by Cal Lee
Dungeons appeared all over the world, and no one knows where they came from. Instead of fighting them, the corporations turned them into an industry. Now clearing dungeons is a regular job, and everyone relies on an AI companion to tell them exactly how to do it. Nobody really thinks anymore. They don't have to. Jon is a nobody. No rank, no gear, no AI. What he does have is common sense — he does the logical, obvious thing everyone else ignores, because their AI never told them to. And it turns out the whole system was built on the assumption that no one would ever stop and think for themselves. So when Jon does, it falls apart in his hands. On his first day, he clears a dungeon alone that entire teams have died in. Not with power — he just looked at the problem and did the sensible thing. And he keeps doing it. He's not trying to be a hero. He just wants to make some money, help a few people, and be left alone. But the more he wins, the more attention he draws — and the people who run the whole system start to wonder how a nobody keeps beating a game no one is supposed to beat. A comedy dungeon-crawler LitRPG about the one guy who still thinks for himself in a world that stopped.
