The Dungeon Calls for a Sage is a LitRPG Web Serial Novel available here
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An ancient Dungeon is dying, its Final Boss defeated, its Dungeon Core chamber about to be breached by adventurers.In spite, it self-destructs the Dungeon. And as it dies, it wonders:What was the point of it all?
Then it gets the option to reincarnate - a chance it eagerly grasps. To be a living creature, able to see the surface world, to have a meaningful impact on the world, to -
Nope. Reincarnated as a Dungeon. Again.
In another fantasy world, with new fantasy races, a first-level Dungeon gains awareness...A Dungeon with serious existential issues.
Who can answer the Dungeon's questions, solve its dilemmas? Adventurers aren't known for their philosophical acumen. And those are the ones who flock to a Dungeon, to bash monsters with swords, to get better swords, to bash bigger monsters.
At least... unless the Dungeon is full of fiendish puzzles only Sages and wise men could solve...
The Dungeon Calls for a Sage contains examples of:
- A Dungeon Is You - the protagonist. Again.
- Anal Probing - turns out, the Survey spell that maps out a Dungeon's passages - a literal cavity search - is basically this for a sensitive Dungeon. Archimedes has an entire arc dealing with the trauma and its repercussions.
- Anti-Magic: Archimedes makes it so that mana doesn’t function on his second floor. Oddly enough, the people who experience this feel pretty good.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Rather than allow himself to be captured or smashed by adventurers, Archimedes chooses to self destruct to deny them the satisfaction and ensure they die in the ensuing collapse.
- Elfeminate: When a trio of elven children discover the new Dungeon, Archimedes scans them and comments on their hormonal levels being in line for female humans.
- Humans Are Bastards: From Archimedes' perspective humans are violent brutes who are only interested in destroying or enslaving dungeon cores.
- Killer Game Master: Archimedes takes this role for people who try to brute force their way through his dungeon rather than solving the puzzles, having devised some exceptionally lethal traps to act as punishment.
- New Game Plus - Archimedes still has the Dungeon know-how of a millennia-old Dungeon, and knows all the tricks for growing a Dungeon as fast as possible. This also makes it easy to "invent" new Dungeon features.
- Our Elves Are Different: They are the woodsy kind, living in treehouses and worshipping the sun and moon.
- Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: When a party who tried to raid Archimedes to force him to make resources for them returns to vandalize the dungeon after failing to get by his defense the first time, Archimedes responds by lowering the ceiling to crush them into paste.
