The Calling of Wrath: A Medieval LitRPG Apocalypse

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What happens when a medieval world of swords and steel is invaded and forcefully introduced to a System of levels and magic?

It was just another ball.Princess Cassandra thought she could deal with it.She just had to pretend for half an hour to actually care about the attending nobles before her father would let her leave, as usual.

That is, until the sky started glowing blue and strange text appeared in front of her face, mentioning something about a System.

Even that she could deal with.

But being kidnapped by planar invaders from some planet called Earth after a literal glowing heart flies through a portal in front of her and disappears in her chest?

That might be a little too much.

A couple of notes:

There will not be any sexual content or romance in this story at all.

This story is a medieval LitRPG Apocalypse. It begins when a System initializes in a medieval world that doesn't already have magic. The main protagonist, Cassandra de Luna, is a very laidback person. Especially for a princess. She is extremely adaptable and takes things as they are, but will also fight for what she wants when she actually wants something.

The content warnings are mostly so that I have freedom to do that in the future chapters.I normally don't put all that much swearing into my stories, or traumatizing content.Although there does tend to be some gore from time to time in my writing.

1 chapter a week.

The link to book 1 is in the author's note on the first chapter of book 1.

Book 2 cover Image was done by the artist Kart Studio and the typography and design by germancreative on Fiverr.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: WolfShine

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Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 2,029
Views: 151,288

Chapters(18 total)

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Community Reviews(9)

1Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A system invades a medieval world, causing chaos. Execution of the premise is done very well. There's some Norse themes at play here, and the World Tree in the middle of this realm is apparently very important, to both the residents of this world and the invaders. I highly enjoy stories with overpowered main characters, and this certainly seems to be one of them. There's plenty of interesting abilities, and levels are already going up. In short, if you enjoyed the author's other works, you're likely to enjoy this one.
Style: The author implemented some of my stylistic suggestions from my earlier review; after a brief re-read, I think my concerns were addressed. Some of the dialogue still comes off as stiff, but it's far less noticeable now. Overall, great improvement, and I'll raise my score here accordingly.
Story: In terms of plot, this story has moved along at a strong pace. The introductory arc of the narrative has ended already, and the main character has finally found her footing. Superb work here.
Grammar: Technicals are good, I only noticed two errors in the first seven chapters. LitRPG formatting is done in a unique way; I'm not sure if I like it more than normal tables. Either way, it's organized well and understandable.
Character: In terms of characters introduced besides the protagonist, it's an odd bunch. For ostensible invaders, some of them certainly seem to have reason to help Cassandra. There's a substantial amount of mysterious figures who are only mentioned, and even the ones introduced are peculiar. A complex web of motivations are hinted at but not explained, leaving me very intrigued. Great stuff!
AdlezRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I believe that the story had a strong start and is filled with enough mysteries to make it very interesting after the first arc is over. I am a fa of the natural way that Cass is introduced into the system. I am looking forward to reading this as it progresses!
ClephasRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I needed a good litrpg to read, so I picked up this one. Happily, it turned out to be just the kind of litrpg junk food I wanted. While I've generally avoided the Winter Wolf series, I'm actually considering picking it up now after reading this, considering how much I enjoyed it.
rrandommRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Caveat: At only 86 pages (B1 ch16), this review is very tentative. I normally would not post a review this early, but the author requested reviews, so ...
If you like The Rise of the Winter Wolf, you'll probably like this story too. You'll recognize the author's style (first-person, present tense) and the main character (the same sort of introversion, introspection, and personality as Wolf in RoWW). If it weren't for the facts that the MC is female and expresses no specific fondness for coldness, I'd think that the MC is a reincarnation of Wolf.
Given the author's track record, we can expect the story to reliably update on schedule. So you can begin reading it confident that the story is unlikely to go on hiatus or update so slowly that you'll forget the story between updates.
Thus far this is another introvert-separated-from-family-tries-to-survive-and-get-powerful-after-the-system-is-suddenly-introduced story, like RoWW. I assume that the MC will eventually become OP, but she isn't yet. And it should be a fun rise to personal power.
There is a fair amount of mystery in the story thus far:
Who freed her from captivity and why? Why did the person who helped her afterward help her? The amount of time and effort and supplies he spent on her seems beyond what I would expect for simple kindness toward a random native.
Thus far the system and the events in the spoiler are fairly confusing to both the MC and to me, but I suspect that I'll come to understand them eventually, as the MC gradually figures things out.
I assigned 4 stars because RR won't let me submit this review without a rating, and there aren't enough pages yet for me to feel like I can justify a 5-star rating.
petercoRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
It's alright. The premise is original I guess. Progression is fast enough. Monsters are interesting. Etc etc.
With the way the system is designed, I dislike the large gaps between tiers. I do like the breakthrough quests, which would have worked have worked equally well with a more linear power scaling.
The system allowing invaders to invade 2 whole days before people got their quest was also a little over the top unfair.
WaryorWearyRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
Not my main point, but all the cutaways to other parts of the world, multiverse can be excised from the story. If the dreams (which are memories, but eh?) don't actually matter to the plot, they're too generic to matter for flavor.
My real points:
Math matters/doesn't/does/doesn't/etc. Edit the bloody story instead of fighting in comments/author's notes.
Level 0 Wrath kills Level 5 wolf while badly fighting. Level 6 Wrath kills 8 of 12 level 10 Wraiths while ok fighting. Level 7 Wrath kills Level 10 Wolf out of hand, immediately flees from 12 level 1 Ants toward the Alpha Ant that called them. It's not supposed to seem like a housecat fleeing roaches after killing a dog, but it do be like that.
The MC (like all the author's MCs) is flat, affectless, has flat grey responses, accepts everything immediately and correctly, acts correctly in situations where there is/are no correct responses (and the chosen one makes little sense), doesn't worry except in the most "she worried about her kingdom and wondered about its circumstances" style.
Plot walks the reader through the entire convoluted process of creating a Wrath and dumping her, explains that she's being dumped as a side effect, etc. Up to this entry, MC has shown 0 Wrath, anger, madness, upset, murderousness, etc. I'm not saying that's changed, just I've given up. MC also accepts self-repairing armor, magic, kidnapping and body alteration, mind rape possibility, isolation, kidnapping again, kill or be killed, fire starting with no tools, Horrors from outside time and space (kinda), etc. etc. with all the ease of your typical medieval Noble. 🤣
oh, just remembered. I don't care about the maps or the kingdoms (see paragraph one) and starting Entry One with pictures of stuff that's just vague and irritating is counterproductive imho. Worse though is describing the 3 Kingdoms copy and paste 3 times across 3 different POVs of EXTREMELY DIFFERENT people.
Boring. All the parts are included, but it's just meh o
luda305Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
I have two major criticisms of this story that prospective readers may be interested in.
First, there is very little "medieval" here. The System has stock-standard modern terminology which either doesn't (or more commonly, it shouldn't, but does) make any sense to the locals for a lack of context (okay, there is a little meta-humor where the story pokes fun at itself when it comes to high-school level algebra). The princess protagonist hardly seems like a medieval princess and more like a modern teenager. The medieval world is
being invaded by Earthlings with a system and advanced tech, and she gets kidnapped by them and gets outfitted in their nanotech underarmor. She gets a crash-course in the System from an Earthling. And given that she's quickly stranded in the wilderness for the indefinite future,
whether the local civilization is medieval or not is large irrelevant, especially when what little tech she has she'll have to craft from raw materials in the wilderness or it's a cheat item from a friendly Earthling.
In sum, it feels more like a system armageddon with a flavor of medieval (which most of them have anyways, even though they occur in the contemporary world) than a system armageddon in a medieval world.
Second, the story has an incredible number of coincidences within the first ten chapters in order to move the plot forward and, more particularly, get the protagonist on the road to the story.
First, a magical OP mcguffin (the Heart of Wrath) chooses her as its host.
Second, she is immediately kidnapped by Earthlings with teleportation so she can be brainwashed and turned into their Wrath henchwoman.
Third, one of the Earthlings betrays the others and helps her escape.
Fourth, the particular escape he engages her in is teleportation to the center of the dark forest which is magically/monster-y cut off from the rest of the world.
Finally, a different, friendly earthling happens upon her, understands with very little information what crazy circumstances are
HookedontheskyRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The premise is good, but the execution needs work. I don't want to be too harsh, because it has potential, but the way the main character acts just pulls me out of the story.
No matter how chill or laidback someone is in regular life, I just can't believe they'd be completely unphased by a strange "system" appearing in front of them (especially since she's from a medieval society and has no concept of video games), then being kidnapped, having their body forcefully changed, teleported all over the place and being put in various life or death situations. It feels like she has no emotions at all.
My other criticism is how her internal voice sounds like a modern teenager - she says "math," for example, or "anyways" and there's nothing medieval about that. That again pulls me out of immersion.
I think this story would work better if it was set in a modern world invaded by a system, and if the main character showed a bit more emotion. It's not all bad, though, and I'd recommend reading this if you really like the system and leveling parts of the story, and don't care that much about characters. From how far I've gotten, the system seems well-crafted and she seems to be progressing at a good pace.
MnemRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
It's not bad. But it's definitely not good. I dunno man?
I'd say mildly entertaining with zero soul. Like elevator music. It fills a moment but the moment you walk away you'll have no memory of it at all.
Honestly I'm half convinced it's written by AI. What's up with all the mad libs almost entertaining but ultimately boring stories popping up lately? The fact that the author is apparently working on about 7 stories simultaneously says it all. Shotgun strategy I suppose. No passion just paint by numbers.
I'm not saying don't read it. I'm just saying don't expect substance. I didn't hate it. It's the motel art of RR stories.