Code of the Core: A LitRPG Core Romance

By Lucian Vale

He died in the code.

Now he is the dungeon.

When game developer Alex Rivera wakes inside a hidden MMO prototype as the living core of Blackspire, survival becomes a war on every front. Players want loot. Corporate purge teams want control. And the deeper Alex grows into the dungeon, the more impossible it becomes to separate the system from the man.

With a deleted AI ghost at his side, a battle hungry orc warrior bound to his heart, a dangerous shadow mage full of secrets, and a friend from his old life who may hold the key to his body, Alex has one chance to survive.

Build Blackspire into something powerful enough to fight back.

Code of the Core is a dark LitRPG core romance filled with dungeon building, raid battles, rising heat, dangerous bonds, and high stakes progression fantasy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GT9545QD
• ISBN13: 9798252884660
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"