Details
- Author
- cathfach
- Status
- Completed
- Chapters
- 299
- Rating
- 4.40 / 5
- Last updated
- Dec 25, 2025
- Published on
- Royal Road
An Unbound Soul
4.40 · 299 chapters · Completed · updated Dec 25, 2025
AdventureFantasy Dungeon CrawlerGameLitHigh FantasyLitRPGMagicMale LeadPortal Fantasy / IsekaiProgressionReincarnationSlice of LifeSupernatural
Why read this story?
- Well rated by readers.
- Finished, so you can read it straight through without waiting for updates.
- A medium-length read at 299 chapters.
- A good fit if you enjoy Dungeon Crawler, GameLit and High Fantasy.
- cathfach has 3 other stories listed here if you like their writing.
About this story
When Peter suffers a too-close encounter with a truck, he finds himself reborn in another world. At first glance it is a perfect fantasy land. There's magic to play with, elves singing in the forest and a hyperactive catgirl neighbour. There's even a System that lets him earn skills and level up. But it isn't long before he notices that the world is far too perfect. Just why is everyone so nice? Can Peter accept the alien morality of this world's self-proclaimed protector, or will he seek to overthrow her?
Set after the events of A Lonely Dungeon, a few hundred years after the rebirth of civilization, this is a story about an earthling falling into Erryn's new world and the subsequent struggles of himself and Erryn to understand each other. It's a slow paced slice of life, and while there are pieces of action, don't expect any immediate grand conflict between Erryn and Peter.
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Note that since its original upload, the content has been replaced with a newer version with different chapter numbering. While I've updated author notes, I can't modify other people's comments, so where specific chapters are mentioned by number in comments you'll probably need to subtract five.
An Unbound Soul is published on Royal Road. FicGems only lists the story's details and links to it; the chapters stay on the original site.