Chapter: 321

“Hmm… I wonder if the disguise stone works in parties.” Jay just realised he may be able to party up with other adventurers now, and a fire began to rise in his heart – however, it was quickly stifled.

“Well, I think the skeletons would probably give it away… besides, at this point they will just slow me down and leech my exp.”

Jay had no reason to party up other than companionship, and he was a loner anyway so he really saw no advantage to running a dungeon with low level people. He received his first exp notification since leaving the dungeon, but he decided to ignore it until he came back later.

Now the only reason to party up would be for a harder dungeon that required more people, he would still need his skeletons; without them, he would be useless in a party, making this option self-defeating.

The average adventurer level was around level 6 at this point. More were showing up to the mist keep dungeon to test themselves after having levelled up at the various level two dungeons around Losla. A few were even going in solo now similar to Jay, but they would return quite quickly.

Most groups had been broken down into pairs of two or three now. Initially, there were large groups of 5 to 7, but many realised that the exp was not that good, and neither were they getting much combat experience, and Jay had unknowingly taught the adventurers of Losla a lesson – sometimes less is more.

A few adventurers were even selling charged crystals which they kept from the Carter’s Demise dungeon, though not many people were buying them as the statue soldiers of mist keep were magic-immune.

Jay proceeded up the mountain, past the quarry.

“I wonder what Viladore will teach me today.”


“Hello Margaret” Jay entered the adventurer association with a smile.

“Oh hello. I’ll go tell Viladore you’re back. He should be ready by now.”

“Thanks.” Jay waited patiently in the lobby.

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*Knock knock*

“Viladore? Hello? Your star pupil is here.” Margaret joked as she entered Viladore’s office.

As she looked towards Viladore, he shook his head, pursing his lips while he stared at the black cube on his desk.

“Mh, can he come back later?” he asked with a frustrated voice.

“You’ve already asked him to come back. I can’t send him away again ok? You’re going to get in there and teach him.” she said with a commanding yet encouraging voice.

Viladore sighed. He couldn’t argue with the sweet old lady, even though he wanted to.

“Ok… I’ll be there in a moment.” he waved his hand and Margaret left the room.

“Damn… this kid has to come right when my cube detects mana again.” Viladore thought as he watched his cube begin to grow once more.

A strange thought came across his mind but he dismissed it.

“Hm… no. Surely it couldn’t be.”.

A strange feeling crept over him though as he thought that perhaps there was a correlation between Jay and the black cube.

He shook his head trying to dismiss the thought again, still staring at his cube.