Core War

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Marcus Cole killed a dungeon. Now he has to save one. Book 3 of the Bedrock series. The feral core beneath his territory is dead, and the truth it carried has rewritten everything. Dungeon cores don't just appear at mana convergence points. They're manufactured. Seeded into the earth by an unknown intelligence. The feral cores -- the mindless, consuming horrors the Guild exists to contain -- are broken versions of what Marcus is. He's not an anomaly. He's the original design. The Guild's Continental Council wants answers. Some want to study him. Some want to crack him open and sort through the pieces. Guildmaster Theron's compact is the only thing keeping Marcus intact, and the compact is under siege from factions who believe a sentient dungeon is a threat that diplomacy cannot contain. Then two new cores awaken within a hundred miles. One is feral -- expanding fast, consuming territory, running the FEED/GROW loop that Marcus has learned to fear. The other is sapient. Confused. Terrified. A mind called Echo, trapped in crystal, reaching out to the only other thinking dungeon it can sense. Marcus built ten floors. He survived a dungeon war. He earned an alliance with the people who were supposed to kill him. Now he has to protect a newborn core that doesn't understand what it is, fight a feral core growing faster than anything on record, and navigate politics that want to turn him into a specimen. And answer the question that keeps him staring into the dark: if someone is making dungeon cores, what are they making them for? * A Dungeon Core LitRPG * Dark Humor | Progression Fantasy | Base Building * Book 3 of the Bedrock series Full transparency: AI helped draft the prose. The world, characters, plot, and engineering jokes are mine. You deserve to know that before you buy.