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Dungeons Online Novel
"Cashing out or leveling up?" Dungeons Online shattered conventional gaming by enabling true earning power. Ordinary players climbed into middle-class stability. Elite competitors became celebrities commanding multimillion fortunes.
Tom represented the exception—a top-ranked player eking out survival on scraps, dependent on his vanished father's pittance to reach graduation. Until cashing out became possible.
Developers at Dungeons Online maintained absolute secrecy. Avatar deaths meant permanent loss. Fortunes shifted instantly—paupers became lords, celebrities became nobodies in the blink of an eye.
The unanswered questions multiply: What fuels the game's economy? How does it connect to the catastrophe every government worldwide buried? And what role did Tom's missing father play in this web of schemes and hidden truths?
Tom represented the exception—a top-ranked player eking out survival on scraps, dependent on his vanished father's pittance to reach graduation. Until cashing out became possible.
Developers at Dungeons Online maintained absolute secrecy. Avatar deaths meant permanent loss. Fortunes shifted instantly—paupers became lords, celebrities became nobodies in the blink of an eye.
The unanswered questions multiply: What fuels the game's economy? How does it connect to the catastrophe every government worldwide buried? And what role did Tom's missing father play in this web of schemes and hidden truths?
- Chapter 1: First paid raid
- Chapter 2: Let's bet
- Chapter 3: An invasion
- Chapter 4: The challenge
- Chapter 5: Slaving away
- Chapter 6: First raid
- Chapter 7: Spoils and invitation
- Chapter 8: Meal with Claudia
- Chapter 9: Professional raid
- Chapter 10: Ray and crumble
- Chapter 11: Encounter
- Chapter 12: Memories
- Chapter 13: You need, but you can't!
- Chapter 14: I need vacation
- Chapter 15: Return to the farm
- Chapter 16: A beer and a favor
- Chapter 17: Different prizing
- Chapter 18: Purging avatar
- Chapter 19: Setting up the skills
- Chapter 20: Path to the new skills
- Chapter 21: Origin mage
- Chapter 22: The call
- Chapter 23: Deal at the gate
- Chapter 24: Tune lesson
- Chapter 25: Father's legacy
- Chapter 26: Call in the tunnel
- Chapter 27: Marvin's Friends
- Chapter 28: Job at the higher floors
- Chapter 29: Negotiations
- Chapter 30: Private Capsule
- Chapter 31: Going deep
- Chapter 32: Conversing with a monster
- Chapter 33: Lesson from the monster-sage
- Chapter 34: Dissolving the stone
- Chapter 35: Questions in the dungeon
- Chapter 36: Desperate measures
- Chapter 37: Phonecalls
- Chapter 38: Marvin's accident
- Chapter 39: Tom's struggle
- Chapter 40: Invoking the heritage
- Chapter 41: Shop's raid
- Chapter 42: Aftermatch of the beating
- Chapter 43: Digging the hole
- Chapter 44: Meetings
- Chapter 45: Reality and the microdrones
- Chapter 46: Talk with Marvin
- Chapter 47: Faking the level
- Chapter 48: Business trip and unexpected visit
- Chapter 49: Argument in the car
- Chapter 50: Race to the farm
- Chapter 51: Into the tunnel
- Chapter 52: Peter's evening
- Chapter 53: Cleo, you are up
- Chapter 54: Swing above the abyss
- Chapter 55: First monsters
- Chapter 56: Testing on the slimes
- Chapter 57: Out of the loop
- Chapter 58: Annoying boss monster
- Chapter 59: [Bonus Chapter]Slip-up
- Chapter 60: Fluid clothes and stone (SLIGHTLY +18)
- Chapter 61: Romance in the slimy dungeon (not really +18)
- Chapter 62: Quick shot (smut, +18)
- Chapter 63: Recovery (smut +18)
- Chapter 64: Release (smut, +18)
- Chapter 65: Conclusion (slightly r18)
- Chapter 66: Target practice
- Chapter 67: Problem of munition
- Chapter 68: Shortcut
- Chapter 69: Testing out a theory
- Chapter 70: Ninth Floor Boss
- Chapter 71: Morpheian Memoriam
- Chapter 72: Former skills
- Chapter 73: Powerful mix
- Chapter 74: Tom's twofold training
- Chapter 75: Burnout
- Chapter 76: Reason for restraint
- Chapter 77: [Bonus Chapter]Nature of the skills
- Chapter 78: NOT THIS SPEAR
- Chapter 79: Claudia's skill
- Chapter 80: It's not a competition!
- Chapter 81: Amoral drawbacks of Claudia's skill (+18/quickie)
- Chapter 82: Unexpected encounter
- Chapter 83: Riddle and some answers
- Chapter 84: Whisps
- Chapter 85: Banter between friends
- Chapter 86: [Bonus Chapter] Tom's mistake
- Chapter 87: [Bonus Chapter] Value of the stones
- Chapter 88: Bloody Art
- Chapter 89: Recovery
- Chapter 90: Different kind of energy
- Chapter 91: Schemer behind the fight
- Chapter 92: To indulge or not to indluge
- Chapter 93: Peter's headache
- Chapter 94: The incubator system
- Chapter 95: Inner deals
- Chapter 96: Back on the surface
- Chapter 97: Almost there
- Chapter 98: Insides of the mission
- Chapter 99: Tom's mere moment
- Chapter 100: Argument
- Chapter 101: Real reason for the error
- Chapter 102: Last decade
- Chapter 103: Anxiety in the car
- Chapter 104: The last floor
- Chapter 105: Find me on the outside
- Chapter 106: Anticlimatic fight
- Chapter 107: Talks at Tom's farm
- Chapter 108: Tom's idea
- Chapter 109: Claudia's training
- Chapter 110: Claudia's rushed mishap
- Chapter 111: Empty results of the investigation
- Chapter 112: First encounter
- Chapter 113: Grim reminder
- Chapter 114: Tom's (un)heartless request
- Chapter 115: Attack of the cliche
- Chapter 116: Occurence at the gate
- Chapter 117: Pulling out/Pushing forth
- Chapter 118: Stepping off the platform
- Chapter 119: Splitting ways with Krater's party
- Chapter 120: Stirring up the mess
- Chapter 121: Trouble at the guild
- Chapter 122: Shaking the deal
- Chapter 123: Pricey meat
- Chapter 124: I demand a satisfaction!
- Chapter 125: Claudia's performance
- Chapter 126: Tom joins the fight
- Chapter 127: Results of the fight
- Chapter 128: Is it how it feels to be a tycoon?
- Chapter 129: The laws of slavery
- Chapter 130: Unexpected revelations
- Chapter 131: Tom's breakdown (slightly +18)
- Chapter 132: New direction and proposition
- Chapter 133: Rushed awakening
- Chapter 134: [Bonus Chapter]Guild License
- Chapter 135: Desperation
- Chapter 136: She is as good as dead
- Chapter 137: Prophet and solution
- Chapter 138: Tom's heartless decision
- Chapter 139: Deal with the Major
- Chapter 140: Peculiarity of the Blacksmiths guild
- Chapter 141: Invading the smithy
- Chapter 142: Arm-wrestle match
- Chapter 143: Only the feudal lord left
- Chapter 144: Change of mind
- Chapter 145: Trouble at the family
- Chapter 146: We are going to migrate
- Chapter 147: Deciding the future of the family
- Chapter 148: Gathering in the tunnel
- Chapter 149: Breaching the dome
- Chapter 150: Coldblooded massacre
- Chapter 151: Begining of the migration
- Chapter 152: Cleo's show
- Chapter 153: Heal and Roadkill
- Chapter 154: Tom's doubts
- Chapter 155: Solution to Cleo's trouble
- Chapter 156: Small break
- Chapter 157: Cleo's advance
- Chapter 158: Forty-first floor
- Chapter 159: Absorbing the stones and the schlong (+18, do I really need to spell it out loud?)
- Chapter 160: Results of "training" (+18)
- Chapter 161: G-force
- Chapter 162: Dealing with Cleo's sleep
- Chapter 163: Living wall
- Chapter 164: Fight with the slime
- Chapter 165: Healing Cleo
- Chapter 166: Dealing with the slime
- Chapter 167: Slime's miracle
- Chapter 168: Fourteen
- Chapter 169: It's 5am, can't think of a title - author
- Chapter 170: This place has this kind of effect on one's mind
- Chapter 171: 1357
- Chapter 172: Fight with Faunaris
- Chapter 173: Heritage
- Chapter 174: The true scale of the gap
- Chapter 175: Absorbing the Golden Stones
- Chapter 176: Not at the front anymore
- Chapter 177: The missunderstanding that sparked the war
- Chapter 178: There is always a beneficiary
- Chapter 179: Heated debacle
- Chapter 180: Tom's fatal mistake
- Chapter 181: Reunions
- Chapter 182: The Stanford's Prison effect
- Chapter 183: Verdict
- Chapter 184: Tactics of conquering the dungeon's upper floors
- Chapter 185: Chimera
- Chapter 186: What the hell are you waiting for?
- Chapter 187: Spearhead
- Chapter 188: Gap between level and skill
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