Congratulations, You're a Magic Rock
(2025)(The first book in the Core Chaos series)
A novel by Lina Will
Sarah died because of her cat.
Not in a blaze of glory. Not saving a busload of children.
Just one badly timed trip, one expensive gaming rig, and one furry little sociopath.
Then things get worse.
Sarah wakes up as a sentient dungeon core. She is a magic crystal buried in a cave, trapped in a world run by a snarky System, buried under soul-crushing debt, and expected to do the one thing she absolutely does not want to do.
Become a monster.
Armed with nothing but a software engineer’s brain, a vicious streak of sarcasm, and a terrifying talent for turning architecture into psychological warfare, Sarah starts building a dungeon that can scare intruders senseless. The System wants murder. The numbers reward cruelty. The easy path is obvious.
Sarah picks the hard one.
When a band of hunted goblin refugees runs into her dungeon with kingdom exterminators at their heels, Sarah makes a choice that changes everything. She turns her dungeon into a sanctuary. Now she has goblins to protect, knights to terrify, impossible bills to pay, and a growing reputation as the weirdest, most dangerous haunted house in the region.
To survive, she will have to weaponize fear, outsmart a predatory cosmic bureaucracy, and build a community in the last place anyone would expect to find one. Inside a living dungeon.
Congratulations, You’re a Magic Rock is a darkly funny LitRPG dungeon core adventure featuring:
Not in a blaze of glory. Not saving a busload of children.
Just one badly timed trip, one expensive gaming rig, and one furry little sociopath.
Then things get worse.
Sarah wakes up as a sentient dungeon core. She is a magic crystal buried in a cave, trapped in a world run by a snarky System, buried under soul-crushing debt, and expected to do the one thing she absolutely does not want to do.
Become a monster.
Armed with nothing but a software engineer’s brain, a vicious streak of sarcasm, and a terrifying talent for turning architecture into psychological warfare, Sarah starts building a dungeon that can scare intruders senseless. The System wants murder. The numbers reward cruelty. The easy path is obvious.
Sarah picks the hard one.
When a band of hunted goblin refugees runs into her dungeon with kingdom exterminators at their heels, Sarah makes a choice that changes everything. She turns her dungeon into a sanctuary. Now she has goblins to protect, knights to terrify, impossible bills to pay, and a growing reputation as the weirdest, most dangerous haunted house in the region.
To survive, she will have to weaponize fear, outsmart a predatory cosmic bureaucracy, and build a community in the last place anyone would expect to find one. Inside a living dungeon.
Congratulations, You’re a Magic Rock is a darkly funny LitRPG dungeon core adventure featuring:
- a hilariously angry heroine
dungeon building and progression
snarky system messages
goblin refugees and found-family vibes
clever nontraditional dungeon tactics
high-stakes survival with heart
If you love dungeon core fantasy, LitRPG progression, sharp humor, and underdog worldbuilding with emotional payoff, this book is for you.
Genre: Fantasy
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