The Teleportation Circles are one of the few half-technological half-magic devices used commonly in Dystopia. The circles let you teleport from one point to another. The more magic inputted into the circle the higher up it send you. There is a limit to the amount of magic you can input without sending yourself too high. These limits are called 'safeguards' and they never let a person put over 500 Magical Power into the device at one time. 250 Magical Power sends you up about one regular floor in a dungeon. People with less than 250 magical power can still use the circles with the help of somebody with over five hundred or a 'mana battery'.

There are also circles that send you from one city to another no matter how far they are. These are called 'City Portals' and require a vast amount of mana. There are usually Portal Keepers to help you use them if you have not enough Magical Power.

- From the Books of Devices, page 750.

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It's currently midnight and the only thing that gives me light is the moon and that is not a lot. I can see though thanks to magical power and other things. I cannot sleep because this is a new enviroment and I don't trust a former dungeon a lot right now. It might collapse...

I look around and wait till sun rises so I can see better and do things without causing too much attention from the bandits around here. I have nothing to do and I put a window near my bed so I count starts in the sky. There are a lot more than in the world I was in before... There are also no Divine Constellations in the sky...

*creak*

Was that my door opening? Don't tell me it was my door opening... I look at the door and spot Fyra in her sleepwear... She seems half-asleep though...

Mithneel: "Fyra? What are you doing here?"

Fyra starts slowly walking towards my bed.

Mithneel: "Umm... Fyra?"

When Fyra reaches my bed she falls asleep under the blanket. I try to wake her up but nothing works. I notice the door is still open but... Ren and Meril are there... Coming towards my bed too... Half-asleep... What is going on? This isn't their usual behavior, sneaking into my bed... Hmm... I wonder if something is troubling them in the dungeon... Wait... I let the Princess sleep on the same floor as... Fyra...

Meril and Ren come to my bed and go under the blanket and fall asleep. The door is still open and Julia comes through it before closing it. She is half-asleep too...

Mithneel: "Umm... Girls... What is this little surprise?"

Julia walks towards my bed and does the same as the three others...

Mithneel: "There deffinetly is something influencing them.... I barely know Julia and she climbed into my bed half-asleep too..."

I put my head back on the pillow after trying absoloutely everything to wake them up. I even splashed a little bit of water on their faces but they just shrugged it off asleep... I can't see any mana strands... Might be because it's dark.

I 'sleep' on the bed until the girls wake up at the same time for some reason... When they wake up they look around and then notice they are not in their rooms. They then look who is next to them and see me just laying down.

Mithneel: "Took you all long enough. You know it's hard to get comfy when there are four girls who just suddenly sleepwalk into your bed and won't wake up."

Ren: "Sleepwalking? We don't sleepwalk..."

Mithneel: "You all entered through that door half-asleep."

Julia looks at me and then realizes what happened and slaps me and runs away. That is one way to do it... Meril is blushing but seems to enjoy this moment, Fyra does the same as Julia. Ren is reasonable and is thinking while blushing. Fyra and Julia just run out the door and back to their rooms probably.

Mithneel: "Aren't you two going to slap me and run away?"

Ren: "No. I was already waiting until you asked me to sleep in the same room with you... I am prepeared. Though it was a shock to wake up in your bed all of a sudden."

Meril: "No... Why should I? If what you say is true... Then it was me at fault. And I don't think you lied."

Could be my deception skill but I did not lie right now. What point is there in lying at this moment? It makes things a lot worse.

Mithneel: "Well... We better get up and check on Fyra and Julia. They are probably really confused and troubled right now."

Ren: "True. I must go back to my room though... It seems while sleepwalking I only wore sleepwear and did not take anything else."

Meril: "Yeah let's go, Ren. I have to go only one floor below you anyways."

The girls go outside to their floors and I get up aswell. I am already dressed because I rarely take off my clothes while sleeping. Gotta be ready for anything what happens... Well I wasn't ready for the girls to suddenly show up in my room but who could've thought that they all would have the same idea? Maybe Meril I can understand, she is more aggressive... But Julia and Fyra? No way. They'd rather chain themselves to a wall and stay there for a day or two than sneak into my room... I think...

Mithneel: "Aah! I don't care! Women are hard to understand!"

I go outside my room and see Artimael laughing outloud. Now I understand.. It was him. Most certainly!

Mithneel: "Arti!!! It was you right!?"

Artimael: "Yes, it was. It was payback for making me brainwash the entire town and all the surroundings aswell! You just had to show off!"

Mithneel: "Sorry... But seriously... All the girls? Not just Fyra,Ren and Meril... Even Julia?"

Artimael: "I included everybody on the top six floors. Be lucky there were no female assassins... That would've been even funnier to be honest. A female assassin sleeping on the job and right next to the target aswell."

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Mithneel: "Well.. That's that. It was a sight to see indeed... All the girls just showing up half-asleep and climbing into my bed. It was not fun getting slapped twice... Well it didn't hurt one bit due to my strength but still... It hurt my soul? Maybe? I don't know. Just felt weird getting slapped by two girls who are probably going to be my future wives."

Artimael: "Yeah."

Mithneel: "What are you doing here anyways? Were you following me the entire time?"

Artimael: "I was researching this tower but then you suddenly came and cleared the entire dungeon and claimed the tower. Then I heard you made a battalion!"

Mithneel: "Yeah, I did make a battalion. Scythes of the End."

Artimael: "Can I join too? I get constantly asked to join a battalion when I just save somebody from a weak monster."

Mithneel: "Why not? You are my friend and my rival. Keep your friends closer but keep your rivals even closer. In this case... I don't know how close I should keep you... You are a friend and rival."

Artimael: "Not romantically close. Best friend close."

Mithneel: "Upcourse not romantically. I have four women."

Artimael: "What are you planning to do anyways?"

Mithneel: "Upgrading my Battalion to an Adventurer Guild. I hate being looked down... Well nobody knows of us so they don't look down on us yet. But if we stall the upgrade by trying to just improve ourselves we would deffinetly be looked down upon. And the quests aren't even probably hard..."

Artimael: "So you are going to see the Guild Master?"

Mithneel: "You know about that too?"

Artimael: "News gets around fast here."

Mithneel: "Well... Let's get the girls together and get going then."

I head one floor down and knock on the main floor door for Fyra's and Julia's room. Fyra and Julia get along very well apparently... And Julia didn't want to sleep alone and Fyra asked if she going stay in her room so I had to accept.

I hear a lot of noise coming from the inside of the room and things falling over... Chairs? Yeah I think a chair or two fell down. They are running everywhere trying to find clothes huh?

I wait for a while until the door opens and Fyra and Julia are fully dressed. Julia in her armor and Fyra in the robes Arti gave her.

Mithneel: "You two ready? We are going to upgrade the guild by the way."

Fyra: "I am ready for anything."

Julia: "What Fyra said."

I nod and go down the other two floors and get Ren and Meril to come with us too. When we head to the bottom floo Yel is already there.

Mithneel: "Yel! Perfect timing!"

Yel: "Minh! Perfect Timing!"

Ah... We said it at the same time.

Mithneel: "You go first."

Yel: "Thanks, Minh. Well... There is a commotion in the Main Guild. About your new-founded Battalion's headquarters. They say it is too big and that it should be split up evenly between every battalion in the city."

Mithneel: "Tell them to come and try take it from me."

Yel: "Alrighty... Now to your request."

Mithneel: "I need a quest. To make the Battalion an Adventurer Guild."

Yel: "Already? Isn't it too soon?"

Mithneel: "Nah. Just give me one and I'll do it really fast."

Yel: "Ah, then there is one. There is a problem with a dragon on a mountain near here. It recently awoke like another dragon we have heard about and has caused a lot of trouble, mainly destroying villages. We need somebody to take care of it and it seems you are going to do it."

Mithneel: "A dragon huh? Fine by me."

I summon my scythe and put it on my back in a vertical way on my right side to quickly grab it with my right hand. The scythe's blade goes towards the left side so it looks cooler.

Yel: "Good Hunting."

I walk away with my small party what is fully-armored now. It seems they already expected me to take a quest of some kind. We walk through the town. I ask people where the mountain is because I forgot to ask Yel and it is apparently in the direction we are going. South... Nice. The White Tower is like a central place in the city.

We walk for a while and everybody clears a way for us. It seems they think we are a normal band of adventurers but... Not really. I mean I could slaughter this entire area very easily if I wished to. Artimael could do the same. Ah... I forgot to tell Yel... I'll do that later.

We walk for three hours until we reach the mountain. I can see the peak but apparently the others can't. I can also see the Dragon looking at us from the dragon's den.

The Dragon is a huge dark-brown coloured Mountain Dragon. It seems that it's wing span is long and that is a really old one based on it's claw length. The claw length is basically three fully-grown men put ontop of eachother and I don't even want to know how sharp those are. Not enough to cut my skin but probably enough to cut everybody but Arti's skin. The Dragon is glaring at us with ill-intent but I release my own killing pressure at it making it quiet down by a lot. It seems to look back at it's cave and then at us. It seems to be thinking about retreating into it's little cave huh? There is no way that there are babies in there because by the outlook of the dragon this one is a male. It has the signature Red Plate on it's forehead so it must be a male. Females have a black plate on their heads but a shadow one has a white plate.

The dragon tries to turn around but I stop time and appear infront of it. Shall I let the girls handle this until it gets too dangerous and I have to step in? Yeah... That sounds like the best course of action.

I kick the dragon down the mountain and it stumbled for a long time until it finally hits the ground.

It's time for some... Dragon hunting.