The boss disappeared into a cloud of smoke and the timer appeared where he died, 60 minutes again.
The boss chests appeared in the centre of the room so we walked over and started joyously opening them. I opened my first box with a smile on my face hoping for an overpowered weapon or an impenetrable piece of armour, only to be met by disappointment,
[Water Well - Rarity : 2 - Item Type : Dispenser - Gives an infinite supply of water when supplied with mana - Placed in Faction Territories]
I sighed in disappointment before putting it in my inventory and going to the next box, everyone else was cheering and grinning at the loot they received whilst swapping it amongst themselves. I opened my second box with hopeful eyes,
[Skatert-Samobranka - Rarity : 4 - Item Type : Dispenser - A magic tablecloth is spread on the ground, saying the magic words and food and drink aplenty will appear. When finished eating, rolling up all the dirty plates, cutlery, and crumbs into the tablecloth and they magically disappear]
It wasn't that bad but it was still a pretty trash item that provided food. Everyone else got weapons, armour or things that they could use except for me. Lucy also got a Faction Territory item* so she gave it to me and we opened the last two boxes. I wasn't very hopeful for this one as I was apparently having a long spill of bad luck however I opened it anyway,
[Titan Blood - Rarity : 9 - Item Type : Body Part - Once the Olympians killed the last of the Titans they took a large reserve of their blood. Titan blood was a great way to get stronger for lesser beings so they gave it to their children to make them become great. Hades foung out about the children of Olympus becoming stronger and was outraged so he snuck into Olympus and destroyed the blood, burning it with hell fire. This is the Last vial of the Blood of the Titans - Consume to initiate the [Race Change] feature - You will be given all abilities of the Titan Race but lose the abilities of your original race - Can be used to brew Potions]
My eyes lit up like the sun once I read the description. The vial was filled with a silver liquid, it didn't look special at all.
I put it in my inventory with a smile before turning to see what Lucy got, she was looking at her item with a strange look on her face. I looked at the item she was holding and it was a vial, similar to the one that I had just received.
I went over to appraise the item but she quickly put it in her inventory with a red face. "What's up?" I asked, partly because I was concerned and partly because I knew it was something embarrassing.
"Nothing, nothing!" she said quickly before turning around and heading towards Lana. I decided to drop it for now and focus on everything in my inventory since it was almost full again.
[Inventory
Protein Bar x32
Assorted Snack Bags x30
Assorted Sandwiches x 15
Monst€r En€rgy x22
Minor Health Potion x29
Mythril Long Sword (Uncommon) [0] x1
Cornucopia (7) x1
Father Time's Hourglass (8) x1
Titan Blood (9) x1
Skatert-Samobranka (4) x1
Water Well (2) x1
Forge of Tubal-Cain (1) x1
Hammer of Tubal-Cain (1) x1
Graeae's eye (4) x1
Bufonite(3) x1
Ausadhirdipyamanas (2) x1
Bangu (4) x1
Assorted Shirts x4
Assorted Pants x4
Defeated Souls x325]
Luckily my 'Defeated Souls' only took up one slot wvwne though there was over 300 of them. I hadn't actually tried out my Shadow Extraction skill yet so I decided to try it.
"Shadow Extraction" I mumbled under my breath. A black window with a purple hue popped up in my vision, it had a long list of all of the people and monsters I had defeated. There were no undead monsters as they didn't have souls but there were orcs.
I selected the Orc Lord that we had just killed and it said that there was a 100% extraction possibility so I extracted my first shadow soldier.
A purple light shot from my outstretched hand and a shadowy figure materialised from the ground. It looked like an almost exact replica of the Orc Lord that we had just fought although instead of having a HP bar above its head there were question marks instead.
I clicked on the shadowy status page and then saw the stats of my new soldier.
Status Page
Name : ????
Level : 0{EXP: 0/100}
Death Count : 0
Race : Shadow Soldier (Summoned)
Title(s) : None
Skill(s) : -
> Rage
> Pierce
> Armour Break
HP : 2000
MP : 500
Stats : STR - 20
AGI - 10
VIT - 20
INT - 10
SEN - 10
ATK : 2000
DEF : 1000
Race Ability :
> Shadow Sneak (Allows the user to hide in a shadow)
> Reaper Call (Allows the user to never die so long as they are linked with another user's Mana)
It was pretty awesome, especially considering it had extra starting stat points. I summoned some other Orcs, mainly the stronger ones which we fought at the end, until I had 30 Orcs hidden in my shadow.
This was an amazing hidden trump card, I literally had an army with me wherever I go.
The timer had finally ticked down to 1 minute so we casually waited and were then teleported.
As soon as we appeared in front of the portal we came face to face with Andy and his new elite unit. They were surprised to see us materialise out of thin air, but they quickly regained control of their emotions and stood in formation ready to enter the portal.
I talked with Andy for around 5 minutes explaining the ins and outs of the dungeon before he nodded his head and told a subordinate to take us to the final dungeon.
He entered with his group and we exited. We got on the carriage that was still waiting outside and headed for the steel factory where the final dungeon was located.