That sucked.

  A lot.

  I had expected fire, but the monkey was apparently a long lost cousin of Godzilla.

  I was being a bit cocky, thinking I would gloat and show boat. Got my ass burned for that. If I hadn't been able to evolve or adapt with the EA skill, I would be a pile of ash and soot right now. I didn't even feel anything when it hit me. I went straight into shock, then by the time it ended I was already immune to the plasma. Though the damage had already been done, I won't be taking anymore from that attack.

  I couldn't feel my legs, and looking down confirmed I had a fancy new glittery hole... That sounded wrong but whatever.

  Using Telekinesis, I forced my body to mimic the action of standing. I'm still streaming this fight after all. I had an idea I wanted to test, so I tried baiting another plasma beam.

  "Try that again prick! I dare you! I double dog dare you!" I yelled up at the orange monkey the size of a skyscraper.

  Surprisingly, it listened and started charging again. I timed my DG skill just right when the beam would fire. I had seen it once before, but it moved at the speed of light. Which I couldn't see when it fired, but I could tell when it was going to.

  A black hole opened the instant the monkey so much as twitched backward, the knockback from the blast starting. The beam came down, and true to it's name, the hole ate it.

  Where did it go? Why, it's right behind the dumb ass's head of course. A big beam slammed into the back of it's skull and it screamed. The attack cutting out as it cancelled it.

  "Neat." I muttered and started flying up to it.

  I wanted to get a better look at it before killing it. I was surprised it didn't outright die from it's own attack. Though I guess if the ape could dish it out, it could take it. It was rapidly slapping it's head, trying to put out the fire on it's fur.

  It looked silly. A big monkey sitting cross legged above a ravine. It was messing with an ant hill with a magnifying glass. Except I was an ant that fought back.

  Smirking and feeling like acting an anime villain, I did a karate chop through the air. Which did nothing, but the guys watching didn't need to know that. The monkey split perfectly in half where I had "cut it" a few seconds later. 'Damn that was cool.' Telekinesis was a busted ass skill.

  The two halves fell apart and I floated back down into the ravine, looking for the Treasure room door. Which wasn't hard to do when the giant glowing golden rectangle consumed a good portion of the cliff wall.

  I was still fucked up, but I mimicked the action of walking. My regeneration hadn't put my spine back together yet, though I could feel the flesh slowly putting itself back together. This was good Health regen training, ticking it up above it's previous 30 points per second. I had a bigger health pool so I didn't regen to full instantly anymore. I'd probably be halfway there after this though.

  When I touched the golden door, I teleported to the Treasure room. I had seen a lot of Treasure rooms during my Dungeon hunting, but this was... not much different. Usually the walls and stuff are made out of gold, you can't take it I tried, but now the bricks lining the walls were made of Adamantium. I only knew that because they looked like the ingots I had made. I couldn't cast Identify to the surroundings.

  There was a bunch of white coins and a few gold bars. The equipment though... There was only a singular item. An amulet sat on a very tall, fancy detailed Adamantium podium. The carvings so intricate, so delicately done it was a treasure in itself. The purple pillow the amulet rested on looked like the most comfortable thing I had ever seen. The way the amulet sank into the cushion was hypnotizing to say the least.

  "What is this?" I heard Gill say, someone finally saying something.

  "I don't know. How much does a level 800 Dungeon usually have as a reward?" I asked, trying to do some mental math.

  "We don't know. These kind of Dungeons aren't exactly common." Christinia replied.

  I hummed as I ran the numbers. 'A level 100 to 200 is probably the same, since the Dungeons I ran above level 100 were the same in monetary rewards and I never ran anything above 200... That was around 450,000. Dungeons below level 100 gave around 100,000... Too many unknowns to really get it right.'

  I sighed as I looked around some more. I walked up to the collection of golden bars, my spine tingling as it reconnected.

  "What happened? You shook some when you saw the bars, are they good?" Xyke asked, speaking for the first time over the call.

  "No, sorry, my spine just reconnected. Always gives me the shakes when it happens." I lifted one of the bars to look at it.

  It wasn't so much a gold ingot as it was a literal cylinder of gold. Thus a "bar" of gold. It was thick, maybe a few inches, and it was roughly 4 feet long. It had a number and some lettering.

  "400,000 Shop Points... For ONE?!" Gill sounded like he was drooling.

  Indeed. That's what it said on the side, and putting it into my system gave me 400,000 SP. There was a rather large pile of these bars, and picking them all up at once told me there was...

  "999, so there was a thousand total of these bars. Which is... 400,000,000 Shop Points. Just for this." I muttered and put them all away into the system.

  "FUCK! I SHOULD HAVE GONE WITH YOU! NOOOOOOOO!" Gill was having an episode.

  He was reacting more to the money than to me getting a hole blasted through my stomach. At least he had the sense to not beg for money.

  There was way more of those white coins than there was of the gold bars though. Picking one of those up, I confirmed it was Adamantium. It was the same size of the gold coins in the other Dungeons I did. The lettering on the coin said it was worth 100,000 SP.

  "100,000 Shop Points for that... Adamantium coin? How many are there?" Xyke asked, after Gill was forced out of the room by Christinia.

  I reached out with my mind and picked up all of the coins. I frowned as the expenditure was above 4 million, and since each coin was 1 point...

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  "I don't know. Roughly 4,365,000. It's getting kind of iffy mentally. So 436.5 billion Shop Points?" I confirmed it when every coin went away and I was once again rich beyond belief.

  "What do you plan on doing with that kind of money?" Fraya asked, sounding like someone who personally knew a lottery winner. Which I guess she did.

  "I don't know. I don't really need it. Christinia could probably make better use of it than me. We do have a Guild pot or something like that right?" I was looking around at the walls and the nice Adamantium tiling on the floor.

  "There is, but I don't know what to do with that kind of money either." Christinia responded, having returned from dealing with Gill.

  "You could fix up the HQ. Get some ships, tools, you know. Stuff." I offered but it's not like I knew anything about running a Guild.

  "We'll worry about it later. What's that in the center?" Christinia pointed out the amulet pillar.

  "Some kind of amulet. It's the only piece of equipment in this room. Which is odd." All of the other Treasure rooms had loads of crap in them.

  I finally made my way to the pillar, and floated up while looking at all the cool details. At the top, I gave the amulet a good look. Testing my Identification on it.

  "Well that's lame." I mutter as I frown at the amulet.

  "What is it?" Fraya asked since they couldn't see my windows.

  "It's a bunch of question marks. I can't Identify this thing." I got a collection of chuckles in response.

  "Of course you can't. It's way above your level Az." Christinia spoke and I could tell they were smiling.

  Feeling like a fool, I snatched the amulet and the pillow. Which I had to carry physically, since I didn't want to possibly ruin it. I didn't know what my cool guy hole does to items yet.

  "I know what I'm buying." I said while sighing.

  "What? An Identify scroll?" Xyke asked, but I shook my head. That probably sucked to watch from their point of view.

  "No, I'm getting a magic bag. A big one. I'm also taking this pillar." I pat the nice Adamantium pillar.

  "I agree." Xyke replied, sounding pleased. Likely about the pillar.

  I thought about putting the pillar in my tear, but it would be faster to just plop it into my ship. So with a thought, I put a black hole at the bottom of the pillar. It fell into it and I heard a resounding clang on the other side of the call.

  I relished in the surprised gasps from my colleagues, though it sounded like Xyke enjoyed it the most. I could hear him rambling about the pillar as he examined it.

  "I'm going to the station for a bit. Anyone want anything?" I ask like I was going on a walk and not about to hop to a different Solar System.

  "What?" Fraya asked as I walked into a new black hole and plopped out inside the spherical stations ship yard.

  "Oh, you can still connect way out here?" I asked while ignoring the stares from the other people on the station.

  "Well... yeah? Just because you're far away doesn't mean we would lose connection. There are relays all throughout space." Fraya responded, sounding a bit flabbergasted.

  "Neat. Think of anything you want and I'll buy it." I smirked as I spammed my Repair skill on my suit.

  My Energy drained rapidly, but the suit regenerated just as quickly. It didn't take long for it to be in perfect condition once more.

  ...

  It took a good long while before I found a store that sold magic bags, and there was only one with infinite storage. Well, "infinite" isn't really correct. It just folds matter into it's base components so it can fit into a space small enough it's comparable to the distance between atoms. Some kind of mix of hyperspace and a pocket dimension. I had no idea how it worked, and I could just barely comprehend what it did.

  It can fit as many items as the amount of atoms you could fit in the bag. Which is a huge number but not infinite. Close enough though. I put my pillow and amulet into the bag when I got it.

  It only cost 1.5 billion SP.

  I spent the next while meandering and looking at random shops.

  They didn't really have anything that interested me.

  Oh well.

  Deciding that I was done, I opened a gate and teleported back home. I hung up the call as I popped out the other side.

  "Welp. I'm back." I walked over to an empty leather chair and took a seat.

  "You look... perfectly fine?" Fraya gave me an odd alien look of confusion and concern.

  "Yeah, I'm pretty much immortal as long as my core remains intact." I casually drop my biggest weakness.

  "Is that... normal? For Humans?" Fraya asked and I didn't know how to respond.

  I didn't want to lie or tell the truth, but thankfully she decided for herself.

  "Of course it is. Humans are impossible." Fraya sighed.

  I just shrugged.

  "Where'd the pillar go?" I asked, noting a lack of both a pillar and a certain alien.

  "Xyke wanted to examine it better, so he took it back to his workshop." Christinia ratted the thief out.

  "I hope he gives it back when he's done. I'm going to use it as an example for when I build my base for real." I had plans to make a tasteful base back on the planet.

  "He will." Christinia said with certainty.

  Good. I was going to need that pillar for when I make my Adamantium throne room.

  'What? Of course I was going to make a massive evil lair made of rare metals. The monsters are strong on the surface, the walls need to be able to keep them out for my drone pals.'

  After a few seconds, I realized I was staring at my Guild pals.

  "Well I have an amulet to Identify." I said and quickly got up.

  Leaving them alone as I scurried to the lab.

  ...

  Sally 1 through 4 were huddled around the amulet.

  Their camera eyes twitching and spinning as they observed the piece.

  It had been about an hour, and I had no idea how close they were to completing the task.

  I probably should have timed the last time I had them do this.

  "Keep up the good work ladies, I'm going to take a nap." I gave them a thumbs up and left.

  Time for a nap.

  ...

  I woke up groggily 13 hours later.

  I slapped my feet to the ground and got dressed.

  My new pillow had proven to be too powerful. The purple plush square of heaven had knocked me out almost instantly.

  I wasn't going to let my pillow tempt me with it's perfect form.

  I put the temptress away into my bag. Where it would be sealed away for the next 1 thousand years.

  Or until I wanted to either sit on it or sleep.

  I opened the door, only to find Sally-1 standing directly in front of it. The amulet in it's hand.

  "Oh? Did you finish?" I asked, hopeful.

  In response I got a message to my HUD.

  Oh good. A bound item I can't use.

  The Skill was probably the beam it used on me, so it's pretty tempting to level up just for that.

  "Thanks." I took the amulet from Sally-1 and put it into the bag.

  Sally-1 stood there. Like she was waiting for something.

  "...Good work?" I probe.

  Sally-1 wheeled away slowly. Reversing then spinning around to go back down the elevator.

  'Okay, well that's something.' I pondered while the elevator doors closed.

  With a shrug, I teleported to the mining operation.

  They were doing quite well actually. It seems like they were learning somewhat, and the Adamantium was being mined a little faster.

  It felt very nice to see some progress with my drones. My best pals.

  The forge or workshop, whatever the building they were working on was, had finally been completed. Mostly.

  The roof wasn't 100% done but there was only one drone working on it since the other 19 were off working. Either in the factory or doing the great great job of carrying stuff.

  Checking inside, I saw a lot of Jeff's surrounding a forge while they tried to process some of the mined Adamantium.

  Hitting it with lasers, hammers, drills. Just really beating the shit out of the metal. It was pretty funny.

  I watched them for a bit.

  Suddenly they all stopped as they stared at the raw metal. Observing it.

  Then they started beating it up again.

  I kept watching and they repeated the process of jumping the metal then stopping all at once.

  'Now what do I do?' I thought as I watched them do their skit.

  'Ah right. There was that quest.' I remembered how I had gotten the Quest to study the unknown material on the planet.

  It was really the only Quest I could do right now. The others would take a while.

  So I floated up and went around the moon, looking for a good nice crater that could use a mountain or large chunk of rock.