Spider Core

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2022

Author

MoonlitShade

• Not a Chapter: Nephilim Ascension is now out!
  Feb 1, 2024
• Chapter Seventeen: No Deal
  Jan 27, 2023
• Chapter Sixteen: Retrospective
  Jan 20, 2023
• Interlude Two: Greendew II
  Jan 14, 2023
• Chapter Fifteen: Coming Along
  Jan 6, 2023
• Chapter Fourteen: Nobody Expects the Alldredge Exposition
  Jan 3, 2023
• Chapter Thirteen: Deal
  Dec 31, 2022
• Chapter Twelve: Spider Thief
  Dec 29, 2022
• Chapter Eleven: Spider Gore
  Dec 27, 2022
• Interlude One: Greendew I
  Dec 16, 2022
• Chapter Ten: Loot Room
  Dec 14, 2022
• Chapter Nine: Fucked
  Dec 12, 2022
• Chapter Eight: Third Awakening
  Dec 9, 2022
• Chapter Seven: Can't Accept
  Dec 8, 2022
• Chapter Six: Level Up
  Dec 5, 2022
• Chapter Five: Starting Inventory
  Dec 2, 2022
• Chapter Four: Light Exploration
  Dec 1, 2022
• Chapter Three: Taking Stock
  Dec 1, 2022
• Chapter Two: What Now?
  Dec 1, 2022
• Chapter One: Hell
  Nov 30, 2022

Reviews

Community Reviews(7)

• QueenInRagsRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  So far. An excellent start to a crunchy dungeon novel. Also the author seems to be putting backbreaking work into building it up and adding maps and cool stuff.
  Now, this ain't one of those dungeon novels with one of em crazy-ass super complicated systems. No, harking back to older less numerical dungeon stories, this novel doesn't spend ten chapters talking about stats. Nor does it need some incredibly complex number dump system for everything that happens. To some, this is lazy writing. To others, refreshing and straight to the point. You give it a read and decide. TLDR the system is a system, deal with it. I don't really see any problems with it or reasons why someone would complain.
  Plot-wise it's actually fairly novel and interesting. And I'm quite liking the pace. It does nothing crazily new, but it stands out enough to be an interesting addition to the dungeon core genre if properly fleshed out.  Annoyingly and yet smartly there has been one plot derailer and super OP happenstance avoided *Cough #gestation. One one hand I'm annoyed it wasn't abused to death, on the other, it would have basically sidetracked the story to completely focus on the bit and probably ruin it. Good job author. You're probably going to piss off a few readers but I saw what you did. I also really like the easy implementation of 'fated' creatures. Morals and ethics easily taken care of.
  Style-wise the writing is solid. The only issue I had with style and grammar was one or two paragraphs that just were very large and definitely needed to be chopped up. And if anything long paragraphs really isn't something to complain about with many books not having much meat on em.
  Overall this is a good dungeon core story that has a lot of promise if built up properly. Much effort seems to be put into it and it reads like butter. Overall if I had to say anything to the author, it would have to be ' stay smart and make sure the writing stays center stage. Don't get too distracted with the trimmings '
  
• Kman890Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I was looking for a solid well written dungeon core story and so far this one delivers. The MC make reasonable logical decisions. The world makes sense and is interesting. I'm not really into spiders and spider adjacent mythological creatures but they are used well here.  It's early in the story but it seems like the author has put thought into the magic of how dungeons and the leveling system works as well as the politics of the surrounding area and i'm looking forward to learning more. The relationship with the Lich was an interesting early development.
• D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Spider Core is a dungeon core story in which the protagonist, Fia, is a spider (Arachne, spidergirl, person-thingy, more so than a spider-spider). There are lots of tables and the author makes maps for the end of most chapters, which is very helpful when it comes to understanding the dungeon’s layout. Pacing is good and the characters are enjoyable. We primarily spend our time with Fia, which I don’t mind at all. There’s a lot of depth world-mechanics such as the fated system for races, which helps add flavor to the universe.
  If you are interested in a stay-at-home dungeon-core story with a focus on depth, then you should really give this one a shot! I enjoy it a bunch =)
• ThedragonthingRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  this is an amazing story!
  i would pay to see more of it, so why is it hiatus?
  if it is a writers block then its understandable, but please try to continue this story.
  i know that things happen, but i would sincerely appreciate this story continuing, as it is one of my favourites ever.
• VanahaimRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  Let me begin by saying that the story is only three chapters long as of writing. This review may quickly become outdated as the story grows.
  The story is written in third person present tense, which is strange but not inherently a bad thing. The author writes well and makes good use of simile/metaphor but occasionally breaks the flow of their writing.
  The paragraphing in some parts of the story are very long at some parts (almost 450 words in one case!) which can make it difficult to read the whole story and not just skim through it.
  The characters seem good so far, though with how short the story is so far i cannot make a proper judgement on them yet.
  Potentially my largest gripe with the story is that the exposition is not focused on what is currently relevant to the story. In addition, the litrpg system isn't well explained which will undoubtedly confuse readers not well-versed in litrpg story mechanics.
  Overall, the story is alright. It has a solid starting point and is filled with untapped potential. It may not be perfect now, but as the writer improves and the story continues, it could get pretty close.
• Scriptor TyranisRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  Overall, I liked it. Combines Dungeon management with Reincarnation and Arachne. Addition of maps at the end of chapters to update progress were a tangible value-added feature. Not sure about the AI-gen art that pops up every so often, but that's the buzz topic of the day far as media arts ethics.
  Info panels are right there and chockfull of numbers - not necessarily bad but I do wonder if there were a way to make the page-long sheets into shorter organized notecards.
  The worldbuilding is solid and it's obvious a lot of work has gone into it. However, I can't keep it all straight, even reading in a binge.
  Yes, it could be a Me problem, but judging from comments there's at least a handful of others that feel similarly. Normally an infodump is fine, but for an instrinsic System feature that dictates/helps explain the behaviors of characters and creatures to not have gentle reminders every few chapters forces me to tab back to the relevant much-earlier chapter to see why a certain decision makes sense in context. Thank goodness for the comments section, but it seems like a problem that could be alleviated with a few edits that won't interrupt the story's flow.
  I know I fall prey to writing things out when inspiration strikes and then forgetting the audience does not have the same memory I do as an author steeped in the story's universe - he that has no sin, cast first stone and all.
  Hope that an end cap comes along to close out the story someday, or even continue with it.
• KyeRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  I'm aware this may be an unpopular opinion, but I've gotta put my two cents out there.
  This novel feels like a mediocre isekai without actually being an isekai, where do we begin? Let's start with the main character's backstory.
  There isn't much to go off other than "she was a bandit, because she got the bandit class and now she's an Arachne because of contrived plot point number 37"
  Our dear old main character is a bandit, she gained said class through an awakening stone, that is all we know of her backstory so far.
  Yes, I'm serious. We are aware she's been a bandit for years by the start of the novel.
  She hadn’t lived in a city in years, being a [Bandit] and all, but she had had a small group of fellow bandit companions.
  We are unaware how she got the awakening stone, we are unaware who the crew she was traveling with was, or what they meant to her (not much apparently because she hardly seems to care when they all die a gruesome death having their insides turned to mush)
  We are unaware of her goals, we are unaware of her skills whether that be in fighting strength (she was a bandit after all) or her leadership capabilities or anything resembling a personality or character trait.
  She is level 7 at the start of the novel and considering apparently they are basically more or less considered unawakened strength-wise until level 25, she must suck at leveling at least.
  So we have established that the main character has the skill set of soggy cardboard and the backstory of an even soggier paper bag, how about we get onto why I said this feels like an isekai without being one?
  1. I cannot stress this enough, people need to hear this unpopular or not. If your character has the speech pattern of an angsty teenager going through puberty, and uses the slang, humour and internal monologue of one: Do not put them in a medieval fantasy setting
  bare with me here I need to say this it's been weighing on me.
  THIS WOMAN IS A BANDIT, SHE HAS KILLED THINGS BEFORE, SHE HAS BEEN AWAY F