Corruption Wielder

Book 1

By: Aaron Shih

Narrated by: Matt Hicks, Erin Bateman

When the world ends, humanity must fight to survive—but where others struggle in fear, Will sees only an opportunity to thrive.

April 3rd, 3:46 AM. Planet Earth merges with the magical world of Arcadia, and a system gives humanity a choice: 40 years of indentured servitude, or entering a tutorial as a user to fight against the chaos incursion.

Will doesn't hesitate—but the system thanks him for stepping into the fight by throwing him into an impossible tutorial. With little chance of survival, Will has a simple response: “Screw it. Might as well fight fire with fire."

Warning: [Corruption] has been chosen as primary attribute.

With a forbidden element, Will just might be able to stab his way out of the tutorial. But as he gains the powers of death and space as well, he realizes that his problems might not only lie in the monsters that now plague the world.

Will, now Earth's sole corruption wielder, finds danger at every corner. For anyone else, that could mean a quick and terrifying end. To him?

Maybe Will was meant for this world.

Perfect for fans of Defiance of the Fall, System Universe, and He Who Fights With Monsters—don't miss the start of the hit litRPG apocalypse series with a million views on Royal Road!

©2024 Aaron Shih (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Loved the story, can’t stand Matt

I really enjoyed the story, but Matt isn’t a strong narrator, any voice other than his “MC” voice is just grating to the ears. Any deeper and it’s like he gargled nails. Any high pitched comes straight out of his nose. I enjoy Erin but Matt really bring anything I hear with him in it.

A great start to a series.

Im impressed at how good this book is. So much action, and a great story. Im looking foward to the next book.

Awesome

I really liked this premise there is a lot going on in this series and it’s just getting started. This is going to be a pretty epic series before it is done I think.

Great

I liked most of this book but the first 3 to 4 hours is a bit boring in the tutorial

A big meh from me

This is going to be incredibly hit or miss for most readers, I imagine. For me, it read the latter.

Most authors impart a bit of themselves into their stories, but this book basically screamed in my ear that it was written by a struggling college student, or one that's recently graduated. When Will started joking about the evils of capitalism, I only rolled my eyes, but combine it with everything else and the fourth wall started to crumble.

Again, that's not necessarily bad, it was just bad for me. That, combined with Will's incredibly cringe humour had me not liking him from almost the beginning.

I'm also not typically sensitive about such things, but how many cartoonishly evil, poorly written, racist white people do I have to endure before my eyebrows disappear into my non-existent hairline?

On its own, not a big deal, but I'm trying to paint a picture of the collective. This book just feels like it's written by someone I'd find incredibly annoying, and I'm constantly being reminded of that fact.

Ironically, I felt similarly about He Who Fights With Monsters, which this is very similar to. Thankfully, it doesn't seem like Will runs around with a legendary soapbox in his inventory, so it's already better than that story.

A lot of people love this kind of thing though, so again, hit or miss. Hopefully my review will open your eyes before going in.



Finally, I normally don't ding narrators and find them mostly, at worst, okay. This one makes the incredibly baffling decision to make several of the character's voices horrifically unlistenable, none most
more so than his friend that would make Eeyore sound like the life of the party...