My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1358-1360

Chapter 1358

As the bell finished, Miki approached me with a gentle smile on her face. She wore a black robe that looked slightly ceremonial in appearance. Since the foxkin had slowly grown into prominence, they had slowly begun to adopt more and more customs, all based on Miki and her tastes. I tried to keep it from becoming a religion, but if you create too many miracles, those kinds of things start to be leveled at you.

“Hello, beautiful.” I grinned, taking and hugging Miki.

I was only able to get so close though, as a little ten year managed to wedge her way between us. I could only hug Miki so much.

“What’s the matter?” She asked. “We were going to be heading to the party soon.”

“Ah… that’s the thing. The gift I had prepared for my daughter, it’s missing.”

A little eavesdropped gasped, but I quickly rubbed her head, while Miki raised an eyebrow. “Have you checked the fairies?”

“Yeah, I went there first. I was hoping given your… abilities, that you might be able to detect where it is.”

“Hmmm… let me try.”

Miki didn’t waste any time stepping back and using her soul ability. Her tail grew brightly once again. The other foxkin reacted to it, some staring in awe while others shielded their eyes. I didn’t look away as Miki used her gift to look around.”

“I can sense your soul world.” She declared. “It is some distance away. Underground… through stone and rock.”

“What? Soul world? Don’t you mean soul dungeon?” I frowned.

“Of course.”

“How did it get all the way there?”

“I don’t know, Master… but you don’t need to worry. You can call it back.”

“I can?”

“Yes… a soul and a body belong together. If someone takes it from you, they’d need considerable strength to keep it.”

I frowned. “We’re talking about my daughter’s gift, right?”

“Mm…” She nodded. “You will need to see someone who has a bit of skill with souls.”

“You mean Terra.”

Flash. Coldness. Darkness.

I was in a chamber, bound by strands of black sludge. I tried to pull my way out.

“Master… listen to me.” A voice sounded in my head. “I don’t know how long I can keep you out. You mustn’t summon your soul here. That’s what she wants. If she-”

“Terra who?” Miki blinked.

I shook my head, feeling slightly dizzy. What was that just now? Soul summon?

“Ah… nothing.” I cleared my throat. “Um… you were saying something?”

“Yes, if you want to learn how to summon your gift, I believe Shao can show you how.”

“Shao? Yes… I guess she might know a thing or two about souls.” I responded uncertainly.

“Go quickly, Master. The party is almost here.” Miki hurried me.

I nodded, quickly creating a Portal to Shao. I stepped out of the Portal in from of a quaint little cottage. Taking a deep breath, I walked to the front door and opened it. I was greeted by the sound of a baby crying.

“Ahhh! Mommy’s here! Mommy will take care of everything! Please stop crying!” An unhinged voice cried out.

I looked to see Shao there, desperately rocking a baby in her arms. She had bags under her eyes like she hadn’t gotten a lot of sleep.

“Deek! You need to take responsibility!” She declared, thrusting the baby out at me.

The fourth bell began to ring.

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“My baby hates me.” Shao sniffled.

“She doesn’t hate you.” I chuckled.

“Then why does she cry whenever I hold her?”

As soon as I took our baby, she immediately quieted down. After just a bit of bobbing up and down, she slipped off to sleep and was now happily unconscious. Her mother, who was at her wit’s end, was now sobbing hysterically.

“You’ll get the hang of this. You know you can call on the other girls. Raissa, Miki, Eliana, and Carmine have all been through this. Carmine had twins! You can do this.”

“I-it’s the blood on my hands, isn’t it?” She asked. “She can smell the evil on me.”

Perhaps I had been a bit too busy. After she had the baby, Shao had moved out to a little cottage to raise it. She said something about wanting to become the greatest mother ever. However, it took a community to raise a baby, and Shao now looked ready to break. She was suffering from postpartum depression.

“The party is coming in a little bit. How about I take the baby with me, and you get a bit of rest, hmm?”

“M-maybe…” She responded uncertainly.

I took the sleeping baby, and then gently put her down in her crib. She coed slightly, but remained asleep. As I looked down at my sleeping baby girl, Shao put her arms around me, hugging me softly. She breathed as if getting strength from my presence. I didn’t mind this. My only regret was that there wasn’t more of me.

“You didn’t come here just to see how I was doing with the baby, did you?” She asked.

“Um… no… actually, I have a soul dungeon that went missing. Miki seems to believe you can help me summon it?”

“Ahh… I see… it has to do with my shadow magic. Do you know how shadow magic works, Master?”

“Not exactly. I know that there is miasmic, shadow, and darkness magic. Each one, while similar, is also different.”

She nodded. “It’s true… I use shadow magic, where someone like Salicia uses darkness magic, and Astria is miasmic. Miasmic magic involves controlling miasma and corrupting mana. It’s like an infection that tries to eat mana and create miasma. Darkness is a direct inverse to light. It attempts to counter mana by destroying it. It’s the absence of mana. Shadow magic is different though. Without light, there are no shadows. Without a soul, there is nobody. Shadow magic is about blocking mana and using the product of the hindrance to producing an illusion of darkness. It uses mana against itself. Does Master understand?”

“I think so.” I frowned. “But what does this have to do with summoning my soul?”

“One of the main tenants of shadow magic is the separation of the body and the soul. The way I can slip into shadows and disappear is because my body and my soul aren’t necessarily in the same place at the same time. My soul becomes a conduit for my body, and my body becomes a conduit for my soul.”

“And you’re saying I could master shadow magic?”

“I’m saying if Master this aspect of shadow magic, you’d be able to use your soul in ways you never dreamed!”

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“How so?” I asked cautiously.

“Master, you have a power inside you that you don’t even realize. Those blessings that are attached to your body, they don’t have to remain that way.”

“I’m sorry?”

“Your soul is that of a soul world! Does a world so like a place that has only one story?”

“I guess not.”

“Exactly! Master, you can absorb your blessings into your soul world, making them part of you. Lore can be combined and merged. It can be united and built upon. Every subsequent piece of lore only makes something more complex, more powerful, and more compelling! Right now, you only use your blessings. It’s like opening a book and reading a passage. It’s better than the base part, but do you know what is even better? Unity!

“You can merge with the lore, make it part of yourself. You can become one with the world, and when that happens…”

“When that happens…”

“You become a god.” She revealed.

“Shao… that’s a little…”

A bell began to bang loudly. The fifth bell had rung. My expression dropped.

“Master, is something wrong?” Shao asked.

“I have to go.” I responded.”

Shao smiled awkwardly. “You’ll be back though, right?”

I opened my mouth and then closed it. I didn’t know why I needed to go. I didn’t know where I was going.

“Just… summon the gift, and everything can keep going as before.” Shao smiled.

“I see… Twilight.”

As soon as I spoke those words, the world changed around me.

I was no longer standing in the cottage next to Shao but instead, I was standing in a small library with a desk. Shao and my daughter were gone. This wasn’t like summoning either. I didn’t feel like I was pulled out and moved. Rather, it felt like the world around me changed in an instant. As I looked around in confusion, I found Twilight standing nearby watching me.

“You called?” She casually walked over and took a seat. “Come, relax…”

I narrowed my eyes suspiciously, feeling like something was off. “Who are you?”

“Are you happy here?” Twilight asked instead.

“Of course, I’m happy,” I responded. “Why wouldn’t I be happy? I have my family. I have my daughters. I spent years building to this point.”

“Have you?” She raised an eyebrow.

“Ye-” I was just about to say yes, but then I thought back and frowned. “This is what you wanted me to see. Why?”

I was trying to remember the years that lead up to this point. I was trying to remember all the difficulties. There were countless enemies, and countless allies, and many trials and tribulations. However, everything turned out well in the end. Yet, if I tried to remember a single detail of what had happened, I couldn’t. This caused me to realize that this must be some kind of illusion. This wasn’t real.

“Terra and Garnet are missing,” I muttered.

“Yes…” She responded. “I couldn’t manufacture their lore from your memory. It came too close to your original mission. It would have woken you up too soon. As for the warnings, that’s merely your subconscious trying to breakthrough.”

I wasn’t sure I believed her. All of this felt so surreal.

“Woken me up…” I frowned. “Where am I?”

“You’re with me.” She smiled. “You’re with us.”

“Th-the darkness…” I started to recall such a name.

“I dislike that name!” Her expression darkened, and for a moment even the room seemed darker, but it was over as quickly as it began. “I’m much fonder of shadows. You can call me Twilight.”

I shook my head, still trying to recall things. It was like my mind didn’t want to remember. It was like I didn’t want to wake up.

“I hope you understand a bit about me now. I hope you can understand what I can give you. I would have shown you more, but we’ve run out of time.”

“Give me what?” I asked. “What are you?”

“The great union.” She smiled. “I am preservation. I am peace. I am love. I am the world!”