My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1490-1492

Chapter 1490

“Keep moving! Everyone keep going!” A guard shouted out.

It was a mass evacuation. This was the only thing I could do for the people of Chalm. If I failed, then everything was over. King Roth would move into Chalm, and there was no saying what he would do. He would likely enslave everyone, pick out the prettiest for his harem, and then expel everyone else. In that respect, it was better to send them all away now. As to where I was sending them, that was Deeksville.

It was behind the official border of Aberis. Roth was only interested in the fountain, but if he did decide to head farther east, Prince Edward would have no choice but to react. That would be a full-out war, and I wouldn’t be alive to see it. That was only the chance of some catastrophic failure though. More likely, in the event of failure, the city and dungeon would cease to exist, as would King Roth. In that case, everyone in the city would be dead.

“Mayor, you need to leave.” Ruby declared.

“I will be staying.” The mayor declared with a snort. “Why don’t the pair of you leave?”

The Guild Master and Ruby looked away slightly embarrassed, and Ruby spoke with less energy this time. “Deek has never lead us wrong. We plan to stay.”

“Then, I will plan to stay also. However, I can’t fight. If you’re giving your lives, why don’t you help Deek fight?”

The guild master shook his head. “According to Deek, I won’t be able to fight. He said Ruby might be allowed, but he wasn’t sure.”

Ruby’s face turned red. “I… don’t think I’m ready to fight yet. I want to, but I don’t think my heart is ready.”

The mayor had no clue what she was talking about, but he didn’t understand most of what was going on. In the end, he helped evacuate as many citizens like the rest. Not everyone was willing to leave. In particular, many of the people who came from Chalm Crossing to reclaim Chalm decided to stay here in solidarity, even if it meant giving their lives.

This included many adventurers who had fought alongside Deek and were saved by him during the Mina’s Dungeon appearance in what felt like forever ago. They hadn’t been able to fight to protect Chalm, but that didn’t sit well with many of them. Even if they couldn’t fight to protect the place they loved, they definitely wouldn’t flee.

Of course, the journey wasn’t too bad. I had depended on Siti and the traveling guild to open up portals and facilitate their escape. Chalm Crossing was similarly being emptied in a hurry. In two days, the results would be settled, and they could either come back, or there would be nothing else to come back to.

In the meantime, I gathered the girls and we made our plans. I told them all of it, and they inevitably agreed that it was the only way. Of course, there was the chance that King Roth wasn’t as powerful as I had thought, and that we completely overturned him in the dungeon battle, but I wasn’t going to bet everything on it. One way or another, it would end that night.

In the end, the dungeon produced as many mobs that would be good as slowing down the enemies. Our tactic was to buy as much time as possible. Using what we learned from the previous battle, we selected our available lore carefully. This played to our strength, as the dungeon was filled with ghosts. To the superstitious animalkin girls, this would truly be a hellish place. I still remembered when Lydia first encountered ghosts and she flew into a panic. That inevitably led us to pick up Miki.

Thinking about it caused a pang of hurt in my heart. The Lydia I knew and loved was gone, never to return. I didn’t have time to dwell on it though. I didn’t have time for any of it. We had to keep going. I wiped the tears from my cheek and continued.

Chapter 1491

“Matty, are you going to be okay?” I asked

Since his dungeon had been destroyed, I had brought him into my dungeon. Matty didn’t have a lot of particular skills when it came to fighting and being as he was completely bound to the dungeon as Xin and Selena had once been, he wasn’t able to participate in the fight. He had mostly been moping sadly in a corner, even while Elaya was sweating over the apekin and their ingenuity.

However, when we had started to prepare the dungeon for the upcoming battle, he had finally stood up and started to help. The one thing he was particularly skilled at was the one thing we needed. He was good at traps and puzzles, and that was exactly what we needed to keep Roth’s armies at bay. He had taken on and designed several levels for us. However, the entire time, he had moved around with a melancholy-like demeanor that lacked any life.

“I am fine.” He responded in a dead voice.

He was only alive right now because I had brought him to my dungeon and absorbed the remnants of his dungeon. It was one of the reasons I had the dungeon energy to make so many last moment improvements.

“That’s good…” I responded, not quite sure how to deal with young children.

It was true that Matty was probably older than me in years, but dungeons had a very particular problem. Dungeon lore could grow more complex and larger, and dungeons could change and mutate over time, increasingly creating more fallacy and errors, but the one thing a dungeon couldn’t do on its own is progress the story. No dungeon would ever complete the lore without intervention from an outside source.

That meant that no matter how long Matty lived, he’d never mature or grow older. In that respect, he was still a child, albeit a wise and knowledgeable child for his age. He turned away to leave, but I reached out and stopped him.

“I have something for you,” I responded. “It’s Elaya who did the majority of the work. She has some experience and the time to do it. Plus, as a sort of witch-like figure, she has a good understanding of such things.”

Matty turned around confused as I gestured to the door. A moment later, a beautiful woman in a witch outfit stepped out into the light. Matty let out a cry and then charged at her.

“Mommy!”

It was the woman that had been destroyed by King Roth in Matty’s dungeon. She was his second-in-command and an approximation of his mother. Although Roth had tried to destroy her, when I absorbed the lore I had gotten the majority of her pieces. Elaya had carefully patched her back together. She wasn’t the same woman from before, as some of her lore was lost, but she was likely close enough to satisfy a young boy whose mind was already warped by dungeons.

After a moment, she peeled off Matty’s hands and then walked to me. I thought she was going to thank me for her new lease on life, but she suddenly planted her lips on mine.

“M-Mom!”

As she kissed me, her hand grabbed my butt, and when she pulled away, her teeth bit my lip and pulled a bit. Finally, she turned back to Matty, even while still clinging to me.

“Matty, your Mommy may have returned, but I’m upset about how you have been treating your new Daddy.”

“Daddy!” We both cried out at the same time.

“Yes, Mommy is Daddy’s plaything, so get along properly, okay?” Her voice was singsong and chipper despite saying such a lewd thing.

After a moment, Matty’s face turned red, and then he cried out. “You’re not my dad! I’ll never accept you! You hate you forever!”

He spun around and fled the room. It seemed bad, but that was basically how he was acting before he depressed, so he seemed to back to normal.

“Uh, oh… my precious Mathew is being naughty. I’ll have to spank him thoroughly.” The witch licked her lips. “However, if Daddy wants to spank me first, please don’t hold back!”

I couldn’t help but let out a sigh. She already had hints of such a personality before in her dungeon. Allowing Elaya of all people to piece her back together had only amplified her naughtier tendencies. Now she was a definite sadist and obsessed with me! I’d never let Elaya make another mob again!

Chapter 1492

Miki, Celeste, Terra, Shao, Bernice, Xin, Elaya, Alysia, Siti, Faeyna, Selena and Sapphire were the so-called generals of my dungeon. There were also the evolved fairies and the witch, who was also able to fight. That made up my entire list of sentient, free-thinking souls. Anyone else I created were purely mobs who could act as their dungeon told them to act. That was twelve girls against possibly hundreds.

Now, all of the people who were trapped in Chalm and infected by the dungeon could have potentially been brought into my dungeon to fight. After all, they all were touched by the dungeon’s miasma, and could effectively be turned into mobs. However, I didn’t know what that would do to them. If they died, they definitely would become integrated into the dungeon, and become just mobs themselves. It’d be like sacrificing their lives.

Ruby had been a potential exception. I wasn’t sure quite how she felt about me, and if her status as harem would be sufficient to allow her to fight, but neither of us wanted to take that risk. One more fighter wouldn’t be the difference between life and death, and if we were being honest, at this point all of my girls were fighting at a level far beyond Ruby’s ability. Even Faeyna who had resisted her combat ability could probably defeat Ruby now.

Why did I bring Faeyna into the fight? She demanded it. I also knew that she’d be as strong as any one of the enemy harem girls, so I couldn’t bring myself to send her away. I had lost my harem too many times already. I wasn’t going to do it again. This time, I needed everyone by my side. My only regret was that I didn’t have time to find Carmine, Salicia, and Raissa. Actually, given how pregnant Raissa must be at this point, it was probably better I still hadn’t found her.

“Is everyone ready?” I asked the girls.

We were all waiting in the boss room, the elaborate grassy plain roughly half the size of the battlefield we had previously found on. My dungeon orb was sitting in the miasmic lake, which occasionally released bubbles of miasma, making the entire level extremely thick. For those connected to me though, it felt safe and refreshing, rather than uncomfortable. This was the location of the final stand, but I hoped it wouldn’t get to that point. If everything went well, then we’d defeat King Roth before he even knew what hit him.

“I am ready, Master.” Elaya gave a nod.

“I’ve worked with Matty to create many powerful soul traps.” Miki nodded. “They will be delayed.

“I’ve done my best to reinforce key areas. They won’t be able to just break through the floors.” Terra added.

“I will move troops as my lord commands,” Siti spoke next.

“I’m ready to move the troops as needed.” Xin continued.

“I don’t know how much I can do, but I’ll do my best,” Sapphire responded nervously.

“Master!” Selena merely cawed.

“We’ll do it.” Alysia encouraged me.

“I will clean up this mess.” Faeyna gave a serious expression.

“Hmph… as if I’d let such a disgusting man touch any unwilling woman.” Bernice declared, cocking her weapons.

“I will use my shadow magic to obscure Celeste the best I can,” Shao stated.

“I’m ready!” Celeste cried out.

{A rival dungeon master has declared war on your dungeon. Defeat the dungeon master, force them to surrender, or destroy their dungeon lore to protect your dungeon.}