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They Wanted a Hero. They Made a Monster: Claim the Core (Volume 4)
by CaffeinatedTales
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Content Rating: Older than 13
He can steal a monster’s skills. He can grow an army. But he can’t outlevel a collapsing dungeon.
Evan is a mushroom with a human mind, a ruthless streak, and thousands of bodies at his command. Every enemy his colony consumes can feed his System-granted skill plunder—and every stolen ability can become a weapon for his next generation of soldiers.
Now the home he fought to build is coming apart.
Rifts are tearing through the dungeon, opening paths for creatures that strip entire caverns bare. Human experts have declared the core beyond repair. They can leave. Evan has a colony to protect, territory he refuses to abandon, and no intention of letting someone else decide when his reign ends.
His answer is simple: claim the core.
Getting there will take more than another level. An enemy swarm is learning his tactics. Ancient guardians stand between him and the controls. And the one source of knowledge that might save his home is far too dangerous to trust.
Evan has options. Breed armored mushroom troops. Turn stolen magic against its former owners. Send expendable bodies into battles no human commander would dare attempt. Beyond the rifts, there is new territory to seize—and desperate people who might accept his protection without understanding what joining the colony means.
But every experiment costs resources. Every failed assault burns time. And forcing a path to the core could accelerate the very disaster he needs to stop.
Claim the Core continues Evan’s rise in Volume 4 of They Wanted a Hero. They Made a Monster. This LitRPG progression fantasy turns skill combinations into military strategy, dungeon survival into a race for control, and one mushroom’s ambition into an expanding monster empire.
When saving his kingdom means pushing it closer to destruction, how much can Evan risk before there’s nothing left to rule?