Vainqueur the Dragon
by Maxime J. Durand
About This Audiobook
Vainqueur Knightsbane is a red dragon with a princess-kidnapping habit and a hoard he'd marry if he could. When a would-be thief named Victor Dalton — isekai'd human, professionally unlucky — explains that adventurers earn gold through quests and levels, Vainqueur has a revelation: monster-slaying pays. So the setting's apex predator registers as an adventurer, with Victor conscripted as his eternally exasperated minion-slash-HR-department. It's a full parody of LitRPG and isekai conventions, and the bit has legs because Durand commits: Vainqueur's ego is a force of nature that grows on you, while Victor's chapters keep one foot in an actual story with actual stakes. The humor runs juvenile and one-note in stretches — your tolerance for a dragon calling humans manlings for fifteen hours is the whole ballgame. Jack Voraces was born to voice this dragon, though the audio has a few spots where the voice filter drops between lines. Complete at four books. 4.6 from 1.4K ratings.
