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Caller

Matthew Lordstone – Level 12

Doctor (T2) – Level 1

Warrior (T1) – Level 1

Gunner (T2) – Level 1

Plague Doctor (T3) – Level 1

Ranger (T4) – Level 1

Summoner (T2) – Level 2

Priest (T1) – Level 1

Necromancer (T3) – Level 1

Witch (T3) – Level 1

Witch Doctor (T3) – Level 1

Caller (T1) – Level 1

Stats

HP = 22/ VIT = 15

MP = 37/ MAG = 23

STR = 15/ AGI = 15

MIN = 24/ CHA = 20

Skills (1): Anesthesia (E), Imbue Mana (E), Boost Gunpowder (E), Resist Disease (E), Animal Companion (E), Purification (E), Unholy Mana (E), Witchcraft (E), Healing Totem (E), Summon Spirit (D)"

Matthew took a look at his stats and decided to spend his free points increasing his Strength, Vitality and Agility since it has been a while since he didn't get a boost on those stats. As for the skill he would chose, he decided to pick that later.

The Caller class was the first class from the Summoner line. It was a class that was aimed to make contact with spirits and other creatures. It had high Charisma and the Pact, Charm Spirit, Spirit Magic and Charisma Boost skills.

Pact was the skill that bounded a creature's or spirit's soul to the caster. It was the skill Paula used and recently made more powerful to support her familiar Lumi. Each extra level on the skill increased the connection between the user and the pacted creature.

Charm Spirit was a skill that allowed the user to forcibly made a spirit obey the user. It was an essential skill for Summoners to make sure that their summoned spirits didn't do as they please.

Spirit Magic was the skill Paula used to be able to cast ice spells. It used the essence of a spirit to modify the user's mana to match the spirit's mana type. Meaning if this skill was used in conjunction with a fire spirit, the user's mana would become magical fire. Paula, as Lumi was an ice spirit, changed her mana to magical ice and therefore was able to cast ice spells without being a Cryomancer.

The last Caller skill was Charisma Boost. A skill that used mana to boost the Charisma stat of the user. It was used by Callers and Summoners to be able to entice or summon more powerful spirits than what their normal Charisma would allow. Some people even used this skill to appear more beautiful and have more success dating or in public careers like actors and models.

Matthew was torn between picking Spirit Magic, Charm Spirit or Pact.

With Spirit Magic, he would be able to use the Imbue Mana skill with the mana type of the spirits he summoned. In short, he would be able to add elemental damage to his sword when fighting close ranged. The thought of having a flaming sword was enticing.

However, with Charm Spirit, he wouldn't depend on the goodwill of summoned spirits to possess a totem so he could use the Healing Totem skill. He could simply force the spirit to do that. Making sure he would always be able to use the healing skill.

Lastly, he could pick the Pact skill. The idea being the same as Charm Spirit, but with a permanent effect. The downside of picking Pact against Charm Spirit being the diversity of spirits he could use would be fewer. For the Pact skill to work, the creature or spirit needed to be willing to bound their souls with the user, which would limit the amount of spirits he could take.

Vanessa picked the Thief class. Her first tier 2 class. A natural progression for the Scout class. The Thief had three skills: Agility Boost, Sense Others and Sense Treasure.

Agility Boost, just like the Caller's Charisma Boost, was a skill that allowed the user to consume mana to increase their own Agility stat.

Sense Others was a passive skill that allowed the owner of the skill to feel the mana in the air and know where creatures are. That way, the Thief was able to sense where people were hiding or where invisible creatures were.

Sense Treasure was a passive skill that allowed the owner of the skill to feel the mana in the air and find where precious things were hidden. It worked by allowing the owner of the skill to feel lingering emotions that got imprinted on the mana in the atmosphere by the person who considered that object precious.

Vanessa decided to pick the Sense Others skill. She gave more value to the safety of feeling other adventurers and monsters than to finding treasures. Her agility was already very high, so Boost Agility was not a skill that she actually needed.

Also, Paula could already cast Agility Up on her if necessary.

The difference between Agility Boost and Agility Up was that the first could only be cast on the user itself, while the second could be cast on any creature. However, Agility Up could be dispelled by the Arch-mage's Dispel Magic skill while Agility Boost couldn't. The same with every Boost and Up skills of other stats.

They continued the exploration while Claudio talked to his team settled on the entrance of the dungeon monitoring Matthew and the dungeon. He got very disappointed upon hearing that there was not detected any abnormally with Matthew's level up.

His humor was getting sour and his normal playful attitude was begging to fade as he got more and more frustrated about not getting any reading that indicated something to advance his research.

Claudio was angrily biting the nail on his thumb when they arrived at a bifurcation on the corridor.

"Which way?" Vanessa asked the others.

"Right." Paula answered resolute making the others look at her puzzled.

"Why?" Michael scoffed at her.

"I saw a spirit there." She said pointing to the air.

"Another Dust Devil?" Matthew asked.

"No. Not a simulacrum. A real one. A lesser air spirit." Paula said.

Upon hearing that, Claudio sprinted towards her taking her hands on his:

"How do you know?" He asked with wide eyes.

Paula shook him off herself pushing him away and saying with disgust and anger:

"Don't touch me!" She growled at him.

Claudio took a deep breath regaining his composure.

"Sorry about that. I got excited." He apologized with a small bow and added: "But how do you know it was a real spirit and not a dungeon simulacrum?"

"My unique skill, which I'm sure you're aware of, is Spirit Sight. I can see spirits even if they try to hide themselves. I can see their real forms and not only what they appear to be. I can see them since I was a little kid." Paula explained. "A real spirit looks very different in my eyes than a simulacrum."

"I see." Claudio rubbed his chin very interested. "And you saw a lesser wind spirit in that direction? Good. That's very good. Spirits very rarely enter dungeons on their own. This means…" He paused looking at Matthew's party and weighing if he should tell them what was on his mind.

"It means what?" Matthew asked.

"The leading theory on how the dungeon is able to create real items is that the items are left in here by spirits or creatures that the dungeon itself summons." Claudio decided to share. "If that spirit was summoned by the dungeon itself, that would mean that this theory could be correct."

"Then let's follow the spirit." Eric said with his laud voice. "If it is spirits that bring treasures to this dungeon, that one certainly knows where a treasure is!" He smiled widely.

"Yes… Yes…" Claudio calculated and then turned to Matthew and Paula. "If one of you two made a pact with that spirit… We could learn about its origins and if it was summoned by the dungeon."

"And where the treasure is." Eric added.

"Yes, yes. That doesn't matter." Claudio dismissed the big blonde oaf.

"Paula, do you still see the spirit?" Vanessa asked.

"No, it turned a corner." Paula answered.

"Then let's hurry." Claudio said pointing forward.

Vanessa stood still looking at him. She refused to obey his orders. Only when he walked back giving the leadership position back to Vanessa, that she advanced through the corridor checking for traps.

"If we do get to make a pact with that spirit…" Paula said to Matthew. "Do you want to do it or should I?"

"Let's see if it wants me first." Matthew said. "If not, you try."

"Okay." She agreed. "But I think that that spirit will want you."

"Why?" Matthew asked confused.

"It was a fairy spirit." Paula said.

"Fairy?"

"Yes. A small woman that looks like an elf with butterfly wings on her back." Paula described the spirit she saw.

"I thought lesser spirits were just balls of light." Matthew questioned her.

"For you they are. That's all they can materialize in the primal realm. But I can see their real forms. The forms they have in the elemental realms. That's how I met Lumi. She was an ice spirit that visited my house often when I was a kid. Only I could see her at first. Even before I became an adventurer I had a bit of mana. So I used to let her feed on it whenever she came." Paula explained.

"That's cute. But Lumi was not a lesser spirit, was she?" Matthew asked.

"No. But most spirits that live on the primal realm, specially on Earth, prefer not to show their physical forms. Lumi only came to show herself to others after I became an adventurer and made a pact with her." Paula answered.

"That's such a cute story. So you know Lumi since you were a child." Matthew commented.

Paula only smiled and rubbed the ring where Lumi rested inside. At that moment, she pointed to an empty space on the air close to Vanessa:

"There she is."

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