Dungeon's Path

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The only places I have posted the story and allow it to exist are on RoyalRoad, Scribblehub, and my Patreon. So the world ended. Whoopsie? We didn’t even see it coming. Quite literally as it came at us faster than the speed of light. Don’t worry though, it got better. Also, I am not joking about the world ending. Most people say that and mean humans are inconvenienced for some reason. Nope, all matter disintegrated at the atomic scale there for a few moments. Apparently the local universe wasn’t actually stable? Don’t ask me to go into too much detail. It would require both of us to have a few more college degrees than sense, and I at least lack them (both the degrees and the sense). Anyway, the energy/matter/wibbly wobbly strings were at a local minimum and not the universal minimum. Basically, what we took for sea level was actually a nice little mountain lake and when the dam busted so did, well, everything. Now here is where things go a bit off track with what normal meant before. You see magic is real, qi is real, gods are real. Not on old Earth mind you but souls pay little attention to time and space so we dreamed of it. In fact, the closer the shift in reality got to Earth, the closer our dreams got to the new reality. This is basically me tip toeing around the fact that it was a ‘System Apocalypse’. Reality became a video game, I became a dungeon, and this is my story. Doyle Huxley just wanted a normal life but as the above might clue you in on that just isn’t in the cards. He gets to experience a “Path Based System Apocalypse” and some early paths he takes, both literally and figuratively, lead to him becoming a dungeon. The aim is to release chapters once a week on Friday. Cursing will be avoided and no naughty adult action will take place in the story.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2020
Author: akhier the dragon hearted

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 4,078
Views: 5,067,577

Chapters(373 total)

What readers say about Dungeon's Path

“One of the best dungeon stories I've read. Good dungeon stories are so precious few and far between that this really is a gem to be cherished. This story combines various different commonly used elements in Royal Road novels with some new and unique twists…”
Redroajs1Royal Road5.0 / 5
“It starts out slow and seems to take a while to gain any traction. Once it does however the story is incredible. The lore is well thought out and the characters all have unique personalities. The only critic I have is that the pacing is all over the place.…”
TheLeftHandedNailRoyal Road5.0 / 5

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Community Reviews(10)

Redroajs1Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
One of the best dungeon stories I've read. Good dungeon stories are so precious few and far between that this really is a gem to be cherished. This story combines various different commonly used elements in Royal Road novels with some new and unique twists to great effect. I feel like the strongest point of the story is the characters and their interactions, but honestly, everything else about it is great too. There are almost no spelling or grammar mistakes whatsoever. The pacing and style are both also great. The world-building is simply fantastic, probably the second-best thing about the story actually. And last but not least, the point of view changes are great too. I would say that a full five out of five stars in all categories is the least I could give this awesome story. I would give it even more stars if I could! I extremely highly recommend this story. It truly is a shining gem to be cherished. In my opinion, it is definitely worthy of multiple reads through, let alone just reading it once. Keep up the excellent work that you are doing on this fantastic story Akher! I hope that you have an absolutely wonderful day mate!! : )
TheLeftHandedNailRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It starts out slow and seems to take a while to gain any traction. Once it does however the story is incredible. The lore is well thought out and the characters all have unique personalities. The only critic I have is that the pacing is all over the place. In the end the pacing issue is easily overlooked because of the rich story and fleshed out characters.
kakaatua1222223Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This novel is one of my favorites I love the Mc but above all the secondary characters it is a very interesting dungeon novel and the only complaint I can imagine is that the chapters are too short for me, the author leaves 2 extra chapters for free in his Patreon and I think he deserves a good review even if I don't stop to analyze his novel in detailPS: I am currently accumulating chapters to see them all in a row when I have more
Poplo000000Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love dungeon core novels. The idea of manipulating an area for the sole purpose to create, design, and enjoy just agrees with me. For me, length matters, the longer a story is while continuing to be fulfilling, the more realistic a story is. The amount of potential in this novel is staggering. Anyone who enjoys dungeon cores, but feels like they ended too quickly, look no further!
I just wish the upload rate was more frequent, I've done the patreon a couple of times, but I would appreciate a bit more frequency at that price.
ChristopherCravenRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The MC starts as a human goes through the Apocalypse and becomes a dungeon.
Some people have a problem with the speed of the story but that the start is slow to establish the character and show the changes that happen with the race changes.
It is not the usual dungeon gets an avatar and becomes a friend with his dungeon town more dungeon vs players.
Mc has a cute nerdy dungeon fairy and a silly monster combination that is quite funny and entertaining.
Hopes the story keeps improving which it did.
Litrpg101Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story has great potential and ok grammar. It is still better than half the grammar on this website, and dispite the info-dumpy nature of the story so far, (still in the tutorial after 8 chapters) it just screams great story. If Aurthor can keep up the pace, then this story will stand tall with the best of the fictions on this site. Here's hoping the plot will be as good as the rest of the story.
Endless PavingRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The beginning of this story is relatively slow but quite manageable as far as I'm concerned, though it might be worth expiditing the part about becoming a dungeon.
As of exiting the tutorial stge of the story and establishing as a dungeon proper I can feel the story building up momentum. The set-up of potential invaders and dungeon town politics right outside of the current dungeon is quite interesting and I can see it leading to some interesting conflict. There have been a few adventurers in already in various compositions and with varying motives and I've already gained interest in some of them as well as being entertained by the throw away characters to a suitable extent.
This novel seems to be turning out to be what I call a restrained murder dungeon. Still a lot of advetnurer killing but only to a completely reasonable degree so far instead of being a murder hobo dungeon. It's also one of the creative design dungeon core stories and it tries to make the design and rpg progression of the dungeon structure and abilities interesting and creative. The slow exposition tutorial stage at the beginning of the story seems to be helping out with this dungeon creativity as well, so it wasn't worthless filler at least.
The main character is a partly bland "blank slate" type protagonist with his interesting quirks being unique rpg traits rather his personality as a character, which so far hasn't been too much of a problem for the main focus of the story: dungeon design and messing with adveturers.
Yes there is a dungeon pixie companion, but she seems to be turning out with an interesting backstory at least, one which isn't told through an extra chapter and boring exposition even. She hopefully will end up as a character with depth in the future.
Finally we have the adventurers (and other assorted human characters outside the dungeon) who are largely side characters, throw away characters, antagonists, and side protagonists for the dungeon to spy on. A lot of them are clearl
OskatatRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I've been enjoying the story quite a bit now. It's a slow paced dungeon building novel without making the dungeon super OP right away. In my opinion that is a huge plus over slaughtering adventure parties in new and possibly amusing ways, as it allows the adventurers to gain characters.
You just need to get through the beginning, which is a bit of a task.
The grammar is ok-ish. Most notably are frequent tense switches between past and present, which can be distracting. The dungeon and its assistant are fairly standard, but good enough. I'm in for the town developing outside and its founders and to see how you can make an interesting dungeon with goats. So far, so good
DracoNonDeoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I personally have loved the story so far although I did gloss over some of the fight scenes.Dungeon's Path has a lot of description about how the fighting and the dungeon building happened. I think that Dungeon's Path won't be liked by everybody. But if you're able to visualize and keep track of many things at a time, it will be very enjoyable(although the reader will need to like the idea of the story). I also love how Dungeon's Path keeps track of the MC's progress with their levels and shows how his stats became like they are.
MazmorraRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Overall 4.5/5This story isn't for everyone but then again no story is. If you are someone who likes to know about the details of the world the characters are in, and learning new things alongside them, then you will like this story. The biggest reason I loved reading this story is that it made me think and fantasize about the story's world even after I stopped reading and it gives me so many new ideas for my own stories.Style 5/5The style of this work is perfect for the story it's trying to tell. Never when I was reading did I think 'this isn't what I thought I was going to read', I always felt that I got exactly the kind of story I thought I would and I liked it.The different viewpoints the author uses are always well done and never pulled me out of the story. They always made me feel like I was getting something new. It never felt like it was repeating the same story but from a different perspective, the story was always something new.Some say the dialogue goes on too long or that there is too much info and not enough story. I think that those criticisms are the same as someone saying that a cake has too much frosting; while I can see that there is a lot of 'frosting' in this book I think that makes it that much more enjoyable to read rather than it being a negative for me.Story 4/5The story can feel a bit interrupted at times or feel like it's telling a side story instead of the main story. These interruptions or side stories were never long enough to make me feel irritated and they never felt boring. So although this brought down my score, in this case it's more like 1 less than a perfect 5 rather than 1 above an average 3.Grammar 4.5/5There are some spelling mistakes but it never detracts from the reading. There are some places where it looks like autocorrect didn't put the right word in, but whenever there were cases like this I always knew what it was trying to say.So if you aren't a grammar fanatic then there's no problem.Character 4/5At the beginning of the