Shadow Raven: Thief God in the Apocalypse

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Robin was just a normal 19 trying her best to live a life worth living when the end of the world was announced. The new game The World Tower was actually a gateway to a higher plane and players who play it gained the skills and abilities their characters had in game.

Seeing that the apocalypse was on the horizon, Robin scrambled to play The World Tower. Unfortunately, she and billions of others were too late to gain any sort of effective skills and were tragically torn apart by fowl creatures and horrible demons. When all hope was lost, as Robin closed her eyes for the last time, she was shocked to find that she's been sent back in time a month before The World Tower came out.

Follow Robin as she prepares for the future apocalypse by playing the game that caused it all. She's determined to carve out a safe place for herself, her sister and unborn nephew.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Thegreatlionfish

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 67
Views: 8,967

Chapters(10 total)

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Community Reviews(4)

ezra0101Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I am admittedly new to the genre (having only read The Legendary Mechanic in this sort of field), but I really enjoy this sort of story structure... Video game apocolypse with time travel, giving our "ordinary" MC a real chance to take advantage of all the exploits and their past knowledge to become extraordinary.
And compairing this to other stories I have read (including outside of this particular genre) I would say the character relationships and expressions feel very genuine. One great example being MC and her sister first extended conversion flowed seemlessly between annoyance --> understanding --> empathy --> fear and finally acceptance. Felt how I would expect for real family to handle this troubling news.
I am enjoying the story so far, and have high hopes for its continuation :)
HasufaelRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The author shows good development in their skill with each successive fiction they release.
The style of the story is good, I would class it as a fun casual read, great to sit down and relax with. The inclusion of the stats and effects of the growth of the character can be a little jarring to people unfamiliar with the Isekai genre. To those who enjoy the genre, it works well and gives insight into the mechanics underlying the reality of the world.
Speaking to the story, it's a good take on what is becoming a classic genre. If you knew you were going to be Isekai'd, what would you do? In some ways I’d call it a unique look at the genre, a sort of time-travel pre-Isekai that gives the author a good bit of opportunity to explore the motivations and reactions. The characters have some experience with the world already, now they just have to figure out how to survive it!
As to the characters, these show the author's developing strengths, the personalities and the motivations of the characters fit well. The reader can understand the type of societal archetype of each character, and that works well to drive the story forwards.
Grammar overall is decent and shows improvement from some of the author's earlier works. The occasional homonym slips in, foul vs fowl, but nothing bad enough to distract from the enjoyment of the reading.
Note: Isekai is a term meaning “different world” that is commonly used to describe protagonists who are sent into another world/dimension/reality and must learn to survive it.
crazedreaderRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
The style is pretty good, but the dialogues between people are kinda barebone and the premise of the game world itself is kinda left unexplained.
The story premise is good, though the gacha part is kinda offputting but it does make sense why it is done like that.
Grammar is good, so far no obvious mistake but the protagonist kinda looks like she have limited vocab to talk with so a bit of negative there.
Finally, character. Frankly the protagonist is weird. She is stressed is reasonable. But her reaction is kinda honest to god incredibly stupid. I know she is rushed cause of the luck buff but seriously, no hint of caution whatsoever? Also she IS a blabermouth. She literally shout out everything she thought to let everybody within dozens or so metre to know all her secret. Does she not have the concept of "thinking inside the head"? Also having your nephew died as a stillborn, surviving(even if only for a couple of days or weeks) the apocalypse and dying more or less brutally, witnessing and experiencing the end of the world and she is still not only hyperactive and not even stressed or traumatised or anything? Instead of laying low(at least at the start) or taking caution the heart(nah, everybody need to know how awesome I am!), she simply act like a cocky upstart that never knew the hardship of life. It's hella suspicious if she is under some influence but that kind of thing should be kept normal as long as possible if you want the protagonist to not notice anything weird or even to keep the character reasonable. At least you need to stop having her shout every single thing she think before people drop the story due to how dumb and idiotic the MC is. Character appeal is arguably the part the contributes most to reader retention so gotta work on that.
JetsmillionRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
The story is still fairly early, but everything about the game so far is making my cringe. Humanities only hope to survive the appocolipyse is a Pay-To-Win Gacha game? You need to pay to get the good spins on character creation and even then if you don't have the favor of the RNG gods, you could still ended up doomed with horrible stat growth.
Hopefully, why such an imblanced game was created and linked to the end of the world will be explained as the story goes on.