Discount Dan: A LitRPG Adventure by James Hunter

Author:James Hunter [Hunter, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shadow Alley Press
Published: 2025-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

NEW ADDITION

As Croc and I exited the shop, I glanced back over one shoulder to find the familiar glass sliding door vanish in the span of three steps. One minute it was there, and the next it was like the entire store had been surgically cut out of existence—neatly removed like a cancerous tumor—leaving only a smooth expanse of tiled wall where the shop had been before.

“Well there’s something you don’t see every day,” I muttered while examining the empty stretch of wall.

Then I realized the same could be said for literally every single thing inside the Backrooms. Giant mall rats the size of Rottweilers. Skinless demons. Firebomb-hurling crows. A dog with googly eyes made entirely out of Croc material. I shook my head, dismissing the thought, and activated Unerring Arrow, fixing the nearest Monolith in mind.

My plan was to head up to the Lobby and start my guerilla marketing campaign there, grinding out some easy experience against the Lobby Greeters, then progressively work my way down. But first I needed to divvy out my fifteen available Personal Enhancement Points. No reason to sit on ’em.

Plus, there was something I wanted to try.

The arrow ushered us back the way we’d come, down a few wide hallways, then through a service corridor that had a handful of easily avoidable low-level traps and a single level 2 Monomorphic Flytrap Mimic, in the form of a metal folding chair. I scorched the Dweller with a quick one-two punch of Bleach Blazes, then looted its smoldering corpse, earning another Basic Camouflage Relic in the process.

Like all the others I’d visited so far, the Monolith was outside of a small bank, this one called Sunset Savings & Loan. I glanced through the frosted white window trying to get a better idea of what exactly was inside the bank and what connection they had to the Progenitor Monoliths. Were all the Monoliths—even those located on other floors—also outside of community banks? I didn’t have an answer, but at this point, I was certain it was more than just a coincidence.

I asked Croc while still peering through the window, though I couldn’t see jack shit inside. The glass was so opaque that I’d need to venture inside if I wanted any sort of answer, and I wasn’t that curious. Not yet, anyway.

“It’s not always a bank,” Croc replied absently. “It’s only a bank here on the third floor. I’ve never been lower than floor eleven, myself, but on floor one you can find them outside of these parking attendant shacks. On floor two, they’re all located by the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union shops. I’ve spent a fair bit of time down on floor seven, as well, since that’s where Howlers Hold is. The Monoliths on seven are always near a principal’s office.”

“Does that mean level seven is a school?” I asked, wanting to know more about the level with the Safe Harbor.

Croc frowned. “More or less. Most of it is school-themed, but there are some school-adjacent areas, too.

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