Chapter 35 of 48 · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Chapter 35 — Dragged out by a cat

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl · Part: The Second Floor · Previous: Chapter 34 — The Krakaren Clone · Next: Chapter 36 — Zev · Floor: Floor 2 — The Second Floor · Series: the series

Opening

I was deaf. I was blind. I was in a fuck ton of pain.

Summary

Deaf, blind, legs broken, six per cent health, dragged out by his cloak by a cat who tells him to work on his cardio. The alchemy table is undamaged: tables meant for personal spaces are indestructible, a bug he must not mention aloud. Krakaren's lair is a burned still, a cage of 750 grubs, a twenty-foot cosmic octopus with running mascara, and Carl's theory — the bosses are earth stereotypes bolted onto real alien monsters for the audience's education. 'Or Persian cats as princesses.'

Mordecai, now a seven-foot Bugaboo, would rather devour his own children than work for Odette. Damien is a name Carl should not know. The boss box is a pair of Enchanted BigBoi Boxers with hearts on, +2 Constitution and a level-15 Protective Shell. 'Really? Fucking really?' A kua-tin is announced.

Characters

• Princess Donut — Saves him again: 'That's what I do.'
• Carl — The exploit; the theory; the boxers.
• Mordecai — As a Bugaboo; the Odette outburst; Damien.
• Odette — Refused, in absentia.

Locations

• Tutorial guilds — Mordecai's second-floor room; the cameras watch but cannot hear him.

Motifs

• The mobs are victims — The theory of caricature.
• Loot boxes — The BigBoi Boxers and Protective Shell — twenty seconds against the Rage Elemental in chapter 38.
• Achievements — Dungeonpreneur: a gold coin per kill by other crawlers, for life.