When a new dungeon is born, it wants nothing more than to have the most vicious monsters, the most cunning traps and the most shiny of loot. There is only one problem, but it's a rather big one; it finished its first floor years ago, but it still hasn't been visited by any adventurers! In order to find someone or something to explore its floors, or perhaps just to find someone to talk to, this dungeon will have to go way off script. But it soon discovers that going off script brings problems of its own, and that adventurers are not the only thing this world is missing.
A story about a dungeons journey of exploration and self discovery in a dark and devastated world.
My Opinion: 139 pages, $2.99, Not Available On Kindle Unlimited
It’s a dungeon core novel where the core doesn’t have anyone coming through his dungeon, so he has to use alternative methods to the normal System to gain mana, create new monsters, expand his dungeon, and grow his crystal.
The beginning of the story was a little interesting if you like the design aspect of a dungeon core novel. But at a certain point it got repetitive since no one was coming into the dungeon.
About half way through the story there's some good world building explaining the complete lack of life around the dungeon and shifts the focus more towards world exploration, investigation about why all life is gone, and experimentation. It's this shift that won me over as the dungeon explores more speculative ideas, like how all life could end in a magi-tech world or how it could possibly come back. There's also magical theorizing and experimentation that was interesting. But best of all, there's finally some conflict. It's not the standard adventurers invade a dungeon stuff but something a but more epic and grand.
By the end of the story I was won over, though I'll admit I had to push through the 1st half a bit.
Overall, it's a good speculative LitRPG story whose 1st half would be entertaining for the most die hard of fans of dungeon design, but whose last half would be entertaining to just about anyone that likes a good speculative end of the world story.
Score: 7.2 out of 10