Hunter POV
As we walked out of the cave I directed Lana to stay and guard the entrance while Gerald and I go level.
Walking over to the sea which was maybe 500m away at most I looked into the water looking for some fish to kill with my stick while Gerard tried to get some with his lighting magic. He was one of the few people who had gone down the route of lighting Mage despite its crazy destructive ability, the mana cost for the spells was outrageous, making it a rare starter class. For me my class was tsunami warrior, I could use some water and ice magic but it was very little and very weak at my level even with the bonus from choosing my class. In my inventory there was my growth weapon, armour, and a skill book, familiar summon, it allowed me to summon a monster who could be upgraded to different monster with more points added, the monsters you got from upgrading the skill with skill points were based off of your personality. These were what I had spend over 15 million dollars on. Bad ass starting weapons and skills.
What I didn't know was that they had requirements. The mace could only be used by dwarfs or fused with the body permanently, the armour while being powerful and black as night had to be fused with the body and could not be taken off. Could not be used by the humanoid races apparently. The skill book had no twists luckily but I wasn't high enough level to be worth even using it.
So I was using a stick.
Gerald on the other hand could only afford 2 starting items. A skill book that taught him how to cast spells with out saying the words and a lightning elemental core that could be inserted in a monster or familiar to make them stronger. The only reason he hadn't used it to get changed to a monster was the lack of good species to choose from in the dungeon so far.
Speaking of which we need to make him stronger because so far he is weak as fuck and it is pitiful all he can do is stun and buff.
Spoting a fish I bent my knees and jumped while swinging the stick down hitting the fish. 'Yes I got one!' But as soon as I hit the fish it seemed to swim away like it wasn't hurt as I lifted the stick up again swam away. Looking beside me i spotted Gerald scooping up minnows and puting them in his shirt. I didn't under stand why until he began to walk back to the dungeon. 'Ah he must be helping him grow'. Once he got inside the entrance I seen him drop the fish before he picked up a rock and started smashing it down It killing the little fish once and for all.
Watching him smile I can tell that even those minnows were enough to push him to the next level.
Turning back to my task I continued to smash at the fish, and of course they continued to defy my will and live on.
Sighing I walked back on shore and decided to look for crabs.
Spotting one I smashed the end of the stick down on it.
While I did injure it it wasn't enough to kill the crab so I lifted the stick up for a second swing when the crab rushed snapping at me I took a few steps back before I was ready to kill it, swinging down I ended the little crabs life.
Looking up at my experience bar I noticed it had increased to almost half. Looking around for more crabs yielded nothing. Alas after a few more minutes of diligent searching I spotted a blue crab about twice the size of the last crab, besides being massive it had two sets of pincers and above its head floated it's name. I was fighting the mutant crab apparently a mini boss of the beach. Thinking quickly I ran away. (What were you expecting something else?)
I ran right to Gerald." I need your help Gerald, have you figured out that stun spell that you were working on earlier?". Turning to me from his hunt for minnows he replied "yeah why" turning away I started to walk back to the crab all the while saying " I need you to use it on this mini boss so that I can get it inside the dungeon".
Once we arrived back near the crab I prepared myself, by dropping the stick, for when Gerald stunned the creature, I would need to be fast to get it to the dungeon before the stun wore off. "CRACKLING STUN!", a bolt shot past me and hit the mini boss, stunning it. Leaping forward I grabbed the crab and started running pell-mell towards the entrance. Once I was about ten feet away I felt the crab start to move so I threw it the rest of the way into the dungeon. Grabbing a random rock from the grounding jumped over the massive crab in slammed the rock down on the middle of the shell, cracking it, to my dismay the crack was tiny and almost non existent. Looking at the exit I saw Gerald running after me, Lana had moved in from the entrance with her stick, and was across the room from me on the other side of the crab. Thinking quickly I yelled "Throw me your stick!".
She made a rather funny face but did as I asked. Leaping to the right I caught the stick and ended it with a roll across the ground. Shifting the rock to my right hand I threw it as hard as I could at the crab hitting it in the same place. While it was recovering I hefted the heavy branch in both hands and brought it down on on of the crabs legs, breaking it off. While the crab was in shock I was able to bring off another two legs on the opposite side. The crab scurried away still dragging the one leg that hadn't fully came off yet, he scurried around for a few more minutes with me landing a few glancing blows but nothing able to really hurt it to badly. Suddenly the little crab kept forward and snapped into my left leg with all four of his pincers taking away more than half of my pitifully low health. Swinging the branch down I smashed the crab off taking a further 1/8 of my health off before dancing around the crab. It felt like a contest of wills. I had my lavender eyes locked with its Beady black eyes. In this moment the crab rushed towards me with its pincers extended intending to end my life. Purple on instinct I jumped over the crab and ran to the far wall.
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It was at this moment Gerald decided to show up."Electrical slash" he said at pointed at the branch I was holding, making it light up with a yellow glow.
Without thinking I smashed the branch down on the crab where it was cracked, delivering the electricity into the shell of the crab,killing it instantly.
Smiling I walked over to my friends, gave them all a high five and watched as the experience bar filled up flashed blue and proceeded to do so again before filling up about 1/3 of the bar again and stopping. Smiling I watched as two notifications popped up saying I had levelled up and had ten points to spend in both skills and attributes. With out thinking umuch about it I put 3 points in strength bringing it up to 13, 2 into agility bring it it up to twelve, and dumped the last five into vitality, knowing just how weak this body really is, bringing the total Up to 15. Satisfied with my stats I decided it was time to find out what I had for a familiar.
So I opened my inventory and took out the skill book, familiar summon. Chanting out the words needed to learn the skill book," est uh vas famil tou thy gad jo!" I felt a weird tingle throughout my entire body before a notification window popped up showing that I had indeed learned it.
"Familiar summon" I said as I got some weird looks from my friends, and then a flash with tiny turtle appearing next to me. Reading it's name plate it read, baby turtle, while it was rather cute it didn't have much offensive power being the size of my thumb. Checking its status, something I noticed I could do when it appeared, it didn't say a whole lot except "5 skill points to maturity" with out thinking I made it so and it grew to the size of my hand but when I checked how much the next upgrade was I was sad to find out that it took ten points,which I don't have. "Hey guys what are yo going for with your monster body's, you never told me?". Lana perked her head up " I'm thinking something like a really fast monkey."
Gerald took a minute to decide but finally he said " water leviathan, a huge snake like monster that lives mainly under water but can also fly when needed."
"Ooh I like it, we could have one floor that is massive like a biome size or something and we could all be the final bosses before the dungeon core!"
Smirking turned towards the exit.
We had our goals.
Matt POV
After the adventurers walked out I smiled I had some allies, not slaves, but genuine allies.
After the Mage, Gerald I think it was, brought some fish into the dungeon and killed them I got 17 mp which was good because I was to low to do much and I wasn't get ready to send out calt and I couldn't close the door when they brought in new monsters for me to eat.
I was just Chillin when hunter, the leader, threw a massive mutant crab in my dungeon. I wasn't at all okay with this, monsters can eat dungeon cores to grow stronger, I was a dungeon core. In my crazed reasoning I saw that this monster was going to eat me.
That was when the super man jump smash with a rock by hunter made me feel better.
Then I saw how much damage it did...
Needless to say it left something to be desired.
I watched the battle apprehensively waiting to either be eaten or to gain mp.
As the fight went on I watched the crab, got inside its head just enough to feel some of what was going on in it but not enough to take it over, I wasn't strong enough for that yet. I watched how it moved, reacted, and overall everything about that crab.
Near the end of the battle I got a notification but swiped it aside without even looking at it, I was so focused both on the crab and how the humans moved. They may be my allies but I would need to know how humans fight for the future.
It ended. In one move. 'Damn that's one good buff to use against water element monsters.'
I got the mp from the crab, a whopping 114 mp bringing my total up to 287 mp.
Looking at the notification that I dismissed earlier. It said that I had enough knowledge to add a new starter race to my dungeon, hermit crabs.
On my opinion they are incredibly weak but had potential for a strong monster in later years so I accepted the notification and made 6 appear for a total of 17 mp they were a little bit bigger than your average hermit crabs in my opinion. But I wasn't complaining. Once that was complete I spent the rest of the day just watching them. At one point I made some sand appear in one corner, they didn't need water to live, so that they could burrow as they typically like to.
That night after gaining another 100 mp bringing me up to 380 Gerald dumped 70 mp into me before the adventures headed off to bed just outside of the entrance to me. Once they were out side I set calt to work. Oh boy does he work fast...