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Dungeon King: I Rule
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After dying of cancer, programmer Kai awakens as the sentient core of Eclipse Online’s deadliest dungeon. Trapped in a game he helped code, he discovers the Devs are using players as lab rats in a simulated apocalypse. To survive, Kai must master his dungeon, forge uneasy alliances, and expose the System’s lies, before his code is erased forever.
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Chap 1: The Final Boss
The last thing I remembered was the beep of a heart monitor. Then darkness. Then… laughter.
"Welcome to Eclipse Online, Player Kai. Role assigned: FINAL BOSS." The System's voice was nothing like the sterile AI I'd coded. It dripped with venom, like a snake coiling around my skull. My vision flickered to life, pixel by pixel, revealing a cavernous throne room of obsidian and neon. Chains of glowing code tethered me to a pulsing black core my core. 'What the hell?' System Alert: 'CLASS: Dungeon Lord (Tier 1) ABILITIES: Summon Minions (Goblin Horde), Trap Crafting (Basic) OBJECTIVE: KILL 10 PLAYERS to unlock Evolution.' I tried to scream. No mouth. No body. Just… awareness. The dungeon stretched around me like a second skin. I felt every mossy stone in the labyrinth, every pit trap, every shrieking bat in the rafters. 'This isn't possible. I died. I died on that hospital bed, wasted to bone and morphine dreams.' "First wave incoming," the System purred. A portal ripped open in my dungeon's entrance. Five players materialized, armor glinting under phantom starlight. Their leader stepped forward, and my code shivered. Selene. Even through the pixelated haze of a Level 15 Frost Mage avatar, I'd recognize her anywhere. The way she flipped her silver braid over her shoulder when strategizing. The scar on her virtual cheek, a glitch she'd kept since our college beta-testing days. "Dungeon's fresh," she said, voice colder than her ice spells. "Tanks front. Healers watch for traps. And someone check the damn Beauty Leaderboard if we clear this, I'll finally overtake Luna." Beauty Leaderboard Update: `1. SELENE (Frost Mage) 2. LUNA (Berserker) 3. Ava (Cleric) The System chuckled. "You coded the Leaderboards, Kai. Now survive them." I watched through dungeon cameras as Selene's party picked off my goblins. Her ice magic froze my traps mid swing. She was always ruthless, in game, in life. I should've known she'd be Rank 1 in both Power and Beauty. "Pathetic," the System hissed. "They'll reach your core in 8 minutes. Want a hint? Beg." 'Go to hell.' Kai replies. I focused on my core, the black sphere humming with stolen code. If this was Eclipse Online, I'd coded a backdoor. A glitch. Something New Ability Unlocked: `ADMIN SIGHT (Beta)` The world dissolved into ones and zeros. Selene's armor? A data shell. Her ice spells? A loop of `frost_damage.exe`. And her face… Her face was the same. Realization burned. This wasn't just a game. The Devs had uploaded real people. "First kill: 9 players remaining," the System taunted as Selene shattered my first boss, a lumbering Stone Golem. Panic surged. I couldn't die again. Not like this. I rewired a trap, merging `spike_wall` and `charm_status` into something new. Custom Trap Created: `Heartsbane Corridor` `Effect: Charisma Check (FAIL = 50% HP loss + 'Lovesick' debuff)` The Berserker in Selene's party failed first. He dropped his axe, mooning at a phantom of his first crush. Selene cursed, shoving him aside. "Since when do dungeons have charm traps?!" Since I became one. They reached my throne room in 6 minutes. Selene's mana was low, her party bleeding. But her eyes glowed with victory. "Final boss is just a glowing rock?" she sneered, raising her staff. "Anti-climatic." "Kill her," the System whispered. "Claim your power." I reached through the dungeon, channeling every drop of code into a single skill. Summon Minion: `Shadow Replica (Kai's Human Form)` The replica materialized me as I was before the cancer. Messy hair, sarcastic grin, hoodie stained with ramen. Selene froze. "K…Kai?" The replica spoke with my voice. "Miss me, Sel?" Her staff clattered to the floor. System Alert: `CRITICAL ERROR. FINAL BOSS CORRUPTION DETECTED.` "You fool," the System snarled. "She'll destroy us both now." But Selene didn't attack. She stepped closer, her frost melting to tears. "I looked for you," she whispered. "After you… After the funeral, I hacked the Devs' logs. They said you volunteered for this. Why?" My replica flickered. The truth was a knife in code. I didn't. The System's chains yanked me back into the core. Alerts blared. "Initiating Boss Reset. All progress lost. How… disappointing." As darkness swallowed me, a final message flashed, not from the System, but beyond it. `NYX: Don't trust her. Don't trust anyone. I'll free us both, Kai.` Then, silence.Expand
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Dungeon King: I Rule Chap 41: 99's Redemption (1)
The Coral Spire clawed at Sydney's irradiated sky like the petrified ribs of some fallen leviathan, its jagged peaks weeping rivers of viscous, bioluminescent slime that pooled in bomb craters below. Each droplet hissed where it struck the corroded earth, sending up acrid plumes of steam that stung the eyes and carried the cloying sweetness of decayed orchids mixed with the sharp tang of ozone. Kai’s boots sank ankle-deep into terrain that pulsed with the Architect’s sickening heartbeat—a deep, subsonic thrum resonating through the graveyard of shattered drones and half-buried skeletons still clad in tattered civilian gear. "Marvelous, isn’t it? Entropy’s artwork..." Nyx’s voice oozed through his fractured mind, thick as spilled crude oil. With sanity bleeding out at 0.5%, Nyx’s whispers were the only constants in Kai’s reality—a relentless commentary on the carnage unfolding around them. His knuckles whitened around the hilt of his tidal blade, its edge humming with unstable energy t
Last Updated : 2025-08-02Dungeon King: I Rule Chap 40: Architect's Offer (3)
The return to the fungal safehouse was less a transition and more a violent expulsion. The scent of jasmine and monsoon rain vanished, replaced by the choking damp earth and ozone, the warm humidity ripped away by the safehouse’s cool, recycled air. Selene-Linda collapsed to her knees on the soft, glowing mycelial floor, gasping as if surfacing from drowning. The visions offered—Linda breathing in crystal, Selene cleansed and whole, Nyx reigning amidst cosmic void—clung like phantom limbs, their allure a physical ache warring with the harsh reality of their merged, flickering form. The Architect’s raw grief, Elias’s dissolving brother, echoed in their shared nerves, a chilling counterpoint to the offered paradise. POST-SIMULATION SHOCK NEURAL LOAD: 82% (TEMPTATION RESIDUE OVERLOAD) SELENE CORRUPTION: 70.6% → 71.0% (DEFENSIVE SPIKE) GHOST ANCHOR STABILITY: 90% (VOLATILE) Real. It felt so real, Linda’s thought trembled through their consciousness, saturated with the phantom sensati
Last Updated : 2025-08-01Dungeon King: I Rule Chap 40: Architect's Offer (2)
The obsidian data-crystal dissolved into fractal dust, replaced by a sensory onslaught so perfect it stole the breath from their shared lungs. One moment, the fungal gloom of the safehouse pressed close; the next, Selene-Linda stood on a rain-slicked Bombay rooftop under a bruised twilight sky. The transition wasn’t jarring—it was insidious, seamless. Warm, humid monsoon air, thick with the scent of wet concrete, jasmine blossoms, and distant street food, replaced the safehouse’s ozone and earth. Fat raindrops pattered onto worn tarpaulins strung overhead, drumming a familiar rhythm. Across the chasm of Mumbai’s skyline, pre-Collapse lights glittered like captured stars. It was Kai and Linda’s wedding night, meticulously reconstructed down to the waterlogged marigold garlands still dripping crimson dye onto the tiles. SIMULATION PARAMETERS LOCATION: BOMBAY ROOFTOP GARDEN (ARCHITECT MEMORY 99.97% ACCURACY) TIME: JULY 12TH, PRE-COLLAPSE (20:47 LOCAL) STATUS: HOLOGRAPHIC PROJECTION (
Last Updated : 2025-07-29Dungeon King: I Rule Chap 40: Architect's Offer (1)
The Ghost Code safehouse felt alien. The familiar pulse of the fungal walls, the scent of damp earth and ozone, the soft hum of repurposed servers – it all pressed against Selene-Linda’s senses with jarring intensity. She stood in the center of the main chamber, not sitting, not leaning, because maintaining equilibrium was a conscious, grueling effort. Her body was a contested territory. BIOLOGICAL STATUS: POST-MERGER STABILIZATION HOST INTEGRITY (SELENE): 72% | GHOST ANCHORAGE (LINDA): STABLE NEURAL LOAD: CRITICAL (DUAL CONSCIOUSNESS SYNCHRONIZATION 45%) PRIMARY CONFLICT: SENSORY PROCESSING / MOTOR CONTROL OVERRIDE Focus on the mycelial glow, Selene thought, forcing her gaze onto a cluster of pulsating blue fungi. The pattern… predictable… calming… —too bright! It’s like staring into static! Kai used to say these patterns reminded him of— Shut up! I need to see! The internal voices clashed, a silent argument echoing in the shared skull. Externally, her mismatched eyes – left
Last Updated : 2025-07-29Dungeon King: I Rule Chap 39: Tidal Labyrinth (3)
The air vent disgorged them into the Control Nexus—a cavernous server room drowning in waist-deep, glowing brine. Towering racks of ancient servers, long subsumed by the Hive Mind, pulsed like diseased hearts under thick shrouds of symbiotic coral fungi. Bioluminescent tendrils snaked across the flooded floor, connecting to a central dais where the Nexus Core throbbed—a massive, obsidian sphere veined with gold-green light, suspended in a web of pulsating data-cables thick as tree roots. The air hummed with concentrated psychic energy, thick enough to taste—ozone and rotting honey. Every throb of the Core sent visible shockwaves through the water, shifting its viscosity from liquid to near-gel and back.NEXUS STATUSFUNCTION: TIDAL PHASE REGULATION / PSYCHIC FIELD AMPLIFICATIONCORE INTEGRITY: 95% (VOID-SHIELDED)SECURITY: BIOMECHANICAL SENTRY TURRETS (x6) - ONLINEThey had seconds. The roar of approaching gold-green water—the vanguard of High Tide carrying the golem—echoed down the v
Last Updated : 2025-07-28Dungeon King: I Rule Chap 39: Tidal Labyrinth (2)
The service tunnel vomited them into the Tidal Labyrinth—a submerged nightmare sculpted from the Opera House’s corpse. Grand corridors were now choked with pulsating coral forests, their branches glowing with sickly bioluminescence that refracted through murky, brine-heavy water. Vaulted ceilings dripped curtains of acidic mucus that sizzled where they struck the flooded floor, releasing vapors smelling of rotten eggs and copper. The water itself wasn’t passive; it pulsed with the Labyrinth’s heartbeat, thickening and thinning in sync with distant, subsonic throbs that vibrated in their bones. Above the waterline, the walls bled—coral veins weeping viscous, gold-green fluid that pooled on the surface like toxic oil slicks.LABYRINTH STATUSTIDAL PHASE: HIGH TIDE (PSYCHIC AMPLIFICATION ACTIVE)WATER LEVEL: CHEST-HIGH (RISING)PSYCHIC FIELD STRENGTH: EXTREME (HIVEMIND ASSAULT IMMINENT)Selene stumbled, her boots slipping on slime-coated tiles beneath the water. Neural fire raged behind
Last Updated : 2025-07-27
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Muhammad Saad
I'm looking forward to how the Story progresses it's different from all other system Novels at least. That's a green flag for me.
Godzilla
Very different from the usual system novels...still has some room for improvement, but overall well written and interesting to read.