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  "Runt."

  So yeah.

  Long story short, we picked up a new ability and recruited Villagetown's first wizard.

  Neophyte or not, he'll be a welcome addition. (In other news, I learned a new word. Neophyte. It's basically the polite version of noob.)

  Oh. Breeze wants me to include one more thing. I've mentioned buffs and debuffs a lot by now, but I haven't really explained them, have I? Let's go over that in case you're confused.

  A buff is a temporary magical effect. It has both an effect and a duration. For example, a golden apple provides two buffs upon being eaten: Absorption I for two minutes, and Regeneration II for five seconds. A debuff is the opposite. It's something you don't want to have on you, like those slowness arrows from earlier. Pretty simple, right? And that concludes our lesson for the day. Since I am such an amazing teacher, when you leave an apple on my desk, please make sure it is not only a golden apple, but an enchanted one. Class dismissed!

  DAY 8—SATURDAY—UPDATE X

  The tenth update for today. And what an update it is! You're not going to believe what happened.

  In fact, I'm so pumped up after what just happened, I'm shaking, bouncing around, like a slime wearing boots enchanted with Leaping II.

  Well no, that doesn't make a lot of sense, really, because boots would look ridiculous on any slime but a baby one. Okay, so the real problem with slimes wearing boots is this:

  Note: the above should have had punctuation like commas and exclamation points. That isn't a mistake, however, oh no. I purposefully left them out to achieve a kind of rushed feeling, like a little villager kid writing about his first time eating a slice of enchanted cake: DUDE WOW THAT CAKE = AMAZING EPIC LEGENDARY TIER 10/10 WOULD EAT AGAIN #1 FOOD ITEM IN THE OVERWORLD!!!!!!!!

  Okay, so slimes can't wear boots. We're establishing that right now. So what about a spider, then? Spiders can wear boots, can't they?!

  That still doesn't make a whole lot of sense, though, because spiders have eight legs, right? So a spider would need to enchant like four different pairs just to get the effect of one enchantment, and honestly, spiders might climb cactus and do a lot of other silly things, okay, but not even the noobest spider would enchant multiple pairs of boots like that!

  OK NEVER MIND PLEASE FORGIVE ME I'M SORRY!!!!!!!!

  DAY 8—SATURDAY—UPDATE XI

  Sorry.

  Got a little excited there.

  Okay, so anyway, here's what happened just now.

  We were wandering the halls again, and heard a shout, followed by an eerie howl and another shout.

  "Looks like they're not too far away," Breeze said, meaning whoever had left those horses tied up outside earlier. "C'mon!" And she began sprinting down the hall.

  "Hey! Wait up! This armor reduces my movement speed, remember?!"

  Bedrock walls blurred past, torches and pillars and the occasional item, the remains of some monster. The whole time, the shouting and howling grew louder. And, upon turning one last corner, we stopped completely in our tracks.

  The hall merged with another massive room, and in the center were two people locked in combat with three wolves.

  One person was wielding a large emerald sword and wearing a suit of leather armor, minus the helmet, with a wave of spiked yellow hair. The other person was in a suit of obsidian, and wielded a bright red axe in each hand.

  As for the wolves, well, I'd never really seen wolves like that before.

  I'd read about felhounds before. They're nothing more than a scarier version of wolves. Strangely, I thought I'd read that they didn't exist in the Overworld. At any rate, each felhound was affected by two different buffs.

  The gray shield was Stoneskin. Stoneskin provides an armor bonus of 5 per power level. The little II in the bottom right hand corner was its power level.

  The golden rabbit's foot was Haste. Even though its power level was only one, it still offered a significant boost, increasing movement speed and attack speed by 25%.

  After Breeze fired a weakness arrow at the wolf I was focusing on, a third icon appeared. A broken sword. That was the Weakness I debuff, which reduces attack damage by 4.

  The young man with yellow hair that was almost orange in the torchlight glanced over his shoulder. "Nice! We could really use some help right about now!"

  Without a word, I charged in between the two strangers. All three hounds immediately focused on me. I'm not sure if it was the giant owl on my shield or what but they just wouldn't stop attacking me. The giant owl often thwarted their efforts with a clang. How humiliating for them, right?

  Meanwhile, Breeze unleashed more arrows, and the other two swung their weapons like they were mining the Overworld's last diamond vein.

  I'll keep it short since nothing else about this battle was worth going over in any detail. One by one, the felhounds fell to a flurry of arrows and axe swings. (Along with some really graceful sword work from yours truly I might add. Oh, and that guy with yellow hair.)

  After the battle, the obsidian clad warrior bent down, collecting the emeralds the wolves had dropped.

  His swordsman friend turned to me and then Breeze. "Thanks," he said. "That would've taken a lot longer without you two."

  "It took long enough as it is," I said. "So, um, are dungeon monsters normally this tough?"

  He shook his head. "Not really. At least not around here. Actually, I'm not sure what those felhounds were doing here. You usually won't find them in low-level dungeons like this. And those buffs! Why did they have Stoneskin and Haste? So weird . . ."

  Breeze moved up to join us, slinging her bow across her shoulder. "Could they have been summoned?" she asked.

  The swordsman shrugged. "It's possible. Not sure why someone would do that, though . . . I mean, griefing used to be a thing back when this was just a game, but now . . ."

  At this point, I noticed the other person, the one in obsidian armor, was standing still. Many emeralds were still scattered before him. He hadn't picked them up and was no longer attempting to. In fact, he wasn't moving at all. It was as if he'd been frozen.

  Well that's odd, I thought. What's his problem? He's been like that ever since Breeze and I started talking . . .

  As I stared at this person's back, the usual information appeared above him. The name. The life bar. It seemed Analyze Monster worked on people as well. It took a second for my mind to process this person's name. My mind just couldn't accept what I was seeing.

  No.

  No-no.

  N-n-nnnnnoooooh!

  But the name was there, real, and it was spelled correctly.

  And it was a weird enough name to possibly be unique in all of the Overworld.

  And it was the name of someone I'd known, someone I'd hated, and someone I'd never again expected to see . . .

  READERS

  I know this book is pretty short. I've broken up what was going to be WV14 into WV14&WV15.

  WV15 will be out soon. Promise. I know I've promised before and didn't come through, so you don't have to believe me. Anyway, I am doing my best to write faster. I dunno. Sometimes, it's like I can't write at all because no matter what I write, it just doesn't feel "good" to me. I'm working on it.

  Since you guys left a TON of reviews for the 13th ebook, considering I've been so slow to publish lately, I've set this ebook to 99 cents and will set it to free mode for 5 days 0.0000001 seconds after it's possible for me to do so. (When the ebook is no longer in review and officially up on Amazon, it takes 1 day for this change to be in effect.)

  THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT!

  ——CUBE KID

  PS. If I forgot your name, just email me or leave a comment on Facebook. There are seriously tons of people requesting for their names to be added in and sometimes it gets confusing.

  BONUS ROUND

  Who is responsible for the felhounds? Answer this question correctly in a review—along with a random username of your choice—and your username will used for an NPC, item, quest, location or other world element.

  BOOK 15

  YES BOOK 15 IS GONNA BE OUT FAST I'M ALMOST DONE WITH IT HERE'S A PREVIEW OF WHAT'S COMING!!!!!!!!

 

 

  Cube Kid, Wimpy Villager 14: Trash the Dungeon (Part I)

 

 

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