Chrysalis 4

Between a Rock and a Carapace: A LitRPG Adventure

By: RinoZ

Narrated by: Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott

It’s time to descend.

With Garralosh defeated and the Colony secured, Anthony has triumphed over the wave. What now for our intrepid adventurer? In the Dungeon, there’s only one place to go: down.

Join Anthony as he ventures into the second stratum, the Shadow Sea, and finds far more than he bargained for. Bizarre monsters abound, frightening poisons and civilizations that have fought and lived in the depths for thousands of years.

For the Colony!

Book 4 of the hit monster-evolution LitRPG series with nearly 30 million views on Royal Road. Grab your copy today!

About this Series: Jump into a rebirth story that mixes LitRPG and GameLit elements with monster-evolution. Levels, Stats, Skills, Magic, Power Progression, Kingdom Building, Party Building, Army Building, evolution, a monster MC, gigantic enemies (compared to an Ant, at least), and plenty of humor fitting such an ludicrous premise.

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Another Great Addition

I love this series. I maybe a little bias since my name is Anthony. LoL.

RinoZ, keep the hits coming. I’m a big fan of all your work and can’t wait for next one.

The performance was excellent across the board. Well done.

My favorite ANTony story so far

The action and story really increase in this book as Antony delves deep into the dungeon. I love the new new characters and of course the voice acting is amazing.

the story of the ant continues

I'm glad there was enough content in this book. the sound booth theater team did a great job. I do hope for more development for the colony as a whole, interactions with other races, maybe some side plot line surrounding the queen ant and the priest. they were so integral in the first few books.

My life for the colony!!!

I've listened to a lot of books and this is easily in my top 3. The first 2 books I couldn't put them down. Books 3 and 4 did a great job fleshing out the world and showing the complexity of unintentional cause and effect. If you're a fan of games like Rimworld and enjoy hero stories this series is well worth the time, Also great job by the voice actors. Gah! the itchy!

even better than the last few books

soo good! i really enjoyed it! im surprised but it was somehow even better than the first book :D

this series is so good

I wasn't sure having read the description but I'm so glad I gave it a shot

Different

Love this story. A complete different take on a lit RPG storyline. Extremely entertaining extremely well read and hilarious! One of my favorite books I’ve listened to.

Another excellent entry

The series continues to impress. I like that this series seems to have a definitive goal and we're making progress toward it. So many LitRPGs seem to be open-ended level-up fests with no real discernable objective... maybe other than becoming a god, or some such toss.

Better than the last

I was wondering how they would keep the action going with the colony needing to expand so much. But it was well done. Haha, basically just ignore the colony for the most part. The direction taken was novel and entertaining. I still wonder what sort of future world this story is building up to but it’s certainly looking intriguing. The plot development and world expansion was well done as well. I really enjoyed this one. Not perfect but very good. The weirdest thing is probably just how human-like some of the intelligent monsters associated with Anthony act. Doesn’t make the most sense but written more so for effect, I assume, rather than realism. On the other hand, the basically constant jokes and humor are fun!

I love the performance!

I read the light novel before these Audiobooks came out but I still purchase the audiobook because I enjoy listening to Jeff Hays narrate this series. He does a great job with the performance and you can tell he puts a lot of energy into this series. I can't wait until the next book.