DungeonCultist

Chapter 178

Being a human is weird. I have weird feelings. I have a weird body. I have weird hands and weird eyes. At least you’re here with me, guy. Looking up to the monk and then back to Madison, I wonder if this is what having a family is like. Just us four. Yeah, I think so. I had a family once, well, sort of. This body did. It kind of feels like that. A little at least.

“Are you okay with just being carried out of the dungeon?” asks Madison, interrupting my thoughts. I look d...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 23

[Heartstrings]{Daggers 1}

When wielding a dagger: Allows you to sense where a monster’s heart is located.

[Flower Power]{Adventuring 2]

Gain an implicit knowledge of low level botanical items.

[Tunnel Rat]{Gathering 1}

You can move faster on your stomach

Level five! Fresh’s eyes shine brightly, as she jumps up to her feet to look at her new menu. Her legs are weak and shaky, but her body feels surprisingly lig...

Chapter 177

“Thook-thook. Thook-thook. Thook-thook.”

I mouth out the sounds that I hear. My ear is pressed against her chest as she runs up the staircase. Hearts are a weird thing, you know? I pull my head away from her body and hold Madison to my other ear and listen to her body sounds instead.

Nothing.

Hmm. I hold the book out at an arm’s length and spin her around, inspecting her to figure out where her heart is.

“Do you mind?...

Dungeon Item Shop - 22

“It’s a boss room,” says Jubilee. “There’s one after every sub-section of the dungeon.”

“Sub-section?” asks Fresh, wanting, but not daring to sit down again for fear of not being able to get up this time.

“Yeah, these few floors were baby’s first dungeon adventure. Once we kill the boss, you’ll have a short-cut in your dungeon that lets you skip the floors we did and come down here next time if you’re so inclined.” They lean forward ...

Chapter 176

I’m not quite sure how long we lay here, surrounded by corpses. Something collapses to our side. A building giving way, as the charred support beams that held it up aloft, collapse as they burn through. A cloud of dirt and dust flies through the air. But we’re still here, we’re just kind of ignoring it. Raising my gaze, I look up towards Madison. She’s watching from afar, I’m not sure how I feel about it. It’s kind of an intimate moment, you know? Then again, everyone is always wa...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 21

[New Floor: 5]

Fresh leans back against the wall. It’s been about ten minutes since her talk with Jubilee. Her bag is entirely full, stacked full of mushroom-caps and snail-shells and more goblin teeth than she is comfortable thinking about. They were becoming more common now after the fifth floor, the little mushroom-creatures from the top slowly waning in their numbers. Fresh pants, gasping for air, a torrent of sweat drips from her face and stings her eyes as she leans...

Chapter 175

I think she’s mad at me. Pulling myself out of the rubble, I get back up and look at Madison. “You okay?” I ask the book clutched tightly in my hand, wiping myself off with the other.

She begins to speak. “Y-ye- IIAAAH!” Before she can finish, I toss her high up into the air where she can fly away to safety. If she stays down here, she’s going to get shredded. Raising my eyes towards the spot where we stood a second ago, I look and watch as the cloud of particulat...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 20

Found: [GOBLIN CANINE TEETH] (small)] ! X 4

Fresh cries as she pulls her hands out of the goblin’s mouth and drops the teeth into the bag.

“This is what I’ll be doing every day,” says Jubilee.

Fresh looks up towards them, wiping her face on her own shoulder as she sniffles, because her hands are black with goblin blood.

“This is what you’re asking me to do, every day, because you can’t fight. So if you want to...

Chapter 174

*Dunnnng*

I tap the tip of the spear against a pipe

*Kaduuuung*

“What are you doing?” asks Madison with a muffled voice, her covers barely opening as I hold her there beneath my arm.

*Kaduuuung*

“I’m looking for it,” I tell her and keep walking down the main street that is littered with corpses. I recognize these faces, I was here. I was a part of it. I was here when we ki...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 19

Warning: Things get a bit dark here.

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Fresh looks at the adventurers around them, all carrying their loads on the large bags on their backs, as they all walk towards the dungeon to put in a new day’s work.

“How come you don’t have a bag?” Fresh asks Jubilee.

“Don’t want one,” they say dryly back to her.

“Oh… How come?”

“Mind your own busin...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 18

There will be two patreon chapters today as I uploaded 2 to RoyalRoad/ScribbleHub because we hit spot 32 in trending! I know I already ask a lot of you all already, but please consider rating the story there if you find the time <3

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Fresh lays in bed with her eyes still shut, as the memories of the night before play through her mind. Jubilee had told her to go to sleep, so that her health would recover and yelled at her to take the bed when she s...

Chapter 173

You’re confused, I know you are, guy. I run. But that’s okay. That’s okay! We all get a little mixed up sometimes, we get a little itchy in the brain sometimes, haha! Why am I here? I run through the darkness. Why am I here in this body, as this human, as this… person? Why did I bypass the hydra floor? How did I go up the real stairs? Why did I retain an object from my last life? The dungeon shakes. The dungeon-master is yelling, probably slamming their fists down onto the table in ra...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 17

“Let’s go!” says Fresh, her eyes gleaming with excitement.

“Uh? Like hell? Sit your pasty ass back down,” snaps Jubilee back at her. “You aren’t leaving this room until you have more than one health point.”

“Huh?” asks Fresh, somewhat let down.

“Do you know the looks I’d get if you stumble over a chicken on the road and just die right there? No thank you!”

Fresh holds the air in one of her cheeks and...

Chapter 172

We’re walking again, crossing back over the bridge of white-magic that the priestess made to span the gap. She knows how to make horizontal platforms, I’ll have to ask her some time about that. Though the ‘we’re’ part of ‘we’re walking’ is a bit of a stretch. The monk is still carrying me, as I am a bit wobbly on my brain. Brain? Legs.  Legs? Feet. Who am I? Why was I in the water? My brain itches, but I can’t reach it, my eyes are in the way, but no matter how much I p...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 21: FOXTROT

A flurry of snow and blurred rocks and white-buried trees flies past them as they dash down the sparsely visible winter-covered road that winds through the mountain-pass. A waving flash of color makes itself visible before them for a brief second, a piece of cloth from one of the way-markers that perseveres through the storm. Pen loosens her grip a little, pulling the sticks back just an inch, just enough so that they slow down enough for her to see clearly. Her eyes can’t keep up with the ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 16

For the first time since she was reborn, Fresh takes off her boots and sets them to the side by the door. Feeling a great sense of freedom and satisfaction coming over her tired mind, a yawn overpowers the smile on her face, as she wiggles her toes and gets back to work. Humming a tune that she remembers from her old life to keep herself awake, as her head grows heavy and droops repeatedly.

It had been about two hours now since they had gotten back. But Fresh still sits there...

Chapter 171

I’m getting really tired of telling you this, guy. Honestly, it’s really starting to make me sick that you aren’t listening to me, even after all of this time. I really wish you’d get it together, you know? Like I have! Look at me, out here doing my best, putting in the work. But you just keep nagging me, don’t you?! You just keep poking at my eyes, aren’t you?! You think I don’t know? You think I can’t feel you doing it? I’m on to you, guy! I know what your game is, tell yo...

Dungeon Item Shop: Chapter 15

Fresh’s legs feel weak as their next task now stands before them. Her arms strained and shaking from the weight of the loot that she is carrying, as they stand together in front of the door to the adventurer’s guild.

She gulps, remembering the somber atmosphere inside. Will people look at them weird if they walk in carrying a bunch of stuff? Fresh thinks to herself as she looks at the people walking around the square, that she really needs a bag of her own. Looking down t...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 20: It Howls

There’s nowhere to go, they’re trapped with the cluster of houses just behind them that build an enclosed, tight half-ring. The only path available is one too thin for him to go through, thinks the man, very aware of his giant, clunky body.

“You need to hold on,” says Tango.

Pen looks to the bauble with venom. “Don’t tell me what to d-!”

“I SAID HOLD ON!” barks Tango at Pen, who flinches together immediately and places her h...

Chapter 170

I can’t help but feel like a bag of potatoes being jostled around, as she one-handedly carries me over her shoulder, sprinting down the long-hallway. I guess that’s a high level monk for you, not a care in the world. The black-water churns behind us and I watch in disgust as the haunted faces churn and twist inside of the horrible amalgamation. What is this place? This nightmare?

We round the next corner and return back from the side passage to the large chamber. The floo...

Dungeon Item Shop: Chapter 14

"Hey, how do I get a class?" asks Fresh.

Jubilee looks at her, eyeing her up and down. "Ah... I don't know if you're cut out for it really..."

"Pleeeeeease!" begs Fresh, leaning in towards her only companion.

Jubilee rolls their eyes. "Fine, It's just some guild stuff honestly, depending. We'll talk about it once we get out of here, okay? Let's just focus on our work for now."

"Really?!" asks Fresh excitedly.

Chapter 169

Obviously I died. The hydra got me good, guy.

I float.

But still, I had a lot of fun as a valkyrie. Though I don’t want to do it again so soon, truth be told. Made my brain feel a little itchy, you know? Like the whole time I felt like I wanted to take a scented candle and just stick it into my ear while praying. There’s something itchy in my brain, I still feel it now even without a body. Still, I found a new floor so that’s my minimum goal for this li...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 13

Fresh looks at the blue-cloud gate of the dungeon that the two of them stand in-front of. It has grown to later in the day now, the afternoon having started about an hour ago and the city is as busy and as full of bustling life as ever. People walk all around them, entering in and out of the dungeon on both sides of the two who are standing rather awkwardly in the middle of the way.

“Stay up behind me, okay?” says the small person. Fresh nods, willing to let them take the...

Chapter 168

As we stare at each other, its giant eyes each the length of my full body enveloping me. As I stand before its lowered gaze, I can’t help but wonder; how do we pay to feed this thing? I never knew hydras were so biii-IAAAH!

The hydra shifts, moving its body around to get into a different position for whatever reason. But as it does so, bits and pieces of the mountain beneath tumble down. Old broken cabinets, empty suits of armor, hundreds of bones and coins and swords and w...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 12

“Huh?” Fresh looks around at the empty, square room, somewhat lost.

“Joining the guild makes you an official adventurer instead of just some schmuck from the streets. But the guild is serious business, dumb-ass! That’s why everyone who joins has to take the shot. So everybody falls in line. Nobody wants a bunch of wackos running around the city, rampaging out of control with their swords and magic!”

The small figure sighs, defeated, lowering their a...

Chapter 167

Hallow, hallow! I am blessed, truly by the divine. Truly I have been chosen. I walk towards the edge of the pit and look down at the hole that so much sand cascades down into. There, deep down below I see the sand that falls down the edges of the pit, leaking away, down into a tiny hole in the very center; down towards a hidden passage. How? How did they know this was here? I don’t know. But I am grateful. I am grateful. I would have never found this here on my own. Never in a million years...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 19: Liar liar

“Are you okay?” asks Tango, sounding worried. Pen grumbles under the jacket, the front of it shifting, as she crosses her arms beneath it. The glass bauble zooms around and her ears twitch at the noise, as she feels him stare down at her. She feels as if he were peering through the fabric of the jacket. “Did you get hurt? We really should start having you secure yourself into the seat, honestly,” says the man. She has no idea what that means. It felt plenty secure in here, until he ru...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 18: SIERRA

Everything is quiet. Pen opens her eyes, everything hurts again. Her head is pounding and her arms ache, she is sitting upside down, her neck tucked inwards, as her lower body presses down on her from above. Everything she sees is red and she wipes her eyes, thinking that they’ve been bloodied. But there is nothing there to wipe off. She looks around at the little lights, it’s them. They’re shining red.

“T-tango?” she meekly calls out, pulling herself back upright. ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 11

Once they breach the second floor, Fresh looks around at the odd space that is above the tavern below. She had expected perhaps some sort of hallway lined with doors, or maybe a large quarter filled with beds for rent for weary adventurers. That was usually what these things were like. Instead, there is a single door right at the front of the stairs. Rising up to the tips of their toes, the small figure stretches and grunts as they stick the key into the lock and turn it. Before sinking down ...

Chapter 166

I’m not sure for how long I sit there, clutching the legs of the skeleton who was sleeping eternally not ten minutes before all of this, only to be awoken by this particular mess that I am. All of the others are gone, drifted off somewhere into the wastes. The harpy has vanished to points unknown as well, perhaps to mend her hurt wing and bruised throat. A bony hand pats my head, as he bends down and consoles me until I’m done dying inside. Thanks skeleton, you’re alright.

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