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Mike returned to the corpses that the group had left behind, when he looked down at them he noticed that the tusks on their jaws had been pulled out, he hadn't noticed it but someone in the party must have been collecting them, to Mike this didn't matter so he walked over to each of the 6 bodies and took a quick look. He noticed the orc that had fallen off the cliff was slightly different and had a quiver, its body was burned and the fall had broken plenty of bones. Mike wondered if the corpse, even under those conditions would be useful to summon a servant so he attempted it using the last weak soul he had, fortunately, the attempt was successful.

Undead servant level 18

"Orc archer"

Skills: concentrated shot "requires slightly longer than normal but delivers great power and accuracy for vital organs" Ankle shot "analyzes the target's movement and immobilizes it"

He looks at the rest of the corpses and decides to summon more, so he places a soul into each of the monsters he had fought against. Two identical screens pop up:

Undead servant level 14

"Orc"

Skills: thick skin "damage taken is reduced", heavy strike "with or without a weapon damage is increased and can cause immobilization from broken bones"

"Alright, let's test out Rocky's new skill" Rocky and the new summons follow him but pick up the weapons on the way, Bonny also follows along but a little further behind and lets out a yawn as she walks. They all walk until Mike finds a lone, then looks at Rocky "alright, sneak up on him and please try a little harder not to get hit as much, remember dodge attacks" he turns to the orc archer "Keep aiming at the enemy, don't fire until I say so", he peaks around the corner and sees the orc turn its back "go" rocky prowls forward stealthily until he is right behind him then jumps on him and bits the back of its neck leaving an open wound, then jumps off and howls at the orc to keep its attention. Rocky starts to run around the enemy dodging and biting it whenever possible, as the orc becomes slower and slower Rocky maintains the same pace. On the other side of the rocky and the orc another orc comes around the corner, Mike sees this "fire". Bonny was laid out in the back watching everything and saw that Mike did not hesitate to fire the moment Rocky was in danger, she liked this action and lifted her head to keep watching. The arrow hit the nearly defeated orc, killing it, and Rocky turned around in time to continue fighting the new orc. Mike noticed that another 2 orcs started rushing out from the same corner "Everyone, go" the orc servants rushed forward and joined the fight, when he looked back he noticed that Bonny looked uninterested, she got up and walked behind the previous corner. Mike was a little worried that he might never get Bonny under his control considering her nonchalant attitude towards this. He knew that she couldn't hurt him but didn't know if he could trust her to keep him safe.

His servants killed the enemies quickly, Bonny also returned from around the corner and laid back down, and started licking her paws. During the fight, he noticed that the orcs did not need Rocky; they were strong on their own and would not have issues fighting in this dungeon so he thought about leaving them there. Mike ordered the orcs to collect the tusks from the fallen enemies and looked at his menu:

Status

Level 14

Exp: 28%

Health: 82/126

Mana: 86/116

Strength: 7.2 (+3)

Stamina: 2.3 (+4)

Dexterity: 6.9 (+2)

Intuition: 7.5

Magic: 5.8

Unassigned points: 20 points

Mike remembered that last time it took about 10 mana to summon and about 50 mana to name a servant, this meant that he didn't have enough mana to name all three. Mike decides to return to the cave he hid in earlier, when h starts walking back with his servants he stops and sees 4 orcs dead on the floor around the corner. Mike remembers that Bonny had gone this way earlier but he didn't make much of it, Mike looked at Bonny as she continued cleaning her paws. Mike was happy to know that although she wouldn't listen to his commands, she still protected him. The orcs started collecting the tusks and they kept walking until they arrived at the cave. When he got there he decided to assign 10 points to magic in the hope that he might be able to name them before he leaves. Mike looked at the screen again and noticed that magic was now at 15.8 and the mana had raised to 286/316.

"your servant capacity has been raised by 20"

This surprised him since he barely got 7 servants and the cap was already raised. Mike snapped out of his surprise and looked at the servants "If I pass out, protect me in the cave until I wake up" he then looks at the orc archer "You'll be... Ruina" He waits a moment and notices he doesn't feel too tired and then looks at the other two points at one "Rollo" points at the other "Ruffus" Although he does feel tired it's not that bad. Mike looks at the menu and sees that his mana is at 136/316, he also sees that he still has 10 points so he assigns 5 to stamina bringing his health to 192/236, he was worried that the drop in stamina boost would affect him when he took off his equipment or if it got damaged.

Mike closes the menu and looks at the orcs "Go kill monsters, but stay away from other humans, and don't forget to keep collecting tusks from the enemies" The orcs leave the cave. Mike then turns toward Bonny "Thanks for joining me today, go to sleep for now, I'll call you out when I'm in a dungeon again. Bonny disappears and Mike walks away and out of the dungeon with Rocky.

Once outside he wave his permit at the equipment and looks at the ARA agent "Hey, where can I sell these" Mike pulls out orc tusks from his pocket, the agent looks at them, then he pulls out a bin "Place the items in here, and the association will credit your account with its value after 24 hours" mike drops the tusks in the bin then the when scans the barcode on the bin, scans mikes permit, and takes a picture of the bin then puts it away.

Mike started walking to his car when he checked his phone messages and missed call notifications came in all at once, his sister Lily had called 3 times and sent messages.

Messages:

"hermanito, where are you"

"the guild master wants to know if you can come today"

"come to the guild office when you can well be working there today"

"let me know you got these messages when you can"

"forget it, just come by tomorrow"

Mike worried that his sister would be mad so he sent her a message.

"Sorry, I was in a dungeon and just got out... I'll be there tomorrow"

Mike waits a moment and she sends the message.

"it's ok just stop by tomorrow"

Mike leaves the orc dungeon portal and arrives at the goblin dungeon portal where he left his servants, the agent recognizes him "Gonna try it again buddy?" Mike ignores him and waves his permit, and turns to enter "Hey, be careful we have reports of goblins fighting each other, since it's the first time this happens please be careful and report any strange monster behavior"

Mike acknowledges his comment with a nod and keeps walking into the portal.

Once inside he goes further in and doesn't run into any goblins, he thinks for a moment about how he would communicate with the servants to tell them to come to him. Mike looked down at Rocky and realized he had only communicated through speech and thought "What if I can communicate telepathically" Mike closed his eyes and thought hard "Rocky if you can hear me bark, rocky if you can hear me back, Rocky if you can hear me bark" after a moment nothing happened and he opened his eyes "well it was worth a shot, rocky go get Jenkins and the other goblin and bring them back here" rocky quickly left to do as he was told, "damn would have been nice if it worked".

A couple minutes later the servants arrived, Jenkins was in great shape. He had even regained the weight that it had lost, but, the goblin was still level one and it was missing an arm, with chunks of flesh missing and one of its legs was only bone, there was no muscle tissue to keep it moving.