Checking in on his second dungeon not a lot had actually changed, some of the goblins he'd spawned had died but the rest had gained a level or two. It seemed that keeping them in groups kept most of them alive yet slowed the level growth compared Null's original group fighting solo. "Speaking of Null let's see what he's up to" Steve found Null bringing up his pop-up.

Null goblin frost touch level 9, though fragile this goblin combination of frost energy and ambush tactics makes him incredibly deadly when in close range.

"The status messages seem to adapt not only to the goblins powers but also focus on the personality or actions to some degree " Steve marveled at the discovery. Sending a mental prod Steve sent Null to try and hunt down as many of the jungle cats and snake around since he was the closest to hitting level 10. It will likely take some time since the highest level non dungeon creature is a level 6 jungle panther. Focusing to get a pop-up Steve noticed an interesting effect the dungeon might be having on the monster.

Jungle panther level 6, this Jungle panther has absorbed small amounts of water aspected energy causing it to have increased flexibility.

It seemed like on top of gaining a small level boost for the wild energy in the air the filtered dungeon energy allowed it to develop special powers related to the dungeon. Diving into the dungeon information settings it seemed Steve could spend some of his dungeon energy to infuse the area in his dungeon with a larger amount making it more likely to cause this effect. It was already doing this to a small degree when autonomous so Steve didn't play with it yet and decided to use half of his current dungeon energy to expand his influence to more of the jungle adding a small chunk of river and a few more acres of land for his goblins to roam.

His goblins could leave the dungeon but if they killed anything or died his dungeon would lose any energy from the process. They could still level but for now he needed all the information he could get. As he was admiring the river Bank under his influence he was startled to find a crudely made boat drifting down the river with what looked to be elf like creatures. Thinner than humans with white hair and six fingers on each hand they were a strange sight floating down the river completely unaware of his nearby dungeon. Excited Steve spawned three goblins to try and get there attention.

Douglas was so bored sitting in the boat all day while his servants looked for herbs on the shoreline. Why did his father insist on making him come along with this menial assignment. With a grunt he guzzled his wine skin and lamented his poor fortune. A shout from beside him brought Douglas out of his half drunkin stupor. Looking over one of the young men saw a little red monster standing on the shoreline. With excitement Douglas commanded his servants to bring him a shore. Monsters where extremely rare and being one of the few ways Douglas knew to level up. Being from a rich family Douglas's father had bought him monster meat and herbs to raise his level to 4 high for anyone who wasn't a professional guard or hunter but not even close to being able to pick his level ten perk.

Hesitating the older man running the boat spoke up " young master that monster looks dangerous plus if your father found out we let you be in danger he'd". Letting that hang in the air all the members or the herb gathering party sweated thinking what might happen if they let a monster hurt jacoby Canes son die to a monster attack. "If you don't take me there I'll hop out and swim over myself then you'll have to explain to my father why you were to cowardly to protect me ". With a nervous chuckle the old man steered the boat a shore hoping out to keep himself between Douglas and the monster. The two other young men in the boat grabbed their small herb shovels and protected each side of the young man.

Steve watched the party approach the level 2 fire goblin with interest holding the the lighting and earth goblins just out of sight wanting to test both his goblin and these new elf creatures. The old man stepped forward and clumsily swiped his paddle at the goblin missing. Seeing an opening the goblin rushed forward grabbing the older man's wrist. The older man let out a scream having to contact burn his wrist causing him to fall backwards into the important looking elf in the center. Alarmed the two other young men stepped forward and connected with their shovles.

Quickly killing the little monster they turned around to help their injured companion. With a growl the young man shoved the injured elf off him getting to his feet and yelling at him. Before the two elf could tend to his injury or the angry one could really start going Steve sent the remaining two goblins rushing at the sorry looking group. Rushing forward the lightning goblin through himself at the leader with his back turned tackling him in a burst of electricity stunning him. The two holding shovles were less surprised and fought with the little goblin whose knuckles turned into stone. Despite being injured the old man did his best to hold off the goblin trying to kill his leader swinging one handed barley keeping it at bay.

Douglas's head hurt and he could barely move after being zapped by that little basterd. Rolling to his side and reaching for the knife in his jacket he pulled it out and plunged it into the side of the goblin fighting his servant. Capitalizing on that his servant smashed its head with the paddle before stumbling over to finish off the Last monster. Douglas just caught his breath watching a strange ball of energy form about the creatures head before dropping to the ground rolling to him. Touching the ball caused a pop-up in his vision.

Elemental lightning tattoo, would you like to equip? Yes or no.

Shocked Douglas Selected yes thinking that this seemed a lot like how a perk should work at level ten. A flood of energy filled him causing his white hair to turn to a yellow with blue highlights and a lightning bolt to appear on his neck just like the little monster had. He felt like he could control an energy inside himself and turning it on would let him zap something like he was zapped. With a start he ordered his men to look for glowing stones around the monsters. After ten minutes of searching it seemed they didn't drop anything so they loaded their enemies corpses in the boat and quickly left.

Tending to their injures the servants exclaimed about their gained levels, despite only being level one or two when they left this morning the old man had hit level 4 while the two boys hit level 5 along with their young master who by the looks of it somehow gained a perk early. They had to get back and tell lord Cane about this.