Jake was feeling excited and anxious for his first dungeon delve. The dungeon was split into 5 floors with every floor going 10 levels above the last one starting at level 10 on floor 1. Dungeons were a weird phenomenon. They pop up somewhere and there is no known way to create or destroy one. Monsters generally kept inside but sometimes one would wander out that’s why there were guards stationed outside. But usually monsters kept to their floor seemingly by instinct.
This particular dungeon had 5 monsters per floor for a total of 25 species. Today they would keep to the first floor which contains bullfrog’s , spiders , rats , goblins and kobolds. There were actually intelligent variants of goblins and kobolds that sometimes ambushed caravans , but dungeon spawned variants were not intelligent.
His stats were as follows:
Name:Jake Smith
Race: Human
Level: 12
Class: Chosen(Solaris)
Class: Adventurer
Class: Unlocked at level 25
Class: Unlocked at level 50
Strength: 25
Dexterity: 25
Intelligence:20
Wisdom: 20
Vitality:37
Skills:Eidetic memory(Chosen),Universal Language(Chosen) ,Average(Human), Identify(Adventurer)
Spells: Minor heal(Chosen)
He was accompanied by David and Maria as he entered the dungeon. To enter the dungeon you have to pay 50 silver and pay a tax of 1 item drop or 10% total value of your loot. This was to prevent overhunting from Adventurers. Because monsters respawned but not infinitely. As for loot, sometimes after clearing a room a chest appears with some loot in it. and the kobolds and goblins spawn with weapons some of which are good enough to be melted down or a bundle of spears can be handy for wood in some places where there are not a lot of trees.
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After they entered they were greeted by a sandstone brick hallway , and on the ceiling were magical wisps of light provided by the dungeon. At higher level floors there were no lights apparently but that becomes a problem after the monsters on a floor reach level 50. Most people had somebody in their party to take care of it by then.
As they continued walking along the hallway , Jake looked at the map of the dungeon which was provided to him . The dungeon consisted of square rooms in a 5 wide 5 long pattern for a total of 25 rooms. In which the middle room had a staircase going downstairs and the first room they entered being empty. Today they would go along the outer edge only meeting spiders , bullfrogs and rats which spawned there. Jake didn’t feel ready fighting Kobolds and Goblins yet because they were humanoid. The outer rooms generally were a single monster type but sometimes there would be a room with spiders on one side and bullfrogs on the other.
David generally lured the monsters 1 by 1 to him so he could fight them in the hallways while David and Maria kept the other monsters at bay. This way he slowly whittled down the 3 monsters. They had with them 1 backpack with a first aid kit and salves. They would put it down on the ground before fighting and then after fighting bring it with them.
He sadly only gained 1 level after his bout of dungeoneering , hitting home that slaying lower leveled monster gave diminishing returns. And they sadly got no chest but they took some bullfrog hide with them and some rat tails which apparently can be used in alchemy.
David explained: “We want to continue training you and leveling you till at least lvl 25 , after which we want you to get the librarian class. That class later on gets the ability to read books u have in a library quicker. U said the information retention part is not that useful for you. But the way this is used is by filling a room with reports of the kingdom and then reading it quickly. This way you can use your otherworldly knowledge to help us better the kingdom.”
“As for the last class, eventually at level 50 you can pick what you want. We advise dimension mage to ease your travels and help us inspect the kingdom. You can choose some dimensional storage and the ability to teleport. At lower levels they are a bit limited but it should help you in the long run. Because the dimensional ring you saw the merchant use is very expensive , enchanting has been progressing slowly and it’s still very hard to make those items are not widespread yet.”
Jake nodded “I will think about it , librarian sounds interesting I could see the use for that. I'm not sure about the last class yet but I think it will depend on what skills I will get from my chosen class.”
After finishing for the day Jake put the backpack in the corner of his room and went to sleep.
While Jake was sleeping a tiny spider the size of a nail slowly crawled out of the backpack.
It slowly crawled next to his on the night cabinet that was there , after which the spider morphed into a wooden chest about 1.5m meter tall and 1 meter wide. Next the wooden chest suddenly opened and showed a maw full of serrated teeth. Out of it shot a pseudopod/tongue of 1 meter on Jake's mouth , Jake woke up but could not react or make a sound before the chest pulled itself to his head and bit his head cleanly off.