Chapter 11

>**Treasure Chest**

>Credits x300

>Amethyst Gem

>Small potion of minor poison

>Iron Cudgel of Burning

I don't know how good they compare to what I have, but these look like great rewards! Amethyst will probably be worth a lot and the Iron Cudgel is enchanted! I take everything from the chest and open the shop. First thing, I sell the gemstone. It's worth 100 credits, so I don't have much to scoff at yet. Next, I sell the Cudgel for... 400 credits! Tons of money! Next goes the Black Mountain Snake Mother. Okay, it's a cool 80 credits. I look at the potion for a few seconds, and I decide to sell that too, even though it is only worth ten credits. I don't know how to use poison, and I don't know when I'll ever get the chance to use it.

All in all, I earn 890 credits from the dungeon. It's not enough to buy a magic skill book, but I'm sure I will be able to afford something else. First thing I buy is 36 iron arrows to bring me back up to 100 iron arrows. Now I've got 818 credits remaining. While looking over the skill books, I come across something that would help immensely in these caves, night vision. Not only night vision, but even heat vision, and x-ray vision. X-ray vision is 500 credits, night vision is 300 credits, and heat vision is 200 credits. X-ray vision and night vision are a must, so I buy both of them.

I exit the shop and immediately use the two skill books. I look around, but nothing has changed, which I guess is a good thing. It would be bad if the two skills took over uncontrollably. I try to enable just night vision, and it comes on with a thought. I try to use x-ray vision at the same time, and it comes on two. I can turn them on and off at a whim, and now I choose to exit the cave. I can see inside the rock, and I might be able to become a great miner who always strikes the vein.

I leave the cave and go back to my tree. My once beautiful and magnificent tree! Shot down in his prime! I could move to a different tree, or I could actually build a house. No more sleeping in trees, I'm building a house! I use my remaining credits to buy more rope and string, and I realize how close to nightfall it is. I turn off night vision and x-ray vision, and I climb my rope back into the second tree. Hammock down, and I can sleep for the night.

When I wake up on the fifteenth day, I cycle through night and x-ray vision. Both work and are amazing. I also realize that I didn't use my stat points from leveling up, so I decide to use those. I'm more suited for the rogue type character, so I put my five points into dexterity. I feel a little more flexible, and precise movements might be easier, but nothing much has changed. I guess I'll just find out later.

For now, I start putting up more traps. I want to make the maximum amount of money possible at the next shop day so I can buy more skill books! Magic will be mine soon! Ten traps here, twenty traps here. Big ones, small ones. I should be able to get, like, twenty hares or maybe something bigger tomorrow.

I also have the tanner's rack and the tanning skill. With these, I can see if making products will give more money than selling the whole corpse. I could make rabbit meat, rabbit furs, and I could make oil from the fat. Okay, maybe not that last one, but the other two are something I know how to do.

I spend the whole day setting traps, and I return to my second tree. Such a shame. I should get a woodworking skill next. I need to make a real house, just like I told myself last night!

Over the night, I don't see any giant snakes, or wolves, or bears. I think things are going to be a bit more peaceful now that I killed the pack of wolves and completed the dungeon.