Chapter: 191

All that was left of the tower was a wooden door with stone surrounding it, holding it upright.

Jay didn’t need to guess how to enter this dungeon as he walked up to the door, getting a notification when he put his hand on it.

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[Mist Keep – Level 3 Dungeon]

[Unlocked][Instanced]

[Enter Mist Keep?]

[Yes/No]

“Yes” thought Jay with a nod as the thick wooden door flung open and his body was pulled inside. He thought he heard a snicker from some other adventurers as he went through.

After a moment of darkness, he found himself in an empty black desert, standing on more of the dried out, cracked soil. There was no life around, everything was desolate.

The sky above crackled with thunder and dark, heavy clouds slowly rolled over as they stretched into the horizon – though no wind blew.

A few blackened tree stumps littered the earth around him; it was as if he was in a forest that had been drained of life decades ago.

After looking around for signs of anything, Jay soon found that nearby a toppled statue had fallen next to an old road – both of which were almost non-existent at this point as they were being lost to time. It’s degradation was so bad that took Jay a second look to realise it wasn’t just a pile of rocks.

After checking through the statue rubble, there was nothing of interest.

“Guess I’ll follow the road.”.

The dirt path led up a small hill, and reaching the top gave Jay a view which made him speechless.

Before his eyes was a stone kingdom; though it had been completely destroyed. Every building was in ruins and every building was in rubble.

All that remained standing tall were a series of black-stone pyramids, each bigger than the last, going off into the distance. They had sets of pillars at their fronts that led to each of their entrances.

After counting, Jay found a total of six pyramids rose from the ruins – though these were themselves not untouched by whatever happened here, as some of the cap stones were cracked. They looked like they had been attacked by an army of angry stonemasons.

At the destroyed gate of this mega-city, two stone statues of knights stood resolutely. Similar to the ones at the dungeon entrance, these looked brand new, expertly crafted and extremely lifelike.

Squinting a little, Jay noticed a few more of these soldier statues dispersed throughout the destroyed city. It was like they were still guarding it’s streets – even though there was nothing left..

Jay now believed he understood the information about the dungeon, specifically the part where it said ‘Pyramid trap. Be able to comfortably fight at least four at once’.

He guessed that the pyramids would trap him inside while he would have to fight at least four stone statues at once.

The adventurer guild provided enough information to keep adventurers safe, but not enough to give every little difficulty or secret away. It attempted to provide guidance between nurture and nature, to grow adventurers as much as possible without letting them kill themselves through inexperience.

Of course, they wouldn’t be responsible if you died anyway.