Floor 9
Names: Floor 9ninth floorthe ninththe 9th floor
First appears in Book 1: Dungeon Crawler Carl, chapter 7 (7)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 3: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook
- Ch 30Faction wars happen on the ninth floor; Mordecai says crawlers should keep their heads down and ride them out.
Book 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods
- Ch 24On the ninth floor, nine factions each start with fifteen thousand troops in petal-shaped areas around Larracos.
Book 6: The Eye of the Bedlam Bride
- Ch 28Carl suspects Shi Maria is angling to be brought down to the ninth floor as a card.
- Ch 29Keyless squads in phase three can teleport to block keyholders' stairwells and kill them for their keys.
- Ch 63Historically, about 8,000 crawlers reach the ninth floor on average, under 1,000 the tenth, and fewer than 10 the eleventh.
Book 7: This Inevitable Ruin
- Ch 1On the ninth floor, Donut and Katia can't leave until all the Naga are dead, and then only one of them can leave.
- Ch 4The ninth floor is Faction Wars; it collapses in 30 days or 90 hours after a winner is declared.
- Ch 19The ninth floor's Plains of Larracos are split into nine pie-shaped territories around Larracos; the Princess Posse holds spot three.
- Ch 97Only 20,221 of the 32,500 crawlers who reached the 9th floor survived, a record number reaching the 10th.
Connections
- containsBlood Sultanate
- containsFaction Wars
- containsLarracos
- containsThe King's Point
- includesPlains of Larracos
- containsShanty Town
Key moments
- Book 7 · Ch 96Emberus threatens the 9th floor
After Samantha's slip, Emberus arrives and the system gives the Posse 66 minutes to win Faction Wars and escape before he burns the floor.
- Book 7 · Ch 97The Princess Posse wins Faction Wars
Both Warlords Ferdinand and Juice Box leave the realm, forfeiting; Team Retribution is defeated and the Princess Posse wins.
- Book 7 · Ch 98Samantha is thrown to Emberus
With Prepotente spotting, Carl launches Samantha to Emberus at the volcano to stall him while crawlers flee down to the 10th floor.
- Book 7 · Ch 99Justice Light breaks the Nothing
Justice Light drops a bijou fairy trap and a demon trap into his portal to the Nothing, breaking it and flooding the Ascendency, Sheol and Scolopendra's Lair before he dies.