Chapter 14

I wake up to ghost, in wolf form, licking me.

"What happened while I was out?" jack

'You’re awake!' ghost

"Yeah I am, thanks for healing me by the way." Jack

'It was a combined effort of me and silly' ghost

"So what exactly happened?" jack

I could clearly remember everything up till deciding to detonate the mana in my sword.

'well that golem you made killed tons of zombies, eventually some of the more intelligent ones decided that he was the biggest threat and brought him down, not without heavy casualties though. After that we just wiped up the few stragglers remaining.' Ghost

"How’s everyone else?" jack

'Everyone is fine' ghost

"Good" jack

I stand up with a grunt and look around, what I see is corpses everywhere.

"About time you wake up" Lucy

I just stare at her blankly.

"What’s with that look?" Lucy

"imagine waking up after unleashing your ultimate ability which has a high chance to kill you and sacrifices your weapon only to find the person you used it on perfectly healthy without even a scratch" jack

"if it makes you feel better I was missing my entire left half from the shoulder down until I absorbed the life energy from some of the undead which I then spent hours healing" Lucy

"How long was I out?" jack

"About a day and a half" Johanna

"You don't sound worried at all" jack

"Of course not, damage of that level couldn’t possibly kill you" Johanna

"This is yours" Lucy

Lucy handed me a palm sized dark blue crystal that felt cool to the touch, then warm, then cool. It kept pulsing like a heartbeat.

'Observe' jack

soul stone. size: medium. quality: good. description: this is the soul stone of a necromancer, powerful creatures form soul stones in their chests, it can be used in necromancy as well as having other hidden uses

for some reason I felt a strong desire to eat it.

skill obtained: soul eater

title obtained: devourer of souls

‘check skill soul eater’ jack

soul eater skill type: active, passiverarity: legendaryLevel: 1Exp, 50%Description: this skill allows you to consume souls. When you consume a soul your base stats raise based on the quality of soul, the stats of the original owner of the soul, and the level of this skill. Higer levels increase efficiency of obtaining stats. Current efficiency: 1%

‘this is amazing’ jack

I ponder the possibilities for a second before remembering the title I received.

devourer of souls. God-like title. You are the first person to try eating a soul stone in over a thousand years, as a result you have gained something a little extra, normally you need to eat hundreds of souls to get this, your efficiency in absorbing souls is doubled, you can eat the soul of someone even if it has completely diffused into their body

"I’ll be right back" jack

before anyone could recover from the sock of watching me eat the soul stone I ran off back to the cave where we had been staying up till now. on the way I noticed a blue dot in the upper right hand corner of my vision. when I concentrated on it this popped up.

stored messages:1

interesting, I wonder if I could send messages to other people.

'show stored message' jack

congratulations! you have completed part 2/3 of this dungeon! just one part remaining, gather up all of the survivors so you can leave. survivors 9

after doing a quick count I realized something, there was one other survivor other than me, Johanna, ghost, selena, Joe, sally, jacobe, and Lucy.

'urg this might be difficult' jack

I kept running until I reached the cave where I quickly looked for something. I took a minute but I managed to find martin's soul stone. I eat it. I then sit down and meditate till my stamina is full. when I open my eyes I see Johannes pure yellow eyes looking back at mine.

"ghost and I are ready to evolve again" Johanna

"then why haven’t you?" jack

"because you’re the one that needs to impute the decision for what we become" Johanna

"makes sense" jack

"anyway, we need to gather everyone together and find that last person so we can leave" Johanna

"then let’s get to work. you are the fastest thing alive, literally, so you can cover more ground than any of us. don't forget to use your monster senses skill" jack

"everyone else was looking for whoever it was that survived while we watched over you" Johanna

"alright, enough procrastinating, if you find him/her let me know via telepathy" jack

we spent much of the day attempting to find this person (at least I think it was a day). after hours we started to get discouraged when suddenly ghost came in with a teacher in tow.

"I had thought the lot of you went and died, or got killed and turned into zombies by the principle" jacobe

"what was that about the principle?" teacher

'he was the one that made all of those zombies you found walking around' ghost

"what!? really!?" teacher

"are you really that surprised, there’s been rumors about him being a necrophiliac for a long time now" jack

"how'd you here that?"selena

"it was pretty obvious, I mean he spent all of his free time at a graveyard" jack

"I was not aware of that." Teacher

"I don’t think any of us were" Johanna

everyone shook their head, except ghost, in confirmation.

"ah, where are my manners. I haven't introduced myself to you yet. please call me mr.smith, mage" mr.smith

"what type of mage?" sally

"I mostly focus on elemental magic but I can use pretty much any magic, except necromancy. I haven't been able to figure that one out" mr.smith

"you know animation magic right?"

"yes. why?" mr.smith

"how do you do animation magic? through magic circles or direct application?" jack

"direct application. I don’t understand where these questions are coming from" mr.smith

"necromancy is animations dark twin brother" jack

a look of revelation spread across his face as he ran to a nearby corpse and animated it with necromancy. he then came up to me and grabbed my hand, shacking it vigorously.

"thank you so much, I’ve been trying for years to figure it out. if I can help you in any why let me know Mr.?" mr.smith

"names jack, no surname" jack

"so how can I be of service, jack" mr.smith

"wait, you said you've been practicing magic for years, how? I thought it was just recently introduced to this world" sally

"it's times like these that make you realize that you're a member of the 1%" jack

"the 1%?" sally

"the 1% that is aware of the existence of magic among other things, although I’ve never used magic till recently. didn't see the point in using magic as several marshal arts allow you to directly destroy a person’s magic" jack

"I didn't know that" mr.smith with a look of fear

"anyway, now magic in this world has received a boost, a big boost. so in order to not fall behind I need to learn as much about it as possible" jack

"you want me to teach you" mr.smith

"bingo" jack

"very well, it's a fair trade. information for training" mr.smith

"so you’re saying this world has always had magic? and almost no one was aware of it?" selena

"yes, although recently it, among other things, has received a huge boost. That thing you did with holy inferno would have taken at least 10 highly skilled mages to accomplish before." Jack

at that point Joe came in with a refreshed look on his face.

"so we get to leave now, huh" Joe

as soon as he said that a system message popped up.

congratulations! you have beaten your first dungeon!

and we all start to ascend a flight of stairs that magically appeared in front of us.

when we got to the top I look around. we are in the center of the football field, with the home team bleachers on the left of me and the challengers on the right. in front of us is a goddess, no seriously, a literal goddess.

your pet/slave Lucy has obtained the skill evolution

your pet/slave Johanna’s title divine ancestry(sealed) has changed to divine ancestry

"hello mother" Johanna rather coldly

*growl*"why are you here, mother" ghost burning with anger

end chapter 14