The next day, the group settles into their seats on one of the sky ships as it heads towards a dungeon the guild was hired to clear out. James was listening to his phone through his ear pods that he found in his pocket after a bit digging. He was listening to "I Wish" by Slee-Lo, which when asked what he was doing by Corin he explained what ear pods and music videos were, but all his explaining just left Corin confused.

  "I wish I was a little bit taller? What's a baller?" Corin asked after James explained what he was doing.

  "James, you are actual ass at explaining things." Janica told James.

  "Oh fuck off, I'm great at explaining things!" James said jokingly.

  The ship neared the port of the next sky island. The island was huge, and if you didn't know it was a sky island, you would've thought it was just an ordinary continent. The ship docked at the port, where the group got off with the other sections.

  "Alright guys," Jasper announced to the group. "I have the dungeon we're assigned to on my map, so follow me and we'll clear it in no time."

  "Who the hell made you the leader?!" Zewei mocked. "Shouldn't someone smarter like Wade be leader?"

  "ARE YOU SAYING I'M NOT SMART?!" Jasper yelled.

  "Guys calm down," Corin said. "What if we just don't assign a leader, that way we all have an equal place in this group, and we can make it to the dungeon without infighting."

  The group agreed, and so they set off into a nearby forest where the dungeon was located. When they arrived at the dungeon, they saw a wooden door in the side of a hill, with a little sign next to it saying, "Sky Guild, this is the dungeon, please clear it out so I can do totally legal things inside of it when you're done!"

  "What a totally legal guy." James said as he shot down the door with a shotgun for dramatic effect.

  "Did you really have to destroy the door?" Janica asked.

  "Obviously, for dramatic and cinematic effect of course!"

  The group made their way through the now busted door, where the were greeted by cold stone walls, a long dark flight of stairs, and a single torch on one of the walls.

  "Anyone have a flashlight?" James asked. "Oh wait, shit, you guys don't know what a flashlight is. Alright, anyone have a light that can flash people?"

  After Wade picked up the torch, they descended the flight of stairs. The walls were covered in cobwebs, and there was a suspicious poster on the wall once they arrived at the bottom of the stairs. The poster was a painted man pointing a thumbs up, with no shirt or pants. There was text below that read, "Remy's sex dungeon, up for business, don't tell the authorities!" The group ripped the poster down in disgust.

  "So what are we clearing out in the first place?" James asked.

  "According to the assignment," Wade responded, pulling out a piece of paper. "It says the dungeon is infested with acid spitting spider-crocodiles, whatever those are."

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  "James," Janica said. "Summon the flamethrower will ya?"

  A few minutes later, the whole dungeon smelled of ash and blood as pop ups appeared rapidly in their vision. The flames and pop ups stopped a little while after, and James looted all the spiders, giving him more spools of spider string and vials of acid in his inventory.

  "What are all those blue square things?" Wade said, looking at some of the remaining pop ups.

  "Kill messages basically." James said as they left the dungeon. "Whenever we kill something, we get a pop up with the name of the thing we killed if we know what it is, or a vague name if we don't know what it is. After that, we can loot them."

  The group made their way back to the ship, and waited in their section of the ship for the ship to take off.

  "So you can loot the things you kill?" Wade asked James as they were getting settled.

  "Yea, after we killed something or someone, we can loot their bodies for items."

  "That sounds really useful, it eliminates the need to manually loot bodies!"

  "What, are you two too cowardly to loot a dead thing?" Jasper mocked.

  "No, we are not," James said. "Would you rather stick your hand up some spider's asshole, or would you rather get the same result but without the need to do that?"

  Jasper fell silent afterwards, unable to come up with a response.

  While the ship was sailing back to the Sky Guild, James looked out of the window, and saw a suspicious red painted ship flying towards them.

  "Uh guys, is that a Sky Guild ship? It better be, because it's heading straight towards us!"

  The group looked out the window and saw that the ship was getting closer by the second.

  "WE GOT TO ALERT SOMEBODY QUICK!" Wade yelled as he stormed out of the room, heading straight towards the captain's area.

  "CAPTAIN, AN ADVENTURERS GUILD SHIP IS HEADING STRAIGHT TOWARDS US!" Wade screamed at the captain. The captain looked over at the approaching ship, and pressed a convenient wooden button near the wheel, which summoned a bunch of magical speakers all over the ship.

  "This is your captain speaking," The captain said, his voice coming from all the speakers. "There is an enemy ship approaching from the Adventurers Guild, protocol activate literally all ship boosting spells commence." The ship then started picking up speed fast, but not fast enough as the adventurers guild ship was dangerously close. James and the group were already on deck near Wade as it approached with alarmingly fast speed.

  Without thinking much, James grabbed a nearby wooden board and made it float. He jumped on, summoned a flamethrower, and made his way to the other ship.

  "JAMES ARE YOU CRAZY?!" Janica screamed, but James was already too far away to hear her. He boarded the other ship, and immediately got surrounded by it's members.

  "So this is the universe hopper isn't it?" One of them said. He summoned a lightning bolt in his left hand, and pulled a sword in his right. The rest of the members did the same, until their captain yelled at them.

  "You idiots! Use something that won't burn this damn ship down!"

  The members ditched the lightning bolt and pulled another sword out. James then started burning the ship with his flamethrower, people not daring to go near him as he skipped around, happily watching the ship burn. The members helplessly watched as James burned it down, with them not having anything to douse the flames with. Then James realized that the ship was losing altitude, and he was still on it. He couldn't use his telekinesis because he used all his energy on the flamethrower. Suddenly all of the ships members were jumping to the endless sky below them, not wanting to die on a burning ship. James fell with the ship, the Sky Guild's ship above them not being able to rescue him.

  "Maybe this was a bad idea!" James yelled as he fell.

  He and the ship fell further until a black circle appeared below him, sucking him in.