Whispers in the Void

Self-Published

Community Rating

Description

A game that allowed me to feel real and escape from the reality surrounding me.

This world constantly brought me emotions that I could not get in everyday life. Despite all the failures of getting through the game, it led me to something more.

Now that I have immersed myself in this world, I am willing to do anything to salvage what made me feel necessary and meaningful.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2023
Author: Quixotic

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 18
Views: 2,529

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Community Reviews(10)

pinknblueRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Very fresh new take on cultivation with some old school LITRPG thrown in. Some new rules that I loved reading about. Even learned some new words. Also want to mention that the creativity is pretty impressive. The two main characters being thrust from one scenario into another. Also learned some new words along the way. Its not your standard read. RECOMMENDED for anyone that is willing to try something a little bit different!
KFranzRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I saw this story shared in a Facebook group and thought I would give it a shot, I'm glad I did!
It's an interesting take on a LitRPG Progression Fantasy and I like the Cultivation aspects, it also has a good amount of action and comedy to keep the story going. I'm enjoying the 2 different MC's, they play off of each other very well since they are 2 very different personalities.
The story does take a bit to get into since there is a good amount of build-up and backstory around Sen, but once you get past that it begins to take off and you have more interaction between Josh and Sen.
The story is well written, I haven't found very many errors. The chapters are concise and don't end on any really frustrating cliff hangers. All in all I think it's a pretty solid story.
I look forward to the next chapters. :)
PigeonGobblerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I've only read a few chapters but what I have read is intriguing and unique. Spoilers below.
I love the scene with the grandma with the shears getting throat-punched in the elevator (the cover). I don't think I've ever read a lawyer punching the geriatric... If that doesn't pique your interest then I don't know what will. But the fact of the matter is its original take: Xianxia, sci-fi, and a dash of litrgp. Most importantly the two main characters Josh and Sen are 3 dimensional. Anyways give it a read. It will be worth your time!
melanistormioRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The dual lead creats a relationship between the two mains which is a pleasure to watch develop and grow. From the very begining they start with coldhearted manipulation and move on to mutally needed mistrust. By the end of the first book there is a very believable friendship/brotherhood that makes me wish I had a friend I could trust that much.
The author wants us to think as we read and isn't afraid to throw uncommon words at us. I will be honest, they sent me to the online dictionary once or twice. But the depth of world building and the vivid writen settings make it all worth while.
Add to all of this well placed comedy and a very believable plot and story. I can't wait for the next installment (as I suspect we are pretty near the end of book three.)
Hope there is more :)
Elbryan629Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It is an interesting story, for sure. I wasn't expecting the combination of Sci-Fi, Cultivation, with LitRPG elements sprinkeld on top.
I did get tripped up on some of the terminology, and it's taken me some time to get a feel for it, but I've gotten there.
I think the strongest part of the story has to do with the relationships between the main characters. The author does a great job of getting across that sense of paternal love and protectiveness.
Some challenges the story is facing, for me at least, have to do with "painting the canvas" in a compelling way. Some of those include strength progression. Spherical this and Tetrahedral that, I rather prefer levels, but I do get that Cultivation power systems don't really work like that, its just my preference.
One thing that is incredibly encouraging is that it feels like I'm watching a writer hone his craft in real time. The story and the writing both have come a long way, and I'm really looking forward to seeing where this goes!
IndibroRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is very intriguing with detail into side characters. The first couple chapters start out a little slow, but it only keeps getting better. I know we're all addicted to instant gratification from LitRPGs, but let me tell you this story is worth the read. Love having new authors and new content.
5/5, please ignore the people who are review bombing for almost no reason and saying "slow start, still nothing" or something along the lines. Good writing and plot obviously take time. Its a great story to pick up and give my monkey brain a rest from all the drivel of litrpg i usually consume lol. Very excited to read more and see where this goes.
Read it!
Zenopath (AEV)Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I found this story to be good once it got started, which happens at chapter 5, but it was a bit of a slough to get through prolog plus chapters 1-4. The reason for this because story actually has 2 main characters, the lawyer holding a "case of briefs", Josh, and a god-like immortal cultivator called Sen, and the author tries to really give us a feel for who they are, but does so in a fairly exposition heavy way that jumps around a bit.
Ok so next paragraph has spoilers of chapter 1-4, skip if you want to read the story as author intended. But if you want to start where the action starts, the spoilers gives you just enough information to get started.
Long story short Sen is the protag, and he's trying to stop a big baddy that wants to kill every human on Earth to harvest their souls. Josh is the bystander who happens to be available to help Sen stop the big baddy. For reasons the Big Baddy is using a random human as a puppet to kill some other random human who, if she lives, will prevent the Big Baddy from winning (due to future time-line related reasons). The fight shown in the cover is between BB's mind-controlled puppet and Josh who receives a last minute warning from Sen. Josh is Sen's last hope for reasons that involve rules against direct intervention, but he's already been killed 9 times in previous attempts (Sen uses time shenanigans for extra attempts). Oh and Sen has an assistant who is also his wife and she can not let the poor dude do anything without constantly butting in and correcting him.
The story is actually really good from this point on, as it has a lot of imagination packed into how Sen and Big Baddy fight it out, and the idea of poor Josh just continuing to be involved in all the craziness going on is pretty humorous in a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sort of way, like he's the cultivator equivalent of Arthur Dent, the clueless guy caught up in all the weirdness by insane zany characters. Anyways, the story is still in early stages, but if y
crazy_dwarfRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I read it, and honestly it could have started at chapter 5 with no change or chapter 12 with minor changes and maybe a flashback or two.
the first 11 chapters set up interdimensional alien cultivators, an urban setting and saving the Multiverse. exactly as the synopsis advertised. the author even bother including new made up terms that will be explained later or could be understood by context.
then all of that became irrelevant by chapter 13, without any of the style promised by the cover of the book!
while it is an interesting work I feel betrayed by the settings changing genres mid way through ... so one less star.
EndoviorRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
I don't often leave reviews, but I felt particularly betrayed by the combination of the synopsis and a review encouraging me to stick through the slow start because it gets better. Neither seem accurate.
The synopsis suggests that this is a story about a lawyer, but it's mostly not. The author's comments suggest that they intended for Josh and Senyak to be co-protagonists or something, but even in the scenes where Josh exists on-screen, we mostly get Senyak's perspective (until I gave up, at least).
The focus on Senyak would not necessarily be a problem if Senyak was an interesting protagonist. Regrettably, he is not. By all appearances, Senyak is a Young Master from a Righteous Sect who apparently is supposed to be a combat specialist (but who also has minimal combat experience?)... and worse yet, he has exactly zero common sense. Also, the entire setting was apparently created explicitly to teach him a lesson... which, sure, he richly deserves... but perhaps the Immortal Cultivators in question could possibly have found some way of getting to their point without spending tens of thousands of years and creating an entire civilization?
The other review said that it takes time to get good, so I gave it a chance... but even after 15, I'm not seeing the improvement? The premise felt like a bait-and-switch, the characters are shallow and uninteresting, and the sequence of events managed to feel arbitrary and disconnected despite most of the wordcount being exposition! Ultimately, the story reads like much of it was produced by an AI, with some minimal human input tying the words together into something like a plot.
I've given up at this point. If it does get better, it does so much too slowly for it to be enjoyably readable to me.
Immemorial_WispRoyal Road
★ 0.5
Writing is a total word salad with the exposition lacking so much context that I'm still confused by what I'm reading 14 chapters in. So far nothing to do with law and frankly every interaction I have read so far feels stilted and off; the only somewhat interesting character being the initial antagonist which is marred by how easily he runs circles around Senyak. I get the point is so he comes across as a failure, incompetent etc but you can still showcase Senyak trying or accentuating ways he has been thwarted despite sincere efforts no? And Damni was absolutely no help. Her chracter is very confusing to read as I get that she serves as a foil to prove that Senyak needs to listen to others more proficient in fields that he is not, but you'd think that she'd have a more developed persona beyond an odd mix of apathetic observer (which could have been interesting if tied in with more genuine interactions with Senyak to provide more of a twist) and a pacifist who stops Senyak from bulldozing his way along but also doesnt try to help him out of her own volition even though you'd think she would want to prevent the suffering of billions across timelines (Spoiler
Even though it was all puppeteered - which goes against her Dao itself to enable suffering and genocides no??
)
. Very odd read that was hard to traul even 14 chapters through.