Chapter 45 of 48 · Book 1, Dungeon Crawler Carl

Chapter 45 — The kobold boss chamber

Book: Dungeon Crawler Carl · Part: The Second Floor · Previous: Chapter 44 — What Donut overheard · Next: Chapter 46 — The dungeon groans · Floor: Floor 2 — The Second Floor · Series: the series

Opening

Finding the boss chamber of the kobolds was easy.

Summary

Black metal at a volume that hurts leads to the kobold boss chamber: a Portuguese dog pound of caged, wounded Danger Dingoes with red dots and cheering from the arena beyond. Carl reads the room — 'I hated this place. I hated it so damn much' — and tosses a pet biscuit into a cage. The dot turns white. Fourteen times.

Ralph, Frenzied Gerbil, level 11, is introduced with a history lesson about the Asian great gerbil and the Black Death and shot out of a shoebox cage at Carl's throat. A jug kills the kobolds; a one-eyed dingo swallows the boss whole; the freed dingoes tear their masters apart. 'As unfair as this world was, it was still a game.' Then the dingo's head explodes, the gerbil is stunned by a two-per-cent gauntlet proc, and Donut quotes Bea: 'Time to pay the Daddy tax.'

Characters

• Ralph — Introduced; eaten; back.
• Carl — Feeds the dingoes; 'I ran toward the danger.'
• Princess Donut — Wants to kill the caged dogs; the Daddy tax.

Locations

• The Second Floor — The kobold fighting pits.

Motifs

• 'There will always be clues' — The caged dingoes were the puzzle.
• The Black Death and the great gerbil — The AI's history lesson.
• Carl's bare feet — 'Sorry, Ralph.'