The Sorceress's Soul: A LitRPG Adventure

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Held at gunpoint after getting a little too drunk at the club, Clarissa is thrust into a new existence at the moment of her death. Dying just as her soul is fully brought into something called the "Centrality", along with the rest of Earth, her soul almost escapes into the afterlife, but is called back by the touch of the new System.

Due to an unexpected series of events, she is thrown into a dangerous sub-layer of reality known as a dungeon. Here she must survive, though this may prove more difficult than she expects.

But what of the world awaiting her outside the dungeon? Well, she knows little of just what has happened to Earth and must discover just how much it has changed on her own.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Nate C.

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

GalbekanRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
While this story makes sure that it introduces us well enough to the world, it doesn't waste time to throw us right into the midst of the action. No grammar issues I could find whatsoever, super cool story, and well structured system that doesn't feel cluttered or hard to read. It's definitely going into my binge watching list for those days I'm feeling like reading.
1Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Dying at the exact moment her world is assimilated into a LitRPG system, Clarissa finds herself in a Dungeon, and is now trapped in a struggle for survival. The genre is a Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG, told in first person perspective.
The immediate plot is mainly centered around surviving within this Dungeon, but there are overarching questions in terms of where everyone else is, what happened to the world Clarissa has known for her whole life, and who is responsible.
hilburnRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Clarissa dies and ends up in a deadly "world dungeon" fighting for her life with nearly awakened magical powers.
What resulted in her going there rather than the normal afterlife for earth is left unclear to discover at a later date.
The writing is good technically and emotionally, combat is tense, there was a bit of a jarring timeskip coming into chapter 7 which I hope don't become too much of a feature as I worried I'd missed a chapter
That said - really enjoying it, looking forward to the rest
Lord RuneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The mc Clarissa died at the moment that the system initiated due to this she is reborn as what seems like a subspecies of humans. When she gets transported to the dungeon she is immediately put into deadly fights where she survives only due to luck. After surviving some close encounters she gets the chance to sit and grind levels and skills so she wont need to rely in dumb luck again
My favourite mechanic in the story is a system menu called spell forging where you can make custom spells if you can pay the price and have the right skills leveled up, if the author uses this mechanic well it will allow for a huge variety in magic and fighting styles .
Also a huge plus are the fights they are written well and seem to be the main focus
Things that might put you off the story
-The mc gets a lot of first achievements because
Dungeons have time dilation
She gets a familiar but she's fleshed out and is more like a human companion rather than a cute pet
Thing's you might like about the story
mc uses mainly fire magic and a one handed flame sword
Mc seems to be at least a decent strategist
And she is emotional towards her companion (most likely because she feels lonely)
GershRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
it's good grammar wise and the characters all seem to written properly if only a bit more 2d than I would have liked. The power system also seems relatively consistent. The only issue I have is that she is overpowered as hell because she's the first to do everything which completely nonsensical
AspectsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Clarissa the main character for this story is fun she has personality you can see that effecting her choices.
The world isn't yet explorered very far but what is there seems interesting.
Combat has been solid and while Clarissa has defeated creatures that one would imagine are far to strong for her she doesn't just walk over them which is great. Additionally in the most recent chapters we see that a build has to be well rounded or it can be countered which was very exciting.
Magic is interesting, spell creation is fairly simple and Clarissa is developing new spells right and left making them feel less special but they do keep it interesting in combat.
Overall a fun story I personally don't care for how fast she is racking up all the "First" achievements but that is a personal preferance and doesn't really take away from the story.
Over all I have had fun reading this story and I look forward to more exciting chapters in the future.
TheDarkMistRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I like what's there, I would like to know more about the world, however. What's there is great I just want more, I know people don't like information dumps but they do the job, Most of the time anyway.
You have done an amazing job and I look forward to more!
DarkraiManiacRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
So far a good read, nice to have a female lead. World building needs to ramp up a bit...
The story could be set anywhere, nothing so far to bring the world in as a part of the story or link it in the readers mind.
Create a magic creature, no big deal let's move on to potions.
sagegoldfishRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Good so far, the world building is soild with more show not tell ( info dumps are really short when they happen) the MC starts off a bit rough but gets better. The side characters help move the story along and provide a good amount of comic relief. The story does have good plot, but at times does go off in a random side quest or so that usaly ties back into the main story line
KombartRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
This is a usual litrpg apocalypse story, where the protagonist starts their new journey in an extremely hostile environment.
So there is the normal: killing monsters, levelling, getting new skills and achievements.
The problem comes from the lack of struggle and tension.
Every problem gets resolved pretty much immediately:
Getting chases by a monster 30 lvls higher? - Kill it an get 14 levels
Injured or low on mana? - Level up and you are immediately topped up.
Struggle to understand something? - Ask the system and get a detailed answer.
Something doesn't work? - Well, now it does.
Not once in the story does it feel like the mc is really struggling or suffering. She gets dropped into a dungeon without any weapon, skill or experience and is surrounded by monsters...but no, the english major college student just strives immediately in that environment.
Let the mc feel hunger and thirst, let her live in fear after narrowly escaping a high level beast, let her take small steps to improve her situation so that there is some payoff when she finally improves and takes on stronger monsters.
Stories like these, where the mc has 0 contact with other intelligent parties are hard to write...a lot of drama and interest in a story comes from characters and their interaction with other characters. A lot of time struggle becomes only meaningful and interesting because of the context of that struggle. So if you remove that context, the struggle itself needs to be interesting enough because that is the focus of the story at that point.
This story doesn't make the struggle interesting enough.
The dialogue is a bit flat and repetitive in my opinion and shows the authors inexperience. The author wants to show the thoughts and personalities of his characters but struggles to do that without spelling it out in detail.
So there is a lot of meaningless back and forth that could definitely get cut out in an edit and there is a lot of dialogue that is unnatural or on the nose..."show not tell