My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1379-1381

Chapter 1379

I had only casted the Mass Resurrection spell a hand full of times, and every one of them had been extremely taxing. Without the support of Miki’s dungeon, it would have been impossible to do what I had done in Dioshin. At this point, I had everything going against it. I was already low on mana, and I was in Twilight’s domain. Not only did she claim the souls for herself, but she had slowly been trying to unify with them for untold years.

Through some chance and luck, Sapphire had used her skill as a necromancer to force the souls to enter their bodies, and it created a single opportunity. Knowing this, I had to make the spell work, and so I put everything I had into it. A wave of light erupted from my body, shooting out across the city square and covering the army of undead. When the wave struck Twilight, she let out a cry, her darkness trying to push the light away. However, the light was resilient, and her body flickered, disappearing as she fled back into the darkness of the palace keep.

Sapphire, who had still been held up by her, finally dropped to the ground. Even as I continued the spell, I raced toward Sapphire. Her injury wasn’t just severe, but catastrophic. I didn’t know what blade she used to stab her, but I instinctively could tell that it had special properties like Alysium. That meant that it could damage a person’s very lifeforce.

As I ran toward her, the undead seemed to turn into white light, their bodies floating away to dust. As the bodies disappeared, a white light was leftover, devoid of the darkness of the wraiths. They remained glowing for a few moments and then flickered out, disappearing from this world. One by one, the entire army of undead and wraiths were eliminated. I wasn’t sure what was happening, but that wasn’t what I was concerned about.

I reached Sapphire, putting my arms around her and lifting her head. At this point, the black curse had already covered her body, and the black corruption was crawling up her neck. She was undoubtedly dying.

“No… Sapphire… you can hold on.”

I lifted my hand to heal her, but she reached out and grabbed my wrist, stopping me. “Family… safe…”

A tear began to fall down my cheek. My heart had already been wounded when I found I couldn’t save Garnet, and watching this little girl in my hands that I was helpless to save, caused all of that emotion to finally come tumbling forth.

“Yeah, your family is safe. They’re all safe.” I tried to force a smile on my face, just as she was doing.

A look of relief appeared in her eyes, and then there was nothing. She stared blankly up until her body slowly started to turn to ash. Within moments, her body could no longer be held up by me, and then it fell apart, falling to the ground with a puff. Only the outline of a little girl remained.

“Master…” A hand gently touched my shoulder.

“I can save her!” I snapped, raising my hand and casting resurrection.

She was a monster without substantial lore, at least not enough to be called a karmic soul, but I could still bring it back. I had to!

“Her lore is destroyed… the darkness made sure of that.”

“No! I can resurrect her…”

“Master…”

“I can!”

“Master, you already have.”

I turned for the first time, looking up at Garnet standing there. Garnet was the daughter of the King. Yet, so was Sapphire. The answer to that was simple. They were the same person. They always had been.

Chapter 1380

“I’m sorry I never told you,” Garnet looked slightly awkward. “It was Mary who had found me… who had freed me from that dungeon. After that, I started to look for fragments of myself. You see, I’m not like Salicia, whose entire soul was converted to karmic. I’m also not like Elaya, who formed from memory and grew powerful on her own. My soul was shattered and the pieces were scattered.

“I wanted to put my soul back together. I wanted to regain my lost memories. So, I hunted down any rumor of dwarves. That’s why I was in that miner’s town so long ago. Orichalcum is the ore of the Deep. I thought that if Widow’s Dungeon possessed some, then I might be able to reunite with the lore and regain some of my lost memories. It’s also one of the reasons I wanted to come to the Deep. I hoped to find the last remnants of my past. It seems that Master found them for me.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

She winced. “I never really had the opportunity. We were only acquaintances at first. It wasn’t until we met in Twilight dungeon that I started to realize how you felt. I don’t know if you remember, but what you said back then really affected me. You didn’t care whether someone was karmic or not. That made me happy. Of course, I also had my doubts. Your soul had similarly been shattered, and I wasn’t certain that you were truly you.

“Of course, there was Salicia and Elaya, but I was still afraid. At that point, I had already made up a story, and I didn’t want to reveal to you the truth and risk changing things. I realized before I could be open to Master, I needed to understand myself. However, seeing you know crying over just a piece of me, makes me feel a bit happy. It makes me realize that it doesn’t matter who I am. Master would have accepted me anyway.”

“G-garnet.” I finally stood up, turning to her.

She smiled up at me, and that smile looked so much like that little girl’s smile, that it caused my heart to skip a beat.

“Every time I found a piece of my missing lore, I changed my name. I didn’t make it up about dwarves changing names! Technically, we get a name at birth and then a new name on our naming day as an adult. I just decided that every time I merge with another piece of my soul, I become someone different and need a new name. I found a small piece of my lore in Twilight, which was why I renamed myself, Garnet. Although I ended up losing this piece of myself, I think it has changed me anyway. Did she have a name?”

“I called Sapphire.”

She nodded. “Then, Sapphire will be my name from now on. Master, can you make me yours once again? Mmm!”

I leaned down, and kissed her on the lips, using Enslave to reform the bond between us.  When I pulled away, she was blushing nervously.

“Haven’t you been teasing me since we met?” I asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Yeah, but when you do it so suddenly… I wasn’t ready.” She responded, pouting cutely.

“Deek! What the hell do you think you’re doing with my daughter?” A voice bellowed out.

King Diorite had chosen this moment of all moments to appear. Just my luck.

Chapter 1381

“Daughter!” King Diorite wore a big smile as he looked at her, holding his arms out, but she grabbed my sleeve and moved behind me nervously, acting a bit like the previous Sapphire, and causing him to stop. “What is this?”

“I… don’t know you,” Sapphire said.

“Geh!” He made a face. “What are you saying? I’m your father! I’m the king of the deep dwarves. What did you do to her?”

This time, his eyes shot to me. However, I didn’t feel anything but anger towards him.

“You’re a fool.”

“What did you say?” His expression turned angry.

“You let her die!”

He sneered. “And it brought back my true daughter? I see this as a win!”

I shook my head in disgust. “You don’t get it.”

“Get what?”

“Your daughter died a long time ago,” I responded.

His eyes narrowed. “What are you saying? She’s right in front of me.”

“H-he’s right,” Sapphire spoke up. “My soul was shattered. I was a soul shard born in a dungeon. I managed to collect and merge with the memories from other souls, and whatever pieces of my soul I could find. I’m probably the most complete version of myself, which is probably what you felt, but I don’t have any memory of you… or the deep…”

He took a step back, his expression filled with shock. “No… that… that can’t be right. My… my daughter has returned to me!”

“You’re right…” I responded, shaking slightly. “Your daughter did come back.”

“Do you know what made your daughter your daughter?” I asked. “Her lore… her memories. Her love for you, and her family. Nothing else but that mattered.”

“What are you saying?”

“There was a piece of her soul made it back down here.” I declared. “A piece that desperately loved her family, that loved you. She loved you all so much she returned to the Deep, braving certain destruction so that she could be by you.”

He shook his head as realization started to dawn on him. “No…”

I nodded, an ugly expression on my face. “The little girl contained what was left of her memories of you, and in the end, she gave herself up, for you.”

“Th-that’s… that’s impossible…” He took several steps back.

“In the end, Sapphire did what you couldn’t. She protected her family.”

I waved a hand, and then a woman appeared. If he had been startled before, he nearly fell over. The woman who had appeared looked to be about seventeen. She had fiery red hair, and in reality, she looked almost identical to Garnet.

“L-Lapis?”

“Diorite? My love?” The woman looked a bit confused.

“I-I know her…” Sapphire frowned, peeking out from behind me.

The woman named Lapis turned to Sapphire and then gasped. “Daughter?”

“M-mom?”

Lapis took a step forward and threw her arms around her daughter, tears falling down her eyes. As for King Diorite, he could only watch with his mouth flapping open. After a few moments, he finally got some words out.

“H-how?”

“She managed to connect their souls to their bodies… the deep dwarves that held out from Twilight’s unity,” I responded. “It comes out to about three hundred. They’re in my soul world right now. I just guessed the woman’s origins.”

“Twilight had tried to take my family to force me to complete the unity. Lapis sacrificed herself to save our daughter. That was when I decided we needed to flee. She attacked the city a short time later.”

As he said this, the ground started to rumble.

“Master! Something’s coming!” Terra warned.

I had hoped that the resurrection would have kept her away longer than that, but I was just being too hopeful. Twilight was starting her counterattack.