My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1304-1306

Chapter 1304

“Master…”

“I’m fine,” I grumbled.

“Deek!”

Lord Duran’s voice caused me to look back, only then realizing I was already halfway to the door. Our eyes met for a moment.

“I have things to do,” I responded.

“She warned you not to go, boy,” Pait spoke up, seemingly somewhat relaxed.

“As if I wouldn’t.”

“It’ll be dangerous.”

“I’ve experienced danger before.”

“How will you start?”

I knew what Pait was doing. He was trying to make me think. I was acting on pure impulse, and if I left like that I might act unreasonably. As much as I hated to admit it, he knew me pretty well. I took in a deep breath and tried to calm myself.

“I’ll go to Gram’s Passage. The place runs deep.”

“Not that deep.”

“It’ll be a start.”

“The journey could take weeks, even months. Are you going to leave Chalm unprotected during that time?”

I opened my mouth and then closed it again. Even if Gram brought me to the bottom of his dungeon, how deep was the Deep anyway? Her imager came up into his Passage after going through an impossible journey. If I ended up spending weeks traveling down there, it could be too late. Although every part of my body burned with impatience, I had to tell myself to relax. I closed my eyes this time and took a few deep breaths.

“Do you have any ideas?”

“It’s hard to say. I just know if you’re crawling down caverns like they did, it will take a long time. The Deep is a bit of a strange place.”

“What do you know of it?”

“Only the rumors dwarves pass around. It’s a place so deep that there is no light. It’s a little-known fact, but when someone goes underground, the temperature is cooler for a while, but it starts to warm up again. It’s supposed to become so hot as to be unbearable. For some reason, under about half of this continent is a bubble of cool air. There is no heat, and there reside massive caverns. There is also a type of function that glows for twelve hours a day, creating a night/day cycle. Some parts of the Deep are even known to have weather patterns. Rain, snow, wind… it’s truly a strange place.”

“How can this be? A dungeon?”

“That’s the general belief. The Deep used to be a dungeon. The dungeon had once grown nearly to the size of a continent, but it died and was buried with time. Its husk still protects the Deep, and allows the remnant monster populations of the dungeon to thrive.”

“Terra mentioned sending it up through a thermal vent, right? If the imager can travel up, then can’t we travel down?”

“The temperatures would be molten!” Pait declared. “Those vents are attached to volcanos! You might as well jump into a volcano and swim down.”

“Oh? Is there a volcano nearby that could do this?”

“The closest volcano here is in Esmore. You might have seen it entering Gram’s Passage.” Lord Duran spoke up as Pait seemed to sputter in indignation.

I raised my head thoughtfully, although I was also bringing up my map. I nodded after a second.

“Very well. Then, I will be off.”

“Off? You need someone knowledgeable even to attempt an expedition. What do you think you’re going to do?”

“You’re right, Lord Duran, do you mind if I borrow him?”

“Be my guest.”

“Borrow me, what are you-“ I reached out and stashed him in my soul world. “Ah! Where am I?”

“Welcome.”

“Who are you? Eh… are-aren’t you princess Alysia?”

“Y-yeah… Master took me as well.”

“This is preposterous!”

“Just calm down.” I sighed. “I’m just keeping you around for assistance. I’ll return you once this is all over.”

“What? Where are you? Deek? I don’t even have any of my things!”

“Thank you for all of your assistance.” I bowed to Lord Duran.”

“Are you ignoring me? He’s ignoring me!”

“I apologize.” Alysia tried to smooth things over.

“It’s fine. I’ll be leaving myself.” Lord Duran. “I promise I’ll still take you to the border, when we both return.”

“Yes, I hope you luck with your, um… meet.”

“And good luck in the Deep.”

We shook hands. It was pleasant when everyone wasn’t your enemy.

“Oh, one more thing. There is a maid of Paits. She should pack up his things and meet me…”

A short time later, Dav appeared in the soul world. “Eh? Where did I go?”

Pait didn’t answer. He was too busy pouting in a corner.

Chapter 1305

I opened up a portal, and stepped through. Immediately, my face was assaulted with heat. I was standing near the ledge of an open volcano. Glancing down, I could see red deep down at the bottom. Slapping my hands together, my body began to glow and I went through my dungeon points. I hadn’t earned any new points recently. The excess energy from the last two dungeons I took care of didn’t turn into a blessing. One was used to create a mass reincarnation spell, and the other was used to rebuild my dungeon. I opened up my store and selected a skill I hadn’t used too often Fire Immunity.

“Hmm?”

After dumping 6 points into Fire Resistance and then Fire Immunity, I noticed a new skill appear. Was there a tier beyond Fire Immunity? This one was called Heat Resistance. Weren’t they the same thing? This one cost 10 points. I dropped the points into it, and the heat I was feeling immediately dropped until it felt like it was a perfect day. Oh? So, it was like that? Fire Immunity protected me from taking burn damage, but heat exposure could still be a problem? I noticed that there was now another tier, Heat Immunity.

Given what I was about to do, I decided to select Heat Immunity as well. I had the skill Heat Tolerance through my Blacksmith job, which probably worked like a weak version of Heat Resistance. I wasn’t even going to attempt to depend on that though. I had been worried Fire Immunity wouldn’t cut it either, but with Heat Immunity, that made me more confident. It cost 25 points though. In other words, to be immune to heat completely in all its form cost 41 points in all. I only have 72, so that came uncomfortably close.

I wondered if the other immunities worked similarly. As I earned more blessings, the store had fleshed out more. Just like how the lore gathered from each dungeon allowed me to create new environments, drop new items, and create new mobs, it also opened up the shop to new skills and items.

“Deek, what are you planning?” Pait’s worried voice sounded out from my soul world.

I ignored him and sent a message through Slave Communication to all the girls. “I said I’d warn you before I did anything dangerous. I’m going to be heading into the Deep to recover Terra and Garnet. I want to say if I don’t return, don’t follow after me, but I don’t think those lines would work better on you than me. That’s why I’m going to be back in under a month, no matter what.”

“Master, what are you doing?”

“Master, again?”

“You should bring some of us with you.”

“You’re all busy with your own tasks. Trust me to save Terra, and more importantly, trust me to come back.”

There was a brief period of silence, but then every girl slowly gave their acceptance. They would do what I said. Now, it was time to go for it.

“Alysia… remember that trick you learned where you turned into a more complicated object?”

“Y-you mean that time you made me turn into a bicycle and rode me?”

“Ahem…” I coughed awkwardly. “You’ve seen a drill before, right?”

“Master… y-you can’t be serious!”

“Off we go!”

“Masteeeeeeeeeeerrr!”

I jumped off the ledge into the volcano.

Chapter 1306

“What’s happening?” Pait cried out.

“H-here, I think I can project what I see into Master’s soul world.” Alysia declared.

“Ahhhh! Turn it off! Turn it off!”

“Alysia, you should be turning into a drill now.”

“I’m working on it!”

We plummeted down quite a distance. I used air to blow away the smoke and to slow my descent, kicking off a step when I needed to. The heat grew as I reached the bottom, where dark material undulated menacingly, red light glowing out from the cracks.

My feet hit the lava and then fire erupted across my body. Did I make a mistake? I tossed all of my clothing into my soul world. Heat Immunity didn’t transfer over to the items I was wearing. Anything of decent enough quality would have survived that brief exposure and everything that was destroyed probably wasn’t worth it anyway. It wasn’t my best armor, although given my history of losing armor it was hard to say that I bothered with anything long-lasting.

“I’m ready!”

“Let me know if you can’t handle the heat.”

Alysia was composed of plenty of incredible alloys that should be able to reach the limits, but lava was lava and I didn’t want to risk her being harmed. If I couldn’t use her, I’d figure something out. I had already sunk to my knees. I was completely naked, so it was good I was in a place I was unlikely to see anyone else.

“Go for it.”

I slammed Alysia down into the lava, pushing her down as far as she would go. Then, her body started turning, the blades of her drill-like form moving in a circle. She started to move down more and more into the muck. Creating an air bubble around my head, I allowed myself to sink in behind her. I was plunged into darkness, but I only had one direction in mind, heading straight down.

The lava felt like a strange puddy, like trying to swim through clay. Although I could recognize the incredible heat, it didn’t feel the least bit uncomfortable for me. Under Alysia’s unstoppable blades, she was able to cut through it and move downward. Once I was completely buried, she picked up the pace, turning faster and faster. I could feel a strange pull. As the lava behind the drill tried to fill in space I was on, it would catch on my legs like arms trying to grab me and hold me in place.

“Faster,” I ordered.

“Y-yes!”

Her drilling sped up once again, and the movements were soon fast enough that a trail line was left in the lava. All I could do was hold on as Alysia used her strength to move forward. I lost track of time as I was pulled through the swampy muck like a worm. It was a rhythmic process, too strenuous to allow me to lose my attention, but too smooth to keep me focused. That was before we suddenly hit something and stopped.

“Alysia?”

“We’ve made it through the lava. We’re at the end of the volcanic shoot. It’s rock from here on.”

So, we reached the rocky part of our journey.