Unlimited Isekai And Other Unfortunate Magic [Progression Litrpg]

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Dave dies twice. The first time he sees a paramedic. The second, he's whisked off to a world of Skills and Magic.

Escaping from the Citadel of Bones, Dave discovers he possesses an unusual talent: consuming the dead to gain their Attributes. However, he soon finds himself stranded in the City of Shandria where fellow adventurers perish at an alarming rate, and mysterious foxes offer ambiguous Quests with questionable payoffs.Can Dave's wit, flexible Stats, and a phantom detective named Sherlock keep him alive in a realm where his very abilities are outlawed?

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: Vitaly S Alexius

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 3,097
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Community Reviews(10)

thrackRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Absolute wild ride of a book excellent written with in depth characters. Main character is not just a boring devourer he has many weaknesses and incapabilities. I’ll definitely see where it goes from here.
it does have a unfortunate telling not showing side kick that solves all the problems and always appears to know all the answers. Also has a lore dump chapter..
CernenusRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm really enjoying this, I can't wait for more. So far I am really enjoying the world building and character development. I am certainly looking forward to reading the other works that take place in this universe. So keep up the good work. If you like it to consider supporting the author.
CohendmrRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I believe the story is as far as it was when I found it the first time and put it in my read later. The story and humor are top notch. I so want to go back and read the original but do not want to ruin the re write for myself. I think the only way I can safely get ahead is to go patrion. O well.
The humor is fast, liquid, and just leaves con trails all over.
Doctor ZeroRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm enjoying this book very much. The world building is beyond top notch. Just exploring this world would be enough to keep me reading.
Don't be put off by a few overused LitRPG tropes in the first chapter, they get inverted within a few chapters (the MC is OP, but so are the bad guys - powers are unearned, but that becomes a major plot point).
The early chapters have breakneck pacing, which I really enjoy. RR has enough slice-of-life.
All in all, it's tight and awesome. Give it a try.
MaxbacksRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I like the story for now, I really want the character to expand on his primary power, but the story is at its start for now. I really want to follow the MC as he struggles on in this world. I'm also waiting on the world to be better fleshed out, and I loooove the tiny companions!
Mordecai25Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is honestly kickass. It's genuinely a refreshing take on an isekai. The world building is pretty good. The author does a good job in describing scenes without over doing it. The characters feel real. Shits got me hooked. If there's anything I could gripe about, it's that the author didn't describe the blackhole in greater detail.
someone you don't knowRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The plot of the book itself isn't that well defined, with the Mc just wandering around like a lost skyrim player. However what events that he takes a part of are genuinely interesting. The fact that the author's different universes interact with each other in here makes it all the better. Not too much that you need to read the other books to understand, but you can also do so to get a better understanding of the background. Also this is probably the only one of the authors books that are completely magical. No technology. My favorite type. The Mc is my favorite part of the book and probably in the entire universe. He's got unique powers, and not just in terms of other books mcs but in this book as well. Hes.got a nice sidekick, and the best part is that he's got a connection to the underlying code that controls reality. Or something like that. But not just the Mc. We've got the shady, charismatic, waitress for a café, the shy socially awkward and aggressive rainbow dragon, and a ghost of a long ded detective who may or may not be veeeeeery lightly relate to the organization behind the control of these worlds. I could probably go on for a long time. But basically this Mc best that why 4 star. Then we got the universe and that gets you an extra star so bam 5 star.
malinizgeldiRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
When MC lies down for a long time and lifts his head slightly, someone steps on his head hard with a thick-soled boot.
Just when you say "huh, things are starting to get better", the author throws another problem in your face. I don't know, I didn't have fun. Probably MC will only increase the number of troubles in dozens of episodes, not reduce it.
PoTaytoHeadRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Update: This story was rewritten to nest within a larger universe. That's an admirable goal, but at the end of the day you could have simply added the cross-story elements while keeping the heart of the original story. Most of the struggles I had reading this story after the original make a lot more sense now. Part of that seems to be the growth of the author in style don't jive with what I enjoyed initially, and that's fine. Plenty of people seem to enjoy the change. It just seems to have taken the heart out of the story to make room for a broader universe and WAY more characters.
Overall: This story is a rewrite of an older story. While that older story had some issues, it was actually much more streamlined than what the author has now. The rewrite seems to add multiple sections that bog down the story, complicating a more understandable story. While the story is still better than average for Royal Road, it definitely suffers from meandering plots, needless scenes, and a loss of identity compared to the initial story. I'm not sure why this was rewritten.
Style: The style is the only aspect of this story that hasn't changed drastically during the rewrite. The main focus tends to be the absurd. Many scenes focus on a "wow" factor for imagination. This works, for the most part. The places it doesn't, however, are pretty glaring. It's just above average for style, and that's leaning heavily on how much I enjoy absurdist humor.
Story: The story here is pretty run-of-the-mill for an isekai. We get the quips, the clueless/lost hero being led around by the nose, and all of the contrived meetings/situations that lend themselves to the hero staying alive. The real issue here is the pacing. It's brutal. Having read the initial version of this story, I can see where the plot is going (probably), but I can't really make amends with dragging out the story for many more chapters until we get to the whole point of it.
Dave needing the magical healing that only Remicra can give hi
AldrighiRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
[Disclaimer: I have not read any other versions of this novel]
Story:
- You are not given any time to enjoy the world or learn more about anything. After Dave (our MC) dies and shows up in another world, it feels like we have entered a race. In every chapter there is a scenario or two that will try to get him killed horribly. He is always doing barely enough not to die but keeps sinking deeper and deeper into worse circumstances. It is utterly hopeless and frustrating.
He has nothing, is in debt (they can enslave people in debt), no way to make money, has a class that is hunted and killed by whoever finds out about it, no equipment, no allies, too low level to kill anything without getting atrociously hurt. Oh, and every chapter introduces a new life-threatening problem.
The author has digged a hole so deep for Dave that nothing short of a Deus Ex Machina, a contrived plot device, will save him. He has zero agency, cannot solve his own problems and can only get a small win whenever someone feels pity for him. Isn't it fun seeing the MC depending on others for his survival? (No.)
We couldn't learn any details on the city he is in, such as how do they keep themselves alive? How do they farm and trade? How are the newbie adventurers getting money to equip themselves since the jobs barely give any money? How do they even find easy monsters to kill since the whole world is so deadly?
Forget it because there is no time for any of that. Since you started reading this another two new life-threatening scenarios popped up to screw over the MC. Gotta keep going. Keep moving. Don't stop. No time to slow down. No time to relax.
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Characters:
- Our regular guy Dave somehow has more mental resilience than a 90 year old buddhist monk. A navy SEAL veteran would have a mental breakdown if he went through a third of what this guy did in 20 chapters.
Mental torture? He died and was taken by