
The Core Trial
A Dungeon Core LitRPG | Bureau Intrusion, Rogue Evolution, Sentient Defense
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Marko Duskborn

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The Core Trial
Book Five of the Core Overlord Series
I broke the rules. Bound a soul. Triggered the Bureau. Now they want to delete me. Again.
I’m Nightshard — former gamer, current Dungeon Core, and possibly the biggest arcane violation on record. A few months ago, I was a glowing rock just trying to survive. Now I’ve got sentience, strategy, and a fairy sidekick who knows far too much about Bureau execution protocols.
When a Bureau Observer arrives to sniff out “anomalies,” I do the sensible thing: fake being dumb. No talking walls. No smart traps. Definitely no illegally-bound undead paladin wraith in the basement.
But cover stories crack fast when adventurers come crashing back for revenge, old secrets surface, and the Bureau decides to send a purge team with orbital mana cannons.
Build the perfect lie.
Hide the illegal soul magic.
Survive a three-way dungeon brawl.
Evacuate before the mountain explodes.
For fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Benoit the Anomaly, and Reborn as a Dungeon Core, The Core Trial delivers high-stakes infiltration, dungeon vs. Bureau warfare, and one hell of a final boss fight — me.
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