Corruption Wielder

Book 1

De: Aaron Shih

Narrado por: 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

plagiarism anyone?

The story isn't bad, I enjoyed it but nothing revolutionary. However, I did have to check twice that it wasn't the same author as He Who Fights With Monsters. I mean, it's a straight up rehash of the elements in that story. The MC is Asian descent but English raised, the magic system and skill system is nearly identical, the MC gets almost identical abilities (afflictions, cleansing afflictions for power ups, phantom that's also a dark cloak), they even foreshadowed that the God of Peace (God of Purity in HWFWM) was going to be a main villain. Can't you get sued for this?

strong start, gets bogged down

there's a lot of good and cool stuff and ideas in the book, and it's definitely worth checking out. I just felt the magic system was needlessly complicated to the point it made following the character's progression, build, and battles more difficult.

Shameless Copy of HWFWM

1st, shamelessly bad writing & voice acting. 2nd, the System voice is like nails on a chalkboard. 3rd, The story is so obviously a copy of He Who Fights With Monsters, from the skill system to the MC powers of Affliction. Thank GOD I bought this for $6 on sale. I still feel a bit cheated.

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

it's like HWFWM and Primal hunter had a baby

Will is definitely a character to talk about, get thrown into a tutorial and immediately have errors let's not forget the racist elves and the gods that wants to play games. there is no sad I can't kill people trope with this dude he accepts what he got to do and.... well you will see when you read it

Similar to hwfwm but without the gripping story

It was difficult to get through. Still going to give the second book a try to see if it gets any better. Great performance by the narrator. It is hard to give life to 1 dimensional characters

Odd choices

Male narrator uses the same voice for a internal monologue, and spoken words so it can be confusing at times. Over all though its a middle of the pack book, nothing really stands out or hooks the reader. DNF.