The Path of Ascension 8

A LitRPG Adventure

By: C. Mantis

Narrated by: J.S. Arquin

Days and Tiers pass as Matt Liz and Aster leave Minkalla. But no matter how much they just want to relax and recover they have the ever present time-crunch of the path of ascension nipping at their heels. To compound issues, they are about to reach Tier 15. That means Aster needs to leave for the Bond Academy for at least 10 years. Can they get far enough ahead of the curve to manage, or will this roadblock cause the trio to stumble?

Don't miss Book 8 of this action-packed fantasy adventure that blends everything you love about LitRPG with Xianxia.

About the series: This is a mix between LitRPG and Xianxia. It's like a car that looks like a LitRPG with dungeons and skills, but the interior and engine are all Xianxia. It features a magic system and progression system that are logically and internally consistent, as well as realistic fight scenes and a rational MC.

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Minkalla Epilogue

Another great installment to the series. It starts off at the end of Minkalla, which was a place of wonder so it’s hard to match that level of intensity. But the author does a great job of expanding the world even further in preparation of things to come! Love this series, can’t wait for the next one. This was not the best installment for sure but still very enjoyable!

Love the series

It’s amazing but the first couple of chapters and the last felt like fillers. Can’t wait for the next book, please hurry

Taking on a more mature stance

This book has been a fantastic world-builder! It is starting to show Matt and Liz's maturity as they grow (Taking on a more adult view of the world they live in). Great book! I am super excited for the next book after the set-up that went into this one!

what's to come?

there is so much ahead of the story I feel like we've only scratched the surface, I eagerly await the next step in the journey, as every books feels like we've only just begun

I love this series

I love the series and this book really seemed like it jumped time alot more than the others but I guess that makes sense to me in a way but I really hope we don't see huge times skips to the future and they have more arcs like minkala. I mean it's a whole infinite realm multi universe! there has to be a million trials and events than just 100 years goes buy in a chapter and they get stronger and tier up lol. I really hope to see 20 more books of this series and eventually maybe offshoots with kids and alternate time lines or even people they met along the way. I would love to see like a dragonlance thing come about the concept of all this is to huge to ever see it end in my opinion and with other authors getting in creating different arcs and main characters it literally could never end! and especially if you start making books with the higher realms!!! lol started rambling anyways great series extremely high hopes for it!

Love the story but narrator is grating

I’ve loved this series, but have read most of them and now am listening to them and this narrator is really annoying. They feel the need to do different voices and intonation and chooses some really really annoying ones… whiny voices grate on my nerves and this kind of drawling, whiny thing is far too frequent. Struggled to get more than a few hours in and will likely return and go back to the written version. The rest of their reading is ok, if they had just stuck to reading it without the sarky or whiny intonation it would have been ok.

It should be book 7 book 7 should have been the same book as book 6

Overall fine but I wold have liked when working with something apple gild that they wold have gotten a blood ring like a ring that is cosmeticly a copper wire ring that is hollow and has glass as the main part with copper wire ringing it and the blood appears in the ring and it slowly fills up and have it stump the ai because it tellaports in to the ring and hyper condenses the blood but have the glass be blood glass so that it is not magical for it to more eseyly trick the ai and I’m writing this at midnight so if I’m spelling enetheng wrong I’m sorry

its alright

not really a story just a lot of meandering without a goal or antagonist

The saga continues

I am riveted by the characters in this story and I can not wait till the next chapter in Matt, Liz, and Aster’s story.

Fun upgrades and new adventures with old friends. A few exciting big reveals. Fun bonus chapters.

This story was mostly set up for the next big plot event. It definitely had some fun adventures and showed another aspect of The Path, but it did not feel like the story had as much weight as past installments. Overall, it felt like a good catchup with friends.