BRAGR) No Stone Left Unturned Part 1 (Patreon)

We finished up searching the house. We didn’t find anything of use besides the journal. But as soon as we stepped outside the house, all of us suddenly got a notification.

[Quest Updated]

[Story Quest: ‘Mills Town Horror’ Started]

[Conditions Updated…]

[You have learned how a man who had watched his family become zombies lost all hope. Continue to investigate the Town of Mills.]

[Completion 1%]

[Rewards: ???]

“Did everyone get the quest?” I turned and asked. Seeing everyone nod their heads, I knew this was going to be a long dungeon dive. I had done a story quest in game before in my dreams, and that, too, took a while since you had to search every inch of the map to make sure you did not miss anything.

“Alright. Gather around.” I decided we needed to come up with a new plan. I opened my inventory and took out a pen and paper and began drawing on it. Two boxes sitting on either side of two parallel lines. I also marked a small dot, which represented our current position. “This is us here. We need to map out the entire dungeon. While it will take a few days, that is fine. I have plenty of supplies on me. Our main goal now is to find the wall of the dungeon. This dungeon does not go on forever in all directions. There will be an invisible wall. My guess is the fog is that wall seeing how it seems to wrap around this town. So we will first use that as the wall as long as we can get close to it.

“Sometimes the wall is just an invisible barrier. Our job right now is to be sure to check every inch of our surrounding area. We might find camps that we will need for clues. But be careful since zombies can be anything from the smallest of animals. If you get bit, yell right away. We will need to remove the virus from your body.

“This dungeon will give us a good deal of rewards. So let’s make sure we get a hundred percent completion rate.” The higher the completion rate, the better. We might even get some high grade items from the quest as well.

I stood up and handed the map to Sonya. “You will be in charge of our map. You only need to mark paths roads, buildings, and points of interest.”

“I will be sure not to miss anything!” Sonya seemed happy to have a proper job in the team. She was still too low of a level so it was probably a little uncomfortable for her to be just standing around more of the time.

“I leave it to you,” I replied with a smile before looking at everyone else. “Alright, let’s move back to the first house and begin searching the yard and out behind it. We will keep going right until we reach the fog wall again before backtracking. This dungeon is very tedious but well worth it.” At least, I could only hope it would be worth it. After all, this was a real-world dungeon quest, not an in game one. I have no idea what the rewards will be like.

With everyone’s confirmation, we quickly began moving once again, making our way back the way we came. We searched the yard, looking in between bushes and around trees, but did not find anything of use. Although, when Frank opened the shed, an old zombie man jumped out at him, prompting him to have to kill it.

From there, we continued moving past the house into the backyard of another house. This house we didn’t even need to get near it to know that zombies were inside. The patio door had a zombie male pressed up against it. It wasn’t doing anything but basically, give us a side-eye. It was kind of creepy.

The issue with this, though, is we had no idea how many of these zombies were actually inside. If we, let’s say, kill this zombie by breaking the glass, the sound of the glass breaking could end up causing more zombies to appear. It was not an easy situation to deal with.

At least if this was my first time dealing with stealth-type dungeons. “Stay here.” I motioned for everyone to stay put before silently saying, [Magma Blade].

[Learned Skill: Magma Blade]

[A superheated blade that can pierce through the thickest of metals. Melts, metal, and other materials upon contact. Does not work against high fire resistant materials and enemies.]

[Deals: 100-200 damage to target. Can critically hit.]

This skill was quite good in certain situations, but you had to be careful since keeping it activated too long can also break your sword if it is not made for such a spell. Luckily, I only needed to do a quick jab to the head.

I walked right up to the patio door and, pierced my sword through the class like a hot knife through butter and stabbed the zombie right through its head. I quickly got a notification that it was dead before I withdrew my sword.

 Simple yet very effective. I quickly canceled my spell and turned around, returning to my group. “The one at the door is now dead. We need to slowly open the just enough for us to get in with out making too much noise. But just in case one of us trips or something, be ready to fight. If everyone understands then let’s move out.”