Core Chaos Book 1 - Congratulations, You’re a Magic Rock - Lina Will

Written by Lina Will
Read by Anna Evan
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

Sarah died because of her cat.

Not in a blaze of glory. Not saving a busload of children.

Just one badly timed trip, one expensive gaming rig, and one furry little sociopath.

Then things get worse.

Sarah wakes up as a sentient dungeon core. She is a magic crystal buried in a cave, trapped in a world run by a snarky System, buried under soul-crushing debt, and expected to do the one thing she absolutely does not want to do.

Become a monster.

Armed with nothing but a software engineer’s brain, a vicious streak of sarcasm, and a terrifying talent for turning architecture into psychological warfare, Sarah starts building a dungeon that can scare intruders senseless. The System wants murder. The numbers reward cruelty. The easy path is obvious.

Sarah picks the hard one.

When a band of hunted goblin refugees runs into her dungeon with kingdom exterminators at their heels, Sarah makes a choice that changes everything. She turns her dungeon into a sanctuary. Now she has goblins to protect, knights to terrify, impossible bills to pay, and a growing reputation as the weirdest, most dangerous haunted house in the region.

To survive, she will have to weaponize fear, outsmart a predatory cosmic bureaucracy, and build a community in the last place anyone would expect to find one. Inside a living dungeon.