The fool's paradise (dungeon novel)(complete)

Information

Status

Completed

Year

2017

Author

mcdeathcore

• Epilogue
  Apr 22, 2019
• 149
  Apr 19, 2019
• 148
  Apr 18, 2019
• 147
  Apr 18, 2019
• 146
  Apr 17, 2019
• 145
  Mar 31, 2019
• 144
  Mar 17, 2019
• 143
  Feb 26, 2019
• 142
  Feb 24, 2019
• 141
  Feb 22, 2019
• 140
  Feb 19, 2019
• 139
  Feb 15, 2019
• 138
  Jan 28, 2019
• 137
  Jan 25, 2019
• 136
  Jan 24, 2019
• 135
  Jan 20, 2019
• 134
  Jan 3, 2019
• 133
  Dec 26, 2018
• 132
  Dec 10, 2018
• 131
  Dec 9, 2018

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• SirTekkRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  It's a good read if you like the dungeon setting.
  The progress throughout the story is good, not to fast and also (next to) no useless filler chapters.
  If I have to point out something negative, it's the ending, which was a bit rushed, in my opinion. On the other hand, I also have to say that I prefer this ending over what other ideas the author had (mentioned in AN).
  Gramatically I have not noticed anything that disturbed me. I read quite a few comments telling otherwise, but he probably rewrote these issues.
  Something to prais is the authors ability to end his novel while it's still good. I have dropped many novels because they simply got boring and repetitive over time, which was not the case here.
  So in conclusion, it was not the best novel I've ever read, but it surely is somewhere at the top of the list.
• NetiZenRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  It was a good read and as I said, a rare find.  After all, who actually completes their dungeon stories?  Honestly!
  The MC ends up a bit OP and janky ish but overall enjoyable, the other characters are a little bit stale but I can't really say it's a negative, just not overly positive and unique.
  The author has their own style going though it ends up janky and rough in some areas, but the story is pretty straightforward with very few twists and the MC and crew end up OP at the end, which was a bit short and abrupt.  This makes the story feel stunted, though nothing I could disagree with.
  The grammar is not great.  The author is fluent but there are a lot of spelling mistakes and (I forget the word for using the wrong word, but sounds right phonetically... but I do it all the time too...)
  The characters were a bit stale and underdeveloped.  However, they weren't terrible or disagreeable either.  Probably the worst section I would review.  Lucifer the MC just ends up as overconfident and OP with very little in the lines of development for his character and not much back building aside from a short flashback.  Even though the author built up the backstory so much in the beginning.  It is even a good backstory since it doesn't explain where a lot of his otherworld knowledge of mages and magic comes from.  This doesn't mean I dislike the characters though, it's just that it is raw and there is more there to work with...
• tikiiriaRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  A nice murderous core story.
  The grammar needs a bit of editing. Nothing that detracts from reading.
  The harem was eh, all of them were annoying and I wished for their death many times.
  The plot was fun. The world was funny and detailed. I did want more dungeon floors but they were enough to satisfy. The dungeon was a bit more roaming bundle of chaos than most core novels which was entertaining.
• Salty PandaRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Grammar: Early chapters are terrible, multiple mistakes, mismatched word (weather~whether, etc.) and even a few doubled paragraphs. After that author still doesn't care much about correcting his text but errors are rarer and less visible. Grammar score rises through the novel from 0,5 to 4 stars.
  Style: Rich dictionary, lack of pointlessly repeating the same things and no walls of text. The author is somewhat inconsistent about changing pov between chapters and quotes around dialogues but that rather affect your aesthetic than your reading experience.
  Characters: There is no significant character development but the past and background of characters are described which justifies their actions. All slaves/subordinates to the dungeon core gain loyalty towards it over time and side-stories. There were no sudden changes in their behavior, but archetypes were executed properly.
  MC is somewhat sadistic and cruel (but honors his deals), but there is a story reason for it. He isn't obsessed in obtaining human body for the sake of harem, like in other similar novels, neither tries to be peaceful or caring about monsters.
  Dungeon monster with the exception of few are treated like cannon fodder and there aren't many characters from outside of the dungeon introduced so the cast isn't hard to remember.
  Story: The selling point of the novel. No-op dungeon reincarnator creates very interesting traps, learns about and interacts with the world, kills invaders in brutal and creative ways and deals with soul corruption.
  Human kingdoms in constant war, elves in the forest, dwarves (barely mentioned). Most of those desires to enslave him or to possess his dungeon core (top grade mana crystal).
  Giant anthill that can be flooded with a massive amount of water, systems for spraying poison on invaders installed in ceilings, "spy beholders" launched in space. An impressive amount of devious mechanical and magical traps in important corridors. If you read about creativity put into mines in WW
• Mash_PotatoesRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  The story itself is a classic dungeon building story with nothing too special/unique about it. It does need some tweaking though with some rather insignificant plot holes here and there that have not been fully explained like why exactly was Selenia being hunted down by her own party other than money and something about a noble wanting her, it was never explained beyond that and why did Lucifer spare the life of the tank and proceed to ignore his existence for the next 10 or so chapters.
  The characters are nothing special and are pretty similar to those of other novels in RRL but has lots of room for improvement and dire need of a background story/info as they are the absolute bare minimum info like Lucifer just suddenly awakening and building the dungeon and Selenia being a elf and a A rank adventurer that was hunted by her own party and that was about it with no further explanation given.
  World building utterly lacking so far, other than mentions of the duchy, kingdom and magician society the rest of the world is utter blank which something the author can build upon in the future.
  Overall it is not a bad novel but it is nowhere as good as it could have been and definitely not the best in its genre as of now with some slight issues here and there.
• mgn61Royal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  Loved the plot that was developing, but the grammar was so bad that I had trouble following the story.  It was shaping up to be a fantastic world, but I had to stop reading it.  Too frustrating to continue when you struggle to understand what the author is saying in every paragraph. Overall - potentially brilliant but badly in need of an editor.
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  Update: Came back to this after some editing was done. The story is really compelling. It could go to the next level with better character and relationship building.  The world building is the big draw here. It is just missing the piece that lets you understand the basic interactions between the characters.
  It would be nice to see more on dungeon building as well. Missing the typical elements there and the dungeon itself feels more like a way to explain an all powerful mc instead of a real place. It would be nice to see more traditional dungeon runs and fails as the dungeon evolves to break up the political world building.
  Enough good ideas and plot that I find myself asking what's next.
• VarionRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  The traumatizing content is the grammar. There might be an amusing story underneath. I couldn't tell.
• TaloRoyal Road

  ★ 1.0

  You cannot edit a blank page. But you have to actually edit it at some point. I have never read something that felt like typing practice before, and the author doesn’t seem to care. I stayed with it for the story , but even that started to fall apart. If you ever need an example of a concept of a plan, look no further. Punctuation and grammar rules need not apply here.
• Victor DoUrdenRoyal Road

  ★ 1.0

  I just want to first mention I sincerely made an attempt to fucking make heads or tales of what I was reading... I got to chapter 12 and gave up. I don't know what to rate for the story since I couldn't really get the whos whats wheres whens. I saw the warning and thought I could take it.... I couldn't.
  Author please rewrite the first chapters so they flow and connect better. Add "" where needed. Make sections italic to seperate where what one is personally thinking.
• Kamikaze GearRoyal Road

  ★ 0.5

  It started as a genuinely good dungeon core novel, creative and engaging until around chapter 100, when the author suddenly threw in modern firearms and later ridiculous sci-fi weapons like “rods of god.” Combined with an awful harem romance and a main character who keeps regressing instead of growing, it completely loses all charm and coherence.