My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1223-1225

Chapter 1223

I noticed that I didn’t get a popup saying that I had conquered the dungeon or anything like that. I had been waiting for some confirmation that I was victorious. I guess I hadn’t exactly tamed this guy, and I hadn’t gotten my hands on his true dungeon lore. In that respect, I hadn’t succeeded. I had still grown used to some kind of clear reward. I had won the war, but there was no sign saying it ended, so wasn’t it still going on?

As I was looking for it, an awkward silence had grown between everyone. The cloaked man that had been waiting after I took the fake orb he offered started to grow impatient.

“Are you going to leave yet?” He demanded.

No one else got these physical announcements as I did. So, even if I explained what I had been waiting for, they wouldn’t understand it. I let out an awkward cough.

“I still need to use your passage.”

“Out of the question!” He cried out.

I frowned, and the girls behind me adjusted themselves causing him to stiffen. “I already defeated you.”

He raised his sleeves. “It’s not that! It’ll just take days for you to get through, and having a knife to my throat for that long, I won’t accept it. When a rival dungeon master is in your dungeon, you feel continuing pressure from them until they leave. Just entering another person’s dungeon without being invited is considered a threat! This is why I reacted in the way I did.”

I looked over at Elaya, who nodded in confirmation that everything he said was the truth. I wish I had known this. I had to come up with some kind of way to mask my dungeon master side. Otherwise, this could cause issues down the line. I didn’t plan to quit going into dungeons, but what would happen if I entered a great dungeon and they took it as a threat? Even this guy could be difficult to handle. I couldn’t even fathom the power behind a great dungeon’s dungeon master.  I liked it better when I was a Dungeon Builder who had none of the responsibilities of being a master. I had all of the benefits and none of the responsibilities.

“Ah… well, I still need to get into Dioshin. Once I’ve been there, I wouldn’t have to use this passage again.”

“I can take you to the other side!” He declared.

I coughed. “I’d need to remain with my group. They’ll be waking up soon.”

We discussed things for a small amount more and finally came to a decision. Only about an hour later, the group started waking up. The men who had fallen asleep on watch and failed to get anyone else up were reprimanded by the lead adventurer.

“We got a full day ahead of us- huh?” The dwarf glanced down the hallway to see an elevator. “This is…”

“Isn’t that the elevator on the Dioshin side? We’re there already?” Pait frowned, rubbing his back. “Are you saying we didn’t need to sleep for the night, and we could have just been out of here and sleeping in a soft bed?”

The dwarf was flummoxed as the party set out to go. I kept my mouth shut. I was pretty tired, having not slept the previous night, but I had a body that could go without sleep a few nights if needed.

Chapter 1224

After packing everything up, the group headed to the elevator and started the long rise toward leaving the dungeon. My generals had naturally left the dungeon, although they kept the connection just in case. If Gram tried anything, I’d call them and they could invade the dungeon again in an instant. He had taken me to the party where I lay down and pretended to sleep. It wasn’t long before everyone had gotten up to make an early exit.

Of course, Gram had also utilized his spatial magic to move the entire party a day’s journey farther down the dungeon. A two-day journey had ended up taking only one day, and the party was left completely unaware. Until I stepped foot in Dioshin, I wouldn’t be able to make a portal there. Once I did make a Portal though, I could return whenever I wanted. Thus, I needed to continue with the party until they got past customs.

I wasn’t willing to just abandon them and leave them thinking I had somehow been hurt or died. Furthermore, Dioshin guards were waiting at the second entrance to Gram’s dungeon, so even if I did step out, I wasn’t confident I could talk my way past them. I’d probably create some kind of international incident if I tried to force my way through. My hidden identity as an Osterian was my best chance. Ultimately, staying with my party, but quickening the speed we left was what the two of us agreed on as the conditions for his surrender.

The elevator hit the top after a lengthy climb, and the group of us continued toward the entrance. Everyone stepped through the cave exit, leaving Gram’s Passage and entering Dioshin. However, I held my step as they went, and soon I was alone. Well, I wasn’t completely alone. I turned to see Gram there waiting for me.

“Thank you for your hospitality, and I apologize for earlier.” I bowed.

At the same time, I ordered the girls with my Slave Communication to close the Portal connecting our dungeons.

{You have ended your conflict with Gram’s Dungeon.}

The text did end up popping up. Closing the portal ended the war. I breathed a little easier with that.

“Hmph… I’ve seen enough to know you’re not one of those council brats.” He shrugged. “Well, you’re still rude for not providing a gift! My kind like gifts.”

“G-gifts?”

As he spoke, he lifted his hood, and I jerked at the sight of him. It wasn’t a person’s face. It was a lizard’s face. The robes started to shift and move and suddenly fell to the ground, and out crawled a giant four-legged lizard. The robe had hidden his form completely before was hiding his true form! I had thought I was talking to a human this whole time, but Gram was a freaking lizard!

“He’s a tarragon!” Alysia gasped.

“A tarragon?”

“It’s a lower-tier dragon!”

“Hmph! I’m every bit as powerful as any dragon!” He flicked out his tongue angrily. “Your sword is quite knowledgeable though. It’s a shame.”

“I serve Master!” Alysia declared. “Even if you took me from him, I would never serve you!”

“Calm down, I don’t have any interest in having you anymore.” He declared.

“S-seriously?” Alysia responded skeptically.

“Mm… my tongue is sensitive to smells. You smell like an orc’s butt!”

I thought I had won the war, but it was Gram who fired the last shot, and it was devastating.

Chapter 1225

It took me a bit to calm Alysia down. It involved making several promises to soothe her. Finally, the pair of us stepped through the exit to join the rest of the party and left the relieved Gram alone. Dungeons were a strange thing. Two people standing on either side of the dungeon’s entrance wouldn’t be able to see each other. There was a dark shroud that seemed to exist. When you stepped into a dungeon, you essentially entered a place slightly apart from the world.

This was why dungeons could exist in so many odd forms, even to the extent of not having any physical presence. Although most dungeons did take up space in our world, it wasn’t always equal to the space exhibited on the inside. This was also why resurrections and portals had restrictions. The thick miasma within dungeons also interfered with the ability of mana to transmit, but it was their other-worldly nature that made them difficult to handle.

So, they weren’t able to hear my conversation with Gram, and I wasn’t able to see what was going on with the other side until I stepped through. I had come up with a quick excuse as to why it had taken me so long to exit. My best excuse was that I needed to go take a leak. Hopefully, for a bodyguard, that would be acceptable. I had only wasted a couple of minutes, but I felt it necessary to give Gram a final goodbye. This was why I was a bit confused when I stepped out to find the cart abandoned.

I was standing in an area that appeared to be some kind of small building. There was no door on the building, and it led outside into what appeared to be a forest. Frowning slightly, I started moving out into the light of the morning day. Unlike the other side of Gram’s Passage which came into the side of a mountain, this opened out into a thick rainforest.

However, there was something strangely off about the environment. I currently couldn’t hear any birds or other sounds of life. It was extremely quiet. I pulled up my map, using Sense Life immediately to identify where anyone was. I immediately located a group of people, but they were all scattered out. I picked the closest group and headed toward them.

I didn’t have to walk long before I heard someone shout. “Who’s there!”

I recognized the voice as the leader of the adventuring guild, so I called back. “It’s me.”

“Ah, Deek…” Pait’s voice sounded out. “I’m sorry, I didn’t realize we left you back there.”

I shook my head. “What’s going on?”

I stepped out into a small clearing. Pait, Dav, the dwarf, and the leader were the only ones there. It looked like the cart pullers and the adventurers were going out searching.

“When we stepped through, there were no guards to greet us,” Pait spoke uncertainly. “It is like, everyone got up and left. Their fort shouldn’t be abandoned like this.”

“Hey! I found something!” A voice cried out from the distance.

The group of them looked at each other before starting to head in that direction. I followed them. We didn’t walk far before walking right into a village. I didn’t realize it was a village at first because all of the homes were built into the trees. This was a small village servicing Gram’s Passage. It was possibly a bit bigger than the Esmore outpost we came from. As we walked, I could smell something unpleasant. However, my eyes were on the map, which showed no life in the village other than our people.

We came up to where the cart puller who had called us had stopped. His face was white and he was staring at something.

We all followed his vision to see a group of ten men all lying on the ground dead, their faces sunken in as insects buzzed around them.

Horror started to form on everyone’s face as they began to realize what happened. Everyone in this village was dead!