My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1265-1267

Chapter 1265

“I’m nothing like that, right? Right?” I whispered to Alysia.

“…”

“I mean, we need to put this into perspective. This is only a narrative, a lore. Lores and narratives are prone to exaggeration. We’ve seen it before… no, that would imply that this is an exaggerated form of me! I’m not some pretty boy hero who goes around fondling and boning any woman that moves, right?”

“…”

“Alysia…”

“Of course not!”

“Right, but we also need to take in Miki. She has been through some intrinsically horrifying events. Her mind has nearly shattered. Naturally, after experiencing certain horrific events, her mind really would be in disorder.”

“Ah… Celeste is coming!” Lydia cried out, pointing down the street.

We turned in that direction, only to see a pair of giant boobs hovering toward us. Alysia let out a cry, and my eyes widened. Everyone else in the town was acting like they didn’t see anything. However, they were just a pair of floating boobs.

“That’s not… Celeste?”

“Ah!” The Hero who was supposedly me that everyone called Master stepped forward, throwing us another smile. “I should introduce you to all of my c%&^sleeves.”

I don’t smile like that! And I don’t think that about my women! Ahem… I mean…  strong, independent women who aren’t owned by any man… except me… technically.

“Mmm…mgsmmm..gmmms…” A muffled voice came out from the breasts.

“Oh, sorry, let me get those.” Master reaches over and splits the cleavage, causing a little head of Miki to appear.

“Hi! I’m Celeste! Will you be the ones helping us?” She spoke in a very high-pitched voice, much higher than the real Celeste, almost like she had been sucking down helium.

“The girl is in a relationship with this guy.” The hero rolled his eyes.

“Now, now… haven’t I said before. You don’t only need to use women. Some men could be strong and helpful too. We should take any help we can get. Plus, not every girl needs to be Master’s woman.”

“What are you saying? We should continue forth with another man beside us?” He frowned.

“As the smartest person on the team, I have been calculating the frequency of souls appearing in this dungeon.”

“Did she just say she’s the smartest person on the team?” I asked tearfully.

“The consumption rate is increasing exponentially.” She continued in her high-pitched voice with a matter-of-fact tone. “It will reach a point where we won’t be able to keep people safe anymore. I fear the dungeon will hit a critical mass and begin to evolve. At that point, all of their souls will be digested into miasma, and we’ll be in grave danger. At that point, the curse will become too difficult to take on. I implore Master to seriously consider starting this expedition immediately. I don’t believe we can hold out for the hope that any more powerful warriors will appear.”

“I see… so you’re saying that the ends justify the means. I must perform the evil act of partying with a man. Unless… perhaps… we could turn him into a woman?”

“Nope!” I cried out. “No, not… we’re not doing that again.”

I had a left-over potion of gender bender still in my inventory. I pulled it out and poured it on the ground in protest.

Chapter 1266

“Very well, since the wisest of us all said as much, then I suppose you can come along,” the Hero responded poutily. “I suppose it’s fine as long as I have five powerful women. You can be the packhorse.”

“You…”

Just as I was about to snap at him, I heard a thudding sound. I turned to see a giant muscular person walking toward us.

“Ahh… our next party member has arrived. Terra, my beautiful!”

“T-Terra!”

Terra was as tall as me, and her shoulders were as wide as three me. She was a massive wall of muscles, and she didn’t have a neck. She looked like a weight lifter, although one exaggerated to the extreme. As soon as she arrived, she flexed her biceps.

“Terra has come to fight!” She declared while flexing in a loud booming voice.

Master walked up and hugged her, even though he was much smaller than her. “My cute and sexy little Terra, you don’t need to act that way with me.”

She barely reacted, but she yelled out. “Terra appreciates Master’s attention!”

“You’re into that?” I cried out.

Hero frowned at me. “What are you saying? All women are beautiful, no matter their size.”

“I mean… I said that once… but…”

“Terra confused! Who is this scrawny man?” She boomed.

I had a headache. Rubbing my head, I wanted to know what was going through Miki’s mind.

“Master, you needn’t think about it too hard. It’s not like Miki means you any offense. These are more personifications of the features she values the most from her friends. Lydia was her sexual guide, so why wouldn’t she be eros personified. She always envied Celeste’s simple way of thinking and cutting to the point of things, so she imagines her as intelligent. I mean, even you appear as a foxkin. Perhaps, in her idolized version of you, you’d be the same race as her. Well, animalkin have always been tribal, so don’t blame her too much for that.”

“I understand. Thank you, Shao…” I nodded thoughtfully and then jumped. “Shao!”

“Shao!” Hero cried out, “You’re here!”

Hero began to run to her. Shao suddenly leaped up and kicked him in the face. Hero went flying away, slamming into a wall.

“Stay away from me, you piece of $%^@!”

I stared with my mouth open. The other girls only rolled their eyes as if this was expected of Shao. Is that how Miki saw our relationship? Shao and I were in a sadomasochistic relationship?

“Shao!” Hero peeled his face from the wall and gave a bloody smile. “You’re the same as always. I love you!”

She spat. “Trash! My real man is here. Stop embarrassing yourself!”

She suddenly grabbed onto my arm. That’s when I remembered her words earlier.

“Y-you called me Master? Wait, you’re not the real Shao, are you?”

She licked her lips. “I wish I was. Regrettably, I’m only another one of Miki’s duplicates.”

“You seem… strangely familiar with this?”

“For that, you need to understand how Miki saw me. Remember, I was introduced as having come from another world. I saw through your mind, and you saw through mine. That created a bond between us, where perhaps I understood you and you understood me more than anything. I understand the nature of this world because you understand the nature of this world. It’s something like that.”

“Really?’

“Of course, there might be a second part to it…”

“What’s that?”

“Even Miki’s mind can’t keep me from my true love. Even she can’t imagine me accepting anything less than my real Master. This just proves you’re mine forever!”

Her eyes started turning slightly scary. Of every girl here, Shao was the only one she imagined exactly how Shao was in real life.

Chapter 1267

“M-master…” Alysia spoke up. “Look at the bright side. At least, you all made a deep enough impression on her that she created you within her mind. I’m not even in this world. More than that, she wanted you to be the ones who rescued her. She created her own escape. That’s pretty amazing.”

“It’s true…” Shao nodded. “However, this party was destined to fail. Rather, we would have spent forever waiting to begin our mission. When the great purge Celeste spoke of happens, everyone who has been sucked in by Miki will die, and the dungeon inside her will evolve into a more powerful state. We’ll be remade, and she’ll start killing again, but even more next time. We’ll try to save them, fail to act, and then the cycle will repeat until Miki is destroyed or there is no life left in that world. Well, this is the nature of most curses, to absorb and destroy. Miki’s curse is death, so it’s especially nasty.”

“I had been thinking something similar.” I nodded.

“Of course, as I stated, I know what you know, so I’m only repeating back to you your own thoughts. I’m not able to confirm if such a thing is true.”

“R-right…”

I felt that headache coming back again. This was all too surreal. The only saving grace was that this was in a soul dungeon, which meant that these guys technically didn’t have physical bodies. The last thing I’d want is for the soul of Terra or Lydia to end up combining with their real forms, wherever they were. That made me wonder if there wasn’t a way I could use these versions of them to find the real ones. I asked Shao.

“That won’t be possible.” Shao shrugged. “These have no connection to the real ones. They weren’t created from a piece of their soul, but just a memory. Even Elaya possesses more of the original Elaya’s soul than these guys.”

“I see…” I glanced over at the Hero’s party that was still making a scene.

I found my Slave Communication with the other girls was currently cut off, which was about as expected. It was probably for the best.

“Girls, after we save the day, we should all %^&%!” Hero cried out.

“Yeah! Let’s $^^%!” Lydia added.

“Terra would like this very much!”

“Mmmgdd… mmmddmmm.” Celeste’s chest was no longer being held open, so she was smothered by her cleavage.

“What’s with the swearing?” I demanded.

“I wonder…” Shao tapped her finger on her lips.

“Remember, this dungeon was created by Miki’s mind. Everything created in it essentially comes from her mind.” Alysia offered. “Minds are a complicated thing. You might as well try to interpret dreams as guess why people think a certain way. Perhaps, she just associates vulgarity with swearing. Or, maybe she thinks it is alluring… so when you act sexual she has you use it. Well, she censors it in her own mind, so she is clearly conflicted over it. Notice that Terra, Celeste, and Shao, who she doesn’t see in a lewd light, don’t swear at all.”

“Interesting…”

I felt like I was in a case study regarding Miki’s mind. I had noticed that this village we were in closely resembled Chalm. It didn’t look like the city she grew up in. However, I also noticed that the doors were shorter. If I was to enter a building, I’d need to bend over to get through the doors. Miki was shorter, and just didn’t need that height, so the buildings created in her mind didn’t have them. The outdoors seemed to carry a light scent of Lavender. Was that perhaps her favorite smell?

“Master, it might be best if you put the party in motion.”

“R-right… you said that once she reached a critical mass, she’d evolve. I already accepted I won’t be able to save the city of rabbitkin, but surely once she’s done with it, she’ll be close to evolving.”

“You misunderstand. She’s already reached that state. She’s sitting outside of the city now. Her evolution will be complete in a few hours!”