Dungeon Bound Bundle 1 – 3 – Bastian Knight

‘The Guild and the nobles horde most of it on the surface.’ Most of the higher-ranked adventurers rarely ever visited Lostbarrow anymore. After all, everyone knew the dungeon had grown weak and no longer provided the larger Magic Stones that were the mainstay of a dungeon city. From the looks of the few Bronze-ranked adventurers, few people above Copper even bothered anymore. That’ll all change once we get the crystal back to Meri and claim the dungeon for her. Feeling more confident, maybe even a little too much, he led the beautiful women to the counter and slapped his hand on the dark stone.

“Yes?” an annoyed man grumbled. “May I help you?” The clerk was several decades older, with white hair and a heavily lined face. He stared at Gabriel for several seconds until Sthuza presented her tag. “I certainly hope you will,” she said icily, and her haughty tone took both men by surprise. “Madam, I was unaware anyone of your status was in our city. Please forgive my rudeness,” the man said obsequiously as he adjusted his wire-rimmed glasses.

“Yes, I am sure. Now to business, please. I have many more important things to do than deal with the Guild’s vaunted red tape.” “Of course, Madam.” “First, my dear companion here, Gabriel Grimm, was robbed. Among his stolen belongings was his tag, I believe it was a Copper plate, yes?” Sthuza turned to raise an eyebrow at him. He nodded, and the clerk gestured to the large table-mounted Soulstone.

“Very well, I just need you to activate the Soulstone to confirm your identity,” the man said, then paused. “Not that I’m questioning your story, Madam. It is a Guild requirement before I may authorize a replacement,” he said in a rush. Sthuza narrowed her green eyes, a slight sneer on her lips, but she nodded. “Of course, do hurry.”

Gabriel held his breath as he placed a hand on the rare artifact. Soulstones were the foundation of the Guild’s success. They allowed one to call up the physical, mental, and spiritual attributes of whoever activated them. The magical stone made it easy to track and rank members. One of their more mysterious features was attuning them to catalog monster kills, crimes committed, and several ancillary details that Gabriel had never cared to learn. Shouldn’t Estrial have been tagged as a murderer after killing me?

How will she deal with that the next time she visits the Guild? ‘There are numerous loopholes that adventurers can manipulate, Master. Though, the Guild tries to suppress them.’

This is a work of fiction. Characters, events, names, and places are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. OceanofPDF.com Dungeon Bound By Bastian Knight OceanofPDF.com CHAPTER ONE Goblins have far too much blood stashed away in such small bodies. The thought occurred to Gabriel as he spat out a mouthful of gore and raised a hand to wipe goblin guts from his face.

“All right there, Lad?” Torrik asked, his thick brown beard splitting to reveal an enormous white smile as the dwarf wiped his ax clean. “Phth, yes, thanks for the save.” Though, maybe you could do it cleaner next time. “Nae to worry, ya will get the hang of it soon enough.” The dwarf patted him on the back with an armored gauntlet hard enough to stagger him. “Ya done well so far, just need to remember not to get too focused on killing one to notice any others trying to sneak up on ya.”

Gabriel smiled back as best he could through the viscera. Despite the horrible mess, he was grateful the dwarf had saved him. “Hold still a moment,” a melodic female voice called out. He turned to face Estrial, the group’s leader, and swallowed his response as the graceful elven sorceress stepped over and began chanting a spell. Her spellwork was flawless, like every other casting she’d made in the past few hours of delving. As soon as the intricate glyphs solidified, she released the spell, and a wave of arcane energy, intentioned mana, washed over him.

Her spell instantly purged all the grime and filth from his body, depositing it in a sickly ring of goo on the rough stone floor of the cavern. She even makes cleaning spells look elegant. “Thank you,” Gabriel said without tripping over his tongue this time, though it didn’t prevent snickering from the final two members of the group. Dresk and Derek were supposedly skilled swordsmen. So far, all the human twins had done was hurl petty insults and hateful glares his way whenever the elf paid Gabriel any attention.

They were taller and broader than he was, and their equipment was shiny and well-fitted, unlike his hand- me-down sword and goblin grass gambeson. Gabriel figured they must be reasonably competent to be part of the sorceress’ party.

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