The Dark Lord's Home for Undead Heroes

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Description

Julian Crane seldom cared for anything but his magic and research.

When the gods decided to damn him out of the blue, naming him Dark Lord and painting him as a Villain in the eyes of mankind, he moved on with his life, caring nothing about their scrutiny.

But their ways are ineffable, and when they start sending Heroes — merechildren —to throw their lives against him, he vows to make them pay — one undead Hero at a time.

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: Sorry

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

NecroticbinderRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Overall the story feels like it flows fairly well, giving some pretty heavy young adult vibes while also playing a bit with the tropes that are common to the genre. There are hints of some sort of system which don't quite fit, but that may because the story needs time to develop them.
The writing flows nicely and the way it's written keeps one coming back for more helped along by the minimal if non-existent grammatical errors.
The character's currently feel a little one dimensional, but it seems early in the story where they haven't had too much time to explore the other sides of them and there have been some hints of development waiting around the corner.
DartmorinRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The title is really all that can be said yet about this story, but it is undeniably true. The story idea presented is great.
The characters are still somewhat flat and undeveloped, obviously, this isnthe first chapter, but they seem likeable.
Nothing can be said about the style yet.
The grammar is fine. It isn't edited to perfection, but it also isn't offputting enough to be a detriment.
Leahcim ZanathaxRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is REALLY well written! While it is not comedy, there is enough humor that I get a laugh almost every episode.
The story's MC is a wizard researcher who more or less just wants to be left alone with his research. Oh,, he's also a lich. He has basically been forced by the God's of his world into the role of the Dark Lord, one he really doesn't want.
Long time friends and allies immediately backstabbing him, with the forces led by an isekaied teenage girl thrown at him to get rid of her by the 'Forces of Good'!
The MC is forced to kill her, but then makes her into his personal Death Knight, with her permission, which should explain the name of the story.
It attempts to deconstruct a lot of fantasy tropes, and so far, does so quite well.
I definitely recommend it!
SneedRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Although the title makes it seem like this is a parody or comedy, it is actually a serious story.
It's also really good so far. It's decently well written in terms of grammar and writing. The characters are interesting. The premise is somewhat unique in this genre as well. Although it is a LitRPG, the main character has no access to the game system.
The MC is a lich who is considered to be a dark lord by the gods, even though he actually hasn't done anything evil. The gods send Heroes after him, he kills them and brings them back to life. Circumstances conspire to force the MC down a dark path, despite the fact that he would rather just be left alone. He decides to gather his power to take revenge on the gods.
YohaoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is great.
The characters are interesting, the story's premise is pretty innovative, Julian is in no way a charismatic dark lord that can pick up allies wherever he goes but that's no problem at all, his unique temperament and his attachment to his own convictions(please don't mistake it as he being a block head that can't apologize and recognize his own mistakes) work even better than any charisma could in his case. The story is really well written, so much so that it actually made me really care about the plot and the problems that the gods put Julian into, it's one of the few instances that if I was in the story I would certainly side with him. The magic system is a really strong point, the Julian is an archmage, he clearly is strong but he has clear limits, also the expansion of the magic system with Julian's discovery is also really interesting.
The relationship between the characters is also really well done, they don't always get mad at each other but also are not always extremely friendly, their relations have space and time to grow and mature in the time they have with each other, their relations are dinamic and really well written, even their awkwardness with each other.
Editing at V2Ch19: One thing that the author does really well is the mystery ! It's been quite some time since I got so interested in making theories about what I read and the author did this really well !
Thanks for writing author, keep up the good work !
gte22Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
As the title says it is an enjoyable read which is quite funny from time to time. I mean literally laugh out loud funny. So that is a big pluss. Grammar is excellent. The characters are well written, capable of reflection and character growth.
The story isn't heavy on the LitRPG stuff with only Heroes (so far) having access to a rudimentary interface. This is a plus in my opinion as it ensures the story won't suffer from the power creep issues that so often sink the stories that rely heavily on their LitRPG systems.
I tend to enjoy Dark Lord novels if they aren't drowning in cliches and poor writing, this novel suffers from none of those flaws. It has an interesting and, from my reading experience, unique premise. Overall my title is a good summary, enjoyable and funny. I'd say give the story a chance if want an enjoyable read and aren't adverse to fantasy stories.
ThargoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I like the author's approach to the popular "Summon Heroes to Slay the Dark Lord" plot.
The story is easy to read and I did not notice any major grammatical errors.
The characters are quite well developed for the length of the story so far.
I am curious how the story will develop and will continue to follow it.
ContraMundumRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Great title, great start, and happy it made trending as I might not have seen it otherwise. I'm going to follow and save up. Preemptive rating in hopes it keeps up and soars. Ratings matter in the stages of trending and I'm just feeding the beast until it can feed me with a wealth of chapters and community.
IstyaturRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
An unusal and attention grabbing premise, the 'dark lord' is truthfully a intelligent and competent mage that the gods decided needed to be removed. As Lord Crane investigates he has found several indicators that the gods are elbow deep in setting this up. While the title is funny and accurate, the story itself is serious with a well designed setting and it looks to be shaping up to a very interesting plot. The characters feel fairly deep and interesting, but the dialog is a little lacking and weve had a few info-dump soliloquy's that would have been better served worked into the story, but nothing to egregious. Pacing is a bit slow, but its a promising start to an epic.
AliceHealerRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
If you want an in depth story about a soul mage trying to tap into a hero exclusive rpg system this will be up your alley.
But,
The protagonist has little agency. He's the type of protag to walk into a trap because he knows he has plot armour. Granted being a lich he literally can't die but still. There are contingencies but since we don't learn about them until they're relevant it feels like "and then I cast a spell to fixit"
Not to mention the story so far is "and then god shit happened! Then war shit happened! Then god shit happened!" Rinse and repeat.
Despite my gripes this is still a good story and worth trying out. I just feel like theres a great mystery story buried underneath a litrpg action power fantasy.