《The ghost dungeon master》 Prologue "Beep....beep....beep....." Laying on the hospital bed, was a man in his 70s. The morning sun shine on him like a loving mother enveloping him for the very last time in his life as he drew his last breath. "Beeeeeepppppp" ~~~~~~ [I had a good life. So will I go to heaven or will I reincarnate?] [Why is it so dark?] [I wonder if heaven is real?] [Weird? Why am I still thinking?] [Can someone bring me to heaven already?] [Hellooo?] [Huh? I can twitch my eyes?] [What the hell is going on? Where am I?] [What the f****? Why am I transparent?] "Hello, can you listen to me?" A chibi was standing on the floor with hands on her waist, looking up at the ghost haughtily. "KORAA?! Who the hell are you, why must I listen to you a chibi?" the ghost screamed at her, due to her haughty expression. "HIIIIEEEEE!" she shriek and immediately cower on floor, placing her hands on her head and started shivering. "What the, are you a scaredy cat, chibi?" the ghost looks over and said. "Ples, Please help, help me?" the chibi said in a quivering voice. "Alright, I''ll listen to what you have to say before deciding whether or not I will help you." the ghost replied in sympathy. She immediately pointed to the huge floating screen near the wall of the room. The floating screen looks like a television that is broadcasting live, something on the line of a security tv. In the live broadcast was a group of bandits look a like whom were lurking in the cemetery looking area. Some had bottles in their hand while others were dancing around a make shift bonfire. "So what do you want me to do?"the ghost asked as it stared down at her. She stood up with her legs still shaking while one of her hand is holding onto her head and the other pointing at the ghost. "I...I....I summoned you through my gacha system. You, you, you shouldn''t be screaming at me, but should be helping me instea--tch...ow...ow....ow" the chibi stuttered and bit her tongue by accident when she spoke too fast.The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. "HUH? What you mean by summon? Who are you? Where the hell am I?" the ghost started bombing the chibi with question. "HIIIIEEEE....ow.....ow" the chibi shrieked and begin cowering again. "I''m sorry.....I''m sorry.....I''m sorry...." as the chibi continues to mutter. It was after a few minutes, before she calm down. "Alright, you seem calm enough now. Can tell me who are you? Where am I? What is this place?" the ghost said in a calmer tone. "I I I am a dungeon core of this tchungeon. This world ist called Ryse. Thisch place is the dungeon mastertch room a sub space of thetch dungeon." she tried her best to speak as her tongue hurts. "Okay I get the gist of it. What do you mean by you summon me through a gacha system?" the curious ghost asked. "Seeee the altar-tar beloww you? I ussedd it to summonch you." she replied why holding her cheeks trying to lessen the pain. The ghost looks down and see a glowing green circle with weird symbols that he had never seen before on top of a raise platform. "By the way, why am I transparent and glowing?" after looking at the altar, the ghost turned towards her and asked. She looked at the ghost and tilted her head, as if a large question mark floats above her head. "Heelllooo?" the ghost waved at her, "Do you know or not?" After dazing for a few seconds, the imaginary question mark changed to an exclamation mark, she opened up a holographic screen in front of her. "Ah, you are a ghostch type tchungeon master." she said. "Ghost? Hmmm, I''m a ghost, I see, I see. WHAT THE ACTUAL F****!!!" the ghost nodded before coming to a realization and shouted. "HIIEEEE" the chibi begin to cower again. He then flew down towards the chibi and took look at her screen that was left opened, "Hey, chibi how did you open this menu like thingy?" "You justch have to think aboutch it." the chibi said in a very soft voice as though whispering. The ghost tried to think about it for a few times, but nothing happened. Then he glared at the chibi. "You have toch think of ''Open Dungeon Menu''!"scared by the glaring eyes, the chibi whimper. Next, a menu appeared right in front of the ghost. "Seems like it works." The Dungeon Menu looks like a game menu, where there is tabs on the top row. They can check their status, the dungeon status, the monster status, a dungeon planning system, a gacha system and a item shop. He begin to check his status and the chibi status. _______________ Name : No name Class : Dungeon Master Race : Ghost / Spirit Level : 1 Rank : H HP : 20 MP : 20 _______________ Stats Strength : 0 Agility : 0 Endurance : 10 Intelligence : 10 Wisdom : 10 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 1 : only applicable in ghost form - lvl Max : able to pass through objects when in ghost form - lvl 1 : able to possess any non living object - lvl 1 : able to cause fear to any things lower than your level - lvl Max : able to interact with objects in ghost form ~~~~~~ ________________ Name : No name Class : Dungeon Race : Dungeon Orb Level : 1 Rank : H HP : 20 MP : 10 _______________ Stats Strength : 5 Agility : 5 Endurance : 10 Intelligence : 5 Wisdom : 10 Luck : 100 _______________ Skills _______________ Titles After browsing the menu for some time, as he couldn''t seem to find a FAQ or help tab, he turned to the chibi and asked, "Chibi, whats that number thing on the top right of the screen? How do you gain more?" "That''s the tchungeon point. As long as there are intruders inside thch dungeon the pointch will go up." "I see any other way to get more points?" the ghost rubbed his chin with his fingers and ask. "Not that I know of." it seems like she had recovered from the pain. "So what did you want me to do?" the ghost asked. "Help me get rid of those bandits!" The ghost looked at her and tilted his head, "But don''t they generate dungeon points for you?" "Yes, but they are dangerous, if they found my orb and destroy it we will cease to exist." the chibi had a worried look on her face. "Hmm I see, I don''t want to die again." the ghost replied as he begin to think of a solution. "Hey chibi, I just thought up of a plan." The plan The ghost opened the dungeon menu and when into dungeon planning mode. The entire layout of the dungeon could be seen, the layout is split up into squares which is around 1m by 1m. In the dungeon layout, the bandits have a red silhouette, the walls that cannot be interacted are black while the decorations are grey in color. He accidentally click on one of the bandits. ___________________ Name : Braden Class : Bandit Race : Human Level : 4 Rank : H HP : 30 MP : 5 _______________ Stats Strength : 15 Agility : 8 Endurance : 15 Intelligence : 2 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 1 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 1% - lvl 1 : a swing attack that increase damage dealt by 5% - lvl 1 : a leg attack that increase damage dealt by 5% _______________ Title _______________ Equipment (Common) : +2 def, durability 5/10 (Common) : +2 def, increase movement speed by 2%, durability 4/10 (Common) : +1 def, durability 6/10 (Garbage) : +2 attack, durability 2/5 "Hmmm, this bandit doesn''t seem too well geared, there also doesn''t seem to be much interactable objects like doors or traps or chest, let me check the item shop." the ghost muttered to himself as he ponders. He switch to the item shop tab and realized that there were tons of items on the store for sale. Then he looked up at the number of dungeon points remaining that he could use to spend. 1000 dungeon points (DP). The store was further sub divided into weapons, armors, accessories, misc, food, drinks, monsters, skills, dungeon objects. From there he found the cheapest chest he could find at 1 dungeon point. ______________ Item : : able to place objects inside as rewards for intruders [Cost : 1 DP] He turned towards chibi and asked, "Hey chibi, can I write a note and place into this chest for those bandits to read?" "Huh, it''s possible, but why would you do that?" chibi replied with a confused look. "Hmm interesting, alright let''s buy it and sent them something along with it." the ghost had a scheming look as he rubbed his chin with his finger. ______________ Item : (2 mp per use) : able to write notes indefinitely as long as there is mp left [Cost : 5 DP] After purchasing the writing set, the ghost begin writing a note to the bandits. ______________ Dear Bandits, Thank you for protecting me for so long, here is my gratitude to you. Please keep me protected from the enemies that comes into this place. I will sent you goodies daily. ______________ "Hmm, now to find a reward to put in the chest, since the bandits don''t look like they have much." the ghost begin searching the item shop for a suitable item. "Found it!" ______________ Item : (Common) : +5 Atk, durability 20/20 [Cost : 2 DP] After purchasing the items, he place the notes and iron sword into the chest and looks towards chibi, "Hey chibi, how do you sent this chest into the dungeon?" "Why are you sending them items? Shouldn''t you be getting rid of them instead?" the chibi looked even more confuse as she frown. "Don''t ask too much questions, it''s all part of the plan. Just tell me how to put that chest into the dungeon." The ghost looked at her while smiling sinisterly. With many question marks on her head, she replied to the ghost, "It should be in the dungeon planning menu, just drag the chest icon into the dungeon layout, you can just put it anywhere inside the grey area. Once you confirm the placement, the chest will automatically teleport to the location." After listening to what she had said, the chest immediately disappeared from the room and appeared in the dungeon layout. ~~~~~ "Hey Boss, I just found this chest when I was about to go pee in one of the room." Bandit 1 A Mohawk bandit looked towards the location where the voice came from, "Bring it here and let me see." When Bandit 1 placed the chest in front of the Mohawk bandit, all the other bandit started to gather around the chest. "It''s not a trap or a mimic is it?" One of the bandit on side asked. The bandit boss looked at him, next he grabbed the scrawniest bandit and throw him in front of the chest, "You go open it." The scrawny bandit begin to shiver as he put his hand on the chest, he quickly flipped the top open and jumped backwards fearing for his life. Seeing that nothing had happen, the bandit boss pushed the scrawny bandit aside and walk up to the chest.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "Ohhhh, what a pleasant surprise, a nice sword." exclaimed the bandit boss. "Boss there is also a note in it." Bandit 1 took the note out and pass it to the bandit boss. "Hmm, this dungeon is rewarding us for protecting it, you guys got to work harder, we can become rich by protecting this place." The Bandit boss yelled out at his subordinates. "OHHH Boss you''re a genius." Not long after the chest disappeared. ~~~~~~~~ With that settled, the ghost continue to check the dungeon planning menu. "Hmmm, this dungeon is currently only at 1 floor and it''s pretty small only about 20m by 20m with a few room on the right and left. Ain''t the dungeon core pretty exposed? Let me check what kind of floors I can built." _____________ Floor Type : Default [Cost per square meter : 1 dp] Floor Type : Graveyard [Cost per square meter : 2 dp] Floor Type : Crypt [Cost per square meter : 3 dp] Floor Type : Swamp [Cost per square meter : 3 dp] Floor Type : Maze [Cost per square meter : 4 dp] Floor Type : Plains [Cost per square meter : 4 dp] Floor Type : Forest [Cost per square meter : 10 dp] Floor Type : ????? (level requirement not enough) "Seems like there quite a lot of biomes that I can''t really see due to the lack of level. Hmmm, it also seems like the graveyard, crypt and swamp biomes are much cheaper, is it because I am a ghost type?" The ghost immediately clicked on dungeon status. ____________ Name : No Name Dungeon Rank : N.A. Number of floors : 1 Number of monsters : 0 Number of Enemies : 10 ___________ Number of Enemies : 11 Number of Enemies : 12 The ghost looked over the the dungeon live broadcast screen, and saw 3 new bandits walking into the dungeon. "What the F***, does it alert us every time an intruder comes into the dungeon?" the ghost mumble to himself. He then looks at chibi, "Hey chibi is there anyway to stop that warning? It''s getting pretty annoying, if there is 100 people coming in won''t the alerts makes people go mad?" Chibi frowned and thought for a few minutes, "There is a setting button on the bottom right corner, you should be able to change the alerts there." Hearing what she said, the ghost found the setting button and set it to a minimum of 10 people before the alerts comes in. "Hmm it seems like we get the points at the end of the day. I wonder what happen if we click on the points." the ghost ponders as he click the dungeon points on the top right. _____________ Dungeon Points (DP) : 1006 Number of DP to be awarded at the end of the day : 14 DP (List of enemies) (List of death) (List of trapped enemies) _____________ List of enemies - Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Bandit 1 - 1 DP Bandit 2 - 1 DP Bandit 3 - 1 DP Bandit 4 - 1 DP Bandit 5 - 1 DP Bandit 6 - 1 DP Bandit 7 - 1 DP Bandit 8 - 1 DP Bandit 9 - 1 DP Bandit 10 - 1 DP Bandit 11 - 1 DP Bandit Boss - 3 DP _____________ List of Death - One time DP worth N.A. _____________ List of trapped enemies - x 3 Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) "Hmmm, so you get more DP if you kill them or trap them. I wonder will we get DP from our own monsters?" the ghost mumbles to himself before looking at chibi, "Hey chibi, do we get DP from our own monsters that we summon?" Chibi was drawing circles on the floor, hearing his voice she immediately stand up and said, "No, I don''t think we get any DP from them." "Are you bored? Go summon some monsters from the gacha system, 5 should be enough." seeing chibi doing weird things, the ghost said as he felt a little annoyed. "Okay! We might not get monsters though." chibi replied. "Not a problem, I just want to see what kind of items we can get." said the ghost, hearing this, chibi smiled happily and ran towards the altar. Bright blue light suddenly appear from the altar. After the light dimmed down, an item laid on top of the altar. _____________ Item : Mage''s Agony - Magic staff (Rare) : +15 Magic Attack, increase mana regen by 10%, increase max mp by 5%, durability 40/40 After she picked up the item and place in front of me, she skipped towards the altar again, this time the altar shined yellow in color. When she saw the sword, her eyes begin to sparkle, she took up the sword and begin swinging it around like a toy. "Ahem" the ghost let out a cough, she immediately put the sword behind her and blushed, then she continued to summon. For the next 3 summons, the altar shine blue, blue and purple. A skeleton type monster came out from the 3rd summon, a pet type monster came out from the 4th summon and the last summon is a armor. _____________ Item : Wind blade - Magic sword (Super Rare) : +20 Atk, +5 Magic Atk, increase 10% to all damage dealt when using physical skills, increase 10% to all wind spells/wind type attacks, increase attack speed by 10%, durability 50/50 _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Skeleton knight Race : Undead Level : 1 Rank : G HP : 300 MP : 50 _______________ Stats Strength : 25 Agility : 15 Endurance : 20 Intelligence : 10 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 1 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 10% - lvl 1 : increase all damage dealt by 5% if there is undead nearby - lvl 1 : a swing attack that increase damage dealt by 10%, cause bleeding effect on target - lvl 1 : a swing attack that deals dark attack, increase damage dealt by 20%, decrease all healing done to target by 20% - lvl 1 : Using the shield to slam the enemy, chance to cause stunt for 3 seconds on living beings _______________ Equipment (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 (Common) : +5 Atk, durability 20/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Skeleton Horse - Pet type Race : Undead Level : 1 Rank : G HP : 200 MP : 50 _______________ Stats Strength : 20 Agility : 40 Endurance : 40 Intelligence : 10 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 1 : increase nearby allies damage dealt by 5% - lvl 1 : able to cause fear to any things lower than your level - lvl 1 : increase movement speed by 40% for 20 seconds (CD : 5min) - lvl 1 : increase movement speed by 100% for 5 seconds (CD : 1hr) _______________ Equipment (Common) : +2 def, durability 20/20 _______________ Item : Nyx''s Gloom - Magic Armor (Epic) : +50 Def, +40 Magic Def, resistance to dark magic, increase 20% to all dark spells/dark type attacks, Aura of darkness - increase all damage dealt by 10% whenever user is in a dark area, Set armor (1/5), durability 100/100 _____________ Skills "Argh, only one monster, however the items we get are quite amazing." the ghost pulled his hair, followed up by putting his finger on his chin and admiring the items on the floor, his expression was as if he was doing a skit. "Hmm, I can''t use that skeleton knight as a training dummy for those bandits. Let''s check the shop instead." the ghost opened the shop and check the monster section and filtered it by cheapest DP. _____________ Monster List Skeleton lvl 1 - 1 dp Zombie lvl 1 - 1 dp Slime lvl 1 - 2 dp Goblin lvl 1 - 2 dp Spiderling lvl 1 - 2 dp "Ooo, seems like undead creatures are the cheapest I can summon." Let''s summon 2 of them and see how the bandits handle them." the ghost instantly purchase 1 skeleton and 1 zombie, immediately after he purchase them, the circle on the altar begin to shine grey slightly and it wasn''t as bright as previously when chibi gacha. _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Skeleton Race : Undead Level : 1 Rank : I HP : 10 MP : 0 _______________ Stats Strength : 5 Agility : 10 Endurance : 5 Intelligence : 0 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _____________ Equipment (common) : +2 atk, durability 1/5 _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Zombie Race : Undead Level : 1 Rank : I HP : 20 MP : 0 _______________ Stats Strength : 10 Agility : 3 Endurance : 10 Intelligence : 0 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skill - lvl 1 : Chance to infect target with infection, disease, Chance to cause bleeding "Oh, the bandits should be able to handle these two. Hmm, let me try one gacha, how much is it?"He flew towards the altar a sign pop up, [Click to roll - 50 DP], the ghost eyes widened when he saw the price of 1 gacha roll, 50 dp. After seeing how chibi gotten so many rares, he was tempted to try it no matter the cost, without hesitating he press the button. The altar begin shining grey when he clicked, not long after an item appear on the altar. ____________ Item : Bandages (common) : Prevents bleeding, heals for 10 hp over 5 seconds. (No. of uses : 5) "What the actual F***, how the hell did I get such stupid item." the ghost wailed out loud, chibi who was playing with the wind blade at the side immediately dropped it and cower in the corner. "Arghhh, I think I will leave the gacha-ing to the chibi. I''ll use this as a reward for those bandits." after calming down, the ghost smile sinisterly as he put the bandage into the wooden chest which came back after the bandits loot the items previously. "Hey chibi, can you help me do something?" the ghost looks towards the cowering chibi and said. "Whaattt, do do you nneed me to do?"the chibi stuttered as she reply. "I need you to place the skeleton and zombie into the dungeon and attack the bandits, after the bandits destroy the skeleton and zombie, send this chest over." After giving instructions to chibi, the ghost turns towards the skeleton knight. "I wonder if I can possess that skeleton knight. Let''s give it a try." He immediately activated his possession skill. All of the sudden he was pulled into the body of the skeleton knight. Next he tried walking, running and jumping around. "Ohh, it seems there isn''t any lag time, the body responded as I wish. Let''s try if I can use the skeleton knight''s skills." He then pulled out the sword on his waist and begin testing out the different skills that the skeleton knight have. After he was satisfied with the test, loud cheers came from the dungeon live broadcast screen. He turned and look over, seeing the bandits cheering and giving praises to the dungeon as it had provided them with healing items after the battle. "Done!" chibi cheerfully hopped over to the skeleton knight and reported to the ghost. "Alright good job, go play with the horsey, just ride as long as you want, tell me if the horsey ever gets tired." using the skeleton knight''s hand, he stroke the chibi on the head before giving her a new task. Chibi looked gleefully at the skeleton knight before running to the skeleton horse and started playing and riding around with it. The ghost deactivated his possession skill, he was immediately ejected out of the skeleton knight. "Hmm, this feels like a good escape tactic." he then opened up the dungeon menu to check on his status. "It seems like I can''t get the skills of the target that I am possessing, I need another method to gain skills then." After considering his options, he switch over to the item shop skill tab. ___________ Recommended skills Scroll of [Cost : 50 DP] Scroll of [Cost : 50 DP] Scroll of [Cost : 20 DP] Scroll of [Cost : 20 DP] Scroll of [Cost : 20 DP] The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.Scroll of [Cost : 20 DP] Scroll of [Cost : 30 DP] Scroll of [Cost : 100 DP] "Are they a one time use scroll?" the ghost ponders when he saw the list. "Let me buy one of the cheapest one and test. It will be this one than." A scroll of appeared in his hands. ____________ Item : Scroll of : User will be able to learn how to cast lvl 1 Ice Bolt (one use item) "Ooo, so it''s not a 1 time cast scroll, but a skill scroll that allows the user to learn the skill. No need to hold back then, I''ll purchase all the currently recommended scrolls." ____________ Details of new skills as follow : - lvl 1 (5 mp per summon) : summon lvl 1 skeleton, duration indefinitely, total number of summons 0/5 - lvl 1 (5 mp per summon) : summon lvl 1 zombie, duration indefinitely, total number of summons 0/5 - lvl 1 (5 mp per summon) : summon a spear that can be use as a melee weapon or magic spell, atk = 1 x int / matk = 1 x int - lvl 1 (5 mp per summon) : summon 3 bone shields that rotate around the user, block incoming projectiles for 3 times - lvl 1 (2 mp per use) : cast a basic ice shard and shoot towards the target, matk = 1.5 x int - lvl 1 : slows all enemies movement, attack and casting speed within a 5 meter radius [only one aura can be use at anytime] - lvl 1 (5 mp per use) : create a frost armor for user, +def = 1 x int, chance to inflict slowness when being physically attack, last for 30 seconds. - lvl 1 (20 mp per use) : reanimate the dead, able to cast on undead that got destroyed (No limit), able to cast on strong beings that had just died (limit 0/1) : reanimate beings will lose all levels, the more powerful the being, the stronger the base states and class. "Huh? Did the DP increase? How come?" taken aback by the sudden increase the ghost check the dungeon status. _____________ Dungeon Points (DP) : 409 Number of DP to be awarded at the end of the day : 15 DP (List of enemies) (List of death) (List of trapped enemies) _____________ List of enemies - Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Bandit 1 - 2 DP Bandit 2 - 1 DP Bandit 3 - 1 DP Bandit 4 - 1 DP Bandit 5 - 1 DP Bandit 6 - 1 DP Bandit 7 - 1 DP Bandit 8 - 1 DP Bandit 9 - 1 DP Bandit 10 - 1 DP Bandit 11 - 1 DP Bandit Boss - 3 DP _____________ List of Death - One time DP worth N.A. _____________ List of trapped enemies - x 3 Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) "Hmm, it seems like one of the bandit dp worth have increase." seeing that, the ghost click on the enemies status. ___________________ Name : Braden Class : Bandit Race : Human Level : 5 Rank : H HP : 32 MP : 5 _______________ Stats Strength : 16 Agility : 9 Endurance : 16 Intelligence : 2 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 1 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 1% - lvl 1 : increase damage dealt when using a dagger by 1% - lvl 2 : a swing attack that increase damage dealt by 6% - lvl 1 : a leg attack that increase damage dealt by 5% _______________ Title _______________ Equipment (Common) : +2 def, durability 4/10 (Common) : +2 def, increase movement speed by 2%, durability 4/10 (Common) : +1 def, durability 6/10 (Garbage) : +2 attack, durability 1/5 "Oh, a bandit leveled up, so they give more 1 dp every 5 levels. I should summon more and fatten them up, so I don''t have to worry much about dp." an idea suddenly popped up into the ghost head. The ghost immediately put his summon skeleton skill to use and summoned, 4 skeletons. However, when he summoned the fourth skeleton, he immediately blackout and became more transparent. Chibi noticed it got off the skeleton horse and went towards him, she tried waving right at his face and tried to use the sword to attack him, it didn''t seem to do anything as he was just floating there with in a slouching position. A few hours later, the ghost woke up, he was shocked went he saw chibi closed up face right in his face. "What happened?" as he back away and asked chibi. "No idea, you suddenly just float there and totally stop moving." a question mark appear above chibi as she scratch her head and replied. "How long has it been since I knock out."the ghost asked. "Maybe a few hours?" chibi put her index finger on her chin and reply. "I guess I overdraft my mp, that''s the only logically reason."after pondering awhile the ghost said. He then look at chibi and ask, "So how was the skeleton horse?" "It was fun, it can run non stop and it doesn''t get hunger or thirsty." Chibi said with a glee on her face, while swinging her hands up and down. "Oh, it also seems like I gain a new skill." "Oh, what skill is that?"the ghost asked in curiosity. Chibi opened her status menu and showed the ghost. ____________ - lvl 1 : increase efficiency of mount, mounts riding by rider will have 1% increase movement speed Hearing what she said, the ghost came to a conclusion, "So it''s possible to gain new skills other than from skill scrolls." Next, the ghost opened the item shop and purchase a few items. ____________ Item : (Common) : +4 Atk, quick attack speed, durability 20/20 [Cost : 2 DP] ____________ Item : Bandages (Common) : Prevents bleeding, heals for 10 hp over 5 seconds. (No. of uses : 5) [Cost : 2 dp] He then placed it into the wooden chest. Then he looks towards the 4 skeletons which were standing there doing nothing. He opened his menu and check monster status. He realized that the skeletons he summon didn''t have any basic weapons unlike the skeleton he purchase from the shop. _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Skeleton Race : Undead Level : 1 Rank : I HP : 12 MP : 0 _______________ Stats Strength : 5 Agility : 10 Endurance : 6 Intelligence : 0 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _____________ He tasked chibi to sent the 4 skeletons for the bandits to train and level up so the dungeon could get more dp. He also pass her the wooden chest to be given to the bandits as a reward after they destroy all the skeletons. Dungeon Expansion After tasking chibi some things to do, he immediate went back into the dungeon planning menu. He begin creating a new draft layout for the dungeon. He switch the 1st floor which was a graveyard style floor and made it the 2nd floor. He then purchase a default floor as the first floor and created an open space followed by a hallway with 3 rooms on each sides and at the end of the hallway he place a mausoleum like door, which had a stairs leading downwards, to the 2nd floor. The total cost of the 1st floor is 190dp. The open area is 10m by 10m which is a total of 100sqm, the rooms on the side have a dimension of 3m by 4m which is 12sqm each. The middle hallway is 2m by 9m which is 18sqm. Next, he searched for decorations and within the layout frame he found some that are free. __________ Decorations (option 1 - 3) (option 1 - 10) (option 1 - 10) (option 1 - 10) (option 1 - 10) (option 1 - 10) (option 1 - 10) The ghost immediately put a door to the entrance of the hallway, added a Tympanum on top of the door and place 2 weird sculptures at the each side of the doorway. He then added, blue ghost torches along the entire hallway which give off an eerie feeling and at the end where the mausoleum like door lies he placed 2 purple torches on each side, he added a heavy wooden door on the entrance of the mausoleum. Finally, he switch out some of the default wall and place mossy walls in it''s place. After finishing the draft layout of the 1st floor, he switch over to the draft layout of the 2nd floor, the graveyard. For a start, he removed some of the gravestone and added in some mausoleums and dead trees around the entire floor. He place a cobblestone road from the entrance of the stairs to the biggest mausoleum option he could find which he had placed at the opposite end of the room. He added a row of weird sculptures on either side of the road. Finally he placed the dungeon core into the biggest mausoleum. "Finally done!" happy with his layout, the ghost exclaim. The ghost then turn over to look at the dungeon live broadcast screen. ~~~~~ "Boss that was a real tough fight!" One of the bulky bandit said out. "You guys are just too weak! Look at Braden, he could handle one all by himself." the boss bandit retorted at the bulky bandit. "One of you even piss yourself yesterday when he saw that zombie." "Boss please don''t say it like that. It was really terrifying to see those undead." "Boss, boss, another chest just appeared." one of the scrawny bandit took the chest and bring it over to the bandit boss. "Ohhh, I have been waiting for that." the boss bandit said in happiness. "Nice, a dagger and another bandage. Braden, come here, since you did the most work, this dagger is for you to use. Cody use that bandage on the people who need it the most."the boss bandit gave out the rewards and instructions. "Thank you boss! I will always follow you." Braden replied with tears in his eyes. After receiving the new dagger he pass on his rusted one to another fellow bandit who didn''t have a weapon. One of the scrawny bandit came up to the boss bandit, "Boss, we are running low on supplies soon." The boss bandit thought for a while, "Alright boys, go and rest well, we will raid the nearby village for supplies tonight." Cheers echo out through the dungeon. ~~~~~ "I''ll just expand the dungeon when they are all out raiding." the ghost mumbled to himself. Another idea popped up in his head, "I wonder if I can level up my spells with a training dummy." Before he could open the menu, chibi ran over and reported, "Task completed, what do you need me to do next?" She looked at the ghost with glittering eyes. The ghost thought for awhile and said, "Hmm, take a look at the new draft layout I had made, see if you can find anything to make improvements on it. Don''t just edit it immediately, just give me your suggestion before doing anything." "Okay!" chibi replied with a smile on her face. The ghost immediately purchase a dummy and place it in the room. _________ Item : : allow users to train their skills, durability ¡Þ/¡Þ [cost : 20 dp] The ghost flew about 10m away from the training dummy and begin casting ice bolt. A frosty aura form above his hands and a small ice shard begin to form.Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. A cross hair appeared in front of the ghost, he looked towards the dummy and push his hand forward with his palm facing the dummy. The ice shard didn''t move and floated still in the air. "Hahahahaha!" chibi grab her stomach and laugh out loud when she saw the ghost doing that action. ?? appeared on the ghost head, he turned and looked at chibi, but all of a sudden the ice bolt fire off and flew over towards her, nearly hitting her on the foot. "HIIIEEEE! I''m sorry, I''m sorry, I''m sorry!" Chibi hopped backwards into the wall and cower. The ghost flew over to her to comfort her, "Are you okay? I don''t know how the ice bolt release." After a few minutes of cowering, she managed to calm down, as the ghost tried all methods to console her. "You can use your thoughts to fire off the spell."chibi mumbles in a very soft voice. The ghost strokes her head and said, "Thanks, I''ll test that out." He flew back to the previous location and started practicing on the dummy again. This time, he manages to fire off the ice bolt, but he didn''t hit the dummy, after about 9 shots, he manages to finally get 1 shot in, but before he could celebrate, he heard a ring and he got knocked out cold again. A few hours later, when the ghost woke up, chibi ran to him and said, "The bandits have just left the dungeon." "Oh, nice, I woke up just in time. By the way, chibi did you find anything that needs improvement on the layout?" the ghost asked gently. "Erm, Erm, we could use a dummy core in that mausoleum instead and place the real core somewhere else."chibi looked a little frightened when she said that. "Ohhh, what a genius idea, it seems like I have underestimated you."the ghost rubbed her head as he started praising her. Next, he made a purchase of the dummy dungeon core. ___________ Item : : durability 100/100 [Cost : 50dp] (Cost doubles with every dummy core active) He put the dummy dungeon core at the current location of the dungeon core and place it there, while putting the main dungeon core on the ceiling, as if it was the moon lighting the entire floor. After placing the dungeon core in the ceiling he felt that it was standing out too much, thus he opened the dungeon layout to see if he could purchase anything for the ceiling. ___________ Decorations [Cost : 50 DP] [Cost : 100 DP] (Option 1 - 5) [Cost : 500 DP] [Cost : 1000 DP] [Cost : 5000 DP] [Cost : 10,000 DP] He selected the night sky and place it on ceiling. After finishing drafting the layout, he turned towards chibi who was standing next to him looking at the 3D layout of the dungeon model. "Do you have any other suggestions?" "Nope!" chibi said cheerfully. After he heard her reply, he clicked on update dungeon layout. Immediately after he selected yes, a countdown timer appears. Seeing that he had nothing else to do, he opened the dungeon menu to checked his status. _______________ Name : No name Class : Dungeon Master Race : Ghost / Spirit Level : 1 Rank : H HP : 20/20 MP : 10/30 _______________ Stats Strength : 0 Agility : 0 Endurance : 10 Intelligence : 10 Wisdom : 10 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 1 : increase user max mp by 10, or 5% whichever is higher ~ New! - lvl 2 (2 mp per use) : cast a basic ice shard and shoot towards the target, matk = 1.6 x int, improve casting speed ~ leveled up! - lvl 1 - 25% proficiency - lvl Max - lvl 1 - 10% proficiency - lvl 1 - lvl Max - lvl 1 - 40% proficiency - lvl 1 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 "Ohh, nice, I got a new skill, max mp increase. Is it because I keep exhausting my mp to the max? Oh and my Ice bolt leveled up as well. Hey chibi, go train your skill by riding the horsey, oh and also try to use the horsey skill whenever you can. Once you level up the skill, tell me how long did it take." "Okay!" chibi replied with a smile and headed towards the skeleton horse. After giving instructions to chibi, he activated his possession skill on the skeleton knight, his plan was to increase the skill levels of the skeleton knight, as he wanted to use it as a boss for protecting the dungeon core. ~A few hours later~ Hearing the notifications sounding off, the ghost immediately stopped what he was doing. "Ohhh, there are rewards for doing stuff. Chibi come over here and use the gacha coupon." seeing the rewards, the ghost called out to chibi. Chibi got off the skeleton horse and headed to the altar. A yellow light shone from the altar, after the light dimmed, a small black blob was on the altar. Chibi''s eyes sparkled when she saw the small black blob, little red eyes appear from the front and small white fangs appear when it yawn, she immediately ran up to the altar and started playing with it. It is a baby cat had a fur that was so black it almost look like a black hole. "Kuro, I''ll call you kuro!" chibi exclaim in happiness, while rubbing the baby cat. After receiving the reward, the ghost passed the monster food to chibi and said, "Only feed it when it is hungry." He then opened the dungeon menu to check the baby cat''s status. _____________ Name : Kuro Monster Class : Baby Behemoth Race : Behemoth Level : 1 Rank : F HP : 600 MP : 100 _______________ Stats Strength : 30 Agility : 30 Endurance : 30 Intelligence : 20 Wisdom : 20 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 1 : Allows user to be harder to locate - lvl 1 : a claw attack that increase damage dealt by 10%, cause bleeding effect on target - lvl 1 : a claw attack that deals dark attack, increase damage dealt by 20%, decrease all healing done to target by 20% - lvl 1 : a jump attack, damage dealt = str x 2, target successfully being pounce on will be stunt for 1 seconds. (Unique) - lvl 1 (50 mp per use) : A channeling attack, Beam duration last 5 seconds, user will be unable to move when channeling, matk = int x 4, damage tick every 0.2 seconds. (Cool Down : 1hr) "O.o, is this cat a cheat class? It''s just a baby and it''s already so powerful." Spoils of war After looking at kuro''s status, he checked the skeleton knight skills. ____________ Skills - lvl 1 : increase block chance by 1% ~ New! - lvl 3 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 12% ~ level up! - lvl 2 : a swing attack that increase damage dealt by 15%, cause bleeding effect on target ~ leveled up! - lvl 2 : a swing attack that deals dark attack, increase damage dealt by 25%, decrease all healing done to target by 25% ~ level up! - lvl 2 : Using the shield to slam the enemy, deal damage = shield def x 1.5, chance to cause stunt for 3 seconds on living beings ~ level up! "Ooo, not bad, I managed to level up a few skills and even got a new passive skill." happy with the results, the ghost was cheering. Before the ghost could check chibi''s and the skeleton horse status. The dungeon notification rang off. He immediately turned over and looked at the dungeon live broadcast screen. There seem to be a new screen on the side of the previous one. One of it is broadcasting the 1st floor, while the other is broadcasting the 2nd one. ~~~~~ "Erm, boss, are we in the right place?" "Yes! You dimmwit, Are you doubting me? But, boy did this dungeon change." The bandit boss snapped at his subordinate who question him. "Doesn''t seem like there is any monster here. Oi! you, go check out what''s behind those door." The bandit boss pointed at the scrawniest bandit and ordered him. "Yes boss!" he made a salute post and headed towards the door cautiously. He knocked the door 3 times expecting a reply and after a few minutes of waiting at the door, a ?? appeared on the bandit boss head and he screamed out loud, "OI, GET YOUR ASS IN THERE!" The scrawny bandit jumped up when he heard the bandit boss screamed, he hastily pushed opened the door and moved inside. After 30 minutes, the scrawny bandit didn''t come out, the bandit boss became a little worried, he looked at Crazy Braden, but before he could say anything. Crazy Braden noticed the bandit boss looking at him, he walk up and volunteered, "Boss, let me bring some men with me to check if he is dead or alive." "Go drag him back, dead or alive. If you guys aren''t back in 1 hr, the rest of us will leave this location." Crazy Braden took 3 other bandits and headed in through the door. He slowly signal the bandits one by one as they begin to start clearing each of the room in the hallway. After going through all the rooms at the side and finding nothing in the rooms, the group slowly move to the mausoleum like door at the end of the hallway. As they were about to open the door, the door swing outwards and slammed face first into the first bandit of the group. "OUCH" Startled by the sudden scream the scrawny bandit creep out slowly from the door, when he saw it was the other bandits he asked, "What are you guys doing here?" "You took too long, boss was worried."Braden replied. "Oh, it''s because the graveyard that we were previously in, is now in the next level, I was checking it out." the scrawny bandit said. "Hmm, let''s go consult boss." Braden replied, after thinking for a second. The group of 5 walked towards the bandit boss. Seeing the group intact with the scrawny bandit the bandit boss gave out a sigh of relief as he knows that dungeons are typically dangerous. As he was an adventurer before, he had his own experiences in dungeon diving, but he had never seen one that did not have any monsters roaming around. He was worried that after the dungeon changed, monsters would spawn in mass. "What took you so long?" he looked at the scrawny bandit. "Boss! I was exploring the 2nd floor of the dungeon, the graveyard that we were previously camping in, is currently in the 2nd floor, and there are some mausoleum like buildings around, one of them even had a orb." the scrawny bandit was waving and moving his hands around as he explained to the bandit boss. "Oh I see, is the mausoleum filled with dead bodies? Were there no monsters around?" the bandit boss asked.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. "No, all of them are empty, nothing is inside it, only one have a floating orb that''s all. There were also no monsters wandering around." the scrawny bandit replied. "Hmm, we could use those mausoleum to put our spoils of war inside it." as he was saying that, the rest of the bandits came walking into the dungeon, some carrying crates, while some were pulling horses and cows. "Oh and boss, there is a few empty rooms on the first floor as well." Braden said to the bandit boss. "Nice, we can use that for our resting area. Hey, you guys over there, leave the animals over here." the bandit boss replied Braden before ordering the other bandits who were pulling the animals. "Alright boys, we are going to party tonight! Hey scrawny kid, you will guide those guys to put the goods in the mausoleum. Oi you guys follow scrawny kid to where you guys will place the goods, o and leave one crate of alcohol and food here. Once you guys are done come join the party." the bandit boss ordered. "Roger boss!" the bandits replied in sync. ~~~~~ "Hmm, I wonder what kind of goods they have." "Oh, some of them must have leveled, I wonder if those animals give points as well." curious, the ghost opened the dungeon status to check. _____________ Dungeon Points (DP) : 342 Number of DP to be awarded at the end of the day : 23 DP (List of enemies) (List of death) (List of trapped enemies) _____________ List of enemies - Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Bandit - 2 DP x 5 Bandit - 1 DP x 6 Bandit Boss - 3 DP Horse - 1 DP x 2 Cow - 1 DP x 2 _____________ List of Death - One time DP worth N.A. _____________ List of trapped enemies - x 3 Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) "Seems like they do, hmm, I wonder whether I could see what they get from raiding?" while the ghost was mumbling to himself, he didn''t notice chibi who was standing beside him. "You can, you just need to go to the dungeon layout and check the crates under decorations. You can list the details of the contents inside it." chibi explained when she over heard him, the ghost almost got a heart attack, but ghosts are already dead so they can''t die again. "Chibi, you startled me, by the way is it possible to take the contents out?" the ghost looks at chibi and asked. "Erm, we need to physically be at the location to transfer it back to this place. We might be able to use our monsters to get the items also." chibi thought for awhile before replying. "Alright, let me check if there is any lootable stuff first before we decide whether to risk it." the ghost said, while rubbing his chin with his finger as he opened the dungeon layout menu. ___________ Decorations : Misc. food items : Misc. food items : Alcohol : Alcohol : Rusted tools "Hmmm, seems like nothing of value in those crates." the ghost turned and look at chibi,"So chibi did you to level up your skills and how long it took?" "Meow", Chibi on the other hand was playing with Kuro and didn''t realized that the ghost was talking to her. Seeing that chibi didn''t react to his words, he sighed and open the dungeon menu himself to check the skeleton horses status. _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Skeleton Horse ~ Pet type Race : Undead Level : 2 ~ ¡ü 1 Rank : G HP : 210 ~ ¡ü 10 MP : 50 _______________ Stats Strength : 21 ~ ¡ü 1 Agility : 42 ~ ¡ü 2 Endurance : 42 ~ ¡ü 2 Intelligence : 10 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 3 : increase movement speed by 50% for 20 seconds (CD : 5min) ~ level up! - lvl 1 : increase nearby allies damage dealt by 5% - lvl 1 : able to cause fear to any things lower than your level - lvl 1 : increase movement speed by 100% for 5 seconds (CD : 1hr) ~ 30% proficiency _______________ Equipment (Common) : +2 def, durability 20/20 After he seeing the skeleton horse had level up, he went to check chibi''s status. ________________ Name : No name Class : Dungeon Race : Dungeon Orb Level : 2 ~ ¡ü 1 Rank : H HP : 30 ~ ¡ü 10 MP : 10 _______________ Stats Strength : 5 Agility : 5 Endurance : 15 ~ ¡ü 5 Intelligence : 10 ~ ¡ü 5 Wisdom : 14 ~ ¡ü 4 Luck : 100 _______________ Skills - lvl 2 : increase efficiency of mount, mounts riding by rider will have 2% increase movement speed ~ level up! _______________ Titles "Hmm, not bad, she really did a good job." A sudden idea struck the ghost, "I wonder if I can use the skeleton knight to mount the skeleton horse." He immediately put the idea into action, and possessed the skeleton knight. When he walked up towards the skeleton horse, all of a sudden a notification pops up. The moment he click , he was suddenly riding the horse. Another notification pop up. Without much consideration, the ghost clicked yes again. _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Heavy Skeleton Cavalry ~ Combined unit Race : Undead Level : 1 Rank : F HP : 500 MP : 100 _______________ Stats Strength : 40 Agility : 50 Endurance : 50 Intelligence : 10 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 3 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 (Combine skill) - lvl 1 : Deal damage to anyone within 1 meter of the user, damage dealt = str - lvl 2 - lvl 2 - lvl 2 - lvl 3 - lvl 1 (Combine skill) - lvl 1 : Damage dealt = Distance/m x agi, maximum charging range is 20m _______________ Equipment (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 20/20 (Common) : +5 Atk, durability 19/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 19/20 (Common) : +2 def, durability 20/20 "OwO, This then is more like a mini boss."the ghost grinned. Training Ground Immediately after the dungeon announcement appear, a door manifested itself on the side of one of the walls in the dungeon master room. ???, seeing the door appeared, the ghost immediately ride through the door. Through the door was a 50 by 50 meters wide empty space. x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 The ghost got off the horse and opened the dungeon menu. A notification appeared notifying that a new tab had appeared under the dungeon layout. In the layout, the items that he just received had appeared. He begin placing one of the training dummy in the middle of the room. Next, he took the previously bought training dummy and place it side by side on the left side of the doorway near the wall, with the weapons rack near the dummies. He then place the training equipment on weapon rack and last but not least he place the archery board on the other end of the training ground. After he set it up, he realized that the right side of the training ground is pretty empty. However, he didn''t want to waste any dp at the moment, so he just set it to update immediately. In just a few minutes, all the items were loaded into the training ground. ''With so many equipments, without anyone using it would be a waste'', as the ghost thought. Then he remembered that chibi had acquired a skill just by using it. He immediately deactivate his possession and summoned 4 skeletons and 1 zombie. After he summoned the monsters, he commanded them to pick up the training weapons available. However, the zombie was too dumb to actually understand anything. Only the skeletons could pick up the weapons. The skeletons felt like robots who will do as they were command. He made 2 of the skeletons take up the training bow and arrows while the other 2 to take the sword. Next he gave instructions for the skeleton to shoot the arrows at the archery boards, while the other 2 to swing at the training dummies. After he gave the instructions to the skeletons, he thought to himself, ''Can''t I automate the Heavy cavalry as well?'' Without hesitations, he commanded the heavy skeleton cavalry to train it''s charge skill. With that, he walked out of the training ground and back into the main room. The first thing he noticed is, Chibi feeding Kuro. These two small things were playing around the entire time when he was being busy. Since he had nothing to do, he decided to knock out himself to gain proficiency in his passive skill max mp, thus he summoned another zombie and it drain his mp pool entirely. ~~~A few hours later~~~ Just as the ghost awaken, Chibi came to him and ask politely, "Mr. ghost, isn''t it time to send monster to the bandits?" "Oh, it''s already that time?" the ghost yawned as he said. Next, he bought a iron sword, a iron dagger and a bandage from the item shop and placed them into the wooden chest. (Total cost : 6 dp) Then he summoned another 3 zombies and a skeleton. He looks towards chibi and said, "Chibi send these 5 zombies and 1 skeleton to the bandits and here''s the reward for them." "Okay, erm, Mr ghost, kuro''s food is almost all gone."chibi said to the ghost with her head facing downwards. "Okay, I do something about it." the ghost replied as he pat her head and checked the item shop. Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.__________ Item : Monster food (Common) : Cheap monster food made out of a blend of meat from various sources (No. of uses : 5) [Cost : 2 DP] Item : Monster food (Uncommon) : Monster food made out of Rank G monsters (No. of uses : 5) [Cost : 10 DP] Item : Monster food (Rare) : Monster food made out of Rank H monsters, large in quantity (No. of uses : 5) [Cost : 30 DP] Item : Monster food (Super Rare) : Monster food made out of Rank F monsters, large in quantity, good quality might improve stats (No. of uses : 5) [Cost : 200 DP] Not knowing what he should actually purchase, he bought the a set of uncommon and a set of rare monster food. As he remember that the size of the common one was just a small tin can. What appeared is 5 [4" x 4" x 4"] boxes and 5 [10¡å x 10¡å x 5¡å] boxes. The ghost immediately commanded his skeletons who were still in the training ground to pick up the goods and store it at the corner of the room. After they completed their task, he looked over at chibi, seeing chibi staring at the dungeon live broadcast screen, he went over and told her the locations of the monster food. Once, he had done informing her, he open up the dungeon menu to check on the status of his skeletons. _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Skeleton Race : Undead Level : 1 Rank : I HP : 12 MP : 0 _______________ Stats Strength : 5 Agility : 10 Endurance : 6 Intelligence : 0 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _____________ Skill - lvl 2 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 2% ~ New! - lvl 2 : increase damage dealt when using a bow/crossbow by 2% ~ New! - lvl 2 : a swing attack that increase damage dealt by 6% ~ New! Like he had suspected the skeletons do gain skills after training from certain actions. But he had another problem, he wondered if the new skeletons that he would summon in the future will have the same skills or they would be in unskilled? But that problem would only come in the near future when his summon skill levels up. As of now he could use his reanimate skill to get those skeletons back if needed. "Mr ghost, there are more bandit-like people who just came into the dungeon." chibi ran over hurriedly to inform him. After he heard her, he looks towards the dungeon live broadcast screen. ~~~~~~ "Johnny!!" One of the bandit who just came into the dungeon called out to the bandit boss as he walks to him and gave him a hug. While a group of bandits follow behind closely. "Carver!! It''s been a long time."the bandit boss replied, while patting him on the back. "Johnny, what''s up with those undeads?" Carver looked over to the group of bandits fighting against the zombies and skeleton. "Not sure, but it seems like they are assaulting this dungeon everyday around the same time, we are killing them to protect the dungeon and the dungeon rewards us for killing them." Johnny explained to Carver. "Ooo, that''s really weird for a dungeon to have no monsters to defend itself." Carver replied. "Yeah, isn''t it weird, so what is your group doing here?" Johnny looks at Carver and asked. "We got a tipped off a merchant group is going to pass by somewhere near here tomorrow. The group have quite a few adventurers escorting, my men alone is not enough to attack them. So I am here to see if you would like to join us. We can split the goods stolen, 50 : 50." Carver begin to explained to Johnny and gave him a proposal. "Sure, I can join you and bring my fellas along, so do you know what kind of goods are they escorting?" Johnny asked in curiosity. "Hmmm, from my sources it seems like they are carrying a wagon of healing potions and herbs, for the other wagon that they are escorting, I am not so sure." Carver said. "Nice, that will fetch a nifty price, so will you guys be staying over for the night?"Johnny asked. "Yea sure, I don''t want to reject your kind hospitality. By the way, do your guys need help with those undeads?" Carver looked over at the group fighting the undead. "Sure, go ahead and get your guys to help them, I was trying to get them to level up anyways." Johnny replied while smiling. "Hahaha, sure. Boys go and help them out." Carver ordered his men. After a few minutes, all the undead were destroyed. A chest appeared in the center of the room. "O, wow, a reward chest actually spawn. That''s incredible, you really found a nice place." Carver said when he saw the chest appeared. One of the bandit near the chest brought it to the Johnny and said, "Here''s today''s chest." "Nice we get 3 items today. Braden! Go distribute the weapons, we will need them tomorrow for the raid on the merchant group." Johnny ordered Braden after he saw the rewards. "Roger, boss!" "Come Carver, we got a lot of catching up to do, let''s have a chat over there with some booze." Johnny said as he place his hand over Carver''s shoulder and moved him to a room. ~~~~~ "They shouldn''t give a problem, don''t worry too much." the ghost said to chibi as he pat her head. "Hmm, let''s put the heavy skeleton cavalry on standby in the mausoleum with the dummy dungeon orb. Just in case." "Okay!" chibi smiled as she replied. But before he send the cavalry over, he checked the item shop for better equipments. What he found and decided to purchase. _________ Item : : Atk +5, Increase charge damage by 10%, durability 40/40 [Cost : 4 DP] Item : : Increase movement speed by 5%, durability 30/30 [Cost : 2 DP] Item : : Increase all impact damage by 10%, decrease movement speed by 5%, durability 40/40 [Cost : 4 DP] After equipping the items on the heavy skeleton cavalry, the ghost cheered in happiness, "This then look more like a proper heavy cavalry." "Alrighty then, chibi you can send in the heavy skeleton cavalry into the mausoleum where the dummy orb is." the ghost looks at chibi and said. Brewing Troubles After placing the Heavy Skeleton Cavalry into the mausoleum, a dungeon notification pops up. "Seems like those new bandits gave quite a good amount of dp as well" after seeing the huge increase in dp, the ghost opened the dungeon status to check. _____________ Dungeon Points (DP) : 422 Number of DP to be awarded at the end of the day : 36 DP (List of enemies) (List of death) (List of trapped enemies) _____________ List of enemies - Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Bandit - 2 DP x 10 Bandit - 1 DP x 6 Bandit Boss - 3 DP x 2 Horse - 1 DP x 2 Cow - 1 DP x 2 _____________ List of Death - One time DP worth N.A. _____________ List of trapped enemies - x 3 Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Happy with the results, he summoned one zombie and check it''s status. _____________ Monster Class : Zombie Race : Undead Level : 2 ~ ¡ü 1 Rank : I HP : 32 ~ ¡ü 10 MP : 0 _______________ Stats Strength : 13 ~ ¡ü 2 Agility : 4 ~ ¡ü 1 Endurance : 14 ~ ¡ü3 Intelligence : 0 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skill - lvl 1 : Chance to cause stunt effect within 0.5m (i.e. vomiting, stunt) - lvl 2 : Chance to infect target with infection, disease, Chance to cause bleeding, 1% chance to tear off the skin of the victim (Hemorrhage effect) (Hemorrhage Effect : Victim loses 5% per sec over the period of 10 secs) D.O.T. "Oooo, nice, the summoned zombie had leveled up even though they didn''t manage kill anything." After seeing the summon zombie had leveled up, he decided to knock out to increase the proficiency of his max mana again, thus he summoned another zombie. However, before he totally knocked out, he heard a ''ding'' sound. ~~~A few hours later~~~ As he slowly awaken, chibi came over and reported to him, "Mr ghost, the bandits have all left the dungeon." "I see, by the way, chibi did anything else happened while I was knocked out?" the ghost asked. "Not really, Kuro just grew a small horn." as she picks up kuro to show it to the ghost. The ghost immediately reach out to touch the horn, the yawning kuro suddenly started flailing around when it''s horn was being touch, surprised by the sudden flailing, chibi couldn''t hold onto kuro, she fell down on her butt as kuro jumped away and hide. The fallen chibi had watery eyes, almost on the verge of crying. The ghost patted her back while saying, "Pain pain fly away." After hearing his words, chibi seems to cheer up a little. Seeing that she was alright, he immediately check kuro''s status and his own. But it seems like kuro didn''t have any change in his level or stats. However, to his surprise, his Max mp skill had level up. __________ Skill - lvl 2 : increase user max mp by 20, or 10% whichever is higher ~ level up! (Authors note : The ghost''s mana is at 40/40) "Cheers! However, the feeling of get knocked out every time is arghh!" after celebrating he decide to check on the skeletons who had been in the training grounds all this while except for the time they came to shift the monster food. As he walk into the training ground, he could see that 2 of the skeletons were still striking the training dummies with the training sword, while the other two were walking towards the archery board to collect the arrows back. He opened the dungeon menu to check the skeletons stats. _____________ Monster Class : Skeleton Race : Undead Level : 2 ¡ü 1 Rank : I HP : 17 ¡ü 5 MP : 0 _______________ Stats Strength : 7 ¡ü 2 Agility : 12 ¡ü 2 Endurance : 7 ¡ü 1 Intelligence : 2 ¡ü 2 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _____________ Skill - lvl 4 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 4% ~ level up! - lvl 4 : increase damage dealt when using a bow/crossbow by 4% ~ level up! - lvl 4 : a swing attack that increase damage dealt by 8% ~ level up! "Hmm, I wonder if I can equipped my skeletons with my bone spears." Thinking about it, the ghost cast his bone spear skill, a white long spear appeared from the ground. The shaft of the spear looks like it was made from a few leg bones that were fused together into one long shaft, the head of the spear that is stab into the ground looks like a shark teeth from some huge monster. ______________ Item : : Atk +10, summoned item, durability 5/5A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. "O.o, wow, this bone spear have a higher atk power compared to the iron sword, though it''s durability is weaker, but who cares it will be lost after the skeletons get destroyed anyways, I''ll just equipped it on my skeletons from now on." After considering his options, he ordered the skeletons to train with the training spears. Once that''s done, he went back to the main area and looked in the dungeon layout menu, since the bandits were not around he wanted to take this opportunity to expand the 2nd level of the dungeon, increasing the distance from the stairs to the mausoleum that currently houses the dummy core. His reasoning behind it, is so that the heavy skeleton cavalry can maximize it''s charge range. He created a draft that increase the entire front part of the graveyard by 10m x 20m. He added new mausoleums into the extended area, next he added a few dead trees around, then he extended the cobblestone road and making it branch out to the other mausoleums. Happy with the layout, he clicked on update dungeon layout. Seeing the price he hesitated for a moment, but in the end he selected yes. "Phew, for a second there I thought I would be totally broke. Oh yeah, that reminds me of the other gacha coupon I haven''t use when the training ground unlock." seeing that reward pop up the ghost heave a sigh of relief, he then looks towards chibi, noticing that she wasn''t do anything he called out to her, "Chibi, there are 2 gacha coupon for you to use." Hearing what the ghost said, chibi eyes glitter as she hops towards the altar. A blue light appeared followed by a yellow light. ___________ Item : (Rare) ~ Blue in color : Increase all water type spell efficiency by 20%, additional effect depends on what it is use for. (Basic descriptions : Drops from a Rank F monster, it''s said to contain the magic essence of the monster. Can be use to craft item, or socket as an alternative for mana gems.) ___________ Decoration (Unique) - Creates a 20m x 50m training course, able to adjust difficulty. Chance to learn evasion, speed increase type skills. Proficiency training increase by 20% when using training course. After checking the items, chibi gotten from the gacha, since the ghost couldn''t do anything with the monster core he left it near the pile of monster food and then he headed into the training grounds to see what the training course looks like. Once he walked into the training ground he headed towards the empty space on the right side and place the training course into the training ground layout and updated it immediately. After a few minutes, 2 obstacle courses as if being 3D printed appeared in front of him. One is filled with menacing traps, with the other seems like a few wooden poles and raise platforms of wooden planks. On the start point near the doorway, a console type block appeared, there are a few sliders on the console with numbers on it, a few tabs which includes the type of settings which allows the changing of the course. There is the swaying bridge course, swinging ropes course, cliff climbing course, etc. Before the ghost could do anything else, Kuro was prancing around on the start platform of the wooden pole course. "When did you came here?" the ghost looks towards Kuro. <3... 2... 1...> Immediately after the ''GO'' green lights came on, Kuro jumped onto one of the pole and like a fairy, it breeze through the entire course. After it finish the course, Kuro dash back to the start, however Kuro didn''t jumped onto the platform, but looks at the ghost with it''s googly kitty eyes. Looking over at Kuro, the ghost realized that Kuro wanted him to increase the difficulty settings, since Kuro had completed the run so fast. The ghost changed the trapped like course to a cliff like course and increase the difficulty of the wooden pole course by 2 levels. After the settings have been changed, Kuro ''meow'' at the ghost and immediately jumped onto the start platform. Feeling as if someone was staring at him, the ghost turned over to look, only to see that chibi is peeking her head through the doorway with her fingers gripping the doorway while looking over. A laugh almost came out, the ghost then looked at her and ask, "Is there a problem?" Chibi nodded her head and wave her hands to the ghost to come over. The ghost flew to her asking, "What''s wrong?" "The bandits have came back."chibi was quivering replied, "lots of blood everywhere." Hearing what she said, the ghost flew over to the dungeon live broadcast screen. ~~~~~~ As the bandits begin pouring in, some had blood dripping from their lost limb, some of them had arrows pierce in their body while some had cuts through their leather armor as blood could be seen smearing through. "Arghh, those reinforcement were relentless."Carver said out in spite. "Yeah!"after replying carver, Johnny looks over at Bredan as asked,"Bredan, how many men did we lost and how many is injured? Oh and did we manage to grabbed that kid as a hostage?" Bredan begin counting the bandits, some of the bandits had bandages while a few lost a limb and was being supported by their other colleagues. The ones that weren''t injured carried a crate each, while the one of them was fireman carrying a kid on his shoulder. "Boss, we lost 2 men in total, there are 7 with serious injuries, 3 of them lost a limb, the rest are minor injuries. Tank is currently carrying the hostage." Bredan reported to Johnny. "Okay, get Tank to locked him up in one of the mausoleum in basement level."Johnny looked at Bredan and ordered him. "Oh and once you are done telling him, go check what are loots in the crates that we had managed to steal." "Yes boss."Bredan replied to Johnny. After a while of checking, Bredan came back to Johnny and report, "Boss, we gotten 2 crates of potions, 3 crates of herbs, 1 crate of booze and 1 crate of food." "Alright get the boys to store those and get them to rest." Johnny replied, "After that, you go take a rest as well, Me and Carver will do the guarding for the time being." "Okay boss." The noblemans son Tank headed down towards the graveyard area, as he walked into the graveyard, he felt that it had increased in size. He headed to the nearest mausoleum and placed the kid inside. After he closed the door of the mausoleum, he realized that he didn''t have anything on him to locked the mausoleum. He looked around him, and decided to take the grave stones and blocked up the door of the mausoleum. Not long after he was done, the other group who were carrying the stolen goods came down as well. "Hey, Tank doesn''t this area seem bigger?" one of the bandits asked him. "Yes, I also feel that it had increase in size."Tank replied as he followed them. "Oh by the way, boss said he will take over the guard duty and let us recover for the time being." another bandit said as he place the crate down. "Every time we come down to this place it always feel so eerie, it''s as if some thing would pop up at anytime." Another bandit chatted up with them. "Yea, let''s quickly go back to top and take a rest." "Alright, let''s leave this scary place." ~~~~~~ A few minutes before the bandits started chatting, in the dungeon master room, the ghost bought three bandages and place it into the wooden chest. After that he summoned 4 zombies and got 1 of the skeletons in training to equip the bone spear. After doing that, he looks at chibi and said, "I''ll be going into the dungeon to check up on that boy, after those guys leave the graveyard area. After I am gone, I need you to send this 4 zombies and that skeleton with the spear. Like usual here''s the reward box." "Okay, please come back safe."chibi said in a soft voice. Seeing those bandits leaving the floor, the ghost click teleport into the graveyard zone from the dungeon menu. He appeared right in front of the dungeon core. He flew down to the mausoleum where he saw the bandit name tank had left the kid. He peeked in through the mausoleum from the top and waited for quite awhile, before the kid seems like he was about to wake up. "AHHHHHHH!" A loud screech came from the mausoleum. "Hey kid, stop screaming!" "AHHHH, Help me, Save me, Don''t Leave me here!" not listening to what the ghost had said, the kid continued to shout for help as he scrambled towards the door and bang hard on it with his hands. The ghost flew out of the mausoleum, went over to the other side of the door and peek through right in front of the kid''s face and said, "I say kiddo, if you don''t stop screaming, I''ll eat you." Startled by the ghost head that came through the door, he fell backwards and quickly use his hands cover his mouth while his legs shuffle himself towards the back of the mausoleum. The ghost flew through the door and floated in front of him, "Good, you finally listen, I have some questions for you. Nod if you agree to answer them." Hearing that the kid immediately nod his head furiously. "Okay, first do you promise not to scream?" The kid nodded his head. "Who are you and why are you a hostage for the bandits? By the way, I am not related to them." The kid begin to calm down as he move his hands away from the mouth that were preventing him from screaming. "I am the son of Count Louis von Advenguard, I was in the merchant convoy when the bandits attack us. My escorts were quite a distance away clearing some of the monsters, the merchants gave me up as a hostage when the bandits saw my escorts rushing over. My escorts manage to kill 1 or 2 bandits before the bandits realized that they were my escorts and use me to stopped them in their tracks."If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. "I see, no wonder half the bandits were injured." after listening to what the kid had said, he came to a conclusion. "Hey kiddo, are you hungry?" Before the kid could reply, a rumbling noise resounded in the mausoleum and he blushed. The ghost laugh and said, "Alright, I''ll be right back." The ghost flew out of the mausoleum and headed towards the other mausoleum where the new stolen goods were placed. As he remembered the bandit mentioning about potions and herbs. He poke his head through the crates and took 1 potion and a type of each herbs. ___________ Item : (common) ~ low quality : Heals 10 hp or 1% whichever is higher instantly. Item : (uncommon) : Use to create potion in alchemy. (Basic descriptions : Found in dark places) Item : (common) : Use to create potion in alchemy. (Basic descriptions : Used in most potion, able to be use in cooking) Item : (common) : Use to create potion in alchemy. (Basic descriptions : Found in plains with lots of sun) Item : (uncommon) : Use to create potion in alchemy. (Basic descriptions : Is able to eat raw and make tea) After taking a look at the items, the ghost flew up to the dungeon core and teleported back to the dungeon master room. "Hmm, weird why is there an increase?" after seeing a slight increase in dp, the ghost found it weird as two bandits had die and there was only one more kid that the bandits had brought back, so he opened the dungeon status to check. _____________ Dungeon Points (DP) : 155 Number of DP to be awarded at the end of the day : 39 DP (List of enemies) (List of death) (List of trapped enemies) _____________ List of enemies - Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Bandit - 2 DP x 9 Bandit - 1 DP x 5 Bandit Boss - 3 DP x 2 Horse - 1 DP x 2 Cow - 1 DP x 2 _____________ List of Death - One time DP worth N.A. _____________ List of trapped enemies - x 3 Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Child (male) - 6 DP (original 2 dp) After checking, he looked into item shop for food. _____________ Item : : [Cost : 1 dp] Item : : Fried yaki soba in a bun [Cost : 1 dp] Item : : Sweet red bean fillings stuff in a bun [Cost : 1 dp] Item : : Donut with a chocolate top [Cost : 1 dp] Item : : Chicken floss on top of a bun [Cost : 1 dp] The ghost bought a bread and water combo and a red bean bun. He looked around and saw chibi sitting on the floor watching the screen where the 2 bandit boss were struggling against the skeleton which is using the bone spear. He flew over and stroke chibi on the head, chibi looks up at the ghost and smile. He gave the red bean bun to chibi when she looked up. To him, it felt like chibi was his granddaughter. Chibi open the packing and cautiously bit into the bun. In less then a second, her entire face lit up and she looked over at ghost and started smiling with her mouth full. Realizing the battle haven''t really ended, the ghost bought another wooden chest and place the bread and water into the chest. Next, he transferred the new wooden chest over to the mausoleum where the kid was in. Once he was done transferring, he teleported to the graveyard zone again. He flew straight to the mausoleum where the kid is at. "Hey kid, have you eaten yet?" The ghost said as he was coming in through the roof. Shocked by the sudden voice, the kid jumped up and shuffle to the corner of the mausoleum, but before the ghost came over, the kid was staring at the chest that had appeared in the middle of the mausoleum. The ghost saw that the chest wasn''t open so he flew down to it and opened for him, as he realized that the kid might be skeptical that it is a mimic. "Hey kid, here''s a bread and water for you." the ghost took out the food and pass it to him. The kid grab the bread and water and begin gorging it down. "Whoo-bm are wyo?" the kid tried to talk with his mouth full, but it seems like gibberish to the ghost. "Hey kid, finish your food before talking." since the ghost couldn''t understand what he was trying to say, he scolded the kid. After a few minutes, the kid finished his food and started talking," Mr ghost, who are you? How come a chest can appear in this place when I can''t get out?" "I am the dungeon master of this dungeon, the chest can appear here because I made it appear here. Does that answer your question?" "You mean we are in a dungeon? This is bad, dad always said dungeons are very dangerous, many adventures have died diving into dungeons. Dad always tell me to stay away from them. Does that means those bandits are your minions?" saying that the kid shifted back towards the walls. "Yes you are inside dungeon, and no like I said before I am not related to those bandits, they are just freeloaders." the ghost answered and retorted at the same time. "Frese-loasers?"question mark appear on top of the kid''s head. "Something like people who is staying at your house and not doing any work for anyone." the ghost tried to explain the best he can. "Ohh, something like what my uncle is doing." "Pftt! Okay, kid, my turn to ask some questions." [Since this kid is a noble he should know the answers I need.] After the ghost thought for a while, before asking,"Where are we? What is this continent? How many countries are nearby?" "Erm, Mr ghost, we are in the Kingdom of Runeguard, I am not sure what continent this is called, but my teacher always call it the western continent." the kid begin explaining. "We should be.... somewhere.... around the border of kingdom.... and the Kingdom of Elfian. The merchant group... that I was in.... is traveling between.... these two kingdoms." The kid became lethargic as his eyes seems to close and open, as he was trying to stay awake. "Alright kid, go to sleep, I''ll check on you in a few hours time." The knights raid (1) Seeing the kid had fallen asleep, the ghost went back to the dungeon master room. After arriving back into the dungeon master room, he saw the fight between the skeleton and the bandit bosses have finished. He decided to check whether if the next skeletons he summoned will retain their skills if they had been destroyed, so he summoned a skeleton immediately and check it stats. _____________ Monster Class : Skeleton Race : Undead Level : 2 Rank : I HP : 17 MP : 0 _______________ Stats Strength : 7 Agility : 12 Endurance : 7 Intelligence : 2 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skill - lvl 2 : increase damage dealt when using a spear by 2% ~ New! - lvl 4 - lvl 6 : increase damage dealt when using a bow/crossbow by 6% ~ level up! - lvl 5 : a swing/piercing attack that increase damage dealt by 10% ~ level up! "O nice, the skeletons don''t lose the skills that they had gotten from training if they get destroyed, that means I can make them learn magic and I can have a mage army if needed. Speaking of that did my summons skills level?" wondering about it, he decided to check his own skills. _____________ Skill ~ (MP left 10/40) - lvl 2 : able to possess any non living object, allow user to use spells ~ level up! - lvl 2 : (5 mp per summon) : summon lvl 2 zombie, duration indefinitely, total number of summons 0/6 ~ level up! - lvl 2 : (5 mp per summon) : summon lvl 2 skeleton, duration indefinitely, total number of summons 4/6 ~ level up! "Nice, my summon skills have leveled up." Next the ghost headed over to the training ground, to check up on Kuro. As he entered the training ground, Kuro was perching on top of the console. The moment Kuro saw the ghost coming in, he ''meow'' at him. The ghost flew over to him and stroke him on the head, after patting Kuro for a while, Kuro started using his paw and pat on the screen. Immediately, the ghost knew what Kuro wanted, he carry him and place him on the floor, before starting to change the settings on the console. He increase the pole course''s difficulty by 2 and the cliff course''s difficulty by 2. After a few minutes of waiting for the courses to load in, Kuro jumped onto the start platform again. Feeling that he was free and had nothing else to do the ghost summoned 2 bone spears and placed it near the skeletons that were training and he knocked out immediately. ~~ A few hours later!~~ The ghost woke up and saw, chibi staring at him as though she had been waiting there for quite some time. Wondering what was wrong, he asked, "Is something wrong?" "Mr. Ghost, can you get me another one of that sweet bun?" she asked as she looks at the ghost with googly eyes. "Alright, by the way did any other things happened?" he asked her while he when into item shop and purchase a few red bean buns. "Nope, nothing serious happened." chibi replied with a smile as she took the red bean buns, "By the way, Mr. Ghost what will you be doing with those things you brought back?" "Oh, I totally forgotten about those items, thanks."the ghost said as he rubbed chibi''s head. Being reminded of the herbs and potions he brought back, he immediately went into the item shop to see if he could purchase something that could teach him about alchemy. _____________ Item : : Recipes of all basic alchemy potions, 10 potions in total. [Cost : 50 dp] After he purchased the book and started reading, a notification pops up. On the opposite side of the training a door appeared on the wall. The ghost flew over and through the door was a 10m by 10m area, with what look like a fire pit in the center of the room. : Test tubes, crusher, pounder, beakers, cutter. The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon. : a stand for the book of basic alchemy allows projection of recipes : Increase success rate of crafting potions by 5% He immediately opened the layout menu and a new tab had appeared next to the training ground, he then quickly set the locations of the new items he received, he place the alchemy table with the alchemy set near the left side of the wall and the book stand on the side of it. After he was done, he placed the book of basic alchemy on the stand. The moment he flipped open the book a 3d projection of the page he was on appeared above the book. He went through the list of items for the most basic healing potion and realized that the herbs he had gotten from the stolen goods were insufficient. He then browse through the item shop to check for the remaining herbs that he needed and realize that it was too expensive to actually work on alchemy at this point of time without a steady supply of herbs. Seeing that he couldn''t do anything else, he went to check on Kuro and chibi. When he walked out of the alchemy room, he saw chibi feeding Kuro with the monster food he had bought recently and it seems that the stock wasn''t dwindling as quick as before. Thinking about it he haven''t really check on Kuro skills for the past few days. Without further ado, he opened up and take a look at Kuro''s stats. _____________ Name : Kuro Monster Class : Baby Behemoth Race : Behemoth Level : 1 Rank : F HP : 600 MP : 100 _______________ Stats Strength : 30 Agility : 35 ~ ¡ü 5 (+5 is from passive) Endurance : 30 Intelligence : 20 Wisdom : 20 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 5 : 10% chance to dodge ~ New! - lvl 5 : Increase agi by 5 or 10% whichever is higher. ~ New! - lvl 5 : Increase jump distance / height by 5 meters / 2.5 meters, affects all skills with jump effect. ~ New! - lvl 5 : increase movement speed by 70% for 20 seconds (CD : 3min) ~ New! - lvl 1 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 - lvl 1 (Unique) - lvl 1 (50 mp per use) "Hmm, you can actually gain stats bonus. That''s a nice information to have. I wonder what other methods there are to gain stats." Before the ghost could take a look at the item shop, chibi came over,"Mr. ghost, the kid seems to have wake up." "Thanks, I''ll go check up on him." after saying that, the ghost teleported over to the graveyard zone. "Hiieee!" the kid screamed when he saw something appeared through the walls, after realizing it was the ghost that had came before, he calmed down, "Mr. ghost, please don''t scared me like that." "Hey kid, are you a scaredy cat? Heck, my cat is even stronger than you, anyways there are no other way I can come in from, since that door is sealed with gravestones."the ghost retorted. "By the way kid, you fell asleep half way." "I''m sorry."the kid replied with his head hang low. "It''s okay, you had a rough day anyways. Will escorts come to rescue you?" the ghost asked him. "Yes, they will, if I am not wrong my father''s military army is close by, cause one of the villages had been raided by bandits. So if my escorts encounter a problem, they were told to group up with my father''s army first." the kid look at the ghost and explained. "Hmm, okay, let''s change the topic, what kind of professions are there in this world?" the ghost asked curiously. "There are alchemist who makes potion, enchanter who use magic to enchant equipments, mage crafter who craft magic items that benefit our life, blacksmith who craft weapons and armors from loots gotten by adventures or from mining, Magi architect they research and craft specialize items for buildings, making buildings more resistance to the elements, but there are very few of them as they are the elite of elites amongst the mages. That''s the ones I can recall at the moment." the kid explained like he was a teacher. All of a sudden, the kid took out something that look like a flare he aimed upwards and press a button, an red aura started gathering on the tip of the flare like object before a light orb shot out and flew through the roof of the mausoleum. "What was that?" the ghost looked at him and ask. "Thanks, Mr ghost, if you hadn''t asked me those questions, I would have forgotten my dad gave me this magic item which allows my escorts to find me within a 20km range." the kid smiled as he said. ~~~Meanwhile~~~ "Johnny was that a magic flare?" Carver looks towards johnny and asked. "What the actual F****! I believe it is. BRADEN, BRADEN!" the bandit boss Johnny ran into the hallway from the outside, and begin shouting. "Yes boss, what happened." Braden came out of one of the side room, rubbing his eyes sleepily. "There was a magic flare that came from the lower level, wake the rest up, we might need to prepare to defend this location. It''s too late for us to run, we will need to get the boys to cut some trees to make barricades." Johnny said in full panic mode. "Roger that!" Braden immediately when back into the room and kick the sleeping bandits. Within 5 minutes all the bandits gathered in of the main room. "Boys, that kid hostage seems to be a noble cause he had a magic flare on him, F***, we need to prepare for the incoming attack from his knights. Those who can walk go get some wood for us to make barricades, the others that can''t walk be the eyes for us. Use our special call if you spot them from a far." the bandit boss johnny started briefing the guys what to do. "GO GO GO, we are running out of time if we keep waiting here. I just hope that he isn''t a high rank noble, F***." The Knights raid (2) "What the F***! Did you realize what you have done?" the ghost looked at the kid with a very menacing glare. "Those bandits might come down and kill you if they find themselves cornered like rats." Shocked by the sudden outburst from the ghost, the kid begin trembling as he looked at the ghost and asked, "Mr. ghost, what should I do, I didn''t know it would cause so much trouble. I don''t want to die." "Kid, next time before doing anything and if there is a person who is older than you, around ask first before acting on it immediately. You got to learn to think of the consequences of your actions. At least that way even if you get killed you wouldn''t die in vain." the ghost looks at him in anger. "Yes,, I understand, Mr ghost, please help me" the kid spoke as though he was squeaking and it seems like he was on the verge of crying. "Alright give me a few minutes, I''ll be right back." the ghost replied while shaking his head. The ghost flew out of the mausoleum and into the other one where the Heavy skeleton Cavalry is. After that he possessed the heavy skeleton cavalry, dismounted from his horse and headed to the location where the kid was locked up. He immediately begin to remove the gravestone one by one. Once he was done removing the last gravestone, he called out to the kid, "Kid, I am outside right now and will be opening the door now, so don''t be too surprise." As the door creaked open, what stood in front of the kid was a armored skeleton, he immediately put his hands to cover his mouth. Seeing an undead in front of him in a dark eerie place is frightening enough that he had almost screamed out loudly. After a few minutes of getting use to it, he removed his hands and said, "Mr ghost, is that you?" "Yes, it''s me, come follow me." The ghost brought him over to the dummy dungeon core and said, "Alright kid, you stay right here, I''ll be right back." After saying that, the ghost went back to the mausoleum and sealed it up with grave stones again. Then, he went back to the dummy dungeon core''s mausoleum, got onto the skeleton horse and deactivate his possession skill. Next, he gave a command to the Heavy Skeleton Cavalry to protect the kid and to charge at and attack anyone else who tries to come in here. "Alright kid, this heavy skeleton cavalry will protect you here. I''ll have to leave you here, to check on the situation. If things get bad, I will come over to help you immediately. Alright?" the ghost said to the kid in a gentle tone. "Alright."the kid reply, even though he was still trembling. The ghost went back to the dungeon master room to check on the dungeon live broadcast screen. ~~~~~~ "Boss, the logs for the barricades have been brought back." Braden, reported to the bandit boss Johnny as the other bandits begin piling up the wooden logs on the side. Johnny looks over to tank, "Tank go check on the kid." "Yes boss," after replying, tank headed down to the graveyard area. "Alright, the rest of you start building a blockade with the logs. Braden, get some of them to take the thinner sticks, sharpen it to make a makeshift spears." Johnny gave orders to each of bandits as he had more experience in this kind of stuff, after that he begin to shaving the wood of the thinner sticks himself. ~~~Half an hour later~~~ A few make-shift wooden wall and wooden spikes were created block part of the entrance way into the dungeon, they have place one on the doorway that leads towards the second level as well. They also place all the make-shift spears that they had just made all around the dungeon main entrance. "Boss, the kid is no where to be found." Tank was panting as he had rushed up from the graveyard. Before Johnny could even do anything, he heard a loud hooting noise from outside. "Shit they''re here already, Tank don''t bother about that kid any longer." Johnny said, and he gave a speech, "BOYS, we have been betrayed by our kingdom, that''s why we came here, some have lost their families, some have lost their lands, but as long as we are alive we can get back at that dreaded kingdom. Now, another kingdom is trying to destroy our only way to go back. BOYS, we shalt pray that on this day if we were to survive, no we will survive and get back what''s rightfully ours, in due time." Not long after the speech. BOOM! "Knights of Advenguard, Hear my command, destroy all those who stand in our way."A huge man in a fully plated silver armor that had lots of engravings raised his sword in hand and commanded the knights that were following closely behind. The Knights were holding kite shields and a swords in hand charged into the entrance one by one, all of them had a dull metallic armor unlike the first one that came in. Spears begin flying in from the other end, but it was useless, as the make-shift spears immediately bounce off the shields. Seeing that the spears were ineffective, the bandits boss commanded them to attack. Leading the attack, the bandit boss smash head on with his body, he manage to knock down one of the knights in the front. The other bandits followed in closely behind him, however, due to their weaker stats, some of them were being knocked back instead. Carver was swinging his sword wildly as well, he had knocked one of the knight down and that knight was bleeding badly, but before he could kill him, Carver was knocked back to the ground. Looking up, he saw that the silver knight was the one who knocked him away. He bit his lips and fall back when he saw the knight that was about to die begin glowing white, he immediately realize the trouble and shouted, "Johnny! they have healers with them."Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. Not long after, Carver said that a wave of fireballs came smashing into the group of bandits. "ARGHHH" "AHHHH, Help me!" Cries and screams started echoing in the main hall as a burning man started running around before slamming on the ground charred. "F***, they have mages as well. " realizing the danger Johnny immediately shouted, "BOYS FALL BACK INTO THE HALLWAY." Bandits that were closes to the door, begin throwing the make-shift wooden spears to cover the retreating comrades. When the last surviving bandit went through the door, they immediately close the door and use the make-shift wooden door to barricade it to further enforcing it. "How many men do we have left."Carver asked. "Including us, 10 people in total." Braden replied. KABAM! KABOOM! BAM! The continuous sounds of fireballs resounded as it impact on the door. "This door isn''t going to hold, we need that kid as a hostage if we are going to survive." Carver immediately thought of the kid, seeing that it had already become a hopeless situation. "Alright, let''s retreat to the graveyard zone." after saying that, Johnny lead the way and headed down the stairs. Seeing the entire graveyard area was foggy, Johnny looks at tank and asked, "Was it this foggy just now?" "No boss, there wasn''t any fog when I came here." Tank replied. "Go find the kid," Johnny gave the command to what''s left of his bandits. After a few minutes, "Boss he is no where to be found." "Is there any place we have not check?" "Yes Boss, only the mausoleum with the dungeon core is left uncheck." When the bandits opened the door of the mausoleum the last thing they saw was two pairs of eerie blue smoking eyes. ~~~~~~ Just before the bandits had decided to go down to find the kid. The ghost bought the mist setting and place it into the dungeon layout. ___________ Decorations [Cost : 50 DP] - able to toggle on and off. Seeing that the bandits were desperate, he immediately teleported to the graveyard zone. The ghost flew down into the mausoleum and told the kid, "Hey kid, those bandits are coming, I need you to stay here and lie on the ground, the fog should help to cover you. Understand?" The kid nodded his head and immediately laid down on the floor. After seeing the kid laid down, the ghost possessed the heavy skeleton cavalry. The ghost checked the skills of the heavy skeleton cavalry one last time. ____________ Skills - lvl 5 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 15% ~ level up! - lvl 2 : increase all damage dealt by 6% if there is undead nearby ~ level up! - lvl 2 : increase nearby undead allies damage dealt by 6% ~ level up! (Combine skill) - lvl 3 : Damage dealt = Distance/m x 1.2 x Agi, maximum charging range is 30m ~ level up! - lvl 1 - lvl 1 (Combine skill) - lvl 1 - lvl 2 - lvl 2 - lvl 2 - lvl 3 - lvl 1 Hearing sounds coming from the other side of the door, the ghost closed his dungeon menu and raised his iron lance. As the door opened, he immediately activate his charge skill. "Neighhh!" The skeleton horse cried out as he charged forward, slamming into a few of the bandits sending them flying. One of them was pierce by the lance as his body dangle on the tip of the lance. [You have killed a bandit] [You have killed a bandit] [You have killed a bandit] "Where did that thing come from?" a sudden shout came from the front. Spears begin flying toward the heavy skeleton cavalry. However, all of it had miss as the fog was very thick, the cavalry seems to have disappear when it circled around getting ready for another charge. "Neighhh." The ghostly horse sound echoed around the area, two blue pairs of smoking eyes appear suddenly as it slammed into a few more bandits. [You have killed a bandit] [You have killed a bandit] [You have killed a bandit] After taking a few more lives, the bandit bosses tried to attack the cavalry, however it seemed to have disappeared again into the fog as it was too fast for them. "Come back you coward." A loud scream could be heard. "We cannot cluster we got to spread out, else we will get trample by that cavalry." Hearing that, the ghost summoned 2 zombies and commanded them to attack the group. Due to the darkness, the remaining bandits could not see well, one of them launch an attack when he saw a silhouette approaching them. Not realizing there were 2, the other zombie manage to bite down on him, causing him to shriek in pain as a part of his flesh was being torn off. Before his allies could go and support him, the ghost initiate another charge attack. "Here he comes!" as one of the bandits spotted 2 pairs of smoking blue eyes moving towards them. Before they could prepare themselves against the cavalry, a bone spear pierce through one of them, surprise by the sudden spear flying over, they didn''t have time to react, causing another one of them to get knocked by the cavalry''s charge. [You have killed a bandit boss] [You have killed a bandit] The last of bandits was seriously injured even though he wasn''t being charge head on, but the passive skill trampling had manage to cause massive damage to him. "Kill me! End bloob~, my suffering!" blood spilled out from his mouth, as he tried to talk. The ghost got off his horse and walked towards the last bandit, as he was raising his sword to end him, the bandit launch a final attack with his dagger. However, it did not go as he has plan, even though the dagger managed to pierce through the ghost''s armor, there wasn''t any bleeding. When the bandit saw that, he realized and he said, "So it was you who were sending all those undead over." "Yes" as the ghost ended his life after replying. Before the ghost could get back to his horse, he was being strike with holy spells. Looking towards the direction where the spells came from, the ghost saw the group of knights that had came to raid the dungeon. He wanted to retreat back to the horse, but the commanding knight in silver armor leaped towards him immediately, having no other options, the ghost pulled out his shield to blocked the Knight''s attack. BANG! A loud and sharp sound echoed out when the Knight''s attack smashed into the shield. The ghost was on the losing end, as he was pushed back by the force of the impact. Before the ghost could counterattack, a few more holy bolts came flying in. Gritting his teeth he immediately use his shield to block the attack. Under the non stop assault, he begin chanting his bone shield spell. Three rotating bones appeared and started spinning around him. With the appearance of the bone shield the ghost begin his counterattack. He immediately dark strike the knight, however his attack was immediately parried. Next the ghost tried to fire his ice bolt on the mages who were all casting spell at him. But before he could land a hit, the spell was being blocked by the other knights whom were guarding the mages. After a few minutes of struggling against the group of knights, the heavy skeleton cavalry is almost dead, as most of it''s armor were destroyed. Seeing the situation is hopeless, the ghost deactivated his possession and disappeared into the fog. He flew into the mausoleum where the kid is currently at. "Hey kid, your escorts are here, I have killed all the bandits already, you should be safe now, quickly go to them." the ghost told the kid and he flew up to the dungeon core to get back to the dungeon master room. Back in the dungeon master room, chibi tried to hug the ghost when he arrive back. Seeing that, he patted her head and said, "I''m back!" Aftermath of the knights raid After the ghost left, believing what the ghost had told him, the kid walked out of the mausoleum. The group of knights were cautiously walking advancing in the area, as they were afraid there would be other enemies or monster lurking in the thick fog. When a silhouette of something appeared in front of them, all the knights took up their weapons and pointed in it''s direction. As the fog dissipated, they could see a child standing over there. "Dad?" the kid called out when he saw a silvery light reflecting off a armor. Hearing the kid call out, the silver armor knight kept his sword and headed towards the silhouette. "Son are you alright?" the silver armor knight removed his helmet and had a worried expression on his face. "Yes, dad, the dungeon master saved me."after saying that, the kid explained to his father what had happened in the past few hours. After listening to what had happened, the silver knight weighted the pros and cons and decided not to destroy the dungeon core. He would later get the adventurer guild to handle the situation, since the kid was found the group of knights decided to leave the dungeon. ~~~~~~ {From the depths of the underworld, awaken from your slumber and rise again to this world!} The blue swirling portal appear in the dungeon master room. "Neighhh" A eerie call from an undead horse resounded out from within the portal, as the heavy skeleton cavalry trotted out from within the portal. _____________ Name : No name Monster Class : Heavy Skeleton Cavalry ~ Combined unit Race : Undead Level : 6 ~ ¡ü 5 Rank : F HP : 600 ~ ¡ü 100 MP : 120 ~ ¡ü 20 _______________ Stats Strength : 55 ~ ¡ü 15 Agility : 70 ~ ¡ü 20 Endurance : 70 ~ ¡ü 20 Intelligence : 12 ~ ¡ü 2 Wisdom : 0 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 2 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 2% ~ New! - lvl 5 : increase damage dealt when using a sword by 15% ~ level up! - lvl 3 : increase all damage dealt by 7% if there is undead nearby ~ level up! - lvl 3 : increase nearby undead allies damage dealt by 7% ~ level up! - lvl 3 : increase block chance by 3% ~ level up! (Combine skill) - lvl 2 : Deal damage to anyone within 1.1 meter of the user, damage dealt = str ~ level up! (Combine skill) - lvl 5 : Damage dealt = Distance/m x 1.5 x Agi, maximum charging range is 40m (Max distance) ~ level up! - lvl 2 : a swing attack that increase damage dealt by 15%, cause bleeding effect on target ~ level up! - lvl 3 : a swing attack that deals dark attack, increase damage dealt by 30%, decrease all healing done to target by 30% ~ level up! - lvl 2 : Using the shield to slam the enemy, deal damage = shield def x 1.5, chance to cause stunt for 3 seconds on living beings ~ level up! - lvl 1 - lvl 3 - lvl 2 _______________ Equipment (Common) : +10 def, durability 0/20 - Broken (Common) : +10 def, durability 0/20 - Broken (Common) : +10 def, durability 0/20 - Broken (Common) : +10 def, durability 0/20 - Broken (Common) : +5 Atk, durability 8/20 (Common) : +10 def, durability 5/20 (Common) : +2 def, durability 19/20 (Common) : Atk +5, Increase charge damage by 10%, durability 38/40 [Cost : 4 DP] (Common) : Increase movement speed by 5%, durability 29/30 [Cost : 2 DP] (Common) : Increase all impact damage by 10%, decrease movement speed by 5%, durability 38/40 [Cost : 4 DP] "Seems like I lost quite a lot of equipments, but gain a lot of skill levels. Not a bad trade off. I wonder how many levels did I level up as well." _______________ Name : No name Class : Dungeon Master Race : Ghost / Spirit Level : 6 ~ ¡ü 5 Rank : H HP : 45/45 ~ ¡ü 25 MP : 25/90 ~ ¡ü 50 (+20 is from passive) This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it._______________ Stats Strength : 0 Agility : 0 Endurance : 15 ~ ¡ü 5 Intelligence : 35 ~ ¡ü 25 Wisdom : 35 ~ ¡ü 25 Luck : 0 _______________ Skills - lvl 3 (2 mp per use) : cast a basic ice shard and shoot towards the target, matk = 1.7 x int, improve casting speed ~ level up! - lvl 3 : able to possess any non living object, allow user to use spells, increase possessed unit''s stats by 20% of possessor ~ level up! - lvl 2 (5 mp per summon) : summon a spear that can be use as a melee weapon or magic spell, atk = 1.1 x int / matk = 1.1 x int ~ level up! - lvl 2 (5 mp per summon) : summon 3 bone shields that rotate around the user, block incoming projectiles for 6 times ~ level up! - lvl 2 : slows all enemies movement, attack and casting speed by 5% within a 5 meter radius [only one aura can be use at anytime] ~ level up! - lvl 2 - lvl 1 - lvl Max - lvl 1 - lvl Max - lvl 2: (5 mp per summon) total number of summons 4/6 - lvl 2 : (5 mp per summon) total number of summons 0/6 - 20% proficiency - lvl 1 (5 mp per use) - lvl 1 (20 mp per use) ~~~~~~ _____________ Dungeon Points (DP) : 1498 Number of DP to be awarded at the end of the day : 4 DP (List of enemies) (List of death) (List of trapped enemies) _____________ List of enemies - Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Horse - 1 DP x 2 Cow - 1 DP x 2 _____________ List of Death - One time DP worth Bandit - 100 DP x 9 Bandit - 50 DP x 5 Bandit Boss - 150 DP x 2 _____________ List of trapped enemies - x 3 Current DP worth (resets at the end of the day) Seeing that notification popped up, the ghost suddenly recalled the bandit''s stash in the mausoleum were left untouched by the knights. He immediately summon 2 skeletons and had them retrieve the crates. After retrieving the crates he inspected all of them, he placed the potions and herbs into the alchemy room. And task the skeletons to use the food as fodders for the cows and horses, while leave the booze in corner of the main hall where all the other monster food and misc. equipments are. "Chibi, you free?" the ghost called out, as he couldn''t see the figure of chibi around in the main hall. Chibi poke her head out of the training room when she heard someone called her,"Did you call me, mr. ghost?" "Yes, I have 3 gacha coupon and a special feature coupon for you to use." Chibi face immediately brighten up and she smile like the sun. The ghost patted her head, "Go ahead and use them." The altar begin to shine, blue, yellow, purple. ___________ Item : : allows user to place a 50m by 50m dungeon floor, applicable floor type : Default, Graveyard, Crypt, Swamp (only applicable to dungeon cores & dungeon masters) Item : : spawns a possessed weapon every 5 minute. When killed, possess weapon will turn back into a normal weapon rarity range from Normal ~ Rare. (Can only be place in indoor type dungeon) Item : - Incorporeal Magic Cape (Epic) : +70 magic def, 25% resistant to all spells, able to turn user invisible. Set equipment (1/3) durability ¡Þ (only a ghost/spirit can equip) "What a great draw, a dungeon expansion ticket, a possessed weapon spawner, that would be helpful. O and a cloak for me to use." the ghost glee at the situation and wore the cloak, after rubbing chibi''s head. Next he opened the dungeon layout and added a new crypt floor right below the graveyard floor. He made each of the mausoleum have their own separate space and place the spawner at the center of the new floor, which is separated by a wall on each side of the crypts. Therefore allowing the possessed weapons to randomly spawn at the various crypts. After he is done with the main layout, he added in walls that makes the crypt feels like a maze, added in ghost torches and tombstones, and weird sculptures at random in the crypts. Happy with the layout, he asked chibi if she wanted to add anything else, but it seems like she didn''t have any suggestion, so he shifted the dummy core to one of the crypts below. Then he immediately select update dungeon layout. Immediately after he selected yes, a countdown timer appears. Once, he was done, he clicked on the special feature icon. __________ List of Plants/Herbs that can be grown: - can be grown in the graveyard - can be grown on the wall in the crypts - can be grown in graveyard - can be grown in caves "Nice, a new source of herbs for alchemy." after cheering the ghost felt he had nothing else to do, "Time to knock out and try to increase my max mp level."saying that he summoned another 3 bone spears.