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Chapter 2 - Upgrading

Bright looked once more at the shop and at the listed monsters.

[Goblin]

[Rank:F]

[Cost:5 corruption]

[Decription:small green monsters with a sword and shield.]

[Evolution cost:10 corruption]

"I can evolve monsters?"

[Yes host. When the monster has accumulated enough life energy for kills he can evolve.]

"Will he automatically evolve?"

[No the host may pick the desired evolution path once the monster has the required corruption to evolve.]

Bright scrolled down to the next monster on the list.

[Skeleton]

[Rank:F]

[Cost:5 corruption]

[Description: weak bones left after the previous owner died.]

[Evolution cost:10 corruption]

The rest of the monsters on the list were out of his budget.

[Corruption:10]

He only has 10 corruption and so decided to get one Skeleton and one goblin. They seemed to have come out of the orb.

A Skeleton and goblin appeared and stood there without orders they couldn't do anything.

Two statuses were put in front of him.

[Skeleton]

[Rank:F]

[Strength:4]

[Agility:2]

[Intelligence:1]

[Defence:5]

[Mana:none]

[Skills:none]

"So a regular skeleton can't use magic"

[Goblin]

[Rank:F]

[Strength:3]

[Agility:6]

[Intelligence:2]

[Defence:2]

[Mana:none]

[Skills:none]

Bright didn't know where to start digging the hole and could only ask where the quickest path to the open world was. And could only helplessly ask his ever so helpful guide.

"Where is the quickest way out of here."

[The wall to the right of you]

Bright looked to the right and once more saw dirt. He began to administer orders to his new found monsters.

"Both of you go start digging the wall up."

The monsters like robots loyal to their creator listened to the boy and started working. It was slow progress on the wall as the Skeleton and goblin both only had a sword and shield.

After what felt like forever there was daylight beaming through a small hole.

Then the hole became bigger and bigger.

Until a door big enough to fit the 200cm Skeleton was created.

[Congratulations host your dungeon has been promoted to f- and has entered the dungeon rankings]

[Dungeon Ranking:184,281]

[Upgrade your dungeon to raise your rank on the leaderboard, the higher your rank the more popular it is for raids and the more life energy is absorbed.]

After learning this Bright was eager to go out to the new found world.

[Host corruption can not come into contact with the outdoor realm or the corrupted will quickly dissipate.]

"I'm guessing I'm also corrupted."

[You are correct.]

Bright then ordered his two monsters to build a new path for a new room. One that will be his room for now. On the left side of the dirt hole.

[Host the corruption has thinned in a 50 metre radius.]

The orb was now over 30cm thick. Bright after waiting for a door to the outside had collected 25 corruption. Bright went straight back into the shop and looked for more goodies to buy.

[It is recommended to upgrade you and your monster's stats.]

"How do I do that?"

[Press on the dungeon core and designate your corruption.]

Bright clicked onto the orb and pressed onto corruption and was able to designate corruption.

[Bright Ashmore]

[Required corruption:5]

[Skeleton]

[Required corruption:10]

[Goblin]

[Required corruption:10]

Bright first decided to upgrade himself and found that he had gained 5 stat points to place where he wished. He also ran upon a decision he needed to make.

[Please pick a path to follow]

[Mage]

[Priest]

[Warrior]

[Commander]

[Paladin]

[Archer]

[Assassin]

Bright intently read each description and quickly picked commander. There was no need for him to be on the front lines. He was the last mob the raiders was supposed to come across and Bright intended to never let that happen.

[Congratulations host you are now an E-rank commander class.]

[Congratulations host you have been granted D-rank skill:commanders roar.]

[Commanders roar:Your roar will leave a lasting impression on the troops and when used in battle all soldiers will have an increase in 5 in all stats for 10 minutes.]

[Mana cost:60]

Bright decided not to evolve his skeleton or goblin yet and decided to buy some traps. He scrolled and scrolled. There were many traps out of his budget but eventually he found the perfect trap.

[Fog trap]

[Rank:E]

[Description:Thick fog that cover a 40metre area and heavily reduces the enemies eyesight. The range can be increased with more corruption.]

[Cost:20 corruption]

He swiftly bought the trap because there very few other traps that were that cheap and the rest were simply rubbish.

A ball of fog hovered above his hand.

Bright decided to place it in the first room thought the room was rather small he will eventually expand the room. He placed the fog ball into the center of the room and the fog burst out into all directions.

It quickly covered the small room but did not leak outside.

Two sun's rose after that and finally a new spacious room was created. The path to the room was long and narrow and was 50 metres long. The fog leaked from the first room into the path and covered it up. The new room was also fully covered by the fog.

Bright places the heart of a dungeon in the room. He didn't have any furniture and simply placed it onto the floor.

40 total corruption was now collected. Bright used 10 corruption to lay the 2 rooms and path into stone and bought a bed,desk and the dungeon core holder. The dungeon core holder would automatically increase in size along with the core of the dungeon.

Bright has 30 corruption left and uses 20 to upgrade both the Skeleton and the goblin.

The goblin evolved into a stealth goblin.

[Stealth goblin]

[Rank:E-]

[Strength:5]

[Agility:9]

[Intelligence:6]

[Defence:3]

[Mana:40]

[Skills:invisisble]

[Invisible:you will be able to blend into the surroundings for one minute.]

[Mana cost:20]

[Rank:E+]

The skeleton evolved into a smoldering Skeleton.

[Smoldering skeleton]

[Rank:E-]

[Strength:7]

[Agility:4]

[Intelligence:2]

[Defence:6]

[Mana:none]

[Skills:burn]

[Burn (passive):a skill that wraps the users body with flames.]

[Passive skills do not require the use of mana.]

[Rank:E+]

The skeleton and goblin appear before Bright once again but they looked a bit different.

The goblin has a black cloak that conceales him from prey and holds a dagger in each hand. The skeleton has scorching bones and a sword that's glowing red-hot.

[Congratulations your dungeon rank has been raised to F+]

The boy still has 20 stat points to use.Bright assigned them.

[Name:Bright Ashmore]

[Title:Dungeon Chief]

[Dungeon rank:F+]

[Dungeon leaderboard:173,761]

[Bloodline:human]

[Class: Commander]

[Rank:E]

[Strength: 5]

[Agility: 6]

[Intelligence: 6]

[Defence: 3]

[Mana:150]

[Skills: Commanders roar]

[Corruption: 10]

He felt a new strength hit him. It was like he was in a different body. Bright wondered why his mana increases automatically but assumed it is due to evolving.

He still has 10 corruption left but decided to keep it for later use.