Mister Vii

Chapter 83 – Day 210 (Part 2) – Completely Unexpected

We made our way back to the dungeon entrance and camped nearby for the night. The bodies had already disappeared. I felt a cold breeze and went on edge, nothing. I was not afraid of the dark, but that blackness or void, was something else. It was a long and uneasy night.

The following day we made our way to the North entrance of the city. There was no one exiting to grind the flowers and ...

Chapter 82 – Day 210 – Ambush

I watched as twelve people arrived outside the dungeon. It was almost time for a reset. They really weren’t messing around about getting skills. I stepped out from behind a tree and was quickly spotted. I was to their East, Ruth and Tom were positioned to their South.

“Is this a private party or can anyone join?” I had been mentally preparing catchy lines over the last couple of day...

Chapter 81 – Day 204 (Part 2) – The Map Key

“There has to be more?” Ruth asked.

“You know me too well. This is big. Each area is a square about the same size with four monster types in each zone. One terrain feature with a dungeon, with the exception of the city zones, which have two dungeons.”

“We are at the Southeast corner of the Truth city zone. Just to the East of here there is an unknown monster in the shadowl...

Chapter 80 – Day 204 – Declaration of War

I woke up in the morning and saw Tyrese and Ken waiting for me outside.

“Let’s go,” I said, not feeling very charitable to them at the moment. We went to the center of the plaza where people were already gathering. A table was set up. Tyrese climbed on top of it as his guards kept a perimeter. We were doing this outside instead of the Meeting Chamber so more people could listen in.<...

Chapter 79 – Day 203 (Part 2) – No Good Options

We just stood there in a silence. A Captain finally ran up to Tyrese. “We have swept the areas near the plaza. Nothing found. No one suspicious. Keep up the search and patrols?” Tyrese looked at me.

“You lead the guards, so your decision,” I said calmly. My rage had cooled down and had become ice now.

“Double patrols, heightened state of alert. There will be a declaration ...

Chapter 78 – Day 203 – Attack From the Front and Behind

I looked through my notebook as people got ready for the start of the day. I had spoken with people who had chosen skills and got their feedback on the skills and their respective costs. Nothing ground shaking or unexpected.

We plowed through the blue stones and finally reached the salty river just before mid-day. “Who is the person going with me?”

Ruth brought the woman forward...

Chapter 77 – Day 197 – A Trip

“Ten chests, 10,000 5-point crystals each. Eleventh chest, 8,000 5-point crystals for 540,000 points. Bob already took his cut. Two contracts drawn up for 250,000 each, already signed, just need your signature,” Laura said. I read them over and they basically said what we had already discussed with nothing extra.

I signed both of them, then the secondary copies for Ken, and then the t...

Chapter 76 – Day 196 (Part 3) – Business Finds a Way

I entered the store and there were a number of colored drawings laid out on a couple of tables.

“Welcome, welcome.” I looked at the young woman who stood up. “This is my Outfit Store and I am Elise.”

“What does one purchase in an outfit store?” I ask.

“Great question, you see the system store can create outfits. But most people don’t have a good idea what they ...

Chapter 75 – Day 196 (Part 2) – The Worth of an Eye

I just had conversation with a guard who had come up to me and told me something concerning. I was unsure how I wanted to handle it. It wasn’t a betrayal, but it was a concern. It could wait and I would think over the issue before making a decision.

Having a reputation and tipping heavily came in quite handy. If a person wanted points and had information, they knew what to do. Still, I ...

Chapter 74 – Day 196 – Return

“Huh, someone is trying to break in,” I said as we made the trek back to Purgatory.

“You just know?” Ruth asked.

“Yes, I wonder who would be so daring during daylight.”

“Pick up the pace?”

“We are already moving, can’t go much faster,” I replied and killed a scorpion. “We are going to get in late and now they stopped.”

“So, you just know...

Chapter 73 – Day 185 – Meeting in the Wilderness

Well, it had happened. A group had made it out here. I counted four people at our camp with a dark green cart. They stayed away from our cart and weren’t poking around. I had been observing them for a while behind a hill a distance away. Time to make an appearance.

I got up and slowly walked forward. I was easily spotted. Their entire group quickly stood up. Four men this time, a sausag...

Chapter 72 – Day 166 – Time to G-G-G-Grind

Tom, Ruth, and I left through the East gate and made our way across the small wolf grassland. I had a reinforced pack with my spare outfit in it. Hopefully I wouldn’t need to use it, but at least I had it, just in case.

I was back to being poor. Well now was the time to grind out an insane number of crystals in the next 23 days or so.

I was even on cart duty since I had Tom take t...

Chapter 71– Day 165 – Keeping Up Appearances

“Tyrese, Ken,” I greeted the two as they came to the second floor of the Gray Duck.

“Michael,” Tyrese greeted me.

“Good to see that you are still alive. The rumor mill is exploding, apparently you came into town half naked,” Ken said with a slight grin. I rolled my eyes at that. I had no doubt that people would bring it up years from now as a joke.

“I had a wardr...

Map of Systemic Lands - Day 161

The map of the Systemic Lands on Day 161 I made for reference.

Chapter 70– Day 164 – Rematch

We reached the vine area of the cliffs. I cleared out all the nearby pigs along with Ruth. I had recovered from the sonic attack, but I would not say no to a restoration when I returned to Purgatory.

After the pigs I then went after the bulbs. I didn’t hesitate to wipe them out before they could make their way up and then attack. It sucked to lose the 450-point crystals, but I wanted th...

Chapter 69 – Day 161 – Boss Battle

“Hmm, that is a shame,” I muttered for the tenth time since Tom didn’t have any energy to use his new skill of Grass Blade. It would form a blade out of grass of the desired length based on the mental information downloaded into his brain. Well, he would need to develop a blade throwing skill to use the System given skill to its full potential. A sword slinger would be an appropr...

Chapter 68 – Day 158 – Skill Points

“Well, that was easy enough.” The place was on the same timer as the dungeons near Purgatory. Reset with the arrival. I looked over at Ruth and Tom. “The other location?” I asked.

“On the opposite side of the city to the Northeast in the butterfly forest,” Estevo said.

“Hmmm, lots of people grind the butterflies?” I saw his look of confusion at the correct terminolog...

Chapter 67 – Day 156 (Part 3) – Viewpoints 5

Lucas

“What a mess,” I let out a long sigh and held my head in my hands.

“Maybe we should have let him kill people. At least then…” Marcos muttered.

“I know.” We were sitting in a building waiting for the other three Council members to return to the mess that had just occurred.

“I was wondering how other cities handled things, they just l...

Chapter 66 – Day 156 (Part 2) – A Bad Joke

The plaza was filled with starving people all sitting around uselessly. Several people glanced over our way. I looked at the pillars and there was a cleared space around them with ten guards, a table, and two people sitting at the table talking with each other.

There was a stink in the air. The entire plaza was a slum, how utterly useless. “The Council is at the table, right?”

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Chapter 65 – Day 156 – The Cost of Being Rude

The next day we went South for a bit and then I had us turn West. We ran into the blue floating rock monsters. I then had us go back to the sword dervishes and continue South. I made a note of the monster boundaries.

Some boundaries were very much aligned with North, South, East, and West, while other boundaries weren’t. Similar to the edges in regard to the types of terrain. The differ...

Chapter 64 – Day 152 – Salty

“Nine more,” I said.

“Same,” Ruth replied.

“We beat one, we can defeat the rest,” I said.

“You mean you did, and you will have to defeat them. The amount of skill attacks the one took, I don’t stand a chance,” Ruth replied.

“Alright, you hang back with Tom. I have an idea how to handle these things.”

I had regained all my energy. I used Ac...