LitRPG Dungeon Core Adventure. In all the games Matt has played, Dungeons are places of danger and adventure — and in Rise of Mankind, a dungeon core's evolution drives the progression. The series follows a dungeon core as it grows, evolves, and expands its domain through explicit LitRPG levels, core ranks, and territorial advancement, embodying the dungeon/core progression pillar.
Jax is an ordinary man who fights creatures from the UnderVerse in his sleep — until his brother vanishes and he is kidnapped and given a choice: travel to the UnderVerse, the ruined realm at the center of existence, and open a portal for the Noble Houses to return home... or die. To survive he must fight in the arena, gather allies among dwarves, elves, wisps and outcasts, and build his own power in a realm ruled by gods, demons and the Dark Legion.