System Incursion

A LitRPG Adventure (Cataclysm Rising Book 1)

By: Hannibal Forge

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

LEVEL UP OR BE ERASED.

Leonidas Paendrag spent five years in another world to defeat the Demon Lord and his literal armies of Hell, only for the final battle to unexpectedly send him back to Earth.

Denied the rest he desperately wanted, he is instead thrust into a world of emerging fantasy races, warring human factions, and a dysfunctional family more intent on killing each other than the monsters roaming the planet.

With royal elven politics, arena fights, a terrifying new Mentor, and hostile fantasy races making life a living hell, Leonidas must use all his accrued knowledge, skill, and experience as the Hero to grow stronger and forge his own place in a post-System Incursion Earth.

And in the process, figure out why the System keeps calling him a 'Cataclysm' and painting a target on his back.

He saved one world and lost everything. He won't let it happen to Earth.

Jump into a new Apocalyptic LitRPG Adventure featuring a Spellblade MC, power progression, crunchy stats, a detailed magic system, cultivation elements, epic battles, and REALLY big chests.

Perfect for fans of The Primal Hunter, Void Sovereign, and Past Life Hero!

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surprisingly Good

At 1st preview listen I wasn't impressed but decided to give it a shot and Im glad I did I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm sad that there wasnt more books.. Lol please continue the story I'm looking forward to it.

The sample doesn't give it justice

This has a very nice Twist on the genres. I didn't anticipate it. If you like these kinds of books, then you will like this book.

Tax, Tax, Tax, Payoff

Really torn on how to review this, or if I even should. First off, the narrators performance is great but this is again part of the tax, more later. There is also really interesting components to this book, great writing, great dialog, and characters.

In between all that are chapters upon chapters of herem justification, weird sex stuff (not actual sex just sexual topics. Also there aren’t a lot but it is very crass that it is striking), and the same dialogs over and over. There is very little combat, especially outside of a coliseum format. And there is only one or two bursts of progression.

Add to this another tax that the audio is slowed down so that 1.25 sounds normal, making an actual dollar tax if you don’t use credits. (Is that part of performance rating?)

I would almost put this as another genre, like romance, with a progression litrpg context. I wanted to quit multiple times but couldn’t because i was so far in I did care about the payoff.

An example of payoff is a really interesting family dynamic that I really did care about.

Book 2 is similar so I wanted to put this here so readers know what they are getting into.

Buy with credit.

Good start

The storyline has a lot of potential, but it is slow to get to the action. The MC is setup to be a veteran of war with knowledge and abilities, as the story goes on he loses his veteran staus and seems to devolve into a kid with ptsd. I enjoyed the storyline for the most part but it was definitely lacking consistency. Veteran narration helps the story but I will not go any further at this time.

Good Potential

The little twist from the beginning had me hooked. I would have rated this higher, but the writing took a hit towards the end and almost felt like AI at some points. Pacing slowed to a crawl and it focuses on the MC. Still looking forward to more, but hopefully the pacing and writing improve.