Luca DR

New book on Amazon and KU

Hi everyone, just a little announcement. I have published my second book on Amazon, bringing an end to the Edge of Apocalypse series.

After this brief busy moment, regular Infinity Dungeon chapters will resume soon.

Here's the link to the book: https://a.co/d/50SPIEl

And the blurb:

Earth is falling. The invasion is unstoppable. The secret societies tasked with protecting the planet from extradimensional inv...

The infinity dungeon 153

A few hours later, no more than two, all the top brass of Unity Corporation were gathered in the room. Now and then, a monster tried to jump out of the shadows to stalk one of the weaker members of the impromptu council, breaking the precarious silence. It never made it farther than a few paces from its hiding spot.

Even though Michael had yet to understand how the monsters were hiding from him, once they became visible he sniped them with rods of ice he kept floating around the room. I...

The infinity dungeon 152

It took the duo several hours to cross the distance to the underground lab. The vehicle David had commandeered the first time he had visited the second floor of the dungeon, when he had been presented with his own variation of it, was no longer usable. Even if it had been, it was where he left it, at the underground lab. The second time around he had come here with Michael, and it had taken the two of them at their prime no time at all to go from the entrance point to the lab.

This thir...

The infinity dungeon 151

David glared at Michael, and there was a dangerous look in his eyes. “What do you mean you can’t heal her?”

“There’s nothing wrong with her body as far as my healing skill is concerned,” Michael explained. “And at Rare-rank, I still haven’t found anything it could not heal.”

“Fuck it,” cried David, “I’m taking her back into the dungeon.”

Michael hurried behind the towering man, who was running towards the dungeon at full speed, faster than a car. ...

The infinity dungeon 150

“What?” Michael looked at Johanne, stopping in his steps as her words registered in his mind.

The woman seemed to understand that something was wrong, looking first at Michael and then at the few dwarves milling about close to the surface or manning the gates themselves. None showed signs of having heard what she had said, but Michael suspected it was more a byproduct of his presence than of their ability to hear.

“Those are not dwarves,” she said. This time, she seemed to...

The infinity dungeon 149

After dealing with the small robed goblin, who was still hiding his face and cowering in a corner after the threat of future retribution, Michael turned around to leave. The room, or the half of it farther away from the exit, was devastated: parts of the ceiling were missing, exposing the roots of the trees above and even letting some of the sunlight through, the walls were melted and the floor was like one giant crater.

A rumble made Michael stop in his steps. Raising an eyebrow, he ro...

The infinity dungeon 148

Michael ceased all movement, electing to study the statue’s awakening sequence with his magic sight without attacking. While he watched, he diverted maximum power to his Shield skill, straining the runescript holding it together to the point it glowed.

Then all hell broke loose. There was no warning, just a loud bang and an impact, a stone fist hitting the shield with enough force to send Michael several feet back. His stationary position was disrupted, and he knew that the next impac...

The infinity dungeon 147

Michael let himself be led into the underground structure by the voice. Even after the Gemstone grew too far for a normal voice to reach where he was, he kept hearing the voice as if it was coming from there.

He kept his guard high. Something wasn’t adding up. For starters, the voice had first claimed not to know anything about Guardians, only to immediately say that it knew who was eating Michael’s spirits. It was the perfect lure, and the voice sounded clueless enough to make an e...

The infinity dungeon 146

Michael slowed to a fast jog and then to a brisk walk as the path took him down the mountain and into the jungle below. Unlike the Misty Valley, where the vegetation was concentrated at the higher elevations, on gentle hills at the foot of the mountains and then up the mountains themselves, here it was different.

The spawn point had been roughly a third of the way up a steep mountain, with a winding path that spiraled down following the natural formation of the landscape. Along the path...

The infinity dungeon 145

The remains of the first dinosaur were slowly evaporating into motes of mana and magic. The little particles of magic were like small fireflies that flew up towards the imaginary sky of the dungeon’s fifth floor, only to disappear in the water mist that shrouded the illusion of a blue sky. The milky whiteness saw Michael turn around to meet the second threat that had popped up after he had killed the ambushing monster: another dinosaur, much bigger than the first, with blood-red scales that...

The infinity dungeon 144

The cold wind howled. It pushed the snow and bits of rock towards the edge of the small flat plain at the top of the mountain until they fell down, only to stop a long time later somewhere in the valley below. Michael watched the lonely particles dance in the wind: sometimes they went back towards the relative safety of the center of the flat space, only to be carried to the edge by the next gust.

This was not the Misty Valley. He was sitting at the top of the tallest peak of the Fourth...

The infinity dungeon 143

Michael realized, on the way back to the dungeon, that not even a few minutes passed in the real world before he somehow ended up going back to the dungeon yet again. Despite his claims that he should take it easy, he just couldn’t help himself sometimes, and things like the aberrations in the biolab—contaminated by strange energies that did not come from Site 00—as well as other rumors about things starting to move in the wider world made sure that he never really felt like slowing dow...

The infinity dungeon 142

Michael walked out of the dungeon, a permanent shield surrounding him now. The sole act of keeping it up–while moving and acting normally–for several hours had already pushed it to level 2, with the fractal showing no signs of wanting to stop evolving. For now, at least.

However, keeping the shield up had drained him of most of his Qi, which was much slower to recharge than the lower-Tiered energies like mana.

“Now I want to see what happens when I run out,” muttered Micha...

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You know how they say that time seems to stretch and slow down when adrenaline takes over? When the threat of death, or of losing something dear to you makes your mind go into overdrive?

Well, call me strange but never in my life had something like this happened to me. I got into hundreds of fights–most of them I won easily, but there had been a few where I was losing. Hard. Others, several of them, where my steel pipe was met with the cold iron of a gun.

When you stare at the b...

The infinity dungeon 140

Roger suddenly exploded into motion, his speed and agility incomparable to how they were when he was still a human. There was something in the air, an aura around him that was not quite like the magic we are all used to, but something otherworldly like only the dungeon can do. He was a monster now, and I could see that Liff’s fear was nourishing him because when he howled and she shrunk away, he seemed to do the opposite, growing bigger and stronger and looming over even me.

I raised ...

The infinity dungeon 139

“Uncle Roger…” the man repeated my own words at me. Each word was punctuated by the clicking of his pen, the ballpoint tip going in and out of the plastic socket. He seemed to want to savor the words, rolling them on his tongue to see how they tasted in his mouth.

He was a good deal shorter than me but, with my stature, most people tend to be. I loomed over him, taking a couple long strides that brought me into striking range while he kept muttering his own name.

“It’s b...

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Chapter 138

We followed the sad road through meanderings of dead forests, bare hills, and purple-colored skies. Around us, I felt as if the world was closing in on us, like we were in a tunnel and only the things in our immediate surroundings were real. Thinking back about the nature of this place, I reckoned it made sense. In the last few days, my feeling for the Stone element had increased, allowing me to sense the boundary of the fabricated world whenever we got close to it.

Li...

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Chapter 137

We tried to keep warm by lighting a fire in the fireplace, but the wind had picked up as twilight gave way to total darkness, and the flimsy walls of the house had too many holes to protect us. Liff was a bundle of old bedsheets beside me, huddled close to my hulking figure.

I was deep in thought, Liff’s soft snores allowing my mind to relax a little bit while the howl of wind tried to do the opposite. It was a bad, sad and dark place in here, like a reflection of wh...

The infinity dungeon 136

Chapter 136

David Chestermill.

I stared at the two doors that had opened in the wall of the dungeon after I beat the first-floor boss room. Behind me, the quickly vanishing remains of the many skeletons and boss goblins were a heap of bones and misshapen flesh, reduced to a pulp by the raw might of my bare strength. The rightmost door was a portal of solid light, eerily bright despite the late hour outside of the dungeon. It was enticing, the easy way out: just a ...

The infinity dungeon 135

Chapter 135

After checking on Johanne and Kavanaugh, who were training by the treehouse, Michael returned to the outside world with Old Dave in tow.

“That woman is a machine,” commented David. “I’m not sure I’d enjoy her ministrations any more than Kavanaugh is. It would take a special kind of man to like them.”

Michael nodded pensively, “he’s actually handling the training better than I thought he would. Perhaps he has some modicum of talent for magic.” 2025-03-12 08:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post

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Chapter 134

After Travis excused himself to deal with the everyday operations of Candle Light, which were not easy to handle with the increasing number of anomalies, Michael decided to return to the dungeon. Seeing the dwarven script Kavanaugh had brought in exchange for the Silver tier resulted in a sort of itch he couldn’t wait to scratch, like his mind was yearning for a chance to put into practice what he had learned in the fourth floor of the dungeon—when he had fixed the Heart...

The infinity dungeon 133

Chapter 133

When Michael entered the little room they had reserved for their meeting with the OA scientist, he didn’t think he’d see the man in worse shape than how he had left him after his rampage a few days earlier. After the incident with the chest resulted in several casualties, Michael had visited a few people—namely the general and Dr Kavanaugh, and had worked off his stress using them as target dummies to channel his misplaced rage.

The action had resulted in the gen...

The infinity dungeon 132

Chapter 132

“What is that?”

The writhing mass of flesh was warm on the sterile table deep inside the biolab. The room had been secured for the autopsy of the monstrous aberration, the result of a catastrophic test run of doctor Kavin’s new vitality tonic that had promised to do so much good before it all turned to shit.

The depths of the biolab were alien even to him, who could claim to be among the people who spent the most time in there, hidden as if in a vault benea...

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Chapter 131

The air was still. The soft, orange light of the setting sun made the icy formations glow with refracted light like molten icebergs of lava. Now and again, a lone cloud drifted by, its fringes touching the sight of far mountains where the last vestiges of the sun peeked through a dense layer of fog. From his vantage point at the top of the glacier, Michael could see the paradoxical sight of the Valley’s edge, where the sphere of the sun was visible as it pierced the bounda...

The infinity dungeon 130

Chapter 130

Congratulations, Michael. You have beaten the Fourth floor. Locate the staircase to proceed further down or return to the surface.

Michael gave one last, long look at the floating Heart of the Forge. He would be here again in the future, to study the magic of the room, but this would be farewell for now. The thing that had coalesced out of the clashing of Forgefire and Black Ice was a strange floating cube suspended in a storm of antithetical energies. There was an ord...

The infinity dungeon 129

We are back baby!

Chapter 129

Michael narrowed his focus, bending his will towards containing the wild energies of the gemstone. The Ice element felt wild and violent, a far cry from how Michael had always pictured the cold-aligned energy when he sought to control it. Even the Ice in his Sanctum was vibrating now, stimulated by whatever the Ice in the stone that the dwarves had asked him to retrieve from the obsidian scorpion was doing.

The Ice rebelled, sending sharp shards...

A little pause

Hello everyone,

I have decided to take a little pause while I work on releasing my other book on Amazon. This is because while I work on it, I can't guarantee a decent release schedule and I felt it wasn't fair to all of you.

I have paused billing for everyone, so you won't pay a cent and don't need to unsubscribe to the tier you are subbed to.

I will return with a vengeance and a bigger backlog soon!

The infinity dungeon 128

Chapter 128

After dealing with Travis, Michael went straight back to the dungeon for a quick delve. Without the Renegade’s projection on the fourth floor, things were much different. It was as if an oppressive presence had vanished, changing the whole floor’s atmosphere. He vanquished the monster at the lake again, prompting the reset of the whole floor a couple of times until he felt calm and collected.

Then, now centered, he made his way to the frozen dwarven halls. There he...

The infinity dungeon 127

Chapter 127

“What a drama queen,” Michael heard someone mutter from behind him.

He turned around in a flash. There, on the bed, he saw Old Dave slowly shaking his head. “Dave!” he exclaimed.

The man snorted before descending into a coughing fit. “Your healing magic sucks,” the man joked, wheezing slightly.

“It’s losing its potency on you,” Michael stated. “I don’t know what to do.”

“Well, that’s a matter for another day. What about Tra...

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Chapter 126

David pushed his [Stone Manipulation] to the extreme, finding it easier than ever to call upon the power of the earth. The Silver-rank magic flowed out of him and into the concrete of the walls, and a barrage of projectiles began to pepper the abomination from all angles. Using the storm of debris and the dust it created, David managed to close the distance with the creature and deliver a powerful kick. His side was bleeding profusely now, and he winced in pain as he moved, ...