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Lily turns around quickly with a surprised look on her face, when she sees who it is she sighs with relief "damn it, Quentin, you scared me I thought it was Chance" the caramel skin colored man with short hair with waves and a goatee walks in with a White T-Shirt and jeans walks in "why, are you up to something again? You know Chance is still mad about the Henderson incident, even if it's you I would tread lightly" he looks at Miguel and sees the equipment he is wearing "well that explains the secrecy… you know what I wasn't even here, I don't want to get involved in this you're on your own" quentin drops a duffle bag and kicks it into a corner then starts to walk out "wait, Quentin I could use your help, taking my little brother on a tour of a dungeon" Lily smiles at him "oh, hell nah, I don't want any part in this" Lily pulls out her phone and shows Quentin "remember my friend Kels, that I set you up with, you owe me one" Quentin looks at her confused "you mean Crazy Kelsey, you cant be serious, after going out with her you owe me one" Lily laughs "hey I warned you, and you still went out with her, that's on you so you still owe me" Quentin rolls his eyes "so every time I hook up with one of your friends Ill owe you one?" Lily laughs "glad you understand." She turns around and looks at Miguel "alright we're all set, with his help, we can take you through a C-rank dungeon" Quentin shakes his head "alright, I was going to hit the gym anyways, lets suit up Lily" she looks at him with an eyebrow raised "why, I'm not fighting" Quentin looks up in frustration.

All three of them arrive at a portal, Quentin was equipped with a large shield on his back and a double-sided axe with large blades on his hip, his armor was made of metal plates and leather connecting them, it didn't look like much compared to the large round shield with a Damascus pattern to it; Lily was dressed in green light leather armor with a dark colored pelt on her back that contrasted with her brown hair she had made into a bun, she also had a bow and quiver on her back and 2 daggers on her hips. Together they walk past the ARA and scan their IDs, when Miguel scans his permit the ARA agent stops him "This permit is only valid for D rank dungeons and below, I can let you in unless you get valid clearance" Quentin turns around "don't worry about it he is with me today, ill take care of him" the Agent in a stern voice "sir, that is not allowed even for…" Lily stops the agent "Are you saying that a B rank and a C rank awakened are not strong enough for this dungeon..." the Agent didn't know how to respond, he knew that if they wanted to he wouldn't be able to stop them and if he let them through then he would get in trouble. She grabs a wad of cash and puts it into the agent's pocket "I only see 3 people here, me, you, and my buddy Quentin here. Who are you talking about I wonder…" The agent knew that he wouldn't be able to do anything in this situation so he swallowed his pride in frustration "I guess your right ma´am, hope you have a safe hunt today if you could exit within my shift it would be very much appreciated" they then enter the dungeons.

Miguel was impressed by what happened, he always saw the ARA agents as tough and by the books "I didn't know that was even an option" Quentin laughs "We know that guy, he was just acting hard because he didn't know who you were" Miguel felt relieved " then why did you have to bribe him" Lily looks at him and smiles "mutually assured destruction, if he turns us in he gets in trouble for accepting a bribery". Miguel was impressed by the situation, he was starting to notice that awakened truly played by different rules. They walk further into the dungeon that seemed like a mountainous terrain with forest like environment, Miguel receives a pop-up window from the menu:

Party has been formed with:

Lily (level 48) and Quentin (level 82)

Further information requires appraisal skill unlocked at level 80

Miguel wanted to tell his sister about the notification but he couldn't so for now he ignored it, attempting not to make apparent, the surprise of the pop-up, he continued walking behind them. As they walk in further they see and are seen by the trees. While they walk through this forest Quentin suddenly stops and grabs his shield and axe while Lily pulls out her bow "alright, Miguelito here we go just stay behind me and let Quentin take the lead" For a moment Miguel thought they were mistaken because he saw nothing, but he was surprised by the tree in front of them moving on its own "These Treant are perfect of his axe, which is why we brought you here, don't worry this will be quick" Miguel notices that his sister grips her bow tightly.

Lily wasn't worried but having her brother there made her anxious, usually, it would be a very simple dungeon for her to help in but she wanted to properly protect her little brother. Miguel could observe that she was vigilant of the fight and their surroundings, although he didn't know why he saw that his sister and Quentin could easily deal with the opponent although what he saw was fast movement, he wondered if he would be able to dodge attacks from the treant. Miguel finally felt that the dungeons could be truly dangerous, until now he hadn't considered the possibility of dyeing but when seeing someone at Quentin's level fight he knew that as he is now, fighting the monster would be very difficult, and fighting Quentin would be impossible. Quentin was fighting by mostly dodging and blocking then attacking when he saw a good opening, and although to Quentin it felt like a light exercise, through Miguel's eyes the fight was intense. After a couple of minutes, Quentin had chopped off its limbs and finished it off by chopping it in half horizontally showing a hollow area where a crystal fell.

Menu:

A soul has been acquired

You have leveled up

You have leveled up

Miguel's eyes lit up and Lily noticed, she was worried that he would say something so she signaled him not to say anything. When Miguel noticed he tried to collect himself and follow along as they went on to find the next monster. One treant after another, this dungeon was worlds different from the F rank dungeon he was in before, last time he barely found 1 weak soul in the whole raid, but in this C rank dungeon, there are Souls without the weak description from every monster defeated. Miguel attempted summoning a treant servant when he wasn't observed by Quentin but the menu showed "invalid remains". After 2 hours they left the dungeon and returned to the guild office, Quentin said goodbye to them before returning the equipment and leaving. Miguel and Lily returned to the same room as last time, when Lily closed the door and secured the room she sat down "alright so what did you see in the dungeon that made you almost tell quentin about you skills" miguel smiled "last time I entered a dungeon I spent all day in there and my servants managed to kill about 15 goblin but I didn't even level up, but today 1 monster gave me more experience that a whole day in the F rank dungeon, Im Level 12 now" Lily was happy for her brother "that's great" he leans forward "that's not all I finally got my hands on some souls, every monster in that dungeon seemed to have a soul, now I can summon more servants, I just need remains now" Lily got an idea and got up and left the room suddenly, miguel was confused but lily quickly returned with the stiff corpse of a black wolf like monster that they had recently hunted in a C rank dungeon recently and placed it on the table an chips of ice slid on the table "this is the body of an Alpha wolf we found in a dungeon recently, we haven't gotten around to dismantling it yet so you can use your skill on this".

Miguel opens up the menu and it shows he has 23 souls so he takes one out and attempts to summon the monster but the menu shows:

Attempt has failed

The monster level is high, and your probability of success is reduced by 30% per rank discrepancy (current success rate 10%)

Miguel hadn't had any issues summoning monsters yet and thought it was weird but considering the success rate it meant that he was F rank if the monster was C rank. Although he had just gotten the souls and did not want to waste them, he saw the value in acquiring a C-rank servant so he attempted it again, and again until it finally worked.

The servant was copied from the remains that where on the table, Lily was relieved because she wasn't sure what would happen however knowing that her little brother now had a companion that was strong enough to protect him in low ranked dungeon "with a profession like necromancer, I really expected your skilles to be more gruesome… but instead you make copies of corpses, instead of using the corpse and the servant you summon doesn't look dead" she takes a closer inspection of the servant "other than it not breathing, it looks like the living version of itself… like a clone, are all your servants like this?" miguel summons the rest of them on the floor "this one is rocky and these are…" he looks at the servants and is surprised to find that the goblins had changed compared to when he first summoned them, their bodies had started to show signs of caquexia, their skin was no longer as colorfull as he had remembered, his sister also notices the state of their bodies "this is a little more to what I had expected" miguel was surprised, he looked at rocky and found that he didn't show any sign of decomposing like the goblins, even though he had more time with him "entonces miguelito, whats the difference between the rocky and these two?, because rocky seems to be perfectly fine like our new friend here" she points at the newly summoned white wolf "your right, and im not sure but my best guess is that I used the name granting skill on him, but that drained my mana so much that I passed out for about 2 days and even when I woke up I felt really tired" Lily was shocked "two days, what the fuck were you thinking, don't you know you can actually die from mana exhaustion, you have to be carefull" Lily takes a moment and tries to call down "its alright, im stil around, nothing happened" miguel tries to comfort Lily, she then sighs "you have leveled up and your wearing good equipment, if your ever going to try it again now would be our best option, can you look at your stats?" miguel looks at the menu:

Status

Level 12

Exp: 32%

Health: 406/406

Mana: 446/456

Strength: 2.2 (+14)

Stamina: 2.3 (+18)

Dexterity: 1.9 (+16)

Intuition: 2.5 (+11)

Magic: 4.8 (+18)

Unassigned points: 28 points

"my stats haven't changed but I still have the boost from the equipment and… I now have unassigned points" Miguel writes down the information he sees and shows it to Lily "From what I'm looking at you more than quadrupled your mana, maybe you can try the naming skill again without putting yourself in danger" he thought for a moment that is would be wrong to waste such a great opportunity "so do you have any names that you think might be good for this one?" Lily thinks for a moment "I always thought this one looked pretty" She gets closer and pets the soft fur on its body, she then tilts her head and looks at the genitals and smiles "Perfect, she's a girl, so Bonny sounds like a good name, short for Bonita" Miguel laughs at the name "well shes only with us because of you so if that's the name you want, sounds good to me" Miguel gets closer to the white wolf pets her head "I guess we'll call you Bonny from now on" suddenly a screen pops up:

The servant has been named

Bonny (named servant) Lvl 78

Favorability 0%

"has grown stronger after being named, can now level up"

"Recovered memories of itself from before death, although it is a servant the level discrepancy may make it difficult for the servant to show favoritism to its master"

"servants cannot betray or hurt their master but may choose to rebel from given commands, increase the masters level or favorability towards its master to make servant obey commands"

"The servant can now regenerate its mana"