The Great Devourer old version

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Ongoing

Author

AbsolutePower

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Community Reviews(10)

• OzneiloRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  it's a fun concept and I like how the author uses multiple personalities. The world building is great and I feel like I'm starting to understand how everything works. Also I like the story and have a great time reading it. Can't wait to see how it turns out. So thanks for the story!
• BriggsbyRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The gist of this story is someone didn't like the whole "entropy ensures the inevitable heat death of the universe" thing, so decided to scream "FUCK YOU SPACE!" so loudly they accidentally broke the earth into a pile of tiny pieces, turned the sun into a super-massive black hole, fucked up magic so hard that now all the trees have tits, the rivers have tits, basically everything now has a sexy spirit who demands the puny humans worship them, and accidentally got imprisoned for 6,000 years by her own followers who were understandably upset about the whole "everything is fucked" situation.
  Fast forward 6,000 years to a very different world where a young girl just found out she has no talents beyond being the equivalent of a virgin in the creepy, fetishistic way catholicism viewed that trait during the middle ages. So the local super-power obviously wants her to become a nun. Yup.
  Naturally this all goes terribly wrong, and before you can say "excuse me, what the fuck?" These two functionally polar opposites are smashed together, resulting in extreme shenanigans as one doesn't want to die, while the other is convinced she is possessed by an ancient evil and must go become a nun to cure herself. I can't really say more without spoiling things, but that's the first 2 chapters, and it gets crazier from there.
  So enter a not-quite-a-world of magic, intrigue, debt-slavery via soul magic, ancient nature spirits, corrupt quasi-religions, and at least one adorable fox-girl, and remember to enjoy your stay. Don't mind the screaming lady glowing purple. That's Nox. She does that.
  I don't know how to describe the style beyond "wholesome humor meets unpleasant reality and the two fight like angry cats in a wet bag, while wonder and awe watch from the sidelines."
  The story is fantastical, as presented in my short synopsis above. If you don't like it by chapter 2, it's probably not for you.
  As a registered grammar gestapo, I can confirm that the grammar meets my standards.
  For char
• sumdumbguyRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I love this story in its entirety. I'm currently 20+ chapters ahead of the RR releases as I've been blessed with editing this gem. I can assure you good things are coming, and a lot of the complaints in the negative reviews are addressed in time(but my apologies to the prudes–the butts remain victorious). My original review below:
  I read the first chapter, but I was not ready for it. I binged everything posted today dreading the fact I knew I'd get to the end of the posted content. This is absolutely sublime. Just enough humor, just enough seriousness, plentiful world-building, amazing character development, and all that drowned in a splash of awesome. That's the recipe here.
  There's some grammar mistakes that slip through, but they get caught and fixed. No worries here.
  The writing style suits the story and lures you in to fully enjoy the settings, the characters, and the plot. And just in case you're wondering what some scenes look like, there are pictures to help immerse you even further. Never mind the butts, though I have to admit the artist has cornered the market here.
  The story... Goodness, the story. It's so immersive you'll just get drawn in and taken for a ride. I'll be eagerly devouring this one as new chapters are released. I'm looking forward to the main plot kicking off in earnest, but until then even the build-up is amazing.
  The characters. There are no flat characters here. Everyone has their goals, ambitions and unique personalities. Love them, hate them, that's up to you to decide.
• CookieCrumbleRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The great devourer is a misadventure of an ancient, world-destroyer, goddess of night, Nox trying to reclaim her past glory and her unwitting-unwilling vessel, Yul.
  The first impression that the story delivered is how well-executed it is. Particularly when the readers are presented to the inner thought of Nox, which understandably a bit ...removed from the hubbub that is being a mortal.
  While Nox one-track mind; her deluded, narcissistic one-dimensional personality is nothing new of isekai tropes, her banter and willfulness who thought that because the world used to revolve around her, thus it should continue to do so is exhilarating. Especially when we saw her fumbled the most basic social interaction.
  Although with how the author presented Nox's character voice, it'd be unsurprising that the reader would found themselves not rooting for her 'looks on how things should be'. A pure child-like look, that however immoral, seems right because it's fun.
  At the same time, the readers would also feel empathy for Yul, who is forced to endure in becoming Nox host, even willing to kill herself then becoming a vessel of destruction.
  The characters are well developed and well fleshed, already by chapter 10, we could see several character growth slowly developing in the background.
  The only flaw that could be pointed out (and this is really nitpicking) is that Yul is a tad bit too advanced for a simple farmer's daughter. How could the girl think in the million (first chapter, first paragraph), while none of her cultural background seemed to indicate so. It could be understood if she come from a mercantile/scholastic family, but millions for a farmer? That's stretching it a bit too thin. Of course, this particular commentary should be sidelined the moment she revealed to have more of those 'unusual pasts' like most author here love to foreshadow.
  The story also teased grand worldbuilding; a complex interconnecting world of magic with possibility of space travel, a black hole as
• DragrathRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Right now It seems to have good worldbuilding and show character growth so don't see any explicit prroblems the protagonists are very different in a way that contrasts them nicely with lots of hints for more going on also love the fantasy use of the black hole with high quality art. Lots of mysteries thus far.
  Looking at the less positive reviews i.e. complaints most of the can be summarized with two specific criteria.
  The first is that the amount of sexual innuendos may bother prudes but thus far it remains a background element aside from its role in Nox's character demonstrating how out of touch she is with the  settings local culture. It will likely remain prominent but it doesn't seem likely to ever be the sole focus of the story for those worrying about it.  Explicit content seeems to be patron only which suggests it exists but isn't going to focus the story given it will be skippable.
  The other thing that seems to have set some other readers off is Yul's responses to finding her body possessed by "an alien entity monster of the void" This may bother some people as based on her zealous indoctrinated background her first thought was to eliminate/purge herself of the evil influence and when that failed she switched to sabotaging Nox. Power fantasy mongers may find this a horrifying shock for their munchkin min maxer dreams but it totally makes sensein terms of character development and is well done and eventually resolved as a third party helps bridge their differences.
  In either case these don't seem to be problems with the story but with the story not matching certian readers tastes and them falliciously equating that any story they don't like must be  "bad".
  Personal tastes and the writing quality of stories are not equilevent there are poorly written stories that are fun to read just as there are well written stories that aren't to ones individual preferences. Its particularly desturbing when people give a clearly cohernt story a nonsenical 0.5 rating (which
• lord4543Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This is absolutely one of the best executions I have ever seen for what it is. The swapping between perspectives is what really drives this story for me and it honestly amazes me how the dichotomy between Jul and Nox works as well as it does.
  Also, arrogant Goddess goes brrrrrrrr.
• William XanaRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Finally! Foxy Jun! And what a vision.
  I gotta say vixen, you got a bright, fluffy, curvy future beHinD you!😻🤤
  Thanks Absolute Power!
  Looking forward to the face to face art.
  Quest: Make Absolute Power return Jun ASAP! Reward: Infinity points(20 voidalicously sweet chapters)
  SoMeboDy! write an amUsiNg review quick! PleAsE!
  SPOILER ALERT
  Jun isn't really gone, right...right...
  I just realized Jun died with Noxxy's mods still on her brain...
  She died in pleasure...
  Would you call that a mercy or...?
  Of course as a fellow void addict I would gladly go the same way! The MoRe PleAsUrE the BetTer!
  All acolytes must strive to go down the same path!
  To be able to withstand the void TriPiN high GoDdesS in all her devouring glory!
  Also, all female acolytes must be physically and mentally modded by Noxxy as well as skyclad!
  Aha! Ha! Hahahahaha!
  Hahahahaha! hahahahaha!
  MmmWaaahahahaha! Hahahahaha!
  I need two hundred words...
  Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha!
  Cough! Cough!
  Mwahahahahaha!
  Hahahahaha!
  Cough! Cough!
  This is getting old...
  Oh great Noxxy! save me from this curse of word count!
  Writing should be abolished!
  Telepathy is now a mandatory skill for all acolytes!
  Hahahahaha!
  Hahahahaha!
  Hahahahaha!
  Hahahahaha!
  Hahahahaha!
  Oh come on!
  This is even longer than my last review!
  Curses! I call curses
  An enemy archmage is blocking my transmission to Noxxy!
• PrimoGoodbodyRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I have read up to the current chapter and whew buddy is it enjoyable. I saw none of the things others saw. A stupid mc, or anything like that. I saw a girl developing in a world of magic growing and doing and existing. It's like they expected something else or a different thought process and it wasn't there so therefore it was wrong. I didn't see anything like it just her living and trying to live, with the human foibles that come along with that. Thanks Author, please continue the story and arrive to a great finish I look forward to following her adventure or experience.
• MabirunaRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  If you approach this book shallowly and without patience, you’ll foolishly assume that it’s nothing but a basic yuri fantasy with some tits and ass pictures.
  However, it is actually nothing of the sort! In reality it’s a very art-nouveau idea. It's a complex, beautiful, intricate, hilarious and deep worldbuilding masterpiece that’s wearing the stolen skin of a litrpg that it carved away with a knife made of science fiction from the festering corpse of every poorly written, self-insert, isekai-trope progression fantasy.
  If you actually understand the joke references such as “I’m fine” [while everything is on fire] and dive into the maddening, harsh world presented by AbsolutePower, you’ll find a true shining gem here that plays and intertwines themes such as sci-fi, fantasy, litrpg, progression, system, mana, isekai and etc.
  What The Great Devourer does is that it takes existing tropes of isekai novels on Amazon which feature very selfish, handsome murderhobo OR overbearingly sexy aka titillating protagonists and then stabs them in the heart, flipping every single trope that’s usually existing in these books inside out.
  Characters -
  The villain and hero share the same body and it’s quite fun switching from one perspective to another.
  Take the main character for example - Nox. She is an “isekai-style” MC who awakens in a world of her own design, six thousand years in the future.
  Nox is absolutely the epitome of ego and selfishness and in the first batch of chapters I had nothing put passionate hatred for her due to the fact that she appears to be a really stupid, tyrannical textbook villain achetype who can’t even order food herself. However, as you read more you find out that she’s actually not a horrible monster, but a being made this way by consequences of her actions (necromancy & quest for absolute power) and that the entire world around her is made from her past mistakes (black hole being the biggest and most immediately obvious.)
  The other character - Yul, is a
• zykrRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  I'm not great at reviews, but here's some randoms bits of my opinion on the story.
  Others have gone over the story better than I can, so I'll leave that to them if you are still hesitating. The chapters aren't that long though, so if you are taking the time to read that many of the reviews, you should really just read the first ten chapters instead and see if the story is for you. As for other aspects...
  Grammar and spelling wise, I'd give it 4 stars. There are some occasional mistakes, but nothing that really hinders readability more than once a chapter or so. This being royalroad though, I'll add an extra half star for being much better than average and the author actually going back to fix mistakes. To be clear, I'd only give something five stars here if it had gone through multiple rounds of professional level editing.
  Character wise, I feel like the story could really have benefited from some more background on the characters before everything starts going sideways. Its hard to care about characters you know very little about, and while the story definetly succeed in making me care about the characters in the end, it took me a while to warm up to some of them. Some of this seems intentional, but with Yul, it comes across as a bit lacking. We don't know anything about her motivations at first, and even ~30 chapters in, after some background is revealed, I'm still not sure what exactly is going on with her.
  As for the style, it strikes a decent balance between grim-dark horror dystoptia and comedic effect that can be appreciated because we readers don't actually have to live there. There is much more focus on the characters and their personal development than worldbuilding in general, but not much about this story so far would actually be funny if I had to live in it myself.
  Other reviews have complained about the nudity, but honestly, it doesn't have that much of an impact of the story at all. Its easy to ignore if you don't like it. I hardly think it warrents a