My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1106-1108

Chapter 1106

“Impressed, foolish Osterian? I hope you understand that now that you’ve seen all of this, I won’t be able to let you live.”

“Alysia…” I spoke under my breath coldly.

“Y-yes…”

“She’s a fairy that’s using miasma. Adjust accordingly.”

“M-master… I know you’re angry right now, and I’d normally be happy if you wished to defeat a dungeon evil, but this particular one seems to matter greatly to you, and I fear you’ll be hurting yourself.”

“Oh, I’m not going to kill her.”

“Y-you’re not?”

“No, I’m just going to make her wish she was dead!”

“Wh-wh-why does that sound worst?”

“I was once a creature bound by a dungeon. You may have had a chance to slightly harm me when I was trapped in there with a ceiling holding me down, but out here with a full sky, it’s hopeless. I can fly 1000 feet above you, so how do you think to attack me?” Astria was still posturing, not noticing my darkening mood. “I have the advantage. Furthermore, my spell ability cannot be matched, so don’t even think of trying to throw puny fireballs at me. It’s best if you just stand there and accept your dea- oh gods, why are you flying at me so fast!”

I had adjusted my skill set, adding strength multipliers to lightweight, and then I shoved against the ground, pushing so hard that a small crater formed in the ground. My body exploded out, rushing at her like a bullet. Astria’s greatest weakness was explosive speed. Most of her spells took some time to cast, and when it came to close-quarters combat, she was extremely clumsy. After all, her mana body, if you had the means of damaging it, was rather weak.

“You underestimate me!” Astria dived to the side, avoiding my strike.

As I reached where she had just been, a platform created from magic appeared.  This resembled the double-jump magic that Lydia had once used, allowing her to push off anywhere for an extra jump. I had unlocked a similar ability Create Step in True Hero. However, Blue Mage had a spell called mana shield which created a solid surface that could be projected out anywhere in my vicinity. It was made for instant-block attacks, so it had a fast cast speed. It used more mana, but I wasn’t lacking in mana.

Since my soul had been merged and then tempered in the soul dungeon, my mana regeneration was insane. I could regen mana faster than I could use it. The only way I could run out of mana these days is by casting extremely powerful spells, or by stripping the area of any mana to absorb. However, this close to a mana spring, that wasn’t an issue in the slightest. I struck a shield and then kicked off of it so hard that it shattered, switching my direction and racing toward Astria again.

As I moved, Astria appeared before my hands. My eyes glowed red as I raced toward Astria.

“Who is this guy?” Astria cried out, desperately trying to dodge me.

However, no matter where she went, I would adjust my position, jumping after her.

A thousand feet above the mana spring, a fairy desperately ran for her life while being chased.

Chapter 1107

“You damn Osterian! Who do you think you are?” Astria was still retreating while throwing spell after spell in my direction.

I dodged most of them, but a few I would block with the blunt side of Alyssium or simply cut the magic when it suited me. Astria’s face grew flushed and a panicked look appeared on her face.

“I’m the one that’s going to teach you a lesson!” I snapped back. “Now who’s the one who won’t sit still and accept their punishment?”

“Y-you! I am the fairy queen. Do you think I’m so easy to defeat as that? I admit I have no clue how you’re cutting through my spells, but that doesn’t mean you can catch me- Ahhhhh!”

I used teleport, appearing right in front of her as she was looking back while running. I attacked instantly, swiping my blade down and striking her. It hit like a blunt instrument, despite the sharp edge, causing her to slam down into the earth below. As she struck the earth, there was a thud, a cloud of smoke forming up from the small crater she made.

“You didn’t cut her.” I pondered out loud.

“If I had cut, she’d definitely have died!” Alysia cried out.

“I think you’re underestimating Astria. She’s not someone to be defeated so easily.” I spoke calmly even as I plummeted down to the earth.

“Die!” Several bolts of lightning and a dark beam shot out from the dust cover below.

I spun, rolling away and avoiding the strikes. “See?”

Astria exploded out of the dust, using all of the speed she had to rush me. Relative to most fairies, she may be slow, but she was still a fairy, and capable of moving quite fast when she put all of her efforts into it. It was a bit surprising that she was going for a physical attack, but I decided to meet it head-on. As she got close enough that I could see her, I noticed that she had her hand hidden behind her back. Just as she reached me, a knife flashed out. She was using all of her speed and energy to stab me with the knife.

Her attack had been perfect too. I was free-falling and meeting her head-on. She had timed it perfectly so that by the time I realized what was happening, I wouldn’t have time to dodge her knife fully. The attack wasn’t for a lethal area, so a normal person would have aimed to do her more damage while taking the scratch of her blade. Most people wouldn’t have realized that the dagger she was wielding was the malacrum dagger that I had stored in what accounted for our treasury. If a normal person was scratched by that blade, it was certain death. She was still as deadly as ever, I could see.

It was too bad that such an attack against me was meaningless. That didn’t mean I wanted to reveal to her that I had such an immunity. I used phase shift, putting myself slightly out of phase with reality. Her blade struck nothing but air, and I struck again, sending her spiraling back down to the ground with a shocked expression on her face. This time, I struck even harder knowing that Alysia had blunted the edge, and she struck the ground with a resounding boom.

I had once believed that Blue Mage was just a transportation mage. As I leveled in it and incorporated more of its spells into my fighting, I was quickly finding that Blue Mage’s true purpose was a defensive mage. The list of spells concentrated on avoiding or blocking attacks. A full-powered Blue Mage would be every bit as difficult to handle as Terra in the defense department. It was a class I was starting to develop, as the possibilities were endless.

{Blue Mage has increased to level 17.}

{You have unlocked the spell, Blur.}

Chapter 1108

I landed back on the ground. With a wave of my hand, I sent out a gust of wind to blow aside the dust that had been gathered. Astria was standing there, taking deep, strained breaths. Her mana body was bruised and battered; her clothing ripped. I knew enough to know that this was all circumstantial. She could restore her appearance instantly, but she wanted to lure me into a false sense of victory. I remained dutifully cautious about what she would do next.

“I’ll recognize that you’re powerful. You might even be one of those so-called heroes. However, you’d never hold a candle to that man, and you will fail today.”

“That man?” I raised an amused eyebrow, as I was pretty sure she was talking about me.

“If you think I will allow you to take the mana spring, you have another thing coming.”

“Take it? It’s already mine.”

“Hehe…” She chuckled. “So, you’re just like him. You want to steal my fairy fountain too, just like Karr. Then again, Karr burned my home to the ground when he was done. I won’t give you the chance!”

I jerked upright when she said those words. I had absorbed Karr’s blessing in a dungeon created by him, but I had never heard anything about her home being burned by him. I knew about the situation more than most, which was why her words didn’t match with the story I knew.

“You abandoned your colony.” I frowned. “It failed because you gave Karr too much.”

“I had once believed that as well.” She grimaced. “However, the truth was… Karr burned my fairy spring to the ground!”

“That… why would he do that?”

I knew more than anyone else that the lore in dungeons was fragmented and inaccurate. As it degraded, facts became more and more scrambled. Osterians turned into lumbering giants, and innocent parties turned into malevolent beasts. For example, what was Karr’s first name? Even Astria only ever called him Lord Karr. Of course, I knew his first name was Charles because those in Chalm knew of him, but the dungeon seemed to have lost such a simple piece of information.

The truth was in the eye of the beholder, and what Astria believed to be the truth would have made up the most of Karr’s dungeon. As for Karr himself, she had kept his soul alive and turned it into a boss to punish him.

This had kept his soul intact. Had the dungeon digested his soul, and took his memories, then he would have been a boss more like Xin had been. He might have had a mind, but he wouldn’t have been able to discuss things with me using personal knowledge.  I certainly wouldn’t have been able to resurrect him. In other words, Karr’s dungeon didn’t know what Karr knew. Perhaps, Karr had wanted it that way. He had wanted to bury the truth.

“I don’t know, and I don’t care. The only thing I do know is that this world is my enemy, and I will conquer it or destroy it! You are after the fairy fountain, so I will destroy you too! I won’t allow you to hurt her! It’s the last thing I can do for him.”

Astria’s already fragile mind was quickly shattering, and I could barely follow her thought process now. Just what had Astria found out while I was away? I almost wished that she had created another dungeon. Then, I’d have the ability to glance at murals to figure out what happened these last two months. Unfortunately, Astria’s tale wasn’t finished, and she probably wasn’t willing to tell me much more than this either.

“Astria, it’s time we end this.”

“I agree…” She chuckled.

Although she said this, she spun around and fled. I frowned, moving to follow her, but she didn’t move far. She stopped directly next to the spout where mana was being released. Then, she shoved her hand in the mana. Her wounds finally disappeared, but that wasn’t the terrifying part. There was a growing surge of power.

“She’s using the mana to power up!”

She was a mana creature, after all. If she absorbed mana directly from the source, she could exude a great deal of power.

“You’ve forced my hand, hero! It’s time for you to die!”