Dungeon Diving 201

Dungeon Diving #5

by Bruce Sentar

Ken returns from the Elven World to another year at Haylon College.
Yet, attitudes towards training have changed, the Naga attack has shifted priorities the world over and Ken finds himself and his fellow classmates pushed harder than ever before.
The big four colleges no longer are going to focus on survival of their students, it’s time to push them and let the strongest shine.
Which would be okay for Ken, if a new problem hadn’t cropped up. A monster that doesn’t appear in any of the records has been stalking him through the dungeon. The answer to it, might actually lie in Crimson’s past.

Genres: Harem, Fantasy, Litrpg, Audiobook, Magic, Smut, Elves

324 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 7, 2024

About the author

Born and raised in the agricultural midwest, I moved every year after school even as far as Shanghai before settling down with my wife in Chicago.

I have always enjoyed Wuxia stories and became thrilled when I discovered harem stories spreading to western books. I've written down my day dreams for years as an idle hobby. Inspired by the harem genre I'm finally fleshing them out into full blown novels.

I'm excited to share my stories with you as I turn them into novels and series.

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Reviews

[Jacob Proffitt · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is fifth in an ongoing series that you should really read in order.

You kind of know what you are getting with this, so I'll just say that we get Crimson's backstory and how she got her [Limit Break] power that makes her so powerful and that Ken then goes on to have a similar experience. Making him powerful in a similar, but different way.

The rest of the story is about starting their second year at Haylon and everybody stepping up due to the Naga menace discovered at the end of book 3. Plus a reinvention of dwarves in an interesting way as another faction they have to mitigate or overcome.

I'm going to go with four stars as some of the relationship stuff enters retread territory along with the action being a little samey. I will admit that Ken's new ability is fascinating, though, and I'm eager to see it develop, along with more story and action.

A note about Steamy: There's more explicit content in this one than some of the others, putting it close to the high end of my steam tolerance. Which is to be expected because Ken finally adds Crimson to his harem (she is, after all, the cover). Frankly, their roleplay got old fast. I skimmed at least a chapter for the eye rolls, contributing to the drop to four stars.

[Bob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really loving where this story is going!

One of my more favorite book series, this one really kicked it up a notch. Great story good progression. Can't wait for more

[Imkmoney · Rating 5 out of 5]

An Incubus Demon Lord, Unique Abilities, & a Dwarven War

Ken is growing his Harem and the dungeon is talking an intrest in him. If he lives and wins, his new ability will be a game changer, but he wil be dieing several times before gaining enough skills to win. Then the Dwarves take an intrest in Ken and try to kill him, then everyone.
Can Ken win; will he have crazy sex with Crimson; will the human race live?

Fun read with very fun fights.

Read in 3 days

[Tracy S McCoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite series!!!!!

The best dungeon diving adult fantasy adventure series out there by far!!!! So many interesting facts and events occurring, least of which is dwarfs are nothing but bugs in disguise !!!!

[Zach Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series has been good. Read it like I’m watching an anime and it flows perfectly. But this book is by far the top in the series so far. The action and plot have thickened quite a bit. Really looking forward to the next one

[Krystal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great continuing story line and character development. You will need to sit next to some water as the scenes are SPICEY.

[Raymond Euerle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Waiting for the sequel hurts

So much happens in this episode and secrets come to the surface, a long awaited romantic event finally occurs and Ken's efforts are publicly acknowledged putting him near the top of humanity. But when is that Neko going to quit being shy? Why hasn't Ken made any moves on her, and what kind of unique relationship dynamics will her culture and species bring. Its clear that much of human relationship dynamics have been surprising to her by what does it mean?

[Alfred · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love the books excited for the next

I enjoyed this series and I am excited for the next book
The main guy was just fun to read about

[anita · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely terrific writing

The speed of action and the depth/details of the plots are expertly handled. The characters are a complete joy to spend time with and I am very hopeful that there will be many more books in this series. I can say numerous positive things about this series; bottom line, if you haven't read it you are seriously cheating yourself of a wonderful adventure and an amazingly enjoyable experience. Bring on book 6!

[Greg Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Captivating

We are seeing Ken come into his own, and it's fantastic. Can't wait for the audio. If you've been reading, keep reading. If you haven't, you have to give this series a try.

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exciting2

Ken has kept up with the group and is making a name for himself at the school. Hopefully this will continue in the next issue!

[Jake Sarauer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Devoured this book in about a day. It's probably one of my favorite series. The world he has built is one of my favorites. I've read / am reading other litrpg books with dungeons, and this is still the best. Can't wait for the next book.

If I had to give any sort of criticism it's that Bruce tends to make the Harems too large in some of his other series' I am glad he has taken that slower approach for this series and I hope he doesn't stretch Ken's too much more. Quality over quantity.

[Colette Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good reading but too short!

These characters are great! Grandpa is a hoot and he is just one of many entertaining personalities! The action is intense with a lot going on. But unfortunately I finished it in a day so it needs to be a little longer!

[Kent Herring · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good Read

Good series. Each book is worth a read. You won't regret it. Each one is top notch. Good luck Bruce Sentar.

[Kiba Snowpaw · Rating 3 out of 5]

Final Rating: 3.42/5.00

Starting score: 2.50
+0.28 for the panther trial, informed training, and a mechanically distinctive progression payoff
+0.27 for Crimson's backstory and the development of her relationship with Ken
+0.22 for tactical boss fights and party rotations that make different abilities matter
+0.18 for Felin and the contrasting cultures' relationships with the Dungeon
+0.17 for recurring explicit intimacy with character-specific desire and substantial follow-through
+0.12 for Charlotte and Fayeth's domestic reconnection with Ken
+0.16 for Ken's developing leadership during the wider conflict
+0.10 for connecting education, guild recruitment, and practical infrastructure to the invasion's aftermath
+0.06 for Bun-bun's inventive spy-comedy interlude
-0.14 for reducing the established party's combat contribution after Ken's breakthrough
-0.10 for antagonists whose motives receive less development than their threat
-0.12 for the Harem Queen's refusal of help during a crisis
-0.10 for the dismissive treatment of a traumatised student's withdrawal
-0.05 for cutting across Crimson's painful backstory with a poorly placed joke
-0.04 for raising and then abandoning a discussion of limits during Crimson's major intimate scene
-0.09 for concrete wording, pronoun, and copy-editing errors
Calculated final score: 3.42/5.00

The strongest thing here is how closely Ken's training and Crimson's emotional life finally depend on one another. His progress gives their relationship somewhere to go, while her history makes the pursuit of strength feel more dangerous than another desirable number on a character sheet. That connection gives me something to sink my fangs into. Returning to Haylon also brings back the party interaction I wanted more of during the summer, although the later power escalation starts pushing that same party aside again. The weaker material turns enemies into targets and treats some forms of psychological damage with depressing impatience. Sexual teasing is frequent, explicit encounters recur, and Crimson receives an especially lengthy, fully developed encounter later in the story. The violence includes brutal deaths, assassination, and disturbing treatment of captives. There is plenty of heat and blood in this den. The writing is less consistent about giving either its full emotional weight.

Haylon's harsher second year grows out of a believable institutional panic. The naga attack exposed how dependent humanity had become on a handful of exceptional adventurers, particularly Crimson. Now the colleges demand faster progress, raise graduation expectations, and prepare students for a raid that will also serve as an interschool competition. The logistical changes make that pressure tangible. Training facilities move into the Dungeon, teachers supervise progression directly, and the Harem Queen's resources produce accommodation and classrooms where students actually need them. Silver Fangs also begins to function as an organisation with work to do. Trade commitments, recruitment, equipment, and Bellaire's proposed publicity role all compete for Ken's attention. The conversation with the older students is especially useful: joining an established guild could leave them doing low-level work while younger recruits overtake them, so a developing guild offers a different future. Those choices give the modern setting substance beyond phones and storage devices.

The party rotations are one of the best uses of the school premise so far. Crimson makes the students repeat the same boss with different compositions, which means knowing the encounter is only the beginning. Des's damage over time works particularly well against the separated summoners. Ken can intercept the mud attacks, while Harley's speed support helps Fayeth escape the dangerous area. When the composition changes, Selene's difficulty handling sudden damage across several people becomes something the others must plan around. Candice's flexibility has a different value again. These distinctions make the supporting cast worth remembering for what they can decide and accomplish. The later pairing of Penny's endurance with Dolly's ability to transfer wounds develops that same principle into a particularly vicious fighting method. This is the pack behaviour I want: members who change what becomes possible when they stand together. Repeating a boss can teach something when the people inside the fight change the problem.

The panther trial gives Ken's personal progression a similarly useful structure. Other people cannot simply attack his problem away, and outside intervention can make the encounter catastrophically worse. His first responses produce information at a horrible price. Felin then helps distinguish the things he can improve from the things that will merely make the trial harder. Because the creature scales with his level, grinding experience is a poor substitute for developing his stats, choosing suitable abilities, and correcting his fighting technique. Even his choice of transformation needs reconsidering when additional bulk would interfere with the movement he needs. The growing interval between attempts also gives failure a cost beyond the immediate injury. He has to live with anticipation and use the waiting time properly. After the compressed stretches of progression earlier in the series, this gives me more of the process under his paws. Each attempt grows out of the previous failure.

The payoff then changes how Ken should build and use his abilities. His new speed depends on building momentum through attacks, loses that advantage when he cannot sustain it, and leaves other limits in place. Cooldowns do not conveniently accelerate with him. Better movement does not automatically provide enough damage to penetrate much stronger defences. The UG testing sequence asks practical questions about targets and activation, then turns its findings into recommendations for complementary skills. My gaming instincts enjoy how the ability opens another set of decisions. Becoming fast enough to challenge Crimson gives their sparring an emotional charge. The trouble begins when ordinary dungeon fights turn into him sweeping through monsters while the others collect what drops. Des even anticipates that collecting the loot will become less entertaining after enough repetitions. I want the rest of my pack to have something to bite. Their earlier tactical individuality loses space once Ken can handle so much of the work himself.

Crimson's history explains why strength, control, and isolation are so tangled together for her. Her account of an earlier party shows her as a vulnerable adventurer surrounded by people whose plans can fail horribly. A berserker's loss of control makes the danger from an ally as immediate as the danger from the monster. The further humiliation of being robbed when she tries to escape that situation gives her self-reliance an uglier foundation. It also gives her present fear of uncontrolled power a sharper edge. With Ken, she wants company, desire, and the chance to stop managing every threat herself. His growing confidence changes their interactions because he can increasingly meet her challenges instead of always approaching her from beneath that enormous reputation. I like the warmth in her response when he begins to surprise her. The woman who normally dominates a room is delighted to discover that somebody can finally keep up.

The adult writing gives that relationship a substantial physical payoff. Crimson actively shapes the games they play, and the mock dispute over unpaid guild dues lets her ask for a kind of surrender that her public life rarely allows. Ken later makes clear that affection and sex cannot become actual payment for the resources she brings the guild. That conversation gives the role-play a boundary between their fantasy and their relationship. The major encounter follows through at length with explicit detail and sustained attention to what these particular people want from each other. The playful provocations and Crimson's enthusiasm keep her personality present. This is much more satisfying to my taste than repeatedly building anticipation and disappearing into a chapter break. One careless beat deserves criticism: they acknowledge needing a safeword, then immediately abandon the discussion in their eagerness to continue. For a relationship built around fear of losing control, that is an oddly unfinished moment. The scene raises a question about trust and limits, then treats the question as disposable.

Charlotte and Fayeth get a different kind of intimacy that matters just as much to the household. Des recognises that they have been missing Ken while training, danger, and Crimson absorb his attention. The answer is an evening spent cooking together. Ken puts on an apron, prepares ingredients, helps with the work his appetite has created, and gives both women unhurried affection. I know the practical business of preparing food ahead while tired, and I value the way care becomes visible through somebody sharing the work. That shared warmth belongs in my den in HowlStrom. Ken also admits that he is already stretched thin and worries about what more relationships would demand from him. That concern gives the expanding harem a real human limit. Fayeth and Charlotte can be welcoming while still needing time with their partner. Pull up an apron and help feed the den. The declarations can wait until the chicken is shredded. This quiet evening earns its place because it lets the relationship recover attention that the adventure has been consuming.

Felin makes the wider world more interesting because she brings knowledge the humans lack. Her connection to the Dungeon exposes information Ken's CID does not present in the same way, and her people's history gives context to experiences humanity has barely understood. The diplomacy also depends on whose authority the Nekorians recognise. A human official's position does not automatically entitle her to speak as an equal among shamans. Felin can be mischievous about clothes, scent, food, and the nest she establishes in the suite while remaining an informed representative of her culture. Her range of support and elemental abilities gives her practical value in combat too. My ice-wolf instincts appreciate a character whose ears, tail, and sense of smell contribute to communication, although the milk and stolen-shirt jokes are doing plenty of familiar cat comedy. The dwarven caste structure offers another useful challenge to human assumptions: negotiating with the most visible members of a society achieves little if those members cannot meaningfully decide anything. The shared safe zone becomes a place where different systems of knowledge and authority collide.

The enemies receive much less psychological attention than those cultural ideas deserve. Kai Ming's organisation has collapsed, and he turns Ken into the focus of his rage. That explains the pursuit, but his appearances keep returning to revenge and blame without giving the obsession much further development. The dwarves have a more distinctive social organisation and a genuinely horrible view of others as usable resources. Their treatment of captives makes that outlook matter. Yet the eventual conflict gives much more space to their capabilities and hierarchy than to a compelling individual intelligence behind the hostility. I welcome fiction that makes its cruelty ugly enough to provoke anger and protectiveness. Here, the darkness has force, but the opposition often exists to demonstrate how dangerous it is before becoming another problem for Ken's growing power to solve.

The treatment of a student who cannot cope after being killed and revived is colder in a less productive way. Ken's narration frames her as a coward, and he supports the harsh assessment when another classmate objects. The practical danger of someone freezing during a raid is clear. Taking that person off the team follows from the stakes already established. What disappoints me is how little interest the scene has in the damaged person herself. Resurrection restores her body, and the group largely judges her by her inability to resume functioning. Having lived with anxiety and mental exhaustion, I recognise how cruelly simple that judgment can become. Crimson's advice to step away before exceeding one's limits provides a sensible decision, but the student remains distant and scarcely individualised. Ken has support around his repeated deaths and an unusually controlled response to them. The story gives much less room to the person whose mind does not recover on demand. That weakens the emotional depth of its increasingly brutal training culture.

Bun-bun's secret-agent adventure is where the comedy earns its indulgence. His devotion to spy films is established before he turns a forbidden trip into the kitchen into an operation of enormous importance. Charlotte and Fayeth become figures in his mission, and carrots acquire the significance of dangerous objectives. Charlotte explicitly connects his antics to Bond earlier, so the heist grows from an established obsession. The ridiculous scale of his self-importance is the joke, and it gives the rabbit a small inner world of his own. The timing of the humour is worse when Harley interrupts Crimson's account of losing her party to focus on the candy-themed floors. Her Candy Land attachment is established, but the interruption redirects attention at the point when the loss needs to settle. My ears can follow a ridiculous rabbit into a kitchen heist. I wanted Crimson's dead friends to receive a longer silence.

Ken's leadership during the larger attack shows what the mixed-party training has prepared him to do. He knows enough about his classmates to assign useful work, organises movement through the building, keeps healers protected, and has routes sealed so that the group cannot easily be surrounded. Sending Crimson to help the UG has an intelligible purpose because restoring that response could save people beyond Haylon. His later reasoning about Helen also has substance: getting frightened or unfamiliar students to obey requires authority they recognise, which is different from identifying the cleverest strategist. That distinction makes him more credible as a guild leader. The action also preserves a meaningful gap between speed and total combat power. Stronger enemies remain difficult to injure, and using equipment beyond his capacity exacts a cost ordinary healing cannot immediately remove. Ken must identify what he can contribute to a fight too large for him to control. His decisions about the wider cast matter alongside his blades.

The Harem Queen damages that credibility on the other side of the same battle. When Director Amato offers to recall Crimson, she refuses because she will not have Crimson solve her fight. Her pride and their petty rivalry take precedence during a crisis involving captives and people dying. The book has already explained the absurd personal irritation behind that rivalry, which makes this decision more infuriating. The problem is how readily it becomes a mechanism for prolonging danger without receiving enough scrutiny afterward. Her subsequent appreciation of Ken and her willingness to protect his interests get considerably more attention than the assistance she rejected. The book can acknowledge that she needed help and still avoid properly confronting why she spurned the help available. Being embarrassed in front of Crimson is a miserable reason to leave other people bleeding. I want the cost of that choice to remain attached to the person who made it.

The prose also still needs a careful edit. Ken replaces his "practice swards" when the intended word is "swords." Later, people "followed my queue" where "cue" is required. The more disruptive example occurs within Des's third-person viewpoint: "He used my legs as a corner" suddenly introduces a first-person owner of those legs without a change of narrator. That same sentence uses "peaking" for looking around a corner. These are specific lapses in word choice and viewpoint control across different parts of the story. The perspective slip matters especially because the narrative already moves between Ken's first person and other characters' third-person scenes. Those transitions can reveal useful information, but they need consistent handling of who is speaking and observing. This is a writing deduction; vocal performance and recording quality remain neutral in my score.

At 3.42/5.00, the strongest achievement is the connection between becoming capable and becoming close to someone. Ken's effort gives Crimson a possible partner in parts of her life that power had kept lonely, and the domestic scenes show why that effort should serve a life beyond combat. The immediate conflicts receive substantial payoff while the next stage of training remains ahead. My reservations concern what gets flattened along the way: companions with less to do once Ken accelerates, enemies with little interior life, and people whose fear or pride deserves more examination than the story gives it. I want the pack's strength to keep growing through its people. One wolf racing ahead while everyone else gathers his spoils is a poorer future for this den.

[Chad Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This continues to be one of my favorite book series. The concept of following a dungeon crawling team through their development and watching the level up skills and abilities as the farm the dungeon takes me back to all the nights and weekends I spent as a kid doing the same things with my favorite video game RPGs.
The development of Ken and Crimsons’ relationship, both as a fighting duo and as a couple, continues to add interesting depth to the book. The introduction of the two new races, including avery interesting Hive concept for the dwarves, continues to allow for expansion of the conflicts that Ken has to manage and provides escalating difficulties for the characters to have to overcome.
Ken continues to grow in his ability, the smoke panther story line was a fun way to give him a difficult but achievable boss fight, and is starting to show how he can command both a fight and a diplomatic interaction.
I am excited to see what will happen as we see further introduction of interactions with the Nekorians and the role Felin will play in the group, especially as we will likely see a slow transition of Harley out of the group to create her own team. I like the introduction of new characters and what the does to add extra dimensions to the team but trying not to lose the heart of the old team is always a challenge.
I can’t wait for the next adventure for Ken and his dungeon crew. The big raid is on the horizon and I am excited to see what this entails, especially as his new ability begins to shape his choices.

[Jonathan Herling · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story/series itself is my #1 series of all time in the spicy romance category. I really like how the story evolves from just college schooling to interdimensional politics and then international danger. I enjoy the world building and explanations the author gives on the rules of the system and dungeons.

The world is set basically in modern times (cars, cell phones, internet) but the dungeons is basically this cosmic entity god like thing, where all the dungeons on earth eventually connect to the main dungeon branch, like a tree, the deeper you go, which again will connect to other worlds eventually, so that's how you get elves and other species.

My ONLY complaint is with the audio book version. I listened to the audio books (books 1-7) about 4 times within 15 months perhaps (because its my fav), then they change the two voice actors AND also deleted the original audiobooks with the new voice actors. No offence to the new VA, but they suck for this series. (Jessica Threet and Christopher Boucher) All the female characters sound too similar and just feel wrong for their personalities. I highly recommend torrenting the original version, since you can't just download it anymore, with Lewis Alexander and Rozelyn Rader. These voice actors do a fantastic job making all the characters feel and sound very unique. Why the author decided to change is beyond me but is the biggest mistake he's ever made.

[Frank · Rating 2.5 out of 5]

After the step down in quality from the previous book, this one is a half step back up.

After leaving the Elf's world and returning to Haylons Ken is back with the main group, and that alone helps the story a lot. Although the story doesn't spend nearly enough time with them as it should, focusing mostly on Crimson, the shaman who I can never remember the name of, and some of the other girls from his class. This is a rough point throughout the story as the minor characters get too much focus drawing the attention away from the main girls, but don't get enough attention to actually develop their personalities. It leads to the story getting the worst of both worlds.

But the action in this book is a large step up, especially the ending fight of the book.

And I'm worried that the harem is growing too quickly; as both Charlotte and Fayeth are mostly sidelined in this book where they both could have been cut entirely and I don't think you would have to change more than 10 sentences in the rest of the book. I have a bad feeling that is going to get worse as the story goes on, with more and more girls being introduced and joining the harem just to get effectively dropped by the story a book or two later.

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book, there was one part where I'm certain that a paragraph was missing. The author is using more first person views of other characters. Bun-bun the rabbit who loves watching James Bond spy movies goes on a mission to get some forgotten carrots out of the kitchen which he is forbidden entering.
All of these books take off where the last book ends. We are in the second semester of school. Because Ken drive and Crimson's teaching excelling in dungeon diving has really caught on and the first years class has already caught up with the second years class. The four main dungeon diving schools have decided to kick things up a notch. The Naga invasion has awoken the humans with the knowledge that without Crimson there would have been a full on invasion of earth, with hardly anyone strong enough to stop them. So the schools have been tasked with preparing the next generation to help meet this challenge. The last book introduced Nekorains, a cat like people who also share the dungeon. Felin a neko shaman starts to spend lots of time with Ken, and we are introduced to dwarves. The main romance is between Ken and Crimson.

[Nicole Hicks · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Star Review

This book gets a 5 star review because it is just that good. There are alot of funny moments, romantic moments, sexy times, action (fighting), and strategizing before fights, during fights, and after fights. This book definitely keeps reader reading up to the very end and ends with the reader excited for the next book. Every book in this series is like that. The author keeps it entertaining to read and manages to throw in different events that occur throughout the book to make the story different enough that it doesn't feel quite like a repeat of the previous books. I personally thought the part where Bun-Bun pretends to be Secret Agent BB just to sneak into the kitchen to steal leftover carrots from dinner. I thought it hilarious that he treats it like he's on a mission to save the world.

[GrumpyOldMan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book continues a very good series with another strong entry. Ken and Crimson finally gets more traction. There is tons of combat. There are some decent intimate scenes.

The only minor negatives are that it certainly feels like the harem may grow to the point that it is too big, and the MC is getting too OP. There are signs that several more harem members are in the wings. The author did a neat method to get others time with the MC, but at the expense of the existing harem members. And too many combat scenes were the MC soloing things or the MC more than dominant in the fight. It often feels less like a party and more "watch the MC be awesome" scenes. And that's a shame.

It's still a 5 star book, but there are cracks forming in its awesomeness.

[Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is the least liked / enjoyed series of the author I read. He (the author) usually has the protag getting strong by using some ability. This is just a meh guy, nothing special (to me).
Don't care for the secret ninja things.

If I didn't like the author, I would have dropped this by now. It's not the OP protag, or someone who uses an ability in an unseen way I've come to know and love from the author.

Meh.

I didn't pay attention to the stats much, but isn't the protag supposed to have gained stupid amounts of levels after those drones, soldiers and Queen? I thought it would have been stated?

Onto my next read. Hope I enjoy it more.

3/5 Stars

[Clarence M Brown III · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fulfills The Needed Fix

Mr. Sentar delivers an excellent book, as usual. I stay interested because of the non cookie- cutter Classes, the interaction between characters, and so much room to grow the guild as well as developing the family. If there is a con, it's the Dwarven race. I'm a bit unhappy with this take but it is a unique idea (sorry but I started playing D&D 40+ years ago then many MMORPG and Dwarves have always been close to my heart). I didn't look but it felt like this was much shorter than other books but that could be to non-stop reading.

I look forward to the next book!

[Bert Babb · Rating 5 out of 5]

lots of excitement with assassins, a powerful dungeon nemesis and then dwarves

The MC and his harem and class continue to level as they continue to dive the dungeon. They face candy monsters, the remnants of the adversarial ninja clan, a powerful dungeon monster that keeps defeating the MC and finally a war with dwarves. Whats so interesting is that the dwarves are not your everyday fantasy dwarves but an interesting spin on the concept.

Finally Crimson gets what she’s been hungering for. Oh yes and the felinis shaman cant wait to have the MC Ken prove that he is worthy to mate with her. This could be the end of the story, but maybe not. We’ll see.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

This latest episode in Sentar's Dungeon Diving series starts Ken's second school year. It was easy to get back into the series and a very comfortable listen. As expected in this genre there isn't anything deep about the story, it's not literature but still excellent entertainment from one of the top tier writers in the genre (Let's say A tier, I haven't seen any S tier writers yet for harem rpg lit). The story wasn't as epic as some of the previous episodes, but did propel Ken's abilities forward quite a bit, nicely resolving some of the disparities with e.g. Crimson that I mentioned in my previous review.

[Tim Nielsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

a fun adventure

For me I continue to enjoy this story. it has lots of action and interaction by the characters. the characters I'll bring something to the story and I like the way they interact with each other and I like the way they interact with each other. the punctuation is good and the story flows in a good manner. the story is a great to read on a lazy afternoon or just for some plain old fashioned entertainment. I will continue to read the series and hope the next book comes out soon.

[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

By now I know what I'm getting with these books, and this gives less of two elements I disliked: Harley and Grandpa. In this installment Ken is finally closing on the potential he's supposed to have.

Good progress is made in some ways, but there were still some bits I didn't enjoy so much, hence it fails to clear the 5 star barrier. It remains interesting enough for me to read the next one, so we'll see what that has to offer when it appears in a few months. I'm recovering from a nasty gastro bug, so that's all I have for this one.

[slugbiscuit · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s time to start 2nd school year at Haylon and return to the dungeon grind. This time Ken is being targeted by a mysterious panther and dwarves (for some reason). Ken is back with his harem (minus Elysara) and getting closer with Crimson. Ken is starting to show his power and potential, which is nice. I’m slightly concerned how big this harem will grow in the end, but so far I’m digging the management. Overall this was a solid addition to series, and I’m looking forward to continuing with the next volume.

[Shadow Dragon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awaiting next in series with bated breath, thus book is a wonderful addition to the DD series, well worth the money (and when it is released the audible price for the audio book.) this one focuses on Ken's relationship w/ Crimson and brings back two other characters, who i hope will join the harem. the battle at the end is well thought out and Ken's harem grows, although not to the '74 wives' that someone continues writing about, although I would not be surprised if he does end up with them and others, by the end of the series.

[Taltos Hicks · Rating 5 out of 5]

I tore through these

Oof! If you ever needed a series that reads like a D&D Campaign, congrats you've found it!

Spoilers, Darling.

Holy crap, I did not expect the dwarves to come out of left field like that! I wonder if there are other kinds of dwarves too, or if it's just the ant ones. They sound more like monsters than humanoid- even the Naga were more intelligent. I really enjoyed the imagery during the fights though, and I'm so glad he's got an ability now too!

I need the next one like yesterday 😂