Chapter: 63

After the stream of adventurers joining the crowd slowed to a trickle, the captain, Michael, yelled out to them in a large voice.

“Recruits, you know the plan! We will make our way to the dungeon and you will enter it. We’re here to guide you to it – nothing more, nothing less. Move out!”

The captain led the way as a four-hundred strong mass of adventurers followed him.

Walking through the cold winter forest, the excited adventurers all moved though, chatting away and laughing together which actually made the forest feel quite warm; though the class trainers all had serious expressions on their faces.

‘Do they ever relax?’ Jay wondered.

Before long, they were at the dungeon. Everyone was amazed by the dungeon entrance – it was a flat black stone that had a glowing red ring in the middle. Above everyone’s head floated a larger glowing yellow ring which was about the diameter of a guard tower.

“Stand in the red circle and you will be able to enter the dungeon.” a trainer said.

With some hesitation, the adventurers started to enter the dungeon.

“Let’s go.” said Anya as she glanced at Jay.


The dungeon entrance was particularly surprising – in pairs, the adventurers would stand in the red circle, then begin to levitate until eventually flying into the yellow ring above them and disappearing.

As Jay entered the dungeon, he was a little disappointed that he didn’t trigger the chance for the level four dungeon – he was level five after all and it would’ve been easy for him alone, much more so with Anya.

As they landed on the dark landscape of the dungeon, Anya seemed as serious as ever as she looked around at the surroundings and gripped her new crossbow.

“Is she scared?” Jay thought “oh well, I better summon a feeble creature.”

“Anya, I’m going to use my skill to summon one of my little friends. It won’t attack you, so don’t attack it.”

Anya nods back, as she continues to remain vigilant but it wasn’t long before she was standing in awe at Jay’s abilities.

Jay thought ‘Shift’ as his ring flew off his finger and got bigger, bones began to leave it and began to float around Jay. Small bones at first, then the bigger ones – until finally the two large black marsh bones joined the ring.

“Raise” jay said, his hand emitting a green gas which was more dense than the wisps of gas mixed with the floating bones.

Before Anya’s eyes, a beast formed. “No, not a beast, a monster… an abomination” she thought as her mouth was now open, speechless.

Again, ligaments began popping with bones snapping and relocating themselves; green gas became more dense and mixed with them before it solidified. Two glowing green eyes at the centre of the eye sockets of a large rodent-like skull with horns glared at Jay, then at Anya as it’s skeletal body was formed.

Jay smiled as his necrotic ring changed back into the second form and flew back onto his finger. ‘Hmm, only about three or four skeletons are left in it,’ he noted, looking at his ring with a smug attitude ‘I’ll stock up soon enough’ he thought as he pulled out and ate some bondtussle root from his inventory.

[Mana Regen buff 1%] – lasts for 1 hour(s).

“Now, time to name you…” Jay almost started chuckling, thinking about naming it Don aswell, but this time he had an even better idea, he grinned evilly as he put his plan into action.

“Today, your name shall be gifted to you from I, your creator – your life. Today I shall bestow upon you your eternal name.” Jay said seriously, and solemnly “henceforth, you are… Muffin!”

Jay bent over with laughter, it echoed through the dungeon while Anya just stood there, not even vigilante at this point, absolutely amazed at Jay’s pathetic level of humor. All she could do was shake her head at him as he laughed.