Due to the enormous potential for eic disruption, every Silver Cog Trading Co. Appraiser must be familiar with the major cssifications for dungeons. Whenever a new dungeon emerges in a region, ascertaining its value before the petition is of paramount importao reevaluating and pivoting our business is in the area, and must be accurately pleted before the eic fallout materializes.

  The categorizations then, in order of increasing importance, are:

  Trap or Puzzle Dungeon: This category of dungeon spawo no monsters, instead using traps or puzzles to protect itself from invaders. Uhe dungeon has learo use valuable resourodes, items, or treasure to lure in adveo feed its growth, dungeons like this are of little value and should be ighey are dangerous, best reported to our Public Disinformatioment for use in distrag our oppos.

  Resource Dungeon: The typical resource dungeon mas one or more valuable resources that be harvested. Usually featuris, pnts, oozes, or some kinds of undead such as ghosts, these dungeons boast no useful items. But monster parts or mining nodes may be present that be harvested for a steady profit. Spider dungeons may be harvested for venom or silk, dragon dungeons for scales and bones, pnt dungeons for alchemical and herbalism reagents, and so on. A standard agreement with the local guild, if present, is the reended approach, uhe resource is of extraordinary value. sult with the resource catalog for more information.

  Item Dungeon: Typically taining humanoid monsters such as Goblins, naga, lizardfolk, Kobolds, or even zombies and skeletons, item dungeons streheir monsters by creating equipment for them to wear. Depending on the level and quality of the items, and ease of access to the dungeon, the appropriate response might be anything from a standard agreement with the local adventurer guild to iing in a full Silver Cog chapter or even funding the development of a duown.

  Obviously, there is incredible variety and crossover when sidering specific examples. Be certain to categorize the dungeon by the most valuable resource or item avaible.

  - Internal Manual on Dungeon Eics by Bixi Bargainhunter, Silver Cog Trading Co.

  Aliandra

  Ali shut the book – a stodgy tome titled ‘The Elven Grammatica: An Ih Treatise on Elvish Language’ – deg that this was a good point to stop their lessons. Ryn had found the dreary book lurking in the Vertias Library a few days ago, and Ali had decided to lighten it up by giving her copy a bright yellow cover instead of b old brown. Both and Ryn were making fantastic progress – especially Ryn, with the pretty silver ented hairpin had found for her at the Pathfinders Guild boosting her intelligeill, it would probably be a while before either of them fully mastered the nguage.

  “Thanks, Ali,” Ryn said, smiling and sitting back to roll her shoulders and knead knots out of her neck with her fingers. In typical Ryn-style, she hadn’t even batted an eyelid at the news of her possible magical heritage, being far more ed with what the story had meant for Ali than herself.

  “You’re wele,” Ali answered, taking out her Grimoire and paging to the Kobold chapter, relishing the sharper insights into the runic magi the perception boost that came with ’s thoughtful gift.

  “What are you going to work on, now?” asked curiously.

  “I should resummon the mohe adventurer group killed in the sewers,” she answered. It was a chore she had to do more and more frequently now that her minions were defending against both the eager adventurer groups wanting to train, and the incursions of zombies and skeletons that had tinued unabated ever since Alexander Gray had arrived. “Also, a level twenty zombie showed up through the cavern system and took out some of my defenders.” Her minions were doing a great job at keeping most of the monsters out, but she o repce them as soon as possible in case they got overrun again.

  “I really like the improvements to your security, Ali,” said. “You even learo see me ih.”

  “The bats and the slimes are good at deteg stealth,” she expined. “Wolves too, if they’re close enough.” Her enhanced perception was even helping with Martial Insight.

  “Could I offer some advice?”

  Ali puffed out her cheeks, “I didn’t really want to jump on you the minute you got back, , but yes, I’ve been wanting to ask you… uh, a lot of questions.”

  “Aah, thanks. Well, the Poison Cloud traps in the sewer are a great choice, but they all trigger ohird activation. I could strht through without setting any of them off. you make them more random?”

  “Oh, I didn’t think of that,” she answered. She had just assumed she would be targeting the third person in whichever group was walking through the sewer, without even sidering the possibility of people ing down solo. It was an insightful observation – even if it should have been obvious – of the kind she had e to appreciate from him.

  She sidered the options for a bit, deg that she could mix it up with timers instead of ters so that some of the traps triggered on a fixed duration, and she could also vary the ter traps to have a different number. She wrote it down, adding it to her to-do list. “Any other ideas?”

  “Hmm… yes, maybe put some of those Grasping Roots traps in the Poison Clouds? I think they’re a little far apart, still.”

  Ali down for her to che ter. It was a good idea – especially if she could find something other than poison for the bination so it worked on the undead. “Hey, . I unlocked a skill adva for Domain Mastery earlier, and I’m pretty sure it’s for making boss monsters. Do you want to help me figure it out?” Even though she had lear from the Lich’s book, she had been antsy with anticipation all m, but she had no idea where to even start.

  brightened visibly. “Now we’re talking. What did you get?”

  Ali shared the advanced Domain Mastery description with him.

  “What do you need help with?” he asked, frowning slightly. “It seems fairly straightforward, right?”

  Ali did not miss the sudden appearance of his notebook and the happy grin on his face as he began jotting down notes. She could not be annoyed with him when he was in this kind of mood, so clearly happy to be back with them.

  “How do I make a good boss?” she began. “I don’t want mediocre ones – I don’t have the mana for that! Which monster should I choose? How does the enha work?” In truth, Ali had a millioions, some of which she knew she would only be able to answer after she had fully explored the skill.

  “Whoa, slow down there!” ughed. “I’m not a dungeon, so I’ve never made a boss before. Why don’t we start by thinking about where you want to put it first? Bosses be used to guard important pces, for example, or to restrict access to different parts of the dungeon.”

  “Like the library? Or do you mean the ventition shaft down to the ruins? I could block the entrances where the zombies are getting in. Oh, I know – let’s start with the rockfall separating the sewer and the forest cavern!” ’s suggestion had instantly shifted her thinking from what the boss was, to what she wao use it for, and she found it focused her quite effectively.

  “All good ideas. The rockfall is a strategic chokepoint, and you could put something like a slime or a Kobold there to guard the entrao the rest of the dungeon.”

  It was also how Roderik had got in. “ we go try it now?” Ali’s mind was already bubbling with ideas, and she could barely wait to test them all.

  “Yes, let’s go,” answered, aed grin on his face matg her own.

  “ I e?” Ryn asked. “I want to see this, too!”

  “Of course, Ryn!” Ali flew them all across the Forest Cavern, arg up through the hole and into the sewer chamber she had enrged. Her slimes and Kobolds still guarded the area, undisturbed so far by the novice adventurers – presumably because she had put several higher-level challenges closer to the stairway down into the forest.

  “Are you going to keep it low-level for the novices?” Ryn asked. “I read that dungeo progressively more dangerous.”

  “I think so. I mean, it makes sense.” She didn’t want to create something that would instantly kill them – the image of Havok’s beaten and bruised body sprung to her mind – and she shuddered at the thought of her being responsible for their deaths. Besides, it would invalidate the entire purpose of her agreement with the Guildmaster, which was to help the novices grow – at least, in the sewers.

  “That will make the novices happy,” approved. “Nothing too brutal up here. We want them alive, right Miss Dungeoh?”

  “! Be serious – of course I don’t want the test to be deadly, not for novices… ah, this is hard. It o be challenging… maybe it’s a perfect way to test out my skill,” Ali said, intending to take advantage of Vivian’s request to its fullest. Starting with a low-level monster would be the perfect way to learn what her new skill did, especially sidering her higher-level monsters reserved so muana and she was running a little tight at the moment. Hopefully, her new boss would also be able to provide her some early warning fher-level raiders and assassins ing into her dungeon from the town.

  “I think a Kobold,” she decided, surveying the monsters in the chamber. She chose a muscur, green-scaled Kobold warrior sp a sword and a shield and called him over.

  “and me, A Mistress.”

  “I’m going to try a new skill on you that should make you more powerful,” she told him.

  “I am ready,” the Kobold answered, fshing her a toothy grin, presumably the idea of being more powerful sitting rather well with him.

  Warrior – Kobold – level 10

  “Here goes.” Ali used her new Domain Mastery ability and picked the warrior as her target. Immediately, a golden line of text chimed into her mind, waiting for her to make a decision.

  Choose Domain Enha Level: Domain, Boss, or Raid.

  “I have to choose Domain, Boss, or Raid,” she said, shrugging. “What do these even mean?” She knew what eaeant, individually, but why were these three things grouped as a choice?

  “ you get more information from the enha levels?” asked.

  “How?”

  “Try with ye of Learning? Sometimes skills like that allow you to unveil more insights,” suggested.

  “I didn’t think of that,” she said. always seemed to know the most obscure details about anything to do with monsters, skills, strategies, or dungeons. Trying to invoke her Sage of Learning on the Domain Enhaook substantial focus, but suddenly she received a notification, and a rush of golde scrolled across the part in her mind.

  DomainRequirements: Anything created from, and within your domain manax1.2 damage multiplierDomain area restriRespaableDomain Enha

  Studying the description merely gave her more questions, so she focused oher two.

  BossRequirements: minion, medium density domain mana+2 Domain Magic skillsx5 to Health, Stamina, and Manax5 to mana reservation costx2 damage multiplierDomain area restriRespaableDomain Enha

  RaidRequirements: minion, medium density domain mana+3 Domain Magic skillsx10 to Health, Stamina, and Manax10 to mana reservation costx2.5 damage multiplierDomain area restriRespaableDomain Enha

  “Oh, domain magibsp;Excitement bubbled within her as she shared the information with and Ryn. It was the first time anything in her css had referehe strange ‘Domain Magic’ she learned every time she destructed a boss.

  “Well, that’s iing,” said, his quill scribbling furiously.

  The details were a mix of straightforward and fusing, so she simply decided to try ‘Raid’. What was the point of going with anything less when she was trying to figure out what the skill would do? Besides, whatever she made would o be strong enough to defend her domain, and of all the bosses she had fought, the raid-level ones were the most effective.

  “I picked the ‘raid’ enha sihe Kobold is only level ten,” she said, expining her choices to and Ryn, who ogether. She triggered the magic.

  An uedly powerful surge rippled through her domain mana, tered on the Kobold warrior. Thick streamers of golden are and luminous green nature mana burst upwards and swirled through the creature as he hysically levitated from the ground uhe power of the magic c through him. Ali took an involuntary step backward, trying to study the plex formations spawned from her domain mana. The arg and swirling magic was doing something to him, eg his core to the structure of the domain all around them.

  That seems… a lot?

  The rush of magic cut off with a visible fsh, and the Kobold crashed to the ground. He shook his reptilian head and slowly got back up to his feet, t head and shoulders above the other Kobolds who were all staring at him with awe. Domain mana still flowed through him as he stood there and examined his enhanced body, now substantially rger and more muscur than before. Even his gear had grer, triggering a sympathetic ripple through the Grimoire as it recorded the rger sized variations. It looks just like the Skeletal Wyvern. Obviously, her mana affinities were different, and this was a Kobold, but the way the domain mana ied with him was unique – unmistakably simir.

  “Wow, he’s bigger than Thuli,” said.

  “Wait, I’m getting more notifications,” Ali said, nibbling at her lower lip. That was a lot of Kobold.

  Domain Respalied to Kobold Warrior.

  Raid Domain Enha applied to Kobold Warrior.

  Select additional Domain Magic skills for Kobold Warrior.

  Choose up to three:Attribute EnhaSource: Css, Piercer Scorpion, Twin Wights, Skeletal WyvernAttributes: Strength, Endurance, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom+50% to the base attribute of a monster be chosen once per attributeSkill – Domain Magic

  MinionsSource: CssAssign minions of the same or lower level to your enhanced mohe cumutive level of the assigned minions must be less than or equal to [monster level x 3] for a Boss enha or [monster level x 4] for a Raid enha. Minions assigned in excess of this amount will be held in reserve and then a random set of minions will be summoned every respawn.Skill – Domain Magic

  SummoningSource: Skeletal WyvernAssign a creature imprint for your minion to summon during bat. The amount and rate of summons depends on avaible mana, and creature type, and enha level. Summoned creatures must be patible.Skill – Domain Magic

  EnrageRequirements: Raid EnhaSource: Skeletal WyvernYour creature will gain increased damage and haste below 20% remainihSkill – Domain Magic

  Nova StrikeSource: Piercer ScorpionEnhance a magical maion skill to produce a powerful nova tered on your minion, striking all targets within range.Skill – Domain Magic

  Affinity AuraRequirements: Choose a patible Magibsp;affinitySource: Twin Wights, CssAffinities: Death, Nature, AreEnhance your summoned creature’s natural affinity to produ aura of magic that fills the area around it. The nature and effects of the aura are depe oype of mana affinity. When used with a raid enha it will produce a signifitly more powerful effect.Skill – Domain Magic

  Twin BindingRequirements: Raid Enha. Two minions.Source: Twin WightsChoose a seinion as the twin target, binding both together with the bonds of magic. Each minion of the pair be assigned a single Domain Magic skill. When one of the pair dies, the other is restored to full health and gains the Domain Magic skill of its partnerSkill – Domain Magic

  “Oh, ! This is what the Domain Magic skills are for!” she excimed, excited to finally see the details of the skills she had been learning whehey killed a boss. She shared all of them with her panions immediately.

  “This is getting quite plicated,” Ryn said, wrinkling her nose as some or other skill made her eyes flicker with subtle movements of mana.

  “It had to be something like this,” answered, agreeing. “The names of the skills matched too closely to what we saw the bosses doing.”

  “What should I pick?” It was a tough choice. While the descriptioerse, she had faced most of these abilities in bat and had a very clear idea of what they would do. Each had been challenging, but it was the binations that made the boss work. The only ones she hadn’t seehe ones her own css had provided. Minions…

  “Perhaps the ‘Minions’ one?” said, almost eg her thoughts. “I’m guessing that allows you to make a group fight?”

  “Sounds suitably bossy,” Ryn agreed. “Didn’t you say you wao use this to test it out?”

  “That must be what the Swordmaster Kobold had,” Ali mused. The monstrous Kobold iry hall of the ruins of Dal’mohra had to have been a boss, and he had several minions with him. It had been a dangerous fight for her and Mato, but they had won because of his tenacity and her Martial Insight skill.

  She hadn’t had her Are Insight skill back then, nor the Magical Analysis for her Sage of Learning, both of which she was certain were required for her to learn the Doman Magic skills of their defeated enemies.

  “We o find some more bosses for you to destruct,” said, still studying the list. “The more Domain Magic you collect, the more options you’ll have for stronger bosses or bosses with unusual and powerful skill binations.”

  “How do you always think so clearly, ?” Ali said, ahat she hadn’t thought of it first. What he was saying made sense. If she hadn’t been able to analyze the spells, she would have only two attribute enhas and the minions one, and nothing else. Because of her Sage and Insight skills, she now had the potent abilities of three other bosses she could use whenever she needed.

  “I do some research, if you’d like,” Ryn offered. “I’ve been reading up on dungeons a lot, tely.”

  “That would be perfect,” Ali said, her a smile. Turning to her waiting notification, she chose the Minions skill for her warrior’s first Domain Magic.

  Select or create minions: 40 levels remaining.

  “I have forty levels to use…”

  “Make a healer,” suggested.

  Ali sidered her options and theed a level ten Kobold Acolyte and assig to her warrior as a minion, causing the avaible levels remaining to immediately drop to thirty.

  Select or create minions: 30 levels remaining.

  “This seems pretty straightforward,” Ali said. “Thirty more levels.” She could make three more minions of the same level, or presumably more if she wao use lower-level monsters.

  “What’s ?” Ryn asked.

  “Some damage csses?” Ali asked.

  “Yes, maybe a spell caster and another melee css?” suggested.

  “Easy enough.” Ali summoned a Fire Mage and a Dagger Rogue, izing their levels as she summohem so that they were both level ten, and then assighem to the Kobold warrior as his minions.

  Select or create minions: 10 levels remaining.

  “I have ten levels left,” Ali said, running through her Kobold options in her mind. “An archer? A Bone Mage? Maybe one of those Slingers?” She hadn’t used her sling wielders much – she always found fire to be far more effective.

  “What about some of those oozes?” Ryn said, pointing to the water el where one of her Brine Oozes lurked.

  “Oh, good idea,” said. “They might make a nice surprise.”

  It wasn’t as if she had any reason to stick to Kobolds, so she picked two level five Brine Oozes and added those.

  Minions assigned.

  “What ?” Ali asked. “I have two more Domain Magic skills to choose.”

  “You have a strong party – tank, healer, and two damage csses. Perhaps give the warrior some attribute boosts?” suggested.

  “Like endurance? Or strength?” Ali hadn’t sidered the effects of the attribute enhas, but an endurance boost for a tank would probably be quite strong. Or even strength. How do I choose?

  “Why not both?” asked. “Warriors scale extremely well on both attributes, and you have the space for both.”

  “Why not?” she decided, and itted to the idea.

  Attribute Enha (Endurance) applied.Attribute Enha (Strength) applied.

  Her domain mana surged once again, and the reservation for her three Kobolds and two Oozes assigned as minions was released, transferring visibly to the Kobold warrior as an attat of their mana formations. The domain mana flowed through them causing them to grow just like the warrior, although not quite se.

  Her chime sounded.

  Domain Enha plete.

  Your reserved mana has increased by +222.

  Domain Mastery has reached level 21.

  “Wow, it’s expensive!” She had already been tight on mana, and this enhanced Kobold warrior had just reserved ten times the cost she had paid for the inal, unenhanced version. Perhaps it was too much to expect that it would be free like her domain-attached runic circles. It made sehough; the monstrous Kobold was huge pared to his kin and infused with the power of her domain which coursed through him like a river. He was supp two powerful domain attribute enhas, and maintaining five other minions of his own. The sotion was that the mana reservation for his minions had transferred to him, or the domain itself, and Ali was only paying the single – albeit exorbitant – cost for her boss.

  “How do you feel?” she asked her Kobold warrior.

  “Powerful, A Mistress.” He bared his teeth and stretched his muscles, causing crag o fill the chamber. Ali took an ient backward step. “I wish to fight.”

  “You will have your ce soon,” she said, slipping into the senses of her first boss, and expl his world. As the skill had described, he was now restricted to the chamber in which she had enhanced him, though his raended a fair way dowunnels and even dowairs into the Forest Cavern. She had him run around a little and when he reached the limits of his range, she could sehe pull of the domain mana preventing him from leaving.

  “So, he’s stuck here now,” Ali said.

  “That makes sense,” Ryn said. “Lots of dungeon books talk about ‘boss tethering’ behavior.”

  “Yup,” agreed. “Some people eve as a strategy. You’ll o learn to at for it when you design the bosses.”

  “I see.” So much to sider. She could evehe effect with her mana-sight – the domain looked somehow subtly thinner, perhaps stretched – as if it were under some sort of load to support the new domain enha, and this load cided with the range of the Kobold. But he felt exceptionally powerful, just as he had said.

  She pulled up his status sheet to see what her skill advance had created.

  Race: KoboldActive Buffs: Raid, Respawn, Warrior's Fortitude

  Css: Warrior – level 10- Strike – level 9- Shield Bash – level 5- Demoralizing Shout – level 4- Warrior's Fortitude – level 8- Rush – level 4- Shield Mastery – level 10- Rallying Cry – level 1- [Locked] - [Locked] - [Locked]

  General Skills- Identify – level 7

  Domain Magic- Damage Multiplier: x2.5 to all attad spell damage- Minions: 5- Enhatribute (Strength): +50% to base Strength- Enhatribute (Endurance): +50% to base Endurance

  Aptitudes- Language: Draic- Draic Blood (Racial): Resistao Fire is increased by +70- Kobold Trickery (Racial): +5 to Dexterity and Intelligenbsp;- Unbreakable (Css): +20% to armorAttributes- Vitality: 52 (+18) - Strength: 70 (+24) - Endurance: 89 (+31) - Dexterity: 26- Perception: 18- Intelligence: 16- Wisdom: 16

  Equipment- Body: Masterwork Steel Breastpte – level 10- on: Bone Shortsword – level 10- Off Hand: Bone Buckler – level 10

  Armor: 244Physical Damage Redu: 46.56%

  Health: 5200/5200Stamina: 7120/8900 (1780 Reserved)Mana: 1600/1600

  Ali studied the ges in mute astonishment, wordlessly sharing the warrior’s status sheet with Ryn and .

  “Ali…”

  “Wow!”

  Wow is right, she thought. The first ges were the two active buffs imparted by her domain magic. When she ied the respawn buff, she learhat her Kobold had a six-hour recharge before her domain would presumably resummon him using the imprint recorded in her domain mana – probably using the magic of her Grimoire of Summoning. It wasly clear, given that she hadn’t studied the magi a, but she assumed that was how it would work.

  “Six-hour respawn,” she said.

  “Will it resummon his gear?” asked.

  “I presume so,” Ali said. It would be a bit stupid if it didn’t. “My Grimoire usually summons them with reasonable default gear choiow that I have ization.” Same with the minions, but she quickly verified that they had the Respawn buff also. She had so many questions, but most of them would o wait till she had time to run some exteesting.

  Below the usual skills on his status sheet, she found the three assigned Domain Magic skills – enhanced endurarength, and minions, but there was something else in that se she had not expected.

  “Does that damage multiplier double everything?” excimed, catg up to her accelerated reading speed, and stopping at the same point.

  “It’s more than double,” Ryn said.

  “What else is there, other than attad spell damage?” Ali asked. It erhaps not all damage, but there was not a lot else that mattered in bat. If the warrior had poisons or something, perhaps that wouldn’t be affected, but in this case, it seemed that everything would hit a lot harder.

  “Maybe alchemical explosions won’t be affected?” mused.

  “Wouldn’t that t as an attack?” Ryn asked.

  “Yes, maybe…”

  Then there were the attributes. tally, she had chosen to enhance his enduraribute with one of her Domain Magic skill slots, which happeo be the attribute his Warrior’s Fortitude skill was based on. That made it boost its vitality and strength a little more in addition to the usual bes of endurahe base improvement tth would make the warrior hit a lot harder and block substantially more attack damage.

  “Did you see the resources?” Ali asked. It was the health, mana, and stamina at the end of the status that grabbed her attention.

  “That’s a lot of health,” observed, when she poi out. “Is he getting a hundred points per attribute?”

  “I think so,” she answered, cheg the numbers with the description she had for the raid enha. It seemed that the major enhao her Kobold was an enormous increase ih, stamina, and mana. Most races received teh per vitality point – and the same from endurand wisdom to produce stamina and mana. Some variation ossible, just rare – like her own race having less health, but correspondingly more mana – but her Kobold had just gaien times the normal amount in every resource from her domain enha, turning it into an absolute powerhouse of a monster.

  “If this is the way dungeon bosses typically work, it’s no wohey take so long to kill,” said, furiously scribbling notes and calcutions.

  “You’re right,” Ali said, thoughtfully. His ent – if correct – expined precisely why they had had to fight for so long to kill the Skeletal Wyvern and the Twin Wights. Both had been Raid-level bosses. Curious now, she checked with each of the Kobold warrior’s minions, finding that with the exception of the domain skills, they had all been simirly enhanced. At least her ability to check their status sheets answered oher question – even though she had ceded the mana reservation for the three Kobolds to the warrior, they still ted as her minions for Martial Insight, even though they were also the warrior’s minions.

  ’s eyes suddenly widened, and his head snapped around in arm. “Ali, I think we might have a problem!”

  “What is it?” Ali asked, surprised by the urgend worry in his voice, the expression of surprise and arm on his face.

  “This is a raid boss!”

  “Yes? I needed a good defender.” She had chosen raid enha on purpose, that was the point of the entire exercise.

  “Here, look,” he said, sharing the results from his Explorer skill.

  [Explorer]Category: Dungeon BossThreat Level: RaidMoype: KoboldDamage: Physiown Abilities: Minions.

  “Even the identification for your dungeon has been updated.”

  “Is that a problem?” Raid bosses were the stro dungeon monsters, and now that she could make them, she would be able to finally address Lyeneru’s harsh criticism of her defenses. Bosses meant safety for her dungeon, fewer assassiing in, and fewer random monsters wandering in like the dire bear or zombies and skeletons. All she o do e at every entrand chokepoint – raid bosses were the pinnacle of dungeon power; she finally had the tools to protect herself.

  It also expined why she had been able to select three Domain Magic skills – it was sistent with what she had observed from clearing the Ruins of Dal’mohra, she should expect three Domain Magic skills for a raid css boss, and two for a normal boss.

  “The novices have been practig on groups of isoted Kobolds and slimes. If this is the hreat they will face, how do you think they’ll fare?” asked.

  Ali’s eyes settled on her oversized Kobold and his matg minions – an almost optimal group of csses, equipped with some of her best items and suffused with the power of her domain mana. Her mind jured images of the novices – Havok, Aiden, Teagah, Basil… all brimming with curiosity, excitement, and the potential of their powerful new csses. It was them who would be fag her creation. None of them had even reached level te, and all their experience was in groups of three to five, fag her weakest minions. This fight would be far worse than Mato and her fag the Swordmaster Kobold, or the four of them fag off against the Bugbears and Goblin shaman way back before all of them had reached bronze level or even joihe guild.

  “Shit! I o talk to Vivian,” Ali said, a sudde settling into her chest. If they didn’t have some warning, the novices were all going to unwittingly stumble into the final chamber of the sewers and die.

  made a calmiure. “Don’t look so worried, Ali, this is all good learning.”

  “Not if learning is quite so dangerous,” Ryn said, wide-eyed. “I think you o help Ali pn this better, – and, to be fair, Ali, you had no idea just how much more powerful your raid-level boss would turn out to be. Those numbers are scary.”

  Whipping out a scrap of cloth, mopped Ali’s forehead and said, in his squeakiest falsetto, “I’m so scary, Ryn, I know!”

  “, you’re terrible!” Ali smacked his arm as he cracked up at his own joke.

  “I know,” he said, grinning – but then his face took on a more serious cast. “On a more serious note, I think talking with Vivian is appropriate. We don’t want any acts.”

  “I just hope it’s not a mistake.”

  “Remember wheook down that Skeletal Wyvern?” said. “All it took was some advid a good pn – this boss has the potential to really accelerate those novices’ levels.”

  “Ok,” Ali said. She liked this more fident, easygoing . Something must have happeo him at the Pathfinder Guild, she realized. Something good.

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