My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1355-1357

Chapter 1355

“Excuse me?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.

Eliana let out a light laugh. “Don’t mind her so much. She just has a strange sense of humor.”

“Of course,” Twilight smiled as she stared at me, but I noticed her smile didn’t reach her eyes. “I’ve come to speak with you.”

“I’m pretty busy right now,” I admitted uneasily.

“It can wait.” She shrugged. “However, there is a time limit.”

“Time limit?”

She lifted her hand. “The bell will ring 5 times. That is as much time as I can spare. At that point, we must speak to each other.”

“Five?” I tried to smile back, not sure what she was on about. “I suppose I don’t mind a guest. You can stay.”

“When the time has come, simply say my name and I shall appear.” She responded.

The surreal moment lasted only a few seconds, and neither Eliana nor the others reacted to her strange and cryptic words. I decided it wasn’t worth worrying about now. I had plenty of time. After settling Eliana, my daughters, and the rest down in a comfortable room, I pulled Faeyna aside. “Do you remember what happened to my daughter’s present?”

“Oh!” Faeyna blinked. “Wasn’t that with the blacksmiths? They had to mount it to the necklace.”

“Oh, so Garnet has it?”

“Who?”

I blinked. Who indeed? As soon as I said that name, I felt a strange flash of something. It felt like a world of darkness. It was wet and cold. My body was lying in black slime. I could see countless others lying around me. There was a red-headed girl there, although she was so filthy that it was hard to say what color her hair was. Why was I so sure it was red? The vision was gone in a heartbeat. What name had I said? I didn’t know.

“Ah… I’ll head over to the blacksmiths.”

The blacksmiths weren’t particularly close to my castle, but that didn’t matter. I had maxed my blue mage a long time ago, and I was able to open a portal rather easily. After bidding everyone farewell, I left the castle for a bit, taking a step into a workshop. The work environment was loud and hot. The sound of hammering made it difficult to have conversations, and the heat was enough that if I didn’t heave heat resistance, I’d be sweating heavily.  I found the first apprentice I could find, and they slowly worked up the ladder before I found myself speaking to a blacksmith in charge.

“I’m telling you what I told the others.” The man shouted over the sounds of hammers. “We had it sitting right there locked up last night, and when we came in this morning it was gone. I don’t know anything else.”

“So, someone swiped it in the night.” I considered, scratching my chin.

“The setting is done.” The blacksmith declared. “If you can recover the gem, we can set it in only a few minutes. However, I don’t even know where to start.”

“I might.” I nodded to myself, “There is one place where a lot of things that go missing end up. The fairies!”

As I said that, I heard a bell start to toll. The sound tore through the sounds of the hammers as if they were nothing. That was the first bell.

Chapter 1356

I didn’t have the time to worry about some bell, so I opened a new portal, and this time came out in a beautiful forest. Although light shone overhead and there were thousands of lush trees, this place wasn’t actually above ground. It was underground in my dungeon. This entire level of the dungeon had been constructed to house the fairies. As I walked along, I heard the cracking of branches, the rustling of leaves, and the giggles of beauties.

I walked until I reached a place unlike any other. It was a massive bubbling spring, the water shooting up like a geyser the height of a tree. None of that water splashed on anyone because there was a circle of air around it. That air seemed to guide the water, causing it to move in strange and unnatural ways. It appeared more like a tentacle of swirling water rising into the green canopy above.

“Celeste, gather the ladies up!” I let out an order.

“Yes, Master!” A swirl of wind appeared before me, steadily coalescing into the form of a beautiful woman.

Celeste was as beautiful today as she had always been. She was graceful like the wind and had an air of wisdom as eternal as the wind and sky. She raised a hand and snapped. Her fingers created a crisp sound that seemed to bounce outward in a wave. Movement exploded all around us. Fairies let out gasps and cries as they scrambled to attention. Within a moment, the lush forest had become a cacophony of butterfly wings as countless fairies came to attention.

Celeste shrank down and then floated over to my shoulder, landing on it casually. As for the rest of the girls, they finally settling into rows in front of us, all at attention and waiting for the orders of their master. Many of these girls could become full forms just like Celeste, but if they had, there wouldn’t have been enough room in front of the spring to allow it. Thus, they found places on trees and blades of grass. Their wings gave a feeling like flowers and suddenly bloomed across the entire forest. Of course, the majority of these little ladies were naked, make the place have a springtime feel.

“Master may ask whatever he wants,” Celeste said. “The girls will fulfill master’s every desire.”

She meant that too. I wasn’t going to say how I knew that, but these fairies would do anything… with any body part!

I cleared my throat, blushing slightly before announcing in a loud voice. “You ladies are my eyes and ears for the city and surrounding area. As you know, my daughter’s birthday is today. Her present has recently gone missing. Do any of you know where it went?”

It wasn’t just that these fairies got around, and no matter what happened in Chalm, there was a good chance a fairy was close by to overhear it. Fairies were also major kleptomaniacs. I had lost many of my possessions because the fairies stole away my stuff. It was usually articles of my clothing, but in this case, it was a bit more serious of an issue.

The fairies broke into whispering. They seemed to be arguing among themselves. I gave Celeste a look and she nodded before speaking up.

“Master asked you a question! Who took the gem?” Celeste’s voice held no-nonsense, and the whispering died down immediately.

It was very well known that no one could lie around Celeste. She always knew the truth. Also, while Master was kind and the fairies often took advantage of his kindness to act willful, when Celeste put her foot down, every fairy obeyed.

“I’m sorry, my queen. We don’t know!” One of the fairies stepped forward. “We stayed away from the fairy as my queen commanded! We did not see who took it, and it wasn’t one of ours!”

“Seriously?” I let out a sigh.

“They speak the truth.” Celeste declared, causing all of the fairies to let out breaths of relief. “I’m sorry Master.”

“No… it’s fine. I’m going to try Miki. Since it’s a Soul world, she’ll be able to find it.”

As I created another portal, I heard the bell once again. The second bell had rung.

Chapter 1357

“So quickly? Can’t I have more time?” I muttered.

Then again, why did I feel rushed at all? What was even happening? I shook away that confusion and stepped through once again. This time I ended up in a small village. Besides the village was a graveyard. The foxkin had come a long way from the animalkin who were scared of their own spirits. Miki had seemingly morphed them into a village of shepherds. Their ability to work with spirits even outstripped the church.

Using the power of their spirit tails, they were able to resurrect people even long past the point where death would be permanent. They also weren’t afraid to enter dungeons and attempt resurrections in there. They had truly become a positive force throughout the kingdom.

I followed a trail leading into the village, only to find a massive shrine built in the middle of the city. There was a long line of people in front of that shrine, and at the top of the steps was none other than Miki. I ignored the line of waiting people and continued to the top. As I reached it, I could see a couple. They were crying while holding a bundle that looked to be children’s clothing in their hands.

“W-we don’t have the money, but out child…” The man was saying with tears in his eyes while the woman wept on.

Miki raised her hand. “How long has it been?”

Her simple question caused the man’s expression to fall, his body shaking, and the woman to weep even harder.

“We… didn’t have the money to travel here either. We had to come on foot.” The man croaked. “I thought that… perhaps… if it was you.”

“How long?” Miki exuded a peacefulness around her that seemed to ease the hearts of everyone nearby.

“T-two months.” He barely could get the words out.

She gave them a sympathetic look. “The body?”

“Those damned priests wouldn’t give it back! They said it was disrespectful to drag the body across the country on a hope…” His teeth clenched, and he shook for an entirely different reason.

Miki watched them for a few moments, and then put out her arms. “This was his blanket?”

“Wha- yes! It is.” He jumped up a hopeful expression building on his face, immediately handing over the item over. “Can you bring him back? Can you save our son?”

“I can only try.” She said hesitantly.

The mother and father gave out sounds of relief, grabbing each other desperately as they watched Miki. I stood and watched too as she began to perform a resurrection. To the couple who weren’t particularly sensitive with mana, it probably looked like nothing, but to me, I could see a rainbow of color. Her spiritual tails were spread out like a peacock behind her, and she held the blanket up as multi-colored mana swirled around it.

Ever so slowly, she reached into the mana stream of this world, calling upon the signature that used to be their baby. The soul of a baby would have been particularly weak. While my soul could easily last two months, a baby soul even being summoned after a month was asking for a lot.

Yet, Miki was the best. She was the woman who was closest to death, and for that, she was the one who understood the soul the best. Slowly, the swirling light began to coalesce together, finally forming into the body of a baby. Its eyes opened, and it immediately let out a crying sound.

“Ahhh!” Miki cried out.

“Our baby!”

“The baby!”

Miki was never good with babies, even her own. Speaking of which…

“Daddy!” A young girl of ten ran out from behind the shrine and jumped into my arms.

She was completely oblivious to the work her mother was doing, but thankfully the dramatic moment was over and Miki was desperately trying to hand the baby over without dropping it while the parents were so busy thanking her that they forgot to take their baby back.

“Hello, cupcake.” I smiled. “What are you two still doing over here anyway? You know, your big sister’s birthday is coming soon.”

She nodded her head. “We’ll come! Mommy just wanted to do a bit more work before she came! She’s always working.”

I noticed she had a hint of displeasure in her voice.

“What your mommy does is important, you know.”

“I know….” She responded flippantly.

“But… you also don’t want to miss the celebration! Your big sister would be angry!”

“I know!” her eyes grew big. “If I don’t come, she’ll floof my tail! I hate it when she floofs my tail.”

“I see…” I nodded. “Well, you should never let anyone floof your tail that you don’t want to do it.”

“R-really?” She asked. “But daddy floofs mommy’s tail all the time?”

I coughed. “Well, that’s a special thing only daddy can do to mommy, understand?”

“Yup!” She nodded, although it was clear she was just saying what I wanted to hear.

By the time Miki walked up to me, I heard a bell gong for the third time.