Chapter 10

For about an hour I was grinding my assassinate and backstab skills on a dummy, at about 1/3 the rate of fighting monsters, when I heard a shout on the other side of the gate I built.

"Anyone alive in their?”???

"Yes, but who are you" jack

"Selena?" Joe

"Is that you little Joe?" Selena

"Let her in" Joe

"Alright, alright. If she’s someone you know and trust then I’ll trust her, for now" jack

When I opened the door/gate I saw a tall, blond, slender, charming girl covered in monster blood, reminds me of an ideal big sister. I instantly realize that she's not my type.

"So, little Joe, can you introduce your friends here to me?" Selena

"The guy that opened the gate for you is jack. He’s the boss around here, even though he's just a freshman." Joe

"How’d that happen?" Selena

"We had a vote, 3 to 1 in my favor" jack

"Wow nice" Selena

"Just kidding, I was the one who organized the group so I’m obviously the leader." jack

"Alright moving on. The small girl over by the fire is Johanna; the albino girl with wolf ears next to her is ghost" Joe

"She certainly looks like a ghost" Selena

"Anyway come eat some bacon and tell us you're story" jack

"Before that where's Philip?" Selena

"He-”Joe

"He’s dead" jack

As I quickly cut him off, I let it sink in. Selena just stands their crying.

"I figured it would happen like this, this dungeon has a 90% death rate after all" Selena

"If it makes you feel any better he was planning to propose at graduation in 1 month" Joe

"He was such a child, but he was sweet like that" Selena

"Philip told me to give this to you in case something were to happen to him" Joe

Joe pulls out a ring with a small diamond on it and hand it over to the crying girl. Who just stared at the ring letting tears roll down her cheeks and land on the hand holding the ring. After a little bit of just standing there in an awkward silence, only broken by the sound of crying.

"Tell me what type of skills you have" ghost

*sniff*"why?"Selena

"So I can better exploit your strengths, I mean based on the system message we are going to need allies to survive this round" ghost

"I hadn't thought of that" jack

Quickly snapping out of her daze Selena volunteered her information.

"I have healing magic as well as some attack magic" Selena

"I guess it's the increased int showing through" jack

"Speaking of which we need to set our stats" ghost

I get my dex up to 50 and my strength almost to 50.

"As I thought getting stats up to 50 only modifies existing skills" jack

I get ghosts Wis up to level wisdom up to 50 and put the rest into nat.def.

Your pet/slave has obtained the skill magic steel fur

Your pet/slave's steel skills have ranked up to adamantium

Johanna just puts everything to agility.

After we set our stats we decided to go to sleep as it was getting late. After everyone had gone to sleep ghost crawled over to me and laid next to me, of course I was tiered from training all day, so I couldn’t even react. Not that I really care, having anthers warmth next to me helped me to relax, and ghost is extremely warm. At one point in the night I woke up from something cool pressed to my arm, like a summer breeze, comforting. Unfortunately, I was exhausted still and just went back to sleep. I wasn't going to do anything to them until at the very least we got out of this dungeon, plus there are other people around and no place to get alone time.

In the morning I was greeted by a system message.

congratulations, again, for making it this far. Now let’s see how long you can last against your own class mates

For some reason this one seemed more cruel than the others that have been sent to me.

*yawn* "good morning" ghost

"Oh" *snicker*"I thought it might be something like this" Selena

"You seem a lot better than last night" Johanna

"You were awake?" ghost

"Sprites don't sleep, apparently" Johanna

"Sprite?" Selena

"You are the only human female here" jack

"Oh, so these girls are monsters?" Selena

"Technically I am a beast, not a monster, but yes"*growl* ghost

"Guess it's time to make breakfast" jack

"Honestly I am getting sick of orc" Johanna

"There is nothing else to eat so do you want to starve?" jack

"No, it tastes good. It’s just that's all we've eaten for days and no more orcs will be spawning in here" Johanna

"True we need to find another food source soon or get out of here. I personally would prefer the second, I want to make sure some old friends are safe." jack

"It’s been years since we’re gone to the mountain, I hope everyone's safe" Johanna

""Mountain?"" ghost, Joe, Selena

"Jack and I were raised on a mountain" Johanna

Before anyone could respond we hear knocking on the makeshift gate.

"Who’s knocking on my front door?" jack

"Jack! Is that you?”???

"Martin? I thought for shore you would be among the first to die" Johanna

"Alright let him in" "jack

After opening the door I see four people holding a Varity of weapons, a spear, a sword, a bow, a shovel.

"Heh. That was mean Johanna" martin

"So who are these three?" jack

"I don’t know. Never met them before today" martin

"Should we really let them all in?" Selena

"I agree with you, martin should come in because master knows him. But the others we can't trust" ghost

A look of fear flashed on the threes' faces.

"No-now wait a minute”???

"I have a better idea" jack

Everyone turned their heads to look at me.

"Why don't we add them to ghost's pack, that way they can't harm us and we offer protection and food" jack

"Why didn't I think of that?" ghost

""Pack?""Everyone

"A skill she has allows her to create a pack and dominate other creatures, human included, and add them into her pack" jack

"If you intend on treating us like slaves I’m out of here”???

"You’ll die" Joe

I was surprised by Joe speaking, he hadn’t said much since his brother’s death, but I didn't show it on my face.

"He’s right we have no idea what is about to happen" jack

"I’ll take my chances”???

"Are the rest of you willing to join my pack?" ghost

"As long as I can stick with my brother I’ll do it”???

"Alright, give me some food first”???

I quickly re-light the fire with a spell and reheat some of the bacon.

"I see you have been doing well Johanna" martin

"How’d you recognize me" Johanna

"I got the observe ability, by the way jack why did you let me in? I thought you hated Me." martin

"First, I don't hate you. I am morally apathetic. Second, as for why I let you in, it is because of a certain, interest of yours that I feel allows me to control you to some degree. I don't trust you" jack

"Seconds”???

The two that were quietly gorging themselves on meat suddenly spoke up.

"Before that tell me about yourselves" Johanna

"Silly and I are twins”???

"Stop calling me that bro my name is sally not silly" silly err sally

"We were in the middle of study hall when we were transported here, together luckily." brother

"I haven't caught your name yet" jack

"it's Jacobe" Jacobe

"what did you do for food before this?" Johanna

"At first we were disturbed by the corpses laying everywhere" sally

"You ate the corpses!?!?" Joe

"No, we took food from their backpacks after we got used to them" Jacobe

"I suddenly feel like the world’s biggest idiot" jack, under my breath

"What was that" ghost

"Nothing" jack

I examine the info floating above their heads and see that they are both level five and martin is level 16.

"So what level are you three?" jack

"5" sally and Jacobe in unison

"10" martin

'Why would he need to lie about his own strength?' jack

'What do you mean?' ghost

'His level is 16 not 10’ jack

'Let’s keep an eye on him' Johanna

"Alright let’s add you to ghost's pack" jack

"Fine, do it" sally

congratulations! You now have your own pack! As the one who made the pack is your pet/slave leadership position is given to you, although you can't directly add members. Only pets/slaves with the proper ability can add member’s

current members: sally, Jacobe, martin

"yet, master has his own pack now" ghost

"Pervert" martin

"What?" jack?

"Forcing a girl to wear those ears and a tail and having her call you master, you are a huge pervert" martin

"Don’t insult master, these ears and tail are natural, not that I’d ever let you touch them, and I call master master cause he is my master" ghost

"What really their real?" sally

"Sure you want to touch them?" ghost

Emphasizing the *you* while pointing at sally.

"Can I really?" sally

"Sure since you didn't insult master" ghost

"Tsk" martin

After finishing up with breakfast I ask them if they had seen anything on the way here.

"I saw no monsters and all of the corpses were missing" sally

"That makes sense, if we look at the system message we received then likely we will be dealing with undead" ghost

"Well we are going to have to rush through this portion as we have enough food for 2-3 days max" jack

"What are we all waiting for let’s do this" martin

"And what strategy would you suggest?" Johanna

"Jack and I can go scout out the enemy" martin

"Very well, let’s get a move on. While we're out train the twins with the dummies I built the other day"

As we head out of the cave I notice that the corpses that were their just last night, aren’t their anymore. I check around where the bodies used to be and I find tracks, shoe tracks.

Skill obtained: tracking

"It looks like ghost is right, they just upped and walked away" martin

"Lets follow the tracks in the dirt to wherever they were heading, we might find something good." jack

After walking for about 10 minutes we find more tracks going in the same direction. I laugh through my nose and we continue to follow the tracks. Eventually we come across a bleeding corpse. No not a corpse, yet. it's the guy that walked away from us this morning, at least I think it was morning, no way to tell time here.

"Th-they were everywhere, I was able to fend them off at first but then..."???

"Then what? Finish speaking" martin

"She came couldn’t hurt her even if she was already dead. How could I hurt my own sister”???

"Oh" martin

"You, you have a knife right, use it to put me out of my misery”???

"Are you sure?" jack

"I am going to die anyway, just promise me one thing. Destroy whatever it was that did this to my sister”???

"Very well, but tell me one thing, what is your name" jack

"Johnson and one more thing. I know it might be too much to ask but please dispose of my body so that I don't become one of those things" Johnson

"Fine" jack

After I finish him off I burn his body with the highest level fire spell I have, fire storm, and then wash away the ashes with the water spell flood. Can’t risk the ashes being used for something, if at all possible.

Skill obtained: execute

Somewhere along the way I got a system message.

Your pet/slave Johanna has obtained the skill: teaching

After walking for an hour or so more we come across a large room filled with the walking corpses of our old schoolmates, martin looked completely undisturbed by this. Suddenly I see martin step out of the room, and a transparent wall comes up in the door way.

"Like it, it's the spell mana wall, nothings goanna break through this as long as it remains up. Only one problem, it’s timed, it'll only last about 30 minutes if I use all my mana. Which I did." martin

I just glare at him silently and pull out my dagger.

"Ho, ho, ho you’ve done a good job”???

"This means I can keep the girl right" martin

"Not quite, he is still alive and so are the others”???

Realizing what was happening I tried to contact ghost and Johanna via telepathy but they are too far away.

"Kill him" martin

End chapter 10