Dungeon Hunter

By Lazarus James

Published:04 March 2025

Last updated:04 March 2025

Word count:111495

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Is it aliens? Demons? Alternate dimensions?

Black holes are rippling into existence around the globe, and Lee Castillo’s panic attacks are back.

Just this morning, he’d been practicing how to tell his ex-best friend and flatmate Axel that he was potentially thinking about maybe moving out sometime soon or something.

And then the world as everyone knew it ended.

~System Loaded. Dungeons Active~

Now, Axel's personality has flipped on its head, all comms are down, and there's a foreign desire compelling Lee to enter the Dungeons despite his overwhelmingly lacklustre system stats.

As he delves into the secrets of the Dungeons alongside his growing party, Lee must confront both his past and future to divine what he truly wants.

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What to expect:

  1. First-person perspective with an introspective MC
  2. Features diverse, queer cast
  3. Romance is semi-slowburn, ultimately MM
  4. Silly and inane conversations and mature and sensitive topics covered
  5. LitRPG element is light and used as a platform to explore characters
  6. Slow progression and system mechanics explained as story unfolds
  7. Chapter parts of 2,000-4,000 words released twice a week (Sun/Wed 8pm EST)

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[Act I has been published and is purchasable on multiple platforms. I am not stubbing this because it goes against my personal beliefs. The edited version has been polished up, and it just reads far better; 4-stars on Goodreads.]

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Inspired by ORV, The S-Classes I Raised, SSS-Class Suicide Hunter, Survival of a Sword King, Doom Breaker, and Dungeon Reset, Dungeon Hunter is basically my response to other MCs and their ride-or-die besties never canonically falling for each other (as well as realising I can make all my character queer as hell).

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Chapters

  1. Chapter One | Activation
  2. Chapter Two | Two's a Party
  3. Chapter Three | Questions & Answers
  4. Chapter Four | Groceries
  5. Chapter Five | Surprise
  6. Chapter Six | Approach
  7. Chapter Seven | What Next?
  8. Chapter Eight | Confrontration
  9. Chapter Nine | Crisis
  10. Chapter Ten | Gasp
  11. Chapter Eleven | Shopping
  12. Chapter Twelve | Mother Knows Best
  13. Chapter Thirteen | When Calls Come Down
  14. Chapter Fourteen | Give Them An Inch
  15. Chapter Fifteen | Dot Dot Dot
  16. Chapter Sixteen | It Begins
  17. Chapter Seventeen | It Ends
  18. Chapter Eighteen | The Choices We Make
  19. Chapter Nineteen | Expectations
  20. Chapter Twenty | Progress
  21. Chapter Twenty-One | Found
  22. Chapter Twenty-Two | Death Blow
  23. Chapter Twenty-Three | One Point to Lee
  24. Chapter Twenty-Four | The Thread
  25. Chapter Twenty-Five | Actual Answers
  26. Chapter Twenty-Six | GG
  27. Chapter Twenty-Seven | By Any Other Name
  28. Chapter Twenty-Eight | Meat Cute
  29. Chapter Twenty-Nine | Moments
  30. Chapter Thirty | Goodnight
  31. uuuu