The First Lich Lord

Information

Status

Ongoing

Year

2023

Author

Levi Werner

• Lich Lod Release on Audible and Kindle
  May 28, 2024
• Book coming out on kindle and audible
  May 13, 2024
• Chapter 6
  Jul 29, 2023
• Chapter 5
  Jul 29, 2023
• Chapter 4
  Jul 29, 2023
• Chapter 3
  Jul 29, 2023
• Chapter 2
  Jul 29, 2023
• Chapter 1-Prelude
  Jul 29, 2023

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• A Very Dead LibrarianRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Five stars because I hope to catch the authors attention, but it's unlikely. ( He responded, the chances were still unlikely though )
  The story starts us off in Ezekiel's perspective, as he completes a ritual to become a bonafide lich. He gets sleepy and wakes up in the digital world as an NPC
  World is probably populated by PCs and NPCs, two types of NPCs being regular pre-programmed quest givers and actual sentient code. ( Pure speculation.)
  H flees from his city of undead and meets a priest of Omelette or something.
  They both visit some villages, find out theres been some evil god fuckery and ends it, they find a normal village where everybody is not dead or a cultist and MC settles down, uses his lich magic in a cave, builds a lakehouse, meets a player on a quest, typical Lord of The Dead stuff.
  It feels more like slice of life to me at this point, the action is there yes, but it feels a bit stretched out? like the fights could have ended earlier and have more of the impact but that's subjective to my tastes
  Hoping that zeke doesn't mention being undead to explain basic things in later chapters
• AlexaLRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  In this new book the story quickly and easily draws you in. Making you want to read more and dive in along the characters.
  Characters are understandable and relatable in their choices and actions.  Progressing from the thought of "this is all made up and doesn't matter so it is fine for me to play at being a monster" to realizing that it is not made up and working to atone for their actions and trying to help others.
  This book has a very nice balance of the game play mechanics in it, of characters progressing and gaining levels, but is not too reliant on this as a driving mechanism for the story.  Essentially the gameplay is adding layers to the story and it does not feel like the story is just something that has been haphazardly pieced together and then poorly draped across the skeleton of game play.  The game is a central mechanic in allowing the progression from "this is fake" to "this is real" which ensures that the story does not feel like poorly constructed game play stuffed into a story either.  This entire comprehensive story line has been carefully put together in a way that allows use of those features that are unique to games while still telling an excellent story.
  I also enjoy the fact that the story of Lox is also tied in.  The author manages to do this in a way that keeps the stories separate, but allows a little interaction to tie their world into a comprehensive whole.  It is definitely a book that can, and does, stand alone and separate from the other series set in this world, but you can have a more complete understanding of the world and characters if you have read all of the books set in this world.
  I appreciate how straight forward this book is regarding the perspective of the narrator (the main character looking back at his life) as it means that you do not need to spend any time trying to determine if the narrator is influencing the story. I would highly recommend this book to people who are considering reading lit RPG books.
  Overall the Gramm
• ArchMagosEagleRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I first stumbled into this story a about the same time that chapter 60 or so was released and being the binge-reader I am, I promptly caught up in a few days. Since that chance meeting with this story, I have followed this story, laughing at some part, giggling evilly at others, and completely hooked. I have waited in anticipation for new chapters, fighting every impulse I had to just read the new chapters as they came out, until finally each weekend I read all of them in one go. This is the first story leave me in shock and at the verge of tears with just 2 words. I eagerly await more from Levi Werner.
• nathanv70Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I'm hooked so far,I've read as far as what's available which is chapter 13. I'm looking forward to more. Dude gets pulled into a game world and starts over as a Lich.
  Holy cow I cannot believe that I have to use fifty words to submit a review, just let me get on with my life
• PopeORoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I might only be at chapter 10 or so, but I dare say I'll end up binging this with no remorse.
  The world feels alive and the characters have a depth to them that is often lacking in novels like these. The language and grammar leave nothing to be desired, and the author doesn't make the fallacy of overexplaining concepts or reactions. It all feels very natural to read.
• fusiliRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I just startet reading and couldn't put it down for the whole day. Normally I get annoyed with inconsistencies, but all characters have been in line with how I expected them to behave. I like that the mc is smart about how he does things which is a huge plus for me.
• ShyBoyRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  so read till there if you're like me, and hate to put down an unfinished story. That chapter ends an arc, so you'll be able to walk away cleanly if you won't like it.
  Early review, it might change significantly later on, as right now this story is still in the unveiling stage. More and more things are being unveiled, and story potential is sky-high. Hence the high story rating. Some things are glossed over now, including serious ones. While I understand this is done to not pull the story into too many directions, I found it glaring sometimes. Quick action helps with the suspension of disbelief, so does our sense of many wondrous and dreadful possibilities and paths the world created here offers.
  Right now, if I were to list the threads merely hinted at, only suggested, threads that may end up going in quite the different direction, I could list many. I would certainly include: Damien, the mindscape, Olatee's church, MC's character traits (I mean here merely in D&D terms of good-evil and chaos-order)... Heck, NPCs alone, as so far portrayed, could bring a lot of story threads with them alone. Many things may change in this story yet and I therefore see many stories within.
  Prose serves as an excellent distractor, which I believe is intentional. I opened three chapters at random now, and found several threads within, each of those could be fleshed out via an entire dedicated arc. Author drops many bombs which we look on, for about three to five seconds, then the speeding train called "main story" carries us over, they're gone. Enjoyment is real however, and I found myself interested in how our weak Lich will prevail against his current odds. So, do prepare being in the candyland and seeing many beautiful and tasty looking morsels, just dangled in front of you, teasing your attention span, then moved away... or rather you being moved away, quickly.
  The elephant in the room is "The Overlord", so I need to address the two, in case you're like me: wondering if you'll (dis
• Your Hated BossRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  The book is a fun read when it puts the effort in. It's very easy to pick up, it has all of the bits and bobs you want to make a story tick. But none of them are given time to matter.
  The classic hero to zero to hero again, but faster than anyone else by a lot. With a heaping portion of plot armor.
  The Mc grew too fast. I would have liked to see how he would grow in a hostile environment. What I got was watching him out scale anything in the verse, even when they are demonstrated to be leagues stronger/better than him while they are fighting.
  I know from here on out, unless the author seriously improves, the MC will never have a hard-fought victory. Things are laid out for him if the author writes himself into a corner. With pacing like this, he only needs to go back a few lines and change the sentence. But he doesn't do that, and he doesn't come up with a solution for the situation that is actually meaningful. He just hits the MC wins button, and plot armor carries the fight.
  This has happened over and over and over. I can't think of a single fight that was impactful. They are all there to boost the MC to the "fun part." I don't want to read the boosting part. Just start me at the fun part. If you can't make a part of the story interesting, skip the boring bits I can pick up with the MC when he's lvl 50; it won't change a thing.
  Im being a bit harsh, but I think it's important to point it out bluntly. I don't want to sugarcoat it and allow my review to be lost in the trees when the forest is all around us.
• danlern2Royal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  Let's get the boring bita out of the way.
  Grammar is good.
  The prose is not too complicated, and many of the action sequences are simple and short. It's kinda nice because I don't want to know the specifics of how he kills 100 mice, just knowing the overview of how the fights general go is good enough.
  The story is kinda bland so far. The main character has no real motivation or goals. However, it's still pretty decent to read anyway.
  I don't really understand the power system. He is meant to be pretty low level for much of the early parts of the story, but it seems like he's way stronger than I would expect his level to be, versus enemies like 5 times his level. However, the story isn't rly focused on the blue boxes anyway, and we don't even see his stats or level most of the time so it could be a softer levelling system.
  The next bit I will put in spoiler, but it doesn't rly matter I think
  I kinda despise this whole mindscape part of the story. I don't understand why it's necessary in the story. I also don't understand what the point of him having "denizens" inside his mindscape that are supposedly parts of his subconscious. I don't know how he is able to have spirits of dead people inhabit his mindscape as helpers, or why he should even need helpers.
  He also has cannons and fortifications inside his mindscape, and undead creatures which makes less than 0 sense. Is the story gonna introduce mindscape to mindscape combat where you can summon mental armies or something?
  It's honestly just so stupid and I hate that chapters are dedicated to it.
  It's so boring.
• firm-promptsRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  I’m reviewing this after my second read-through after dropping this piece for a bit. I enjoy the premise as well as the character, but the author’s attempt to run a parallel adventure in the MC’s mind has me speed scanning through chapters hoping to get back to the other “life” being lived. Perhaps if the two settings were better integrated I wouldn’t be as dismayed by the alternating settings, but for now I find myself unable to enjoy half a story.