Chapter 38) Smite makes right. Or, The unbearable lightness of Josh.

So knowing that the new boss, whose name couldn’t really be O’sailor… I should have asked about that while I had the chance. Anyways, I was on a time limit.

One, a body. A skeleton was a good scout since the normal tier one undead didn’t react to it, but the higher ranked ones would come after me as a group if I got their attention.

A goblin didn’t have any advantages other than being able to talk, while a wisp would be able to fly which let them scout and talk, but then I couldn't carry anything through the gate.

Come to think of it… I checked the entrance room, but showing back up in my Dungeon in a body didn’t make anything new appear. I knew that already, didn't I? But confirmation was good, I guess nothing new appeared since it was the same body I had left in.

So I guess I had to switch to a… Shoot, how do get out of a Wisp? Drowning one might work, eventually. But falling wouldn't, I don’t think I even can fall.

Darn it, this was going to make her mad again.

I raced back to Terri's dungeon and dropped down to where she was floating in front of a small green person only as I dipped down and it began moving that I was able to figure out Terri's monsters, at least the goblin, was a gal.

She sort of jiggled a little as it jumped up and down trying to knock me out of the air with its club.

Still a guy in here. We notice stuff like that, we had no choice really.

Terri sounded surprised to see me. "Tex?" and I started talking quickly before surprise turned to anger. "Sorry, sorry, sorry. I don't know how to get this guy killed in order to get out of him. Is it okay if I let your little green gal beat me to death?"

I was hoping giving her the opportunity to have her employee smack me around with a stick might make up for all the trouble I had brought her, and I think she saw the humor in it since she let out a little laugh.

“Sure Tex, but since you got me experimenting.” A Panel appeared in front of her. “Dismiss.”

I was pulled free in a flashback to my own dungeon, back in the same old familiar spot.

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“Well… that happened. Nice to know I can kick out an unwelcome guest.”

Setting down in the start room, I called up a Mr. Bones, loaded him up, and ran down the hall and through the gate to Tesero.

Where I emerged to find Matt, Drew, and a big beefy looking guy, with beefy meaning carrying some weight with some muscle as well, standing around.

Beefy’s white hair showed up so well on his dark skin that I was able to notice that it was going a little thin at the sides of his forehead for the brief time I was there. I also saw that he had a set of the leather armor with metal plates on it, a mace, shield, backpack, and new to me, a disk of white enameled metal with a white rope tied through a loop at the top to let him hang it around his neck.

Turning to see me standing there, he shouted, grabbed the disk around his neck, and yelled. "Smite!”

The metal lit up with a bright white light… and then I was floating above my dungeon again.

“What the…”

Terri had said that the village place had people from other dungeons, so Mr. Smite goes to Washington must be from another dungeon… and reacted with a skill when he saw a walking dead man pop out of a gate.

Should I give the guys a moment over there… no, I need to get over before it gets past dawn.

This time I came through in the body of a Wisp since I didn't need to carry anything, and as soon as I came through I headed up high towards the ceiling and behind a still standing support pillar, just in case the new guys light bright worked on Fay creatures as well.

Matt called out after I went flying off “Tex?”

I drifted out a little from behind the pillar, just enough to see the three of them all looking up at me.

He laughed. "You're good, we're just explaining things to Josh, our healer, and undead Smiter."

I turned around to see Josh giving me a confused look. “You’re a dungeon?”

They filched at the sound of the Wisp's shrill voice. "A Guide. In a Will o Wisp's body."

The three of us, being me, Matt, and Drew, began to tag team the new guy as we filled him in.

“Well, that’s a lot to absorb. I guess I don’t want to blame Faith too much, she said I was the first person she had gotten in her dungeon and apologized if she missed anything on her first day. She let me choose which three spells I wanted to unlock, so I took Smite, Heal, and Light and passed on Aura of Innocence which she said would make it hard for people to hit me as long as I didn’t hit them.”

He hefted his mace up in the air. "God helps those who deal with their problems. I'd rather hit first rather than count on some woo woo magic to save me."

I did the bob up and down thing to get his attention. "So what is your class, and what did you get to unlock other than spells?"

Josh perked up a bit. “Acolyte. And all I got was my armor, shield, and my mace while I was fighting a skinny little green girl. Faith said the only other option she had was to teach either Acolytes of Light or Darkness. And she chose Light."

After some discussion, we agreed to meet back at the temple at noon, while the two Fighters got Josh leveled up on the Skeletons that didn’t do anything for them anymore. Instead, they were going to focus on knocking them down or breaking their limbs so that Josh had an easy time finishing them off.

Meanwhile, I had some scouting to do.

Heading out, I circled around the neighborhood while whistling above the head of the legion of tier one skeletons to get their attention, although I think flying low is what did it, that I then led back towards the church.

After I saw the three guys leave the temple to start shooting fish in a barrel where they stood at the end of the temple grounds, I went towards the Barricade, going higher and higher as I went.

Outside… It looked like it had been a while since anyone had been all that worried about the city.