(Second Book Complete!) Runeblade: A Delving & Skill Merging LitRPG
Synopsis
Kaius reaches for his long‑awaited class notification—and instead brushes the trigger of an ancient apocalypse.
Years of brutal drills and ink-dark rituals have earned him only two of his family’s legendary skills. They sit on his skin as runic tattoos, humming with power no one else understands and plenty of people would murder him to own. They were supposed to be his head start in life. Now they’re the thin wall between him and a very fast, very ugly death.
A bandit ambush leaves him bloodied and off-balance, stumbling straight through a fracture in the world. On the other side waits the Great Depths: a dungeon large enough to swallow nations, layered with floors no cartographer has ever finished mapping. Here, numbers chime in his vision, monsters evolve between breaths, and the stone itself seems to remember old wars.
There is only one known way out—through a Guardian posted at every exit. No unclassed delver has ever killed one. The few who tried didn’t even leave corpses behind.
If Kaius can fuse his strange legacy skills into something new, if he can carve a runeblade from his own pain and potential, he might claw his way back to the surface. But the system is watching. The moment he breaks a Guardian, he doesn’t just escape the dungeon.
He lights up a forgotten trial that once dragged civilization to the edge of extinction—and invites it to start counting down again.
Years of brutal drills and ink-dark rituals have earned him only two of his family’s legendary skills. They sit on his skin as runic tattoos, humming with power no one else understands and plenty of people would murder him to own. They were supposed to be his head start in life. Now they’re the thin wall between him and a very fast, very ugly death.
A bandit ambush leaves him bloodied and off-balance, stumbling straight through a fracture in the world. On the other side waits the Great Depths: a dungeon large enough to swallow nations, layered with floors no cartographer has ever finished mapping. Here, numbers chime in his vision, monsters evolve between breaths, and the stone itself seems to remember old wars.
There is only one known way out—through a Guardian posted at every exit. No unclassed delver has ever killed one. The few who tried didn’t even leave corpses behind.
If Kaius can fuse his strange legacy skills into something new, if he can carve a runeblade from his own pain and potential, he might claw his way back to the surface. But the system is watching. The moment he breaks a Guardian, he doesn’t just escape the dungeon.
He lights up a forgotten trial that once dragged civilization to the edge of extinction—and invites it to start counting down again.
📖 Chapter List
117 Chapters
Chapter 116: A Grand & Intoxicating Innocence Finale
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 115: A Grand & Intoxicating Innocence pt. 1
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 114: It’s All Ogre Finale
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 113: It’s All Ogre pt. 4
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 112: It’s All Ogre pt. 3
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 111: It’s All Ogre pt.2
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 110: It’s All Ogre pt 1.
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 109: A Final Moment of Rest, Preparation, and Approach
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 108: Montage or: Eye of the Meles
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 107: Unexpected Gains
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 106: Training
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 105: Celebrations
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 104: Evolution
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 103: The Oaths That Bind Us
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 102: History and Choice
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 101: A Secret, Shared
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 100: Final Merge
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 99: Unexpected, But More Than Welcome
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 98: Bossrush pt. 5
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 97: Bossrush pt. 4
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 96: Bossrush pt. 3
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 95: Bossrush pt. 2
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 94: Bossrush pt. 1
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 93: On a Silver Platter
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 92: Unexpected Find
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 91: Forbidden Insight
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 90: Hidden Loot
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 89: Solo Brawler
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 88: Respite
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 87: Explosion!
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 86: Optimisation
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 85: Unnatural Places
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 84: Towards New Horizons
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 83: Portent of Doom
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 82: Font of Vitality
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 81: Armoured pt. 2
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 80: Life Blood
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 79: Surprise!
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 78: The Final Layer
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 77: The Whole Pharmacy
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 76: Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 75: Shaman
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 74: The Next Champion
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 73: Destructive Testing
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 72: The First Spell
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 71: Honour in Discovery
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 70: Experimentation
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 69: Race to the Finish
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 68: Mana pt. 2
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 67: Mana pt. 1
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 66: Runes Finale
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 65: Runes pt. 5
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 64: Runes pt. 4
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 63: Runes pt. 3
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 62: Runes pt. 2
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 61: Runes pt. 1
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 60: Sharing is Caring
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 59: Extravagance and Insight
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 58: New Toys
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 57: The Strength of Preparation
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 56: A Song of Blood and Fire
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 55: Sandwiches?
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 54: Horde
Jul 16th, 2026
Chapter 53: Pushing Into The City
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 52: Tools
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 51: Honour, and Other Rewards
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 50: Duels
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 49: Keikaku Means ‘Plan’
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 48: Target Rich Environment
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 47: A City, Lost
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 46: New Environs
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 45: A Lesser Merge
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 44: Success
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 43: Hate
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 42: Pitched Battle
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 41: Hanging Lanterns
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 40: Learning More
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 39: Mistakes Were Made
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 38: Inscription
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 37: Bound
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 36: Loot, and Other Surprises
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 35: Tomblord
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 34: Inspect
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 33: More Skills
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 32: Labyrinth
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 31: Pushing Deeper
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 30: Adamant Body
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 29: Training
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 28: Wrestling
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 27: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 26: Attack Badger (Friendly?)
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 26: Interlude 1: Voyeur
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 25: Food?
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 24: Forgotten Mysteries
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 23: Slugging Match
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 22: Champion’s Might
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 21: On the Nature of Curiosity and Death
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 20: Temptation
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 19: Armoured
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 18: Crouching Tiger
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 17: Snacks of the Unwise
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 16: New Tools
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 15: Insight and Growth
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 14: Rewards
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 13: Victory or Death
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 12: The Butcher
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 11: Unpleasant Surprises
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 10: Kiting
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 9: Fervour & Fury
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 8: Light Weight!
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 7: Basecamp
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 6: Fight, or Die
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 5: Unnatural Encounters
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 4: The Grove
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 3: Cloudy with a Chance of Swarms
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 2: The Great Depths
Jul 15th, 2026
Chapter 1: The Fall
Jul 15th, 2026