POV Tom Harbinder

I did not enjoy handing over the spear to Rich. It meant a lot to Miltgon but if we could do this our future would be secured. I could see Rich activating some sort of charging ability, but I still didn't know how this could be enough. He has done his job beyond expectation so I must hope that he can go even beyond that.

I focused on the timer, and I had to curse. That fucking room with the monsters that wielded the scythe was a complete mess and cost us a lot of our time and resources. Next time Luana will have a spell prepared and I will have to talk with my informants because that problem was never mentioned. I could see that Luana was starting to wake up our healers truly are the best in this corner of the world.

I looked towards Rich, but he was completely focused on the spear, and it was now glowing quite brightly. I left him to do whatever he was going to do and walked back towards the others. I was proud of the team that I have put together they were the core of this company but I could see so many more growing up ready to protect our interests.

As I looked towards Luana, I felt a bit sad. She will soon be leaving us. Our deal was that she would be with us until she reached rank 2 and I will keep that promise but I never expected a raid dungeon to appear here.

First of all, it saved me multiple fortunes not having to pay for her dungeon carries so she could get to rank two now we can do it here and we will gain fortunes. Hopefully, we will get at least a few more runs before she tiers up but after that, we will not be able to clear the dungeon anymore. We will still be able to clear the first two floors to level up some weaker people but that would be it.

I was lost in my mind when I was jolted out of it. I looked towards Rich like everyone else and we all saw something incredible. I don’t know when, but he had dropped his shield and his helmet but more importantly the strength of that energy. It was so dense and so violent, and it was so close to rank two that I could almost taste it. How was he able to control it or even better how did you even have that? Something wasn't adding up, but I was not going to question anything. He might actually be able to do it.

He was backing up and then suddenly he exploded with movement. It was magnificent to see, and I could see the spear flying with purpose. When the sound came and then the explosion I was momentarily stunned. I looked at the clock and saw there were still over a minute left. I looked towards Miltgon and saw a single tear ran down his cheek. But I also saw acceptance and relief. It was truly a fitting end for any weapon.

Then came the message that I was waiting and had to hope that luck was with us, and we will get the best reward of free stat points. While the boss's armour pieces would be excellent it was nothing compared to free stat points.

I waited with bated breath and when the notification finally came, I had to let out a cry of victory. 15 free stat points, marvellous. I could hear the cheering all around me at least from people who could still celebrate quite a few of us were basically passed out.

I quickly looked towards the device that calculated the dungeon delve contributions and it didn’t come as a surprise that I saw Rich in second place just above me. Luana was in a comfortable lead but that was also quite understandable. It would mean that he would be getting a huge fortune and if we can repeat it, he would get so much coin that he could do whatever he wanted.

But then my celebration came to an end, and I saw we had less than 10 seconds before we were transported out. I wasn’t going to be able to hide the contributions and we haven’t informed him of assassins. Shit, I hadn’t expected him to do this well or be this helpful. Like for fuck sake how did he even have that much energy he should have ran out multiple times.

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I quickly moved towards him, and I was glad to see him collecting his equipment. “Rich we will be keeping your secrets, but your contribution score will still have to be revealed. I will have to go into a meeting with the adventuring guild so I will not be able to tell you this but watch out for assassins they will be trying to target the important raid members.” I said it in a rush but there was enough time for me to see him nod with a serious face before we were teleported out and it was back to meetings and trying to acquire the necessary potions and other resources.

POV Rich Dirt

I finally struggled up my body was completely exhausted, but I had to collect my gear. I couldn’t leave it lying around. It wasn't proper. When the system finally finished calculating the rewards, I received 28 free stat points. While perhaps some ability or trait would have been better to get free stat points was nice and just getting them on top of the dungeon clear that we were doing anyways was quite excellent.

I was still a bit lightheaded, but Tom gave me a warning about assassins, so I had to get a bit more serious. I cracked my neck but honestly, I was running on fumes. Hopefully, they won't attack immediately otherwise, yeah that would suck. Then I could feel something enveloping me and the next moment we were outside. I was tired but still incredibly glad that we were able to clear this raid dungeon so I joined in as much as I could with the others celebrating.

Our celebrations ended when we got back to our part of the camp. Strict orders were given for us to start recovering because as soon as everyone was ready which was hopefully in two days we will be delving again. That time frame was short, and I won’t be able to fill my energy core completely, but my regular energy will be filled up by the next day.

I will also need to recover mentally and physically. So, I went back to my tent where I was glad to see that I now had two guards in front of it keeping an eye out. I started to do stretches so my pained muscles would get some relief. I did decide to lay on the bed, but I went into meditation to try to hopefully speed up some of my core energy recuperation and also just help me recover better.

Before I did that, I pulled up my achievement page and I was quite glad about the improvements. All of my classes levelled up 4 times and a lot of my skills and abilities levelled up as well but there wasn't anything groundbreaking. If we were able to do a few more delves I might be able to reach level 40 for all my classes and hopefully be able to upgrade my current ones.

There weren’t any assassins that came to see me for the next two days and while I was generally ready for the next delve my core energy still wasn’t completely full. Nevertheless, this delve went better and we had plenty of time left when we finished off the last boss. I didn’t even have to throw the spear which I was a bit saddened about, but I was glad to see that they did buy another one that I would be able to use.

I was informed that the next delve will happen in three days because the slots were full and just after us the Queen's party was finally able to clear the dungeon as well. I learned that most likely no other local party will be able to clear the dungeon, but more and more people had shown up through the portal and now foreign teams were running the dungeon.

I was surprised to find out the reason why they hired me. One reason was that they believed that I would be able to help clear the three-boss room but mainly because if they hired any adventurer that wasn't local, they would lose their priority delve slots. If that happened, we might have only been able to enter the dungeon once before it was gone but now, we would most likely be able to get four or five clears.

The amount of money I have been making was stupid. From the first clear I was able to make 1357 beast cores of the standard size. The real number I received was a lot lower because there were better quality cores but if you put it into gold coins I basically made more than 100,000 from the first run alone.

At first, I was incredibly happy but when I found out that a decent piece of gear for a first rank cost between 10,000 and 20,000 gold my happiness decreased. Still, I was making bank. Of course the next run we made I made a lot less only about 50,000 but still good and I couldn’t wait until I could spend it all and keep delving to make some more.