My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1307-1309

Chapter 1307

“Master…”

“Is this too much?”

“I’m exhausted…”

“I have been drilling you hard.”

“And dizzy.”

“I’m sorry, I just got a bit excited and just shoved it right in.”

“It was so hard, I thought I might break.”

“I’m glad you could take it this far.”

“Oh, dear…”

“Will you two stop having such suggestive conversations, you’re making my maid blush!” Pait snapped.

“I-I’m fine. Th-their Master-servant relationship is kind of sweet, isn’t it?”

“What are you saying? It’s completely inappropriate.” Pait declared.

Pait should watch his words. The look on Daz’s face appeared slightly hurt. I had already thought the pair were already in a relationship. After all, they often acted like an old married couple. It turned out this wasn’t true. Pait had a very rigid view on how a dignitary should act with servants, and so he had never crossed the line with Daz. From the look on her face, it appeared like she wanted him to though.

We were in my soul world living somewhat comfortably. As for my body, it was somewhere covered in several metric tons of rock. I had found there little reason to put clothing back on, as the amount of stone that struck me ended up tearing off anything I put on, so I was still basically naked. I also had to heal myself quite a bit before I ended up completely shredded.

We were long past the lava, and were now in a space of dark black rock, working our way down into the darkness below. Alysia had worked as long as she could, but she had needed a break. Thankfully, I had a pleasant location of the soul world to retreat to. The Map’s ability to handle 3d got a little wonky when you introduced underground passages. It could do floors easy enough, but a pathway straight down, I wasn’t confident if I left it, I’d be able to come back.

As for whether we were on course or not, I had no clue. We’d keep going on for a week, then I might have to start rethinking my strategy. I felt like a week was more than enough time though. It was hard to tell just how fast we were moving, but we had to have traveled at least a few kilometers.

“Pait, I was thinking, if the Deep is a dungeon, does it have levels like a dungeon? Is there a progression from easy to difficult?”

The reason I had grabbed Pait was exactly to ask these kinds of questions. He was a smart guy, and other than Garnet, he was the closest I had to the dwarves. And from the sound of Garnet’s imager, it might not have even known the Deep was a giant dungeon, although I only saw a handful of her exchanges with Terra.  Even though the Esmore didn’t like to travel down into the mountains, they had to hear things from the dwarves, especially a dignitary like Pait, who was the most well-traveled individual I knew.

He frowned thoughtfully as he nibbled on a kabob that I had made. The only way I had managed to calm him down after borrowing him was to make food. I was the best cook he knew, and within my soul world was current a garden of all of the best foods from Earth. I had naturally brought tons of revisions before leaving Chalm, so I was good to feed myself for likely years if I had to, just by growing crops.

“That’s hard to say… I only said it’s a theory that the Deep was once a dungeon. In truth, so much time has passed that the breakdown between levels would be great. I think you should be cautious anywhere in the Deep either way.”

I nodded thoughtfully. If it was a dungeon, I was wondering if there might still be safe rooms and a clear progression. It seemed like such a thing no longer existed.

Chapter 1308

Realizing my soul world was essentially my home away from home, I did my best to make it nice looking. I had constructed a small home there. With more resources, I could construct a bigger place. My room, in particular, was filled with things from Earth, including stuff I had owned. As for how Shao had acquired such items, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to know.

I didn’t have power working in it yet, but I had acquired the parts that in theory, I could one day have a powered house. I just needed to read up on such electrical work. Perhaps Terra and Garnet would have more interest in that kind of stuff than I. I had acquired as many educational books as I could and had a massive library. Beyond that we a large log-cabin-like room with a fireplace and comfy furniture. It’s the kind of house I would have liked to live in if I had been rich on Earth.

Outside, I could control the weather, so it was sunny and nice. I kept the light schedule to match my schedule, so there was a clear day and night. Since the weather was always pleasant, working outside was quite comfortable, even if my real body was naked in the dark under hundreds of tons of rock.

We spent the night resting, or more specifically Alysia took a nap. I could have kept refreshing and healing her to keep her going, but at some point, it was better if she relaxed. We had found a pocket of space that didn’t look like it’d collapse or fill with lava at any moment, so we decided to wait the night out there.

Since I hadn’t worked too hard beyond holding on to Alysia, I practiced a bit with the soul world. I tried to see if meat could be made fresher. It’d be something if I could move life energy so that a cow regrew from a slab of rump roast. Since I could grow a plant from a seed or revitalize a nearly dead herb, I thought it might be possible. It turned out I was being a bit too hopeful. Dead meat was too dead to do anything with. There were limits. That was probably for the best.

As for resurrecting an animal, I didn’t want to even try. If I had to think about whether the animal had souls that was too much. No matter how effective eating an animal and then resurrecting it with a new body might be toward feeding the world, something about it felt wrong on every level, even if it did work.

After tinkering around a bit, I returned to my bed and took a nap. I wasn’t sure if sleeping in my soul world was the same thing as sleeping for real, but since my body was immobile in the same way, I figured it didn’t matter. Come morning, I felt refreshed, and that was what mattered. After waking Alysia up, we returned to the dark tunnel and began digging once again.

Chapter 1309

More time passed as we slowly tunneled through the Earth. Two day-night cycles had passed by in my soul world as we worked our way down. Dav passed the time keeping the house clean and tidy, while Pait had taken an interest in my extensive library. He had stopped complaining and now spent his days reading.

I probably couldn’t say how deep we were. It was at a level that if we were on Earth, the molten core would have started to heat things and make the environment impossible to continue. However, thanks to the Deep, it was a rather cool place. Well, even if the environment was molten, I would have been fine as long as I kept my Heat Immunity equipped. I did feel the concentration of mana increasing, and also, I felt the presence of more gaia.

All mana had the signature of the place it came from. Faerith’s mana was unique to Faerith. Mana that’s signature had corrupted or changed became miasma, and was sort of like cancer or a poison that threatened to attack and convert surrounding miasma. Spirit Fire was mana that had a bit of lore connected to it, giving it a caustic element that could damage or consume souls. Fairy Dust, on the other hand, was concentrated mana, gathered and condensed by fairies.

As for gaia, the mana of the earth, if I had to describe it, it’d be like liquid mana. It was mana that had been crushed under high pressure beneath the earth. It had a much more pronounced signature, the signature of this world, and seemingly aided to solidify this world. One could call gaia the world’s memory, a compound condensed and maintained for sometimes eons. When our bodies died and broke down, we became oil. When our souls died and broke down, they became gaia.

At least, that’s how I had come to understand the fairy’s mana reagents, and how they existed. As to why I could utilize them to trigger unique skills, I didn’t know. Perhaps it was because each type of mana had adopted a piece of lore, and that lore could be combined with a skill to unlock a new skill. It’d be a way of using the mana’s memory to pull off something your soul lore wasn’t ready to accomplish.

The point is that the farther we go, the more I could feel gaia. At the moment, the gaia was in a vaporized state, not much different than evaporated water, but I had a distinct feeling that if I went far enough, rivers of gaia might be detectible. Such a thing could only be found this Deep down, or possibly in the lower floors of a mega-dungeon. I wondered if any of the mega dungeon’s lower floors connected with the Deep.

If so, maybe we could punch our way into one of the great dungeons like what had happened with the Widow’s Dungeon. Then, we could return to the surface from there. There were only two great dungeons that I could do that with though. I would have had to log in with the 1st floor of the safe room for the idea to work. Well, it was just an idea. I had nothing but time to think through this endless slog into the Deep.

Crack.

“Master!”

I put Alysia away and grabbed the edge. I found myself hanging from a hole in a roof, leading down into a massive cavern. However, I could see the size of the cavern, as all along the walls was a translucent green light that glowed.

“This is…” Alysia gasped.

“We made it, the Deep.”