"woohooo!… Yeah!, I finally got a soul" Miguel had been following his servants that he summoned when he entered, and so far he hadn't needed to stop, the servants were merciless and didn't tire, they went from one enemy to the next. Rocky completely overpowered the goblins and kept leveling up, the further he leveled the easier the slaughter became. Without allowing the goblin to react, while he followed them a notification popped up:
You have absorbed a weak soul.
Miguel was happy since this meant he would be able to get what he needed to summon monsters in dungeons. He then inspected the last corpse that Rocky killed and noticed that it was a goblin with a staff, this was strange because all the previous goblins either didn't have weapons or had rusted knives. As he kept looking at the corpse, the officer ran into the cavern ready to fight but noticed there was nothing wrong. "hey officer, is everything ok?" the officer recovered his composure "Yes, it's just that I didn't expect you to take this long, so I decided to check up on you since I didn't see any equipment" the officer saw the goblin servant and was about to attack "wait, wait, wait, that's another familiar" the officer was confused but relaxed "alllllrighty then" he looks back at Miguel and sees the corpse next to him "looks like you killed a goblin shaman, you should pick up that staff, it's worth 50 bucks but when a party has to split it then it's not much, but…" Miguel quickly picks it up excitedly "Alright by first income as an awakened" the officer chuckled "Alright I'll just go back for now" he then returns.
When Miguel notices that he leaves he decides to summon another servant this time he looks at the staff and wonders. He then uses the soul he just got and places it into the corpse of the undead shaman goblin, when the servant appears he hands it the small staff and checks the menu.
Undead servant level 3
"Goblin Shaman"
Skills: rock bullet "forms a rock that is thrown at its enemy"
Miguel looks at the skill in disappointment "fuck I wasted a soul on a monster that throws rocks in a fancy way" he rolls his eyes "alright Rocky let's continue and see if we can find more souls". As they continue through the caves he starts to notice that the skill isn't that bad, the speed at which it's thrown does seem to cause damage. The advantage to it seemed to distract the monsters while Rocky got close enough to kill them. Although he was disappointed at first the 3 servants seem to be working well as a team.
The sun had set on Las Vegas and the officer outside the dungeon portal had changed shifts, so when a person and a dog came out of the dungeon it surprised him. Miguel came out annoyed at the fact that he couldn't find any more souls in the dungeon, he walked past the officer "Don't forget to check out the same way you checked in so that we don't consider you KIA" surprised by the comment Miguel took out his permit and waved it in front of the equipment when he heard a beep and saw a green light then walked away.
When he got home he saw his roommate "hey john" When his roommate looked at him entering "Hey man what are you doing, you know we can't have pets in the apartment" Miguel looked down and petted Rocky then looked at John "don't worry, it is not a pet it's a familiar. Watch… Rocky go to sleep" suddenly rocky disappears leaving john with his mouth open "that's pretty cool a guy in my guild also has a familiar but his is a bird type, but still, it looks like a dog so try to not have it walking around outside the apartments so we don't get in trouble with the lease please" miguel felt tired after almost a whole day in a dungeon so he sat on the couch "hey now that you have a familiar I can put in a good word for you in the guild im in, awakened with familiars are very popular because they sometimes have great skills", miguel takes out his phone "I cant, remember, I promised my parents I would enter the same guild as my sister if I ever awakened"
"Ohh, right I forgot" John also sits down on the couch with a plate of food "If you want some go ahead and take some I made plenty" Miguel gets up from the couch to serve himself a plate when he realizes that although he has been reading a lot of information online he could easily ask john about dungeons since he had been working in a guild for a couple of years before this new guild he joined "do you mind if I ask you some questions?" still eating with food in his mouth "sure, go ahead". Miguel walks over to the couch and sits down "What's the difference between the dungeon ranks" John stops eating for a moment and laughs "Are you serious?... alright, the main difference is the power levels that the association's equipment reads but if your asking about monsters it can be night and day, apparently the equipment reads the amount of mana that pours out of the dungeon which can give us an idea of how strong the monsters are inside, the higher the rank the more mana is present, so that means we'll find more crystalized mana that forms inside monsters" he takes another bite of the food "aw man you should see the way they take it out since its usually in the chest cavity above the heart it can get pretty gruesome" he chuckles a little.
With that information, Miguel thought that maybe in a higher rank dungeon, he can find more souls.
John opens his eyes wide "Dude, I forgot to tell you, you seriously missed out, the party you missed was crazy, someone got so drunk they had to be carried out. It was Epic!". They continued speaking for a while and then Miguel went to his bedroom to sleep.
The next day Miguel is woken up by his cellphone ringing, when he looks at the phone he sees "mom" on the screen so he answers it "Hey mom what's up….sure I can go… right now?... alright, alright ill head over in a minute" he hangs up the phone, gets changed and heads out.
Miguel gets to a house and rings the doorbell after a moment the door opens and his sister is standing at the door, she is shorter than him, with brown long hair and dark-colored eyes, with loose fitting clothes "What, you forgot your keys… get in here", "hello to you too Lily" they walk to the kitchen where their parents are and Miguel greets them with a hug and a kiss on the cheek when they all sit down Miguel's mother starts playing with a pen and paper to mask her anxiety "Son, your mother and I are worried for you… we want to know why you haven't told us" Miguel was confused and he looked at his sister "my friend Liv at the association told me about someone that awakened with familiars, imagine my surprise when she sees a picture of the family on my phone and she points you out, saying that you're the awakened person she was talking about" she looks at him with her arms crossed, Miguel felt trapped and could only give an awkward smile "yea I just awakened the other day and now have a D rank permit, I got a strange profession" his sister relaxes a little and unfolds her arms "stop, before you tell us more, you need to know that you shouldn't talk to much about your skills to other people, in some cases it could put them in danger" the then looks at their parents, their mother just nods then looks at her husband "Amor, come with me outside for a moment" Miguels father felt annoyed that he couldn't help his son and knew that the only thing he could do was let his daughter help him, he would only become a liability to Miguel if someone where to look for information on him.
When they leave Lily turns her chair toward Miguel "You have a lot to learn, you can't go around showing off your profession and skills to anyone that can use that information against you, Mom and Dad would never, but since they're not awakened, if someone who wants to hurt you they can do so through them" Lily stares at him in frustration "you should have come to me when you found out" Miguel was surprised to see his sister this way, usually she is very calm and collected, he hadn't seen her this irritated in a long time.
"Alright, come to the Guild tomorrow, well register you so that when your permit expires your awakened information from the test is classified information that only I'll be able to see, this will keep your information safe" She rolls her eyes "but I need to know what profession and skills showed up when you went to the A.R.A. Last week. liv can keep a secret, she owes me at least that much, but the first time you went might be a problem"
Miguel was confused because of Lily's attitude "I don't know what the big deal is about my skills being known, but the first time I went all that came up was my profession, no skills showed" Lily's face showed worry for him "My skills showed up afterward, now that I think about it Liv is the only one that has actually seen me use my skills" Lily was relieved that he did have skills after all and that they weren't public knowledge yet.
"alright for now well leave it at that, well continue this conversation later at the guild" Their parents walk back in, and before they sit down, their mother looks at Lily "Is it done?", "not yet..." Lily suddenly smacks Miguel on the back of his head "Hey!" then his mother hit his shoulder "Don't yell at your sister", "Mom!", his father raises his voice "Boy, have you lost your mind, yelling at your mother like that!" they all laugh for a moment and the start to serve food.
When they were about to start eating Lily's phone rang and she answers "Yup what's up... Tell them we still have 3 months... What do you mean they're there!... I'm on my way" She got up and grabbed her purse and keys "I have to get to the guild, sorry I can't stay for the food" She didn't even wait for a response and left in a hurry. This seemed strange to Miguel but continued to eat since he did not know the situation there was nothing he could do.