Dungeon Desolation (The Divine Dungeon, #4)

by Dakota Krout

Be wary, for all combat is a life-or-death situation. Honor is a joke in battle, and if I have taught you anything, I hope it is that you must do anything, anything, to survive.

It is generally believed that there are three potential goals in the philosophy of war: the cataclysmic, the eschatological, and the political goals.

"Sometimes the hardest thing to cultivate is not Essence but patience. Perhaps even harder than bringing yourself to the Mage ranks! In all my years, patience is either the saving grace or the folly that leads to downfall.”

“If you have three, you have three. Two, and you have two. If you have only one, you have none. What is it?”

“Depending on how you look at it, this dungeon was created either well over a decade ago or just a month or so. When we attacked the Tigress Queendom to regain the dungeon’s Wisp, the necromancers tried to escape through a portal. Most made it, but as the final few were escaping, the portal was impacted by chaos. I… somehow… the portal connected through time, and I was sacrificed to create this dungeon. The current-day dungeon had been holding open the portal and took my memories back into itself. We share a soul because I was killed to create the dungeon, and Cal remade my body to rid itself of its newfound human morals.”