My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1376-1378

Chapter 1376

The shadow wraiths were made from the souls of those she had previous captured. Meanwhile, the undead rising under Sapphire’s care were the bodies of those captured by Twilight. In other words, the former deep dwarves were in a sad state where their souls were under the control of the darkness, and their bodies were under the control of a necromancer, and they were forced to fight themselves!

I wasn’t positive if an undead could fight a ghost, but given the circumstance, I believed it would work. Fighting erupted everywhere as the undead began to battle the legions of shadow wraiths. Sapphire cast out her net to every dead creature, performing a mass revival that could only be managed by a zombie queen.

“YOU THINK THIS IS OVER? THIS WILL NEVER BE OVER!”

A booming voice erupted out. That could only be Twilight, who had been pushed to a state of fury after our actions. The undead seemed to fight with a vigor unmatched by their counterparts from Sapphire’s former group. It was almost like the bodies remembered where they came from and took great pleasure in a chance to stick it to Twilight.

The number of undead was equal to the number of wraiths, but they seemed to fight more ferociously. I began to hypothesize that the reason these bodies hadn’t turned to dust was that these were the dwarves that were still fighting unity. I had originally guessed that all of the dwarves would have lived out their days and unified with Twilight. After all, how much time had passed since then?

Yet, if their lore had combined with her main body, then what was she sending out to attack us? I began to realize the truth of it. The souls she was using, these so-called wraiths, were the souls of those who were still fighting her. She could control them, but they refused to unify with her. They were the onery and the resistant, refusing to have their life snuffed out and suppressed. This is why they were wraiths, and this is why the wraiths were exactly equal to the bodies. They hadn’t been absorbed like the rest of the lore in the city.

I picked up Sapphire in my arms, and the three of us ran while she focused on fighting the darkness. Sapphire had also been suppressed by this creature. She had been abandoned in darkness and forced to endure, so with a chance to let loose, her fury was no less than her undead companions. Terra and I ran as quickly as we could. I used the Map to guide me, trying to connect the lines on the map. That still ended up leading us to a dead-end twice, but I finally managed to get find the stairway that led back to the castle.

We raced through the castle, wraiths chasing us, and the undead chasing and stalling them. I occasionally made a light orb and dropped it to slow them down, but those only lasted a few moments before flickering out. We reached the door and kicked it open, stepping out from the castle into the city. As we began to race out of the city, the battle seemed to move into the streets. The underground labyrinth seemed to be connected to every house in the city at this point, and from every building pored out wraiths and undead.

As we reached the gate, I let out a shout. “King Diorite! We’re here! Help us out.”

As we waited for an answer, the undead formed a barrier around the city exit, blocking the wraiths from coming forward. However, as we got closer and closer to escaping, the wraiths grew more and more frantic. I was just thinking we hadn’t moved far enough when I heard a voice as clear as day.

“I sent you down to bring back two souls. I only see one. You have failed, so rot down there in the dark!”

After struggling to survive Twilight, I had almost forgotten that King Diorite wasn’t really an ally. I still didn’t understand his reasoning, but without Garnet, there was only death.

Chapter 1377

“You’re seriously going to abandon us?” I had to admit I was still taken aback by his callous answer.

Garnet and Terra were my women. If anyone was hurt by their loss, it was me. I still wasn’t giving up on Garnet, but I needed time to think and go through my list. That was impossible while I was being actively pursued by Twilight’s wraiths. Yet, none of that should matter to this guy.

“You dare bring back that thing that pretends to be my daughter, yet you cannot bring back my real daughter. I had hoped that since you knew her, you would be able to bring her back. If that fake could also find some use, even better. Yet, you both failed. You and that fake can die for your uselessness.”

His words struck me like a gong. I was confused for a bit, but then my mind started to piece everything together. The reason that the king had spared my life and sent me down here was that he had glanced into that imager, and seen Garnet. Garnet was his real daughter? How could that be? I knew very little about her life, but what I did know didn’t match with her being his daughter.

As I was thinking this, I felt a gentle tug on my shirt, and I looked down at the little girl standing next to me. Garnet had darker skin, and she had fiery red hair and eyes. Her body resembled that of a fourteen-year-old or so. If I de-aged her, paled her skin, and made her hair and eyes a cool blue, she wouldn’t have looked too dissimilar.

I had originally assumed their family appearance was just because they were both deep dwarves. They could have been sisters, but I once again didn’t realize they were the same person. It wasn’t uncommon for two versions of someone to wear different faces. When Xin had been divided, her human and Osterian bodies possessed separate appearances, and it was the same for the Deek made in Miki’s dungeon, although he was also influenced by the mad scientist.

“Save them…” She responded, her eyes teary.

“What?” I frowned. “Save who?”

“Save all… save… family…”

“I can’t,” I responded bitterly, a feeling of helplessness washing over me. “I can’t reach them. They are with Twilight.”

She gave a sad smile. “I… can…”

She suddenly spun away and ran. I let out a cry as she went back into the town square, where her undead was slowly being broken down by the spirits. Between them, the battle was not going in our favor. While their fervor had kept the undead going longer, there was a distinct difference between them. When the dead were too damaged, they didn’t get back up, but the souls seemed to be able to regenerate over and over again. Thus, even though they started equal, the numbers were quickly dipping in the wraith’s favor.

Sapphire ran out into that mess, her small form allowing her to dive through crowds of creatures that ended up in my way and kept me from following her. When she reached the middle of the courtyard, she was surrounded by shadows who had all turned their focus on her.

“Sapphire, no!” Something about the look on her face started to give me a bad feeling.

However, Sapphire wasn’t my slave, she was a monster and even tamed monsters could be willful and ignore their masters.

She lifted her hand in the air, and then called out a skill I had never heard before in a voice so light that it was almost lost to the sounds of fighting. “Corpse Party…”

Chapter 1378

“What is she doing?” Terra jumped in front of me, trying to create a barrier to impede the souls.

It only succeeded in stopping the undead. The souls walked through it, and unimpeded by their enemies, started to surround us. While this was happening, the wraiths began to move around Sapphire too. However, she didn’t protect herself, and her undead army remained where they were, trying to defend the pair of us. Just as they reach her, a wave of light erupted out from Sapphire’s hands.

The wraiths weren’t pushed away by the light. Instead, they seemed to stop, as if something else had caught their interest. They turned away from Sapphire and began walking away. The ones that were in front of us did the same. They just stopped, stared for a few seconds, and then seemed to lose interest in us.

All of the fightings had stopped in an instant, and the undead was no longer trying to attack the wraiths any more than the wraiths were trying to attack the undead. Instead, they seemed to stand as if in a trance. Terra and I watched dumbfounded as one of the souls walked directly into a corpse. The two of them merged like one. Their features began to change, the undead person appearing both more alive and more ghostly, like a blue phantasm superimposed over the form of what a person should be.

More and more spirits found a body, slipping inside of it. Even those bodies that had been destroyed still had a spirit slip inside their nonmoving form. The bodies seemed to repair themselves as if unifying them made them stronger. I tried to understand what I was seeing, and it finally clicked. These were the undead, and they were fighting their spirits. Sapphire had used a powerful spell and merged the pair, combining body and spirit.

As the last spirit entered the body, Sapphire looked up at me and gave a smile. “Bring them ba—aggghhhh!” A sharp blade jutted through her chest, coming out of her front.

The blade was completely black, and from the site of Sapphire’s wound, blackness began to spread out like it was contaminating her whole body.

“Sapphire!” I shouted, as her body was lifted by the blade.

That’s when I was able to see who was on the other side. It was the face of Twilight. Her body was shrouded in complete darkness. Only her face was visible.

“You have defied me enough.” She snarled. “I feared that if I absorbed this thing, it’d merge with her and she’d free herself. If I knew it was so dangerous, I would have destroyed it ages ago. To think she could pull away what is mine and sequester them in their original bodies. Such a nasty skill!”

“Let her go!” I shouted.

She let out a laugh. “I am unity, only I can unify all being! Only I can be the world! You will bow before me, and you will unify with me!”

I looked helplessly at Sapphire’s face, but there was no pain or fear. She merely gave me another innocent smile.

Her lips moved, simply saying two words. “Do it.”

“What… did you say?” I asked Twilight, my body shaking with fury. “Did you just say the souls and bodies are together?”

“These souls have defied my unity for too long.” She made a face. “Since they have decided to be disobedient, I’ll have to force them, once I wrench them from these useless corpses.”

I smiled. “Hey, Twilight. Do you want to see true unity?”

She frowned. “What?”

“Unify this.” I lifted my hand. “Mass Resurrection!”