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The Great Depths

A LitRPG Adventure (Runeblade, Book 1)

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The Great Depths

By: Maxim Holms aka Bacon Macleod
Narrated by: John Pirhalla
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He only wanted a class. Instead he restarted the apocalypse. The world will pay the price.

Kaius has spent years working to awaken his family’s forbidden Legacy Skills, powerful and vanishingly rare skills forged through methods that wars have been fought to obtain. Even with his father pushing him to his limit, Kaius has barely managed to merge the first two.

Now those skills and his training are the only thing keeping him alive. A bandit ambush forces Kaius into the Great Depths, a world-spanning mega dungeon, and he’s trapped in a place where survival demands a class he doesn’t yet have, with exits held shut by ancient horrors.

To escape, Kaius will have to manage a feat no one without a class has survived: slaying one of the Guardians that defend the exits. But the guardian is a distant concern, as the Depths are rich with danger. He realizes that might be exactly the crucible he needs to collect all of his merged skills before class selection. And, just maybe, force the world on the path of progress after stagnating for far too long.

Fate has picked its fulcrum. Lost power and a forgotten apocalypse lie in wait, deep in the Depths

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I love the the character growth, the detail real gets across how the main character evolved with experience. The battles, gripping and you can really get caught up in the pace. Through in a light sprinking of humour and you get a extremely enjoyable book.

Compelling battle and great character development

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I really enjoyed this audiobook and generally speaking the narration as well. However the one bugbear I had, which kept niggling at me time and time again, was when the sense-type skills were mentioned - the narrator pronounced the word ‘sense’ as a noun instead of a verb. This means that when he says ‘sense mana’ the emphasis is on ‘sense’ instead of on ‘mana’ as if the mana is related to a sense instead of vice versa. I know that I shouldn’t go on about it but it is like a moss-gathering stone to my mind. Oh, there is one other thing to mention - measurements. The MC is 6.5 strides tall, as each stride must be approximately 2’6” that makes him around 16’3” tall … but then his stride length would be … … …?

Annoying pronunciation

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enjoyed the performance and looking forward to the next in the series. Keep up the good work

Great combat!

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Great to see a published version, have been following on RR and Patreon, but the audiobook is even better!

Great litrpg!

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Really good and deep litrpg fantasy story.
Good performance by john, but the voice of the mc sometimes bleeds into the other characters as well.

I will say that there is something like too much details and there are a lot of parts that can be cut down a few minutes.

Overall expect this to be a new staple of the genre and you cannot go wrong by spending a credit on this.

Excellent

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