I started to panic a little when the dungeon spoke to me since i've played games all my life where the dungeon is evil. What made it worse was I had low stats and couldn’t help but think that I was doomed. Thankfully logic kicked in and I was forced to think that this dungeon might be good since it didn’t outright attack me. Wait I’m now a wisp so it might not have attacked me because i’m technically a monster. As I was getting ready to speak the dungeon started to talk to me again only this time I could feel it bearing down on me.
(Dungeon): “I’ve never heard a wisp speck before nor have I heard the flagrant use of such profanity come from a lady. If you would be so kind as to how you found yourself inside me, I may help you. It even makes it weirded as you seem to be just born.”
I nearly panicked again but I seemed to have retained some of my self control from reincarnation. As I was about to open my non-existent lips to make an excuse about what happened something inside me seemed to raise a death flag. Deciding to be truthful with the dungeon I opened up started speaking.
(Dark): “Ah, yeah, sorry. Well you see I died in my world and woke up here as a wisp, i’m kind of panicking a bit and don’t know much about what happened other than that.”
The sense of pressure seemed to lift from me and just as it was gone there was a sudden silence and I started to wonder why didn’t the dungeon see to me when I woke up here, it did say I was inside it. As I pushed that thought to the back of my head the dungeon started to speak to me again.
(Shade): “You seem to be telling the truth, and you're also aren’t a threat to me. At least not at that level, so i’ll tell you this. My name is Shade, the shade dungeon and as I said before you are in the world of Ohmaze a monster world. I will help you if you make a deal to protect me from pesky adventurers from Folous. If not I will not hesitate to kill you if you don't leave. What do you say little Darkness?”
As I was getting my bearings it took me a little bit of time to process what the dungeon just said. When it all settled in I decided that its deal was to vague and I needed more information and if I don’t ask now I could be trapped here or killed if i’m not cautious.
(Dark): “ I’d prefer if you call me Dark instead, and is it ok if I ask some questions about this deal and some other things?”
(Shade): “Interesting, most beings would have either accepted or declined right away especially since i’m a shadow dungeon. Very well ask away, but be careful with what you ask madam as you may not like the answer.”
(Dark): “Ah… yes. How long would this deal last and when you say protect what exactly does that entail? Could you tell my what exactly I am? And what is a novice dungeon?”
As I rambled on too much the dungeon went silent for a minute and then its booming voice resounded in my very being.
(Shade): “You really were telling the truth that you're from another world Haha! Anyway this deal would last 90 days which is when the new adventurers finish this year's training all you have to do is keep them from getting to my dungeon core and boss room. During this time I will also provide requirements for you such as food stuff and a place to rest, if needed. This will also entail you to kill or maim these individuals, under the deal you will not be able to truly kill these people but you can still die as you are not a true part of me. You as a wisp a very basic monster of a found in shade dungeons and one of the 3 types of dungeon monster if you want more information on what you are focus on your race in the stats. And a novice dungeon is a place where new adventures and monsters find themselves going to inorder to get stronger and find loot, which I create. Anything else?”
(Dark): “You said there’s 3 types of monster what did you mean?”
(Shade): “The 3 types of monster are:
1) created which are mostly the monsters you find in dungeons or summoned by a wizard.
2)Monsters which are born like the way you were spontaneous from a soul finding its way into a dungeon.
3)Lastly there is monsters birthed from another of their race, this one rarly happened in the wild but is common in a monster worlds with few or dungeons. Folous is one of these worlds, Ohmaze in a not.
Now do we have a deal?”
Feeling more confident and sure I was making the right decision I was almost sure that making this deal would be the best thing for me. There was just one thing that could change my mind.
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(Dark): “Maybe, can I ask why you didn’t notice me right away if i’m that interesting?”
(Shade): “You are an do one Darkness that’s for sure. The reason it took me so long to notice you was that I was in the middle of controlling my boss stopping adventurers beating me. It was tough to notice you since I was focused on the fight.”
Satisfied with what he said and sensing no ill will I made up my mind and it is predictable but safer at least for now.
(Dark): “Ok you have a deal, but only if I can roam around on my own.”
(Shade): “Fair enough” suddenly a light seemed to envelop me and I could feel that I was connected to the dungeon. “Since your a soul from another world do you know what skeletons and zombies look like?” with a quick yea he continued to speak “Good all you have to do is kill the Merrow that come into this dungeon along with anything other than the zombies and skeletons. Oh Merrow a fish people if you didn’t understand, little Darkness. You may now wander about but I advice you find a way to get stronger since the average level of the Merrow is 6.”
With that he stopped talking and let me think for myself. I could ‘feel’ the dungeon and it was strange I had a strong feeling that I want to protect this place and it made me feel odd about this place. It was the desire to protect like it was an expensive collectable rather than the desire to protect because you care, it was unusual.
With the deal in place I felt like I was free to wander but I could tell that leaving would break the deal I just made. I didn’t know where to go or what to do and as I was thinking the wooden door to the room was opened. From the conversation I just had I already knew this place had skeletons but it was another thing to see one in person open a door for you then walk away. Logically it was Shade that used the skeleton to open the door, that just made me realise how weak I am since focusing on the skeleton caused a sign to pop up saying…
Skeleton LV 5
Basic skeleton the most common monster found in dark attribute dungeons.
Skill Discovered
ObserveBeginner1
This skill allows the user to discover info about a target.
As soon as the information popped up, I was reminder of the issue that I don’t truly know who strong I am. Sadly I was shown to be extremely weak as the skeleton turned away and walk faster than I could move. I tried not to dwell on that and decided to look at my status and focus on my race and as I did that a pleasant window popped up.
Profound wisp
A wisp is a small weak monster which is almost unable to defend itself until it is at least level 10, however this is a profound wisp and as a profound being has the power to gain skills and resistances faster than most beings would find possible. Profound beings as a variant of there race which look like others of their race until they evolve which tend to be into unique beings. Since profound beings are unique they can also evolve twice once at level 25 once at level 50. Profound being gain EXP 10% slower than their normal counterpart.
If I had a face i'd be grinning like a madman but I didn’t and then looked at my stats making myself realise how weak I am. I wanted that to change so I started to eat all of the Shade glass in the room before leaving, gathering 2134 AEXP. I still didn’t have enough for mana regen or any of the other attributes besides the basic stats so I ended up gaining 2 STR, 4 VIT and 2 AGI while storing the rest of my AEXP for later. I also found I can now move as fast as the skeleton did earlier when walking now and that VIT seems to correlate with Health at 10 Health per VIT point.
Status Screen
LUC
Name N/A Level 1 Race Wisp Gender Female Title Foreign Soul Health 10/10 Health Regen 1% per Min Mana 100/100 Mana Regen 1% per Min Stamina N/A-------------------- STR 3INT10 VIT 5WIS10 AGI 510AEXP151--------------------Skill List
Wisp Arts Beginner level 1
Exp Conversion(variant) Max level
Observe Beginner level 1
Why do I have a bad feeling about the halls outside this room?