Merchant Crab

A LitRPG Adventure

By: H0st

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

An unlikely protagonist leads this hilarious new LitRPG, perfect for fans of Heretical Fishing, Chrysalis, and Lunadea!

Join this unexpected merchant on his penny-pinching quest for riches and sweetness!

Balthazar was just a random giant crab enjoying his life in a fantasy world full of bothersome human adventurers, but then he had to go and accidentally discover the secret of attributes and levels. And also pie.

With baked goods and coin as his new life goals, he turns to the competitive business of trading the random junk adventurers loot every day.

Follow Balthazar as he does everything to find a baker... except leave his pond, because exploring the dangerous world out there is for suckers. Witness how adventurers just can't seem to stop dying around his home. And cheer for a crab who makes great new friends by simply buying them.

What to expect from this story:

• Silliness. Lots of it. The story doesn't take itself too seriously, so you shouldn't either.
• The only kind of OP here is how "overpriced" the crab's deals are.
• A system simple enough for a crab to use, but still conveniently complex when necessary, for some odd reason.
• Proper realistic adventurers: they are not very bright, and they make very poor decisions.
• No harems, not unless they're a harem of gold coins.
• Did we mention there will be pastries?

©2025 Aethon Books (P)2025 Aethon Audio

A fantastic story and the fantastic narrator to match.

I was hooked on the preview, the characters all have so much life to them. The narrator did amazing with everyone, I can't wait until the next book.

Verry funny and mostly family friendly!

The narrator's performance is tied for first with the many hundreds of books I have listened too. Hilarious!

I think this book is for people older than 10. And by that I mean there is no more cussing than dam# and he##. Other cuss words cut off by people being hit. It is soooooo hard to find family friendly litRPG. There was some flirtation by a witch trying to charm the main character. There was some mention of how they were not going to talk about how crabs mate in order to keep the story family friendly. Some adventures casually die doing stupid things and the book has the attitude of, "well, that sucks for them." If you want truly family friendly litRPG, read All The Dust That Falls.

It is a great story!

suprisingly good

this book exceeded my expectations. i was just looking for something to fill the gap while waiting on my normal series to drop new books. this sounded interesting enough. So I decided to give it a try. I wasn't so sure about the main character's voice at first, but it quickly grew on me. I can honestly say that this book has exceeded my expectations. It quickly drew me in and had me listening with wrapped attention. the story was light and amusing, but very entertaining. Send right at the end, it hooks you with a deep plot. Just enough questions are left open to make me want to come back and listen to the next book, But not so many as to annoy me or overwhelm me.

I can genuinely say i'm looking forward to the next book in the series.

Enjoyable

placeholder until I finish but so far its funny, fun and actually interesting. Hopefully it keeps the same energy.

The perfection of the narration and story!

The story is hilarious and the narrator nails it telling the story! Each character is brought to life! You won't belive that only one person is telling the story!