The Voice of the World

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Description

Jason Elric used to be an ordinary college student living in the heart of San Francisco. He had a part time job, he played online games with friends he got along moderately well with, and he earned reasonably good grades. The worst he really had to worry about in life was turning in his coursework on time and not being late to class.

Now, though? Now fighting for his life and running from a horde of giant frogs that want to make him their next meal is just another Tuesday.

Thanks to a summoning ritual gone terribly right, Jason has found himself trapped in a world eerily similar to the role playing games games he used to play for fun. Unfortunately for the now ex-college student, everything happening around him is terrifyingly real and if he wants to survive, he’ll have to figure out how to exploit the system for his benefit before it’s too late.

The Voice of the World is the first part of what is planned to be a multi-book, Isekai LitRPG story with crafting elements, set in the fantasy world known as Verdania. This is my first time posting online for public consumption, so bear with me as I work to find a style that people like.

While I may occasionally write scenes that may deal with heavy concepts, expect this story to be primarily light hearted high fantasy. There will be a lot of common fantasy tropes involved, as this story got its start as a simple practice exercise, rather than any plan to actually post it. However, it’s grown on me, so I felt it’s worth sharing after all.

Thus, if you’re looking for more serious/original/unusual stories, you might want to look elsewhere. For the rest of you, feel free to leave suggestions, as well as to point out grammar and spelling mistakes; I’ll do my best to make edits to correct them. I do my own editing currently, and it’s easy to miss things when you know what’s supposed to be there, so such call outs are highly encouraged.

Content TLDR:No harems,probablyno romance (unless it makes sense for the story later on)(it did, eventually), definitely no sex (keeping this PG-13 or close to it), limited profanity.Does/Willcontain mixes of magic and technology (think Warhammer, Final Fantasy); copious amounts of blue tables; race, gender, and sexual equality concepts; crafting sequences; and (slightly, but not overbearingly) strong protagonists. If you don’t like these things, go elsewhere instead of downvoting people for content instead of writing quality.

Update Time currently varies, due to personal injury, but the goal is 1/week on Wednesdays, with a possible smaller chapter on weekends if time/health permits.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2018
Author: Ashkari

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(10)

eggsarecoolRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This has been one of the most enjoyable litrpg's I've found on RR so far. I especially love that you keep blue boxes to a minimum of what's required for info purposes and have seperate chapters dedicated to stat page updates for those who want to pore through them. Wish more people would do that :D
Can't wait to see what develops between Kera, Lumi, and Jason.
P.S. Hope you feel better soon, can't wait for the next chapter :)
LordamnesiaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Meta Gaming, trying to break characters, crafting, everything you expect in an LitRPG! Except, there's everything you don't expect either. Caring that the new world is changing them, worrying about the mind control aspects that their skills and classes provide, to actually having issues with their previous lives. On top of that, you have an incredibly realistic romance getting set up! Not to mention being a crafter and not just crafting stuff in the begining or middle, but honest to god making amazing shit throughout. Keep up the amazing work!
FuirenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
In a world of ghost hounds and various specters of all kinds, a light shines in this world! I look forward to it’s future brightness one way or another!
Havoc1224Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
This story pretty much hit every note that I look for in a litrpg, the only issues I had with it were the prologue and some of the timing. There is a lot of explanation of how the magic system works, but I appreciate that in worlds with magic systems. I really appreciated the authors attempts to make the magic system stay mostly work one way and explain it fully.
This story does have a very OP main character, but that's the type of thing I like. I disagree with the people that say it's too much progress in to short of a timespan. In the story the characters specifically say that they have a system blessing that upgrades potential and a pre existing knowledge that applies. It's like if an engineer who lived in our time was dropped into our time was put into the late 1800s mid Industrial Revolution, and immediately got taken in as an apprentice for tesla or something. they would probably be super good at it apparently miraculously fast. This story is about a gamer who is dropped into a world similiar to games he's played before.
Overall I really enjoyed this novel and hope it updates soon!
IJustWantedToSayRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
There are some stories that aren't quite alluring enough to pull you back if you ever look away. This is not one of those. You realize you are enjoying the story when royal road goes down and you keep checking if it is back up yet so you can keep reading this one particular story.
The characters are unique enough not to feel like you've seen them before. There is some weight to the decisions made but it all remains pretty light hearted so far (~20 chapters in). I hope that the choices the characters made prove to have consequences where you'll look back and go... Ohhh thats what caused this... Characters are not yet too over powered though I expect they will get to the levels typical for players in RPGs.
There are some grammer mistakes but they are not too common. Almost every author on Royal road needs to look up the definition of "weary". Other than that, I plan to keep reading. I recommend you give it a try.
LawkzRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
TL;DR: Skim over the prologue, the actual fiction is much better.
I can't emphasize enough how bad the prologue is when compared with the rest of the story, author really needs to rewrite that horrible waste of time. It's so bad I strongly considered dropping the fiction as a whole, the only thing that kept me reading was curiosity of how the story actually starts.
Worst part is that the prologue is boderline irrelevant to the rest of the novel, a big case of author losing sight of what matters to focus on overarching plots that the reader has no investment in whatsoever.
The fiction description is also somewhat misleading, it seems to describe a 'desperate survival' kind of situation when the fiction is more of a happy go lucky adventure almost all the time, with only bits of survival involved.
The story is about multiple people being summoned to a fantasy world, the MC party meets up rather early on and get along well, the actual threats to their lives don't come endlessly, but only every now and then. MC is going on a more rear line support/crafting 'build' instead of the more common magic swordsman style and I find myself looking forward to how the MC party will grow.
Here's what drags the novel down in my opinion:
The in-world pacing: By chapter 51 only a handful of weeks have passed and the MC party is already really strong when compared to native people who should have a considerable headstart. Even the characters themselves constantly say "It's been only a couple weeks but felt like months".
Some contrived developments: This needs a spoiler box to go into detail, but it's enough to say that some coincidences seem rather unlikely.
Spoiler: Spoiler
MC knows survival skills;
Meets two girls and both turn out to not be hetero, while it seems to spice up the girls' characters to the benefit of the story, it is rather unlikely given how much of a minority of the overall population they are, it also seems like an obvious excuse to start a harem since they both have
FallionRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
What I really love about this story is that the MC is a crafter AND IT'S RELEVANT.
Unlike most other stories with a "crafter" MC, where the MC basically just makes one or two op items and then the subject isn't brought up again for 20+ chapters untill the MC decides to make another op item, this story actually makes the crafting relevant and interesting.
The story itself it good, the characters interesting and there's no grammar mistakes that scream "I AM HERE TO ANNOY YOU AND KILL YOUR BRAIN CELLS".
This review was written at chapter 30
CestarianRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
The biggest weakness of this story from the very start till the end (chapter 46 is as far as the story has been written at the time of this writing) is the style. There are horrendous amounts of what I like to call 'wasteful writing', by which I mean meaningless text that can just be skimmed over. In fact, I'd go as far as to venture a guess that more than half of the content written so far is such 'wasteful writing'.
Examples of such writing would include characters talking in circles about theories about some of the world's mechanics and crafting systems, or comparisons between this world and some games they've played, etc. Especially in the beginning expect to see multiple chapters worth of such roundabout discussions that lead nowhere. Now theorizing in and of itself isn't bad, and relaying the probable world mechanics through character dialogue isn't wrong either, it's the paragraph after paragraph of detailed explanations about these theories that's the problem, they should be summarized. I doubt anyone likes to read such lengthy world theory descriptions anymore than regular infodumps.
In other words, readers who like stories with decent pacing can expect to do a lot of skimming, even if there are ~800 pages of content, I read through it all within the same kind of time frame as I've been reading ~300 pages of content stories on here. I guess there were also a few interludes that I downright just skipped and didn't feel like I missed out on anything, but unlike stories like say worm where you have bloody interludes every 3 chapters or something, this story has very few of them, this is another example of wasteful writing I suppose, but some might disagree that interludes are so horrendous so I'll leave that for you to decide. This story has if memory serves 3 interludes + the prologue so far. A negligible amount.
It's not all bad though, one thing I really like is that while the author generally isn't that good in explaining what his characters or their equip
thingsandstuffRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
It's a fun story, kept me entertained, but I can't really say that I'm hooked onto it. I like the characters and the pacing, even the interactions so far. But there's just some things that annoy me – how casually they treat the respec potions like "I cAn JuSt TaKe AnOtHeR oNe", it's hard to actually keep track of the characters' classes, stats and skills because of the volume of them, and the whole leveling system doesn't quite make sense to me. Maybe these are me-problems, but I've read enough stories where these were easier to follow, and I guess I just prefer those types of stories vs where things are more complex. TO REITERATE, I enjoy the story, but there are just some things I think would've made it more enjoyable for me personally. Thanks for the work on the story dude.
xeliffoRoyal Road
★ 0.5
Yet another harem story; even if not one the plot is clearly heading there.