Chalgathi: An Apocalypse LitRPG

Elysium's Multiverse, Book 1

By: Ranyhin1

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng

When Earth gets integrated into the vast expanse of a new multiverse, one young man is game to survive—it's in his blood—in this apocalyptic adventure.

Everyone becomes prey when Earth is swallowed up and transmuted to a bestial landscape, the first stage of induction into Elysium's multiverse and a new galaxy in the making. In the blink of any eye, the bloodthirsty creatures of Riven Thane's worst nightmares are unleashed as he; his sister, Allie; and his friend Jose scramble amid the carnage to live another hour.

But on this nothing of a planet, Riven is more special than he knows. He's among a select few with a singular bloodline, and the Elysium system has its eye on Riven in particular. He's already proven his unbeatable will to survive. Now, untapped powers can be his should he succeed at what the multiverse has in store for him.

World be damned, let the games begin: challenging trials of stamina, labyrinthine mazes, and mind-bending puzzles requiring sharp wit and quick thinking. Each consecutive win will bring Riven nearer to an unimaginable undertaking . . . a personalized tutorial in the dungeons of hell itself. And it's just the beginning—Riven is about to unlock the secrets of his past and learn more about his purpose and the dark arts than he ever imagined.

Whatever unholy chaos awaits him back home, he's ready. Because as close to death as he may be, Riven has never felt more alive.

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Slow burn at the start 

Slow burn at the start of book gets better hints at world building with Guild Hall, all the way, at the end of the book like last 10 minutes kind of cliffhanger

The story

I like that it was a unique story for a Lit RPG and how the MC leaned towards the darker side

One voice can ruin an audiobook

There seems to be some unreasonable aversion to using voice changing tools which leads to some beyond horrible voices in audiobooks but the spider voice in this one is enough that I will not be buying any more books in this series and will be cautious of any narrations by Jay Aaseng. Which is sad because the general voice and others are pretty good. Narrators please just use voice changers if you insist on narrating opposite gender voices. You can literally destroy an otherwise good book.

just ok

The whole thing was just ok. A good run time for the credit and narrator isn't bad.

enjoyed it alot

a pretty solid story from start to finish. no real complaints. can't wait for the next one

the performance 👏

A great listen with an outstanding performance. I will definitely be listening till the last word

So much Edge

Was a good book but at about the half way mark around chapter 30 it gets real dark and I am not normally a squeamish person but there was definitely a few parts that had my stomach roll. Great narration, good story

Okay start to a great series.

This is my favorite dark fantasy series. The following books just keep getting better. I enjoy the magic system and characters in this book. But this book does have some frustrating moments with main charicter decisions.

Really good read!!

Not sure if this is this author’s first published work or not as I couldn’t really find anything else them. but I took a chance on it anyways, and was not disappointed! It’s a solid litRPG without a lot of the played out tropes that plagues this genre. I’m excited to read more from this author!

Dark but good

I think its the first time ive had a book with some demonic dark alignment that bing sayed its pretty good.