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Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 111: Weary March

The forest is dangerous this deep inside the heart of it, at least according to Jubilee who Fresh sticks next to. Despite that, they haven’t seen much of anything during their travel. The forest stretches on and on. It’s not entirely featureless, but it’s as good as so, in a sense. Every part of the forest looks like any other part of the forest. The same few species of tall, leafy trees fill the entire area for as far as they can see. Occasionally there is a hollow log or a few stumps ...

Chapter 257

My arm spasms as I feel a vibration run through my body, like an impulse. Like a surge as the electrical current, as the magical energies of the dungeon try to move me, try to fill me with their buzz, as my eyes, frantic and wide, scan the world around me as I walk. Goo fills the crevices of my gauntlet, her liquid body dampening the shakes. I can feel the jitters trying to set on, I can feel my fingers try to tremble together with my shaking eyes. But they don’t quite ever start, her prese...

Chapter 255

I screwed up the uploads and we skipped a chapter. This is supposed to be chapter 255. Yesterday's chapter is 256.

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Something is following me, following us through the forest as we walk.

It’s a weird forest, it’s not like the one I was in when I was a spider, or like the one I was in as a zombie. That was a spooky one haha, no, this one is… hmm… I don’t really want to say whimsical, because then it would soun...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 110: A choice made

A gently blowing wind pushes through the forest, the warm current almost whistling in a sing-song manner as it presses through the trees, gliding along the sharp edges of the leaves dangling high above them. It is early in the morning and the four of them are walking again, still heading south for a while.

They didn’t have much of anything to pack up in the camp, but they did go through the trouble of hiding any evidence of their having been there. The glass that they used ...

Chapter 256

Panting, heaving, I stand on my knees and look down at the mutilated mushroom body down on the ground before me. The bright chunks are spread over the forest floor, painting it as if there had been a violent, bloody carnage here. I hate mushrooms. They’re gross. All of my problems always seem to come from mushrooms and their disgusting, creepy little invisible roots. Fungus isn’t fun, guy. Fun guy. Fungi. Haha!

I rub my face into my shoulder, wiping some of the mushroom g...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 109: They float

Fresh covers her mouth as she lets out a loud yawn, doing her best to suppress it so that she doesn’t wake up her friends. Jubilee and Basil are laying on the grass around the small fire-pit, both of them having long since fallen asleep. The lantern has hung itself on a branch and floats there above their heads. She wonders if it's sleeping as well? Jubilee seemed to have been exhausted too and simply fell asleep on the spot, as soon as they laid down. Basil on the other hand appears to be ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 108: Fresh fish

The water of the river rushes past them with a steady, strong flow. It is resoundingly quiet however, as the crashing noise seems to be absorbed by the densely packed forest surrounding them on all sides. It is close to becoming dark again and the four of them have opted to stop here for a while. Not for the whole night, as they needed to keep moving. But for a few hours at least to rest and to finally have a moment to breathe, all together.

Fresh sits at the bank of the rive...

Chapter 254

I can’t help but find it a little ironic as I rise up the staircase, listening to the thudding of metal boots from up far above me as I pursue the hero-party. Those dummies apparently think that I’m ahead of them. I suppose there’s a lesson here somewhere about… I dunno, paying attention to your environment or not just rushing blindly onward without thinking about it or something. But I don’t really know. If this is a metaphor, I’m not really feeling it right now.

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 107: Not so different

“It’s so cute!” says Fresh, leaning forward to look at the little green creature that is wiggling itself out of the hollow tree trunk. Feeling her presence looming over it, the small, gelatinous body puffs itself out wide, stretching itself thin but much wider, as it tries to enlarge its appearance.

The tiny slime jiggles menacingly. Fresh isn’t sure how to process it exactly in her waking mind, but its wet, slapping sounds come together to form a few noises in her he...

Chapter 253

“L-“ I narrow my eyes, staring at the password. “Llll-“ My tongue presses against the roof of my mouth, but I can’t say the word that is written before me. Truth is, I don’t really know how to read. But you already knew that, guy. It’s not like it’s embarrassing or anything, there aren’t many things to read down in the dungeon, you know? Everything is very implicit or plain to see. It’s an easy relationship to the world, living in your run of the mill dungeon. Ours doesn�...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 106: Clearing the air

“Let me go! LET ME GO!” yells Basil, kicking and flailing like Fresh had done so before. The priestess’ fists strike against the large metal helmet of the man from the sect, who lets out a disgruntled sigh and jolts straight upright, jostling both of them back into place on his shoulders.

“I will not,” is all that he says, as he keeps walking, ignoring the fists striking against the back of his head.

“It’s okay, Basil, he’s really nice,” say...

Chapter 252

Come the hour, come the day, the moment that I breach the surface and tear my way through the guts of the world, come the instant that I rip my claws through the wet, bloody muck of the surface, tearing my way out, come then, I will be able to die satisfied. I kind of don’t even want to live a real life anymore, I kind of just want to make it out now for the sake of making it out. The escape is my goal. Leaving the dungeon is my goal. The journey? It’s becoming kind of a pain in my ass, a...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 26: Disturbance

Tango walks through the valley. A small, frozen river runs along their right-hand side that the two of them follow. The cliffs on either side of them rise up into the distance to create this passage that they’re in.

“Are we there yet?”

“What?” asks Tango.

Pen shifts around, clearly bored. “The city? Are we there yet?”

The bauble zooms in on the bloodied girl, sitting sideways in the seat, her feet up on the left...

Dungeon Item Shop - Poll 5

They aren't welcome in the north anymore and are in great danger if they continue to stay here. The four of them must find a new place to try and call home. But they'll soon need to make a decision. Which direction should they go, in their attempt to find a new home and a new place to reopen the store?

Both locations have a unique dungeon in the center of their cities and offer a potential location for a new shop, far away from the dangers of the north.

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 105: Life goes on

Fresh flies back as the two soft hands press against her body and shove her back with a violent push. The girl yelps as she flies backwards out of the fountain, her bottom hitting the inside stone rim of the basin, as she tips back and flops over, falling to the dirt with her back, her legs still hanging over the edge inside of the water. “GET AWAY FROM ME!” yells Basil, thrashing as she pulls herself away, kicking and splashing as she crawls out of the fountain on the other side. “WITC...

Chapter 251

I feel a chill.

A cold sensation runs along my spine, rising to my skull and my body buzzes with a quiet energy, my bones feel tense. If I had hairs on my arms, I’m sure they would be standing on end, but for what reason?

I look around, looking back at the clockwork floor, forty-six, that I am about to leave behind me as I ascend towards the apex of the world. There’s nothing there. Nothing but clockwork mechanisms and spinning metal. I half expected to s...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 104: Emergence

“I’m sorry,” says Fresh quietly.

“Shut up,” replies Jubilee in a loud, sharp tone.

Fresh isn’t sure for how long they’ve been running down the underground tunnel which is lined with dozens, if not hundreds of her handmade lanterns. They never sold this many to any one person, not even close. Does that mean that the thieves’ guild had bought all of these through other people? How many of them had been in their store? How often? Have they been w...

Chapter 250

Tick, tick, tick, tick.

A heavy thudding beat resounds around floor forty-six as I stand atop the large, horizontally spinning gear. The beat of each vibration of the mechanical heart rattling my armor as I stand there, looking out over the mechanical floor before me. Dozens, hundreds of giant whirring gears interconnect with each other, all of them spinning in a precise dance as they power the clockwork mechanism.

Clocks are cool I guess. But they’re a lit...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 103: Black-Water

Fresh presses herself against the window, swiping it away, not sure what ability she presses on as she simply tries to remove it as fast as she can from the world.

“WITCH!” yells a voice from the crowd and the entire wall of shields that held steadfast against the wave of fists smashing against them, the wall of shields that didn’t budge an inch for the many vampires howling in the darkness, now shifts as several of them lower their tower shields to take a look. The anq...

Chapter 249

Something crunches beneath my boot as I walk through the rubble and destruction that makes up floor forty-seven. Looking down at the thing beneath me, I lift my leg up and step off of the crushed minotaur skull. It was crushed before I got here, I swear!

I just kind of crushed it a little more.

Bending down, I pick up a fragment of the bone and fiddle around with it, spinning it between my fingers as I look upwards, to look around the space that I find myself...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 102: The end of days

It’s ridiculous thinks Fresh, as she leans back against the broken wall behind herself. As she feels the sum total of all of her efforts crumbling beneath her backwards facing palms that press against the broken wood. This city. These people…

These ‘people’.

They’re ridiculous. She can’t help but wonder, is there a beating heart in any of their chests? Is there anything in their eyes or their spirits that could give credence to their humanity? Or ...

Chapter 248

Darkness surrounds me as all I hear is the incredible crushing roar of the tidal-wave crashing over the entire floor, crashing over my body and swallowing me entirely. I grip on to the lance as tightly as I can, feeling the rushing movement around me as I am swallowed whole by the surge of the black-ocean.

Water. Water fills everything. Water drowns the entire floor as the great wave crashes down all around us all. My body shakes, my legs flying back out from under me as the ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 101: Net worth

With a heavy step the man from the witch’s sect presses forward, the ice of the golem’s arm cracking as he leverages the sword to the side, sending wet crystal splinters flying off in all directions. The golem roars in an agonized fury, as its arm breaks off entirely just a second later. The massive hunk of ice shatters as it crashes down to their side, the blade of the bone-sword slashes through the air as it swings free from its constraints.

Fresh crawls back as far as ...

Chapter 247

Is this our third fight?

Our fifth?

Or the thousandth?

Sparks crash around the world, a fiery light flashing out as the radiant embers spiral wildly away from us, crashing towards the churning black-water beneath us where they fall to be extinguished, swallowed by the bleak emptiness of the dungeon.

The hero slides back a step as I strike from above, the stones beneath his boots cracking as the pressure of the impact crushes ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 100: The sum total

The lashing vampire swipes out towards them, the pale skin of its tautly pulled face stretching far too far to the sides, as it lashes towards Jubilee who Fresh pulls away in that last second, knocking both of them off balance. The two of them hurtle down to the right, falling to the cobblestones of the plaza next to each other. Screams fill the air, as people have now long since started looking out of their windows. Their attraction was likely drawn to the scene by the sounds of the rampagin...

Chapter 246

Has there ever been something that you wanted to say, but you were too afraid to say it?

I drift downwards, pulled towards the bottom of the black ocean as the heavy weight of my metal shell pulls me down beneath the crushing depths. As the world shakes and erupts around me, black-water churning as a wall of fire crashes into the surface so far above us, shining like the rays of morning sunlight breaking through the surface of the ocean. I sink further. The current carries me...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 99: Foretold

Jubilee and Fresh stand together upstairs in Jubilee’s bedroom and Fresh sets down the large cauldron of rebirth, with the ice-golem core floating inside of it. The two of them take a deep breath at the same time to relax as they feel the gentle, cool air drifting off of the little pebble of ice that remains. The rest of the day had passed without any further happenings of major note. Basil eventually managed to settle down after a while.

The three of them sat around and talked after ...

Chapter 245

I hop across the wet platform which sinks down into the roaring water beneath me. Lots of water floors in the dungeon lately.

The segmented section of stone pushes down into the wet beneath me, displacing it before splashing back up as I leap off of the square construction. You know what this reminds me of?

It reminds me of that floor. It was a long time ago. But it was uh… it was wet and slippery and there were tentacles. It was a really fun place, I remem...

Dungeon Item Shop - Poll 4

There is (currently) next to no business in summer after the initial morning rush. What should they do with their business hours? =)

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 98: Guilt

After dropping off the anqa and the cart at the church, Basil apparently sprinted back as fast as she could, as evidenced by her heavy panting by the time she arrives, together with the sweat wicking on her skin.

Fresh and Basil handle the morning rush together as Jubilee leaves to go into the city to handle Fresh’s errands for her today, saying that they want to get some air. Thankfully there aren’t any trouble-making customers today, so they handle the crowd well even w...