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The Path of Ascension

A LitRPG Adventure

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The Path of Ascension

By: C. Mantis
Narrated by: J.S. Arquin
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Summary

Orphaned by Monsters. Matt must power up to save others from the same fate.

Matt plans to delve the rifts responsible for the monsters that destroyed his city and murdered his parents. But his dreams are crushed when his Tier 1 Talent is rated as detrimental and no guild or group will take him.

Working at a nearby inn, he meets a mysterious and powerful couple. They give him a chance to join the Path of Ascension, an empire-wide race to ascend the Tiers and become living legends.

With their recommendation and a stolen Skill, Matt begins his journey to the peak of power. Maybe then, he can get vengeance he seeks....

Experience the start of an action-packed fantasy adventure that blends everything you love about LitRPG with Xianxia. With five million views on Royal Road, this hit web serial is new and improved and now available.

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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The story is enthralling and something I want to have more of. The growth of the characters is realistic and endearing. And the way they talk about things like periods, same sex relationships, mental health, therapy and sex is mutch more talked about, open minded and unstigmatized than what one would expect after living in the current sosiety.

The narration is a bit odd at the start but it slowly shows a charm and personality

Unusual but a new favourite

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this is a more of a review of the whole series but no spoilers to help you know if it's worth investing time in.
tldr It is worth your time and a great series

World and progression
this is a really great stand out in the genre with a very considered expanding world over the coming books. I was worried when it lurched into meeting a very powerful person quite early that it would burn through any real development and get to end of the universe power levels too quickly. but it actually progresses really well with incremental increases still feeling good.

Combat Vs Story
I can struggle with some progression fantasy having great worlds but combat is just characters shouting special attacks that gradually become incomprehensible and a bit cringe. Path of Ascension avoids this focusing on a more rock paper scissors approach and fights that very seldom become uninteresting helped a lot by the delivery. The story as the other half is very interesting exploring different kinds of settings with larger and smaller conflicts and perils.

Performance
performance is very good I'd like to have put it at 4.5 but that's not possible.I think some more variety in the voices and accents would really help as the cast gets larger this can become hard to differentiate.

great progression and mechanics

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Pretty generic story but enjoyable enough and he's not to OP or overly winey

the narrator is fine most of the time but his vocal range isn't great and a lot of the time he sounds like he is shouting and it leaves my ears ringing even when you turn down the volume,it's like he's trying to talk over loud music or something and then changes to a different character and then back to normal.

Overall it's a decent listen if you've got a free credit

ok story rough naration

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This starts off so clunky and I was incredibly lost and unsatisfied. Somewhere after the late start I was hooked. I actually lost sleep over this. I’ll probably finish this series if it keeps up the same. Also. Look for the bundle pack book 1-3.5. Just found it and would be a better deal, even if you just want the first book. (If using credits).

Bad start fantastic middle and end

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thease are class books highly recommended!!!!! but don't wast 3 credits like I did you can get 1-2-3 all for one credit in a bundle don't make my mistake audible will happily let you wast credits when the have a better offer hidden !

massive fail ! not the book tho audible!!!!

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