Before I start I just want to say how amazed I am that 67 people read my fanfic in the first month of release, I've never published a story before so I didn't expect it to be so popular, I even got a follow! (Thanks!) I only expected it to get 2-3 views if that so yet again, thanks guys!
Chapter 2: Lily's first visit to the dungeon
"Du-didu, off to the dungeon I go, I gotta collect some crystal shards to exchange for money, I've been living off of my parent's wages for too long! Stupid dad, telling me I'm not cut out to be an adventurer, I'll show you!" Lily said loudly since there were no people in the streets for her to annoy. "I wonder if something happened, my parents weren't in the house either, wait..." she stopped as faint realisation struck. "THEY ALL WENT ON HOLIDAY WITHOUT ME! That must be it...where else would they all be...Oh well, I don't care, I'm gonna collect so many crystals because no-one'll be in the dungeon to pick off the low level monsters! Yeah, good thinking Lily!"
As Lily entered the dungeon without a single care in the world she heard what sounded like a scream coming from the centre of town, "Yup, definitely not involving myself with that!" she said with a big smile, hastening her pace towards the areas that spawn the enemies and after a minute or so of walking she could hear a hissing sound and soon after little slimes began oozing out of the walls. "Yes, my first prey!" she shouted with a demonic glint in her eyes, pulling out her copper shortsword from her inventory. "Looks like I'm going to be making a little bit of money!"
*2 hours later*
"Hff, phew that was certainly exhausting, I wish I had a familia, I'm pretty sure I'd have gotten a whole bunch of stats from that little session, but oh well, I could go for a rest right about now though..." she said with a sigh, beginning her walk back home. She didn't encounter any more monsters on her walk which was both pleasant and saddening, a few more crystals would have been great.
After she left the dungeon she stopped, "You know what, how about I just run the rest of the way back to my house, it'll be good practice for increasing any stats I might get from running! Yeah, good job Lily, thinking ahead!" she shouted with her fist in the air.
*Fifteen minutes later, having run the whole time*
"Oh god that was so painful!" Lily managed to say before falling flat on her bed and passing out, sending her to the option screen. She poked the Terraria button and appeared in her recently constructed house.
"Lily! Welcome back, I trust you had a restful day?" inquired the guide with a patient smile. It was still night-time, "Wait what! Have I been gone for like, a whole day in this world or has time just not passed at all?" Lily said with a confused expression, by the way Guidey had spoke before she woke up she had expected it to be day, like she had gone to sleep in here to pass the night. "Well you just left then came back but I was instructed by the creators that this world wouldn't progress without you, therefore time won't progress when you aren't asleep." Guidey informed her, what a strange but useful design she thought.
"Hey Guidey, remember that I told you I found a little wooden chest? Are there any more in the world or is that like a beginners chest?" she asked, there had been some pretty good stuff in that chest so maybe she could just run around looting loads of them and hoping to get some cool items. "Well yes, in fact you can get many items based on what type of chest it is you are looting, wooden chests can be found on the surface, and slightly below the surface. Golden chests can be found underground in the cavern layers but dangerous creatures can spawn regularly at that level, then there are-" Guidey tried to continue but was cut off by Lily, "Come on Guidey, we don't want to bore the readers, I'm sure we all get the gist off it, there are a bunch of lootable chests around the world, that's all we needed to know you silly Guidey! Well I'm going to find some of those to get all of their juicy loot, see ya soon Guidey!"
The guide gave Lily a confused look as she ran out of the door, heroically cutting down all of the zombies with her copper shortsword. "Wait, what readers?" he said but she had already run out of earshot, he could see her pulling out a torch and jumping into a cave, all he could do was sigh and hope that the doors Lily built could hold up against the hordes of zombies.
"Du-didu, digging around, just below the ground! Woah that rhymed, I'm so cool!" she giggled to herself before breaking out into a little cave. "HAH! I knew it, I found a chest!" she said, puffing out her chest in pride, "Now let's see, a few more grenades, ooh some copper bars, ahh, a blowpipe, a ranged weapon! I can probably use this to kill those floaty head things! What else...Ohh are they potions? Wow, what a lucky find! I'll ask Guidey what they do later. For now, back to digging around for chests!"
After about 2 minutes Lily stumbled upon another wooden chest just lying in the open, "Whoopee, another one! Wow, Guidey will be so impressed!" she exclaimed, pulling out the contents and shoving them into her inventory, nothing of note except a pair of climbing claws. "Woah is these some kind of really close ranged weapon? They look so cool!" then she heard her phone buzzing, it was Guidey, "Hello Lily, it is getting dark so I would appreciate if you were to come back to the house." Lily frowned, she'd only been digging for about an hour hadn't she? "Wait, Guidey when did you get a phone? Wait, when did I get a phone? What's a phone anyway, I live in a time where the Gods live among us and half of our population act like savages, charging into a dungeon to kill things. This is so strange!" Guidey sighed, "Just get back soon, maybe you can pull your mind off of it by showing me some items you have gathered." Lily rushed back because she did find some relatively cool stuff like the potions and they would probably sell for quite a bit if nothing else.
"Yo Guidey, what do these potions do?" Lily shouted as she slammed the door open then threw it closed with such unnecessary force that it flew right off its hinges and collapsed on the floor outside. They both looked at each other for a second then at the door, "I'll fix that later."
The confused guide just sighed and began inspecting the potions, "The blue one is called a 'Recall Potion', it'll bring to the 'spawnpoint', whatever that means, I was never actually told. Then the yellow potion is called a 'Shine Potion', when you drink it your body will glow with a bright light for a while, they're useful for caving."
Lily thought about the information for a second, caving could be really good for getting hidden treasure she reasoned, "Oh Guidey, what about these?" she said, pulling out the climbing claws and hand them to him. "Hmm, these are used for slowly sliding down walls, although you can get a version for your feet as well which when worn together allow you to hang onto walls. This set of climbing claws has a ward on it, wards on items are rare but increase your defense stat by four when equipped, they're incredibly useful." he handed the claws back to Lily and she instantly equipped them, "How I feel sturdier already! Wait, in my inventory beside the little section where my climbing claws are there's a little symbol, it looks almost like an eye...Imma poke it." Lily poked the eye symbol and the climbing claws disappeared from her hands, Guidey then cut in, "Ahh yes, that option disables the items vanity making it invisible, you'll still be able to use them fully though. Oh, it's time for you to leave and return to your world again."
With that Lily woke up on her sofa, "Woah, I can definitely tell this is going to be really broken, I mean I don't even have to pay for weapons now, I can just grab them out of chests, maybe I could even make a few!"
Just then Lily heard a knocking on her door, "Lily? Are you home?" It was her parents, she ran over to open the door and they both rushed in and gave her a really big hug. "Didn't you hear? There was an evacuation order, a load of high level monsters escaped from the carnival but we couldn't find you last night, so we thought you-"
Lily cut her mum off, "It's fine mum, I'm obviously fine, I didn't even know anything about it so I guess it wasn't that important."
End of the slightly revamped chapter 2. From now on I'm going to try to stay updated often but please don't be too disappointed if I don't. I'm not doing it on purpose, I'm just useless XD