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My Secret Portal to a Fantasy World Book 3, page 1
MY SECRET PORTAL TO A FANTASY WORLD BOOK 3
D. LEVESQUE
Edited by
TIFFANIE BELKIN
CONTENTS
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
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CHAPTER ONE
“You’re more powerful than you let on, aren’t you, Jack?”
Oh shit. Does she suspect who or what I am?
Then she said something that caught me off guard.
“It was the Omniverse Nexus who sent you in our time of need, wasn’t it?”
I looked nervously at Shana and Bri, and their eyes were wide in shock.
“Hmm,” I laughed nervously. “What do you mean?”
Marianne’s gaze had intensified, making me even more nervous.
“There are legends that state there are those who are blessed by the Omniverse Nexus who come to our worlds as heroes.”
She cocked her head. “Did you know that we Advisors are not from the world we work in?”
Vira cried out in shock, “Marianne!”
Marianne turned to Vira and said, “I think we can trust Jack and his wives with this secret. It’s not like others do not know. Hower I must ask you three to swear that you shall not tell a soul what I am about to reveal. I know that your Elven wife will be bound by her Oath. But you two won’t be.”
I looked at Shana and Bri, who were staring at Marianne as if she was a totally different person. But Bri nodded quickly, and Shana followed suit.
I turned to Marianne and said, “I swear that what you reveal to me shall not pass these lips.”
She gazed at me for a couple more seconds before she bobbed her head. “That is all I can ask.”
Nervously, Vira said, “Are you sure about this, Marianne?”
The lead Advisor turned to her and nodded.
“If these monstrosities are back and have escaped from the Wastes, we will need someone with strength to take them down. Nexus willing, it is only be a single one that has escaped. If there are more, we are in peril. Once I am done here, I shall send a message to all the Adventurers Guild’s Lead Advisors, and let’s hope they can send people quickly to fix the barrier. They will also have to investigate the entire border between us and the Wastes. We low-level zones cannot fight these things without help.”
She turned her eyes back to me and smiled. “I am not asking that you reveal your secrets, Jack. I knew that there was something different about you, as I’m sure Vira did.” She turned her gaze to Vira.
Vira reluctantly nodded but didn’t say anything.
“All I am asking is, can we count on your help?”
I took a deep breath. If I didn’t have to reveal anything, it meant no one had to die. Otherwise, I’m sure if I said anything, One would kill them, and most likely me, for giving out those secrets.
“You can count on my help.”
She smiled, and I could see gratitude and relief in her eyes.
“Now. The reason I know you’re different is we Advisors are not born in the world we work in. And also, we do not train here.”
I looked at her in shock. I thought that Advisors, unlike Adventurers, placed their hand on the Nexus Stone, stated that they wanted to be Advisors and boom, they became Advisors in the world in which they resided. But she was telling me that wasn’t the way it was done?
“When we wish to become Advisors, we are whisked away to a different world so that we can share knowledge and information. But eventually, once our training is done, we do return to our home world. I was born here, and so was Vira. The only time that we Advisors travel to another world using the Nexus gate is during our training. The reason for that is we know our regions, so we only need to learn to be Advisors, we don’t need to learn about the area. When we are training, one of the things we talk about amongst ourselves is what our worlds are like. Stories, tales, legends,” she said, nodding at me with that last word.
“There is a legend that I’ve heard, and I’m sure Vira heard the same thing, that on some worlds, there are Adventurers that are much stronger than a normal Adventurer, almost as if the Omniverse Nexus gives them additional help somehow. We aren’t sure how,” she frowned, looking like she was trying to figure it out. “But they are much more powerful. Yet, they keep it well hidden. Something tells me that you are one of those people.”
She looked at Shana and Bri.
“While your two wives are strong, they seem normal for their Classes.” She turned back to me. “Yet here you are, Jack, with what I can only say is Charisma that is higher than a Beastmaster would have, not to mention those two Animal Companions of yours.”
I winced at that. Crap. I knew I should have kept them hidden. Marianne saw my wince and laughed.
“We would have found out eventually. Someone would have seen you hunting with them, and the rumors would have started.”
Not if I had stayed hunting in my personal dungeon, I thought with an internal scowl. But I kept that to myself.
She sighed.
“But I thank the Nexus that you were the one that found Marty,” she added. “Something tells me that if the Quest had gone to someone else and they had caught wind of these Colossal Intimidators, they would not have survived all those attacks from the Elder Goblins. Or whatever else that would have been sent their way. Based on the number of fights you three, sorry you five, were involved in, it would have meant death for anyone else.”
“It was getting pretty tough near the end,” Bri indicated.
Even Shana was nodding her head in agreement.
“Well,” Marianne said, looking at Vira. “I guess we need to go to the Nexus stone and communicate our issues to the other Lead Advisors as we have so many to contact. Vira, I will require your aid.”
“You have it, Mariane,” Vira told her firmly, getting up.
“I will make it quick. I would say a couple of hours. Do you want to keep investigating, or did you wish to wait?” Marianne asked me.
“Hmm,” I replied, looking at the girls.
“We could just hunt for half a day and return later this evening,” Shana suggested.
I looked at Bri, and she nodded to indicate that would be her choice as well. I knew they meant to hunt in the Dungeon of Almagoth.
I turned back to the two Advisors and said, “I think we will hunt. You can find us later at the Ghost Hound Inn.”
“Perfect,” she nodded. “Come on. Let’s get this over with,” she said to Vira. “The faster we can get this message out, the faster we can get this barrier looked at.”
Vira nodded and got up with Marianne. It wasn’t long before we were back outside, and Vira and Marianne were headed toward the middle of the city where the Nexus Stone was located.
I turned to the girls just as Midnight and Onyx stretched and walked over.
Quietly, I said, “We should head just outside town and access the dungeon, but let’s stick to level 3.”
“Oh, did, hmm, he add those stones?” Shana asked me with a grin.
“He said he did,” I indicated.
I had suggested to One that he install Nexus Stones or something like a portal stone on each level so that someone could skip a level as long as that person or a group had cleared it. We had gone down as far as level 4, but the Dire wolf, the brother of Midnight before I tamed him and then turned him into one of my Animal Companions, had been brutal.
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Thankfully it had worked out, since now Midnight increased our group from four members to five. Though technically he and Onyx, as my Animal Companions, weren’t considered groupmates. I technically still had three more group slots open. Not that I was looking for another member. If I were, it would be a healer.
Bri was our tank, Shana was DPS, and so was I, with some healing ability thrown in there. Except my heals were basic. While they did grow with me, I wasn’t meant to be the main healer. Hell, if any of the girls died, I could not even revive them. The cost of the spell was just too astronomical, even with my current funds. A real healer however, got that spell as one of their primary spells.
My Animal Companions would simply disappear if they died, and I would be able to resummon them once more after 24 hours. I couldn’t do that with my wives.
It didn’t take us much time to leave the city walls behind, venturing away until I paused to survey our surroundings. I was aware that attempting to summon a dungeon entrance wouldn’t succeed if there were people nearby. However, with a mere thought, a massive stone structure materialized, adorned with a swirling vortex of black and white. Once again, a subtle sense of foreboding emanated from it, almost like a warning to steer clear. Through conversations with the girls, I learned that for them, this feeling was much more intense—a clear deterrent to anyone approaching.
Once we entered, I got a notification.
Welcome, daring Adventurers, to the dreaded depths of the Dungeon of Almagoth. Here, untold treasures beckon the stout-hearted, yet death, in all its chilling splendor, eagerly anticipates the heedless. Ponder the ominous caution, for the abyss yawns before you. Proceed with care or suffer the merciless consequences.
I looked around, and a new item had appeared that was not there before. A tall stone pedestal, on top of which sat a large blue globe with swirling colors, as if there was a cloud inside it.
I walked over and looked at it curiously. It was about four feet tall and looked almost like a Roman column would if it was only five feet in diameter with a large blue orb the size of a honeydew melon. I gazed inside the orb, and it was swirling with blue energy that I could feel even from here. I tentatively placed my hand on it and received a notification.
Welcome Adventurer. Which level would you like to access? These are the following levels to which you have been granted access to. Please choose.
Level 1 – Goblin Outpost
Level 2 – Minotaur’s Labyrinth
Level 3 – Serpent’s Domain
Level 4 – Shadowed Citadel
Which of the following levels would you like to access for your Dungeon adventures?
“Damn,” I swore. “That’s going to make things easier.”
Bri asked, “What’s it telling you?”
I relayed the message that had popped up in my vision.
Shana grinned.
“That will make it so much easier! Too bad we can’t see the other levels! I would love to see what’s on the fifth and sixth levels,” Shana growled, but she didn’t lose that smile.
I nodded and asked them all, “So, level 3?”
“Yes. I don’t think we are ready yet for level 4 again.”
I brought my arm up and thought PID Stats.
I sighed and decided she was right. We should wait until we hit level 30 before we tried this Night’s Domain. Though, it said Shadowed Citadel, not Dire Wolf. Did that mean there were things there other than Dire wolves?
Bri must have had the same thought, as she said, sounding concerned, “Wait. Does that mean if and when we go to level 4, there will be other monsters there? Not just Dire wolves?”
I nodded her way and sighed.
“Seems so. So, just level 3 for now?”
“Yeah.” Then Shana reminded us all, “We aren’t doing a full day of hunting. So, a little trip into level 3 will do.”
CHAPTER TWO
Icracked my back with a satisfying sigh.
“Damn, that last group was a pain,” I growled in annoyance.
Both of the girls laughed.
“That’s only because you ended up pulling two different groups,” Bri laughed. “But we took care of them.”
“Yes, only because we have Midnight and Onyx, who took them on a merry chase, or at least one of the groups,” I said, looking proudly at both of my Animal Companions, who physically puffed up at the comment.
They had kept that second group off of us by keeping them busy. Each time one of the damn mobs tried to turn toward us, they would attack it and string it back. They did that for over 10 minutes until we could take down the first group, and we then had them bring the second group in so that Bri could use one of her aggro spells to cause them to stick to her.
Experience-wise, none of us leveled, as we had only hunted for about two hours.
“Do you think Marianne has the information we need by now?” Bri asked the obvious question we all had in our heads.
“I hope so,” I nodded. “But if not, we can always just go get supper at Jondar’s inn,” I offered.
Shana grinned at me and nodded quickly.
“I’d say let’s have a meal first, and then we can go see if Marianne and Vira found anything. I heard that Jondar’s wife was making hot chicken pie today.”
“Ooh!” Bri moaned. “I would love to try a chicken pie!”
I laughed at both of my wives. They loved food. Thank God, or the Nexus, that as Adventurers, we had a high metabolism and never gained weight.
I looked around at the area where we had our last battle and nodded firmly. We had hunted for the last couple of hours, but yeah, it was time to leave. With a thought, a doorway opened up that should take us just outside of the city of Bridgehead, where Jondar’s inn, the Ghost Hound, was located.
As soon as I thought of the doorway, I rushed toward it, and for once I beat Shana, making it through the doorway before her. Barely. She was hot on my heels. Once through, I turned around and grinned at her.
“I beat you!” I laughed.
“Dammit,” she laughed. “I was adjusting a piece of gear and you took advantage of it!”
Bri chuckled at our antics and shouted through the doorway, “It might also be that he is the one calling up the doorway, and he knows when it will appear.”
Shana turned to me suspiciously and glared.
“Have you been letting me win on purpose?”
I snorted at her comment.
“At first I was, but now, with your DEX so high, I can barely get ahead of you.”
Shana suddenly grinned, rushed me, and wrapped herself around me. She gazed up at me with love in her eyes.
“Thank you.”
I bent down and kissed her. Bri, not to be left out, wrapped her arms around us both once she was through the doorway, and I leaned down and kissed her as well. My two Animal Companions followed afterward, and then the doorway disappeared.
I glanced around to figure out where we were, and then I spotted a tree I knew. One of its big branches was gone, struck by lightning. The spot where it was hit was still black and burnt. The branch lay on the ground, worn by the elements, its bark aged.
I pointed in the direction of where I knew Bridgehead was.
“City’s that way,” I indicated.
Bri and Shana looked around, and seeing the same tree I had, they both nodded.
“Will we walk in or ride in?” Shana asked in a hopeful tone.
I laughed.
“You just like riding Midnight with the wind in your long blond hair,” I laughed at her.
She grinned even more and nodded.
“It’s an amazing feeling, riding such a majestic beast into the city, with everyone looking at you with awe in their faces!” she said joyfully.
“You mean fear,” Bri snorted at her sister-wife.
“Well yes,” Shana said, turning to her. “He’s a majestic beast and must be both feared and held in awe. Isn’t that right, Midnight,” she continued, going over to the subject of our discussion and wrapping her arms around the massive, black-furred beast.
