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Dreadgod

Author: Will Wight

Series: Cradle (#11)

Pages: 464

Word count: 125,000

Published: 2022 | Publisher: Hidden Gnome

Genre: Fantasy / Progression

ISBN: 9781959001089

Goodreads: Link | Rating: 9.24 (24,965 ratings)

Latest Score: 8 | Average Score: 8 | Read Count: 1

Owned: Yes

Read History

2025 | Score: 8

Not much of a gap between books anymore, not bad but kind of drags in places.

Format: Kindle

Days: 8

Date: 9/22/2025 -> 9/30/2025

Summary

Dreadgod
Will Wight
Cradle #11

Eithan gets arrested for being a protagonist by the fun police who are very upset that he wasn't protagging for THEM. They all expect him to use his OP main character powers to blow them up or cast shadow judgement deathstrike but instead he says "uwu I'm sowwy, I did a fucky wucky." This freaks everyone else more than threats. Makiel, having been a villian for some time, knows character dvevelopment when he sees it and tries to shut that shit down and blame him for everything. Eithan counters with a legendary "No U". This is a very strong point, and Makiel is not happy about it. They all agree to put Eithan in magic handcuffs and give him time out. They are all aware that he could break out of time out by yawning. No one is happy. Except Eithan. He gets to hang out with his buddy again.
Back on Babybox, because of shens fuckery, all of the dreadgods have gone super saiyan, all at the same time, and are being extra toxic. Especially the silent king, who just got unbanned on every psychic platform and is just hacking into everyones accounts now that parental controls are off. He tells lindon that he is gonna beat his ass. He's killed billions of protagonist. Lindon says "Uh....No U?" and then DC's before immediately freaking out.
Everyone is freaking out because it turned out that the wacky mentor figure was actually a wise mentor figure all along. Shen, having been a villian for some time, knows a protagonist when he sees one and warns everyone that if they dont kill them soon, they are begging to be BBEG fodder. Northstrider and Malice are too busy being homeless and a terrible parent to be genre savvy. No one is happy about All of the monarchs turn to team protagonist and say, "Stop being cool right now. None of that. Slow down." They all nod and when the monarchs turn around, lindon sneers, "Just because they said that we are going to advance EVEN HARDER!"
Lindon activates his oceans 11 display with dross and starts picking out crazy digivolve spaces for the whole team to digivolve. Yerin will go to bloodfucker hall, where the bloodfuckers live, who she hates. Unforunately, they are really good at blood stuff, especially the sage of red research, who is very eager to take her on as a student in a completely non-creepy way, he swears. Featuring little blue.
Ziel and Orthos have to go to time stop castle to learn how to stop time and also eat dragon gods. This seems wildly out of both of their leagues but lindon has faith in them, which means they get plot power.
Lindon is going to go be a sage, because turns out, he's a pretty strong one, and also try to talk to mercy is a 1000% platonic way to help her level up, because he really loves his team and had a commitment to them as a group. Malice, being the most toxic parent, thinks that he is coming for a bootycall in the middle of war, and also that its time to Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss her daughter into submission. Its either that, or uncle shens naughty nono box of sadness, that apparently he puts his children in because he is the worst.
The wandering titan is about to attack Akura land, and lindon and team are getting ready to fight it. And then it runs up and says "LMAO PSYCH" and sacrifices itself to summon the silent king in attack mode. When summoned, the silent king can cast dominate person on anyone withing a 13 mile radius who does not have the "Willpower" attribute, and can summon anyone they've dominated into battle. They have 0 attack at base, but add the a ttack scores of any card they dominate to their attack and defense. So they are a pain. All the monarchs try to fight them while lindon wants to nom. Silent king says NO its is I who will nom YOU. Then a tree appears and the silent king says "God fucking damnit" and the tree says "Aye lmao, who turned child lock off??"
Lindon has dross ask very politely if he could commit a small treason and slurp the dreadgod. The tree, having been murdered by the last monarchs for trying to be a protagonist, says absolutely you can and I will help you treason. So they do that and all of the monarchs are really angry as Lindon creates a new form of advancement and somehow becomes a dreadgod. The monarchs look to emriss and say "This is problem!" and emiriss, having been a hero for some time, shrugs, "Is it?" They all think she's being cryptic and weird and fuck off, except Larian, who is genre savvy, and excited for the next arc.
Elsewhere, Now an Arclord Yerin adopts redmoon hall after giving red research a crisis of faith that lead to his death, his bloodshadows death, and the death of half the hall due to a weird fight between blood exes. Ziel learns god sigils, Orthos learns about historical revisionism, and Mercy is gaslit by her mom again.
Having literally stolen the power of the gods, Lindon and Dross collect the crew to do Ocean's 12: Monarch Heist. This is the part where they basically jump into the labyrinth and pop out wherever is most inconvient and just fucking rob the monarchs. this includes mercy, who is alerted that their mom was not only gaslighting her, but the entire population????? So they steal everyones shit and then dip and its the best.
The monarchs are furious because these fucking protagonists are being protagonists. Shen shakes his head, "This is why you have to tpk BEFORE they get character development. EVERY TIME." Together they devise a devious plan: beat these kids asses.
The protagonists, having gotten all the things they need, create their greatest weapon: The Hyperbolic Training Montage Chamber. With this, they plan to become truly OP protags.