My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

Chapter 1415

“Master… what do we do?”

There was another boom, the entire place shook as another portion of the dungeon collapsed.

{Your tamed monster, The Ember Vine, has died.}

Infernal Hell was attacking from one side, and Twilight was attacking from another. We were surrounded, and we were severely outmatched. I had collapsed a part of the dungeon and bought us a little bit of time on each side, but it was an inevitability that the two sides would crush us and meet. Then, it wouldn’t be just our lives on the line, but the lives of everyone on the surface too.

“Master! I have an idea. Come meet us in the main boss room.” Garnet sent a communication.

She had remained mostly quiet while I was focusing on the fighting, but she must have realized that the situation was turning south. I went to the safe room and used the transportation array to travel to my boss’s room. I was hesitant to part for too long, as I didn’t know how long it’d be before Twilight managed to force her way through. As I walked into the main boss room, I found Garnet, Lapis, and Gabbro all waiting for me. Behind them were the rest of the dwarves as well as Pait and Dav.

“What is it?” I asked.

“We’ve made as much armor and weapons as we can make.” Gabbro explained. “Now, we’re here to fight.”

“Fight?” I couldn’t help but keep a feeling of bitterness out of my voice.

“Every dwarf here is willing to put their life on the line.” Gabbro declared. “This threat is a danger to us all. We may be small, but we are fighters. We’d love a chance to get back at the shadow witch who took everything from us.”

His words were filled with ambition and determination. If this had been a few hours ago, I would have felt my spirit being lifted. However, after seeing us have to fall back and seeing boss after boss fall, I knew that there was no victory to be had.

“King Diorite didn’t give me his legacy so that you guys could all perish,” I spoke carefully.

“Deek, even so…”

“He wouldn’t have wanted you all to die,” I said with certainty. “He would have wanted you all to escape.”

“What about Twilight, then?” Gabbro demanded. “What did he want to do about that?”

“I don’t know… I tried to build a dungeon, but it wasn’t strong enough. He gave me this lore, and I still wasn’t able to change his fate…” I stopped as I said those words, and a realization came over me. “Unless… I was wrong about the legacy in the first place.”

“What are you on about?”

“King Diorite handed me his lore. At first, I thought he intended me to use it. Then, I had thought he intended it for Sapphire. Maybe… he never intended us to open it at all.”

I started to search through the dungeon lore, finding the pieces obtained by King Diorite. I immediately found what I was looking for.

“Deek?” Garnet asked.

“I’m such an idiot!” I smacked my head. “He never intended me to build a dungeon to block Twilight. He intended me to build a dungeon to ignite it. His plan… his weapon… it was always to ignite the lore. He had a way to do it… it sort of cause the dungeon to collapse into a black hole of lore. It would cut the Infernal Hell and Twilight off for months if not years!”

I knew what I had to do now. I had to finish what King Diorite started. I had to blow up the dungeon right in his face.

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“What will happen to us when the dungeon explodes?” Lapis asked with some worry on her face.

I looked up at her and grimaced. “It will be bad. All lore will be torn up and destroyed. Everyone would die. However, I won’t allow that. If you guys go now, I’ll hold out for as long as I can…”

“Are you talking about staying behind?” Terra asked.

“Terra, someone needs to activate it…”

I had seen the lore, so I understood the consequences of activating the lore better than anyone. This was something that had to be done by hand.

“No!” Terra declared.

“Terra… don’t force me to make an order…”

“Master, you misunderstand!” Terra cried out. “I mean, I have an idea where we can all escape.”

“You do?”

“Master… can you bring our Alysia again, and have her turn into that thing from before.”

“Thing? Ah, the drill? Alysia?”

“Yes!”

I held out my hand, and Alysia appeared in my hands again in her drill form. “It’s nothing special. She uses her will to turn herself rapidly, and these blades dig into the earth…”

As I was describing it, the dwarves all became noisy. Gabbro and a few others moved close and started looking over Alysia carefully.

“This is fascinating!” Gabbro declared. “Such ingenuity…”

I didn’t know what to say to that. I had taken the plans from Earth. This was Earth’s ingenuity, not my own. I wondered how he’d react to some of the engineering books I had brought back with me.

I shook my head. “I don’t understand what this has to do with anything.”

“You were able to use that to drill directly up through Hell’s Inferno,” Terra explained. “I was also able to build something that protected my imager and I sent it up a vent to get to the surface.”

“Twilight had allowed you to send that. She was trying to get me down here.” I sighed.

“Even so, it made it in one piece far beyond her reach! What if we built a device like that, but enough to hold everyone.”

“You mean… like a rocket?”

“Like a drill! There is a thermal vent directly behind this room. I can feel it. With all of the dwarf’s help, I’m sure we can make a deep-to-surface drill. We can build up the pressure in the vent under it, and once Master activates the spell, then we all jump in, launch it off, and go woosh up as the deep explodes beneath us!” Terra spoke more animatedly than usual, which spoke to her passion for building such a thing.

“It is possible…” Gabbro nodded after a second, giving Sapphire a look. “No… we’ll make it happen. We just need a few hours.”

“If we run, there is no guarantee we get out of the weapon’s reach. However, this guy will bring us to the surface in hours if not minutes. It’ll save us a ton of time.”

“Terra…” I started uncertainly.

“So, what does Master think?” Terra asked, causing the rest of the dwarves to also look in my direction.

I thought about it for a second, and then I smiled and reached out a patted her head. “I think it’s great.”

Everyone cheered and then started to race back to the furnaces to heat them again. There would be one last order before we left. However, we were already acting on borrowed time, and it’d only get worse. However, behind my smile was a more distant expression.

“You can hide it from me,” Alysia whispered in my ear. “This won’t work.”

“There is no activating it and then leaving.” I sighed. “The weapon requires a powerful soul to ignite it. That’s why King Diorite planned to use mine from the beginning.”

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Although I knew I wouldn’t be taking that journey to the surface, to keep up with moral, I encouraged the others to keep going. If this allowed all of the deep dwarves to live and reach the surface quickly to warn others, then it would be worth the attempt. I could hear hammering already, even though Terra was still designing the thing with Garnet as a consultant. They’d be doing it by the seat of their pants.

I decided to focus on what I could do, which was managing the battle between the two dungeons. I needed to hold them off for as long as possible. Only an hour passed by when the barrier to the Twilight had been broken. I moved the forces I could spare, working on slowing them down by any means necessary. I was no longer focused on repelling or stopping them. As long as I could delay them another minute, that would suffice.

I also began to consume any useless items or superfluous areas, turning them into mana. If I had to chop off every limb of the dungeon to keep it alive as long as it needed to survive, I would do so. Progress moved quickly, and the 2nd Boss room was breached. The Blood Spirit hadn’t taken much damage in the first fight, and I had healed the Apeman. They were joined by the three-headed bear. A free-for-all once again occurred in the boss room, lasting for nearly fifteen minutes.

{Your monster, the Apeman, has died.}

I had to collapse this room as well. Unfortunately, with our Terra or myself there, collapsing the room had consequences. The bear had to hold King Diorite back during the collapse, and he was caught in it as well.

{Your monster, the Three-headed bear, has died.}

The Blood Spirit, since it didn’t depend on a physical body, was the only one to escape. I was down to a single final boss. It was another ten minutes when the Infernal Hell broke through on their side. I didn’t even try to fight them. I immediately collapsed more corridors.

Another hour passed by, and every time they broke through, I collapsed again. The Blood Spirit did his best to hold back the wraiths. He was extremely effective against the wraiths, and many of them fell to his bloody screams. However, in the end, they overwhelmed him.

{Your monster, the Blood Spirit, has died.}

The last of my bosses were killed. I had managed to hold things for three hours. Had it only been three hours? It had felt like three days. I was covered with sweat and gasping for air. I had been functioning totally as a dungeon master, my awareness being on the dungeon and not what was around me. Therefore, I hadn’t kept notice of the progress that was being made.

“We’re finished!” Gabbro announced.

Behind him was a new door to my room, although this one appeared to be glass. It led into a large room, which appeared to be the drill base. There was a boom, and I could feel the boss room being breached. King Diorite was finally here.

“Go! Everyone, get in the rocket, we’re out of time!”

It was cutting it close, but they might just be able to make it. As for me, my fate was already decided.