
Protector of the Grove: An Apocalypse LitRPG
Path of Dragons, Book 1
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Nicholas Searcy
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When Earth is transformed into a realm of myths and monsters, one man finds both purpose and power in the fight for survival, in this fantasy adventure.
Elijah Hart is dying. Wracked by cancer and weakened by chemotherapy, all he wants is to spend what little time he has left with his sister and her family in Washington. But fate has other plans. When the mysterious World Tree extends its branches to Earth, Elijah's Seattle-bound flight crashes into the Pacific Ocean and a game-like system takes hold—reshaping humanity's future as well as his own destiny.
Waking up on an island in the Pacific Northwest, Elijah finds himself suddenly gifted with magical powers and an innate connection to the natural world. As a Druid, he has the particular ability to wield Ethera, a mystical energy he hopes can cure his cancer . . . if he survives long enough to master it. It seems the influx of magic has rendered most technology useless, throwing humankind back into a preindustrial age. But the world hasn't just changed; it has expanded, in both scope and danger.
Now Elijah must level up quickly. Because Earth is under siege: Reptilian Voxx emerge from dimensional rifts, wreaking chaos and destruction. Desperate humans battle for resources, seeking to harness Ethera for their own survival. Even worse, dragons and other ancient beings with the strength to destroy the planet on a whim are beginning to stir.
With each trial he faces, Elijah becomes healthier, stronger, and more powerful. But will it be enough to save himself—let alone the world?
The first volume of the hit LitRPG apocalypse series—with more than fifteen million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
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Syl, an archmage who tirelessly fought the monsters spilling from the magical Gates and Towers, yearns for a life free from the chaos of battle. When he is assigned to an Aurian magic academy to guard an undercover princess, he is happy to be no more than an unremarkable class three student with dismal practical scores. Right up until people start trying to kill them both.
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worth listening to
- By Darin Gusek on 05-23-25
By: Ghost Flower
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Madman Apocalypse: Book 1
- By: Dosei
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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Locked away in a padded room, Gambit watches as the world goes to hell. Blood rains from the sky. Screams echo through the city. Monsters tear through reality. The world transforms overnight into the GREAT GAME, an apocalyptic battleground where monsters hunt, dungeons materialize, and the System destroys everything humanity once knew. All for the entertainment of the unseen audience.
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Entertaining
- By Ruykann on 05-16-25
By: Dosei
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And, So It Begins
- Apocalypse Unleashed, Book 1
- By: ItalianDragon
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels, Trista Shaye, Jill Smith, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
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Shadowalker was given a choice, be taken in the Rapture or stay and try to save his best friend and help others find salvation, he chose to save his friend Laraaq and others. Now he must establish a place people can hope to survive the apocalypse in. Meanwhile, Laraaq has to make his way to his friend with supplies and reinforcements before Shadowalker is overrun by an army of goblins. Little do either friend know something wicked is making is slaughtering its way as it heads in their direction.
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Awesome Take on the Apocalypse!
- By Ryan on 05-25-25
By: ItalianDragon
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Qing's Quest 1: A LitRPG Adventure
- Qing's Quest, Book 1
- By: Henrik Saetre
- Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
- Length: 20 hrs and 1 min
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Qing Baker thought he had problems. A dead-end job, mounting bills, and a sick younger sister. Then he wakes up in a world where magic is real, monsters are hungry, and the only way home is to level up. Thrust into Elrydisan, a realm of swords and sorcery, Qing must quickly adapt to his new reality. No tutorials. No respawns. Every fight is a struggle for survival, and death is a one-way ticket to becoming the enemy.
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Was so not feeling this
- By Chris Johnson on 04-30-25
By: Henrik Saetre
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Leap: An Isekai LitRPG
- Taming Destiny, Book 1
- By: S. L. Winter
- Narrated by: Kevin Kemp
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
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Markus Wolfe has lost his parents, his girlfriend, and now, his job. He's at his lowest point with nothing left to lose. Or so he thought. But when an apparition appears, promising Markus a mysterious inheritance, he's given the opportunity to discover what he's got to gain: a purpose. Transmigrated into a vast wilderness with no signs of civilization, Markus is forced to rediscover who he is while fighting through confusion, fear of the unknown, and the very real threat of death.
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Whimp
- By Kindle Customer on 05-12-25
By: S. L. Winter
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Elliot
- The Exiles, Book 1
- By: Terry Schott
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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When the digital and the dead intersect, Elliot finds himself caught in a cybernetic web of the past. Guided by ghosts with unfinished stories, a young genius battles to control the digital streams that anchor them to this world. Each line of code leads deeper into a labyrinth of deceit, ancient secrets, and spectral whispers. Born into an ancient and powerful family, Henry is committed by birth and blood to a role he refuses to accept.
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the book is life
- By DAN MOORE on 05-12-25
By: Terry Schott
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5028: Sonata of Fate
- By: Garrett Melick
- Narrated by: Garrett Melick, Kasey Cross
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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William Ortell, a refugee of the war between gods, finds himself chosen as a successor to a long dead hero of the war. He must decide whether to put aside his grudges or to sink into the comforting stillness he has created for himself. He isn't alone, though. Joining him are scientists, soldiers, magical experts, all with their own stories, all from their own walks of life, and all with their own reasons for fighting. As they are, could they possibly hope to stand against the Soulless? Against the dangers the galaxy holds? Or will they fall just as so many heroes had before them?
By: Garrett Melick
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An Enforcer of Havilah
- By: Robert W. Ross
- Narrated by: Autumn Juliet, Nick Podehl
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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My parents named me after an angel. That was a mistake. My words and actions remind them of this on a daily basis. My father disagrees. He is the Sentinel of Order, God’s unchecked hand on the world, but I’ll always be his little girl. Da may be biased, but he’s not deluded. The angel for whom I was named is beautiful, brave, and temperate. Da says two out of three isn’t bad. I cannot take credit for my beauty, and will not attribute bravery to things that simply must be done. As for temperance, I have none. I come to my lack of temperance honestly.
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Great tag team
- By Meghan on 05-21-25
By: Robert W. Ross
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Self-Necromancy
- A Dark Fantasy LitRPG
- By: Chikao J
- Narrated by: Dan Belmont
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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When Kalvin wakes up, having been buried alive in a graveyard, he figures it was a hospital error, an easy mistake for them to make since he’d been half-dead and on life support for years. But when the entire cemetery comes alive and everyone begins to claw their way to the surface, he figures it might not have just been a mistake.
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Groundhog day in a cemetery
- By Isaac on 05-23-25
By: Chikao J
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Chain of Feathers
- A Fantasy LitRPG Adventure (Iron Tyrant, Book 1)
- By: Seth Ring
- Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Cast into a brutal military camp by his once loving master, Mateo feels like the last six wonderful years of his life have been a lie. With the mysteries surrounding him growing, Mateo knows that his only option is to become one of the supernaturally powerful Duelists and grow in power until he can take his fate into his own hands. That plan is thwarted from the beginning when he gets stuck with the lowest-ranked Root Card against his will, ensuring that his growth as a Duelist will always be excruciatingly slow.
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An interesting start
- By Rev on 11-13-24
By: Seth Ring
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Martial Arts vs Magic, Book 1
- Mana Cultivation (A LitRP Progression Adventure)
- By: The Veiled Man, Hikaru Genji
- Narrated by: Sylvester Frost, Ellory Lane
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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Someone once asked: What is stronger? Martial arts or Magic? I answered: Why not simply use both? In a new world brimming with possibilities—Levels, Classes, Skills, Dungeons, and Monsters—I found myself reborn as a noble family’s troublemaker son. As a gamer, a magical world and a lazy life as a rich noble's son should have been a dream come true. But there was a massive catch. An absurd quest threw everything into chaos.
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- By max on 05-06-25
By: The Veiled Man, and others
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Divine Awakening
- The God-Touched Saga, Book 1
- By: Ashley Carvel
- Narrated by: Alexander Gallacher
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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The gods have long abandoned mortals. Their temples have crumbled, their names fading into myth. But when five outcasts awaken a power unseen for generations, they become hunted by forces that would see them destroyed.
By: Ashley Carvel
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Industrial Strength Magic
- By: Macronomicon
- Narrated by: Steve Campbell, Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 2 mins
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Born to a Magical Fantasy Princess and a nine-to-five Supervillain in the most superhero riddled city in the world, Perry's never felt...adequate. He's got no talent for magic, and not a scrap of superpowers to his name. When The System boots and unlocks his powers, it forces him to follow in his father's footsteps, but he'd rather take after his mother... Maybe there's a way he can do both...
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Childish. Trite. A mediocre YA story
- By Jacob on 08-28-24
By: Macronomicon
I've read a large number of long lasting multi hundred/thousand chapter litrpgs and progression novels. I will say that compared to MOST novels this author has shown a level of foresight, long term planning, nuance, and understanding of quirks within the genre that speaks volumes of his experience with writing this still growing and relatively new genre.
It says a lot when an author is able to come up with a world system, rules, and situation that outright explains BY ITSELF why the main character is both constantly challenged and needs to fight for his life but (at the same time) able to have moments of showing how far ahead he is from others. Many MANY fail to do this in advance, instead opting to contrive new ever escalating enemies that break the previously set rules or expectations of the world and big bad dudes with no pre-set plans or explanations (within world) for this. They just suddenly... appear.
Nrsearcy understands this common flaw within the genre and gradually introduces us to the rules of his world (rather than narrative dump painfully for 10 chapters) expertly melding a fantasy world system with a modern world apocalypse narrative. His world explains the presence of powerful people and factions within the first book and those rules are still relevant in book 9.
His characters feel realistic. They aren't caricatures of certain archetypes. He also avoids some of the worst aspects of the genre (no harems and no giant 2 page long status pages). Again, speaking to his experience with dealing with this genre, he created a system that streamlines our experience in understanding how power works in his world. Instead of giving us 100 new skills and never using many of them many skills will instead evolve. Most New Skills and evolutions FEEL impactful instead of cluttering us with pages of things we eventually stop reading because the novelty wears off. Within the system there are different metrics of power and they blend together to provide multiple means for which we can see the characters improvement without just chain spamming us with more and more skills and more and more levels (again common issue for a lot of beginning Litrpg writers) or page long skill chains of equipment.
This book has some IMPRESSIVE highlight moments. Also there are some chapters where people go to war in the comments but that is because they are invested in the characters. Give this book a chance whether its stubbed or not. You won't regret it. Highly recommend to anyone that enjoys LitRPGS.
The narration is top notch as well.
Amazing Series. Highly recommend to anyone
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Fantastic adventure
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Progression is good, and I actually really enjoy the abilities and magic that develop. The system is really well done. Not too crunchy.
Characters are real, though there aren't all that many important people.
excellent start
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I also thought it was interesting how the author made him weird after being in the woods with no social interaction. But in an obvious just forgot how to interact with others. Definitely a positive and better thought out response to being alone in the woods.
As for his sisters part, I know that seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people. But I honestly think her addiction into the book is a good choice and made the series way more exciting. It can be a little dull in the start but it definitely picks up in the later half.
Amazing, one of the most realistic takes on a post-apocalypse with magic
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I just want to see the brother develop and try to survive and become a druid. I prefer stories that have a single MC for this reason. Had I known it was going to jump around like this then I wouldn't have picked it up. Everything else is great.
I feel kind of lied to?
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Too many pov shifts
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Dragons, god I love Dragons
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cliffhanger
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MC is boring
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this is a great story.
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