Arlo was happy when Metir chose her. Until he helped the town beauty beat her to death. What had she done to deserve such a brutal end?

Given a second chance will she move on to her new task, work to take revenge, or will she be allowed to make a choice at all.

A broken Arlo wakes up and tries to understand what's happened to her. She's informed she's a Dungeon Core. She's told her new task is to promote growth in any and all who wander into her dungeon. Build, grow, and prosper. Those are her instructions.

However this is not the first time she's woken up as a Dungeon Core. This isn't her first attempt to create a dungeon. Where is her Companion? And where are her memories?

This story contains condtioning, brutal living conditions, and violence.Buuuuut it's a slow burn on how to properly create a dungeon in the most efficient way possible if you don't care if the Core survives or not.

They're just computers, right?

Cover modified from prompt generated AI image from deepai.org