Elizabeth was running down the streets towards the sounds of a fight. She had left Jake on his orders to find her other companions. As she approached the fight, she scaled a building and observed the ongoing fight. It seemed Franky was directing a group of small rodents with his staff while Harald and Albert were holding back the enemy to give Franky more time, for what Elizabeth didn’t know. Seeing that there was no real danger, she sat back and watched from a distance. Five minutes later Franky shouted, “let the many become whole.” As he said this, the rats merged into one monster three times the size of anyone on the battlefield. Elizabeth quickly identified the monster.
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Race wererat
Level 300
“He made a bloody wererat.” Elizabeth gasped as she said this. The wererat turned towards the horde and launched itself straight into the centre of it, tearing apart more enemies than Harald or Albert could in the same amount of time.
After a minute, she went down and tell them about the door to the boss’ room. She jumped off of the building, landing right beside Franky in a hero pose.
“I always wanted to do that. We have found the boss room Jake is waiting for u–.” Elizabeth was cut off by a notification that popped up in front of here.
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Dungeon boss defeated items have been added to your storage ring. If you have not reached the boss’ room before Jake Everval enters the new floor, you will be teleported directly to the third floor. As you won’t have entered the floor through the boss’ room, your arrival location will be set as random.
Elizabeth looked up at the others and simply said, “see you later” then ran off. The group of three broke contact with the enemy and followed.
The group ran as fast as they could to get to the door before Jake left. Once they got there, all four of them burst through the door at once. Jake sat in the centre of the room looking at his hand when he said to the four.
“took you long enough. Did you really think I was going to leave without you?”
“Well, if I’m not mistaken, you also said you would wait, but here we are. Us four entered the boss’ room and what do we find, you sitting on the floor in the middle of all this?” Elizabeth gestured around the room, dead bodies everywhere.
“Ok, fair enough. I just needed to test something out.”
Elizabeth got excited for a second as she asked, “did you get it to work?”
“Not exactly, but the skill has its merits. I think I can work with it.”
“Are you two going to explain what you’re talking about?” Harald asked.
“It doesn’t matter. Shall we get going?” Elizabeth said as she walked towards the next door. Pushing it open, she looked back at the others standing behind her and stepped through.
Splash!
All five of them fell out of the sky and landed in the middle of a swamp, tadpoles scattering everywhere. On a reed covered island, two human sized frogs both holding a spear looked on as these invaders destroyed one of the sacred breeding ponds. The two frogs jumped into action. Jumping from each side, the water exploded as the two landed. Seconds later the water erupted as a flash of green leapt out of the water followed by three more flashes than as the waters surface settled two unmoving objects floated to the surface one was a large green frog and the other a vampire with a spear sticking out of her chest. Jake popped up beside her
“I’m sorry I didn’t see them coming.” Jake murmured through gritted teeth. Jake pulled out a healing potion, but as he raised it towards her mouth, she raised a hand to stop him. “It won’t work. I’ve been stabbed through the heart. It’s a vital point in all vampires.” She laughed, only for blood to be expelled from her mouth.
“Probably shouldn’t laugh.” Jake said, holding her hand
“It’s just funny, if I was still a converted, I would still be fine.”
“that’s right. If it wasn’t for you meeting me, you would still be alive. It’s all my fault. I should have never agreed to take you all in here. What was I thinking? How could I protect you if I couldn’t even protect myself? Little lone four others. How do I continue after all this?” Elizabeth looked up at the tears rolling down Jake’s cheek. She gestured for Jake to come closer. Jake lent down as Elizabeth spoke softly into his ear. “You are a lot stronger now than you were when you entered this dungeon.you just need to release some of that burden that’s weighing you down,” she lent up and kissed Jake on the cheek. “Thank you.” She whispered before her head splashed back into the water as she took one last breath, dying right in Jake’s arms.
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A white light left Elizabeth’s body as an ethereal image of Elizabeth stretched over Jack and the lifeless body. “don’t cry for me.” Elizabeth thought. She reached down, placing a hand on Jake’s back just before fading out of existence, leaving behind only the memory of herself. In the hearts of those she left behind.
Jake stood over the grave of the late Elizabeth, high on an island out of the swampy terrain below them and in his hand lay her storage ring
“I can only fight alone from here on out. As for after I complete this fucken dungeon, I will only fight alongside my wife.” Jake said as he tied the ring to a pile of stones he found and used as a crave marker. He had removed the remaining items she had stored in them and placed them in his ring.
Jake was not stupid enough to think he would never be in a situation where allies would be in the same area as him, but he would not fight with them. He would fight alone, never putting himself in a situation like this again.
“I promise you, after I am finished here, I will not summon your fellow vampires to fight alongside me. Nor will I bring any more people into my fold. I will hand over any power I have over people to my closest aides. I will never lead people again. It clearly isn’t my thing.” As Jake said this, notifications started popping up in front of him.
Notification
Renounce ownership of territorial power
You have renounced your ownership of territorial power on earth and hand over power to Emma Moore, hand of the demon of the past and Jayne Everval. Would you like to continue? Yes/no.
Notification
Renounce political power over the demon’s hand mercenary group and hand over full power to Erica Blake and Jayne Everval and limited power for all branch leaders, present and future. Would you like to continue? Yes/No.
Warning by selecting yes, you will be unable to change or influence any part of the demon’s hand mercenary group. You will still hold the highest rank but with no political power.
As he selected yes to both of them, he felt as if a sudden weight had been lifted from his back. Now, he could live his life as he wants to and not feel weighed down by the constant pressure that had been building around him. He was now free to take contracts, just like he wanted from the start of all this.
Jake said his last goodbyes to the lovely vampire before setting off into the swamp alone, with a small smile on his face.
Erica
In her office on the moon, Erica read the notifications that she just received. She smiled to herself then said, “it’s about time he figured it out. This is why you have us. We take on these things for you so you can grow, master.” the lady across the room looked over at Erica confused then asked “is everything alright my lady?”
“Yes, everything is fine. How are the new ships coming along? What were they called again?”
“There called runabouts my lady, and right now we are able to pump out around ten a day if we stick with the designs that man Harry said to use but if we use this other one we should be able to double the production speed.”
“What was that name of that one again and no, don’t give me that runabout bullshit?”
“It’s called meat, but in the name’s defence, the other one is called death trap and we’re still building it.”
Erica replied with “a death trap is just a trap as for meat that is saying you are already dead. We will stick with the variants Harry said to use.”
“Also, get some rings together and fill them with runabouts so they can be ready for when Jake comes back, make twenty of the death trap variants and as many as you can in the meat variant, that should be a good start as a backup supply.”
“Yes, my lady.” The assistant said. “My lady, would it be right to say we will be adding ammunition as well?”
“Yes, we would need a good supply of ammunition. Also, find some low-ranking mercenaries and prepare them to be sent to Earth once the founder returns. I would like to test if we can send people back with him. Make it a small team, a maximum of 5 people, all equipped with weapons and runabouts. Once they are on the other side, they will be taking their orders from someone called Jayne Everval, and they are not to interfere with Jake once they are there.”
The assistant left moments later, leaving Erica alone in the office for the first time in a week.
“Time to go on another raid.”
Dungeon
On the third floor of the dungeon, three vampires were chasing down the creature that attacked them. The group was moving so fast that they didn’t realise where this creature was leading them; they had entered the boss’ room through a back-door of sorts. One could call it a hidden portal used only by the dungeon’s creatures. Now in the distance stood an enormous structure resembling an old Mayan temple and at the top stood a larger-than-life frog with two guards on each side of its towering figure. The group hit the bottom steps to the temple; they all looked up at the towering frog. The frog they were chasing lowered its head to the ground and said with absolute reverence,
“My queen, these invaders destroyed one of the sacred breeding ponds and killed my companion. I request your assistance in killing them.”
The queen looked down from her throne and crocked out a response.
“You two kill them and bring me their heads.”
Franky quickly identified the group
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Race swamp frog guard
Level 400
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Race swamp frog queen’s guard
Level ???
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Race swamp frog queen’s guard
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Race swamp frog queen
Level ???
Frankys face went pale as he turned to the others mouthing the word run as his head was separated from his body this all seemed to happen in slow motion to the other two vampires Albert slowly turned to look at Harald only to see a spear stab through Haralds chest Albert turned to leave only for his forward momentum turned into downwards force as the queen held her hand out pinning Albert to the ground as her guards slit the vampires throat with their daggers as they grasped hold of his hair. Ripping his head right off.
“Bring them up here and put them with the others.”
The two guards rammed the three heads in spikes that wrapped around the top of the temple with ten others, their blood colouring the steps red as a warning to anyone that would even dare to go up against the queen of the swamp.