In a distant world five times the size of planet Earth, dungeons and their dungeon cores have become the top of the food chain. Millions of dungeons inhabit the planet, each vying to grow stronger, claim territory, and ascend. Fred is a half-Human/half-Dungeon-Core hybrid who must master his core powers, forge bonds with allies like Deecy the Dire Wolf guide, and navigate destruction, resurrection, and guild politics. Across five books, Fred progresses from accidental core destroyer to wielder of all seven elements, reuniting with the Core Power Guild and seeking the townspeople of Gatecross while rival dungeons and human forces hunt him. A completed dungeon-core LitRPG saga of quantified growth and dungeon-building.
Larek Holsten is a 7-foot-tall Logger in the Kingdom of Androthe, feared by the magically regrowing monoliths of the Rushwood Forest for felling them faster than anyone with his axe's powerful Fusion. A deliberate misunderstanding lands him in trouble, rips him from his family and home, and reveals his dormant magical potential. Ordered to attend a Mage academy he never wanted, Larek discovers a unique talent for creating Fusions that makes him a prodigy. From Crystalview Academy under Dean Wilburt to Copperleaf Academy under a different danger, through the Scission Interception Corps' war against Apertures and Calamities, transport to the Sealance Empire, and return to a Kingdom consumed by massive Calamities, Larek must master crafting, stats, and combat to save his family from the Gergasi Enclave and close the world-threatening wounds.
Millions of Humans from Earth are transported to the developmental world of Tarth to train as Contenders via the Assimilation System. Thaden is ejected from the training process into an active volcano, survives alone in a dungeon with no weapons, and is auto-assigned the Support-based Assistant Healer Class — no offensive spells, unable to wield weapons. He discovers his Mana seemingly never depletes, turning a non-combat healer into an overpowered solo dungeon-runner. Across six volumes he climbs Levels, evolves his Class (Assistant Healer → Lifewarden and beyond), navigates Contender Rankings, Guilds, Intermediate and Anchor dungeons, and Developmental Phases, while facing the world-spanning Adversary.
Krista and Devin enter Glendaria Awakens, the newest VRMMORPG, and end up in charge of operating a dungeon. Leveling up through play, they build floors, stock them with powerful monsters, and defend their Dungeon Core - an item every guild in the game wants to steal - across a complete trilogy.
Milton Frederick, one of the best players of the VR game Crowned Lieges of Destiny, is abducted by the alien Collective along with 100 other humans and has his consciousness implanted in a Station Core on a hostile alien world. From a damaged core with almost nothing, he must build a dungeon, construct drones and Molecular Converters, recruit defenders, and survive escalating attacks by Proctans, the Cordpower Corporation, and worse — growing from a barely-surviving core into the fortress at the heart of a kingdom, across a complete five-book arc.
Tacca GloomLily only ever wanted to be a Fairy Assistant to a Dungeon Core — but her horrendous bad luck destroys every Core she nears, until her soul ends up inside one and she becomes a Dungeon Core herself. Across four completed volumes (The Dungeon Fairy, Two Choices, Three Lives, Four Days), she builds and expands her dungeon, earns Core Improvement Points from Raider delves, survives a coordinated interdimensional invasion, and brings the saga to a definitive close.
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