Delayed Transfer

Mark and Sam drank and ate their snacks quietly.  Obviously, Sam was in deep thought.

“Why did you call me here, if it’s not about the project?” Sam then asked Mark after a few minutes.

“What would you do if what you said earlier happened.  About a dungeon appearing and fighting monsters.  Would you be interested in raiding it together with me and our friends.”  Mark asked Sam seriously.

“I’ve thought of it.  As you well know, I’m just like you.  I like reading web novels about transmigrating, dungeon diving, fighting zombies in the apocalypse with superpowers with my harem,  those kinds of things.  But we all know that those will just stay in our games, animes, web novels and our imagination.  It’s very tempting to just drown ourselves in it and both of us knew the consequences of doing that.  You remember Jason right? He’s so young to die of heart attack.  I actually thought you will be just like him, being so overweight and not moving too much.”

Mark then asked Sam to follow him to the basement.  He activated the portal to the dungeon using the basement door.  He then turned to Sam.

“In a moment you will feel  something, like an intent of an invite.  Accept it by having the intention of accepting it. It will be more like an instinct.  Unfortunately, you will not see a virtual window panel.”  Mark told Sam.

“I feel it!  Okay I accepted it I think.  Oh my God, what is that!”  Mark was happy that Sam was able to see the Portal to his dungeon.

Looking at his System Interface, there was a new tab that appeared.  It said Party at the top and when he opened it, he saw Sam’s name and his HP which was 140.

“Okay lets go back to the living room , we need to talk further.” Mark then deactivated the Portal.

When they sat down on the sofa, Sam asked Mark more questions about the dungeon.  Mark told Sam that he had been able to see the portal to the dungeon for a week now and he already engaged the monsters inside.  He told Sam that the necklace that he was wearing was a unique drop that gave the Identify,  Summon Bush Golem and Dryad’s Circle spells.  Unfortunately since it was  a unique rare drop, it was bound to him and nobody else could wear it.  He also told Sam that that was also the main reason why he got fit so fast. 

“So If I go there and fight monster, I will become powerful too?”  Sam asked Mark.  He could actually saw Sam getting excited and Mark knew that he was right all along when it came to his friends and dungeon diving. 

“Once we go inside of course we will fight some monsters and once they’re dead, they will drop equipment that we can wear and through the Identify skill that I have, we will know what skills and stats it will provide.”

“Oh my God! A real raid!  We can do a real raid Mark! I knew it! That’s how you got rich, you sold items from the dungeon to rich guys!”

“Actually you are partly correct.  The first sum of money that I got was me healing Donald’s wife using the spell Dryad’s Circle from the amulet that I’m wearing.  It’s also the one that healed John’s Daughter.”

“You can cure cancer!  You can cure a lot of people! Oh my God I need to calm down. I don’t know what to think! I’m overwhelmed.”  Mark could actually see Sam beginning to hyperventilate.

“Okay Sam calm down.  I will list down what we know so far so you will be able to think about it and calm down. 

We have a dungeon. We can get drops that provide skills after killing enemies. I’m lucky to get an item that we can use to heal and cure cancer. I use it to get money. I can only use the Dryad’s Circle skill once every week. So we need to save it for emergency.

Are you with me so far Sam?” Mark created a bullshit list that he told Sam to help him calm down.  Basically it highly limited what he could do with the Dryad’s Circle spell.

“Okay I understand.  The important part is for us to raid the dungeon and for us to get more items so we can get more powerful!”  Sam said excitedly.

“Actually we have one more thing to test.  We need to check if you can enter the dungeon, Sam.”

“Wait you said that you were doing this for a week then why is the dungeon door here at the new house?”

Mark forgot about that.  He needed to think very fast on what to say to Sam.

“Actually the reason there’s a dungeon is because I found a memento on my mother’s things and it allowed me to summon a dungeon door to any door that I want.”  Mark took his mother’s bracelet discreetly from his inventory to show Sam.

“I see. You’re so lucky!”

“I know. I think my mother was a sorceress. You know from the Philippines.  She was giving me some hints and unfortunately she died before teaching me, I think.”  Mark was so full of bullshit that if it smelled, he would have stank to high heaven.

“I’m sorry again Mark.  About your parents.  Anyways I’m so excited!  Imagine us raiding a dungeon in real life!”

“I know! C’mon let’s go enter.”

And they found out that Sam could follow Mark inside the dungeon.  Mark said to Sam that they should exit first so they could prepare themselves thoroughly.

Once they were back in the living room, Mark told Sam about the four items with skill that he already got.  The sword with the Cleave skill,  the bow with the Triple Strafe skill, the staff with the Fire Ball skill and the Scepter with the Holy Bolt skill.  He then described to Sam what each skill would do and that they would need to find three other party members since he already had the amulet that could summon bush golems.