The Stubborn Skill-Grinder in a Time Loop 3

A LitRPG Adventure

By: X-RHODEN-X

Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski

Having awakened a ground-breaking Celestial-rarity skill at the climax of his fight against the Eldritch Avatar, Orodan's problems have suddenly grown bigger.

Otherworldly attention. The champions of various worlds come seeking to capture him for their own factions.

Worst of all, his tendency to directly tell everyone about the time loops draws dangerous attention. That of those related to it.

Facing extra-planar pursuit right from the start of every loop, Orodan must not only rapidly improve against lopsided odds, but also avoid the possibility of a very true death at the hands of those who know how to deal with those like him.

But with a cosmic chase comes the opportunity for cosmic answers. And if he works hard enough, fights zealously enough, and dies enough times, he may just have the answer to who put him in this time loop in the first place.

But if he fails, a very true death awaits him.

Truth on one end, true finality on the other, the perfect environment for Orodan to charge into the wall headfirst over and over again.

Book 3 in this fast-paced LitRPG Adventure about Orodan and his progression toward becoming extremely overpowered using a time loop.

The series features a detailed system, loads of skills, varied progression paths, deep worldbuilding, time loop regression, cultivation aspects, and a heroic character you can't help but root for!

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I really enjoyed the first two books, but I am struggling to finish this one

I’m not sure why, but this book is dragging for me. I will finish it and I already have the next story in the series, but I keep walking away from this book. I have picked it up two more times, but still have not finished it yet. I will update the review once I finish it.

Artifacts of the Original Checkpoint system

I read a bit of this on Royal Road when Oridan conquered the world core on his home planet. The checkpoint system then was unlocked and under his control. The visions of the mysterious potential administrator setting his checkpoints clued me into the fact it was changed but there have been several moments when I caught the strict numbers that Oridan would have known about and need to account for as artifacts from this change. Not bad but noticeable thanks to how the story works now.

On a different note, the narrator is fantastic and is now one of my favorites. Especially thanks to his work on 1% Lifesteal. It would be amazing to have him voice a conversation between Freddy and Oridan discussing insane training ideas.

Predictable yet not at the same time

Just when you think you know how it's going to end there's a new twist. I thought for sure I could call out the ending only to not imagine the twist was merely an untwist that became totally unpredictable. Great series of books! It gives me want to go right back to the first book and start over again.

thought it would be boring

turns out this is one of my top books glad I got it sad it took me so long to get

I honestly didn’t know where the series was gonna go and it continued to blow my small mind

My only complaint about book 3 is that it did not say the title of the book enough it was corny, but I loved it