The next two hours were spent making another of the incomplete leeching totems. They worked step by step right until Tanya called everyone in for a break. By this point Riven was confident in his ability to remake the totem given the right ingredients, and there were even substitutions for the quartz crystals he could use via other types of gemstones, but he was still unsure about adding the soul shard. That was going to be the hardest part and would require him to utilize the Death subpillar—which he still hadn’t bound to his soul yet. The description in the manual had a lot of theory behind it that he didn’t quite understand. But he was still very excited to see what would happen when these incomplete totems eventually acquired their soul shards. It would be a venture for another day.
Tanya passed around snacks she’d made, having cooked so more at they’d taken out of an equivalent refrigerator left by the system for food storage that was fueled by water magic. They had the day-old bread as well, and it still tasted just as great as it had twenty-four hours prior without having gone stale at all.
Julie was excitedly explaining to her younger brother and her mother the specifics of the forge that she and Hakim had learned about through the tutorial book, along with trial and error of their own. She was sweaty, covered in soot, and her hands were starting to blister before she’d wrapped them—but she was obviously enjoying the work. “We’re trying to make knives, because we don’t have all that much ti. I don’t know how long it’s supposed to take, but we just finished a knife each…”
She held up her own finished product. It was made of solid iron and wasn’t perfect by any ans—but they could tell she was proud of it. The edges weren’t entirely sharp and the leatherbound handle looked a little too big for the blade, but it was definitely a knife, all right.
[Crude Iron Knife, 5 average damage.]
A Choice of Selflessness: You choose to save your newly found friends and take the hard road yourself. Choosing this option notifies them of what you have done, the choice you had to make, and pushes them into a safe room within the dungeon: each given an early combat-type starter kit geared toward their chosen style of combat. They will each also receive an additional one ability to to learn from, similar to the way that your first spells were taught, an event that will be given to them imdiately. The catch is that choosing this option will separate you from the group and insert you into a minor hellscape dungeon of Chalgathi’s choosing instead of a normal tutorial dungeon. This hellscape dungeon will be much harder than the basic tutorial dungeon but will also have more opportunities for you to progress faster. Just like the tutorial dungeon, this hellscape dungeon will also have exits into Elysium that you must find in order to leave. That, or you must kill a dungeon boss or miniboss to leave.
The countdown to choose begins now. 60… 59… 58… 57…]
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