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Miguel looks at his new servant worried by the messages on the screen "Looks like the monster is too strong and won't listen to me" Lily pets Bonny and it accepts her touch "That's fine just having her around you can be a deterrent to others" Miguel looks at her confused "others? What others… is there something I should know?"

Lily stops petting Bonny and takes a seat "you should know that guild are not as nice and glamorous as the news and social media shows them, the bigger guilds control certain areas around the city, and any portals that appear in that area are theirs to use and profit from, as long as there are no dungeon breaks the government doesn't care, this has lead to wars being waged in dungeons over control of said areas" she sighs "you would think that having a common enemy would bring us together, gut people are greedy they get violent when that happens, so I just wanted you to have a head start in case you get yourself in trouble" Miguel worries for his sister but doesn't know what to say "before you join this guild you should know that we are in a bit of a situation, we rented the rights to a Dungeon not to long ago but another guild is trying to take it over, loosing out on this dungeon could bankrupt us considering all the cost so we are in negotiations with the Savage guild that rented it out to help us keep it safe but their playing dumb saying that its not their responsibility to help us, that is why the guild master wasn't here today" miguel felt sad to know that his sister was worried about her guild and he couldn't help even if he wanted too, after following Quentin he saw that the difference in their power was something was immense, there was no way he could go against someone in the same league as him like the other guilds most likely would. Miguel until this point had not felt this before, the sister that was always been there for him his whole life was facing difficulties, but he was too weak to help "alright sis, I get it, you're in a very difficult situation right now with your guild, ill just wait" Lily smiled at him and knew he felt bad about not being able to help her "don't worry Miguelito, everything's going to be ok, once the guild master is done we can bring you along on the dungeon raids since you're family everyone is going to be ok with it, they will probably make you collect resources of carry the bags. hahaha" She loved her little brother but she knew she was going to enjoy bossing him around a little and annoying him, she stopped laughing a little "Hehehe, but seriously since you're going to be the new guy there might be some hazing, you should be ready, in the meantime, you can practice in dungeons since no one knows about us being family and your permit says Mike, I just ask that you keep going by mike, don't introduce yourself as Miguel and definitely don't use Garcia so that there's no way to track us back to mom and dad, and when you visit them to make sure you're not followed, I doubt you'll have any issues but it's a good habit to start, its why the social media awakener stars all use fake names and only stream what they want carefully not giving out to much information".

Mike went home for the day after returning the equipment, the moment he took it off he felt very tired but did not pass out like the last time he used his skills, he went home and rested. The next day he woke up, showered, and looked at his menu:

Status

Level 12

Exp: 32%

Health: 46/46

Mana: 96/96

Strength: 2.2

Stamina: 2.3

Dexterity: 1.9

Intuition: 2.5

Magic: 4.8

Unassigned points: 28 points

Miguel used 1 point on magic and then called out the goblin shaman "I guess ill call you Jenkins with what I have planned" A pop-up window showed:

The servant has been named

Jenkins (named servant) Lvl 3

Favoritism 0% "Due to level favoritism is not required"

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

"Recovered a small portion of memories from before death"

"The servant can now regenerate its mana"

"You're going into the dungeon with your goblin brother, ill call you back out in the dungeon for now go to sleep" Mike did not know if it would work but he wanted to test it out. He wanted to know if he could separate from his servants and if they would still follow his order if they even could separate from him, and more or less how much a non-named servant can deteriorate before it dies. Mike then leaves his apartment and returns to the D-rank dungeon he had visited before with Rocky by his side, luckily the agent there was the same one as last time "Hey your back, are you going in again today?, I'm sure you know now that there isn't much money in D-rank dungeons" mike walks up and scans his permit "yea I just wanted to check on something real quick im not gonna be long" he then walks into the dungeon and once inside he calls out imp and the goblin lvl 1 " ok guys, go and hunting for me, now I need you to stay away from other humans but otherwise you can kill all other monsters you want in the dungeon" he turns around to leave "let's go rocky you stick with me" he then leaves the dungeon.

The agent was surprised that he had come out so quickly "What happened?" Mike waves his permit again "yea I forgot I had something to do, ill just have to come back later" he then leaves.

Mike goes to the Las Vegas strip where a mall was converted into a hunters mall. Mike knew that although he could enter a dungeon with his servants and wouldn't have to fight himself, he had to look the part of a hunter so that he won't call too much attention to himself, so he at least needed some starter equipment. At this point Mike had 16 souls left after the summoning attempts for Bonny and 27 unassigned points, he checks his mobile banking app and sees that he has 1500 left in his bank account and was 2 weeks away from the day rent is due "damn, hope it's not too expensive" from the moment he got out of his vehicle he saw that there were a lot of expensive cars parked, he was worried that this would be an expensive shopping spree. The parking lot was in the basement and he took the escalators up into the mall, with Rocky following close behind. the moment he got into the mall and looked around, he was overwhelmed by all the shops but was adamant about finding equipment. He walked into a shop and looked around, but the more he looked around the more disparaged he found himself, the cheapest boots made from monster leather were above $1000.00 and were nowhere as good quality as the equipment that his sister let him borrow. This wasn't working out, all the retail prices in this store were well above his price range. "hello, how can I help you today" Mike turns around and smiles at the employee talking to him. The employee looked Mike up and down and knew that he didn't belong, she thought that the faster I spoke to him the quicker he would leave "I'm just looking around for some starter equipment since I just awakened" the employee puts on a fake smile "I'm sorry sir, we don't sell any sort of starter pack, this store is for more veteran awakeners that know what they are buying… also there no pets allowed in here" she spoke in a customer service voice but mike understood what she meant but didn't have the means to fight with people like her. "alright" mike leaves, slightly embarrassed but he decides to continue looking around, he was used to people being judgemental around him. He keeps looking around but all the stores seemed very similar with expensive prices after a while he started to notice that he would not find anything there. A security guard stops Mike "Excuse me, sir, I'm going to have to ask to leash your pet and leave" Mike had already decided to leave but suddenly he gets a pop-up screen:

"Servant Jenkins Leveled up"

Although Mike had failed in his attempt to buy proper equipment he felt excited to see the menu, to him this meant that he had a passive way to gain experience, now he just had to wait for his servants to work for him. The security guard started to get annoyed at how Mike had suddenly stopped "Sir! Wake up, it's time to go", Mike continued to leave "Rocky go to sleep for a moment" Rocky disappeared right before the security guard's eyes. The guard knew that familiars were allowed in the mall they were encouraged because those skills were in demand in most guilds. The guild was worried that he had just offended a VIP or a guild, the guard was in shock, and by the time he snapped out of it Mike was already halfway down the escalators.