Saga of the Soul Dungeon

Any fan of dungeon core stories would be best served not to miss this one.

As usual, our main character starts with nothing but their mind. The journey taken by that mind to learn a new, magic-filled environment using just wits and applied science is truly a wonderful ride.

I normally have to deduct for grammar in a review, but only a tad so here. In this story you'll find excellent grammar and spelling, with an occasional slip soon corrected by the author.

Reading this work you'll also find interesting characters embedded in a fascinating story delivered with a wordy style. I, personally, enjoy a verbose style of descriptions and don't find the word count or paragraph density anything but delightful. If lots of words are not your thing, you may find the story daunting.

Early on, only three characters are present in the entire story. Even so, they are all fleshed out exactly as much as you would expect from a single observer's point of view. The main character has great depth and slowly parses an understanding of the enigmatic other characters. Well done, in my opinion.

Overall, this is a fantastic story I will heartily recommend to any and all who will listen!

I have long enjoyed Saga of the Soul Dungeon, but recently the author has chosen to rewrite it. The original was an excellent story, so I was concerned that the rewrite would fail to capture the story's essence or that it would die out a few chapters in.

Fortunately, neither worry seems to hold true. Now set in first person, the story retells the tale of the captured, unique dungeon core Caden (and SPOILERS). I'll miss/look forward to when the dungeon is actually established, but if it's anything like it was in the old version, it'll be pretty impressive.

This is definitely worth a read, and not just because it's one of the few dungeon stories that's being actively written. It deserves credit on its own merits, of which there are many.

I realy enjoy reading this story, and am always happy to see a new update. I've followed the book for over a year now, and while the slow updates are frustrateing at times when I'm excited to see what happens next I am so glad the author is shareing their work with us.

Thank you so much!

I have read the previous version and I think I love both, good job on the rewriting! And I can't wait to eventually get to where the book left off before and beyond. Not only that but we will eventually get to explore creatures and creation further and see how the people react to the dungeon.

This type of story is not in any way new, we have been wanting to escape the mundanity of our lives since time immemorial. But as we grow as people and a society so to does the want to escape. Stories like this are a type of wish fulfillment In that sense and this one in particular does a good job of that. It is written really well compared to some of the other books I read.

The grammar is good to the point that it allows the story to flow without jarring you out of it. The story so far is well written, and you can tell the author put love and care into writing this. This is especially clear when you take into account that this is a rewrite. The works of authors like AjFoxmoor keep me sane in a way I can't explain and as such I, personally hold an unquantifiable amount of gratitude towards them.

I really think these stories deserve far more attention than they get. And as such, I rate this story as 5 stars.

I really like this story, I've been reading it for awhile now, and I gotta say that everything about this story is good. It's definitely one of the better dungeon core stories that I've read, the grammar is good, not many spelling errors, and the characters (so far) are decently developed. Ontop of it all, it has a pretty unique aspect in the two people in core/dungeon, and I've only seen it once before, but even then it's different from that one in that this one has one of the "core members" being the actual original dungeon, with the other one I read having the two parts of the core being both human. Another thing, the way the dungeon is developed is nice, with the dungeon having an ecosystem and with the monsters being created through evolution, I really like this. Overall, good story (and as the title of this review says) go read it if you haven't already. Though the only gripe I have with it (which is a pretty minor one) is the somewhat inconsistent update rate, but the author seems to be more consistent as of late. Yet, the quality of the story and each chapter overcomes the wait for the update and makes it worth however long it takes for a new chapter to come out.

 I like  The first version of the story. Its was instresting take of dungeon story whit some nice limitations on MC placed on him by antagonist. And some clear progression of skills that make scense. Chaters that mostly keep their act in "person" than in "plot" plus some find worldbuding  to make place well alive.if bit clucky in telling. It is Instersting to see how this New versio come out first 1.1-1.4 chapter well "show" and paced plus easy to follow allong. The witter has up his game sinne last version. i would strongly recomed giveng this story a try.  

This book is coming along great with solid writing, a well crafted story, and most importantly a balance of elements in the genre / sub genre. It has the dungeon core, the building and materials, the people perspectives, and the greater world building.

Often dungeon core books half suck and I'll skip chapters of the people or stop reading them. But this is a very well balanced book and I found I enjoyed the non dungeon perspectives. The ability system is solid and gives a nice amount of detail and is consistent. The world feels quite real and there is a sense of freedom of action and realistic characters and personalities. I liked others like Blue Core, but that book felt like a shonen with its people. This book is far more grounded and reality based, feeling like actual people doing and saying things real people would do in such a situation.

Often these books suffer from too much detail or too little or variable amounts of detail. Or they'll have too strict a system with gamelit type quests removing agency...but this is the dungeon core book I was looking for with true LitRPG with both literature and rpg elements....often the literature part gets forgotten! 5 stars great writing and I hope you keep going.

Honestly, a really good story so far. It's a bit of a slow burner but it has very good world building and is one of the better dungeon core stories on RR. 

Starts out a little bit slow (Takes a solid 10-15 chapters for the MC to start figuring stuff out and to establish his dungeon) but speeds up a little bit. Honestly, just wish the author is able to put out chapters quicker but as this doesn't seem to be his main job, the speed is understandable.

As much as I would like to recommend this novel I can't.
I enjoyed reading most the first arc. The pacing was slow but with good reason and the MC made good or reasonable decisions given the situation. The skillprogression was slow and the manaefficienty was left rather vague given frequent multiday timeskips. But the last bit just broke any hope I had for the powerscaling. Spoiler with a better explaination.

With the amount and complexity of what the MC has done his manaefficency is worldbreaking. Given that the MC can reproduce just about anything he has absorbed with pure mana including lifeforms very little should be a problem for him. Despite him only being level three at the end of arc one.
Sadly most of the desciptions regarding the things the MC absorbs are also rather vague. I get that it is hard to come up with how stuff tastes but then maybe just make the absobtion tasteless instead of every organic thing simply "tasting organic".
Another disapointing part are the dungeoninstincs that fused with him that his soul got bound to the dungeon. Up until now they haven't mattered. The MC was never in any danger of them taking over but given what has happend at the point I dropped the story they seem to be more important going forward.

Again I really enjoyed the beginning but given the direction of the story I just can't recommend it.