The Adventurers' Guild gave Marcus Cole a choice: cooperate or die.
Book 2 of the Bedrock series.
He chose to cooperate. His upper floors are a training ground where adventurers level up safely. In exchange, the Guild lets him keep building downward. It's a reasonable arrangement. Marcus is an engineer. He makes reasonable arrangements work.
Ten floors now. A fungal forest humming with bioluminescence. An underground river system teeming with creatures he designed from scratch. Crystal caverns that refract light into weapons. Each floor is more ambitious than the last, and each one teaches him something new about what a dungeon core can become.
Skrit is evolving beyond anything in the bestiary -- shadow rat, then something else entirely, something that moves between darkness like it's a doorway. Sera Voss walks a razor's edge between her loyalty to Marcus and her oath to the Guild. And Guildmaster Theron watches everything, waiting for the excuse he needs to authorize a core-break.
Then Marcus feels it: another dungeon's mana signature, rising from the deep earth beneath his territory. It's old. It's feral. And it doesn't negotiate.
The first dungeon-versus-dungeon war is about to begin. Marcus used to design load-bearing structures. Now he has to build one that can hold against something that wants to consume him from below.
His engineering degree didn't cover this.
* A Dungeon Core LitRPG
* Dark Humor Progression Fantasy Base Building
* Book 2 of the Bedrock series
Full transparency: AI helped draft the prose. The world, characters, plot, and engineering jokes are mine. You deserve to know that before you buy.
Genre: Children's Fiction
Book 2 of the Bedrock series.
He chose to cooperate. His upper floors are a training ground where adventurers level up safely. In exchange, the Guild lets him keep building downward. It's a reasonable arrangement. Marcus is an engineer. He makes reasonable arrangements work.
Ten floors now. A fungal forest humming with bioluminescence. An underground river system teeming with creatures he designed from scratch. Crystal caverns that refract light into weapons. Each floor is more ambitious than the last, and each one teaches him something new about what a dungeon core can become.
Skrit is evolving beyond anything in the bestiary -- shadow rat, then something else entirely, something that moves between darkness like it's a doorway. Sera Voss walks a razor's edge between her loyalty to Marcus and her oath to the Guild. And Guildmaster Theron watches everything, waiting for the excuse he needs to authorize a core-break.
Then Marcus feels it: another dungeon's mana signature, rising from the deep earth beneath his territory. It's old. It's feral. And it doesn't negotiate.
The first dungeon-versus-dungeon war is about to begin. Marcus used to design load-bearing structures. Now he has to build one that can hold against something that wants to consume him from below.
His engineering degree didn't cover this.
* A Dungeon Core LitRPG
* Dark Humor Progression Fantasy Base Building
* Book 2 of the Bedrock series
Full transparency: AI helped draft the prose. The world, characters, plot, and engineering jokes are mine. You deserve to know that before you buy.
Genre: Children's Fiction
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