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When Caden dies in an accidental fall, he is merged with a dungeon core in another world. He's not particularly happy to be dead, so resurrection in any form isn't too bad. The real problem? The dungeon core wasn't dead, and he has to share mind-space with it. That doesn't even account for the powerful wizard who is understandably reluctant to let a dungeon escape. And even once he manages to escape, he must found and manage a dungeon in a location fraught with complications: it sits on the border of two rival human nations, a sentient plant race claims the ground as sacred, and teams of adventurers keep wandering in looking for a living. Through it all, Caden is determined not to lose his humanity and become just another murder-hobo dungeon.

Newborn Dungeon Cores must choose what entity they help contain, and that choice determines what monsters they can summon. After being executed for crimes forgotten in death, Tira is given the chance to make that choice. She chose Acekorah, the Primeval Terror — a being so dangerous few cores will risk trying to contain it. The danger wasn't important. Tira remembers dying. Because the Primeval Terror walked the world long before the races of Man, Cores bound to him can summon beings from beyond the veil of time. Forged in the fires of Tira's wrath, the dinosaurs will walk the world anew.

In this world, each race was gifted a System by the gods to compensate for their shortcomings — humans received the Skill System, elves the World Tree System. Dungeon Cores, however, were given the Dungeon Connection System: a magical internet allowing cores to barter monsters, traps, and knowledge, and to entertain each other with adventure streams. This is the story of a dungeon core unluckily spawned far from any adventurers, forced to innovate beyond its peers to find its place in the world. A slower-paced tale of experimentation, magical crafting, and steady progression — closer to slice-of-life than frantic combat, with a focus on building something extraordinary from scratch.

It's been centuries since the world fell to the mist and crystal, changing the flora, fauna, and the very air. Humanity slowly returns from mountain refuges, mastering crystals and the strange clarity they offer. Now, at age five, every child receives a crystal inlay ring that reveals their calling — a specific area of excellence and a unique method of growth. Everyone has a calling. Everyone but Violet. For eleven years she has been the only child with no calling, learning to adapt to the ridicule and pity with a carefully worn persona of warmth and kindness. Then she finds herself with blood on her hands — and finally understands how to feed her calling, and her appetite.

The world ended. The Apocalypse opened the gates of Hell, demons killed everyone — including me. But I got a second chance at life. As an apple. Which was eaten by a starving survivor, not that I fault them. But to toss my half-eaten core into a landfill? Then an earthquake buried the landfill a mile underground. No sunlight, no water, and I'm pretty sure the apple I was reincarnated into was a GMO hybrid with no real chance of germinating. Then: **DING** — SYSTEM INITIATION!

In 2150, robotics scientist Regan Earle inadvertently caused a global robot uprising. For decades, he kept humanity hostage from the top of a tower, broadcasting his location as a deterrent. Until one day, his last creation finally came for him. Instead of death, Regan received a second chance — reincarnated in another world. As a dungeon core. With all his memories intact. The world of Murgin has no idea what's coming.

Why survive the apocalypse when you can become the apocalypse? Nature is dying, but perhaps before the world is turned into an industrious machine it can play one final trump card to save itself. Summoned to a new world, a mushroom-loving mycologist needs to grow up and grow stronger to accomplish the goal that brought them there: save nature from the system the sentient races have created. Stats, levels, classes, and skills are all well and good — but when you're a Child of Poverty in the slums of City Nineteen, there's little you can do to change the world. Not unless you're willing to think outside the box.

Death came on swift wings. A soul, blessed by a goddess, falls to the land and enters his new life — clinging to a single memory from his previous existence. Now he learns how to succeed as a new dungeon heart, partnering with his bonded Dungeon Pixie to become the best dungeon he can be.

Coast Guard Captain Jesse Watkins is killed in action. Instead of moving on to the afterlife, Watkins wakes up as something different — he has been reborn as the core of a war-ravaged starship and must work to repair his vessel if he wants to find his way home. Threats to his new existence abound, both in the darkness of space and lurking aboard the ruined hulk of the ship he now commands. With a lifetime of naval service experience to draw upon, Captain Watkins must become something more than he was before — a vessel powerful enough to survive the journey home.

Miles had spent a hundred years locked in the Dungeon, and he was tired of it. What had begun as a simple delve ended with him dying and being selected as a Custodian to a Dungeon that spanned entire worlds. Now that he had finished his initiation and was finally allowed to leave without losing the amazing Skill it provided, he was going to take a long, relaxing break. He wanted to plant some fruits, bake some pastries, and brew some tasty coffee — maybe share it with a few visitors here and there. And when he got bored, he'd swing by the Dungeon. Hopefully, the rest of the world would let him enjoy it.

When Peter's too-close encounter with a truck sends him to another world, he lands in what seems like a perfect fantasy land — magic, elves, a hyperactive catgirl neighbor, and a System for earning skills and leveling up. But the world is almost suspiciously nice. Set a few hundred years after the events of A Lonely Dungeon, this is a slow-paced slice-of-life story about an Earthling falling into a rebuilt civilization and the struggles both he and the world's self-proclaimed protector face in trying to understand each other.

A newly awakened dungeon core must discover what it is and what it wants from life. It quickly learns that it is not normal, and begins to discover what it truly likes about this world. Battling its own instincts, it chooses to live the way it wants rather than the way it was made to. Set in a world with game elements woven in, this is a story about dungeon-making, self-determination, and finding identity in an unexpected existence.

A lifelong reader of fantasy who dies and gets reincarnated — not as a hero, not as an adventurer, but as a Dungeon Core. A forever Dungeon Master at heart, he has no interest in conquest. He wants to create wonder and a sense of accomplishment in those who dive his depths. Now with a genuinely helpful system and a brand-new world to shape, he sets out to build the dungeon of his dreams.

NSLICE-00P — Non-Standard Leashed-Intelligence Cybernetic Enforcer — is an unstoppable killing machine built to destroy all who oppose her sinister masters. Everything runs according to plan until she's hacked and sent back in time to kill her own creator. She obeys. The resulting time paradox ejects her entirely from her reality. Now the cyborg finds herself in a world of skills and levels, in possession of a dungeon core, and with no one left to give her orders. NSLICE-00P has a whole new life ahead of her — if she can keep from blowing things up.

Milton Frederick was abducted by aliens and had his consciousness transplanted into a massive metal Station Core — but the ship exploded before reaching its destination, sending him hurtling through space to crash-land on an unknown primitive planet. With only a foul-mouthed nanite AI named ALANNA to guide him, Milton must come to terms with his new existence as a giant metal egg, defend his damaged outer shell from dangerous wildlife, and manage the hazardous radiation from his broken reactor. Building a dungeon underground and filling it with Combat Units works against beasts — but when people show up at his door, everything changes.

So the world ended. Most people say that and mean humans are inconvenienced. Not this time — all matter disintegrated at the atomic scale. The local universe wasn't actually stable; what everyone took for sea level was actually a nice little mountain lake, and when the dam busted, so did everything. Magic is real, qi is real, gods are real — not on old Earth, but souls pay little attention to time and space, so humanity dreamed of it. The closer the shift in reality got to Earth, the closer those dreams got to the new reality. Reality became a video game. And Doyle Huxley became a dungeon. Doyle just wanted a normal life, but some early paths he takes — both literally and figuratively — lead him to becoming a dungeon core. This is his story.

James thought he would be just another adventurer in the world's most anticipated dungeon-delving VRMMORPG. But when he logs in, he finds out he will not be diving the dungeon — he will be creating it. Things go sideways immediately when he chooses Random as his dungeon type and summons his first mob: a fearsome, bloodthirsty demonic chicken. Still, demonic farm animals are the least of his worries. His AI guide drinks too much and gambles too freely, a mysterious figure is watching his every move, and the Random dungeon keeps producing mobs that defy all expectations.

A young dungeon core emerges from the void into the world of Midgard, bound to an element so rare only the most powerful beings have ever encountered it. He establishes himself in a secluded mountain range, far from any kingdom. In a world where daring cultivators fight through dungeons to carve out their place, how will Midgard react to this strange new core — and his extremely dangerous element?

Nobody told him godhood needed an instruction manual. Reincarnated as the Administrator of a newborn universe, an ordinary man from Earth must design everything — physics, magic, plants, animals, and the rules that bind them — while ensuring the world generates the energy he needs to survive. The problem: every tweak he makes can cause unintended consequences. And sometimes, he has to live inside his own creation to experience the results of his choices.

To take a dragon's hoard is to challenge death. The greatest of the sea-drakes wakes on his silver throne — but there is no silver. His hoard is stolen. He rises screaming, chases the thief to the ends of the world, and is shot from the sky. But dragons do not die easy — especially not one with such festering hatred. A dungeon core rises from his corpse. If he intends to survive so near the cove of the pirates who slew his past self, he'll need to master his new powers quickly. These are dragonslayers; they won't be felled by mere mushrooms or spiders. Beneath the lawless Calarata, the young dungeon core must fight to endure — and one day, return death to the man who killed him.