Focusless core

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Description

A new dungeon has been born, and will create great creatures. Watch as they navigate the world of dungeons and mortals- Just kidding.

Falc, the dungeon core, messed up. His youthful lack of self-control ended up influencing him to make a... not so intelligent decision. Now, he would make the most of said choice, which gave him potential and freedom in exchange for his personal ease.

Trying his very best, in order to make monsters,that weren't garbage.

But sadly for him, that wasn't the easiest of processes. And he even lacked the time to do so,as life wasn't all fun and games.

Sadly.

This will be a more... casual story. Not a slice of life though, I find such things boring.

It will have a lot of magic research in it, if I stay on focus.

-A particular character will have free reigns to swear as much as I feel like.

PS; upload is somewhere on sunday (if I have a chapter ready)

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: Duchy

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 487
Views: 207,056

Chapters(99 total)

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Community Reviews(5)

SkormliRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I am only on chapter forty eight but this is a great story. It explains long winded and i love that kind of thing. Extropiolates a lot and i mean a lot. This is top 20 on this site for me. But anyways i cant wait to finish reading. Sorry for mispellings.
TedRedyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The story is strong and one of the more abstract dungeon core stories I’ve found, most of the chapters are short but well thought out with great consideration put into the system the world is operating under with mostly traditional light novel framing, rounded characters, and interesting sub plots however there is a heavy focus on the details that can feel arbitrary leaving some chapters slower than they need to be.
Considering the story as a whole it's a good read if you're looking for a fun little world where a health splattering of side stories pass id recommend it.
magical heartRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I've always been fond of the dungeon core genre, and I feel the story does a good job of living up to that. the story so far as been well-thought-out in the world building has been subtle yet impactful and will really looking forward to where the author takes us one slime at a time
AsspanzyRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
If you’re a fan of “Dungeon Core Chat Room”, you’ll like this
Basically, the story’s about a mildly intelligent Dungeon Core crafting monsters out of materials and mana shaping, doing magical research and the humans dealing with the Core’s shenanigans.
No super grand plot. Just simple dungeon core fun.
Also, there’s no crazy dungeon building or constant, big expansions. The core builds just enough to deal with the local small town delvers and his own experiments.
Final note: beware of math
Edit: Alas, for the second arc, it has succumbed to the classic dungeon core novel folly of focusing on the side characters in the wider world for many chapters instead of the dungeon and its stuff.
GrifterRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
Similar in concept to something like 'Dungeon Core Chat Room', this is mostly slice-of-dungeon-life with a singular focus on the exact mechanics and numbers of the dungeon's attempts to iterate and improve its creations, which are exclusively slimes.
There are a few significant problems, though. The first is that the 'singular focus' is the result (in a Watsonian sense) of the dungeon's complete inability to pay attention to anything other than its experimentation. The vast majority of the text in any chapter from Falc's perspective is always him thinking about and/or performing various experiments, no matter what else is going on. He basically never does anything else. For example:
There's a long series of chapters where a party of powerful adventurers are actively breaking through Falc's walls in a direct line to its core, continuing to accelerate despite its efforts to slow and stop them...and through it all Falc continues to think pretty much exclusively about its experiments. Nothing it's doing to stop them is working, but rather than change its approach, try to escape, or do literally anything else, Falc dismisses the specifics of their actions (such as "the group goes in the direction that one points") as completely unimportant and continues calmly thinking about experiments about how it might in theory accomplish something using those...eventually.
The next problem is that while the mechanics are written in a very crunchy-feeling way--exact numbers and percentages are commonly cited--it's all effectively meaningless, interchangeable technobabble from an audience's perspective because none of those numbers actually mean anything; the numbers that might actually be meaningful--available mana, regeneration rates, time spent--are the ones left unspecified. In practice, Falc always has whatever amount of mana, attention, and time (theoretically limited resources) it needs at any given point to do whatever it wants, despite its mana pool seeming to be orders of ma