About Blood in the Stone:
He touched something in a collapsed tunnel.
It touched back.
Now Kael has two heartbeats.
One is his.
The other belongs to a dying dungeon core, bonded to his blood, feeding on his suffering, growing stronger every time something dies inside its walls.
The stone answers when he pushes.
Walls move. Rooms form. Tunnels reshape themselves around him.
It would be useful.
If it weren’t eating him alive.
When starving refugees stumble into his tunnels, the dungeon offers warmth, water, shelter.
It also starts counting their heartbeats.
Kael can protect them. He can build them a home underground.
But the dungeon’s hunger grows with every life inside its walls, and the cost of keeping the lights on is getting harder to hide.
Monster blood builds a room in a week.
Human blood builds one in seconds.
He made a rule about that.
Rules don’t last long underground.
Blood in the Stone is the first book in The Dungeon Throne, a dark progression fantasy with no stat screens, no system notifications, and no clean answers.
Just stone.
Just blood.
And the slow cost of becoming something you can’t take back.
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Author Bio:
Kaylor Vane writes dark progression fantasy about power, and what it costs to keep it.
His stories focus on survival, transformation, and the slow erosion of the line between human and something else. Set in underground worlds shaped by pressure, sacrifice, and consequence, his work explores what happens when survival demands more than you’re willing to give.
The Dungeon Throne is his debut series.