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Hell Mode Light Novel #4
Hell Mode: Volume 4
Diving straight into the Rohzenheim War!
Rohzenheim, nation of the elves, is under attack by the Demon Lord Army and on the verge of total annihilation. Heeding the requests of his home country and Sophialoneh—crown princess of Rohzenheim and No-life Gamer newcomer—Allen and his companions decide to join the fight and save the elves.
When they land on the elven continent, however, they find the capital already fallen, the front line on the verge of crumbling, and one of the few remaining cities overflowing with wounded and refugees. To make matters worse, they learn that the enemy’s top general is a Demonic Deity who has already defeated Hero Helmios before!
The Demon Lord Army is far more numerous and much more powerful than anything they’ve ever encountered before! Can the No-life Gamers truly prevail against a force of three million?!
Rohzenheim, nation of the elves, is under attack by the Demon Lord Army and on the verge of total annihilation. Heeding the requests of his home country and Sophialoneh—crown princess of Rohzenheim and No-life Gamer newcomer—Allen and his companions decide to join the fight and save the elves.
When they land on the elven continent, however, they find the capital already fallen, the front line on the verge of crumbling, and one of the few remaining cities overflowing with wounded and refugees. To make matters worse, they learn that the enemy’s top general is a Demonic Deity who has already defeated Hero Helmios before!
The Demon Lord Army is far more numerous and much more powerful than anything they’ve ever encountered before! Can the No-life Gamers truly prevail against a force of three million?!
366 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 15, 2021
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August 16, 2022
This was most boring one in this series so far, so we've got a war going on with numbers on scale of millions. Every other cast of character is just well small time actor in this novel with MC spamming the summon button to wipe out the demons. Well, he got to speed level using huge number of demons of decent rank which would be quite impossible otherwise, in gaming you've to grind sometimes so understandable.
Problem starts when side characters are just plain bland and have lost any thinking for themselves. This book is by worst as far as side characters are concerned. Dogora guy only talking like some muscle headed dude "Got it" "on it" just two-three word sentences and only like 20-30 times he gets screentime. I thought krena was dumbest of em all but this guy is definitely getting the cake in this volume. Cecil has become an annoying bitch who only knows how to say "explain" "explain" and more explain for anything our MC does. She also loves to hold mc in choke hold like it is her birth right over MC. No respect for MC is being shown even though MC have literally saved her life and made her strong enough to be considered major powerhouse even in army. And yes if you didn't know, being friends doesn't cut this behavior. Keel guy only got a few sentences at the end of the novel when he had to use his extra skill otherwise it's a blank.
Fights were also totally bland with MC doing a manual chore of killing mobs with his summons strategies is a luxuries word for what is happening in this novel, even children are capable of doing better. It was like MC wasnt fighting an army at all just a mindless mob. Demonic Deity being was there just for show, I mean if you had planned to flatten the country you'd do your best to do so, but our guy here waited for his army to be wiped out before considering to do anything.
Anyways as you can see this volume has a lot of faults and not many places it redeems itself in. By far the worst volume yet, i feel author tried to include a lot of stuff when he should have tried to expand it a little bit even if it meant dividing book into multi volume arc. Author seems to be continuing the tradition of 1 volume = 1 arc at the expense of quality I believe.
Let's hope next volume is not as bad given how MC is going back to his original goal of S rank dungeon.
Problem starts when side characters are just plain bland and have lost any thinking for themselves. This book is by worst as far as side characters are concerned. Dogora guy only talking like some muscle headed dude "Got it" "on it" just two-three word sentences and only like 20-30 times he gets screentime. I thought krena was dumbest of em all but this guy is definitely getting the cake in this volume. Cecil has become an annoying bitch who only knows how to say "explain" "explain" and more explain for anything our MC does. She also loves to hold mc in choke hold like it is her birth right over MC. No respect for MC is being shown even though MC have literally saved her life and made her strong enough to be considered major powerhouse even in army. And yes if you didn't know, being friends doesn't cut this behavior. Keel guy only got a few sentences at the end of the novel when he had to use his extra skill otherwise it's a blank.
Fights were also totally bland with MC doing a manual chore of killing mobs with his summons strategies is a luxuries word for what is happening in this novel, even children are capable of doing better. It was like MC wasnt fighting an army at all just a mindless mob. Demonic Deity being was there just for show, I mean if you had planned to flatten the country you'd do your best to do so, but our guy here waited for his army to be wiped out before considering to do anything.
Anyways as you can see this volume has a lot of faults and not many places it redeems itself in. By far the worst volume yet, i feel author tried to include a lot of stuff when he should have tried to expand it a little bit even if it meant dividing book into multi volume arc. Author seems to be continuing the tradition of 1 volume = 1 arc at the expense of quality I believe.
Let's hope next volume is not as bad given how MC is going back to his original goal of S rank dungeon.
August 3, 2022
DNF after 55%
So this series started out strong for me with book one and has declined with each new book released. I realized I was forcing myself to finish this one which is a red flag for me.
Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t horrible, just not my cup of tea. Skill usage/evolutions, MC progression, and new interesting ideas were completely absent.
If you like shallow war books you will like this.
So this series started out strong for me with book one and has declined with each new book released. I realized I was forcing myself to finish this one which is a red flag for me.
Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t horrible, just not my cup of tea. Skill usage/evolutions, MC progression, and new interesting ideas were completely absent.
If you like shallow war books you will like this.
June 30, 2022
The Demon Lord starts a massive invasion, focusing on the home continent of the elves. Alan is asked to help out. Something he and his party members readily accept, even more when they realize an upgrade in their classes. Fighting monsters is one thing, but now they have to deal with demonic leadership as well.
I find the world building intriguing. The story is pretty decent although in this volume it could do with a bit of streamlining and the numbers thrown around both in distances and most importantly the number of opposition is a tad silly. The real issue for me is the lack of character development, not just from the MC, but also those around him. Without the extensive analysis of how the MC's abilities work it becomes a fairly standard story where I don't care all that much about the characters and their fate.
In the end it was a decent read, but the main reason for me to continue with the series is curiosity about the nature of the world and not as much the fate of the characters set in that world.
I find the world building intriguing. The story is pretty decent although in this volume it could do with a bit of streamlining and the numbers thrown around both in distances and most importantly the number of opposition is a tad silly. The real issue for me is the lack of character development, not just from the MC, but also those around him. Without the extensive analysis of how the MC's abilities work it becomes a fairly standard story where I don't care all that much about the characters and their fate.
In the end it was a decent read, but the main reason for me to continue with the series is curiosity about the nature of the world and not as much the fate of the characters set in that world.
May 30, 2024
Sadly the books are getting worse and worse.
Lots of nonsensical stuff. The scale of everything is ridiculous. All the mobs that used to be interesting are now just trash mobs that die instantly. He now kills millions of enemies easily. Sadly the power dynamic makes everything boring.
What is the point of a fortress? If a wizardess can drop a meteor that kills 10,000 rank B and A enemies, then a fortress loses all meaning. The reason a fortress was useful in medieval times, is because the enemy didn't possess nuclear bombs and stealth bombers.
Lots of nonsensical stuff. The scale of everything is ridiculous. All the mobs that used to be interesting are now just trash mobs that die instantly. He now kills millions of enemies easily. Sadly the power dynamic makes everything boring.
What is the point of a fortress? If a wizardess can drop a meteor that kills 10,000 rank B and A enemies, then a fortress loses all meaning. The reason a fortress was useful in medieval times, is because the enemy didn't possess nuclear bombs and stealth bombers.
September 14, 2022
LitRPG/Isekai remains enormous fun. I think the degree to which it takes the game framing literally and runs with it distinguishes it from other similar ones. Anyway, I continue to enjoy this, looking forward to see where things go in the next volume.
October 1, 2024
Really inspirational and unique world building at least in terms of the light novels I have read. Using the racial/regional commonalities in the naming of their people to make connections between characters and plot elements.
August 7, 2023
Hilariously good
This book was so fun to read and entertaining to enjoy. Can't wait for more to be released! What will happen next?
This book was so fun to read and entertaining to enjoy. Can't wait for more to be released! What will happen next?
August 29, 2024
Let loose the dogs of war! I honestly don't know why so many people vote this one is lesser than the others. It's pretty obvious this is going to be a war series. It's pretty obvious that Alan is a summoner. What did they expect?
Personally, I love the clever tactics. One thing I will be kind of disappointed with, is if the demons are all evil and corrupt, and if there's not one redeemable one amongst them? I'll be very very pissed if Allen doesn't just do genocide.
Personally, I love the clever tactics. One thing I will be kind of disappointed with, is if the demons are all evil and corrupt, and if there's not one redeemable one amongst them? I'll be very very pissed if Allen doesn't just do genocide.
July 3, 2022
Allen and his party have been looking for a challenge---and four million members of the Demon Lord's army certainly qualifies. Of course, it will be nice to save the elves, but Allen is also eager to gain as much benefit from the situation as he can. After all, he's still trying to meet the crazy EXP requirements for Hell Mode. . . .
Despite the scope of the war, the ludicrous numbers being thrown around result in it feeling less impactful than many of the earlier encounters Allen had. Few enemies in this army can legitimately threaten him, so the focus is more on how to preserve the elves, who are far, far weaker than Allen and his friends.
I do appreciate getting more of a glance into how this world works. Allen's conversation with the Lord of Spirits has been his only opportunity to talk about his true circumstances with someone who can understand them---but there are limits even for the gods, so he doesn't get as much information as he wanted.
It's also nice to see Allen giving so much back to the Hero. Helmios hasn't really been in control of his own life, and he's had precious little good news for most of it, so it was nice he finally got to see some real victories.
I am looking forward to where the series goes from here, as Allen hasn't quite finished maxing out his current class, and the massive loss of life on both sides means the war is likely to pause for a while so Allen can visit other countries and delve their hardest dungeons.
Despite the scope of the war, the ludicrous numbers being thrown around result in it feeling less impactful than many of the earlier encounters Allen had. Few enemies in this army can legitimately threaten him, so the focus is more on how to preserve the elves, who are far, far weaker than Allen and his friends.
I do appreciate getting more of a glance into how this world works. Allen's conversation with the Lord of Spirits has been his only opportunity to talk about his true circumstances with someone who can understand them---but there are limits even for the gods, so he doesn't get as much information as he wanted.
It's also nice to see Allen giving so much back to the Hero. Helmios hasn't really been in control of his own life, and he's had precious little good news for most of it, so it was nice he finally got to see some real victories.
I am looking forward to where the series goes from here, as Allen hasn't quite finished maxing out his current class, and the massive loss of life on both sides means the war is likely to pause for a while so Allen can visit other countries and delve their hardest dungeons.
August 7, 2023
So much happens in this volume, and it’s not just a bunch of battles for the battle junkie to enjoy. Allen guesses a significant part of the magic system that will enable his party to grow stronger. I can’t wait to see what happens next!
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