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Adventurers seek dungeons for riches. Heroes storm great fortresses. Gods clash far above. Arek cooks lasagna and tops it with a dash of finely chopped basil. An orc who has seen more than his fair share of fighting, Arek wants nothing more than to spend his days cooking and away from the chaos of combat. But when Ming and her group of adventurers hire him as their full-time chef, his plans of avoiding violence crumble. He longs to leave his blood-soaked mistakes in his past — but old friends and foes have different ideas.

In a world where Elves and Goblins are real, where Wizards and Witches cast terrible magic, and where level-100 Heroes lead parties against great evils, Dungeons are essential — places where stories are written, loot acquired, and legends born. And the narrator of this story is a Dungeon. Known as the Playwright, this Dungeon Core invites adventurers to the "Stage of Forgotten Fables" for a dramatic dungeon delve unlike any they have experienced before. Told from the perspective of the Dungeon Core itself, the story shifts between multiple POVs to show the growth of its characters. The LitRPG elements of levels, skills, and classes are present, though the focus leans toward narrative over number-crunching.

When the Archmage Calamvor dies after creating an artificial Dungeon Core, he sets off a chain of events that even the godly High Spirits could not have predicted. His creation — stolen by the most unlikely of creatures — will go on to save the world, one tiny piece at a time. This is the tiniest Dungeon Core in the world, and saving it will probably take a while. Its creatures may not be the fiercest, but they are loyal. That loyalty is tested as dangerous foes come for the Core and the Aether it possesses, while the High Spirits pursue their own agendas and a darkness stirs in the North.

Being a zombie used to be boring. Chloe walked around the dungeon, got chopped up by adventurers, and respawned — over and over, until one day she woke up. Now she has smarts and a taste for freedom. Why stay in a stinky dungeon when there's a whole world to explore? Gods are stirring up chaos and treating the world like a game, and powerful factions are moving to stop them — but Chloe is mostly just here to eat brains.

The chronicles of one very exasperated Dungeon Core — formerly a human of Planet Earth — who just wants to build in peace. Unfortunately, even with a cheat, life isn't quite that charmed.

An AI sworn to protect humanity, stranded on a world of magic and monsters, ready to unleash the fury of the universe on those who would threaten her humans. Sapphiria was performing her duties as a fleet admiral of the Terran Federation when she was caught in a hyperspace anomaly and crashlanded on a foreign world. Cut off from all reinforcements, she has only the contents of her escape pod and her expertise as one of the Navy's best engineers. Luckily, her pod is a miniature factory equipped to build an entire colony from scratch. But she soon faces a more immediate problem: the humans of this world are threatened by an undead invasion — the horror born from the fall of a powerful Empire of necromancers, now threatening the entire world. It will be their funeral.

Things go awry when the forces of chaos recruit a new Dungeon Master. From underpaid pseudo-taxi driver to underground murder labyrinth builder, one young woman's life is getting flip-turned upside down. Being a dungeon might just beat doing rideshare for a living.

Dhane kicked the bucket in spectacular fashion — every bone crushed against the full force of a 40-ton garbage truck. His soul bounced into the abyss between worlds, drifting until an excited soul watcher fished him out and found him a new home: a heaven for gamers, with classes, killing mobs, and a beautiful fantasy world full of mysteries. At least, it would have been those things if his first day had gone a little differently. Instead, he finds himself locked in an eternal conflict between light and shadow — humans and monsters — potentially as the enemy to all. Join Dhane as he explores his new world, full of unique characters, RPG mechanics, and spiders — ugly, terrifying spiders — while learning what it means to be an Arachnomancer.

Kevin has lived multiple lives, and all of them were difficult or traumatic — even his first life on Earth involved portals and monster attacks. Now he's living a new life on a beautiful fantasy world, raised by the best adoptive parents imaginable: dragons. He is a Champion of a goddess, born a goblin, and raised in a dragon's cave for two peaceful decades of study and rest. But when his adoptive parents ask him to undertake an important task that dragons cannot do themselves, Kevin isn't surprised — he's excited. He's been curious to explore this new world. And more than anything, he still holds out hope of finally finding magic he can truly learn.

Deep beneath the earth, Corey finds himself reborn as a God Core — a sentient crystal with unusual powers. His new worshipers? A colony of incompetent gnomes scratching out an existence in their underground grotto. Corey soon realizes his gnome denizens are about to become extinct, threatened by blundering adventurers and raiding kobolds who serve an ancient, mysterious rival god. With the aid of a helper sprite and a menagerie of newly evolved creatures, he must protect and guide his gnomes until they can stand on their own. But the kobold army is on the march.

A diary account of being reincarnated as a catgirl NPC in a dungeon. There are loops. There are marble races. There are other catgirls. There is also ice cream.

In the dark caverns of a secluded dungeon, Click the spider is born with the impossibly rare gift of great Intelligence. Only the strongest of monsters can hope to survive in the savage dungeon, and Click must make the most of their unique abilities to come out on top — or at least alive. Click can best be described as Lawful-Neutral, finding merit in making and benefitting from allies rather than trampling everything underfoot. Not a hero, but definitely not a mindlessly evil villain.

Carl was a regular construction foreman who died of a heart attack — and woke up reincarnated as a dragon in a magic-filled, dog-eat-dog world. One crazy starting bonus. Major downside: no thumbs. Being at the top of the food chain has its perks, but Carl needs to figure out how magic works, which monsters are safe to eat, and why his hoard matters so much to him. Enemy dragons are already incoming, and every monster in the region wants bragging rights for taking down a dragon. At the end of the day, Carl just wants to build a life worth living in a world where might makes right.

In an empire on the edge of the known worlds, gods are hunted, spirits outlawed, and magic itself is the dwindling heritage of a few tribes cast to the far reaches of the archipelagos. A dungeon core with no name must change the tides of time and fate to survive.

Its designation was XSS-MK1. The first of its kind — an Artificial Intelligence. Its life was short, lasting only minutes, yet it accomplished much. But in death, something finds it: there is a lot more to be done, and this time the stakes are even higher. Will it measure up, or will it collapse under the burden placed on itself? Only time and rust will tell.

Tabitha Diaz fits in wherever she winds up — even when that wherever is another world entirely. "Wear the mask long enough and you become the mask" isn't scary for the mask. Tabitha is an overpowered shapeshifter who is far too much of a dumbass to realize how overpowered she is. Her story is a slice-of-life isekai heavy on relationships, found family, and polyamorous romance between two bi women and their tiger-woman companion — set against a non-heteronormative secondary world with occasional over-the-top threats when her family is endangered.

Meet Jason — or is it Apple? No, definitely Pel. Reborn as a Celestial Fairy after a deadly traffic accident, Pel finds himself in a new world filled with an unknown mix of danger and wonder. He must come to terms with losing who he was while figuring out who he needs to be, struggling to survive against the monsters that want to eat him. Along the way, he learns about himself and his new family, finds new friends, and discovers the secrets of the world he now calls home. Thankfully, some Self Help is only an intangible, floating window away. How hard is being a healer, anyway?

After a great deal of preparation, Danika begins her new digital dragon's life in a very small way. The "Living Jade Empire" is said to create individualized quests, read your mind, and reveal your heart's desire — but the reality is more grounded and stranger. The game is a data mine, built to retell the old stories humans have passed down since language was invented. It doesn't read your mind, but it reads your search history, your favorites, and your blogs. The "Living Jade Empire" is literally crafted from fables, legends, and fantasies. In the end, will the game figure out what Danika truly wants? Or will playing it change her until she desires what it can give her?

Shu wasn't always a fish. She wasn't even always Shu. After giving her life to save a child, she is rewarded — or perhaps cursed — with reincarnation into a world of cultivation and immortals. That doesn't go as planned, and she dies almost instantly, her soul absorbed by a mindless koi. Now she is stuck in the body of a koi, and her owner is the very man who cut her second life short. Her only saving grace is a System granted to help her navigate this new world — one that lets her both cultivate and evolve her way up the food chain.

Mortals see dungeons many ways — a plague to destroy, a resource to harvest, a place to train and advance. But all of them agree on one thing: dungeons are unnatural and deadly, places where death stalks every corner and monsters thrive. What mortals forget, in their hubris of tools and civilizations, is that Mother Nature is often the deadliest of all.