Ninth Floor
Where the Semeru dwarves dug too deep, the elves took their soul gems, and Carl decided to add water.
Story so far
The ninth floor comes up on the trail as history rather than as a destination. Clint Smashgrab's version is an accusation: the High Elves went down there once, back when Scolopendra was still asleep, and that is where they collected the soul gems that power their magic. When the worm began to wake they ran — but not before stealing something else, an item that later shielded the whole royal court from Scolopendra's Nine-Tier Attack.
Carl has heard a different version from the Cookbook: that the Semeru dwarves dug their city too deep, a reverse Tower of Babel. It is that story, he reflects, that gave him the idea of filling the place with water in the first place.
Appearance
Not visited in this chapter — described only as a city dug deep, home to the Semeru dwarves and, deeper still, to something sleeping.
Role
The deep dwarf city whose plundering is blamed for waking Scolopendra, and the floor Carl chose to flood on the strength of that legend.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- Dungeon Crawler CarlBook 1
- Carl's Doomsday ScenarioBook 2
Sources — 6 recorded facts, by chapter
- Humid jungle floor of towns, trails and caravans where the crawlers wait out the hunter countdown.
- Open jungle floor of towns, traps, and hunters, which Carl values chiefly for its room for explosions.
- An Iceland-sized open floor of roughly 100,000 square kilometers, bisected by a meandering river.
- The floor Donut cannot leave until every member of the Blood Sultanate royal family is dead.
- The jungle-and-river floor where alien factions play at war and outworld hunters carve up crawlers.
- Where the Semeru dwarves dug too deep, the elves took their soul gems, and Carl decided to add water.