The Librarian's Core

A Dungeon-Core Progression LitRPG

Forty-seven years ago, Maeve Talon-Ren was murdered in the East Wing of the Royal Archive of Verren and sealed inside its foundation stone. She has been awake the entire time. When an earthquake fractures the East Wing's stone door, graduate student Rin Ostari is the first scholar through. She does not know the wing has spent forty-seven years generating the architecture of a dungeon underneath itself. She does not know the index card in her hand is in Maeve's own pre-1809 handwriting. The Librarian's Core is a dungeon where the loot is knowledge. Scholars descend, survive the Spire of Verbs, pay an exit toll of one scroll of new information, and the archive cross-references their deposit against forty-seven years of catalogued silence to derive new spells. The Black Library of Othax holds the opposing doctrine — sealed-text custody — and they have been waiting for the East Wing to reopen.