How to Survive a Summoning 101

How to Survive a Summoning 101

by Durrendal

Warning This fiction contains:
  • Graphic Violence
  • Profanity
  • Sensitive Content
  • Sexual Content

Do you dare visit Sangraal?


Death was supposed to be the end for Rigel. Unfortunately, he caught the interest of a vile god. Ripped away from his world and all that he held dear, Rigel is thrust into the ruthless world of Sangraal, where gods walk amongst mortals.

Rigel must gather all his wits and dirty tricks to survive this brutal and unforgiving world. Meanwhile, his inner darkness threatens to twist him into something he doesn’t want to be. To navigate the quagmires of lies and betrayal, Rigel needs power.

But power comes at a price.  For Rigel, that price might be too high.


Rated 'D' for Dark!

( Cover Art: Sleeping Soul In The Sky)

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Table of Contents
43 Chapters
Chapter Name Release Date
Prologue: Gods, Contracts, and Frogs ago
Chapter 1: Yanderes, Gifts, and Nurse Uniforms ago
Chapter 2: Knights, Grandmas, and Dreamcatchers ago
Chapter 3: Conflicts, Magic, and Bottled Fireflies ago
Chapter 4: Languages, Betrayers, and Silent Evenings ago
Chapter 5: First Battles, Auroras, and Moon's Spawns ago
Chapter 6: Dances, Rivers and Inquisitions ago
Chapter 7: Mercenaries, Witch Trials and Whistles ago
Chapter 8: Requiems, Sacrifices and Deaths ago
Chapter 9 : Surviving a Magic Laundromat ago
Extra Chapter: Answers ago
Extra Chapter: Arin ago
Chapter 10 : Surviving Feminazis ago
Chapter 11: Surviving Salrest Nights ago
Chapter 12: Surviving Overprotective Dwarf Dads ago
Chapter 13: Surviving Curses ago
All Things Sangraal ago
Chapter 14: Surviving Exploding Fish-Barrels ago
Chapter 15: Surviving Inner Demons ago
Happy Announcement+ Contest ago
Chapter 16: Surviving Serpents ago
Chapter 17: Surviving Dragons, Elves and Psychotic Tendencies ago
Chapter 18: Surviving Mating Rituals ago
Chapter 19: Surviving Fates ago
Chapter 20: Surviving the Other ago
Chapter 21: Surviving Quiet Days ago
Interlude I: Wrought of Shadows ago
Chapter 22: Surviving Cliff-Hangers ago
Interlude II: Cast in Sunlight ago
Interlude III: Baptized in Salt-Part I ago
Interlude III: Baptized in Salt-Part II ago
Chapter 23: Surviving Sandstorms. ago
Chapter 24: Surviving Holy Birds ago
Chapter 25: Surviving Barrel Rolls ago
Chapter 26: Surviving Cruel Kings ago
Chapter 27: Surviving Desert Monsters ago
Chapter 28: Fraying Edges ago
Chapter 29: Grave of The Moon ago
Chapter 30: The Final Crossing ago
Chapter 31: A River of Smoke ago
Chapter 32: Bordertown Blues ago
Chapter 33: What Men Worship; What Men Forget ago
Reasons ago

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NuitBlanche
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I will be short and concise, this is an amazing work in progress, long chapter, deep development.

You won't regret sacrificing some time to read this story !

PunchManParty
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Captain cheesecake reporting

Your story, my dear good sir has a good pacing which for me, is a key factor to even read the whole story.

 

Style is great, not confusing for me on what  the current chapter is pertaining to its reader.

 

Grammar is not sore on my eyes in the least.

 

The character building of the MC is great, not getting OP too much and too soon is really a great treat for me. It's like I always have something to look forward to in your story. 

 

Just something though about the ones being close to the MC always in the face of danger...it's just too unsettling for me like..will every girl of the MC suffer worse than the previous one? I can't rest easy after reading a chapter if you know what I mean and it's GOOD is what I'm saying. It makes me go anticipate that something fair will happen for the MC. Well, 'tis just my thoughts though.

 

Four stars for me. definitely worth to read.

Jeeyzzz
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KEEP IT GOING! THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST STORIES I'VE READ ON RRL

Started kinda messy but it kept getting better! Cheers!!👍

whomightub3
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Why is this so highly rated? The page one hook was... okay? But the chronology is nonsensical. B occurs, flashback to A, straight to D, no sight or explanation of C. Then the irritating and poorly implimented language barrier, and the story kind of disolved into unreadably nonsense and insanity there. The comedy has no build up or punch line, just fat hippo nurse lady. Who what where when why how, is it anthropomorphic, does it have fingers, does it talk in a high pitch falsetto and walk everywhere by highstepping and tiptoeing while wearing jinglebell anklets made of cow-bells? No? Just... fat hippo nurse lady? Are the doors all 5 feet wide and 12 feet tall to cater to someone of such size? Are the toilets like swimming pools of horror?

soloflyte
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Still at chapter 21. Am impressed at the raw concept of the storyline. Needs polishing and more checking though. But the MC just keeps being on the brink of death. Hehehe

With his AP and other powers, he could just crush hearts. Same with the voices. He could just direct his hate and anger at them to shut them up and control them.

Still.... two thumbs up!

Cestarian
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Feels like it's going nowhere

Read up to chapter 16, it started out fairly interesting until the insanity themes kicked in. I don't know about others, but reading about meaningless temper tantrums, bursts of negative emotions and voices in heads isn't my idea of a good story. The depiction of insanity in and of itself is reasonably realistic and everything, it's just that I hate the theme. This is why I dropped the story.

It starts off with a bad mix of dark fantasy and silly humor (by silly I mean bad, really damn bad), the two things mix like water and oil (i.e. they don't mix at all) there were a few ok characters built up in the beginning, like 3 of em maybe.

Then after a forced plot point that felt no better executed than one of those silly jokes the adventure (read: tragedy) starts. all the jokes die down, everything is bleak, everyone needs to die.

For what it is, the story is pretty well written, acceptable grammar (not professionally acceptable, but close enough) and pretty decent narration, pacing is also acceptable, if I were to sum up the writers writing skills I'd say 'half-decent' but still a few steps away from being 'good' (e.g. he's better than the majority of writers on this site). At least until the whole insanity theme kicked in where every chapter becomes bloated with 'kill them' 'rip them apart' and 'break them' lines as the protagonist is slowly losing his sanity and with it his own personality becoming nothing more than the human shaped animals he's been killling up till this point.

He's on a journey to kill gods as was a given from the very first chapter. He's looking for weapons that can kill gods too. It's just that in the grand scheme of things he's a complete weakling, he's certainly not gonna be killing any gods within his lifetime at the rate he's growing, sure he's a bit stronger than the average human, but apparently the average elf is a bit much to ask of him still, after 2 years of more or less constant training/fighting. 2 years that were mostly time skipped.

And I don't know... if he kills the gods but becomes just like them in the process, he loses, if he fails to kill the gods, he loses, there's no victory scenario anywhere in sight, and the more he loses his sanity, the more boring it becomes to read for me.

I guess you could say it's just not my cup of tea. Personally I think the author could do better if he had fewer forced plot points (personally when the tragedy struck, I barely cared, it felt so forced, so... pointless somehow, it was like the entire plot point was set up just to get the protagonist out of 'starting village' and give him another reasons to 'hate gods', and so it all happened, reasons be damned), and allowed his protagonist to be a deeper person than 'me hate gods and me go insane now, i will hit god with stiks sumdai'. A protagonist that started out as an incredibly low IQ moron, has now devolved into a character about as shallow as that emo kid from naruto that said revenge in every other sentence, and hated everything and everyone, especially those that never did a thing to him. This doesn't make for an engaging protagonist to follow.

Overall I'd say the story is a bit overhyped in the reviews. I mean if you don't mind the overdone insanity themes you'll probably love this stuff, but if you do, there doesn't seem to be much here worth reading.

Severinus3
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This is some really dark and fucked up shit :D And I love it! The funny/happy moments make it even better. Damn I can't write reviews. Well I really like the story and hope that the bond somehow gets resolved D: Go MC!!

pizzalad3
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The what the what the what?

The what? I started this fiction and I am completely lost. So lost I can't find my home. The author tried too hard with humor. Fitting excessive analogies and funny parts from different games and FFs yet ignored coherency and plot of the story. The ideas and scene jumped too much its very hard to read. I also find the humor bit forced so my overall impression of this FF is rather negative. 

YeenBeanz
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Nice fiction carry on

Awesome story and an interesting way of power and sacrifice but be careful about the way things are are equivalent to power because it mainly depends on perspective. Good work and keep writing.

LordSanchan
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Fair Warning, Darkness Ahead.

 What to say? I find it to be well-written, with slight humor and a good story, granted, not your average happy-go-lucky story as it has an extremely realistic streak for that eras punishments. If you're looking for a fairly realistic dark fantasy I would say this is the right story for you.