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A game that puts all others to shame. Magic that has been banned from the world. A man willing to learn no matter the cost.

The decision to start a new life is never an easy one, but for Joe the transition was far from figurative. Becoming a permanent addition to a game world, it doesn't take long to learn that people with his abilities are actively hunted. In fact, if the wrong people gained knowledge of what he was capable of, assassins would appear in droves.

In his pursuit of power, Joe fights alongside his team, completes quests, and delves into the mysteries of his class, which he quickly discovers can only be practiced in secret. Ultimately, his goal is to complete every mission, master every ability, and learn all of the world's secrets.

All he has to do is survive long enough to make that happen.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mountaindale Press (February 21, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 348 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1637660553
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1637660553
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.06 x 9 inches

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Author of the best-selling Divine Dungeon, Completionist Chronicles, and Full Murderhobo series, Dakota Krout was chosen as Audible's top 5 fantasy pick of 2017, has been a top 5 bestseller on Amazon, and a top 6 bestseller on Audible.

He draws on his experience in the military to create vast terrains and intricate systems, and his history in programming and information technology helps him bring a logical aspect to both his writing and his company while giving him a unique perspective for future challenges.

Publishing my stories has been an incredible blessing thus far, and I hope to keep you entertained for years to come! -Dakota

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Steve

Finally, clean LitRPG

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 9, 2022

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This series is great! I am already on book five and I only started four weeks ago.

Others have commented about the quality of the writing, characters, and story. I want to point out how refreshing it is not to have constant cussing and frequent adult content. This is the first LitRPG book I have enjoyed that I would actually allow my pre-teens to read.

The main character has some religious convictions which leads to some interesting inner turmoil and story depth at times. I liked these parts.

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Daniel Jerome

Wow!!! Amazing!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2022

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This book is amazing. I am absolutely fascinated with the depth of character development in this book. There are some moments that are so incredibly funny that you cannot stop laughing. Wait until you get to "Baldy"!!

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Clean with a great storyline

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 14, 2022

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I'd almost give it 5 stars just because its clean and I'm tired of all the litrpg full of cussing and sex and even underage drinking and ludeness... But the story was great too. Just about everything you want in a story. Like he who fights with monsters, I'd recommend this to anyone and feel comfortable doing so.

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IOTJ, Esq

A good book and nice introduction to the genre

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2019

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This book is a very good start to The Completionist Chronicles. While it does tick off several boxes from the list of LitRPG tropes, that isn’t a bad thing as Dakota Krout’s use of those tools makes for a very enjoyable story. Krout does a good job creating a game world you want to learn more about: demonstrating the game's mechanics, using interesting characters [both NPCs and other players] that have a surprising amount of depth even with limited screen time, and highlighting certain parts of Eternium’s lore. The main character, Joe Nelson, has noticeable flaws that do well to highlight him as a guy dealing with his own baggage trying to make the best of his life and not wanting anything to stand in his way. He’s someone you want to root for and watching him figure out how to succeed against seemingly impossible odds is fun.

The book is not without flaws, and I do detail what I found to be notable issues below. However, they are few and far between, highly subjective and don’t detract from an overall good book. They do highlight that a bit more editing should go into future books, but the quality of the sequel Regicide and the side story Rexus seemingly indicate that this concern is moot. If you don’t want spoilers you can stop reading now.

The Prologue isn’t good and can be skipped without effecting the story in anyway. It’s hard to describe why because it’s not written poorly and fits the tone of the rest of the book. Honestly, it just rubbed me the wrong way. The oil exec was laughably evil. The scapegoated worker had to change his name and chose “Elon” vowing to get back at the oil company by removing the world’s dependency on oil. “Elon” does nothing relating to new energy sources and only mentions expy companies until deciding to finally analyze the core he got from that oil drilling that got him fired. That core references Dakota Krout’s other works, the Divine Dungeon Series. Aside from this reference the Prologue is completely unnecessary, which isn’t a good sign.

Joe’s marriage to Daisy has unfortunate implications. In Chapter 2, the divorce attorney states that Joe’s soon to be ex-wife was a twenty-year-old woman. Joe was deployed 2 months after they were married. When Joe first joined Tiona’s party in Chapter 6, he mentions that he spent the last few years as an active duty medic for the army; only stopping due to his helicopter being shot down. In a later conversation, after Dylan uses some slang, Joe thought to himself that it had been a decade since he was in high school. For all of the proceeding to be true, Joe would’ve married Daisy when she just turned 18 and he would have been no younger than 24. A marriage with no prior relationship seems extremely unlikely, which creates questions with no good answers. I personally accept the most gracious explanation that Dakota Krout made a mistake in Daisy’s age and no one caught it.

In Chapter 26, Tiona mentions that the pods help with mental conditions, highlighting Depression and Autism specifically. Tiona indicates that the pods reset the brain chemistry, however neither Depression nor Autism are solely caused by a brain chemistry imbalance. This mistake isn’t a big issue and would likely be glossed over by most readers who don't know about these conditions. Yes this book is clearly within the realm of science fiction and fantasy, but the other players are still from our world so better accuracy wouldn’t hurt.

In Chapter 28, the one human Joe and Tiona’s group save from being sacrificed is last mentioned weeping over his dead comrades. Absolutely nothing is indicated that the group escorted him to safety or that Joe gave him travel permissions with the fast travel system so that he could get back to Ardania safely. He could have disappeared into the aether, who knows.

Joe repeatedly asserts [Chapter 2; Chapter 16] that he is a religious man, but that’s it. There’s no demonstration of him being religious or how his religious nature affects him other than having his Pray ability renamed to Query.

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Brian

A bumbling, ham fisted opening that morphs into something to rival RPO

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2022

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the prologue is bad. cringy, hammy, mary sued out the wahzoo, with cliched mcguffins and weird forshadowing to destiny. when i read about meelon shmusk and his edison EV cars, i rolled my eyes so hard i almost tore my optic nerve. i almost flushed this down the toilet just for how bad it was.

but pushing through that leads into what is probably the best framing for a Sword Art Online style story. one of the hardest things for these is worldbuilding. the numbers and constant monlogues and info dumps to describe the systems and other world underpinnings, but Dakota actually handles it elegantly. and the main character, rather than being a Wes Crusher, is more a Watson. not stupid, but regularly seeing whats going a minute too late, but still managing to come up with a couple good ideas and clever plans

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Joyce A Raesner

Great book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 6, 2022

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I really enjoyed this book. I am looking forward to reading the nest book in the series. I hope they are all this good

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Feyheart

Bad start but amazing afterwards

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 21, 2022

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I have to admit the beginning inspired quite a negative impression. I even checked to make sure I was reading the correct book. The references to Elon Musk had me massively eye-rolling. Personally, using him didn't add to the book, but contributed to my initial frustration and disdain. Thankfully, the author slapped me in the face with how awesome the story became after all that. Once Joe joined the game I became completely devoted to what might happen next. The struggles and cringeworthy puns added intriguing character to the book. I'm absolutely excited to see what happens next. I do hope we don't see Musk again, but either way I'm sure the adventure will be exciting. I love the Deity, but I'm saddened with the "I'm not (the Christian god)" statement. Unnecessary, and meh from a polytheistic reader.

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Curt

This was a good story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 31, 2022

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Kinda funny there SPC, good story, interesting entrance to the world... hilarious with the Edison and other references. Onto the next book

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Atlas

Fantastic example of good LitRPG fiction

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 27, 2018

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It's such a delight to find a complex, thoughtful, fun, and solidly written piece of LitRPG fiction. It really awakes the child in me and brings up this desire for true Virtual Reality MMORPGs that I've harboured since I first read Sword Art Online about eight years ago. Ritualist follows Joe, a guy that has chosen to die in the real world and be fully alive inside a game; he makes this bizarre choice after being blown up whilst serving as a medic in the army.

Inside the game, Joe is a bit special (as are all LitRPG protagonists ha) as he is the only person to complete several days worth of tests to determine his best character class. He is offered an obscure class - the Ritualist - which he accepts; the Ritualist is like a cleric, able to cast healing spells, but with huge reserves of mana required to cast rituals, which are exactly like they sound with big chalk circles and blood and guts and whatnot. He has terrible combat skills but is very prized by a local guild in a world where magic is severely restricted and true magical healing is incredibly rare.

Joe joins a ragtag band of adventurers, completes a lot of quests (hidden or otherwise), and starts to really discover the secrets of the world of Eternia. What I loved most about the book was the indepth but not boring look into how all the skills function, how all of his abilities levelled up, and how Joe chose to develop as a Scholar and use his limited magical abilities in really unique ways. There's a lot of thought behind this novel and I loved it.

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Kags

Innovative whilst still being true to the genre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 13, 2019

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This is one of the few series in this genre I have enjoyed - in fact I've re-read it several times and I find myself remembering certain scenes and having to re-read it all over again! Seriously, I only brought these books in November and I've read them at least three times and I'm about to do it again. The main character chooses a very unusual path (and god to follow) and plays a very clever game of advancing his own interests while still being heroic in his own way. He's here to stay and he's going to play himself while he's building himself a good life. I've found most books in this genre to be lacking in characterisation or general interest, but this book throws in strong characterisation, humour and unexpected twists and problem solving into the familiar but flawlessly seamless requirements of online gaming, such as the trials of choosing a path, advancing in levels, joining guilds, creating reputation and dealing with both the game's and the player's politics. This is a strong, fun, engrossing series and I'm pleased to have found it!

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Lit Ritual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 23, 2018

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This easily ranks up in the top 10 litrpg books/authors with the likes of Akella, Nest, Osadchuk etc. If u r asking why only 4* then u should realise that i only consider a few authors worthy of a 5- Robert Jordan, Tolkien etc. I hope there will be many many more in this series & it doesn't stop to soon like the Emerilia series of only 11 books. They could have been twice as big (book size) or had more than 20+, this series shouldn't feel rushed to a conclusion like Em's was. Can't wait till the next in the series.

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Bjorn Larsen

Dakota delivers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 11, 2018

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Another great story from the author who helped define the dungeon core subgenre.

Tldr: Good story, well thought out mechanics, decent characters.

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We follow a mans journey through personal disaster into a brand new world of rules and adventure. The opening is reasonably standard fare, giving us motivation and justification.
The initial character interactions are a bit strange, and feels forced. Some of the npcs feel needlessly antagonistic. There seems to be only one other guild in the game, and they are essentially a nuisance.
The npcs are better developed, and their power structures are believable.

All in all it scratches the litrpg/gamelit itch, doesn't contain a lot of typos or grammar issues and gave good bang for buck.

4 stars.

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Michael Jackson

Interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 10, 2022

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Not what i was expecting and even better for it, magic yep ,sarcasm yep, from zero to hero hmmmm maybe,a good story that it definitely is kept me reading till three in the morning just wanting to reach the end it was gripping and not bogged down in stats thank god .
Now onto book 2.

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