Xeal and friends continue their journey to the top of Eternal Dominion. However, as Xeal searches out potential leaders for his guild and bolsters its ranks others are moving as well. Will he and his guild weather the storm or will they lose their footing and be stopped before they can even really begin.
Yes I begin to introduce romantic complications in this book, yes Alex’s/Xeal’s relations will become more complex and integral to the plot of this series as it goes on. No I will not be writing any smut scenes, I will setup things and skip all the details, my 73 year old mother reads these and yeah enough said. I hope you all understand that for Alex/Xeal having a meaningful relationship was something that escaped him in his first life and this time around he is going to try to make it work sometimes a bit to hard.
My Opinion: 200 pages, $4.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
The 2nd book in the series continues the regressor storyline with the main character (MC) using his knowledge of the MMO that is sweeping the world to his guilds advantage. This time the big conflict is a raid by an opposing guild and how the MC uses not only knowledge of game secrets and his decades of experience as a guild leader, but also his knowledge of the habits, personalities, and weaknesses of the opposing guild leader. To a degree, things go a little too well for the MC as there seems to be no real challenges for him in this entry of the story.
On the game mechanic side of things, the RPG progression is definitely lessened here. There’s still leveling, but it’s summarized as the focus of the story is on raising guild member levels and not on the MCs individual progression anymore. There’s also more wand wavy tricks that the MC uses that feel a little less earned as they just show up in the story without much setup.
A small complaint, the middle of the story makes a jarring turn into harem territory with the MC suddenly taking on two girlfriends. I don’t have a big issue with romantic relationships in a story, but this one felt like it progressed in an instant without any real setup. It almost felt like it existed to check a box. Thankfully, the entire scene doesn’t take up more than 10% of the story.
Overall, a good story, though I had enjoyed it less than book 1.
Score: 7.4 out of 10