Deathless Dungeoneers - Book One: A LitRPG Dungeon Diver Adventure by J.D. Astra

Author:J.D. Astra [Astra, J.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Alley Press
Published: 2022-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

15

WELSH IS THE NEW DESEDRA

It.

Was.

Done.

Rhen plopped into the dirt, his body weary. He marveled at their creation. Was it perfect? No. But it was a respectable-sized inn for such a small dungeon. Aki had helped test the roof by dropping a steady downpour over it; not a single drop fell inside. They had layered the mud and mortar with impeccable speed and skill.

Jakira dropped down beside him with a sigh. “I didn’t think we could, but then we did.”

“But then we did.” Rhen smiled.

Sure, the interior was completely unfurnished, and the kitchen barren, but they had an inn. All things started somewhere.

“It is time for us to depart,” Aki called from the boat-cart. It was full to the brim with ore, gemstones, father’s fennel, and buckets of berries—not goddess fruit…

Aki was psionically tapped out from all the mining, so he hitched a ride on Rhen’s shoulders while they pushed the boat up the path. They made decent time, arriving in town just before the shops shuttered their windows.

They were able to get Fennica to buy up most of the father’s fennel, and brought the rest to Perry, the inn keeper of the Bustling Brood. Rhen was able to get an order in with the tailor for some more shirts and pants to avoid any more naked blanket situations, and then the Sephine jeweler—Gwhan—bought up several of their gemstones and handed over the completed divination bones.

“Don’t sell these for less than three hundred marks, yes?” The Sephine grinned, revealing her menacing teeth.

“We’ll get four,” Rhen said with a confident smile, and took the bones.

The smoothed knuckles and sharpened claws glowed with otherworldly light when Rhen touched them. Images of the Nexus node, the boss monster, and the star suspended in purple haze connected by a thin line to Rhen’s dungeon flashed in his mind.

Gwhan hissed a laugh. “You’ve been at the berries in the forest?”

“We have, unfortunately.” Rhen shot a glare at Aki. He shrugged his tentacles sheepishly.

“You have a connection to that dungeon, Zephitz. The binding done to you both is at the spirit level. That crystal is powerful, and time is running out.”

“How do you know about that?” Jakira asked, hand on the hilt of her dagger.

“I see many things behind your eyes.”

Rhen leaned forward, excited. “How much time?”

“That is difficult to tell.”

“The voice said twelve cycles, but I don’t know what that means.”

Gwhan tapped her chin, then curled her finger at Rhen. “Come with me.”

She led him through a beaded veil that obscured the pungent scent of burnt goddess fruit. Rhen covered his mouth and nose instinctively.

“It will enhance my connection to your vision,” Gwhan said, gently pulling Rhen’s hand from his face. He did as instructed but breathed shallowly.

Gwhan chanted in her native tongue, and her eyes came alight with silvery anima. Rhen couldn’t look away from her, omnipotently experiencing his entire goddess fruit trip as her eyes bore into him. Rhen covered his mouth to hold back vomit.

Gwhan laughed. “Go, get a meal. It will make things better.

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