The Bee-ginning: A Dungeon-Core LitRPG

The Bee Dungeon, Book 1

By: Icalos

Narrated by: Savy Des-Etages

From the author of the Terminate the Other World! series comes a thrilling dungeon-core fantasy adventure sure to generate a lot of buzz . . .

Belissar has always lived a peaceful life, if not a particularly easy one. Though he lost his parents, he was taken in by a kindly villager who taught him his life's calling: beekeeping. But one day the local lord's ruthless son, Ruckanos, comes to their humble village to claim his own tower, slaughtering everyone.

Luckily for Belissar, as he lies dying with an arrow in his back, a tiny worker bee decides to interfere, and he wakes up not only alive but a whole new bee-ing. Turns out his little savior is in actuality a core, and together they've swiped the tower out from under the murderous Ruckanos.

Now Belissar is king of his own beehive/dungeon. But with power comes more trouble than he could've imagined. In addition to building and protecting his own monstrous apiary with the help of his fellow bees, he must confront the encroaching doom known as the Hunger that haunts the world and consumes everything in its path, leaving only death.

A stronger, smarter, more confident, and far less peaceable Belissar is about to show his enemies that when you mess with a hive, you'd better be ready to get stung.

The first volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series—with more than four million views on Royal Road—now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!

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Wholesome

It was interesting and safe for work. It’s hard to find both. Lots of fun

Criminally underrated!

Love everything about this series which is rare for me to admit because I can be highly biased about minor things but this is a great cozy series with stakes that matter with an MC who doesn't back down to responsibility which is rare! BONUS great narrator.

The narration

I really liked the narrators voice, as I listened to the terminate the other World Series (she is the same narrator) I fell in love with her voice, 10/10 would listen again.

multiple avenues

I enjoyed the diversity between the Queens especially 1st of the 5th her arrogance is hilarious, took a bit to warm up to the monotone nature of the main character

We loved listening to this as a family

We really enjoyed this book! We do listen to it at an increased speed. We listen to this with our 10-17 year olds and all are happy.