Chapter 18: Credit Cards

After a wonderful night’s sleep I get up and start to set things in order. First send workers to modernize Hidden Valley, second triple the supplies order to account for the new village and possible future people. Wait why stop at tripling? In less than a month everything is going to change. I am just going to max out my credit and convert everything except 1 million for emergencies into game currency and supplies.

This is great, the feeling of knowing you are never going to have to pay for something or pay off that pesky credit card bill. My dungeon diving can be put off for a day while I sort this out. I spend the first half of the day ordering everything I can think of, from seeds and fertilizer to food and women’s sanitary products. I even ordered ten containers worth of toilet paper, because even if the world is ending I am a king and my butt should be clean. I ordered hard copies of survival books, education books, even novels, enough to fill 3-4 libraries worth. This should give my little kingdom a leg up in the next world and provide some cheap entertainment.

The second half of the day, I spent sneaking around my own property and creating storage areas. I had to create basic storage facilities for everything I just ordered. Simple stone walled sheds made with magic. The problem was I had to make sure no one could see what I was doing. If I build it with magic and people just discover it later they will rationalize it away. However, I do not know what would happen if they actually saw me growing new buildings out of the ground.

Everything should be prepared now. I sent a message to Edward and let him know I will be unavailable for a while. Everyone here at the “resort” knows about the incoming shipments and supplies and to just store it away. They probably think I am crazy, but who cares as long as they store it and take care of the shipment when it arrives. Alright that should wrap everything up I need to do here at the castle.

It is now time to plan my dungeon diving route. Since my level went up to 23, two new dungeon dots have been added to the world map. This means they are probably higher level. Biltmore’s dot turned yellow, I guess that means it is still level appropriate, but I have already cleared it once. Wait, I now have the dungeon explorer achievement that should give me more information about the various dungeons. I mentally select another red dot on the world map.

“Goblin Caves level 25 recommended.”

Ok, that is convenient. Let’s see, start at Biltmore again, try for a new title and some more levels, than I will go from dungeon to dungeon start from the closest and working my way out from the castle. Sounds like a plan. If new dungeons pop up as I level up I will re-evaluate at that time.

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Dear lord, two weeks of this dungeon crawling is exhausting. I picked up 5 new titles, Traditionalist +1, Every Way Possible +2, Poison King +3, Pentakill +5, and finally Speed Demon +3. I also leveled all the way up to 35. I got Poison King when I killed a goblin tribe by sneaking in and poisoning their food. Pentakill was an upgraded title. I first started with Doublekill. I received it for finishing two different dungeons in a single 24 hour period. I then decided to do speed runs to see if I could get a better title and received both the Speed Demon and Pentakill titles when I finished 5 different dungeons in a 24 hour period.

I have decided to specialize in my magic and primarily will raise my intelligence and wisdom stats. I will still add the odd point here and there into the other stats because it is always good to have high stats, but I think I will try and keep the intelligence and wisdom stats to be at least double of all my other stats except for luck. I have always felt it is better to be lucky than good and let’s face it I would not even be here if it was not for my luck in the tutorial. Now my build looks like this.

Stats:

Name: Mark Anderson

Titles: Survivor +1, Quadelementalist +4, Lucky One +1 Master Thief +1,

World Traveler +1, Wealthy +1, Dungeon Explorer +3, Unstoppable +2,

Army of One +1, Arsonist +1, Manifest Destiny +3, Not Nailed Down +1,

Army of One +1, Scourge of the Undead +1, Think Outside the Box +1,

Loot King +2, Traditionalist +1, Every Way Possible +2, Poison King +3,

Pentakill +5, Speed Demon +3

Level: 35 - 11% Unspent Attribute Points: 1 Strength: 65 HP: 650 Intelligence: 110 +40%MP MP: 3080 Wisdom: 110 +40% MP/Regen HP/Regen: 78% per 15 min. Agility: 65 MP/Regen: 154% per 15 min. Constitution: 65 +20% HP/Regen Luck: 80

Affinities: Earth - 100% Fire – 100% Water – 100% Air – 100%

I think with these stats I am a rather OP broken character for the start of the “Great Game”. This should keep me alive and vastly increase the survival rate of my friends, family and kingdom. I am heading back to my little kingdom for a break and then 1 more week of leveling before the “Great Game” changeover. On the drive back I am going to explore a black dot dungeon. I should probably explain.

I was driving from the Goblin Caves dungeon to a Man Eating Plants Dungeon when this black dot suddenly appeared on my world map. It seems that the world map only automatically plots dungeons 10 levels higher than you and down. You have to be within 5 kilometers of a higher level dungeon for it to appear on the map. Coincidentally I now know that when a dungeon becomes 20 levels lower than you it turns green on the map. That means that red dots are level appropriate unexplored, yellow dots are level appropriate explored, green dots are low level dungeons, and black dots are high level dungeons.

With the cartographer skill I have mapped out the area and all of the dungeon locations and levels I have been to. This has leveled both the cartographer and drawing skill which means I can now access my magical tattooing skill. I have not tried it yet but look forward to some quick experiments when I reach the castle and a safe quiet environment. I am going to try the black dot dungeon on the way back because when I clicked on the world map all I got was special dungeon as the description. With all of my titles I am equal to a character level of over 75 which I think will keep me safe even in a higher level dungeon.