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The Abyssal Descent: An Apocalypse LitRPG

Elysium's Multiverse, Book 6

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The Abyssal Descent: An Apocalypse LitRPG

By: Ranyhin1
Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
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When fate calls, a vampire hero must prepare for the ultimate war, in the sixth installment of this epic apocalypse adventure series.

As Riven Thane delves into the darker places of the multiverse, he continues to grow in power as a warlock. Still, new death-defying training is in order. Wrapped in layers of legend, the abyss is an infernal paradise of blood, depravity, and sin buried in the deepest core of the void. There's no better place for Riven to prepare, excel, and bring honor to his people. Assuming he survives the experience.

Pitted against countless off-world enemies during the darkest trials of the Abyssal Descent—the Church of Greed hunting him through the underbelly of creation all the while—Riven will certainly be outnumbered. Even if thousands among his adversaries perish, it'll be worth it for them if it ends with one dead Riven. Proving himself has never been more paramount.

Meanwhile, as devils, void beasts, and fallen demons gather to attend the duels in the depths, the drums of a greater war are beating above. The empire of the undead is coming. And the invading forces want nothing more than to vanquish Riven, their ultimate enemy, once and for all.

The sixth volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series—with more than 900,000 views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

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This series has always struggled with its tone and the tightness of the writing, but the interesting development of the lore more than made up for it. No longer. While the action sequences are still good, there are now too many frustrations: the antromorphisation of every being in the fictional universe, which all seem to play by the rules of earth's soap operas, is the most frequent annoyance. Demons, primevals, angels, vampires...they all talk the same pulpy talk, and behave like teenagers no matter how many millenia they are supposed to have behind them. The protagonists sister is insufferable. This book tries to shoehorn some kind of explanation for this, but she is also a Mary Sue. New plotlines with ever higher stakes are opened constantly, and key plotlines from the first book are still unresolved. The first half of the book is like a training montage and lore exposition dump and it is much too slow and longwinded given there are major plotlines awaiting resolution. I'm also still not on board with the harem aspect of the story, even if the author is at pains to point out how consentual everything is. It would have been better not to embark on this at any point.

Jay Asseng does well with monster and elder statesman voices, but I do not enjoy listening to his female characters. He has maintained the weird cadence that started with book one, where the reading has pauses where normal speech would not pause. It is a minor gripe, but it still persists.

I'm not sure I can do another one of these, though it will be a shame to give up on the magic system and some of the inventive world building that made the first few books rather thrilling.

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