The Twelfth Cataclysm: A LitRPG Adventure

Information

Status

Ongoing

Year

2022

Author

Valerios

• Crab On!
  Jul 11, 2023
• Road to Mastery is Out!
  May 31, 2023
• Pincer Tactics audiobook is out too
  Apr 6, 2023
• Pincer Tactics!
  Mar 22, 2023
• Author's Closing Remarks
  Dec 20, 2022
• Chapter 2: Just a crab
  Sep 20, 2022
• Chapter 1: Well, Phac...
  Sep 20, 2022

Reviews

Community Reviews(7)

• TransveraiRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The story revolves around the main character,
  Phac
  And how he wanders around in a strange world with a case of amnesia,
  It also involves Phac's counterpart, Nick, who was a retired sailor in a world that is undergoing great changes as people have had strange dreams about a myterious world known as Paras (?)
  Over all, the concept is rather unique as I've certainly not read anything like it. It is a rather nice change from the way that a lot of stories take themselves seriously as well.
  Although it does have serious moments, it also has a good mix of low, and high, brow humor, and even in a serious arc, such as the current one, the author has found ways to push out a comic relief. It's also extremely admirable that the author has also laid out the brickwork for another potential arc,
  With the Daughter of Oreg,
  The characters are well developed for the most part, with only a few that aren't really well fleshed out, but we don't know whether they will even be important yet anyways.
  As for the grammer, it's pretty good, and once mistakes get pointed out, the author fixes it within a day or so, props on that.
  So quite frankly, I'd say that it's a great read for those who are fans of fantasy, mayhaps even for those Isekai diehards, and overall is a comedic masterpiece, with well paced plot. It's something the Author clearly thought out, and probably thinks about while doing housework still.
  P.s. If you really don't believe in such a review, just go read it, at least a few chapters. Who knows, it might be for you.
• Grappler66Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Man, I just read up to a pivotal scene, the newest chapter at the time of this review, and I gotta say this story has everything I look for.
  First, the author is doing great balancing humor with serious dramatic themes. I'm loving the dialogue between characters and I think this is really where the author excells. Don't drop the story like I almost did before the MC meets some people, or you will miss out on a true gem of Royal Road.
  Second, the personable MC and the people he meets, one orc in particular, really invested me into the story, which caused the slowly revealed dark fantasy world they're in to hit like a raging truck-kun when shit hit the fan.
  Don't sleep on this story.
• cdr_whiteRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I do like if a story is not taking everything too serious. I also love down to earth heroes going on adventures. This story has a very good combination of both. Definitely worth reading.
  I like the characters and how they develop. I like the humour and can imagine the twinke in the authors eye while writing some of the scenes. Apart from the MC, there are a couple of sidekicks who at the first glance start out as stereotypes and then develop more and more.
  Sadly, quite a lot of them die and their deaths add to the depth of the story, so not everything is fun and happiness.
  The story arc is well thought out and after catching up, I eagerly awaited the arrival of every new chapter.
  The world building and having the people in a fantasy world and at the same time in their old lives but only their earth selves knowing what their other selves are doing is a new twist on the isekai genre and adds a lot of depth.
  If you don't take everything too seriously and want some good entertainment with the right mix of humor and action, this is definietly worth spending some time on it. If there will be a printed version, it'll definitely join the others in my fantasy bookshelf.
• kubliconRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  It's a pretty standard isekai to a System world story. But while the premise isn't original, the execution has been outsatnding so far. It has good mix of humor and action that hits just the right balance. The action feels realistic and gritty, while the humor feels grounded in things people might actually do or say. No zany sidekicks or immediate godlike powers. The MC is likeable and is surviving his ordeal without plot armor.
  Good stuff
  Edit- The quality falls off pretty hard once the solo dungeonning arc ends.
  I may come back to binge later, but for now I've dropped the story around chapter 40. The problem is that I do not enjoy reading about dumb characters doing dumb things for plot reasons or so that the author can shoehorn a joke into the story.
  The MC started off relateable and if not intelligent, at least pragmatic. He had some goofy internal dialogue, but I have no problem with that. When the MC starts encountering other people and the goofy internal dialogue turns into goofy speech and bizarre actions...now I lose respect for him.
  Your enjoyment of this story will probably hinge on whether you find it funny. I don't. It's too wacky to be taken seriously, but niot wacky enough to be read as straight comedy. The humor has a juvenile/slapstick flavor. For instance the main recurring joke is that the MC accidently gave himself a name within the sytem that sounds like a swear word. Except it doesn't. Phonetically, "Phac" doesn't sound remotely like profanity. But everyone in the story pretends it's offensive so that nonhilarious hijinks can ensue. Of course the MC could just choose a different name to introduce himself as, like John or Fred, but he's dumb so...
  Though I've been let down by the story, it's still well written techically and I'm sure there is an audience for this type of work.
• DreamsRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  I think the best way to describe the story would be that it's one I read when I'm not reading anything else. It's just okay in most aspects. The humour is very hit and miss, the action is run of the mill, the litrpg aspects are extremely basic/mundane, a "snarky" system, and the characters aren't interesting. There's nothing here that really makes anyone want to read this story over the other 1000 similar stories on RR. I want to like it, but there's just nothing that makes it stand out.
  Maybe I'll keep following it, maybe I won't. To be honest, I've been teetering at the edge of dropping it for about 10ish chapters here.
  Update: The great twist on chapter 28 still isn't that interesting. Concept could be, but execution wise it's not and doesn't fix all the other generic bits of the story. Maybe if you really like the humor (what in poseidon's squiggly beard) I'd recommend stick with it, but even the humor is very....juvenile to be honest. It's somcething I may have enjoyed middle school but not as an adult.
  It definitely gets on my nerves how so many RR readers and litRPG readers in general have no standards and give everyone 5 stars. It just encourages authors to not improve because the readers would give a turd on the road a 5 star if it had stats to go with it. It leads useless reviews and why you basiclaly have subtract a star from every rating you see in this genre to actually get the real rating. Hopefully someday we'll reach a more normal and less pulp genre of quality.
• beingtheergotRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  "Hey, I just read this sub-par story."
  "Oh? What was it about?"
  "It was this LitRPG about this guy who wakes up in the middle of a dungeon, unfamiliar with the LitRPG system, and there's a snarky AI that makes fun of him. He somehow survives the dungeon, and because of that, gets a super unique and special class that he uses to become overpowered. It's listed as a comedy but isn't very funny."
  "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"
  Okay, jokes aside, that little skit pretty much sums up how I feel about this story. It's got an incredibly generic plot, style, sense of humor, tropes, characters, pretty much everything. I really can't express just how much I felt like I was reading some story generated by an AI that had only ever been shown the bottom half of all stories on RoyalRoad. But I'll go into the specifics anyway.
  CHARACTER:
  One thing I haven't yet mentioned is the main character has amnesia. So, the fun thing about that, is that he doesn't really have character. He has no past, no relationships, no opinions, and pretty much nothing else. Normally, a character with amnesia is developed by having them make tough, interesting decisions and seeing how they react, but we don't get that, either. His main decision is "oh no, I am in a dungeon full of monsters. I will fight the monsters." How rivetting.
  STYLE:
  This story commits what is, in my mind, the cardinal sin of LitRPGs, which is: the stats don't matter. The skills don't matter. Levels don't matter. Literally the entire fact that there is a system doesn't matter. The main character is level 1 at the beginning of the story, and he kills a level 15 monster pretty easily. How, you ask? Is it by concocting a genius plan, or crafting a complicated series of traps to weaken it? No. He punches it a couple times, kind of hard. And then it dies. Within the next few chapters, he kills more level 15 monsters, and even an "Elite" level 21 monster. He ends up solo-clearing the entire dungeon. At
• GusartRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  First book was fun adventure with inresting premise. But second book went into badly written political drama with completely different tone from the first book. The political drama could be sumerized in not smart MC being led to do things by other peaple, because it's "right".
  Sadly didn't have the patience to finish it. Maybe it got better.