I felt like I was floating in a void filled with stars. Looking around I saw two bright lights one slightly farther than the other. In my confusion and curiosity, I wanted to see what they were and somehow moved to the closer one and saw inside of the light. There was a young man walking in a town with a woman holding his hand. They were smiling and looked happy as they were walking. I smiled at this peaceful sight and then I saw from the point of view of the woman. I tried to move or say something, but I could not it looked like I was just a passenger riding along.
The woman waved the man away and then the world went dark. Then I saw I was in a room and was cooking and getting a meal ready, I looked down into a jar of water and saw the woman’s face it was my own face. the man once more showed up from a door and said how lovely the meal smelled and gave me a peck on the cheek and started to undress.
“But what I mostly want to eat is you” he said in a flirty voice. Then started to kiss the nape of my neck and down my arm. I could feel all that this woman did and was getting stirred up from it. “The meal can wait come along now.” he said then the scene changed once more. I was now on something softer than my moss and felt my skin was bare and the man was naked above me and thrusting away.
“Ah I love it when you are so giving.” he then kissed me and gave a last thrust and rolled over. He moved me, so my face was resting on his chest and started talking.
“Things are finally going my way, my business is booming, I have you and soon have my own kids.” he put his hand on my belly. “I love all of this.” he said. Then the world faded to black.
I was back out in the void and the bright light I was looking at was dimming and went away. The other light was still as strong, but I waited a moment before moving to it.
‘Hmm that was actually kind of nice, having someone that cared. And have cloths… well let’s see what that next light is. I moved to the light and investigated it. This time there was a man and a woman sitting in a building talking and looks like they agreed to something. I smiled and then saw from the view of the woman.
“YOU WORTHLESS WHORE.” I heard the man say, then felt an impact to my face. He had slapped me. It stung, and I ran out the building. I was now in the street with others looking at me, the man grabbed me and with a quick motion ripped off my cloths. They came off with almost no effort and I was left standing with nothing on. I looked around and saw people turn their heads away and keep walking. Why was no one helping me I thought. He grabbed my arm and then pinned me to a wall and whispered to me.
“This is what you want right.” I felt tears run down my face and felt myself nod. “That's what I thought. Now get on your knees and crawl, you are now mine. AND I DARE ANYONE TO CHALLENGE ME!” He yelled. The scene changed I felt myself crying as that woman. but I tried to escape and found that I could easily do so from that bright light.
‘Well that was a lot worse than that first one, he was scary not kind like the first light. Hmm what are all those lights anyway. I will ask Tia when I wake up but for now I think I should stay away from whatever those lights are.
I woke up and heard something unexpected a screeching sound. I crawled out of the cave and saw Tia zipping around holding her head. It was much darker outside then it should have been, I could see only brown where there should be blue sky.
“Tia what is going on?” I yelled over the sound of the screaming. She turned and flew over to me.
“It is a sand storm, and you would not wake up, we need to close up the dungeon entrance or too much sand will get in and..” a gust of wind blew her back, sputtering she kept going. “Bla and we won't be able to live. Now work that earth magic.” I did not need any more than that. I started to grab fist full of sand that was now covering my moss and transmuting it to sand stone and started to make a wall covering the only entrance. I can always undo the stone into sand after, but I was only a quarter done and felt my mana was dry.
“Activation use one sp recover mana.” I said and felt my mana recover to exactly 50% then kept working. I had to use my last two sp to get to only around 75% complete on sealing up the entrance.
“Come on you can do it.” Tia cheered me on.
“I can’t I am tapped out, I used all my mana and all 3 remaining sp and all the mana I recovered while working.” I said in exhaustion. The sand was not making big drifts anymore and was becoming more manageable.
“Ok fine let's move to the sleeping cave. We have to wait this out now.” Tia said flew into the now soft sleeping area I flowed after her.
Hours went by till the storm was over and things cleared up. Tia was tempted to get me to train my skills on her but now was not the time.
My starting moss was covered in sand now, and that only left my modified moss from inside the sleeping cave. I moved as much sand off of my normal moss as I could but the damage had been done.(expand on) I worked on getting the sand out of my water source but it was mostly just tossing out wet sand to the side and watching more sand fall in after, but I was able to get a good area to cup water from after about an hour or so of working on it, it was already getting dark as I started work so there was no worry about any more damage from the sun on my still burnt skin. I found the sand a bit easier to shape while it was wet and started to make some rough shapes that could fit in my hand as practice, then transmuting it to sandstone. The objects were too thin and broke after being transmuted but I still was training and learning the extent of what my earth magic could do.
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A few hours later I saw a shadow off in the distance and darted into the dungeon. Then started to seal up the last of the entrance I was not able to earlier as I ran out of mana. The shadow turned larger as I saw it come closer, it was large and twice my height and longer than if I was laying down. Tia came over to find out what I was so worked up about.
“Hmm a camel rider in the dark, that is strange. It looks like he is about to...ok he did fall off. Oh, neat he is getting dragged by the camel.” tia narrated the actions of the dark shadow thing.
“What's a camel?” I asked, as I peeked my head out and saw the thing on the ground get up and start to walk to the dungeon. I quickly pulled my head back inside.
“It is something that people ride or put cargo onto. A beast of burden. Oh, here he comes and he he the camel came over first and is just drinking our water.” tia gently laughed as the camel walked passed the person and was now in arms reach of us.
“You dumb beast.” the person said exasperated. “you should have waited for your master to drink first.” the camel turned for a moment then went back to drinking. “It was your fault we lost the water, you panicked when the sand stone hit.” the camel payed the person no mind. And the person finally reached the water and one foot sank into the wet sand. He backed up and got his foot out and then started to scoop out the sand looking for the water, much like I had done early. He got a few good handfuls of water then filled an odd flat thing that got fat after he took it out of the water he then drank directly from that.
“Well at least we have water, now if only we knew where to go from here.” he looked up at the star lit sky. “If only I learned how to navigate by the stars, I could have been going in circles since the storm for all I know.” he then gave the camel a light shove. “and it is all your fault.” he finished with a smile then sat down. “What's that?” he looked into the dungeon and stood up and walked to the entrance. “Oh, good some place to sleep for the night it seems. He took a few steps inside and tried to look around, but it was clear that he did not see me just an arm’s length away in the shadows. Why could he not see me I was right here.
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“Ok let's see how much room this cave has. He reached into a pocket and brought out a rock that shown like the dawn's first light. The whole of the cave was bathed in light, he then saw me and jumped back and drew a shiny short object from his waist and pointed it at me. “How long have you been there?” he moved the light in a way to better see me, then he lowered his other hand. “Wait what a naked woman, you should have said something I almost stabbed you with my knife.” he put away his ‘knife’ and came closer to me.
‘Tia, where are you?’ I thought as he came closer.
“No need to be scared, I won't bite.” he said in a soothing voice. He looked up and down at my body. “How did you get all the way out here, oh are you a runaway slave? I can see how someone would want a slave such as you after all you are perfect if a bit sunburnt. But I am guessing that has to do with how you ran away.” he gently grabbed my wrist and pulled me from the wall then walked around me. “So how would you like coming with me, I can make sure you get back so town and no one has to know you are a runaway slave. Does that sound good?” he asked. I just stood there not knowing what to do. “Ok the quiet type, how about we try this. Stop me if I go too far ok.” he nodded to me and I nodded in return not knowing what that meant.
“Good to even get a nod out of you here I go.” he then used his free hand and grabbed my waist and pulled me in for a kiss. He then moved both his hand and lips lower, his hand now on my ass and lips trailing kisses down my neck and toward my breasts. I felt my body start to tingle with his actions and thought ‘soul siphon fatigue’. I grabbed his face with my hands and gave him a deep kiss. The next hour turned into a haze as my body went to work and I was just a passenger to my own skill. In the end he was as naked as I was, and I tasted something strange in my mouth and something sticky on my flesh. He was panting hard as he got up and went outside
“That was amazing, I have to get a drink. And grab something for you.” he was walking with a limp.
Sp+1 was hovering in the corner of my vision then I dismissed it. I was also feeling full like I ate a lot of moss and drank a fair amount of water, not too much but I felt satisfied from it.
“Well that is truly the succubus way to handle things.” tia whispered to me, as I just lay on the floor. “Remember if things go wrong you can go full soul siphoned and find out what happens that way worst case he will be too weak to even fight me...I hope. Oh, here he comes bye.” tia zipped away.
“Ah much better, water does amazing things. And I must say you were amazing I have never had such an intense session with any girl before, normally I am the one making the girls limp after.” he laughed. “Here is something I got to start up my own business I never thought I would be giving the first one to a woman that is such a good lover all the way out here in the wastes.” I smiled at him and he smiled in return.
‘This is nice, wait isn't this the first man from those dreams. The one with a good business and nice home.’ I thought, as I felt a surge of happiness from this physical encounter.
“Well here it is.” he said and locked a metal ring around my neck. I had no time to react. It was cold but not that bad. I just looked at him confused.
“Haha, you don't even know do you. You are now my slave, not only that but it drains mana so any abilities you might have won’t work.” he laughed as I narrowed my eyes. “That will show them I can be a slave trader all on my own and get beautiful women to sell. So, what if I could only get a few mana draining slave collars.” he kept talking but I ignored him as I looked at my status. And yes, my mana was draining down. I tried to use my transmuting on the metal to turn it into something else, but I felt the mana be drawn away into the metal. I did what tia suggested and gave him a deep kiss and thought ‘soul siphon maximum’ I felt my body starting to take over and was pushed to the back to just watch. The last thing I heard from him was.
“Oh, you like being a slave do you, this will go over very well for you then. Time for round two.” he said.
Two hours later I got the message 1 complete soul and his body was cold on the floor, it slowly started to fade away. I then got a new message.
[you have absorbed 1 human male +5 dp, unlocks the undead race option]
I then went outside and grabbed the camel and brought it inside. It just got on its knees and closed its eyes. I started to go through the stuff on it and found a few small metal sticks with strange prongs and some food. Tia came out and saw the metal sticks and grabbed them and unlocked the slave collar, it dropped to the ground and faded away.
[low quality mana draining collar +5 dp, unlock mana draining collar option for loot]
“Well that looks like a lot of gain, current dp.” I said aloud.
[current dp at 18]
“Wow almost there only 2 more to go till we have radiant mana.” I looked over at tia who was crying now.
“stupid stupid stupid, I should have done something. He tried to take you away and I just hid.” she was on the ground looking up at me. “I am sorry, I just did not know what to do, I thought everything was fine, you were doing your succubus thing then out of nowhere he hit you with that collar.” she fell to her knees and started crying harder. I sat down and patted her head.
“do you have any way to attack without getting found out and most likely squished right after?” I asked.
“Nothing that can do any real harm to a person right now. I am a mentor and guide your dungeon creatures are for attacking anything that comes to threaten you. And we don't have any of those.” she said into the ground.
“See, nothing you could do. It was one of the risks we are running while waiting to get radiant mana. If we had quick access to food, then we would already have some monsters. But look around, we can't go past the outside ‘room’ and had to buy the moss with dp and that did not play out as well as it could have.” I said softly. She looked up and wiped away her tears.
“True, I did not see anything we could have used for food yet.” she stood up and put on a forced smile. “Let’s get that radiant mana then. How close are you right now?”
“At 18 points, so we should have it when the daily points come in.” I said. “just got 5 from the dungeon well eating that guy, and 5 from that collar. And we started with 8 today.”
“Silly Lilly we don't have to wait, time for another lesson by your sexy pixie.” she blew a kiss. “Any time a creature dies in a dungeon they are dissolved and turned into dp. The stronger they are the more dp they are turned into. Items are also turned into dp, the rarer or mana filled the items the more dp they turn into. But the lowest value is always one dp here look.” she then flew and tossed some rope that was on the camel on the ground, it faded away.
[rough rope +1 dp, rough rope was added to loot]
She tossed some small bag next.
[empty water skin +1 dp, empty water skin added to loot]
“The only thing stopping the dungeon from changing items into dp is if it is currently worn by a living creature or has been linked with personal mana. But the personal mana only keeps the dungeon from eating an item for so long, a little bit will keep an item for a day or so. The most I heard about was the item retaining its form for over 10 years without being touched by a person.”
“Good to know, so should we just toss everything on the camel on the ground and let the dungeon turn them into dp?” I asked.
“Latter on yes, but as for right now I don't think that is such a good idea. We might be able to get the monsters you summon to make use of such objects. And the cost to create an object tends to be more than the dp the dungeon gets from absorbing it so no infinite loops.” she explained.
“Fair enough but looks like we have enough dp to get radiant mana and work on the next step getting something to defend us.” I said. “Environment options
[environment, you can add floors or other features room 1, floor 20, glass 4 points, magma 10 points, puzzles 4 points, or radiant mana 20 points,]
“Radiant mana.” I said ignoring the puzzles option for now. The dungeon flashed a brilliant white all at once. I was blinded for a moment but then it faded away and I saw the dungeon was the same but at the same time more vibrant somehow. As if the rock sand and moss took on deeper shades then they had before.
“ah ya thought that might happen, with a name like radiant and all that. But still that hurt, how are you Lilly?” tia said while blinking heavily.
“I am good, but you could have warned me a bit about that.” I said. Then I looked past the outside ‘room’ of the dungeon and the sand was not as vibrant as the sand inside was. “Well one task done.”
“I think we have done well for being in such a middle of nowhere starting area. In three days, you have done the following. Unlocked two earth magic subskills. Gotten a stable water supply that can lure in the unwary. Made a new kind of moss. Gained a room out in the open air, and I can't even tell you how rare that idea is. Gotten your first kill and have a camel. And now we don't have to feed any monsters of balance you summon up. I think that is good for three days work.” she gave a nod.
“Well the real work starts now then I think.” I said as I pet the camel.