The Forgotten Core

The Dungeon of Stories, Book 4

By: John Stovall

Narrated by: Brian Wiggins

The dungeon core, Will, has defended himself and his allies from the latest Voidbringer ploy, gaining time in which to grow and expand. More floors, more monsters, newer loot—all in the service of acquiring power to finish off the Voidbringers once and for all...and being the greatest core of all time.

But Will has a problem. He can’t figure out how reach his enemies in order to finish them, and they are preparing their next devastating blow.

Will’s dwarven allies, the Kingdom of Daruk, need to recover from the shattering of their capital and the death of their king. Gar and his team must navigate increasingly complicated internal politics while preparing themselves for possible additional rounds of war with their neighbors, or attacks upon their beloved dungeons.

Thankfully, Will has finally reached Level 20—and now he must brave a soul quest of great difficulty to obtain Meta magic. Once he gains it, he’ll be able to bend the very rules of magic, potentially solving everyone's problems, even the Kingdom of Daruk’s. But first he has to succeed.

A Dungeon Core story, the fourth in the Dungeon of Stories Saga.

©2022 Capital Station Books (P)2022 Shami Stovall

Ending was rushed

I'm a big fan of this author and I really liked this series. It's not quite as good as Demon Card Enforcer on most levels, but it's still really entertaining. I would have preferred sound effects and multiple VAs, but the voice talent was at least average and not filled with the generic Irish Scottish blend you see in a lot of works. The stat blocks were less engaging than other LitRPGs.

This feels like the end of the first leg of a saga, but since there have been no more books in the series in the last four years (2022-2026) we can assume this is the end of the story. I would have wanted to see the story continue into other worlds to take care of the rest of the void bringer threat. I would have liked Kalix Nickit fully resolved. It's mentioned in an earlier book that the adventurer guild/ fairy dungeon didn't see the void bringers as the greatest threat to the thousand continents, so that's another plot thread never dealt with. I would have loved more in this series.

I am surprised there aren't any other reviews. That's usually a bad sign, but the series really is good.