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Dad's Coal Pit Hid a Dungeon, Now Guilds Pay Me to Enter

I Own the Dungeon Every Guild Wants

A serialized novel · 32 chapters published · 3 free to read

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When his father dies, a night-shift mart clerk in the dying coal town of Taebaek inherits a mortgaged pit and a secret: a live dungeon at the bottom that will obey him as its keeper. The bank, the city and a Seoul guild want the land by Monday, and he slams the dungeon's door on all three.

Tropes & themes: contemporary · male lead · small-town · class divide · suspenseful · action · found family · men's fiction · bankruptcy · slow burn

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: Three Claimants and a Cage (free)
  2. Chapter 2: The Ten O'Clock Turn (free)
  3. Chapter 3: Spat Out (free)
  4. Chapter 4: Stability (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: Ten Minutes (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: Day Labor (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: The Cap (free with an account)
  8. Chapter 8: Hold (free with an account)
  9. Chapter 9: Three Nights (free with an account)
  10. Chapter 10: Nine Seats (free with an account)
  11. Chapter 11: The Vote (free with an account)
  12. Chapter 12: The Knocks (free with an account)
  13. Chapter 13: The Table (free with an account)
  14. Chapter 14: The Assessment (free with an account)
  15. Chapter 15: The Master (free with an account)
  16. Chapter 16: The Heart (free with an account)
  17. Chapter 17: What She Gave Up (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: Entry Night (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: The Bond (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: The Note (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: The Board, Day One (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: The Board, Day Two (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: The Licence (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: First Night (locked)
  25. Chapter 25: Open Lamp (locked)
  26. Chapter 26: Wages (locked)
  27. Chapter 27: The Old Maps (locked)
  28. Chapter 28: The Second Mouth (locked)
  29. Chapter 29: The Builder's Stair (locked)
  30. Chapter 30: The Seat (locked)
  31. Chapter 31: Eat First (locked)
  32. Chapter 32: The Door (locked)

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