They appeared in front of the Dungeon. "OK everybody I will see you all at the tower." He looked at the clock in his interface and noticed that it was just after 0:05 Sunday morning.

Louie gave Shadow one of the tokens that would allow her to enter the lower apartments of the tower.

"I got some stuff to do; I will see you all later." He motioned for BOB to follow them and guard them while he went to talk to the Dungeon Core.

He made sure that all their loot and items that they had taken from the Dungeon were out of the panniers before he placed the stone blocks and pillbox into the set that were kept in the office next to the Dungeon entrance for the next team that might want to use it.

Louie made sure there was nobody around before he touched the dungeon entrance again.

Attention

Would you like to enter the Dungeon as the Owner?

Y/N

He pressed Y.

There was a swirl of light and just before he disappeared he saw a boy, with arms waving, came running towards the Dungeon.

Suddenly he was somewhere else, it appeared to be a massive nine-sided hall, where all the walls looked to be giant monitors, in front of each monitor there was a pedestal with a blue orb on top.

Two screens showed delving teams busy somewhere in the Dungeon. He reached out his hand to touch the nearest orb when a BB appeared before him.

Welcome Dungeon Owner.

You can select somebody to manage your Dungeon or keep it on Auto. Do you want to appoint a Dungeon manager?

DM/Auto.

As Owner, you have the right to suggest changes and they will be assessed for approval.

As Owner, you may enter the Dungeon and observe all interactions between the Dungeon and Delvers.

Interfering in any action between the Dungeon and Delvers are prohibited.

As Owner, you have the obligation to help the Dungeon improve itself.

(Any items removed from the Dungeon are frowned upon.)

This one is especially for you, Thief.

Louie sighed as he read the last part of the BB, and selected Auto

He looked around at the screens. "I would like to speak to the Dungeon core."

A sparkly mist appeared. "What do I call you?"

Whatever you want.

"I can call you Jarvis?"

There was a rude sound from the mist. "Owwkay. . . how about, AL for Artificial Lifeform?"

. . . Agreed.

"Good, OK so I'm here, you wanted to see me?"

A loot chest appeared in front of Louie and he placed it in his inventory.

'I will look later, don't want to be distracted here, I got a feeling that I better keep my eyes on the ball or this might go bad for me.'

Your reward as promised.

"Thank you, was there something else?"

There was a feeling of anger and scorn. You are the owner; You have an obligation to this Dungeon.

Louie resigned himself to spending some time here.

"OK, so what do you need?"

I do not NEED anything, but your assistance will be appreciated.

Suddenly a long bar appeared in his HUD. He studied it but couldn’t get any info from it.

"I see there is a bar in my HUD with a green line to the left of the number 0 and a red bar to the right, and the red bar currently shows -500 can you explain what that is."

That bar represents your reputation with this Dungeon, which is me.

Louie coughed.

"I saw your comment on the 'theft' of the items in the restrooms. What do you want in return for me to take items again if I need it?"

The room turned quiet and the temperature dropped several degrees.

Triple the weight in raw material of the items taken to facilitate spawn production. And the bar might start reducing back to 0.

"Material? You spawn metal golems. So you need what? Like metals and stuff?"

Yes, but I have no NEED, this is to appease me. Once the bar reaches zero you can negotiate for more.

Louie thought for a moment.

"Stuff like this?" He removed the Rolls Royce from his inventory and it appeared in front of them in the middle of the room.

Yes.

Suddenly the car turned into what looked like sand or metal particles and fell apart. "Hey! I just used that as an example. I still wanted to use that."

Sorry, my bad.

Louie could practically feel the sarcasm dripping from the words.

'Well, I did rip this place off pretty bad.'

"OK, that's a freebie. . . So I must bring vehicles for you to break down, so you can make more golems?"

'Okay i have an idea hope this work, poker face, no blinking, poker face.'

"I will bring you vehicles, but everything inside the vehicle is mine, you can have the vehicle but the contents you must place in a loot bag."

. . . Agreed.

'YES'

Louie stood thinking for a moment. "I'm going away and I don't know if or when I will be back. Is there some way that I can get these materials to you without me coming here every time?"

The silence dragged on. 'No answer? OK, let's move on.'

"What happens when the bar reaches 0?"

When it starts moving into the green you must bring live specimens to be harvested for their life force, and I can start thinking of expanding downwards.

Louie was shocked at what the Dungeon suggests.

"You want me to bring people in here to be slaughtered! ARE YOU FUCKING MAD?"

There was the distinct feeling of a teacher talking to a very slow learner.

. . Any life force will do.

'Huh?' "Any life force?"

Yes

"Monsters?"

. . Any life force will do.

"OK, if you add a combat simulator/training yard or whatever you call it, to the first restroom. Then we have a deal."

Agreed.

Louie start dropping the vehicles that he had removed from the car pileup the night of Johan's march to the Fort, he hoped he could get good rep points for the armoured truck he dropped but there was no such luck, he just made sure not to remove his caravans and the two cars he took from the school.

They all turned to dust as soon as they touched the road and loot bags started appearing.

"Is it possible that you can place the bags automatically in my inventory?"

The bags all disappeared."Thank you."

It took a while before Louie dropped the last vehicle that was the lux liner bus.

"You know what spell cubes are?" He got the same feeling that he would get when he watched someone chewing on some crayons.

'Damn, really getting tired of this shit.'

"Sorry, of course, you do. Is it possible that you can make spell scrolls as loot items?"

When the core started to say something Louie stopped it.

"Not for learning skills or spells. You could create spell scrolls to use in combat. Single-use scrolls that can be used by anyone to cast a spell. These scrolls have the advantage of not requiring any mana expenditure on a person's part. And they can be any type of magic. Offensive, defensive, healing, teleportation, etcetera. A once-of spell."

There was a 'ting' and a small ball dropped to the floor. It looked like a small Christmas tree bauble. Louie picked it up.

Lightning bolt.

Crush this bauble while concentrating on a target, break the bauble to release a lightning bolt that will strike the target. Splash effect in-crowd.

Bolt will do extra damage that will depend on the extra amount of mana the caster allocated.

Damage 80 electrical + 40 burn damage

Splash radius 2meters.

"Damn, Yes this will do, I like this. But something like a simple healing spell will also do, drop one now and then as loot."

I will take it under advisement.

"I have another proposition for you."

I’m all ears.

'Damn still sarcastic.'

"If you can construct a dumpster or some kind of receptacle in front of your entrance where teams can deposit scrap metal or even captured monsters then I will instruct the teams that there will be an entrance fee that they must pay in scrap before they will be allowed into the Dungeon and in exchange I want you to change this."

Louie shared a BB with the core after he had edited it.

Huguenot Tunnel Dungeon

Requirement for entry; Party not exceeding five members, Level 5 -10.

Dungeon level 5 instanced. Blue. Mechanized. Challenge.

The dungeon must be cleared before the party can exit.

299 Days till Dungeon break if not cleared.

Party must exit the Dungeon for the break timer to reset.

Dungeon is limited to three instances. (0/3)

"To this."

Huguenot Tunnel Dungeon

Requirement for entry; Party not exceeding five members, + 1 non-combatant Level 5 -10.

Non-combatant will not share in experience or rewards and will stay in the first restroom and be transported out of the Dungeon when the party leaves.

Dungeon level 5 instanced. Blue. Mechanized. Challenge.

Party will have the option to exit after defeating each mini-boss

299 Days till Dungeon break if not cleared.

Party must Defeat the Dungeon for the break timer to reset.

Dungeon is limited to three instances. (0/3)

There were a couple of minutes of silence then.

The non-combatant may not take any item but that which it gets from the vendor and I will take it under advisement

"Agreed. . . if I might ask, why did you spawn insect golems when my team went through the Dungeon and why only the first part of the dungeon?"

There were a couple of minutes quiet before the core answered.

I am trying out the new spawn for the second floor.

Louie was shocked. "There is a second floor?"

No, not yet. But the spawn must learn. I will let them spawn now and then, with every death they will retain the skills they picked up.

"So they will get harder to kill."

Yes up to a point.

"Good to know."

Louie stood and thought about what the Core said. He remembered the blacksmith saying about the metal bottleneck.

"You are thinking about expanding your Dungeon? How about sideways? Creating more rooms?"

. . . What do you propose?

"I propose that you use the Delvers to create the new rooms by mining for treasure in the spots where you want the new tunnels or rooms. Let them dig or use picks and highlight the dig sites with a glow that would only be seen with or by Rouges with high perception."

"You can line the ore with the trace elements that you are not using for your Golem spawns. Let them find an uncut gem now and then. And defend the places with quarter size insect golems that do not count towards the quest counter, but make it so that they despawn the moment they die and only leave a loot bag with trash items."

. . . Why?

"It will allow the insect golems to learn and also for the Delvers to earn the mining or related skills and there is always the chance that a couple of Delvers might die while mining or defending the miners and you get the experience."

I will consider your proposal.

"Thank you, I would like to gather more lightstones for the Town outside. If I can make the Town more inviting then it will attract more people, which will bring more teams to enter the Dungeon."

'Straight face, don't blink, don't think of what I can do with the stones, Poker face.'

There was a sigh and a pallet with boxes materialized.

That should be enough. Goodbye. The sparkly mist disappeared.

There was a 'ping' and something fell on the boxes.

Louie bent down and picked the ring up from the floor. It looked like a class ring but the top was carved to resemble the front gates of the Dungeon.

Ring of Harvesting. Soulbound

(can't be stolen or misplaced)

This is a spatial ring made for the owner and connected to the Huguenot Dungeon, Items and resources placed in this ring will be transported directly to your Dungeon to be harvested no matter how far you travel. Take care! Anything that is deposited within this ring cannot be removed.

A teleport circle appeared in the middle of the room.

Louie looked in the direction of the screens. "Thank you AL"

He decided to open the loot chest he just received since the negotiations are done for now, and check his loot before leaving the Dungeon

Louie studied the sword in his hands. There were two drakes engraved making it look as if they crawled out of the tubes that were on each side of the blade. When he ran his mana into the blade the mana stones recharge and the drakes start glowing, every couple of seconds the colour of the drakes would change.

Elemental Drake: Rare (Scalable)

This Sword has a long Mithril blade with a trigger mechanism built into the hilt with tubes running both sides of the blade. They are mostly used like normal swords, but triggering the tubes will release a different elemental charge from each tube. This will cause the blade to vibrate for up to a minute after it was triggered and will boost damage as the weapon cuts through an opponent.

Grants strength boost of + 10 while equipped.

2 handed gunblade Speed: fast

Damage 40 + agility + constitution

Elemental Damage 30

Dead Eye + 50%

Elemental damage + 50%

Elemental Critical hit chance + 60%

Critical rate + 50 %

Two upgrades are possible with the ability ‘Armourer’

"Damn, this thing is awesome." Louie bowed towards the monitors again. "Thank you, AL."

He fixed the harness to his armour and equipped the sword to his back.

'Nice, kickass.' He smiled as he moved around making sure the sword was easily reachable.

He stored the pallet with the lightstones and stepped up to the circle.

As soon as he appeared in front of the Dungeon the boy was there shouting to get his attention.

"SIR! the Mayor is looking for you, he said that he needs to speak to you immediately."

Louie reached into his inventory and handed the boy a bar of chocolate.

"Thanks, kid. I will go there now."

'I wonder what's up. He wouldn't send a kid out here in the middle of the night to wait for us to get out. If it wasn't serious.'

Louie nodded at the guard that sat in the booth at the Dungeon checkpoint.

"Evening Guardsmen, have the other teams exited the Dungeon yet?"

He shook his head. "No Sir your team is the first out, You set the new record of 18hours."

Louie shook his head. 'Better nip this in the bud. Speedrunning will make people careless.'

"Guardsmen, Speedrunning the Dungeon to set a record will make the teams do stupid things and get people killed. I will bring this matter up with the Captain."

The Guardsmen just nodded as he made a note in the logbook.

"Good night have a peaceful night."

"Thank you, Sir, you too."

Louie followed the kid to the mayor's office where he found a tired Joe, the mayor and Roberts the town hunter and tracker, each drinking a cup of coffee.

"Evening folks, you're all up late."

The mayor indicated that he should take a chair. "Evening Louie and you look full of energy for somebody that just did a Dungeon."

Louie shrugged. "Just had a 12hour rest after killing the Boss."

After exchanging pleasantries Louie turned to the Hunter.

"Roberts, I suppose you are here in this cold office and not in your bed because you found the Infernal?"

Roberts nodded while he looked at the mayor, who nodded back.

"Yes I found it, and it’s not good." He took a sip of his coffee.

"It looks like it's raising an army, from the description I got, there are 6 Gnolls of which one are female and pregnant, about 20 rat-like creatures, and creatures that look like meerkats big bloody meerkats, between 1- 1.2meters tall and they are capable of using weapons. I couldn’t get a count on them, because they kept on going into a burrow that’s there."

He took another sip of coffee. "Mostly knives and some crude spears. There is something else."

He looked hesitant.

"Go ahead, we saw some strange things. With all the magic in the air, I know anything is possible."

Roberts looked relieved as he nodded. "There is something big with them. There are some big trees, mostly Oaks, and I regularly saw the treetops move, but I didn't see any big creatures. I just know that there is something big there. Something that can move an oak tree top must be huge."

"There is also a dark cloud hanging over them. I watched the wind and hoped it would move the cloud away but it stayed put like it was moored there. It cast the whole clearing in a dark shadow and it's growing."

Louie looked slightly concerned. "This is the quest we got from Gaea to clear the basement where the infernal was summoned, notice the description of what would happen if we were to have failed the quest."

Gaea quest:

The summoned have left the basement, leaving the ritual active allowing a dark corruption to take hold of the rabbits wandering into the afflicted area!

Infernal beings are filled with rage and always hungry! Kill all possessed rabbits in the area before the horned rabbit population is transformed.

Skinwalker (demon) 0/1

Abominabunny (transformed) 0/20

Rabbidevil (transformed) mini-boss 0/1

Reward: Reputation with surrounding towns based on contribution. Blessed amulet for each member of the party.

1000 experiences for each member of the party.

Failure: The area will slowly convert to Infernal lands. Animals will be possessed and become much more vicious.

The mayor didn't look happy. "It's slowly changing the land around it."

Louie agreed. "I think so. That cloud is worrying. As far as I can remember from stories, demons are more powerful at night and the fact that there is a cloud covering this Infernal would suggest that it wants to hide something or is trying to stay out of the sun."

Joe leaned forward. "It might be that the cloud is one of its ways that it is trying to change the area to be more environmentally friendly to its race."

"Yea that's worrying; how far are they from here?"

Roberts walked to the map against the wall and marked the spot of the clearing.

Louie marked it on his map.

"Just outside the settlement boundaries. That's why I couldn't sense it. How long would it take us to get there with a force of . . . say, 50 troops?" Joe wanted to know.

"The first part is easy, we follow the N1 till just before the vineyards start, there is a section where the vineyards start and the mountain ends that we can move through. We do not want to cross the vineyards. The bloody spiders took the whole place over. Then we follow the runoff and around the outcropping, the last part of the terrain is rocky, so I guess it would take us about 5hours to reach there unobserved."

"Good, I suggest that we wait for your two teams to exit the dungeon and talk to the captain, if I remember correctly, he said that he studied battles and stuff, so any input from him would be welcome and that would give us another 10 high-level troops to include in the 50."

Louie agreed, "so say we leave about 07:00 at the latest. Roberts, can you draw an accurate map of the clearing and what's around it?"

They agreed and Roberts said that he will do that then he is going to catch a bit of shuteye before they head out again. He bid everybody good night and left.

Louie leaned back in the chair and brought up the issue of the team’s speedrunning the Dungeon.

"I also propose that we change the guard's Delve team’s operational schedule for their first and second Dungeon dive, I suggest the teams not touch the boss shield after they have cleared the Dungeon and rather spend another 5days in the restroom training yard, practising their skills with the dungeon trainers."

Joe looked sceptical. "5days?"

Louie nodded. "Yes, there is no easier way to get the weapon training that the guards need than to get it from professionals. Make it 18h a day of training. 4hours melee, half-hour rest, 4hours mental or mana training, half-hour rest and then 4hours range attack training, with another 4hours crafting or any skill training for 5 days."

"They only need 6h sleep in the restroom for them to receive the restful buff. We need to raise their skill levels, I think that the coming months will be a great strain on the Town and you will need all the capable fighters you can get"

He thought for a moment before deciding to tell them about the fact that he owned the Dungeon and the changes that might be in the pipeline.

He just opened his mouth when there was a knock on the door. He got up and opened it to see the sergeant, or the new Captain standing in front of him.

"Damn, I can't believe that you beat us to the punch."

Louie showed the Captain into the room and closed the door before taking his seat again as the Mayor spoke up.

"Morning Paul, how was your Dive?"

"Morning Mayor, Joe, Louie, yes our run was a success thanks, pity we couldn't go again.

Louie cleared his throat, "about that."

He got all their attention.

As you all know, I claimed this settlement and Joe is leasing it from me."

"Yes." The mayor spoke up.

"Well, that night I also had the option to claim the Dungeon and I did."

The Mayor just shook his head. "Of course you did, why doesn't that surprise me."

"What does that mean for us?" Joe wanted to know.

Louie shrugged at the Mayor and then told them about his conversation with the Core and the possible changes that might be happening to the Dungeon.

The Mayor looked thoughtful. "If this happens, then we might put the guards through the first section of the Dungeon a couple of times, and use the training yard for 5days at a time."

Louie agreed, "my thoughts exactly. Here I'm sure you guys can use more of these." He transferred half the spears and shields, as well as all the mana crossbows.

"I'm going to drop half the metal ingots at the blacksmith, and I propose a Dungeon tax on any Delver that exits the Dungeon, tax them in metal ingots since every Golem drops two ingots as loot. This will lessen the bottleneck that I hear the blacksmiths talking about, and also make it so that they have first offer on the ore that the miners will get from the dungeon."

The mayor nodded. "We have just this morning implemented a metal tax of 10% on the Delvers, and we are planning to build a hotel next to the Dungeon where Delvers that are not from this town can stay."

Louie smiled, "Great minds think alike, but I would suggest that you make the hotel more in the line of an adventurer's guildhall where Delvers can rent rooms, gather at a bar and swap items etcetera. Talk to the Gsquad and I'm sure Joe has some thoughts on the design."

The mayor leaned back in his chair. "Talking about design, have you been to your tower yet?"

Louie was intrigued. "No, is something wrong?"

"It grew, that tower is nearly three times bigger than it was and the property also expanded to make space for the tower. Somehow it moved the town wall also and the bloody mountain next to the town. The whole town footprint changed to make space for that tower. There is no way that that tower would have fitted in the space between the mountains before the pulse."

"Damn, were there any casualties or property damage in the incident?"

He shook his head. "That's the damndest thing. We saw it happen but nobody felt anything, not even the guards on the walls."

"I'm going there now when I leave here. Thank you."

Louie saw that Joe was close to falling asleep. "I think that is enough for now. Let's get together at 06:00 and go over the map that Roberts is making and then set out."

They agreed and wished them good night, just before he left the mayor pulled him aside and gave him three chests filled with firearms.

"Joe told me what you did with that crossbow of yours, I got the team that went to Worcester to round up all the firearms that they could find, maybe you could put it in that tower of yours till we find a use for it one day."

Louie was apprehensive because of what he found in the Boss loot BOT during the first dive, "I don't think we will ever find a use for them except as parts, and then the pre-pulse metals are very weak compared to the system metals, but I will hang on to them and see if I can find a use for them, maybe I can something."

The mayor agreed, Louie set out to go check what changes the system has done to his tower.

As Louie left the garrison he stopped next to the entrance and removing two light stones he raised two thin posts from the ground and placed the light stones on them. He then raised them 4meters high. Creating the firsts streetlight in Starter Town.

He walked down the road and every 25 meters he would raise a light post till he reached the town gates where he inserted a couple of lights on the outside of the gates in the posts before he took another street towards his tower also raising streetlights.

As he got near his tower he saw the changes that the system made, and he was in awe.

There was a 3meter high 8 sided wall around the whole tower and it included the open area where he had that impromptu town gathering in front of the tower the day he had raised it.

The tower was taller, it used to be just over 30meters now it looks like it's a staggering 70 meters high, and the whole thing looked like it's spun from silk.

From the top of the tower connecting to each corner of the wall was what looked like a thick cable and on the four main corners, there was what looked like a giant stone spider connecting the cable to the wall.

Each spider's abdomen was connected to the cable and its legs holding onto the wall. It looked as if the spider had just dropped from the tower and was still connected to it with its web. Thin strands were strung between each of the cables, it made the whole structure look as if it was wrapped in a beautiful spider web.

The whole structure of the tower had also changed, the walls looked like it was spun and built by giant weaver spiders. It looked like a fairytale tower, it was beautiful.

'Ok I might have gone a bit overboard with the spider silk and the spider golems I added as material.'

As he neared the entrance to the tower the door opened and was greeted by a strange sight. There was a creature next to the door, a strange humanoid creature. It was dressed like an English butler but it had four arms and four legs, it just needed a big butt and it could pass for a Drider, a very strange Drider and it was dressed in a butler suit.

"Good day Sir, welcome back to your tower." Louie looked at the . . Butler? And wonder what to make of this.

"Hi, thank you. Aah, who might you be?"

The butler pulled itself up straight, all two meter of itself, "I am the tower interface Sir, usually, I only receive a physical body when the tower reaches lvl 5, but you have supplied the tower with two perfectly acceptable mana crafted bodies that the system deemed it was suitable. Unfortunately, I am only lvl 1 and not lvl 5 so my functions are very limited."

"The remnant of the bodies was absorbed and used by the tower to serve as attendants."

'Damn, ok, I definitely went overboard with the spider material.'

Louie noticed that there was a slight shimmer around the butler.

"OK, thank you, might I know your name?"

He thought for a moment before he shrugged, "I have no name, Sir, any name would be accepted." Louie thought for a moment. "How about James?"

"That name is acceptable, thank you, Sir." He made a slight head bow to Louie.

"Glad to be able to help, James." Louie entered the tower and as the door closed behind him he looked at the butler.

"James, is there a way that I can talk to you if I want to without anybody else being privy to our conversations?

"Yes Sir, there are several ways, but I think that the less intrusive one is the one that will do for now Sir, at least till I have reached my second level." He made a small gesture and a black spider earring appeared in his hand. "Just press it to your earlobe, Sir, You would be able to communicate with me anywhere in your property, Sir."

Louie the small strange device, it looked like a mix between a spider and beetle, it had big pitchers at the front and rear that resembled sharp mandibles.

Spydric Earwig

Aracne Mini Wireless Mana Earpiece, Model A530, Hands-free communication device.

Facilitate mental communication between the wizard and his Tower interface.

"Thank you, James, but what's with the mandibles?"

"It's there to attach to the ear, Sir."

Louie pressed it to his earlobe and he felt a sharp prick as the pendant stuck the mandibles through and wrapped its legs around the upper part of his ear.

'Can you hear me, Sir?'

Louie concentrated on James and spoke in his mind as if he was speaking out aloud.

'Yes thank you, James, this will do fine.'

"Thanks, James, now, what did you mean by attendants?"

The butler followed a step behind as they walked.

"The attendant Sir are those that will keep the rooms clean and attend to minor things that need doing on a nightly basis."

"Nightly, James? Not Daily?"

"No Sir, they are small and shy and try to be unobserved. Being made from metal it would be advised that one could leave a small coin or piece of metal out every now and then as a show of gratitude."

'Brownies, we got house brownies in the tower!' Louie couldn't help but smile.

"Thank you James I will spread the word. Are the rest of my team settled in?"

"Yes Sir, they are all in the 'Braai' area."

"Thank you, James. That will be all for now."

Louie watches James walk away, again noticing the slight shimmer around his body.

He walked into the Braai area and saw his and the captains' Delve team sitting around a table chatting.

"Hi, everybody, what do you all think about the tower?"

There were looks of appreciation from most of them. Leon spoke up. "It looks flimsy, It looks as if the walls are woven from silk but they are stronger than steel, I tried to scratch one and my blade left no impression."

Louie nodded. "Yes, I saw. It looks as if the whole tower is spun from silk, I love it. Have you guys checked out your rooms yet?"

'Sir, the rest of your people have arrived.'

'Thank you James can you show them to the braai area?'

Moments later Christean Else, Micheal Nasser, Kotche and Counselor, stepped into the room.

Christian was the first to speak. "Wich was the first team out?" Louie shook his head and addressed the speedrunning issue with everybody. While telling Christian that his team was first out.

Kotche sighed as he handed Christean several coins. Louie just shook his head.

"Go check out your rooms and get what rest you can, they found the infernal and we have to be in front of the barracks at 07:00. It will be about a 5 hour trek over rough terrain with a tough fight at the end."

They all nodded before getting up and leaving for their rooms, as each passed him they sent him a transfer BB and transferred a chest with all the Golem parts as well as the coins that they borrowed from him.

Louie was halfway up the stairs when he contacted James asking how he could instal an elevator in the tower.

'I'm sure that the exercise would do me a world of good, but to climb the equivalent of 18 flights of stairs a couple of times a day can and will get old real quick.'

'There is an easier way Sir.'

Louie stopped and thought to himself. 'Of course, there is.'

Louie had noticed that the central part of the tower was much bigger than it used to be and that the stairs are now inside the tower and not spiralling up the outside, which was a great blessing in bad weather.

Every 20 stairs there would be a landing with a doorway leading into an empty room into the centre.

Louie leaned against one of the doorways as he gave his legs a break. 'Damn I need to get more exercise.'

He stuck his head into the room and saw that it looked bigger on the inside than it should be, but the features that caught his eye were the big windows that filled the one wall.

'Windows? There should be no windows, these rooms are on the inside of a tower, and I didn't see any windows on the outside, must be magic.'

He walked through the room and stood before the floor to ceiling round window, 'This would make a great library. Hmm, just sitting here on a cold day watching over the town while reading a book. Jip, library.'

He removed all the furniture that he took from the Gemini boss room and furnished the room. He threw the red shag rug that he got from the Mimic loot in front of the armchair facing the window and placed the fireplace against the far wall, the bookshelves he placed against the other two walls and between the windows, he remembered the five pallets of books that he received from the Patterson loot that is currently sitting in his tower basement.

'I got to bring them up here and make some shelves for my new library.'

The moment he placed the last books on the coffee table next to the armchair he received a BB.

Attention

Would you like to designate this space as a Library

Y/N

He pressed, Y a ripple ran through the room and it changed into a comfortable old-time reading room with walls lined with shelves filled with books. It looked like a room you would get in some of the old mansions, one of the walls was lined with shelves from floor to ceiling, there were even one of those ladders with wheels that you could push from side to side to reach the higher shelves.

He looked through the books and realized that most were the books that were in the basement on the pallets.

Congratulations.

You have added a new feature to your wizards' tower. The addition of a library will grant a +2 intelligence to anybody that resides in this structure while they occupy the premises

This library can be an academically centred environment and will keep your brain focused on your studies, or it can be a place to relax and enjoy the boons. You will need to increase the level of your library if you want to do any research. With higher levels, this library will allow you to have almost every possible book within reach. Level your library by supplying it with more books.

'Nice.' He looked around and picked up one of the books that he remembers Joe talked about. 'What did he call it, LITRPG?'

He sat down in the chair near the fireplace and started reading. The story was about a guy who was a blacksmith and agreed to seek out a master for more training. Together with his friends they travel to a distant city and on the way, they face many enemies and even meet a dragon. He closed his eyes and imagined meeting a dragon, a friendly dragon.

He didn't remember falling asleep.