Global Awakening: Monster Taming Necromancer

What Jael did first was to send the goblins to bring any treasures they might have in the tribe. Too bad the goblins can't talk, then he might be able to know what happened to them.

He was still surprised that it was a Necromancer, someone with the same powers as him but different.

"So do you get any new abilities from this?" Temur said, he was crouching like the others to extract monster cores from the dead goblins. Whoever did this wasn't interested in monster cores.

Jael looked through his spellbook to the place where the goblins were written. He frowned. "No. They are not unique monsters."

Litha snorted. "Your Codex is weird, so what monsters are unique?"

Jael shrugged. He found it baffling, too, but it is what it is, and he was sure the Codex would notify him when a unique monster came around.

"They are here!" Cele said.

The goblins came down and each of them carried a wooden chest with them. The team stood up and surrounded Jael as they dropped it on his feet. "Open it."

The first chest was filled with golden coins of all sizes and different objects of gold. Temur grinned. "This is what I'm talking about! We can live all this for several floors!"

Litha let out a whistle, her eyes already calculating as she watched Temur put it inside his ring.

The others watched hungrily, but unfortunately for them, only Jael and his companions could take the loot. They should meet Thayer for their own.

The second and third also opened their own and it contains junks they had picked up through the years. They dismissed those and waited for the fourth to open its own, and it contained a map.

"I think this the map of where they came from before the twisting space brings them," Dile said as he studied it. "Can I keep this?"

No one needed it so he kept it.

They all held their breath as the war chief opened his own but they were disappointed because what it contained was a lump of black metal.

Tim scowled. "I thought we would finally see an artifact."

Temur grunted, he thought so as well. "The gold is enough anyway. We should go before whoever did all this comes back."

Jael picked up the lump of metal, and he studied it; hard and yet soft, it glinted with dark light. An idea stuck with him, and he extended it to the war chief. "Use it."

The goblin accepted it and sent Mama into the metal; immediately, it shuddered and ripped and then flowed like liquid; it covered him and turned into armor that covered his whole bulk.

"Wow, do more!"

The metal flowed to his hand and turned into a sword, then a war hammer, and then a shield. "So it's an artifact!" Jael grinned. He collected it from the goblin and gave it to Temur. "This suits you."

"Are you sure?" Temur asked, even as he already injecting his aura into it. He changed it into a sword, then he swung it, and it cut the air without any sound. "The weight and balance! Perfect! I can even make it longer or shorter! This is going to come in handy during a fight!"

He turned it into a metal band on his left hand. "Now, let's go!"

Jael turned to his goblins and he extended his hand. The ground beneath them ripped with darkness and they sunk into it. Immediately, he felt them in his mind. "Interesting."

They left the goblin fortress behind and began their journey to the center of the zone. It was difficult; they fought monsters that were strong, and that slowed them. Fortunately, they are closer to it already and a full day's walk took them to it.

"This looks exactly like the black castle from outside," Jael noted, he stared up at the castle and marveled at the size. "The general must be really important."

"He's one of King Solomon's generals, according to the spirit. Come on, let's see what a general like that has in store for us." Temur began to walk towards the Iron gate and it opened soundlessly to admit them.

Maybe other Awakeners have entered or not, they didn't know because they were the only ones there. The courtyard was silent, and even their steps on the crumbled floor were muted.

The air smelled of old stone, and when the gate closed with a loud clang, they flinched. Jael shook off his uneasiness. 'This is just an old castle. What's there to be worried about?'

Cele raised her right hand, where a small compass-like artifact glinted. "The place with the thickest mana here is over there." She pointed to a tower that stood beside the main castle. "It's coming from the very top."

Jael frowned at the black tower; it reminded him of the Dungeon Tower, but this one is short and can't compare at all. "Let's go." Stay updated with m-v le-mpyr

An Iron bond door met them, and when Temur tried it, the door shuddered, and a face appeared in it, making them jerk back and ready their attacks.

"What's this now." Jael began.

He got his answer because the face began to talk. "Welcome to the great game of King Solomon! You have seven stages to clear and the winners will be given rewards by the king!"

The team exchanged glances. This is the problem with zone that appears in ruins. They are always personalized! What is this about playing King Solomon's game again?

"All teams and competitors will appear on the seventh stage to compete for the rewards!"

"So how does this game work exactly? Do we enter and start to climb it or.....?"

The face continued to speak without acknowledging them. "If you die in the game then you are dead!"

"Welcome to the great game of King Solomon! You have seven stages to clear and the winners will be given rewards by the king!"

Litha scowled. "I think it's on auto, and it's not like we have a choice anyway. We'll try our best not to die. Now, Open!"

The door swung open.