Dave Smith is having the worst stretch of his life when he dies almost immediately after being transported to a fantasy world. Stuck in purgatory, he is press-ganged into becoming a dungeon — the Wolf King's Lair — in a system of Proving Grounds where dungeons either grow powerful or are destroyed. The divine lords of this realm have specifically set him up to fail, but Dave refuses to cooperate.

Daxas is cocky, intelligent, and relentlessly strategic. He approaches every divine trap as a puzzle to be solved and every new disadvantage as a hidden advantage. He is not a traditional hero — reviewers consistently note he's more of a lovable, British-accented rogue — but his confidence and ingenuity make him easy to root for.

Across six books, Daxas (Dave's dungeon avatar) expands his dungeon, accumulates a growing harem of female companions who become his disciples, builds an adventurer's guild, and systematically outsmarts every scheme the divine lords concoct to destroy him. The series is a power fantasy built on clever exploitation of system rules, with explicit content woven throughout.