The Unwanted Undead Adventurer

Yu Okano

Jan 2023 · The Unwanted Undead Adventurer Vol 10 · J-Novel Club

About this eBook

Tasked with picking up the grand guildmaster of Yaaran and bringing them to Maalt, Rentt and Lorraine travel to Yaaran’s capital, Vistelya, only to find the grand guildmaster is out and won’t be back for a few days. Now that Rentt and Lorraine have unexpected time on their hands, they decide to take care of their additional errands in the city. They head to the Church of the Eastern Sky to deliver Sister Lillian’s letter to Abess Elza, then meet up with Augurey, their colorful acquaintance, to visit the palace for an audience with Princess Jia.

During their meeting, the princess unexpectedly begs Rentt for a favor. Secrets and machinations abound among the Kingdom of Yaaran’s royalty, putting themselves and the kingdom at risk. The solution lies with the Land of the Venerable Holy Tree and the high elves that live there, but their help comes with conditions, ones that may involve Rentt and, of all things, his cursed mask!

Ratings and reviews

While I'm actually a big fan of this series, this volume was a definite miss. The first half did a decent job setting up the next big plot hook, but it then lazily meanders around after that. A slow volume can be good to reset narrative tension between arcs, but this one just abruptly ends before the plot that seemed to be intended for it actually reaches a resolution. I'm invested enough to keep up with the next few volumes, but they really need to improve or I might end up dropping it.

I still love the series and I'm excited for the next book. However, while maybe the first quarter of the book was interesting and set up the next arc the latter 3/4 were all filler and somewhat unnecessary as far as I can tell.

another great entry in the series, but ends in a way that makes it feel like a part 1 of 2.