...And the angels looked down from heaven and desired the women on earth. But He was not happy. Who cares if He was anyway? The angels mated with the human women and their children were called...
-The ravings of a deranged priest.
"This is the dungeon"
Troy was a level 68 priest. In real life, he was Salem Magi - a 28 year old architect. Despite graduating from university with good grades, Salem found it impossible to gain clients for architectural firm he owned. Besides, in his country, there didn't seem to be many people looking for architects as people did not usually build houses. They bought houses. After all, building a house took a long time, at the least, a year. It was too long for a family that wanted to immediately move into a house
Thus, Royal Road was very important to him. It was a way for him to gather clients. It was his gold mine.
However, the capsule was very expensive and while the monthly payments were not as expensive as the capsule was. They required a person working part time to go without many expenses for that month. It was definitely impossible for him, who was essentially unemployed to pay the cost.
He got a part time job at the store in his neighbourhood in order to pay for the monthly fees. In order to pay for the capsule, he borrowed money from his parents (something he swore never to do when he walked out on them after they disagreed with him on his choice of employment). But Royal Road was worth it. It was an opportunity he could not miss. Also, it was a load of fun.
There was a rumour of a skeleton dungeon which gave massive experience and drops no matter how many times you entered it. It was a bit dangerous but if you survived and defeated the boss the rewards were amazing. More amazingly, the dungeon seemed to be for players between levels 40 and 100. It was a great way to level up quickly. However, many players scoffed at such an idea. For there to be a dungeon like that without any special requirements was impossible.
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When Troy heard about the dungeon, he immediately knew that this was his chance to level up quickly. Apparently, he really joined the right guild. They had the same thought as him.
However, at the moment, another guild was in control of that dungeon. Naturally, his guild did not appreciate this and decided to 'help' them out by taking it off their hands. It wasn't even considered a conflict. The other guild was that weak.
So far, the dungeon had been a disappointment. True, skeletons were difficult to defeat. For the uninformed that is. But for the level 72 mage that was Chile, it was a piece of cake. Apparently, when skeletons weren't commanded by a necromancer or lich it was possible for them to be defeated with fire. Just like normal corpses.
Truly a disappointment, this was what Troy felt. He was in a party of 3- him, Chile and Chakus a level 69 warrior. With Chakus providing offence, Chile supplying defense and him replenishing their health and mana, they were a well balanced basic team. He understood that the dungeon was used by people at a lower level than he was but he had expected that there would be something useful for himself here. Just a lot of rubbish then. useless hype. However, as he was thinking of this, he and his party had unknowingly activated a trap and fell through a pit. Dammit, if only we had a trap setter.
I knew when the idiots fell into the hole. Surprised. Once in a while I liked to play pranks on the people entering my Dungeon. It usually happened after I died. Last time, a couple of skeletons disguised themselves and drained my victims of their HP. As a result, when they reached me, I was able to use them as stress relief. They were so drained, they weren't even able to see me as I threw needles from a distance.
In case anyone is wondering, my name is Ring and I am the Boss Monster of this dungeon. I think I've died...149 times and no, i'm not a lich or a necromancer.