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They Wanted a Hero. They Made a Monster: Born at the Bottom (Volume 1)
by CaffeinatedTales
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Content Rating: Older than 13
They summoned a hero. He awakened as a mushroom.
At the bottom of the Amethyst Deep, Puffcaps are prey. Blind, fragile, and trapped beneath a species Level Cap, they exist to feed stronger monsters.
Evan is different.
The Hero title allows him to break the limits of his species. The Sin of Greed lets him steal abilities from the creatures he kills. Every corpse offers a new skill. Every patch of mycelium extends his reach. Every spore can become another soldier in an army that shares a single mind.
After years of surviving in secret, Evan has transformed a colony of harmless mushrooms into a hidden power. His specialized Puffcaps mine Mana Crystals, breed monsters, bombard enemies, and turn everything they devour into fuel for the Mycelial Garden.
Then a pink Puffcap falls from the world above.
She is Lady Elara St. Clair, a duke’s daughter betrayed by her own people, transformed into a monster, and thrown into the dungeon to die. She wants to return home and take revenge. Evan wants to reach the surface and discover why someone summoned a Hero in the body of the weakest creature imaginable.
But the path upward is guarded by ancient predators, suspicious adventurers, and monsters capable of destroying his entire colony.
To escape, Evan must evolve new breeds, plunder stronger abilities, expand his network, and conquer the dungeon one stratum at a time.
The world asked for a Hero. It may not survive what climbs out instead.
They Wanted a Hero. They Made a Monster: Born at the Bottom is the first installment in a darkly humorous Monster Evolution LitRPG series featuring a nonhuman protagonist, skill theft, army building, tactical battles, dungeon conquest, and relentless weak-to-strong progression.