Jesse put his ear onto the hard rock, checking for a secret dungeon. It had been a week since he returned from his expedition.
"Now I got you. I knew The Shadows were hiding out here somewhere." Jesse pulled out one of his big bombs and placed it down.
BOOM
The rock was no more. Jesse cleared out the dust that the bomb created, making a clear path for his sight.
"Holy shit..." Jesse jumped down, amazed at the ridiculous artifact that shined through the entire room.
The air was murky and unclear, making the experience less amazing already. The walls were made of gold, but the floors were simple wooden planks. Strange...
The man himself was covered in dirt, mud, dust. His face, clothes, everything.
"What kind of artifact makes itself look so valuable and lovely?" He slowly grabbed it, the light that shined off of it seemed to disappear the more he made contact with it.
The artifact was made of real diamonds, inside was a little square device that appeared to be the source of the bright light. The back of the artifact had these words.
The Riches
"Hmm. Probably have to use this somewhere." He put it in his pocket and climbed the ladder he put before coming down.
The wooden ladder creaked while he was on it, making it fall to the floor.
His back made a scary noise when he hit the ground, he quickly checked if it was broken but became relieved when he found out it was just his spine popping.
He had glanced around the room before he stood up, noticing a sign that said: "Greed always leads to consequences."
Suddenly, the whole floor shook before breaking down, revealing a massive chasm that resulted in death to the unfortunate ones.
Jesse luckily landed on a giant stone spike that's point was fortunately not sharp enough to tear a hole in his stomach.
"Wha..." Was all he managed to muster up from the shock.
"Hiss..."
He hastily turned his head towards the source of the sound, his eyes revealing a giant shadow spider coming towards him.
"Shit shit shit shit." He managed to grab his sword from his back, then slashing the spider with it. The Shadow Spider fell down the bridge, and to the endless blackness.
After a few moments, the Boomeranger stood up, barely keeping his balance. He jumped to the half wooden bridge the spider had approached him from.
Checking if everything in his pockets were intact, he proceeded to the cavern.
The cavern was poorly lit and obviously visited many times before. Jesse took out his sword to be ready if anything bad approached.
"The Riches." Was that artifact real? It seemed to be a trap, but he heard other people talk about it many times before.
At the end of the path was an obstacle course to pass, The Adventurer considered leaving right now, not wanting to die or get imprisoned forever.
"To have the fortune, you must do hard work." He reminded himself of an old quote someone said and jumped on the first rock.
He was almost at the end of the obstacle course, one more rock to climb over, and it was done.
"Hngh!" He got a grip on the rock perfectly, pulling himself up.
The Boomeranger lied on the ground for a bit before raising his head to the magnificent view.
Four waterfalls with untouched organic water pouring down from them. A dark portal was sitting between the two waterfalls.
"Huh, wonder what's that." Jesse stood up again, dive bombing into the water, it felt like he was in heaven.
His green outfit had gotten wet, but it was worth it for the feeling.
After a long swim to the shore, Jesse climbed the several ledges, every ledge harder to climb than the last.
"Hope this leads to loot... And a new sword." The Adventurer added, his sword finally breaking after a long life. Thankfully he knew how to use a bow effectively as well.
The portal vanished into thin air the moment he stepped through it. It felt like he was traveling through Milky Way, his skin and blonde hair equipped with a burning sensation.
"WOAH!" He yelled out, crashing on solid obsidian. It took him a few minutes to get his strength back from that portal trip.
When his senses came back online, he could see he was in some kind of prison, presumably to keep criminals. But why did he need to travel through a portal?
He approached the cell that kept a Fae in it; the baby was alone in it, no mother or father to take care of him.
Distant screams of terror could be heard which were probably coming from the next cell block.
He turned right to the cell block that apparently kept "Reptilians..." Another race that was too weak for humans.
The first race discovered outside of Earth were reptilians, they entered the solar system via Martian disks that were nothing for today's technology.
The humans captured their astronauts with magic spells, spells which they did not know existed.
A reptilian was screaming nonsense, Jesse observed it for a bit before realizing two guards were coming to shut it up.
He hid in an empty cell that could be opened via his hex wrench. The Boomeranger quickly unlocked the cell door, scrambling for a hiding spot inside it while the door closed automatically.
"Oh hello, you my new cellmate? Sorry, there's only one bed, and we can't share it." A human climbed out from the under bed looking a wreck.
Jesse jumped up from the shock, almost screaming and alarming the guards.
"Why the fuck are you in here? This place is for reptilians!"
"I escaped out of the human cell block and ended up here. Now I'm trying to get more resources to dig out." The man said wearing a smug look on his face.
"Well, I arrived here through a dark portal, and ended up here..." The Boomeranger stalled for a bit, glancing back to check if anyone was listening.
"Doesn't anyone notice you are on the wrong block?"
"No one cares around here, especially if you have no use to them. They just throw you in and forget about your existence. It's quite useful actually."
"Okay, just realized I fucking locked myself in here. Want to work together? Be partners? I'm lonely these times, and I could use an ally." Jesse asked him, smiling to increase comfort.
"Same situation buddy. My name is Texas, yours?" He replied, raising his hand.
"Jesse." Their hands met on the solid surface of the prison, they both chuckled and raised it properly to shake hands.
"You have a plan?" Texas asked.
"I have a bomb that could get us out of here, but it's too noisy... Where even are we?"
"In Twilight Stratospheres."