Sky Island Core

Sky Island Core
SUMMARY
After dying in an accident while performing field research, a senior archaeologist is transported to a fantasy world and reborn as a new dungeon core on an ancient sky island. Struggling to figure out how to live as dungeon with a novel set of challenges, he progresses his new dungeon by expanding through archaeological levels of his new home. Periods of dungeon engineering and archaeological exploration are interspersed with interactions with a variety of visitors - starting with an invading ground squirrel and ranging up to the dragon that currently dominates the island, representatives of the Adventuring Guild, and the Church of the God of All Dungeons. At the same time, he is learning about the previous occupants of the sky island, his new world more generally, and teasing out hints about his divinely-appointed mission. You can also read this novel here: Read free novels online
Six latest chapters
- Chapter 81: Metaphorical Nose to the Archaeological Grindstone (Day 98-99)
- Chapter 80: Curiosity Nearly Kills the Cat (Day 98)
- Chapter 79: The Bat the Cat and the Dracolisk (Day 97-98)
- Chapter 78: Disturbing Discussion with the Dwarf (Day 97)
- Chapter 77: Sticking to Schedule (Day 96-97)
- Chapter 76: Taking the Low Road (Day 95-96)
Chapter list
- Chapter 1: Waking Up In a New World – What Now? Day 1
- Chapter 2 - Discovering the Status Interface – Day 1
- Chapter 3 - Some Basic Mechanics (part 1 – Stats) Day 1
- Chapter 4 - Basic Mechanics (part 2 – Skills) Day 1
- Chapter 5 – Basic Mechanics (part 3 – Traits and Titles) - Day 1
- Chapter 6 - Struggling with dungeon instincts. Damn I want to kill something! - Day 1
- Chapter 7 – Where the Hell am I anyways? Day 1
- Chapter 8 - First Views of the Outside World – Day 1 to Day 3
- Chapter 9 - Interlude 1 - The Dungeon Inspector
- Chapter 10 - Interludes 2 and 3 - The Dragon Stirs and the Dungeon Fairy Moves
- Chapter 11 - Interlude 4 - The Dwarven Airmage Rumbles Into Action
- Chapter 12 - Claiming New Territory – Day 4 to Day 7
- Chapter 13 - A Stampede of Ground Squirrels - Day 7
- Chapter 14 - On the Edge of Eternity - Day 8 to Day 14
- Chapter 15 – Arrival of the Dungeon Fairy – Consulting the Overbooked Advisor. Day 14
- Chapter 16 - Extra Attention Because You’re New. And Sapient. And Not a Jerk. - Day 14
- Chapter 17 - Living Learning and Making Some Basic Plans - Day 14
- Chapter 18 - Do I Have to Have a Theme? Seems Restrictive - Day 14
- Chapter 19 – Digging In and Setting Defenses. Day 14-16
- Chapter 20 - First Defense (That I Plan To Admit To Anyways). Day 17-21
- Chapter 21 – PDA - Post-defense analysis – Day 21
- Chapter 22 - Building Out the First Floor and Doing Quests - Day 21-28
- Chapter 23 – Scouting for Ruins Day 29-35
- Chapter 24 – Arrival of the Dungeon Inspector. Day 34
- Chapter 25 - First inspection by adventurers’ guild (Part 1). Day 35
- Chapter 26 – Dungeon Inspection continues - Taking the tour. Day 35
- Chapter 27 – Dungeon Inspection Part III – Welcome to the core. Still Day 35
- Chapter 28 – The Inspection wraps up – Day 35
- Chapter 29 – Starting the Second Floor Day 36-40
- Chapter 30 -- The Dragon Visits – Day 40
- Chapter 31 - A Short Break Interrupted – Day 40-41
- Chapter 32 – Every Scholar Needs a Library - Day 42 - 44
- Chapter 33 –The Dungeon Priests begin to move; Avian Scout hits the skies (Day 44)
- Chapter 34 – Excavations begin (Day 44-50)
- Chapter 35 – Hit rock bottom and continue to dig (Day 51-55)
- Chapter 36– Aven Returns – and Answers Some Questions (Day 56-58)
- Chapter 37 – Books Survey Excavation and Expansion - Plus an Annoyed Librarian (Day 59-65)
- Chapter 38 - Expansion plans – Up and Out or In and Down? (Day 66-72)
- Chapter 39– Documenting the Neighborhood—Exploring the Surface and Initial Deep Finds (Day 72)
- Chapter 40 – The Airmage and the Second Inspector (Day 72)
- Chapter 41 -- Second Inspection Begins (Day 72-73)
- Chapter 42 -- The Ceremonial Giving of Gifts! (Day 73)
- Chapter 43 – Negotiations Begin - for Life Liberty Pursuit of Happiness (Day 73)
- Chapter 44 – Dungeon Priests Arrive (Day 73)
- Chapter 45 – More Introductions – This Time with Squirrel Pantomimes. (Day 73)
- Chapter 46 -- The Dragon Has Some Thoughts - (Day 73 – Turning into a very long day)
- Chapter 47 – Dungeon Lore with the Priests (Day 74)
- Chapter 48 – Dealing with the Dwarf Airmage (Day 74)
- Chapter 49 – Further Developments and the Return of the Goblins (Day 74)
- Chapter 50 – I Was Worried About Goblins? - Day 74-75