Proving Grounds

By: Apollos Thorne

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Publisher's summary

The minotaurs are dead. Mistress Nava has no choice. She'll have to take matters into her own hands to put an end to Elorion and his friends.

Join Elorion as he searches for the power to challenge their deadliest enemy yet. Whether he finds it inside himself or in some legendary weapon, will it be enough to end a Mistress level monster once and for all?

©2020 Apollos Thorne (P)2020 Podium Audio

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4 out of 5 stars

By LitRPG Reader on 12-18-21

I love you Aris, like 10 times calm down bro.

The amount of times he tells Aris he loves her in this book is ridiculous.

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5 out of 5 stars

By Andrew Brown on 02-23-21

wonderful series

this really is a wonderful series. It mostly has everything I like, dungeons, battles, swords and magics, etc. Have already read the next book and it gets even better.

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5 out of 5 stars

By Carlos on 01-24-24

Good lord!

Wow I can’t even! First the story was great and looking forward to the next one! However if I hear the main character say I love you one more time I’m going to lose it! Like we get man!

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4 out of 5 stars

By Cody Glenn on 07-29-21

There are times where change info from before.

An example is it says that the Pig farmer was the first to smell mana??? All of the mistress level succubi could smell the MCs mana and the imps could smell his light magic when he was casting spells.

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4 out of 5 stars

By david.d.L on 02-02-21

series is execellent if i am this far

same old stuff getting stonger but story is still goood an a great ending for this book.

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4 out of 5 stars

By Krushak on 10-10-22

Confusion

While the growth of the characters are good but I wish we got more insight of the other characters such as Lilith(like if she is the same as being the first succubus) or what her plans are. It's just so confusing what the plan of Nava and Lilith. Was it a test to see if the pathetic mere mortals were good enough? It's just a weird ending. So many questions.

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5 out of 5 stars

By Paul Jordaan on 03-18-23

Totally worth It !!!!

The way the story got me at the end was unthinkable. It got me bitting on my teeth

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5 out of 5 stars

By william on 07-09-20

great addition to the series

admittedly I'm more of a fan of codename freedom but this series has grown on me. if you liked the past couple then you won't be disappointed by this one and if you are looking at this one to decide about the series as a while then I'd recommend it even if it isn't typically the style you enjoy.

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5 out of 5 stars

By John Lloyd on 03-23-21

Great story but a bit short

I have really enjoyed this series. The story and performance are first class. I do feel a bit cheated by the shortness of this book. I know the first book was shorter but it was free so no problem. I like my books to be at least 10 hours.

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4 out of 5 stars

By DaddySanta on 04-23-21

Way too short

This is another example of greedy publishers trying to squeeze out more money from the same content. Books 3 and 4 should have been combined to make a solid book worth the $25-$30 retail. Well, at least the first 2 chapters of book 5 were included to extend the audio length and give us a teaser.
(2nd choice: combine books 4 & 5)

Other than its brevity, the story continues to be interesting, fun, and RPG-progression. Yes, the numbers get ridiculous, but we begin to understand the scale of true power of the Underworld. I'm glad to see more character development of the other 20 humans. Great job with the storytelling. (I'm already on book 5, and it's worth continuing.)

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