You Only Die Once (An Undying Necromancer LitRPG)

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Description

I got summoned to another world with the rest of my class. As it usually goes, everyone received a special ability and was deemed heroes.

Everyone except me.

Instead, I was buried alive in the ground and left to die.

Oh, how I wish I could have died.

How I wish.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2024
Author: meowmanager

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 1,072
Views: 245,037

Chapters(51 total)

What readers say about You Only Die Once (An Undying Necromancer LitRPG)

“If you are looking for something fast, thrilling, with a nicely paced progression and lots of action and emotion, do not miss out on this! The MC finds his way in this new world as an undead, this is a very fresh story and the events and characters are quit…”
theglass12Royal Road5.0 / 5
“I love the mentally unstable MC, with the original plot and events. The story contains A lot of emotion, tragedy, action, comedy and thrills, and in the correct ratio for my taste, with a style which supplements the story. The story allows me to view the is…”
Don YoavRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

theglass12Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If you are looking for something fast, thrilling, with a nicely paced progression and lots of action and emotion, do not miss out on this!
The MC finds his way in this new world as an undead, this is a very fresh story and the events and characters are quite interesting. Overall I loved this and can’t wait to read more
Don YoavRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love the mentally unstable MC, with the original plot and events.
The story contains A lot of emotion, tragedy, action, comedy and thrills, and in the correct ratio for my taste, with a style which supplements the story.
The story allows me to view the isekai genre in new colors, like a certain story of a little blue snake.
GoGoTurtlesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Well written progression with cool interactions with both monsters and people alike. I am very looking forward to reading more👍. Love the character development and the speed pf progression🙌. I would compare it to stuborn skill grinder, but with less time stuff and more suffering. Also a bit like sss suiside hero, without all the Conny bullshit. Very good 10/10
Rusty_MagsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The strength of the story definitely lies in the author's ability to write vivid scenes and their interest and fascination with the darker side of Isekai. The weakest parts of the story, and it's not that weak, if I'm being perfectly honest, is going to be the character. We just started out, so I don't expect him to be very developed. And then there are some places where the wording could be better, but it's not going to be a massive difference, just a minor improvement from good to very good. All in all, I love the story and I'd recommend it to anybody who wants to read sort of a darker Isekai.
This next part has some very minor and vauge spoilers, but the main character starts out as a foolish, naive teenager and then he gets a rather serious and grim perspective on reality thrown his way. He takes that in stride. Then it gets darker and he develops a bit of a Stockholm Syndrome which was interesting. He still has a lot of empathy and belief in humanity and this next part specifically. No idea where he's going to go from here, but it's going to be another character development moment and it's going to decide the next hundred chapters of the story. So I'm very excited to see where the author is going to take it and see how it's going to develop because this is a make or break moment. Honestly, where I'm at right now I could stop and be like, wow, that's a really good short story. So I'm interested to see where this longer novel is going to take us.
Tyger01Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
So good
so good
so good
i loved it
loved the setting
loved the characters
loved the plot
one problem though, it’s a little short
but that’s a consequence of finding a diamond in the rough early
I’m going to let it sit for a few months and then come back and then binge
nugenttwRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
If you like dark stories told from the perspective of a mentally insane main character, this is the story for you. After ages of torture, where he is unable to die, the MC's mind breaks. This leads him to actions so dark, even my eyes widened in surprise. By the time he is finally on his way to recovery with new friends... well... I won't spoil it.
This is a fast-paced story that I can already see will lead to glorious revenge. Very few grammar mistakes were noticed, definitely not enough to take the reader out of the story.
However, I will warn prospective readers, if you want a good, moral MC who does the 'right thing', this ain't it.
BookManiaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Main Character suffers so much & is so broken. The story is so graphic & vivid & the author does a great job bringing the scenes to life. The story is well written. The world is vivid & you can't help but feel invested in the Main Characters journey, even if it sad at times.
Shitpost4uRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
I will start with a thanks to the author for putting their work out there for the public to read! I imagine this as a first draft or outline that the author could backfill as they continue to grow their writing technically. I think there are really great ideas happening and if they wanted to turn this into an actual full length story it could be solid and fun! It definitely gives off Grimms fairy tales vibes and I do love the grim dark aspect.
The biggest issue is the lack of depth to the world and characters. Second would be the poor syntax. I assume English is not their primary language as well and I assume this because of the word choice and sentence structures not feeling organic.
I do think the author should keep writing this story! With reader feedback helping to progress the quality on each chapter I think the author could end up developing their personal storytelling style. Remember this is RR; it’s a place to share, develop, and enjoy the creative process! Keep at it and get better with every chapter!
CosmorosRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
Let's start by saying this story is based on plot armour and nonsense. The entire system feels like a joke and makes absolutely no sense.
Style: It is mediocre. The dialogues made me stop reading this because they are horrible and absolutely ruined any remaining care I had for this story. The story is written in the first person narrative by the MC, with plotholes and issues from the start.
Story: We are just thrown into an Isekai; we know nothing of how old he is, where he is from, who he was, and how he was. Just here, “now you have to die” by being buried. Nothing is told about the world, magic, or people surrounding MC. NOTHING.
The author loves to add shocking scenes just for shock value that don’t have any other purpose. I can already see how, later on, MC will become a normal person or a joke.
MC’s power also makes no sense. How is it supposed to make him strong or help him in any way rather than not letting him die is beyond me. I got bored with his permanent resurrection in just three chapters.
Grammar: Mediocre – Bad. Dialogues are just unreadable. The narration is hard to read, and the story's exposition is poor.
Characters: I can’t tell much about them. From what I got from the story, I can compile them into a list of “important” and “not important,” with an important list starting and ending with the MC and a non-important list having every other character.
So far, every character's story has made me not care about them. MC exists just for shock value; people exist to die for Mc or kill him. MC completely loses his humanity in the first three chapters and goes on to cannibalize people. Also, how these people survived for so long without food is a mystery.
TLDR: The story is just bad. If MC and writing make you want to stop reading the first chapters. My recommendation would be to stop reading it further.
OddmonRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
I couldn’t get into this one; it suffers from the classic “tells instead of shows” pitfall. The writing simply is not engaging; it makes no connection (emotional or otherwise) between the reader and any of the characters in the story.
We are only given a very basic and generic overview into the situation of the novel during the starting chapters… Let me explain: there is next to zero introduction to what is happening in the story other than ‘the class is isekaied, it’s a very commonplace thing these days.’ I’m paraphrasing, but I’m not even kidding. There is almost no meaningful dialogue (what little is there is confusing instead of intriguing; it just doesn’t have the contextual basis to work from), no meaningful inner thoughts other than to simply state what was happening, and most bafflingly of all; no introduction to any of the characters, including the main one.
The writing itself is also lacking as well, or perhaps it’s lacking because of how shallow the story is. Yes, I only looked through the first two chapters, but I didn’t foresee this improving.
I am being critical, yes, but I also want to offer some advice to the author: take the time to introduce your main character, the supporting characters, villains, the atmosphere, and the setting they find themselves in. This was a big rush to instantly get to the darker side of the story, and subsequently I didn’t care one bit about the MC’s struggles. Chapter one could have been chapter 3 or 4 after suitable character buildup and interactions, exposition and/or world building exploration. It might have made for a smoother and more well-thought out story overall. Or, if you do want to jump right into the nitty gritty like this, make it more personal with narrative flourish; bare bones are for necromancers, not for your reading audience.
Much room for improvement with this one.