When I finally calmed down a bit, I asked Lupita to sit down with me to talk.

  She was around five-six tall, with cinnamon skin, brown eyes, and a really nice body.

  I was pretty intrigued about how a starter pack of cards could have a grown-ass woman inside.

  She told me not to worry and explained that she had made a pact in her previous life: to preserve her memories, she needed to wait until somebody summoned her, and she wouldn't age until her master—in this case, me—died.

  I was kinda shocked by this, but I didn't have a problem with it.

  A young woman, more or less my age, hot, serving me and not aging? I'd pray to our Lord to give Him the good news and make sure whoever pulled off these conditions gets rewarded on my behalf because it's a man of culture with some solid wisdom.

  Then I introduced myself to the maid: “I’m David, and I hope I’ll serve you as you expect.”

  This was very appreciated by Lupita, who was turning red from my words.

  I wanted to know more about the world she came from, but XD started presenting itself.

  Clearly, it needs an update so it stops being so robotic and gets more organic in its interactions.

  I left the house and started trying to fish in the river right next to it.

  There, I was thinking about AI—how in the world I come from, in just a couple of years, it went from being totally for corporate use to everyone using it and having their own assistants at home.

  How AI was even replacing jobs, but instead of getting against the AIs, people just hated the shareholders, even protesting that AI hadn’t done anything wrong.

  While I was daydreaming, Lupita came near me and gave me some orange juice.

  To be fair, at this point, I’m very grateful for how this is turning out.

  There’s a logistic problem with the house right now: there’s only one bed for both of us.

  With XD, it was easy—she doesn’t need to sleep and isn’t physical.

  Well, this time we’ll sleep together because there’s no other bed, and neither she nor I are going to sleep on the floor.

  I commented this to her, and she agreed with the most mischievous smile.

  I don’t know if she’s going to try something with me tonight, but she might be careful—I won’t resist a bit, jajaja.

  The night went by; we were looking like tomatoes, staring at each other.

  I hadn’t thought about this all this time, but I hadn’t had any physical contact with a woman since I came here.

  I’m absolutely horny right now, but I’ll be a good man of my word and not do anything inappropriate—at least not yet.We slept without doing anything, but I woke up in the perfect spot: her chest.

  It was kinda awkward, not gonna lie, but she woke up first, so I played dead for about half an hour before coming out of the bedroom and finding fresh toasts with butter just made.

  Maybe in my previous life, a toast wasn’t anything luxurious, but the view of the river and the land made it priceless. I grabbed all my stuff—my sword and my bag—and went to enter the next floor.

  The second floor was like a forest, not a really dense one, just a normal-looking one for me.

  Anyway, I still went full silence mode, like I was a ghost. I saw there were goblins, but they were fighting another creature.

  They were fighting fearlessly against skeletons.

  Without making any noise, I investigated what was happening and why they were fighting, even though they were both monsters.

  I couldn’t get much from the distance, but what I understood was that the skeletons lacked intelligence at first glance—they weren’t organized, nor did they have clothes; they were just bones with swords way too heavy for them.

  The goblins had the upper hand, but the skeletons had one trick: there were more of them.

  For each group of 4 goblins, 10 skeletons showed up.

  I didn’t know why, but they weren’t coordinated at all, even if they appeared in greater numbers.

  Whoever created these patterns knew that someone would try to use this to their favor, but the number of opponents is really big.

  After gathering all this info, I headed back to my hideout so I could trace a plan with XD.

  Maybe she’s an AI, but they’re useful for analyzing information on a big scale and in strategies in general terms—at least where I originally come from.All night making the plan: from what I saw, a sword isn’t effective against the skeletons because to beat them, you need to shatter their bones.

  What I’m going to do is, since I don’t have another weapon right now, I’ll make my own hammer. It’s not like I’m a craftsman or anything, but with a rock, a big stick, and patience, everything is possible.

  While I was doing this process, I got to know my two allies better.

  XD was created originally in another world that was compressed into the floor of this dungeon.

  Not even with the one hundred can it be recreated; she doesn’t have memories at all of this place but remembers all kinds of data on magic and blueprints for tools and weapons, among other things.

  And on Lupita’s side, she didn’t want to forget her previous master; that’s why she became a collectible card and ended up right here.

  I finally got the hammer done.

  It’s just a rock big enough that I carved a hole in it, put a big stick through, and made it stay in place.

  With this, I was ready to fight against the skeletons, and since I had leveled up my physical strength, the hammer is comfortable to carry—not weightless, but manageable.

  I got into those woods, and they were there, but this time I noticed that all the skeletons came from the same point and the goblins from another, and they were always advancing toward their enemy.

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  It was a tricky thing, so with my hammer, I crawled until I saw a cave in a hill.

  It was the goblins' base on this floor, so I did what I always do: I lay on the floor.

  It was like every five minutes, the goblins spawned inside and went onto the main road straight for the skeletons.

  I timed it out, and when they were far enough, I peeked inside.

  Inside the cave, there was a strange artifact with a green color. It looked like a portal. Without much time, I looked behind it, and there was another strange artifact—it was kinda like a PC with a projector inside.

  There were no cables, but a slot with a weird-looking hard drive SSD in a green color that sounded way too familiar; its color was green.

  Yes, that green that would be on a motherboard or a RAM stick.

  I took it out, and the portal immediately turned off and disappeared. A cold sweat ran down my face.

  Well, I think this is everything for today, but I really wanna beat those skeletons. I went in silence all the way to the entrance of my hideout.In the hideout, I talked to the girls about the weird-looking artifact and the SSD.

  

  
• David: Hey girls, do you by any chance know what this is?


  
• XD: Not really. I haven’t seen anything like that ever. Even though I have common knowledge, I do not possess any kind of knowledge about technology superior to the one outside, to prevent whoever comes to conquer the dungeon from doing it too easily without getting stronger or wiser.


  
• Lupita: Umm, excuse me, I think that’s a key for a door, but I don’t know which one.


  
• David: Can you tell me why a key?


  
• Lupita: When I was younger and didn’t have a maid job, I was an adventurer in my homeworld—not a really good one, but one time I saw something similar in a superior group. They said that this was the key to a secret part of a dungeon. I heard them in the guild, so I don’t think they were lying.


  
• XD: Anyway, you can always use the table to know what loot you brought here.


  
• David: I will, but anyway, I just wanted to ask. I’m going to take a bath and relax for a while.


  

  I went to the bathtub when Lupita came after me to clean me.

  I was flattered and in shock. I’m not that kind of person with shame—I’m a bull with no regrets—but this time I had a little bit of shame, so I took a shower before I could realize Lupita was naked too.

  She started to clean my back, slowly and in the most sensual way possible. I’m a gentleman, so this scene stays with me.

  When we finished in the bathroom, I had my face completely red. It’s a shame that in the supplies there’s no chocolate milkshake because I would kill for one right now. I got a good night’s sleep and went into the dungeon again.

  This time, there were no goblins, and the skeletons were scattered in groups of two around the woods.

  It was the perfect opportunity.

  The skeletons were dispersed, so I started with the first ones I encountered.

  They were easy: the first one took the blow from the back with my homemade hammer and shattered its skull and spine into a thousand pieces.

  The second one took a lateral hit when it raised its sword to attack me, breaking it in half. I took no chances and hit its skull too, just in case. I started hunting the skeletons.

  They dropped kinda like mini-bones.

  I think it’s their core—maybe a gem with a single bone form; it’s their core.

  I started to think there’s no way they’ll stop appearing in this same way after I killed over 30 skeletons with the same plan and weapon.

  I tried magic against them, but electricity doesn’t do much to them because they’re dry, and the hit isn’t so physical.

  So I went back to the hideout with all the stuff I took and some thoughts about using earth magic against the skeletons.

  When I came back home to the hideout, dinner was ready.

  I never even thought about this, but how do they know when I come back? I’ve been out 3 days hunting skeletons and didn’t even think about what they were doing here.

  So I directly asked, “How did you know I was coming today?” The response from both of them took me unprepared: at the same time, both XD and Lupita said, “We didn’t,” and I said, “So why is the dinner laid out?” XD took the lead and confessed that both of them did every chore every day, prepared everything for me even if I wasn’t around, so when I came back, everything was ready and I would be proud of them.

  That shocked my heart, and with a gentle tap on their foreheads, I gently petted them, and I kissed Lupita too—it was just a gentle kiss, but she became red. XD was like always, an AI without any emotion, so she didn’t say anything but was glad I appreciated everything they did for me.

  I told them that when I finish this level, I would take a break and do stuff around here in our house so they aren’t going to have any problem even if I stay in the dungeon for a couple of days.

  So I went with all my determination, completely geared up, and started trying to form a rock with my magic, but I just passed out and went into the level-up session. This time, I’m going to level up my intelligence and my dex so I’ll be able to make things easier and have more room for magic in my head.

  Then, when I opened my eyes, my head was on the softest pillow ever, and to my right were… those tits… ??Lupita?! I exclaimed to myself.

  I stayed without moving for a while because it was too soft—her belly—and the view was spectacular, so I wasn’t going to mess up this view.

  After a while, I came to my senses and woke up to go practice some earth magic.

  Little by little, I could gather the mana.

  I was thinking about a rock, a round baseball-size rock, and the mana gathered and created the stone, and like I thought, the rock immediately went to the ground and hit it heavy.

  So I thought to myself, I can use the gravity principle—maybe I can beat the skeletons and other monsters doing something like that. I tried the next time: instead of thinking of a rock, I thought about iron and its composition, with a lot of particles next to each other, even touching themselves.

  I almost did it when everything went dark; I had blacked out again.

  This is a pain in the ass—I can’t do anything if I pass out.

  This time, I passed out on the deck, and XD woke up Lupita, who carried me to the bed again.

  This was at midnight, so when I woke up, Lupita was mad about it.

  She wanted to know what I was doing to pass out like that two times in a row.

  Then I explained to her and XD that I was trying to create iron from scratch with my own magic.

  Both of them laughed and told me how I was supposed to do it: if I lack the grimoire of a spell, I still can use the magic in any way, but grimoires make the spells and creations way more stable and spend less mana.

  The thing is, I didn’t know there were grimoires in this world in the first place.

  Then came an explanation from XD: the basic spells of elemental magic are the only exceptions; the creation of water, a rock, electricity, fire, or wind doesn’t require as much mana or spells because everybody can more or less tell the form of a flame, a rock, a lightning, or water. Okay, flames aren’t going to do anything to the bones unless they’re at very high degrees; water can make them vulnerable to electricity, but that alone won’t kill an undead.

  You can either purify them or kill them with a physical attack.

  Then I asked about creating a big stone over their heads with mana and just letting it go to crash them.

  XD told me that the probability of success is over eighty percent, but it will be only optimal for one attack, not a succession, as a rock of the size I say would take a bit to form.

  So with this new plan, I started every day eating well and practicing the rock spell until I passed out one time after another. Bit by bit, this made my mana grow, till the point I could make a one-hundred-kilogram stone.

  Not bad, right? I prepared to go to the base of the skeletons. I went next to the base.

  The base was along the main road crossing the wood, so it wasn’t difficult to find. There were 4 ruined houses around a circle. In the circle was a skeleton with a crown, seated in a chair that looked like a throne.

  There, I hid and started to make the rock.

  I was on the rooftop of one of the four old-looking buildings.

  In the middle of the street, in the air, I started making the rock, and when it was big enough, I just let it go—BOOOM! It crashed the skeleton in the middle.

  The rest of the skeletons came to the center. I knew I couldn’t make more rocks or I would pass out, so I took my hammer and started eliminating every single one of them until there weren’t more skeletons.

  Then I looked in the houses.

  I didn’t find much, but one object caught my sight: it was a gauntlet, but it had inscriptions on it, making it a rare piece.

  Probably has some effects that I don’t know, but I’ll keep it on until I go home.

  hen I finished looting all the corpses, I left. I broke the stone I formed by hitting it with another rock.

  When the rock was separated, I found the loot of the boss of the second level.

  I took possession of the level, and again, the loot was a locked book I needed to put on the investigation table so I could know what it was.

  I went with a good smile through the door and came back to my house to get a very deserved bath, but when I crossed the door to my realms, there was a big noise through all my lands, scaring the birds and animals that roamed that area but never dared to get to the house.

  I ran toward the house to make sure Lupita and XD were okay.

  They were, and the noise stopped, so I went to investigate what it was.

  Four pillars emerged from the ground.

  I ran toward the pillars.

  They looked like Greek columns from Athens; they were marbled, perfect round, and in four places, there were four tables with the correct aperture for the same SSD I got earlier, so definitely that means something.

  When I stopped checking out I went to bed, with lupita.