My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1313-1315

Chapter 1313

{Master Swordsman has increased to level 23.)

{Magic Swordsman has increased to level 25.)

{True Hero has increased to level 60.}

{White Mage has increased to level 61.}

Was it strange that my swordsman levels went up despite the fact I was using a drill? Probably. It had been some time since I was able to put on some levels naturally if leveling using a series of experience multipliers could be called natural. Lately, most of my leveling had come from using my skills passively. Although I didn’t always notice when something leveled, especially when I was busy with something else, technically every job gained experience every time you did something related to the job.

That usually coincided with battle, but it allowed for things like leveling just by practicing a sword, even if you didn’t kill mobs. Certain jobs like Merchant could level just by buying a lot of things. That’s why my merchant was now level 23 despite me rarely equipping it. Linguist was another one that continued to go up and up as I read and communicated. It was now 18.

Then there were jobs like Slave Master, Harem Master, and Pervert that seemed to just go up without any real reason.  I mean, it certainly wasn’t anything I did that got Pervert up to 32. Wasn’t that leveling a bit too exaggerated? It didn’t reflect on my character whatsoever. For that matter, Slave Master being at 72 and Harem Master being at 63 were also mistakes. This game was broken.

My highest-level job at least made sense. It was True Dungeon Diver. Was there any doubt? My understanding of transversing dungeons was top-notch. I reequipped it after the battle was over, dopping White Mage after I made sure we were healed up. True Dungeon Diver was now at level 84. That was 84 skills, stat boosts, and spells aimed at helping someone conquer a dungeon. I wondered what would happen when it reached level 100. Even though leveling seemed to slow down the high level I was, if I completed any more dungeons, level 100 might not be too far away.

Although, I had to recognize that if anyone else considered completing a dungeon as a proper way of gaining levels, the entire world would be broken. Yeah, ultimately, leveling up with mobs was still the best way to go about things. I continued, focusing on increasing my sword skill as I went. I had a feeling that I would need every level I could get. Although the girls had grown more powerful, and so I had I, I was beginning to realize it was a large world out there.

The Deep was probably larger than Aberis, and Aberis wasn’t even the largest country on our continent. I was at a stage where I had grown just powerful enough to realize how much I lacked power. When I had first arrived in this world, I had considered a level 60 Knight to be the peak of this world. Now, it seemed like even the generals I envied were only mediocre when it came to the world stage.

Some had the power of blessings, those that had the power of heroes, and those that had the power of a dungeon core. You could have multiple jobs, and each job could be maxed to level 100. Someone who was truly a master in their field could have 400 levels dedicated to it, one hundred for each tier, but even that might not be their max strength. It was best to continue to grow stronger and not stagnant. Even once all of the girls were back and safe, I had a feeling there would still be future dangers. I had to be vigilant.

Chapter 1314

A few nights passed by as I descended more into the Deep. I had seen numerous odd creatures, and fought in several intense battles. I had even had to flee from time to time. The difficulty of the monsters could be hard to gauge and there was no steady progression. I could stumble across an extremely easy enemy that died in one blow, only for a bit later to meet an enemy that I had to escape from. Size and appearance didn’t always delineate the danger either.

I had started making it a habit of using God and Devil Eye on new enemies so I could ascertain if I could defeat them. I was increasingly finding more and more monsters that weren’t worth the risk of fighting. I wasn’t in a dungeon, but it would be a real shame if I ended up in a battle to the death because I encountered an albino squirrel that was as fast as my eyes could see.

I was starting to notice a pattern though. It seemed like one particularly difficult boss-like mob ruled over each area, and the rest of the monsters were weaker creatures that served as its food. In that case, it was more luck on whether I ran into that particular area’s boss. So much for getting breaks every five levels, and spending my nights in a safe room. I found that when I wanted to rest, it was best to depend on Alysia or Pait to remain as a guard. In that respect, I was glad that I had brought him.

“We’re going to need to go about this differently,” I muttered to myself quietly.

“What was that, Master?”

On the second night in the Deep, I was eating something while sitting in a small out of the way area where I felt I was safe. At the very least, there was nothing red currently on my map.

“The Deep is massive, right? Two days and I don’t feel any closer to finding Terra or Garnet. Without Garnet’s original maps, I have no clue where the deep dwarves even found their home. I had been hoping I would have seen signs of mining or something that would lead us there, but I guess I underestimated the Deep, or overestimated the deep dwarves.”

“We just have to keep looking, Master.”

“I fear we could keep looking for months and be no closer to learning their whereabouts.” I sighed. “We traveled straight down from a volcano not too far from Gram’s Passage. I’d have expected we’d end up pretty close to where Terra had sent the imager up the vent. Yet, I don’t know if we need to go down, to the side, or even up.”

I was a mouse in a cage, and the trick of using the bond to track her still wasn’t working. I had allocated a month, but it could even be years I could search down here and find no trace of them. I had naturally tried again to reincarnate them, and received no response from their souls either. They had to still be alive. They just had to be!

Chapter 1315

“I’m sorry.” Pait sighed. “I wish I had more information. The deep dwarves were a mysterious people. They came up to the surface suddenly without warning. They ended up coming into conflict with Esmore.”

“I had heard they were all but wiped out, that was Esmore?”

“It was all three countries, Esmere, Dioshin, and Osteria. This was naturally a long time ago before the Demon Lord Aberis conquered the south. The animalkin have always been fiercely territorial, so when the deep dwarves began to surface, they rejected them completely, even going so far as to collapse caves. Their murinekin are quite effective fighters in tunnels, and they were able to force the deep dwarves to retreat.

“Naturally, the dwarves were mining and interpreted the deep dwarves as impeding on their territory. There had always been resentment and hatred toward deep dwarves, who had access to more precious metals, and richer mana veins. They often lorded it over the dwarves, or at least that how the dwarves saw it. Suffice it to say, they did not welcome them.”

“What about Osteria?”

“This was before the mass settlement of humans into Osterian lands, os it was mostly just Osterians, the giants of the plains. Osteria has always had a history of xenophobia. They wouldn’t have even allowed the humans to settle there if their numbers weren’t overbearing, and the Imperial Cloud Meadow too threatening. It was their resentment of humans taking the land that had caused them to join the Demon Lord Aberis’s side.”

Although Aberis had only come into existence a mere twenty to thirty years prior, giving the impression that this entire country only had a history of a few decades, it seemed like there was a cause and effect that resounded through history. The Demon Lord Aberis had turned on his father Aberon. He fled south in the womb of Calypso, convinced her to betray one of the previous Bandit Hero’s, and use his power to set up a stage for his rebirth.

Then, the Osterians, salty over humans migrating out of the Imperial Cloud Meadow into their plains, joined forces with the Demon Lord Aberis, who began a campaign to take over the south. His arm broke on the mountains of Esmore and the forests of Dioshin, and he was only finally destroyed by a coalition of the Hero King, the Princess Hero, and the Maid Hero,  who defeated him. Yet, he was able to invade the Princess Hero’s womb, and once again stoked Osterian resentment until two separate countries formed from the wreckage of Osteria, Aberis and the Ost Republic.

It was strange how history all seemed to come together. Events happening in the north ended up changing events to the south forever. It was all connected across time and space.

“All connected…” My eyes widened. “Of course.”

“Deek?”

“I’m so dense! I know how to find Garnet and Terra. Why didn’t I think of it sooner?”

“How?” Pait narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

“I need to learn the Deep’s history! I need to follow the lore.”

“Deek, the records going back that far are limited. Maybe if we went to the dwarven city of Ossenheim, their great library might have some information…”

“No! I mean here. I need to see the lore of the Deep, the memory still drifting in this place, I need to read the streams of mana…”

“How?”

“How else do you absorb large amounts of mana? You build a dungeon!”