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As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon. Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

A lush jungle teeming with danger. Savage dinosaurs seeking blood. A fallen princess intent on vengeance. A mysterious, end-of-floor celebration for the top crawlers, dubbed “The Butcher’s Masquerade”. The sixth floor. The Hunting Grounds. As the remaining crawlers battle for their lives, a new, terrible threat looms. Outside, tourists are finally allowed to enter the game, and they are here and ready to hunt. Among them is Vrah, a famed and veteran hunter, intent on collecting the biggest trophy of her career.

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend.

A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked.

The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal ... It all makes for great fun and even greater television. After all, none of these powerful aliens really die when they’re playing war. Except this time. This time, winner takes all. Those who fall, stay in the ground.

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot.

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl. All colonist Oliver Lewis...

For over 30 years, Dominion of Blades has been the hottest online role-playing game in the world. But the game is too real for some, and after an epidemic of real-life fatalities, public use of the immersion technology has been banned. Jonah wakes to find himself in-game, level one, with no memory of how he arrived and no way to eject. With only two companions, trapped in a world that once hosted millions, Jonah must battle his way across a treacherous landscape, fighting virtual monsters, all too real pain, and a very human enemy.

It was supposed to be a simple scouting mission. In and out. No fighting. No new quests. Just me, my hippocorn, Alice, and a few hired mercenaries. We were going to tiptoe into the Spiral, get the info we needed, and leave. You know, the Spiral? That tower-defense run that protects the hobgoblin capital from invaders? Easy, right? Nobody would even know we were there. Yeah, so about that....

Ahora que ya conocemos la lista de los diez mejores y está disponible el programa de patrocinio, la dificultad se dispara. Las tres primeras plantas han sido un paseo comparado con los que les espera a Carl y a Dónut. La Maraña de Hierro: un sistema subterráneo de transporte enrevesado como pocos, construido a partir de los trazados de metro de la Tierra combinados y atados entre sí en un nudo. Todo está patas arriba. O patas abajo... Lo que debería estar cerca, está lejos.

Los ratings y las vistas están por las nubes. Los fanáticos están vueltos locos. Cada día el calabozo se vuelve más peligroso. En un lugar diseñado para devorar y escupir rastreadores por millones, Carl y la Princesa Donut tendrán que pelear más duro que nunca solo para sobrevivir. La llaman Ciudad Superior. Una metrópolis vibrante en otro tiempo, hoy devastada por una calamidad misteriosa. Pero las calles no están vacías, no. Un circo de muertos vivientes se arrastra entre las ruinas. Unas prostitutas asesinadas caen del cielo.

Em uma noite de terça-feira muito fria, Carl, um cara qualquer, não conseguia dormir e resolveu fumar um cigarro na companhia de Donut, a gata da sua ex-namorada. Mas o momento tranquilo de contemplação foi bruscamente interrompido pelo COLAPSO DE TODAS AS CONSTRUÇÕES DA FACE DA TERRA!

La lista del Top 10 ya está completa. El programa de patrocinadores está abierto. La dificultad se dispara. Los primeros tres pisos no fueron nada comparados con lo que Carl y Donut enfrentarán ahora. La Maraña de Hierro. Un sistema de metro imposible, construido a partir de las redes subterráneas de todo el mundo, combinadas y enroscadas entre sí. Arriba es abajo. Abajo es arriba. Lo cercano está lejos. Los vagones están llenos de monstruos, las estaciones no son precisamente seguras, y la salida siempre está a solo unas cuantas paradas de distancia.

Das Leben ist nicht fair. Erst wird Carl von seiner Freundin sitzengelassen, und dann muss er mitten in der Nacht in Boxer Shorts und Lederjacke raus, um ihre Katze Prinzessin Donut zu retten. Noch unfairer wird es, als er von außerirdischen Invasoren gezwungen wird, an einer sadistischen, intergalaktischen Spielshow teilzunehmen. In einem Dungeon voller Fallen, explodierender Goblins, Drogen dealenden Lamas besteht sein Leben von nun an vor allem darin, am Leben zu bleiben.

The Dungeon Crawler Carl series has exploded in popularity and become a LitRPG sensation since the release of the first installment in 2021. After the release of book 7, This Inevitable Ruin, author Matt Dinniman looks back at the progression of his career with Audible Editor Sam.

Un hombre. La gata de su ex. Un concurso de corte sádico único en el universo, donde habrá que matar enemigos de la forma más televisiva posible para escapar de la mazmorra. En un abrir y cerrar de ojos, todas las construcciones que ha levantado el ser humano sobre la faz de la Tierra, desde el palacio de Buckinham hasta la más humilde de las chozas, se desploman y se las traga el suelo.

Un hombre. La gata de su exnovia. Un reality show sádico como ningún otro en el universo: un rastreo dentro de un calabozo donde sobrevivir depende de matar a tu presa de la manera más entretenida posible.

Las visualizaciones y la audiencia están por las nubes… El público quiere más, y los peligros de la mazmorra aumentan con cada día que pasa. Carl y Princesa Dónut van a tener que esforzarse al máximo si quieren sobrevivir a una trituradora diseñada para masacrar oleadas de rastreadores como ellos.