Reincarnation of the Death God

Reincarnation of the Death God, Book 1

By: Unvex

Narrated by: J.S. Arquin

Defy destiny. Ascend beyond the realm of gods.

For thousands of years, the cycle of fate repeats itself: the Death God is reborn, only to be slain by a [Hero] chosen by the Goddess of Life. Having reached the peak of power just like his predecessors who died before him, Nox the Death God realizes something they never did—that resisting his fate is pointless, so he accepts his death.

But that was all a part of his plan to break the cycle of destiny once and for all.

By altering the reincarnation process to retain his memories before his death, he wakes up in the body of Eli, a recently murdered orphan in the small city of Velmond. With a large portion of both his death magic abilities and his vast pool of mana from his previous life, he completes the first part of his plan and gives himself a real chance of escaping his inevitable demise in this life.

The next step to achieving his goal is by becoming a [Healer] and enrolling in the Holy Academy of the Church of Life…the very same organization that killed him in his past life. So he will have to hide his true identity, all the while also dealing with bandits, monsters, and the mysterious Avatars of Death that came about during the 10 years after his passing.

And the final step of his plan? Transcend the power of even gods by becoming stronger than ever before.

©2025 Unvex (P)2025 Podium Audio

Interesting

The story is engaging and I’m interested to hear the next episode. However, the writer used “and she/he/they touched their chin” so many times that I suspect ChatGPT wrote it.

Many Nonfunctional Jaws (at Least Nine)

Hey, do you want a good drinking game? If so, then take a shot of alcohol every time someone tries to work their jaw in this book, and another if someone rubs their chin.

In all seriousness, with the above overused phrases not withstanding, this was a decent book. The premise is somewhat different and the story is complex enough to hold one's attention. I'm not super keen on school arcs but it is what it is.

I think it's mainly the MC that makes the book since he isn't a transmigrated gamer loser and actually has a good balance of compassion, backbone, and common sense. I'm genuinely invested in what he will do next. I think some people will complain that he is a bit of a Gary Stu, but it works in this case since he's got lots of skill and knowledge from his past life to fall back on. I'd rather have that than the style of book where an otherwise capable MC is forced by the author to make dumb mistakes to spice up the plot, you know?

But I'm rambling. Th bottom line is that this is a good book so if you like the sound of the summary then give it a shot.

Oh, and the narrator? He sounds a bit too much like he should be narrating old detective novels to me, but listening at 1.2X speed helped and I soon found him to be just fine.

Really Good

A really good story, can't wait to see what happens next. Really hope part 2 comes quickly.

gets kind of meh

How does the god of death blow a fireball up in his face and how does he only make it from the last vote. The test chapters seemed pointless. All we heard about was the fireball the one good performance and a above average. This is supposed to be the death god. The hiding his strength seems like a bunch of unnecessary filler. It's just gets tough to listen to the goofiness of a supposed GOD.

Chapter 6 DNF

There is a difference in writing between books and anime/manga. Dialogue is written in anime and manga to help boost the visual medium, which means you will have characters yelling out obvious things to help create pauses in the action of the scene. In a normal book, with no visual medium, that type of writing is not only unnecessary but comes off amateur.

This novel reads as if it was scraped off of an anime fanfic website with zero editing. After the fiftieth exclamation of "brother!" from one useless character and every enemy exclaiming "what the hell" or "how!?" every time something happens I had to stop reading. DNF