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Frank was watching his minions explore the 3 races cities picking up skills and paying masters to teach them skills. The dwarves were the easiest to get to teach his minions he just had to buy them booze and out drink them. Skeletons never got drunk so he always won he already started moving thousands of tons of mithral to the little workshop ready for when he mastered blacksmithing.

He also manipulated humans to get what he wanted…. He had his skeletons playing instrument but felt it was different from when living creatures played so he decided before he left to kidnap some.

He also loved dragons they were the reason he was powerful and he wanted some pets to keep him company. He had his minions in the human kingdom put up 15 billion gold for 4 dragon eggs knowing there greed would make them get the dragon eggs.

He had some of each spy group become adventures to unlock skills and find secrets. They entered a dungeon and to him it felt weak but he could tell it had knowledge…. He had his minion kill the group of 5 adventures he entered with.

Frank “hello there dungeon you now have a choice trade with me or die”

Dungeon “I will trade. what do you want?”

Frank “all your skills and knowledge in return for mana generators”

Dungeon “I accept”

Frank then got the knowledge and skills. He created 200 mana slimes and had them escorted over by his skeletons. Frank made a new goal for his spies find old and knowledgeable dungeons to trade with. He would kill the rest … his favourite skill he got was:

outpostmastery level 1: 1%description: a skill that lets you make dungeons that will be managed by an artificial intelligence these outposts send all generated mana back to the main dungeon body when not in use. Can be controlled by main dungeon consciousness at any time along with boss monster.

Frank was ecstatic no longer would he just have to visit worlds he could leave a piece of himself there. He could even cause chaos without having to risk anything as he could always make more outposts even empty ones would make mana slowly over time.

Frank had a big problem soon too much mithral dwarves wouldn’t sell mithral just to let it sit there so he had to make a 10,000 mile wide hole under the blacksmith to hold all the mithral it took a week before he could get mithral shipments again.

Frank would have been angry but during that week he had levelled up blacksmithing.

blacksmithing mastery 100: 100%

Frank was happy now all he had to do was wait till he had all the skills he wanted at mastery and then slowly but surely build his new body. When it was finished he would kidnap any one he wanted to keep him entertained on his journey. As well as steal entire libraries and treasures entire kingdoms would go to war for.

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We were a party of A rank adventures there were 20 of us. but there were very few quests worth our time for the money we got. Then we saw a jackpot 4 dragon eggs for 15 billion yes it was tuff but even the king only offered 1 billion for a dragon egg years ago.

We went back to our inn and told our group we had found a quest worth our time and effort, we knew we couldn’t kill the dragons but we could keep them distracted while 4 of us took the eggs and run, we had to send 4. 2 as guards and 2 to carry the eggs.

It took as a day to push our way into the nest avoiding all of the attacks. We had hired 30 healers for this mission it cost us 1 billion but our lives were worth it. We only got hit twice but if we had a single healer less we would be dead. It took us 6 days after we got the eggs to retreat. The dragons became more fierce and dangerous once we had the eggs.

We got away by the end of the 6th day. We got a message saying they arrived at the guild but they had to go to the client’s house to get payed. They wanted me there as insurance as anyone that rich could pay for our deaths and steal the eggs.  

5 of us went to deliver the eggs. When we arrived it was a small cabin in the woods. We were unsure if it was the right place but it was were the map marked. We knocked.

Fake old man “come in”

We entered the house and it was nice it looked luxurious inside

Adventure jack “we are here about the quest”

Fake old man “witch quest? I have 3 out there”

Jack “the dragon eggs one”

Old man “only a week I am impressed I thought it would take longer”

Jack “well do you have the money for the quest?”

Old man “of course”

Jack he then spoke in a strange language and a small butler looking man came in carrying a bag. He then extended his hand out for me to check it was gold.

Old man “the dragon eggs please”

I looked in the bag and then at the old man’s eyes I knew all the gold was there. He had eyes that said this is nothing to me… people like that always pay in full so you will do more quests for them.

Jack “here are the eggs”

I went to move forward but the butler stopped me took the eggs and then left somewhere.

Old man “do not worry about him he is just taking them home”

Little did we know we would be seeing a lot of that old man and his butler at that time. As soon as we left we saw another group of adventures coming carrying tones of skill books. We knew this old man was clearly richer than we knew.

We got back to the guild and there were another 3 quests put up by him. We even saw his butler leaving and we decided then and there to do as many of this old man’s quests as possible. The risks were high but the rewards were more than worth it.