Flesh and Magic

A LitRPG Adventure (Cultist of Cerebon, Book 1)

De: Fizzicks

Narrado por: Wayne Mitchell

A new Isekai LitRPG about an everyday veterinarian reincarnated into fantasy world dictated by a System.

Master his rare magic. Gather followers. Rise to power.

When Zareth was first reborn into a strange new world of magic and wonder, he was ecstatic. He’d expected to go on to live an exciting life filled with danger and adventure.

Instead, Zareth spends much of his new life on the streets of Tal’Qamar before eventually becoming a Cultist to Cerebon, God of Flesh and Transformation, where he spends most of his time helping rich women smoothen their skin.

Just when he had given up hope of his fantasy life ever being anything exceptional, everything changes. The leaders of Tal’Qamar are assassinated, leaving a power vacuum at the top.

This is his chance. Zareth can fill that void, take control of a feuding city, and grow his cult from nothing. But he isn't the only one after the crown.

Will his Flesh Magic alone be enough to see him safe through his rise to power?

Cultist of Cerebon is a new isekai LitRPG adventure featuring a detailed magic System, unique skills, slow-build power progression, an intelligent MC, and deep worldbuilding. With many millions of views as a beloved web-serial, listen to this definitive version and join Zareth's unforgettable adventure!

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What a great litRPG! I ❤ it. You definitely need to add this Isekai to your library.

I really, really loved every minute of Flesh and Magic and plan to dive into reading Flesh and Secrets on release day June 11! And I also plan on telling everyone to read this litRPG... As the story unfolds we find Zareth, our MC having already obtained his class as Cultist of Cerebon. But now he's faced with growing the faithful into a bountiful group, no easy task. While helping the city survive the upcoming war and facing off the assassins with his new found abilities and followers! Most important of all is finding the money, the resources to accomplish this!!!
So you definitely need to add this Isekai litRPG to your library. And if you want to treat yourself go get the audiobook, because Wayne Mitchell is great!

Here's a quote that amused me!

“Just little piles of sand with shiny teeth—how could I not want one?

a flesh of a good time

story starts with a bang, and a cultist being elevated as one of the primary religions in the city, as the mc grows his cult for his God, as war breaks out.

A fun, entertaining listen - highly recommended!

Review of “Flesh and Magic” (Cultist of Cerebon Book 1) by Fizzicks

I want to point out at the outset of this review that this title is listed as belonging to the LitRPG sub-genre, which usually means that the story includes significant role playing game (RPG) elements. Some LitRPG titles that I’ve read or listened to get carried away with the use of RPG jargon and imagery, making them less accessible or interesting to readers/listeners who are not aficionados of RPGs. This is not the case with this title! While the author certainly uses RPG terminology and descriptions to the extent necessary for their fantasy world building, they are interwoven so skillfully into the overall story that both gamers and non-gamers can appreciate and enjoy this audiobook (or book if you’re not into audio)!

The focal character is Zareth, who was previously a veterinarian on Earth, but who is reincarnated into a strange new world where gods have great powers and magic is ubiquitous. Zareth finds himself in the city of Tal’Qamar, living in the slums and trying to survive by his wits as a street urchin. His goal for himself is to be able to leave his desperate circumstances and make a better life when he’s grown. With this in mind, when he reaches adulthood he chooses the Class of Cultist to Cerebon, God of Flesh and Transformation (Cultist is effectively the head cleric for a god’s body of followers). This Class bestows skills and knowledge that permit Zareth to make a better but still basic living performing magical cosmetic improvements for wealthy clients. However, he has bigger dreams of building his Cult into a more powerful and prosperous institution and of achieving a substantially higher level of prestige, power, and fortune for himself. New opportunities arise when there is a change in the leadership of Tal’Qamar and the story evolves from that point.

I will not provide any further details because I want the listeners (or readers) to experience this fantastic tale for themselves. I will mention that the story involves lots of unexpected occurrences, and intrigue of both religious (Cult) and political natures.

The storyline carries the listeners through a comprehensively structured fantasy world narrative that keeps them immersed and interested from the beginning until the very end of the audiobook. Zareth and the other characters are carefully delineated and are engaging and relatable.

The narrator, Wayne Mitchell, is very good and he brings the characters and story to life.

Overall I highly recommend this audiobook (or book) to anyone who enjoys immersive storytelling. I look forward to listening to the next audiobook in this series!

Review by Sue Ratner

Great listen, with a very odd choice of ending.

I struggle with this narrator, but the story carried.
I will be following this series and author.

That said... the timing of the ending was a strange choice. It's almost like it was chosen based on word count instead of any pacing or narrative decision... it just, ends.

If you need a tidy ending, you.may want to wait until the next book is out, and listen to them back to back.

Well paced masterpiece

Great pacing, great plot, great mc, great voice actor ,unique classes Looking forward for book 2.

Uniquely horrible in the best ways

MC's abilities are very innovative and fascinating to read about. The small POV change really sells just how grotesque the cult is, and yet the charity of the group really presents a nice counterpoint to the horrors that persist. The magic system is nicely defined and the characters vibrant and well crafted. Love the creativity behind pets and plastic surgery, and upcoming war applications. All round, a good webnovel adaption to audiobook.

Unique world and protagonist

Liked but didn’t love it. The writing was excellent and the world and power system were fresh but something just didn’t click.

follow Zareth as he begins a new life leading an obscure cult

after dieing unexpectedly Zareth gets a reboot
follow him as he begins again tasked with reestablishing a nearly forgotten God's cult .
Great magic, action & story.
excellent narration.
Great start to a series

This was fun

I always wondered which type of magic I would select if I get it a card to another world and always landed on flash magic. This did not make me change my mind.

Great story, meh narrator

Loved the story but the narrator was the one thing that kept throwing me out of my immersion