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Welcome to the Multiverse, Book 6

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By: Sean Oswald
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
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The apocalypse has arrived.

Now, it's down to control. Who will control the rich resources of a newly inducted world? Multiple systems, sects, guilds, and incursion parties are all aiming for that control.

But Silas believes there is more to control than just land and resources. He aims to win over the hearts and souls of the people while making Earth the strongest it can be.

©2025 Sean Oswald (P)2025 Podium Audio Adventure First Contact Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Heartfelt
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Silas continues to get more badass, more players enter this ever entwining tale. Sean just writes magic and Travis brings it to life.
If your thus far on you know how awesome the series is!

Soooo Good!!

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I love how love all the buildings and stuff I didn't like the fact that it was so short I want more

can't wait for the next one

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Just a Classic to listen along as i work out and relax at home can’t wait for the next book

Great

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What a bloody rippa. Still up there with some of the better lite RPGs, a must read series.

Still one of the best.

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Serious Baldree, don’t try and impersonate an Australian accent, you are so far off it’s bloody hilarious, love it 🤪🤪 great series absolutely blows defiance of the fall out of the water.
Love the cheeky nods to HWFWM’s and Defiance.
This series has owned its place in the greats, Baldree kills it (except for the huh hum Australian accent) def take this one up even if it’s full of Murican sentiment and patriotism, which these days doesn’t mean much, but take a breath, you guys will be back in 3 years or so, depending on who you elect! And……….if you stop shooting people. We love you America, do we need to perform an intervention? 🥰🥰

Serious Baldree?

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You make a relatively smart character and then you make him dumb as rocks when you need a dumb decision to move the story forward

MC is the dumbest smart person

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This series has had 2 problems from the start that sometimes fade and sometimes grow but this book pushed them to the point that it's hard to swallow.

1) Attempting to tell the reader how to feel. eg; "the landscape was ruined, burned and broken, a childs doll lying discarded, invoking feelings of despair, a reminder of all the lives already lost". It actually cheapens the experience and breaks immersion detailing the scene then telling us how we should feel about it instead of just describing it and letting us draw our own conclusions. Even then, it probably wouldn't be too bad except that it happens constantly. Even mid-fight, interrupting the flow of what seems like it's supposed to be an action scene.

2) Inconsistency. Primarily in 2 things. The first, the MC's intelligence, or perhaps threat evaluation, or perhaps just ability to connect the dots. Sometimes he seems super clever, and other times it seems like the system itself must be blocking the pathways in his brain to stop him drawing obvious conclusions. The second, the power levels. Everything above the MC seems so strong and impossible to overcome without luck and potentiality and a truly ridiculous foundation... until the MC reaches that level, and then suddenly even enemies a tier below him are capable of tying up his abilities and being a lethal threat.

Just... at this point immersion is completely broken for me. Doesn't help that sometimes the stat sheets are incorrect or at least behind what's been written, undermining trust in the belief that the author is actually on top of what he's writing. I honestly don't understand how out of so many litrpgs that have detailed, interesting or unique features, that this series that is so mid has such high reviews.

Fed up

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Half the fights are over detailed, you end up losing what is happening due to the amount of descriptive words being used for one aspect of the fights, then to compound the issue the Author decides to add more ways to describe what Silas is feeling, thinking and his overall thought process. Add in a little flash back from the past with it and then a 2 minute fight has turned into 30 minutes just for it to end the same way as his older fights. Feels super rushed and not thought out as well as it could of been.

Excessive details in fights...

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