The Violet Dawn (a dark litRPG adventure)

Self-Published

Community Rating

Description

The Central World of Grandemyr, the highest of magical worlds— limitless and inexplicable, its vast boundaries roamed by countless existences of arcane abilities and power.

Experiencing betrayal and death, syndicate member Kiera Ashborn wakes up in a forest at a remote corner of Grandemyr— devoid of information, weapons, and acquaintances, with only a plain white dress covering her new small body.

With her only tool being her new homeworld’s system, Kiera will learn the joy of adventure and battle, stroll through fields of death, cross colossal oceans and encounter mystical races, with a set goal driving her forward— become stronger.

Note for new readers:

This novel is a work of fantasy that includes magic elements, thus— I strive to implement the reality of a world where humanoids hold supernatural powers and construct hierarchies based on their power levels. Inevitably, such a novel includes many negative elements which may traumatize some readers, such as and not limited to: rape, profanity, detailed violence, and sexual acts.

The Main Character is a former assassin and thus more of a villain than an anti-hero, she shall value only what grants her maximum benefits, even over the lives of others. She is antisocial and prefers to work alone, she doesn't consider others as comrades, only as means to an end, and will have zero problems discarding them herself.

Schedule: two to three chapters per week.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: UnrestrainedElder

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 357
Views: 54,713

Chapters(25 total)

Reviews

No reviews yet. Be the first to share your thoughts!

Community Reviews(3)

VoxolRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Slightly updated review from Chapter 8.
Kiera is a main character that is ruthless and will achieve her goals. The story is based on a system and has some very unique worldbuilding and power systems which is enjoyable.
From what we have seen so far the world is based on many Isles and the size of the world is much, much larger than Earth. We have now also seen how the tyrannical attribute fits onto the world power-wise.
There is a great cover, a great look for the system display, a main character that uses experience and quick thinking over plot armor to survive, a well-thought-out way early on for why someone who reincarnates keeps their memories without 'because god said so.'
There are many aspects of the story that are slowly being revealed, the first few chapters are more establishing the world as Kiera slowly makes plans on how to improve herself in the world.
The latest arc currently gives a lot of worldbuilding information that will give you a better idea of Kiera's power. There are also creative solutions to fights that give a satisfying end.
If you have not read the synopsis then you should. This is a dark litrpg for a reason, if you do not like dark-themed stories then better find something else.
--- Chapter 20 Update ---
The magic system for TVD is a very hard magic system (If you don't know what I mean by hard is that there are strict rules when it comes to using magic)
The story overall is quite new, many things are uncertain and slowly being revealed. I would pay attention to the small details when it comes to magic as its quite important and only vaguely touched on currently.
A few slight typos here and there, some chapters may have one minor typo and nothing else.
As with any new story, give it a chance. With the 20 chapters and information revealed in discord, TVD has much more than meets the eye and is very unique in its magic system and worldbuilding.
BedwigRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
The start is good, but she quickly gets OP. While I’m fine with OP protagonists this one just tops the list of OP-ness that I’ve read. If you like OP protagonists this will be just for you.
This fiction also reminds me of those xianxia Chinese web novels you can find translated on sites, the type with the assassin/doctor being reincarnated into the xianxia world.
The grammar is good and spelling is good.
pillowfortRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Do you like mcs that fight vastly stronger enemies for no reason, "almost dying" according to the author (we have little to no frame of reference for how much damage she takes until the fight is over) but win and get stronger? This is for you.
If you expect a MC with personality other than "I like fighting," a story which requires the MC to actually strategize, and interesting activities outside fighting? This story is not for you. I fall into this category and I will be dropping this novel. I have pretty high standards for LitRPGs however, so you might find this novel up your alley.
Style
Nothing special, though nothing bad. I don't see anything to differentiate it from the 1000 other LitRPGs out there. 3/5
Story
Basically none. Girl is isekaied, finds way to become OP quickly, fights things no sane person would because she's a LitRPG protagonist who despite having a background of careful planning before her reincarnation (or she is just a really bad assassin and hasn't told us) just throws herself at enemies and hits them now. Overall worldbuilding is ok but nothing special. Most of the book is spent describing the fights, but to me it's a lot of skill vomit that basically boils down to "she hits the enemy until it dies, and may or may not have been close to death in the fight but it doesn't matter because she never needs to retreat and the enemies don't seem threatening." 1.5/5
Grammar
A few typos and akward phrases, but nothing major. 4.5/5
Character
MC seems to actually be somewhat amoral, which is rare for a novel that purports to have one. Most amoral MC novels I've read have their MCs do the same things good MCs would, but have a couple of lines explaining why they did what they did for amoral reasons. Having a MC that's perfectly fine ripping the hearts out of random people she has no idea about is a big plus in my book. However, other than that the MC has basically no distinguishing charactaristics and even ignores most if not all of her background as an