My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1298-1300

Chapter 1298

I wasn’t some spy, and I wanted to instill some confidence with Lord Duran, so I decided to just activate it in front of him. Plus, I wasn’t confident I could do it and thought he might be able to help if I failed. Hopefully, it didn’t reveal any secret, although I couldn’t think of very many I kept. It wasn’t in my nature to act deceptively. The few times I held back things from the girls, it was usually because of fear and cowardice over the answers I’d receive. I understood that now.

Although it was familiar, I didn’t think I’d need to use the dungeon to activate it though. This was made in Jespain, and while I didn’t know how common it was, how many people had a soul dungeon to enter to explore one? It took a few moments of playing with my mana control before I figured out the means of activation.

A form appeared in the room. Lord Duran tensed for a moment, but he quickly realized that the form wasn’t there. There was something indistinct about the illusion which made it clear this was a recording, not reality. The person standing there was familiar to me. It was Gram, although he was hidden within his cloaks, giving him the appearance of the cloaked stranger.

“Deek Deekson… after our previous encounter, I’m familiar enough for your mana signature that when I detected this near my dungeon, I feared you were mounting some kind of attack. I found this arrived through one of my underground geysers. It had come from under my dungeon. My dungeon runs deep, so for you to get under me seemed unlikely.

“This is not the original memory recording. That was severely damaged, and I digested it to determine the contents inside. After seeing what was inside, I realized that the contents are related to you after all. I considered just destroying this information, but given our turbulent relationship, I’ve decided to offer it to you as a peace offering. In the future, remember this favor…”

“Who is this guy?” Lord Duran’s nose twitched as he looked with narrow eyes.

“Ah… just an acquaintance I met.”

I wasn’t sure if other nobles knew that dungeon masters could be sentient and independent by their dungeons. Well, I knew I said I wouldn’t hold back, but this wasn’t the time to have such a conversation, and I didn’t owe him any kind of explanation anyway. At least I didn’t lie.

Besides, I was focused on what Gram was saying. This was an item I had never seen that had my mana signature and had come from deep in the earth? The material on it addressed me? Just what was it? Wait… deep?

“I will begin the recovered memories now.”

The image flickered, and two girls appeared in his place.

“What is that?” Terra asked.

“Hmmm? Oh? I got it while I was in the Twilight Dungeon. They call it an imager. I guess it takes an imprint of the area around it. Did you turn it on?” Garnet spun around.

“This is amazing! Hey, I know what. We can record our journey and show Master our journey.”

My eyes widened. This was a recording of Garnet and Terra’s journey to the Deep! Didn’t it come back damaged? What was happening?

Chapter 1299

It was rather remarkable that such a piece of evidence made its way to me. I supposed given Terra’s love of magical instruments, and Garnet’s long and mysterious history, recording such an event seemed extremely likely if such a device had been available. That said, the device had made it back up into Gram’s passage. Two people who weren’t enemies, but also weren’t friends had to have chosen to take the risk to get it to me.

I understood now why it had my magical signature on it. It had come from two of my slaves. I was pretty certain that the restrictions that allowed someone to view something recorded by someone else was being their master through a slave bond. Of course, even that didn’t stop a dungeon from being able to digest the memories by absorbing the mana. This wasn’t the one that the girls had taken down, but one Gram had created using his dungeon after absorbing the previous one. That also meant I had to trust that Gram was showing me the whole story. If he had cut something out, I’d have no way of knowing.

It seemed like today was a day for trust on everyone’s side.

“This is one of the forgotten pathways down to the Deep. The location was passed on to me by my family before they… ahem.” Garnet explained awkwardly within the recording. “It’ll take about a month to reach the land of my ancestors. I’m not confident we’ll be able to make it there. There are many ancient pathways and they could have collapsed at any point during the years.”

Was that what happened? Did they get caught in some kind of rockfall? I had already attempted to resurrect everyone in the group shortly after I came back to find everyone gone. Their souls should have come back if they were dead. Unless this had happened over a month before, or in a dungeon. At this distance, I couldn’t feel the tug of the broken bond at all.

“That’s where I come in.” Terra flexed her small arm. “We’ll be able to get through any rockslide. After working with earth for so long, I’m certain I can open up just about any path safely.”

“I also can’t guarantee there will be any treasure,” Garnet warned. “This is all tails and half-remembered stories. Furthermore, even if they do exist, my people might have trapped them. If a golem with earth manipulation could steal national treasures of my people so easily, then wouldn’t that be looking down on my people?”

Terra’s strutting deflated a bit. “We should be able to find something at least. The Deep Dwarves were the only ones that far down there. When they left, there would have been no one else to use such material. I’ve not heard of any expeditions that have gone to the Deep to ever return.”

“Exactly, that’s because they all died!” Garnet laughed. “There have been hundreds of expeditions to the Deep, and not a single one survived.”

“That’s not true… I found a record of one who man made it back. He was insane, muttering about how dark it was before killing himself.”

“Hmm… did you mention that to Master before we left?”

“Of course not! He never would have let us leave if he had known.”

My brow twitched. She was correct about that.

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“We don’t need to worry so much. Whomever went down wasn’t a Deep Dwarf and a golem with Earth Manipulator as a job. Let’s get a move on it. I can’t wait to see Master’s face when we return.”

The image suddenly flickered, a new scene appearing. Was this memory loss, or did they end the recording and start up again later. I couldn’t tell. They were deep down in some tunnel. They were lying down with a smokeless fire going. It looked like they had been camping for the night, so it was at least a day later.

“Did you feel it?” Terra asked, sitting with her arms wrapped around her knees, staring at the fire.

Her expression wasn’t nearly as happy or as lively as before. She looked almost despondent. Garnet sat up from where she was lying under the covers.

“The bond with Master? It was cut.”

“That… he would never cut the bond.” Terra shook.

“He couldn’t do so,” Garnet added. “I don’t believe it was done by him. It feels… too sharp.”

“What do you mean?”

“Maybe I’m it’s just my imagination, but it doesn’t feel like Master is dead.”

Terra turned around, a look of shock on her face. “You’re certain?”

“Certain, no… but I’ve felt bonds before. I’ve had people die. It’s not so abrupt. I’m just saying, from my experience, this feels more like the bond was cut deliberately.”

“So, Master is in danger.” Terra’s expression narrowed.

“Master is always in danger. This was probably something done by an enemy, and knowing Master, he’ll come out on top.”

Terra let out a breath. “I see… should we… return?”

“By the time we return, he’ll probably already recover. The other girls are closer, and if he’s in trouble, I’m sure they’re handling in. Besides, we have our task. Let’s continue. When we return, Master will just be extra hap-”

Flicker.

That time was the memory cutting out. I was glad to see the girls weren’t destroyed by my apparent death. The two of them being together would help them get through it. Garnet was always more grounded and less excited. She had dealt with the loss her entire life. Whether it was the loss of her nation, the loss of her home, the loss of her family, and even at one time the loss of the life she had started in the Twilight Dungeon. She had a unique way of looking at things, and she was able to keep Terra from panicking.

The screen appeared, and it was difficult to say how much longer they had been down there. The girls were crawling through an exceptionally narrow path. It was too small for someone like me to enter, but given their sizes, they were just big enough.

“I should have just made this area wider.” Terra panted.

“It’s large enough for us,” Garnet responded. “Lydia or Celeste wouldn’t be able to fit.”

“Celeste would.” Terra’s voice sounded pouty. “That big breasted bimbo can shrink to any size. Why do some girls have all of the assets? Even my slim body that allows me to make it through tight spots, and she can do better, yet she still has those things.”

“Are big boobs that great?” Garnet laughed. “I’m rather happy with my chest. I heard big-breasts girls have sensitivity issues, but my nipples are super sensitive.”

“Yeah… that only makes them chaffed as we drag ourselves down this path. I don’t even have Master to heal them. How much longer is this?’

“Are you the Earth Manipulator? Can’t you tell?”

“Geh… I’d rather not know.”

The two girls seemed to be moving along so peacefully. So, how did everything go wrong?