We kept trying to find the lunatics for the next month. I then found out what the template ability did. I could tame a monster, but only one. We ran into a guardian of death, a gold-category monster. I used the template ability on it. I then got some new portal frames and squares. I opened one more portal to my soul house.

Ordeath told us that some of the bronze-category lunatics had reached silver category and the silver-category lunatic had reached gold. It was an extremely worrying moment, as a competent person could kill a monster one category ahead of them.

We went on killing monsters for the next month or so. It was easy, having a gold-category on our side. We then ran into the first lunatic.

The lunatic was luckily, only bronze-category. I said, “Suffer the cost of a lifetime.” Aryav finished him off with his spell, “I am law and I sentence you to death.” What Ordeath had told us is that two lunatics were lone scouts, the gold-category was the leader, and the rest traveled around in squads of four bronze-categories led by a silver category. We were lucky to have only encountered a scout, as a squad could easily kill us. We kept going for the next month, after which, on Earth, the coronavirus started.

Apparently, in some city in China called Wuhan, some fool ate a raw bat that happened to be carrying some respiratory virus mankind had never encountered before called COVI-SARS-2, that happened to be the cause of a disease called COVID-19. Me and Aryav could probably do something, but only if we got back to Earth. We kept going for about a month.