Legendary Shadow Blacksmith

The Otherworld

De: Romeru

Narrado por: John Joseph Rogers, Rylee Kuberra

In six days, everything changes.

After slaying a Lord-class monster, Jordan earns massive rewards—and paints a target on his back. The System responds with a global countdown: in six days, the entire world levels up. Every monster, every faction, every alien species gets stronger.

Jordan doesn’t have time to celebrate. His kingdom is small, his army still growing, and his enemies are advancing fast. Ruthless alien factions are expanding their territory. Hidden species make their move. And forces watching from beyond the planet are ready to interfere.

The clock is ticking. Jordan must push his class, his summons, and his drone army to the limit to survive what comes next. But nothing—nothing—can prepare them for what the countdown really means.

Because the System isn’t done testing them.

And it’s about to raise the difficulty. Again.

©2025 Romeru (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Excellent world, plot, story. MC gets better.

So first things first. The MC is your typical dumb brute idiot. He doesn't get social queues and isn't exactly right in the head. He's not psycho, but with only 7 hours left, I think there's a much greater mystery to his past left to explore that explains why he is how he is. BUT!! He does improve. As he works with his clone in Aternea (yes, quasi Pandora rip, but I'm fine with it) and learns more about what Ellie has done to help him, he begins to better understand both himself, relationships in general, and explore the world beyond his comfort zone. If there was one thing that was difficult, it was seeing Julian stumble through things. I generally dislike the dumb MC that doesn't get social queue trope, but, honestly, I think this is the worst of the issues I have and it improves immensely.

With that said, there are a lot of mysteries that keep building. What exactly is affecting Julian so much that things transition between Aternea and the real world? How can he do what he does? Why is his incompatibility with bioware so low, but his compatibility with his Aternea clone so high? What's going on with the daemons?

There is A LOT of meat on this bone and the author is doing a good job with the feast. I think my MC issue will resolve itself and, honestly, the narrators do a fantastic job with the narration especially how he vocalizes Julian sub-vocal responses like grunts and other things.

I only bring up the MC issue at the start of this review, but it is a trope some readers/listeners have issue with and I wanted them to know that I felt like progress is made on this front.

I rather love that Earth has advanced so far into the future that the galaxy has practically been colonized. With that said, we don't see any non-humans on earth except for daemons.

Will try next book

The overall story arc and concepts were interesting. Sometimes the specific writing could be improved. Almost all the female characters are poorly written or written as dramatically emotional but that’s not uncommon for the genre. Good enough to try next book!

I don't know

It's not bad just don't like the party we're he died. it just made me think I don't like this and just made me say ya no for this.

Awesome book can’t wait to listen to the next one

Awesome book was hooked at every turn of the plot. Can’t wait to see what happens next

ELLIE F****** SUCKS

TBH overall I enjoyed the story. The MC is portrayed as a tunnel visioned dolt so anyone who bash’s on him being a bit dull that’s just how he is but seems like he’s improving after being coddled and suppressed by Ellie and Megan.

Oh boy do I have some thoughts on most of the women in this book though. I’m curious on the source material the author used to write out the women in this book. I do not claim to know or understand women by any means at ALL lol but hell Ellie just plain out right sucks she doesn’t even give him a chance to speak his mind or express what he has going on internally I hope she gets written out or at least has a coming to mind on realizing how stifling she has been to the MCs growth. I get they grew up together but it seems like they didn’t know nor understand each other at all.

And Megan…. This is coming from a guy who dreams of having the greatest AI GF of all time Cortana or the weapon, for those of you who haven’t read the news halo book I won’t spoil it for you but it definitely brought my me a lot of joy. But Megan has such potential to be a great combat assistant AI but I feel like she’s a bit corrupted by Ellie.