Jonathan Brooks Books in Order

Eight year old Weldin gains rare Light and Energy affinities, then dies in a high level Nexus Rift he never should have entered. When a soul from Earth slips into his body and unlocks the ability to gain more affinities, surviving school, rifts, and politics becomes a deadly puzzle.

After barely surviving an attack by an Adversarial entity, Thaden finds himself too strong to participate in normal guild runs and too important to ignore. Cut loose from many obligations, he throws himself into high level content and the mounting crisis threatening all of Tarth.

In the final Earthen Contenders book, the last Developmental Phase begins whether Thaden and the other Contenders are ready or not. Vast Wildlands challenges, underleveled allies, and a ticking global deadline force him to gamble everything his healer’s build can do to save Tarth.

Bax is dragged off Earth to train as a Keeper, one of the powerful guardians meant to shepherd worlds through the Retrogression System. Sick with the flu and left alone when the entire training staff vanishes, he has to teach himself how to use an overpowered kit before Earth regresses.

As Bax digs deeper into the abandoned Cooperative, he uncovers more about the Retrogression System and the other Keepers it once employed. Alternate paths, hidden agendas, and new threats force him to rethink what protecting a world should look like when the rules no longer apply.

In the finale of Magical Fusion, Larek finally turns his attention to the forces that tore his family away and reshaped his life. With enemies ranging from jealous factions to god touched threats, he leans on every lesson and fusion he has ever crafted to try to set things right.

Having survived his disastrous introduction to Tarth, Thaden starts to understand how the Assimilation System wants Contenders to develop. New dungeons, guild politics, and punishing special quests force him to grow beyond a solo healer and decide who he is willing to save.

Dragged from Earth into a Contender training program, Thaden is accidentally dumped into a live dungeon with no gear and a support class he never chose. As an Assistant Healer with seemingly endless mana, he learns to twist purely defensive magic into a path toward survival.

Word of an overpowered healer with strange limitations spreads across Tarth, making it harder for Thaden to hide what he can really do. As guilds and rivals maneuver around him, he has to pick his battles carefully while pushing his class evolution to the next threshold.

Thaden’s refusal to tie himself permanently to any one guild leaves him powerful but politically exposed. Unaffiliated Healer follows his attempts to work around new system rules, help those he can, and prepare for the larger developmental phases looming over all Contenders.

The balance of power in Androthe shifts as martial factions and mages clash over how to handle monster threats and Calamities. Larek steps directly into that conflict, using his fusions to outfit fighters and test how far he can bend the line between support and frontline combat.

After a journey across empires and deserts, Larek returns home to find his kingdom transformed by Calamities and political upheaval. Friends are scattered, memories have been tampered with, and he must use both old and new fusions to stabilize a world fraying at the edges.

After a brutal battle leaves both Larek and his allies reeling, lingering corruption seeps into his work and the world around him. He must untangle tainted magic, political backlash, and his own doubts before the damage from one fight spreads beyond anything he can repair.

The aging Scission Interception Corps finds itself at odds with Larek’s growing Volunteer organization. Rather than destroy them, he tries to merge old structures with new ideas, using his talent for fusion on institutions as much as on weapons and armor in a bid to protect the kingdom.

News of Larek’s unique fusions spreads beyond Copperleaf, drawing the attention of military forces and distant factions. Tasked with equipping elite teams and experimenting at the edge of safety, he has to decide how far he will push his craft as Aperture activity grows stranger.

Logger Larek Holsten is dragged from his beloved Rushwood Forest to Crystalview Academy when hidden magical talent is discovered. There he learns he is not a normal mage, but a rare Fusionist who can combine enchantments into powerful tools that others barely understand.

Sent to the Charwell Desert, Tempara trades ice and forests for endless dunes and fire based monsters. Confident in her growing strength, she soon faces a familiar enemy on their home turf and must use every trick of time and dungeon design to keep from losing everything again.

In a land where toxins, plagues, and subtle poisons run rampant, Tempara must adapt her dungeon to protect both her family and passing Defenders. Each loop teaches her more about the unseen forces poisoning the world, but also raises questions about what she can truly change.

After destroying another Stabilizing Anchor and freeing an occupied dimension, Milton brings a new hybrid core ally to Haven Station. When the Heliothropes strike back by isolating entire star systems, he must choose between protecting billions and pursuing long overdue vengeance.

Core Domination serves as the capstone to a twenty five book arc that spans multiple series. Milton, Sandra, Fred, Tacca, and their allies combine everything they have learned to mount a final campaign against the Heliothropes and decide the fate of countless connected worlds.

Banished from his first academy, Larek travels south to Copperleaf, where his reputation as a Fusion prodigy precedes him. New professors, rival students, and a growing monster threat all want a piece of his talents, forcing him to juggle study, politics, and survival.

Elmer Robbins, now a holiday themed dungeon core, must turn Valentine’s Day into lethal defenses after high level adventurers tear through his Christmas section and promise to return. Hearts, roses, and candy become tools to protect his fragile core.

After surviving a brush with a soul manipulator, Elmer builds an Independence Day section filled with grills, water games, and explosive fireworks. While he experiments with red, white, and blue defenses, an old enemy and an unexpected threat close in on his core.

Elmer’s final holiday expansion embraces Halloween, filling his dungeon with pumpkins, ghosts, skeletons, and creepy tricks. As a hard limit on his life force looms, he has to decide whether to risk everything on one last, terrifying celebration to save himself and Mary.

Greater Temporal Fox kit Tempara is killed alongside her Defender master in the icy north, then finds her soul thrown back into the past inside a dungeon core. Trapped in the Frozen Reaches, she must use looping time and careful design to save her family and survive.

With his Christmas and Valentine wings established, Elmer adds an Easter themed branch to his dungeon, complete with candy, eggs, and springtime surprises. He hopes the new rooms will attract stronger adventurers, but they also draw dangerous new attention.

Clay Shuntwise dies when a World Threat crushes his quiet life and wakes as a Dungeon Core in a world ruled by probabilities. Learning on the fly, he builds the Dungeon of Chance, where every encounter and drop rate can tilt the odds for or against the Heroes.

Tempara’s time looping journey takes her to a region warped by lingering temporal corruption. Strange dungeons, distorted creatures, and twisted timelines test both her control over time and her willingness to keep rewinding when every failure costs someone dearly.

With alliances forming across dimensions, Milton and his fellow cores push deeper into enemy held space. Core Convergence follows their attempts to coordinate wildly different dungeon styles into a coherent strategy while the Heliothropes adapt to their new, unpredictable opposition.

Back in his home dimension, Milton links Haven Station to Sandra’s creator world, allowing the Dungeon Crafting core to extend her influence into his metal halls. Together they design a joint dungeon that fuses tech and magic while plotting their next moves against the Heliothropes.

Clive’s work as a Spirit Core reaches a breaking point deep below ground, where an underground complex offers both enormous potential and enormous risk. As divine forces and underworld agendas collide, he has to decide what kind of monster he will be in his final assignment.

After barely surviving a devastating invasion, Tacca GloomLily finds herself rebuilding her dungeon from scratch in her figurative third life. With Raiders scarce and a mysterious enemy still at large, she has to turn limited resources into a functional, growing core once again.

Recovering from the mental damage of a corrupted shard, Sandra finally has room to think about the future of her dungeon beyond simple survival. Old foes resurface, new alliances form, and she crafts toward a lasting legacy rather than a single crisis averted.

Sandra’s crafting focused dungeon has grown into a regional power, but her influence brings new enemies and unstable neighboring cores. As she expands her reach and responsibilities, she has to balance trade, defense, and the unintended consequences of her own success.

In the climax of The Body’s Dungeon, the crystal calling itself Progen pushes toward the host’s brain, where a malignant Blood Curse hides behind the blood brain barrier. To claim the body and keep it alive, he has to outmaneuver both immune defenses and the curse itself.

Time is running out for Tacca and the Raider Delving Clan as invaders push across the continent. In the finale of The Hapless Dungeon Fairy, she races to use her rare Omen Charge ability and carefully trained Raiders to crack the enemy’s defenses before the world falls.

In the Serious Probabilities saga, Clay Shuntwise pushes his Dungeon of Chance into riskier territory, offering Heroes bigger rewards for steeper odds. As World Threats loom and guild politics sharpen, he has to decide how much danger he is willing to bake into his design.

Fresh from the Station Cores saga, Milton Frederick and his AI, ALANNA, take their fight against the Heliothropes into a new dimension, turning Haven Station into a hybrid dungeon and rally point. Core Establishment sets the stage for a multiverse spanning dungeon war.

After wreaking havoc at a carnival, Clive barely escapes a divine agent and learns his captured minions are being held by a religious group called the Hand of the Divine. Sent to either rescue or silence them, he haunts a whole community while the net around him tightens.

Grieving widower Elmer Robbins dies in an accident and wakes as a Dungeon Core in a new world. With only his love of Christmas to guide him, he builds festive yet deadly rooms and discovers a way his growing power might one day reunite him with his wife’s trapped soul.

Now running her own dungeon, Tacca designs a starter experience for new Raiders while stretching limited resources as far as she can. As merchants, farmers, and Raider clans converge on her location, she has to balance safe training runs with preparing for larger, hidden threats.

Tacca GloomLily, a fairy assistant born under a bad omen, finally graduates top of her class only to watch every Dungeon Core she helps collapse. When her own soul is pulled into a core, she becomes an unlikely dungeon, using her training to build a beginner friendly gauntlet.

Sandra’s growing power as a crafting dungeon forces her to confront uncomfortable choices. Helping local races, eliminating rival cores, and experimenting with new creations pull her in different directions as she tries to decide what kind of influence she wants on the world.

After destroying too many nearby cores, Sandra triggers strange enhancements in those that remain, making them more dangerous to everyone. She must face a wave of empowered dungeons, protect the surrounding lands, and hold onto her sanity as the cost of her actions climbs.

Marstin Hardgrove, an orphaned thief left to die after a botched job, accidentally swallows a dungeon crystal. Inside his body, the newborn core awakens in a maze of veins and cells, then slowly turns the human host into a living dungeon in a battle against infection and decay.

After gaining a foothold in Marstin’s body, Progen the bio dungeon faces a new engineered parasite sent by the Blood Curse hiding in the brain. To keep both himself and his host alive, he must adapt his internal defenses to a clever, evolving enemy that fights from within.

Clay Shuntwise, reborn as a Dungeon Core, starts to understand how skewed his probability driven world really is. As Heroes test his early floors, he experiments with chance based mechanics, discovering that changing the odds can change how everyone around him fights and survives.

In the conclusion to the Dungeon World saga, Fred has secretly gained access to all seven elemental powers but finds himself trapped behind enemy lines with only a fraction available. He has to return to Allroads, defend his dungeon, and find a way to avert a global disaster.

In his third assignment as a Spirit Core, Clive Logan is dropped above a traveling carnival and told to harvest fear. Turning rides, tents, and midway games into weapons, he stalks workers and guests alike while divine investigators begin to close in on his trail.

Milton discovers he is not the only Station Core in play. When evidence of another core surfaces, with its own agenda and methods, he is forced to confront what separates him from the machines The Collective intended and what kind of future his choices will create for Proctus.

Tensions on Proctus boil over as Milton’s technology and influence reshape the balance of power. In The Kingdom Rises, he juggles internal politics, external threats, and the long shadow of the Heliothropes while trying to keep his adopted people from tearing themselves apart.

Milton’s crash landed station core has become a power on Proctus, drawing the attention of local guardians and ambitious leaders. As new factions form around his presence, he must decide who to trust while building defenses that can protect more than just his own metal shell.

Killed while chasing new crafting knowledge, merchant Sandra is reborn as a tiny dungeon core with unusual freedom. Instead of simple monster rooms, she builds workshops, constructs, and intricate traps, finally able to practice every craft she once could only study from the outside.

Sandra’s experimental crafting dungeon becomes the frontline when hostile forces and delvers converge on her mountain. To protect nearby settlements and her own core, she must turn her love of tools, golems, and clever layouts into a layered defense that can endure real sieges.

Searching for missing townsfolk and guild members, Fred follows a trail to the city of Allroads and carves out a dungeon beneath it. His actions enrage nearby elemental cores, turning Allroads into a battleground centered on a rare Convergence that both humans and dungeons covet.

Fred’s dungeon and the Core Power guild keep growing, but so do the problems that come with power. As the Supreme Council of Dungeon Cores takes notice and human politics tighten around Gatecross, he is forced to push his hybrid abilities into new territory to keep everyone alive.

After accidentally destroying a dungeon core, Fred knows vengeance is coming. He establishes his own territory and builds a new dungeon near Gatecross, hoping it can shield his friends and guild from retribution by both elemental cores and the kingdom’s official dungeon authorities.

On a massive world where dungeon cores and humans feed each other’s growth, Fred loses his parents to murder and sets out alone. Discovering impossible core like abilities, he must master his hybrid nature, build a dungeon, and survive the attention it draws from all sides.

Executed serial killer Clive Logan awakens in the afterlife as a Spirit Core, bound to a suburban house and tasked with harvesting fear for an underworld goddess. With game like rules guiding him, he must learn how terror works in people he never cared about when he was alive.

After completing his first haunting, Clive is moved to a new house where two children live with their parents. Still an emotionless Spirit Core, he has to adapt his tactics to a setting where innocence and family ties complicate both his objectives and his own detached perspective.

Pro gamer Milton Frederick is abducted by aliens and uploaded into a metal Station Core meant to defend their empire. When his transport ship explodes and he crash lands on an unknown world, he must learn to build drones, lay defenses, and survive with only a snarky AI for help.

As Cadence grows more comfortable in Uniworld Online, her exploits draw attention from players and guilds eager to exploit her mysterious bardic power. On the run toward the capital, she must juggle crafting, performance, and politics while her real body continues its slow recovery.

In the final Uniworld Online volume, Cadence’s actions have reshaped both the game’s factions and her own life. With her voice firmly claimed, she faces down old enemies and dangerous quests, using music, empathy, and hard won game knowledge to protect those who trusted her.

Cadence, unable to speak or sign in the real world, enters the VR game Uniworld Online and rolls a Bard. Inside the game she discovers she can finally sing, and uses her new voice to help NPCs, build fragile alliances, and begin quietly seeking justice for past wrongs.

Having secured a foothold on Proctus, Milton turns his attention to the dangerous Quizard Mountains that loom nearby. Expanding his influence into this harsh region forces him to deal with new monsters, new resources, and locals whose magic has been twisted by his leaking power.

With their Dungeon Core stolen, Devin leads a desperate hunt across Glendaria to retrieve it before time runs out. Teaming up with a guild whose goals only partly align with his own, he races through high level content and political traps in the finale of the Glendaria Awakens trilogy.

Devin and Krista’s dungeon in Glendaria Awakens has become a known quantity, which only makes it a bigger target. As rival guilds, unstable guardians, and game events converge, they have to redesign defenses and rethink alliances to keep their stolen core from being ripped away.

Devin and Krista are among the first players to log into Glendaria Awakens, a hyper realistic VRMMO. After clearing the starter town content, they stumble into control of a dungeon called Goblin Cave and have to learn, fast, how to run it while other players try to conquer it.