The Reaper's Legion

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Earth:An advanced inhabitable world in the ideal colonizable range. Moderate temperatures and consistent weather patterns make this planet an incredible resource, along with a wealth of animals and wildlife beyond most worlds. Inhabited by the sentient species designated “Humans,” Earth would likely have joined the galactic community of its own accord. Levels of technology in local populace indicate a sharp trend towards interstellar travel, but still needs to make the last push to acquire reasonable interstellar technologies. Up until quite recently, Earth has not been a fully classified planet and was largely unknown. Due to biotic activity in the quadrant, however, attention has been drawn to Earth and many other possibly habitable planets in the regions, primarily for quarantine and control tactics.

Matthew Todd was not a particularly unique human being before the meteors struck the earth. Average athletics, above average intelligence, but somewhat gifted in marksmanship, the post-apocalyptic earth has been a trial by fire for him and many others. Creatures that resemble bastardized wolves roam the land in packs numbering in the thousands. With entire cities decimated, those that remain are left with the harsh reality that they may be witnessing the end of humanity.

And yet, there is a chance. Humanity knows they are not alone in the universe - the wolves are case enough for that - but what they do not know is that they are not alone in their plight. They are not without aid. Obelisks descend from the sky, giving the people a means to fight back. With tools ranging from guns to advanced mechanical apparatus and more bizarre tools, the people must cull the Biotics. Or, be consumed by the ever growing and mutating threat.

Join Matthew in the fight to exterminate the Biotic threat, and to ensure the survival of human kind!

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2019
Author: Michael Adams

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 855
Views: 946,357

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Community Reviews(10)

AsherPhoenixRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is definitely among the better ones for Royal road the grammar is great and the story is very enjoyable. It seems quite well thought out to me and it's among my top 10 favourite story's on Royal road that I have read.
This story is definitely worth reading and the only thing I could really complain about would only be the wait between updates but that's only cause I enjoy this story so much
IDontKnowItRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is great and the flow is really good. I love the concepts and the characters. I'm slightly annoyed by some more recent things such as Matt not really talking with his team, and how he seems to have been stagnating a bit. I mean, the legion as a whole has grown but as far as I know, he has had no new suit from the monolith besides his advanced suit and tinkering with it. He doesn't even tell us about cost and supply of matter energy anymore which is a bit understandable. Honest opinion without my bickering complaints is that the story is a must read and it is tied with my favorite novel legendary mechanic and I would recommend anyone who enjoys one of them to read the other. The grammar score was only lowered due to typos and occasional my misplaced words. Otherwise an amazing novel and I am looking forwards to its future.
coalmine overlordRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
the pace of the story is great and the gear is always a joy to read about be it the description or use of it. love the book
SpaceForceEODRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Great read. The world building was amazing absolute 5 stars. I would have given 5 stars if there wasn’t as many “cliff hangers” for all the individuals you introduced. A lot had no meaning as you moved on quickly from them. Would have been better to focus more on fewer of them. In addition I’m always a sucker for a romance of some sort, you hinted at one starting multiple times with Matthew but I felt you should have included it in there. Last would have been to see Matthew’s fights thru the eyes of others more since it would add more to the story while also directing our opinions to mirror those who witnessed those events, specifically the last battle and underwater too. It’s hard to see where you can go from here since the scale expanded so exponentially. To compare im a big fan of the initial solo marvel movies, but after an avengers movie or two, the scale was just hard to follow and care about as it got too big with less focus on individuals.
NicebagdadRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This was what I needed, I have been craving a good post-apocalypse story for a while now and this definitely fulfilled that craving.
Ill finish the story and then ill leave a more indebt review.
So far though..... very good.
TheEarlofBronzeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This story scratches a few issues that I sometimes have in some fairly appealing ways. And has quite a few (good) similarities to Scorched Earth.
- The MC is OP but only in relation to the rest of humanity, just strong enough to have an edge over most but not all of the "big bads".
- System-esq system but little direct effect (no levelling up or stat blocks)
- Supporting cast is enjoyable and fills their role nicely, also no love interest on the immediate horizon even after 72 chapters which is pretty good in my books.
- Quite interesting larger universe setting.
- MC is aware of his power, influence AND takes responsibility for it in logical ways. super +++ that I love to see in stories, none of this "lone wolf" nonsense when saving humanity.
Sure it falls into some cliches but they're not always a bad thing. I've quite enjoyed how the MC's power level has increased and it's mostly occured after plot events, making it feel much more natural than simply "I HAVE MC PLOT ARMOR! SYSTEM SAVE ME RAWR". Nice to see a MC actually suffer even through his victories.
BlorkLllLLlRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
This story takes a weird medium and doesn't satisfy. Fans of "crunchier" stories with meaningful numbers will be disappointed in the shallow system. Fans of plot-driven stories will be offended by the endless cliches. I wanted to like it more than I did.
SoBaysedRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
The story started off strong and I am a big fan of the genre. The problem I have is that is sooooo edgy (cringy). Also, the tags don't seem to match what I read. Comedy should really be switched with psychological. A lot of time is spent with the MCs emotions and mind, he is the ultimate brooding edgelord. If the story spent more time on action and plot, instead of having chapters dedicated to psychological struggle and conversation between characters it would be a lot better IMHO.
SeinexRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
It has a couple typos. It's solidly good in the beginning 4 stars there but what makes it two stars is what happens next, instead of the steady rise to power that we were enjoying the author yoinks it up to suddenly super op and the way he did it left much to be desired. It made a good story suddenly far less good while not bad... The disappointment and not going to lie, now boring because you already know what was going to happen progression leaves me only able to give it more than 2 stars. Would be three but there were other small things that bothered me but I'd have to spoil the story. Plus there are a couple noticeable typos. I'd probably would've lowered it to to 1 star but I guess the sudden unsuspecting twist, even if it ruined the novel for me, was a twist. So yes 2 stars.
EugenioRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
From the other stellar reviews expected so much more. The mc in the last few chapters is being all over the place, his mental process seems one of a teenager. I highly dislike the "System". The dialogues, it's reasonings and its behaviour are the ones that you could expect from a human, and not one very smart at that. It completely goes against what you expect from a highly technological and advanced system. The reason behind the d-thing is forced too, as many comments,including mine, said. The dialogues of chapter 6 are a whole level lowweer than the rest.
edit chapter 12:
Now it seems that humans are peratically gods of war, doing thing that are not even that complicated and being praised to be the first IN THE ENTIRE GALAXY to achieve a particular feat with those basic tactics...