DungeonCultist

Chapter 66

Having gained some distance from the group I round the final corner and stare out into the boss arena before me. Stare at the back of the great-mimic sitting square in the middle of the room. With a sigh, I lean against the wall next to me and look at the giant treasure chest sitting in the middle of the room and wonder, why? Why is the grand-treasury sub-boss a giant mimic? What’s the point? What deranged god came up with something so useless? What am I doing here? At this point I’ve got...

Chapter 65

As we rise up out of the darkness, already I hear the new set of excited ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’ come from behind me as the intensity of the orange glow becomes brighter and brighter like the rays of a rising sun heralding the dawn of a fresh day. I take the final step and then they do in my wake and look around in surprise at the crumbling stone corridor filled with mountains of gold coins that seem to create a light all on their own. As if piling coins together triggered some ancient dunge...

Chapter 64

As we march up the next set of stairs towards the grand-treasury, which only I know is above us, is I begin to hear the first complaints squawk out from behind me. Apparently walking in soaking wet plate and leather armor is uncomfortable. Who would have thought? I can’t help but a feel just a tiny bit perplexed at their naivety, but then I remember. There is no water where we live apart from a single well. There are no ponds, lakes, rivers, pools. They’ve literally never had the opportun...

Chapter 63

Soon enough we reach the top of the staircase, the group behind me is  absolutely out of breath and exhausted even after taking another break on the way. Stairs are hard work I suppose if you’re dressed in plate armor. As we reach the breach and a dim blue light shines out from above, I can’t help but feel like we forgot to do something, but I can’t quite place what exactly that thing is. I turn around and look back at the young goblins behind me, all thirteen of them.

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Secondary Story - Chapter 3

She takes a deep breath, allowing herself that luxury now that the creature seems to be gone, now that she has a decision to make. Now that it was…

The thought comes to her as she looks around the shaft. There were no hallways, no corridors, no left, no right. There was only up and there was down. It was a climber. At least a D-class then. She feels a cold chill run along her body, a warning sign from her subconscious telling her that she was in over her head. That she shou...

Chapter 62

The sound of the base of my staff ringing out as it strikes against the stone floors just outside of the palace is accompanied by the shuffling of thirteen pairs of metal boots behind me as the royal-guards follow in tow. Looking at the familiar well I ponder if I could get away if I jumped down it and just ran up the secret stairs but honestly… honestly I don’t really feel like it? These kids need to learn what responsibility means so I have to step up and make sure they do.

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Chapter 61

Looking around a second time to be sure, I’m very certain now that he meant me. There’s literally nobody else up here on this corner of the rafters but me. Why? Tribute? What? Is the dungeon-master sacrificing goblins to the dragon to let the trash-mobs get past his staircase? That’s pretty cold-blooded, guy. But more importantly, why has he singled me out to be today’s snack? I feel like I have better things to do than be eaten by a dragon and also more importantly, if I might be so ...

Secondary Story - Chapter 2

The heavy beat of the girl’s heart is an overpowering, almost nauseating sensation that sends out wave after wave of rushing blood beneath her clammy, cold skin. The hair on her arms and neck rise, sticking up into the air as the heavy metal thuds ring out one after the other in the vague distance; like dull strikes of an old hammer they give credence to the presence of some other entity inhabiting this floor of the ruins. Each ring thunders out and echoes through the hall. Each step of the...

Chapter 60

Ah. What a life that was. I got to crawl through sewage. I got to be pampered again. I got smushed by a boot. Good times! Really living the dream for sure! Oh man, I would have gotten away that time too if it wasn’t for that meddling thief-girl but… hmm. You know, I have the feeling the thief is going to stay mad about this one for a while honestly. That was probably worse than our other encounters for her. I’m usually big on personal boundaries and all that, you know? But I’m also bi...

Chapter 59

No-no! I panic. I don’t want to be literally given to the thief-girl. I mean, I guess she’ll probably just snap my neck or something and I’ll get to respawn in a minute. But it’s about the principle of the matter really, you know? It’s like giving her a free win in this little cat and mouse game we have going, if you’ll pardon the expression. And so I do what comes naturally. I squirm and kick and squeal, my tail and legs wildly flailing around in the air as the rat-queen holds me...

Chapter 58

The hero’s and queen’s conversation comes to an end slowly but surely, judging by the lull in their voices and the resolute stare and nod the hero gives in return. Some of the energy and life I am more accustomed to him possessing returning once again to his gaze and expression. The orange tinge in his eyes really catching the light for a moment as he raises his head up high to look down the way towards the stairs leading below. They seem to be discussing something within their group now....

Chapter 57

It was really hard but I did it for you! Here's the second advance chapter!  =)

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So we sit there. The room silent apart from the sound of dripping water and the noise her hand makes as it runs across my slick, damp fur. I can feel the tension in the air and I wonder how exactly I’m going to get out of this situation. Assuming she evens lets me go, the others will be after me. Jealous. Vicious. I am large but they are many. Many-many.

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Chapter 56

The rat queen holds me in the air as her yellow eyes look over me, look through me. Fairy eyes.  Fairy eyes. I remember the words of the fairy of the fountain, that fairy matriarchs can see inside of people, inside of creatures. Can she see my purple? Can she see the first me? I want to squirm but the rat-brain dares not move. I dare not kick or scratch or bite or struggle. Queen holds me, it is her will. It is not my place to resist. What I can not control however is the lurch of my che...

Chapter 55

Sunday wasn't as relaxing as I had hoped haha. The second advance chapter will come tomorrow. Pinky promise =)

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The wet splashes around me as I scamper down the filthy tunnels, dredging through sledge and sewage and muck on my way. Filth coats my fur, coats my body. The poison doesn’t hurt me. Rat is strong. Rat is born of filth. Strong. Strong. I pass a brother, a brother passes me. No meat. No fight. Scamper, I scamper down t...

Chapter 54

Hello patreon friends. I've gotten into the whole Discord spiel if you're into that kind of stuff. It might have added you automaticially when I changed it? So apologies if you didn't want that! =)

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My spirit leaves the mortal coil once again, being thrust into that empty space. Into the void, limbo, nothing. I ...

Chapter 53

I look at my two choices and read what they have to offer. Leap and defensive stance. So these are my first abilities I can choose from? Alright, I mean. I guess I’m just level two so these are my basic choices. Looking back to my abilities menu I notice that the golden circle that signifies my chosen class also has two arms that branch off to the right side, but they don’t seem to be connecting to anything and are distorted and warped. So I guess I’m stuck with the proverbial left-hand...

Chapter 52

My thoughts flow through my mind like the wind flowing gently through the trees, slipping and streaming through every crack and opening until vanishing into some darker place that is unreachable by dirt-bound creatures such as myself. Unlike the wind, I can’t fly. I rack my brain. Even Nichodemus with his powerful mastery of wind magics can’t fly. Flying through magic is a powerful spell only used by the elite casters who specialize in wind magic. A scholar like him isn’t at that level....

Testing out a new (secondary) story!

After realizing that 'Dungeon Item Shop' wasn't the right fit for me I have been working on something else instead! Something a little different. I'll see how it goes and if I get a good feeling for it I will upload to RR/SH. Let me know what you think on the way. No summary just yet, but consider it a lowbrow dungeon-core fantasy like the rest of my web novel work, but with some [insert]-punk elements =)

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Chapter 51

Wind rushes past my twisting form, which I shift around in midair to face forward once more. To face up the staircase I am ascending through a great heat I can’t feel now, but one I know that is present here already. A minute later I burst out of the staircase and land in a black-stone, magma-filled room. The red dragon’s boss arena. I look around, the walls are covered with still downwardly dripping magma from the boss-fight now not long in the past.

I stop for a second ...

Chapter 50

Hmm. I look around, trying to figure out how to spend the rest of my life. I wonder how long I have. I’m a skeleton so I’m probably connected to the Bone-Lord but… looking down to my hands I wonder if that’s true. This body is different. I’m a skeleton, sure, but also not really. It’s complicated. Assuming the best case I have until either they clear floor one-hundred or I die. So… hmm. Hmm. I look across the room, past the many glowing fungi. Towards the staircase in the distan...

Chapter 49

He was a strange one, that young man. One of… no, my finest adventurer. My finest student. My favorite son. Not the brightest, but by far the best. But I suppose that was perhaps because he was chosen by the gods themselves after all, I like to think that they know what they’re doing. That young man summoned to our world from his own, that young man brought to my doorstep seemingly only through the power of happenstance; I still remember his face. But I know that single deeper truth, that...

Welcome to the dungeon

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