Chapter 8

" You know nox, I would have enjoyed that place, it had amazing food, great hospitality, amazing seats and a great view, the only issue is, YOU'VE EATEN ME OUT OF MY MONEY!"

"Ha, well you are my emergency food money after all." A smug face appears

"Of course, that's what I am to you." Jack sighs for his lost money.

"Soooooo, can I come round, it's always nice to see your younger sister, she's cute." Her best impression of puppy eyes is displayed, sadly it's quite terrifying as she is all teeth and evil eyes."

(author here' I'll be honest I think I either forgot to mention his younger sister, or I mentioned her and then forgot about it… oops hopefully your readers/observers can forgive this forgetful author)

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"Of course, she enjoys your company… somehow."

"I heard that."

"That's the point."

After around 30 minutes of walking

Jack and Nyxondra come across a mansion, the one Jack exited, his home

Nyxondra" Jack, a question before we enter, why do all the maids have these weird aura vibe?"

"Mmm, oh that's most likely because they all trained in assassination, dad and his company trained them personally like he knows almost everything about all the maids, apparently there was a big increase in maid assassins within the war so he trained all of his to be able to defend against it. He also got to know them all so there was less of a chance he would be targeted by people pretending to be Maid or by being betrayed and things.

"Ohhhh, interesting, how many do you think I can take on?" a not-so-friendly grin starts to emerge.

"Please don't attack the maids."

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"Fine," Nuxondra says dejected

The door to Jack's home opens up and a small girl comes running out, she has short bright yellow hair, lioness ears and yellow eyes, and she wears a dress with the lion's family crest on.

Sophia "Nyx! Jack!"

Nyxondra, hello little lioness, how've you been?"

"Good, how was school?"

"I got to beat up your brother, he put up a good fight though."

"Brwther fought a dragon!?"

"Ye, he did, do you want to go into the sky again?"

"Yes!!!"

"OK hold tight."

Sophia then does her best bear hug around Nyxondra who holds Sophia in her arms. Nyxondra stretches her wings and does her best to go as slowly as possible into the air, this is not very slow though as she seemingly shoots in the sky."

Sophia's" Weeeeeeeeee." can be heard, fading away into the distance.

"Well, betta go tell dad and mum this before they panic."

Jack then enters his home greeting some maids and heads towards where his dad is usually located, his office.

Jack enters his dad's office, it has plenty of books on the left side, a picture of Jack's dad and his pride/multiple lionesses and human mates, a slightly messy desk and a large window that looks at the city.

"Ah Jack, how are you, how was school."

"It's going ok, a bit short on money though, Nox happened, and about Nox, she is flying with Sopphia at the moment.

"Ah, well at least you're spending time with friends and making connections, as I said, it's always good to make connections, no matter how shady, well sometimes anyway."

"Right… well, I'm going to go and train in the yard until Nox comes back. Hope your work goes well, good luck."

"See you in a bit."

Jack practices some sword moves in his garden

30 minutes later

Nyxondra lands softy with Sophia jumping out her arms

"Thank you, Jack it was pretty up in the sky."

"Oh ye, did you see anything particular you liked."

"I liked seeing the lake outside the city. It looks really pretty seeing it from above."

"I be it does Sophia, thanks for doing that Nox."

"Hey, at least someone enjoys riding with me."

"Really, that's a low blow, it's not my fault I get motion sick with your horrendous flying skills."

"Sophia, ah there you are, you need to come back and continue your studies."

"Noo, Nuxondra take me away."

"Sadly I can't do that."

"Nooooooo"

A bit later

After Jack does a small amount of teaching Nyxondra to wield a sword properly and not just swing it like a bat or throw it at people.

{hero mission failed }

{Sapphire died and got consumed by @#£#@@#-%&}

The screen flickers in and out and goes grey

Jack just stares at the area where the screen once was, unmoving.

Nyxondra" Um, Jack, you good… have you seen a ghost?!"

…

"They died… MC died."

"Who, I never heard you mention this MC, that sounds like a dude… oh, I'm sorry for your loss, but who are they, and how did you know they died."

"That was Sapphore name before they reincarnated."

"Why did you never tell me this, you know how much teasing I could have come up with for them."

"That wouldn't matter, they died, the mission failed."

…

…

Nuxondra give Jack a hug

"I, I couldn't save them, I didn't save them, I promised, I said."

"It's okay Jack… if we can't save her we can find the people who did this to her instead, and make them go through a lot worse.

{ are you sure you want to take this binding vow, Jack?}

{binding vow accepted}

{you have sworn to kill whoever got your friend killed, and you have sacrificed: your high luck, adaptability, deaths reverse hand, limited your mama core growth max to yellow perfect for an increase to stats and have to find and kill whoever did this to your friend}

The god of death approves of your commitment and willingness to take revenge for one of her chosen races, she lifted the core limitation, the god of war likes the vow.}

{stats have increased to a high C rank - low B rank }

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This is so you know the differences between ranks and how strong someone needs to be to be said rank

G rank

150-200

F rank

200-250

E rank

250-300

D rank

300-350

C rank

350- 500

B rank

500-1000

A rank

1500 - 3000

S rank

4000 - 6000

SS rank

7000 - 8000

SSS rank

10000 and up

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{you have unlocked instant dungeons, other world dungeons, group chat, unlocked title rageful hero, unlocked skills hero's will, heroes mark has evolved, binding vows, bullet time.}

{hero's will}

Hero's will is a hidden skill that heroes have, it can only be activated in intense situations, and this allows the hero to temporarily increase his stats by 3 times lasts for 2 minutes, after the two minutes are up you will become lethargic, and your stats will decrease by 3 times for 2 hours}

{binding vows}

{binding vows, this is when an individual makes a vow with one's self or another person. The act of abiding by the rules and restrictions agreed upon in these contracts can result in a greater power or the achievement of a goal, but breaking a binding vow has uncanny repercussions.}

{bullet time}

{ this allows you to slow down the way you perceive things for a small amount of time, things may slow down, but you still move at your normal speed.}

The mark of Jack's hand has now become more visible, it has now been filled in, has two swords crossing one another and has slightly increased in size."

Jacks stats

{status}

Name Jack lion

Title - Reincarnated, recruit hero, deaths favoured hero, rageful hero

Level - 20

Race - human mixed

Bloodline - lions bloodline

prestige class - recruit hero

Class-duel swordsman

Age - 13

Mana core red stable

Health 1560/1560

Mana 1250/1250

Str 540

Dex 560

Con 550

Wis 500

Int 500

Luck 0

sp 70 (Jack gained sp from gaining and evolving his hero mark and title it then got timed by his skills)

exp 400/550

Shop

Music player - nothing is playing right now.

{Skills}

{double sp, 1.5x sp, double exp, 1.5x exp, hero mark(stage two), life sense, life steal, judging sight, bullet time, group chat, instant dungeons, other world dungeons, music player, lion bloodline, black fang's sword style, water magic, dragon tongue, inventory, weapon summoning}

{Hero mission change, find and take out the monster Sapphire}

Sapphire has been bought back by an unknown means, sadly she is not in control of herself and has turned into a rampaging monster, find her and stop her, by any means necessary. She is now just a mindless monster and has the potential to destroy this world.}

{The goddess of death wants to ask you a favour}

{she asks that you do not listen to the mission you have been received, there is a way to bring her back to her senses, and get your friend back.}

{do you accept to request}

{you have accepted }

{you have been granted soul touch}

{god of death says this skill allows you to touch someone's soul, this will be able to help your friend… she thinks.}

{Hero mission Reward change}

{titles - spirit killer, hero, avenger}

{hero mark will evolve}

{you will get legendary skills}

{Gain 2k sp}

{Otherworldly shop}

Athox, doxi and some of the other pride members show up"

"What happened?"

Jack's friend just died, the one from his hero mission."

"What, sapphire died…. I'm sorry Jack, we will make sure they pay for what they did, she was a war friend kid, she would of, been family to us, so if she died, one of my kids have died."

Jack "Right."

Jack " Nox, can you let go please, I need some air."

"Oh, right sorry."

After a couple of seconds of being free Jack says " Open instant dungeon."

{instant dungeon opening, checking… not anomalies, do you want to go in solo, or have a group chat join you at the start or someone else join you?"

"Solo"

{understood, making dungeon, opening portal, making it inaccessible to anyone without the instant dungeon skill.}

Suddenly in Jack's back garden, a blue portal opens up, it appears by crashing space and breaking it apart leaving a void of nothingness for a couple of seconds before emerging.

Jack is forcefully pulled through

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT." A maid who was watching screamed

Inside the portal

Jack is inside what looks like an apocalypse-ruined train station

{error wrong portol was opened… I miss clicked…}

"What?!"

{hey it's not my fault they're right next to each other, ok it's my first time!}

…

{did it cheer you up?}

"No… try again later, so where am I, actually it's a dungeon it doesn't matter where I am I can kill anything, I feel like it will help out."

{ummmm, honestly not sure, it not saying the rank so…..ah, I actually messed up more the I thought… why do you have this button?}

:/

{so it seems I might have tapped into Sapphire's unattended powers somehow, maybe when you connected through the telepathy it made a link between both systems.}

"How does that work?"

{I don't have a clue, maybe the skill was bugged…. Or that outer god missed some info about the skill he sent you or even messed with it, not a clue.}

{ just go forward, it shouldn't be that hard for your first time, and anyway, you're a low-level b rank, so you're strong.}

Jack walks through the train station, and signs are destroyed or unreadable because of time, after wondering for a while he comes across what seems to be a shopping-like area, the ceiling seems to be broken and all the stalls are closed with metal sheets over them stopping anyone from entering.

Unknown to Jack a group of monsters seem to be hanging out within the broken roof, and are eyeing Jack from above.

Around 30 seconds later as Jack is walking around the unknown creatures jump down from the roof, and bring down a rusted dagger towards Jack's head, only for Jack to dodge out of the way.

"Goblins really?"

Jack effortlessly and lazily throws a punch toward the goblin group, only for them to move out of the way because of how telegraphed his punch is.

The goblins then jump Jack as more come from the roof, striking him as his focus was solely on the group that moved out of the way from his punch.

Sadly for the goblins, their sneak attack did nothing to Jack, not even cut his school uniform, (he never got out of it).

The goblins start to panic as their attack did nothing at all to this human invader of their territory, but as they have a massive group advantage they charge at him, four jump up into the air, branding their weapons towards his chest, while two more head for his legs.

Jack seeing this decides to chant quickly, cutting off his spell chant prematurely, a water bullet shoots out, hitting one of the goblins in the air in front of him, but instead of exploding, after hitting the goblins it shoots right, hitting an additional goblin, them exploding, killing the two goblins it hits.

Jack jumped toward the opening he made goomba stomping another two of the goblins closer to the floor, killing another two.

Quick pov change

Unknown boy with black hair

We see a dark-haired boy, looking rather messy, the reason, seems to be he is in a life-and-death fight with what seems to be a red wolf with metal jaws.

He jumps back dodging its powerful jaws, but is still scratched by its claws, damaging his leg slightly

"If only I had a weapon!"

"A weapon!."

"Inventory!"

A blue box seemingly appears by his side, and out of this blue box what seems to be a slightly used long sword appears.

The boy swung this slightly used sword toward the red wolf, and with precision and luck, he cut right through its muzzle, cutting in, with ease from his good strength, and going slightly into the ground.

"With a weapon, I'm not afraid anymore."

Two more red wolves appear.

He stares the two wolves down with conviction, and as he pulls up his sword… he pulls up his sword…

"Why isn't it coming out, shit comes out."

"Haaaaaa."

The black hairs boy pulls the sword out with immense strength cutting one of the two red wolves along its side sadly, it was not enough to kill it. the other red wolf is able to catch his slightly used sword in its metal jaws.

"Huh, guess they're not called steel jaws for nothing."

"I can't let Mr Kims, sword…"

"Go to waste"

The boy then puts a large amount of strength into his sword, allowing him to cleave through the red wolf's head.

Seeing this, the Injurd wolf retreats.

"These guys are weak compared to those."

…

Is that fighting? I should be the only one here, no one else can get inside this dungeon, I should investigate.

The black-haired boy then walks back from where he came from, toward the sound of weapons hitting the floor.

Back to jack

This was too easy, I can't even get my frustration out on these weak monsters.

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Oh, some drops.

{A goblin tooth x10, a rusty dagger x4}

Well, they are useless... Maybe I can sell them.

{selling junk}

{You gained 20 gold}

"Oh, that's more than I thought."

{Jack be more careful, ok, you have no clue what is in here.}

"Fine, something coming."

Jack then opens his inventory and pulls out his two swords, and hides behind one of the walls, but makes sure he can still see what's coming.

Jack waits for around 10 seconds until he sees a boy with black hair, he is wearing a black and grey jacket, black trousers and white shoes, that have black laces, he seems to be around 5ft6 and has a basic, but slightly used long sword with fresh blood on it.

"Oh, it's just a human, I'll say hi so he doesn't freak out."

Jack then puts his weapons away and walks out, making a waving gesture toward the boy.

Unknown boy with black hair " 누구세요? 여기 어떻게 들어왔어?

"What?"

"무엇?"

"Ummm we can't understand each other can we, but I'm speaking English right?"

{no and no, you are speaking common in your world, it is pretty much gibberish here so good luck}

Black-haired Boy POV

Is he talking to himself, is he ok, and what is he saying, it's not a language I've heard of before, he is not a monster is he?

No, he can't be, he waved at me, monsters don't do that, and how did he get in, only I can get in right?

"And why is he here, he's a child, way younger than me, he sees, around 13-15, like he shouldn't be in a dungeon, so is he lost… no he is way too calm, I'd better keep my guard up.

Jacks pov

So how can I talk to him?"

{you have a shop right, use that, maybe you can buy a language pack out of it.}

{buying language translater for whatever language spoken to you next}

"Hey kid, I don't really have time for you so, over out the way and let me hunt."

"나는 당신을 이해할 수 없습니다."

{detected language Korean.}

{buying Korean language pack}

{Got language Korean level 1}

"안녕하세요? 당신은 위협입니까?"

"Hello? Are you a threat?"

"Mmm, oh I can understand you... Ah hello, and no, but I am here to hunt so let me pass please, I don't want any trouble."

"Why are you in a dungeon, at your age? Also, how did you get in here?"

"I ummm, walked in?"

"That's impossible you need a key, also you're not Korean, and your Korean is pretty bad."

"Wow, thanks kid, I'm still learning Korean ok. Also, I guess I had one ok, just let me pass I'm not in a good mood right now."

Jack thinks to himself that this person looks familiar for some reason but can't put his finger on it.

As Jack is looking at the boy he can see in the shadows, a large amount of creatures start moving toward the two of them.

"Move!"

The black-haired boy looks behind himself quickly only to see a large amount of steel jaw wolves rushing toward him, so he rolls towards Jack and turns to face the monsters.

Black hairs boy" Well kid, looks like we're sticking together, You're too young to be here by yourself, also you can't leave this dungeon unless you have a teleportation stone or kill the boss, and as we have done neither, we gonna have to work together on this one.

Jack then re-summons his weapons once more getting ready to fight.

Black-haired boy does he have a system as well, he just summoned weapons like I can. He thought I himself, only to cut one of the red wolf's heads off.

Jack "Oi get back quickly I'll use an AOI attack."

The black-haired boy jumps back but still makes sure he can cover the blue-haired kid if needed.

"Black fang sword style, foxes resolve!"

Jack holds his swords in front of him pointing up, like horns, and spin-slashes around himself in an instant, taking a large amount of the wolves out and a good amount of the floor as it is completely cut up.

Jack was able to deal with almost all the wolves, only some stood near the rear, not looking very confident anymore.

Only for the wolves to be crushed by a large red wolf stepping through barely fitting in the small space.

{Mini boss has appeared}

{Mini boss name King of the steel fangs}

Both Jack and the black-haired boy "Miniboss?!"

Black-haired boy "It's Dark red, almost black, how am I meant to fight this." he thought to himself, all of a sudden a pop-up appeared in front of him."

{dungeon has been modified as there is an additional player inside.}

"He is like me then, I thought I was the only one"

{Joining group chat}

{Weakest hunter has joined the chat}

"What chat?"

"Never mind I need to focus on this, how me and this other player are going to survive this."

Jack" Hey, black hair, we can best this creature, it's got extremely limited movement, so it can only attack with its claws and teeth."

"I can't damage it it's way too strong, and my name is Sung Jin Woo."

"Fine sung, have one of mine, and my name's Jack."

Jack throws Sung Jim Woo his long sword to replace the one Sung Jin-woo was currently using.

As Sung Jin-woo catches the new long sword a pop-up appears

{item Jack's long sword}

Rank B

Type long sword

Damage +75

{Effect allows the wilder to use black fangs one sword style as well as do water damage on your swings}

"I want my sword back after this fight ok."

"Understood"

Jack then charges the wolf, slashing at its paws and front legs as it is unable to dodge very well within the tight space.

After a couple of slashes, Jack has to jump back as the king wolf swings towards him. Jack just barely avoided the king's claws.

Sing Jin-Woo sees an opportunity to attack, he jumps and uses one sword-style ogre slicer, this attack hits the king wolf in the eye, cutting it open.

The king wolf now seeing it's in a bad spot, starts backing up quickly, sustaining small cuts on its body from Sung Jin-Woo, it eventually exits into an opening into a large area within the station.

Getting into a large area where it can move, it finally unleashes its rage, boosting its stats by an unknown amount.

Sung Jin-Woo"We need to get out of here, now there is definitely no way for us to beat it is way too strong for us."

"Not just yet, I have a move that can work, but only for a small amount of time."

"How long?"

"About two minutes"

"Fine, but if you can't kill it, we run."

{use hero's will"}

Jack is surrounded by a light blue ethereal flame.

Music playing Find your Flame

{Your stats have risen to an early A-rank}

" Water dragons iron fist!"

A blue magic circle surround his fist for a second, large amount of water surrounds Jack's fist, forming almost like a glove.

Jack charges toward the enraged king, and slams his fist into its jaw, pushing the king quite a distance, sadly because of its jaws, it was mostly unaffected by this attack.

The king in retaliation blasts a large amount of wind towards Jack, cutting him along his body and charging Jack, slashing at Jack, with its claws, shooting high-pressured wind towards him, along with its claws. Jack uses bullet time to allow himself to dodge in-between the pressure waves, and avoid the claws.

He turns off Bullet Time as it seems to drain a bit of mana and causes his eyes and body to ache quite quickly, jack jumps up punching the cut eye of the king wolf, causing it to how in pain, a small amount of water comes out of jack fist, but not a water dragon spell.

Because Jack only used some basic water magic he is unable to stun the wolf, allowing it to catch Jack in its jaws. The king wolf crushes one of Jack's arms, with its teeth, which causes Jack to scream and drop his short sword.

As Jack is in its jaws, it shakes its head, causing more damage making Jack scream in pain once again.

"You overgrown mut, over here."

"One sword-style 16-pound moon cannon"

Sung Jin-Woo shoots a pressured single sword slash at the king wolf, being hit by this attack it lets go of Jack, who falls to the ground.

"Oh, I've made a mistake."

The king wolf is now locked onto Sung Jin-Woo, so he does what he is good at, running away. Sung Jon-woo runs back into the smaller area they once were in, making it harder for the wolf king to get him, the wolf king shoots out a Pressuricpse wind blade, and thankfully for Sung Jin-Woo, the wall takes the hit for him, leaving him unscathed.

"If that hit me I'd be dead, sorry wall, but that is for taking that hit for me."

As the wolf is distracted by Sung Jim-Woo it doesn't notice Jack until it's too late and is unable to dodge a high-pressure water blast.

"Water dragon's roar!"

This stuns the king wolf, allowing Jack to charge in,

"Water dragon water wing!" Jack's arm is covered In a blue magic circle before his arm is surrounded in water, as it resembles a dragon wing, slamming into the king wolf's side, cutting it, and as Jack is there he spins doing a spinning hammer kick to the back of the king wolf, water dragon's crushing fang!"

The water dragons crushing fang surround Jack's leg with a layer of water, making it harder, the water is shaped like a dragon's fang.

The king wolf collapses to the ground.

{You have used up all your mana, the time limit for heroes will have been cut by three times and will be in this stat for two hours, which is now applied.}

{ you are now temporary low G-rank}

"We did it… Sung can you carry me please I'm definitely gonna collapse in a second."

Jack then hits the ground.

Sung Jon-Woo notification

{You have helped kill a B-rank monster - stats temporarily increased to A- rank, and because you and the other player are a part of the same group and dungeon, you will gain a large amount of exp}

Gained Steel Wolf Kings Fang

Rank B

Attack 80

Type Dagger

{effect when equipped increase speed by 20% and attack by 10% this also allows you to cast wind blades."}

{Level increased to level 16}

{steel king wolf cloak}

B rank

Defence 60

Type cloak

Effect when equipped it will increase your defence by +60 and increase your speed by +30

"I'd better carry Jack to some were safe before doing anything with my stats or new equipment."

Sung Jin-Woo then picks Jack up in a piggyback manner and carries him into a relatively safe place by opening one of the closed stores and shutting the metal shutters behind them.

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Word count 4363

Hello, I hope you liked this slightly longer chapter, and I hope I depicted Sung Jin-Woo ok, I know I'm not the best so I'll chalk it up to being an AU universe or something xD.

Anyway, I hope you have a great day/ night and good luck with whatever you are doing.

If You have any suggestions or improvements I can attempt to make please say I know I have a lot to improve apon when writing this, another thing if you have any idea's that might fit well within this light novel thing then I would appreciate it as you saying it could help me get some more writing stuff. :D

Ps Next chapter it will go back to Sapphire as there has been very little of her so let's hope I do it ok.

Pps I finished this at 1 in the morning on Monday so I don't know if I got the job or not so you lot will need to wait until Friday to find out >:3.

See you in the next chapter. (^-^)v