Ajax's Ascension: The Delves

Ajax just made a name for himself on the international stage by winning the under fifty tournament, now he will continue his trip outside the borders of Gryndor as he goes to delve into the Dungeons of Sylvanthal and Deepwood.

How will he get along with his former competition? How will the foreign nobles react to his presence? What about his friends all of whom are children of high ranking nobles.

Ajax will keep pushing himself to fight in dungeons more than twice his own level in his quest for power.

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Story line.

Absolutely love this story line, always keeps you wanting more. I can’t wait for the next book.

Good Story Poor Editing

Overall, one of my favorite stories in the LitRPG genre. Author needs some better beta readers to help with edits. Lot's of small mistakes that one would expect from speech to text functions that didn't get cleaned up correctly. The narrators have decent voices overall but they've got their own quirks. Not sure if it's due to the punctuation in the writing, but their cadence is often off to the point where it can be confusing to understand. Addtionally, some of their pronunciations seem like they are not familiar with the work. E.g. when reading about an alchemy "reagent" they pronounce it as if it was "regent".

i absolutely love the story

You need an editor though, or a better editor. You've referred to ajax's nephew as a different gender each time he's mentioned. In one chapter you say he promised not to go past the sixth floor in the dungeon and in the next he does without any mention of the change. his grandmother was on the trip with him for the first half, but then she is back in the capitol helping the family. There are other small things but small things add up over a story that's 6 books long

Well done.

A bit repetitive, but was more about stat and skill grinding, and a decent amount of political intrigue thrown in.

This book felt more like it was meant to set up the next book, than it was a truly story progressive book.

Not a bad thing, just now I’m really looking forward to the next one.

Really liking where this story is headed

I do feel though that some of the time spent in the dungeons could be skipped over, but that could also just be because I listen to a lot of books like this and get a lot of dungeon POV.