My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1430-1432

Chapter 1430

Where had I heard about the Harem Hero before? Right, that would have been in Karr’s dungeon. Karr seemed mildly obsessed with the Harem Hero and had even tried to instill me with some of his ideals. In the end, Karr’s Blessing had made it so I couldn’t remember the slave bonds of the girls. In many ways, that had changed my life significantly. It helped me finally decide it was worth having them by my side. Had he held me back, I met have released all of my slave bonds, and there was no saying where anyone would be at that point.

“Please… you can call me Artemis.” King Roth grinned. “We are old friends, right?”

“Don’t smile at me like that… your smile makes my skin crawl.” Astria shot back.

“Don’t be like that. I’ve heard Chalm has been restored, and you have fallen for a new Master. I’m sorry I didn’t visit and break up that dungeon you created. By the time I heard what happened, the churches of Aberis had already dealt with it.”

“More lies?” Astria asked. “When I cursed Chalm, the people fled to Dioshin first. You closed your borders to them.”

Roth shrugged nonchalantly. “My people are a superstitious lot. They weren’t willing to risk them bringing ghosts. However, don’t try to make it seem like I am the bad guy. After all, it was you who murdered Karr and destroyed Chalm.”

She looked away. “Karr was poisoned. By creating the dungeon, I was able to pull the poison away from him. It would have rotted his soul and he would have died right there.”

“It’s too bad you weren’t able to maintain your sanity. You ended up destroying everything anyway.”

I found myself extremely intrigued by this conversation. Although I had gained Karr’s Blessing and seen the lore, it had always felt somewhat scattered and incomplete. There had always been holes in that story, pieces that didn’t fit. Who had killed Karr? Just what was happening behind the scenes? How did the harem king fit into all of this? His presence was enough that even my blessing had aspects of a harem, so he had to have some relevance to the plot.

Fairies weren’t particularly mindful, and the story from Astria’s point of view was a bit scattered. Unevolved fairies weren’t particularly bright, and a fairy queen like Astria was naïve to the point of being a child when she first met Karr. I didn’t know if it was because of Celeste’s slave bond, her half-human upbringing, her evolutions, or her constant interactions with the other girls, but she wasn’t quite as foolish as the other fairies.

As for Astria, after being resurrected from Karr’s sacrifice, she also had grown more intelligent. That said, even after she had enhanced her mind, she had never really spoken much about Karr or her life with him. Whether she had reevaluated the events and came to other conclusions about what had happened, I had never heard her side of things.

Thus, this was the first time I was hearing this story from another point of view. King Artemis Roth, the Harem Hero, who was idolized by Lord Karr… just what was his connection to Chalm, and more importantly, why was he attacking me now!

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“What do you want, Harem Hero.” Astria asked darkly.

“I want what is owed to me.” King Roth smirked. “Karr and I had an agreement, and he went behind my back and betrayed me.”

“Promise?”

King Roth shrugged. “I was also one of his biggest financiers of Waters of Life. Then, one day, he said he had no more to sell. How was that fair to me?”

“You… you were who he sold waters of life to.” Astria’s eyes narrowed.

“I was one of them. However, he cut me off, and when I pressed him for it, he gave me another offer. Those house fairies he sold me; were extremely helpful. The fairy dust extracted from them helped me secure the throne.”

“You bought my colony!” Astria gasped.

“Hehehe… you should have seen it coming. I did visit your colony once. I always wondered why you never told him it was me who visited you. He had concluded it must be bandits.”

“I… I don’t understand…” She shook her head, taking a step back.

Whatever he was saying, it seemed to trigger some past trauma within Astria. She was remembering things that weren’t pleasant. Her confident demeanor seemed to be collapsing, and she started looking frightened and confused. Meanwhile, the grin on Roth’s face grew, and it felt to me like a cat who was playing with a mouse. She was in danger, but his words were keeping her so off balance she couldn’t see that fact the room was slowly being surrounded by lioness-kin.

“Karr used to look up to me so much. He never would have thought it was me who had aims toward his wealth. Well, he had lied to me in the end. He had convinced me if I used those fairies, I could make my fairy spring. He didn’t tell me at the time about you. He didn’t tell me I needed a fairy queen. All I could do was grind those fairies to dust for a temporary boost in power, but my dreams were stolen from me.”

“You… killed my fairies?”

“If Karr had told the truth, I wouldn’t have had to use them that way.” Roth frowned, his teeth grinding in irritation. “He tried to keep the truth away from me.”

“The truth?”

“Don’t act like you don’t know… fairies are immortal! You don’t age. The waters of life you create, revitalizes not just their health and mana, but their very soul. It’s the main ingredient for soul-restoring elixirs. One could say it’s the only ingredient that matters. A person who drinks concentrated waters of life would effectively be immortal!”

Astria gasped, her eyes growing intense as she came to the realization. I had my suspicions about this fact, but this was the first time it had been confirmed to me. The Water of Life was exactly that. They were the spring of youth, the recipe for immortality. Most people just never realized this. A person who controlled a spring controlled the secret to eternal life. They could produce elixirs that would allow them to extend their life indefinitely, rejuvenating their soul and growing it so that it may continue through the ages. For fairies, already immortal beings, this reality never occurred to them. However, it had occurred to Karr.

“Once he realized someone had found out about your spring, he took you away, and then burned the spring to the ground. He was just a step before me. I lost a lot of men when he set that forest on fire. So, you can probably understand why I had to kill him.”

“What? You…” Astria’s expression darkened. “You’re the one who poisoned him?”

“I was going to claim you. You would have joined my harem, and become my crowning jewel. However, when I found out he got you pregnant, I decided it was better to kill him. I left his little confession for you. Of course, I cut out the parts about me, but I hope you enjoyed your little present.”

Roth gave a sharp grin, looking every bit at the predator. I didn’t even know what to say. The fall of Chalm had been caused by him, and not even the dungeon lore knew it!

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“Why have you told me all of this?” Astria asked.

“Hehe… the message isn’t for you.” His eyes turned to me, and I couldn’t help but jump.

He looked right at me, but a second later he turned to Astria again.

“I won’t become your slave. I won’t make your fairy spring.”

“I had thought I had lost the ability to get a fairy spring of my own. I had tried many times. I knew that once you descended into madness you would no longer be able to create one. For a time, I had regretted acting so jealously. I was younger back then. I used to think every man’s woman belonged to me.” He let out a chuckle as if he just remembered something. “I had played with a lot of Karr’s so-called servant harem, although he had never known they weren’t faithful to him.”

“You will never touch me!”

“I don’t care to touch you.” He made a face. “You’re used goods. You’re barely even a fairy anymore.”

“Then why are you here?”

“Still acting dumb?” He raised an eyebrow. “Why build a fairy spring when there is already a perfectly good one?”

“There is no fairy spring, fool!” Astria tried to lie.

“We both know that is a lie. No, your new lord found out how to build one, and he even attached it to his dungeon. It must be your daughter.” He sounded slightly like he was speaking to himself. “Yes, she would have made the new fountain for her Master. I will possess her, and it.”

“You won’t touch my daughter!” Astria shouted. “I’m done with this. I’m not the little naïve fairy you once visited in the woods. I will bring you head for my Master!”

Her dark wings spread out, and a miasmic force exploded from her. Astria was as terrifying as always, although she had grown weaker since I had been away. She had given her strength to protect Celeste. This had allowed Celeste to evolve, but Astria was still week. Astria exploded out her dark magic racing toward King Roth. She had a clawed hand outstretched as if she was planning to grab his throat.

King Roth didn’t move at all. He remained in place, calmly watching her attacks. Just before she reached him, a whip flew out and struck Astria like lightning. A person appeared in front of her, and she used some kind of spell that reflected the attack on Astria. Not expecting her attack to rebound, Astria was struck and ended up flying back.

Standing right in front of King Roth was a rather beautiful lioness. She had a mane of wild hair and a black stripe through it. She had a dangerous aura to her movements, which the other lionesses seemed to differ to.

“Is that all you have?” The lioness asked mockingly. “You don’t even have the right to lick Master’s boot.”

“I won’t let you…” Astria tried to scream, but the woman merely flicked her fingers.

A dozen lionesses jumped onto Astria. She shrunk, trying to dodge them. Several spells were sent out by even more women. This was the harem he was fighting with. Not all of them were lionesses. Many of the magicians were other animalkin. However, simply by the expressions on their faces, it was clear there was a hierarchy and the lionesses were on top. When a lioness looked in the direction of one of the others, she quickly lowered her head.

The fighting only went a few moments before Astria was restrained to the ground. The dungeon lore was dropped, rolling over to Roth. He caught it with his foot.

“You won’t get away with this… when Master returns…”

“Oh, he’s out?” King Roth raised his foot. “In that case, I’ll wait.”

He slammed his foot down, breaking the orb underneath. The illusion of Matty let out a scream as his lore shattered into a dozen pieces.