Chapter 26: Daylight

Chapter 25

Daylight

 

Dazed, June came out of the vision. June stared at the stone floor beside the dais, looking off into a ceaseless void. Possibility spun through her mind’s eye like a thread woven into a massive tapestry that stretched to the horizon.

What the hell, why me...

Kotor hopped into her vision, poking his head in like a gopher out of a hole.

With a little wave of his hand, he tried to catch June’s attention. “Are you OK?”

A beat passed between them, June still lost in thought. “Yeah, I’m OK. I’m just tired of all this cryptic stuff,” she admitted, chuckling away her nervousness.

He’s not going to tell anyone anything.

“There’s shinies in there,” Kotor squealed, pointing towards the giant chest that sat undisturbed on top of the stone platform. Behind it, the giant emerald continued to thrum with restrained power, but otherwise, the surrounding chamber was at peace.

June wasted no time, pushing aside thoughts of visions and prophecies swirling in her head. With a heave, June pushed the banded metal lid open, revealing a pile of loot. Coins of many metals glinted within, like a sea of gold and silver. But the real treasure sat daintily on top of the pile, a glittering green gem, much smaller than the giant emerald dominating the room, but still comparatively massive to anything June had ever seen before.

“Hmm, I wonder if I could use this,” she thought, considering how all the loot had dropped at the end of the dungeon, rather than spread throughout. This wasn’t how Duneria Online did things, was it a quirk unique to ‘living’ dungeons in this world?

Mixed within the pile was a smattering of different items, seemingly all the loot from the dungeon that she had just completed. Helpfully, a few status windows faded into her vision to tell her some important bits. A third window contained a more detailed rundown of the loot as well, But June didn’t want to sit here and read through it. She preferred to get her hands on it individually.

 

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