to uncover why these things were happening, and introduced your character in an excellent and immersive manner. But then once the screens came and the fights began, I feel you got too involved with the stats and trying to be humorous that it took away from the wonderful immersion of the begining of the story.
Bringing up Sen's status in the middle of a tense scene ruins the flow, and I feel it would be best to minimise as much of the blue screens as possible. At the end of the day, no matter how sexy Sen's numbers are, it's his character and actions that make us want to keep reading, and I would love more focus on that.
Still, apart from those quibbles of mine, I look forward to more.
CoerbRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Saltworld is a page-turner. You will breeze through chapters on the edge of your seat with an overdose of relentless action and litrpg growth every chapter. I find myself liking both main characters despite the constant fight-for-your-life leaving little room for character development. The writing is good, it won't pull you out of the story with mistakes. The author writes good action scenes that are engaging and fairly easy to follow. The dialogue feels like natural joking between friends. At the end of the day it's fun and I will keep following it. It does seem like the author has been incorporating feedback on some of the pain points as of the last few chapters (20-23).
Here are some nitpicks, none of which have bothered me enough to make me consider dropping it or removing more than 1 star. I tend to get more wordy with my critique, but keep in mind this is still a 4 star review:
1) the constant witty comic/action movie banter is too much, as noted by some other reviews. It seems to be a strength of the author and I understand why they use it (it's not -bad- banter, it just feels incredibly out of place most times). I get the gallows humor/coping mechanism angle, but these aren't hardened soldiers or experienced survivors, they're kids having the absolute worst day of their life and basically being tortured and almost dying every 3 minutes while surrounded by the corpses of everyone they knew. They shouldn't be quipping every other paragraph. This does seem like it's being toned down some in later chapters.
2) The 'scenario' feels incredibly unfair and unwinnable. It doesn't feel like anyone would actually survive this, even if they were competent, brave, prepared, and did everything right. It's just a random kid being thrown into a UFC ring with Halfthor Bjornson on elephant steroids. The sun instantly almost kills you unless you get out of the sun and get water. Using your weak powers too much against the incredible odds you're against also kills you. There ar
BabyjerboaRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
The novel is fine, it delivers what your typical royal road user consumes. The only issue I personally have with it is the incessant banter. It feels like I'm reading a marvel movie where the characters are always making cringy jokes and generic "witty" comments. Who knows, that may change as I read further, but at the moment it's grating and I find myself unable to read this for more than one chapter at a time. In summary, this is not for me, but may be for you, so check it out.
GrailRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
My first review so I don't really know how to do this, so bear with me. The characterisation and world building were great, heavy on visualisation and helping us understand they're motivations and some such. The only thing I can say that feels off is the dialogue at the start. There's just something clunky with how it started, the description of grim and clinical surroundings contrasted very heavily with how sarcastic and well adjusted they were despite the deaths before witnessing then before hand. A slight break in suspension of disbelief that came back in later chapters. Overall, very nice.