It was an ordinary night in the planes of Eccanan, a world where the war of mages had recently ended. The war cost the planet almost all forms of magic and it was a rarity for the other children of my planet to gain any form of magic no matter how weak. There was a single arch-mage with great power remaining, Alkanor. He was living in solitude during the war, not wanting to waste power on "a useless war of minor beings". He was storing his magical energy for something far more devastating, kidnapping all the children of Eccanan and making them believe the lie that it was a dream and the monsters of the dungeons were not able to hurt them, and they believed, they believed so much that many died at the hands of the foul beasts the few thousand that survived were sent into the next dungeon and recieved a number.

My number is 3115 i don't remember my real name yet I've been called xec for years by the wizard alkanor. I've managed to get to dungeon level 902 soon i shall get to the final level and teach the wizard a lesson for the many years of pain and suffering I have faced. many of my comrades have died along the way and now i am the last one who can reach him, i know not when i shall die nor if shall fulfill my mission the one I've spent my life to achieve, the death of Alkanor.

I shall now continue the story of how we were tricked and taken by Alkanor as well as my ventures to level 902, the night was a normal starry and cold night, i was sleeping on the roof trying to watch the stars when my brother laying next to me started glowing and disappeared, soon light started shining from many different places i could see across the planes of Eccanan. I then started glowing and when I woke I was laying on the floor of a small room that only had me and four other children. There was then a voice saying "you're in a dream go claim your weapons and fight to return to your real world". A portal glowing red opened and revealed a chamber full of weapons and each of us went to grab one when the voice said "choose wisely for this weapon will grow with you and become a part of you". I chose a small circle weapon because it reminded me of the frisbee me and my brother used to play with, the others chose more traditional weapons like the sword and mace. the voice we had been hearing had revealed itself to be Alkanor, we had no memory of our lives before this yet we knew we had to try to complete the games he put forth for us. Me and the others in my group were then sent into a dungeon through a green portal, the place was dark. "good luck children you shall need it", me and the others were surrounded by the blackness of the room, scared out of our minds yet i clutched the ring with both hands and it started to glow. As it started to glow i saw a large insect with many legs wrap itself around one of the others before dragging him into the ground. More insects came up and we were surrounded by the insects.

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We did our best to fend them off yet being only children we were only able to kill a few and me two others were the only survivors of the attack. The carcasses of our fallen allies were found on the ground nearby and there was no muscle or bone within the skin. We decided to stay here for the night and at midnight, a screen popped up in front of each of us saying we'd leveled up and had a choice of where to put 3 points. I selected intelligence since that seemed to be what was needed for the weapon I chose which was apparently named a kanate as said by item equipment slot. The next morning we had to fight the insects again but this time it was easier and we defeated them spent the night, selected the skills, and woke up to another green portal in the morning. We stepped through and as before it was dark, yet this time my kanate wouldn't light up, and we had no idea what we were facing.