Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 11: 05/02/25

Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 11 by Ryoko Kui (2021) completes the plot arc at Sissel's house and opens up the series to a post Sissel timeline.

Laios, who had been planning to wrest power from Sissel is now facing a life or death struggle. It's not just him and the wizard. There are also dragons. Lots of dragons. And an impossible landscape, one where Laios has been shrunk down in size so that Sissel's house is now like the giant's in Jack and Beanstalk

By rights, Laios should be the one to take the power from Sissel. He's been planning it for volumes. He probably also has the most grounded understanding of what doing so would entail and the risks to himself, the dungeon, and everyone in said dungeon.

But ultimate power, especially wish based power, doesn't work logically and it doesn't go to the person best prepared for it. Wish magic is illogical and quixotic. It has to be.

Volume 11 ends on a couple pages to show the initial results of a new master and a new wish. It's a dungeon transformed. It's a dungeon full of adventurers disoriented and confused. One can assume that the monsters who live there are just as affected.

Like the previous volumes, this one has a place on the Road Narrative Spectrum. The defeat of Sissel and the ascension of a new master makes this a scarecrow/minotaur traveler story (99). The destination is a rural (33) one as represented by the reconfigured dungeon. The route there is the maze, literally shown through the reconfiguration of the dungeon (CC).

Five stars

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