My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1370-1372

Chapter 1370

“We’re almost there.” Twilight smiled. “We’re almost one! Your soul is so interesting… very interesting…”

“Is that so?”

“You’ve already been marked by me twice and you didn’t even know it. This blessing here… and this one here.”

Her finger moved over my body, touching the blessings. The first she pointed at was the Twilight blessing. Given that it had her name, I didn’t doubt that there was some connection to her. However, the second blessing caught me off guard. What did Shao have to do with Twilight? That’s when I remembered she was a demon, and might even be descended from the royal line. I still didn’t understand the connection between Twilight and the demons, but I felt like the farther along we went, the clearer such things became.

As our souls drew closer and close together, I began to understand more and more about Twilight, and she began to understand more and more about me. It wasn’t at the level of being able to read each other’s lore. To use a familiar analogy, it’d be like getting close enough to see the outside of a book. You could read the title, see the cover, and read the back. You could glean certain things, like what type of genre, and how thick it was, and you could guess as to the story, even if you didn’t know the contents.

That’s how I became aware of just how terrifying she was. My soul was massive, nearly double the size of another person’s soul. I had gotten used to the feeling of absolute dominance I had. Only when versus another god soul like Diorite did I truly feel pressured. Yet, as I drew toward Twilight’s soul, the thing I felt most was terror. It was a massive oblique of darkness. If souls were like worlds, then she was the sun. She said that I would become with her and that my mind would be one with her mind, and while I believed that to be true, I could see the true consequences of that merging.

I’d be a mere speck in the landscape of her soul. My presence would almost account for nothing, lost amongst a sea of lore. I’d barely be a sidenote, a few lines of scribbled text. When I merged with her, I would become nothing. I could see why Diorite turned and ran as he faced that. Except, where his joining was a slow process where he was given time to have second thoughts, our unity had been expedited a bit. Her sun was charging toward my world, reading to consume it within her flames of darkness.

Even if I wanted to resist, it was far too late. I was being consumed, and soon I was just another drop in her sea of darkness. I admired Diorite for being powerful enough to turn away, and even to cut off his soul, but I was finished.

“Your bonds will be my bonds. Your soul will be my soul. Finally, we are as one.” Her voice erupted throughout my soul, demanding completely subservience.

“Hmph… as if I’d let you have my man…”

“What? Who is that?”

“I have spent my life buried in darkness. Then, Master appeared and became my light. So, I’m Master’s shield, and I will protect him with my everything, especially from filthy skanks like you!”

Chapter 1371

“This… no! No, you can’t be here!” Twilight jumped off of me, stepping back with fear in her eyes. “Stop… no!”

As she cried out, I felt a white light washing over me. Rather than feeling like I was falling into an abyss, It felt like I was grabbed, and was being embraced and hugged, lifted away from harm. Was this Gaia? I didn’t know, but I could feel the power growing, wrapping around me. Strands of darkness that had tied themselves around me, things that I hadn’t even noticed before, started to crack and break away. I hadn’t realized how many threads Twilight had attached to me until they broke.

“How could you do this to me?” Twilight shouted. “How dare you let Gaia in here!”

The illusion began to break away, and there was once a bedroom became a realm of darkness stretching to eternity. Exploding around my body, or it would be more accurate to say my soul, light erupted out, pushing her back a step at a time. She slowly retreated into the darkness. Her eyes glared at me hatefully as she took one step at a time, being pushed away by the light.

“There is no freedom in the path you lead.” I finally got out.

“Freedom?” She made an ugly face. “What is the point of freedom when it only results in pain and misery? When you’ve lost everything, and the light has snuffed out… you’ll come crawling back to me. You’ll beg for the peace and tranquility I can offer you.”

Her voice grew weaker and weaker as she spoke. Her body had disappeared, and only her face could still be seen, floating in a sea of darkness that seemed to be broiling with anger. At that point, the light around me became so bright that it started to cover my vision. Twilight’s face became a distant memory as a roaring sound like a waterfall surged in my ears. The peaceful feeling continued to grow as the darkness was thrown back, and then there was nothing but a space of infinite whiteness around me.

“Master, there isn’t much time.” I turned to see Tera standing nearby, a small smile on her face.

“Terra!” I approached her quickly.

“You’re soul has been severed from her grasp. The protection Gaia has given you will last for a time, but your body is still in jeopardy. Any soul Twilight has ever summoned can be called upon. Her shadow wraiths are deadly and dangerous, and they will likely be pursuing you, but they are vulnerable to your white mage magic. I will return to my body now. As a golem, my body would have been unharmed. As for Garnet…” She stopped, biting her tongue.

“What about Garnet?”

“Nevermind that… you must take this now.” She thrust something out in her hand.

I looked down at it, and I immediately recognized the item. “The dungeon core I was going to give my daughter?”

In the illusion, it was this item that I had been seeking the entire time. I had been seeking it so that I could give it to my daughter for her birthday, but I had never managed to reach it. I had just assumed it was some representation of my soul world created by Twilight to teach me her lesson.

“Your mind creates a way out of that world. Had you found it would, would have been able to escape on your own, but she had interrupted your dream directly to keep you from finding it. Take it, there is no time.”

She didn’t need to tell me twice. I reached out and grabbed the necklace, and the world shattered around me.

Chapter 1372

Gasping for air, my eye opened into a dark, dank prison. My body felt extremely weak, but wouldn’t it after lying around for a week? This must have been what Terra had meant. Her golem body could last years, but a human body would start to break down and die without food. Just like the world in Twilight’s memory, it was a place of death and decay. Since Garnet was taken who knew how long ago, it was almost certain she had died and her body had turned to ash.

I immediately began to cast healing spells on myself as I tore off of the black slime that seemed to be restraining me. It was rubbery and took a bit of effort to remove, especially when the majority of my body was encased in it. However, now that I was completely lucid, I knew the kind of danger I was in. I broke free from the casing, falling to my knees as I cast a few more spells.

I reached into my soul world, and to my relief, the king had left my supplies in there. I immediately pulled out some water of life and drank it. As I drank it quickly, some of it missed my mouth and splashed onto the ground. When it touched the muck I was standing in, there was a sizzling sound.

“M-master!” A voice cried out some distance away.

“Terra?”

“Master!”

I forced myself to my feet and began half stumbling, half running through the muck. This entire area seemed like some kind of nest, covered in cold miasmic goo. I called out Terra’s name a few more times, following her voice until I found her. She was much more covered than I was, completely encased in miasma until only her eyes could be seen. It was no wonder she had abandoned her body and opted to hide within the earth.

As soon as I reached her, I began to rip away the miasmic goop restraining her. When I had enough, I grabbed her small form and pulled, ripping her free. As soon as she was free, I grabbed her and hugged her tightly. Terra let out a part laugh, part sob.

“Master… I thought you were… I feared…”

“I came.” I declared, squeezing her tightly.

I knew my Terra, and even with her small form, she absolutely wouldn’t break, so I squeezed her as tightly as I could. Of course, Terra didn’t hold back either, squeezing me and sobbing with her face pressed into my chest.

“Master… we need to get going.” Terra finally let go, rubbing her filthy cheeks with the back of her hand. “Gaia’s counterattack might have stunned her for a moment, but soon she’ll pursue us, just as she did the dwarves all those years ago. She won’t allow herself to lose another god soul.”

“We can’t go without Garnet.” I declared. “Where is her body? I’ll resurrect her…”

Terra froze and then shook her head. “I’m sorry, Master, that’s what I needed to tell you before.”

“What?”

“Garnet has been absorbed by the darkness. Her soul is mixed in that sea. I was able to use Gaia and our slave bond to free your soul, but your slave bond with her is gone. Her soul cannot be recovered, Master. Garnet is dead.”