*Frank's POV*

It's been one week since my master has asked me to gather mana for him. In that time I have become stronger, faster, and smarter all for the sake of protecting my master. My master is very kind, he has given me life, shelter, and friends so if gathering mana is something that I can do to repay his kindness then I will do it to the best of my ability.

This past week has been very productive for me and my team. We went back to the pond to search for what the owl was guarding. After searching around, we found a chest inside the pond. Inside the chest, there was an iron breastplate, a buckler shield, a short sword, and a book. Everything in the chest is marked with an owl crest, we then went back to the dungeon and gave the chest to master.

My master was happy when he absorbed the chest, he praised our hard work and he rewarded the archer with a pair of arms, he said that now he can shoot twice as much. He rewarded the death hound with the tracking skill now the hound is an even deadlier hunter then it was before. He rewarded me with the breastplate and buckler. I promised myself that I will get stronger to protect my master and my friends.

A few days after we found the chest something exciting happened in the dungeon. Butch found coal while digging the walls of the infection forest, not only coal there are also bright yellow crystallines that seem to smell really bad from the looks of the death hound that can't stand the smell. It turns out to be sulfur, there are also white crystals on the ceiling and when I asked master what that is, he told me that it is potassium nitrate.

I congratulate Butch on his findings. After finding all of these minerals the master decided to make a room full of the minerals. Butch looked very happy, he said to me that he found a food buffet since the minerals taste so delicious. When I asked him why didn't he liked human meat and wolf meat, he said they are too soft and bland. He said coal taste spicy while sulfur tastes sour and the potassium nitrate has a savory taste. I guess me and Butch have different taste, I actually like human meat, especially the heart they seem to be packed with flavor and the thigh is very juicy and seem to melt in my mouth.

After that, things seem to be very peaceful. We keep hunting wolves and gathering plants to give to master and sometimes we met with Helen while she was scouting. But, things went awry when we were ambushed by a black bear. He used his paw to slap the death hound, the hound went flying right into a tree. When I saw that I went into a rage, I saw a blue box in the corner of my vision but I didn't mind it and keep attacking his legs trying to slice his Achilles' knee while also dodging and blocking his paw attack. The weight of his paws felt like a mountain trying to crush me, It's a good thing the skeleton archer keep attacking him from the rear.

When the death hound woke up, it quickly jumped to the bear and began clawing at the bear and biting his neck. The bear tries to shake the death hound off of him. But while he was distracted by the death hound, I jumped and plunged my sword through his head. The bear began wobbling before crashing into the ground and then died. When the battle is over I finally looked at the blue box. When I looked at it I quickly told the skeleton archer and the death hound to bring the bear corpse to the dungeon.

Now here I am, standing in front of my master with a bear corpse right behind me currently being absorbed. I told my master about the blue box and after I told him what happened to the bear, he seems to smile. He looked at me still smiling and asked me "Do you want to evolve?"

Spoiler: Dungeon Map