Lazy Dungeon Master, Volume 16

Lazy Dungeon Master #16

by Supana Onikage, Youta (Illustrator), Quof (Translator)

I’m Keima Masuda, the Dungeon Master, still chasing my dream to live a life without work. Just as we settled that Leona business, Haku piled more work onto us... She wants us to destroy some artificial dungeon plant in the Holy Kingdom, but I just got back from Daide and want to chill at home! What to do, then?

“I may have an idea that will neatly solve all of these problems. May I speak?”

At Toi's suggestion, who Haku had forced onto me, I decided to go to the Holy Kingdom by possessing a monster's body. Now I can work while still chilling in bed... Wait, Rokuko's coming with me?!

This is Volume 16 of my own kind of dungeon story! I guess this is one way of working from home?!

Genres: Light Novel, Slice Of Life, Fantasy, Harem

297 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 25, 2021

Reviews

[Pieter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Haku asks Keima to investigate the Holy Empire. Hesitant to go himself, he and Rokoku decide to summon monsters, possess them and use those to do the investigation. The fact that it allows him to do a bit of flirting with Rokoku without irritating Haku is a nice extra. What follows a familiar pattern, about 2/3rds of funny light-hearted slice-of-life followed by quick action and some unexpected twists and reveals where Keima's smarts and unexpected magic do more then brute strength. It is a good addition to the series, and I hope we get to see that promised 17th volume for a good ending to an enjoyable series.

[John-Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was torn between three and four stars. The trip to the holy kingdom was rather boring. However the last quarter of the volume ended up being exciting, though the epilogue ending came out of nowhere.

[Pablo García · Rating 2 out of 5]

The moment the author starts trying to make Fraction Jokes (1/32, 1/16), is a good moment to put the light novel down and stop reading...
Toi and Niku duel and yet they look exactly the same and Niku is hundreds of years younger...so anything that happens is not balanced...
If gender-changers were not enough, now Keima and Rokuko use other bodies to infiltrate the Holy Kingdom...just because, like all of those past "quests" that were ordered by Haku, but made no sense to complete...
Still no maps of this other world by the illustrator, no character summaries either...
Somehow this light novel series is coming to a close and yet, because making money is the real motivation, this author is making stories that do not push the original story along, they do not make sense or have a real reason to accomplish anyways...
This story has lost it's purpose a long way back. The web-novel was more to the point, with a lot less side stories...
With the worst possible excuse, Keima gets sent home+1, not even by the God of Light that sent him to this other world or by Rokuko that spent the 1000 Dungeon Points on the Gacha machine to summon him...then it turns out to be a "dream" from a trap and then it ends...