After the last dungeon, I now had 27 dungeon points. There were six tiers within the dungeon skill store. Tier 1 was worth 1 point. Tier 2 was worth 5. Tier 3 was worth 10. Tier 4 was worth 25. Tier 5 was worth 50. Tier 6 was worth 100. Some abilities could be purchased directly from a tier. For example, most spells and items could be flat out purchased. In that case, I could afford one tier 4 ability, like the resurrection I used to bring back my girls.
However, there were also tiered abilities. These started at tier 1, and then you had to unlock each tier in turn. In other words, to have a tier 4, I’d need a whopping 41 points. 42 so that I could use the reset. Simply put, it wasn’t practical to use a 4th tier skill. Therefore, I equipped three jobs which cost me six points, reset cost me one point, 10X experience cost sixteen points, map cost me one point, and I kept three points in portal. That’s how I set myself up at the moment to maximize my gains.
I could have equipped four jobs and 5X, but three times ten is thirty and four times five is twenty. It was simple math. I earned my experience this way. If I did run into trouble where I worried that three jobs weren’t enough, I’d naturally switch to the four jobs so I could gain the extra experience. In the meantime, I had a desire to level quickly as we worked our way down this dungeon.
As for my girls, their strength is my strength. I planned to concentrate on Slave Master. White Mage and Cook. That was the layout I was going with, at least for the top ten floors. As we got deeper and the difficulty grew, I would change my actions accordingly. By then, hopefully I had unlocked some good stuff. That was my plan.
Well, that would be my plan as long as I was able to get into the dungeon. The reason I was going over my dungeon points again was that I was looking for some way to get past those knights without starting an incident. There was an invisibility skill, but it would only work on me. The problem was there was a fence over the entrance and there was no way I could open it without being seen. Using darkness spells or other kinds of spells to confuse or distract them could similarly be accused of attacking.
“Them guards didn’t let you passed, huh?” A voice from the side of the trail said.
“An enemy!” Shao called out, pulling out her twin daggers.
“Relax, it’s just the dwarf girl from earlier!”
“Quick! Let’s kill her before she seduces Master again!” Shao declares before being hit on the head by Lydia.
“What did we say about this, Shao?” Lydia has a friendly smile, but she comes off slightly dangerous with her tiger-like stare.
“No killing Master’s women…” She murmured but then looks up tearfully. “But what if she betrays or hurts Master?”
A gleam flashed in Lydia’s eyes. “Hehe… then let big sister have the first strike!”
I had thought Lydia was having a good influence on Shao, but now I wasn’t so sure. I felt like I’d need to have another talk with the girls soon. It was better to have these conversations before I found a dead body somewhere.