My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1560-1562

Chapter 1560

I wasn’t just a White Mage, but I was also an Intermediate Magician too. I hadn’t used a lot of my magic lately. I preferred to focus on Swordsman and other skills focused on fighting and soul manipulation. However, just a general use of mana had slowly brought the level up to 18. I couldn’t pull off powerful directed attacks like Elaya, or area of effect spells like Astria, but I could use enough magic to catch anyone but a master off guard.

At least in Aberis, the last grandmaster in Aberis I had ever faced had died at the hands of Salicia, who had been under the control of a woman named Calypso. I didn’t know about the Ost Republic but considering Osterians weren’t known for their powerful mage users, I didn’t think they had anyone of that level.

I raised my hand and summoned several strikes of lightning down. I still wanted to capture the ship. My wind magic wasn’t so slick that I could make effective wind blades that lasted such a lengthy distance, and I didn’t have so much control of water that I could stop the boat. I figured fire would cause it to catch fire, so lightning was the best option I had with both the distance and damage. Several bold shot out from my fingertips and flew at the ship. I was expecting it to hit the canons, possibly taking them out of commission, which was why I was surprised when my lightning hit a barrier.

“They have a spellcaster!” One of the girls cried out.

As if to affirm that, several spells came out way. I wasn’t able to erect a barrier in time, but the spells were still blocked just the same. I looked over to see a smug-looking Anne. I supposed I deserved that for looking down at her lack of a physical defense earlier. The pirate ship continued to grow closer, all while shooting spells and canons at us. Between the two of us, all of it was deflected, but we were only losing ground until they reached us.

“Let them come! I’ll tear them apart!” A younger voice cried out.

I turned to see Chance waiting there, looking ready to fight even though she didn’t have a weapon.

“What are you doing here?” I glared. “You should be down below with Cici!”

“I’m not down below, Master.” A voice came from behind me.

I spun to see Cici out as well, clutching a broom nervously and shaking, clearly terrified to be on the deck where powerful attacks were being exchanged.

“What are you doing here?” I demanded, blocking another volley of fire.

“M-mistress Faeyna since a maid must put her life on the line for her Master!” She responded.

“Faeyna is a high-level hero,” I responded. “You need to both be down below where it is safe.”

“I absolutely won’t!” Cici responded defiantly. “It’s my job to protect my lord! Therefore, I’ll fight the pirates myself!”

I felt like crying. I thought little girls would be easier to handle, but they seemed to listen to my orders even less than the adults!

Chapter 1561

“Fine… stay up here.” I growled, glancing over to the paladins. “I’m leaving these girls under your care. If you let one hair-“

“We will protect these little girls with our lives!” The paladins cried out, tears in their eyes as if they were excited about the opportunity.

“Anne, you too!”

“Wh-what? Me? I don’t want children! Wait, what are you doing?”

I didn’t answer her, instead of going over to the edge and looking over the water. I measured the distance between our ship and theirs. If I didn’t want the fight to end up on the girl’s doorstep, then I was going to have to bring the fight to the enemy. I just wished that the ships weren’t moving with the distance changing with each second.

“Faith, look, he’s about to do something cool.”

“Eh? Deek’s doing something?”

“I want to do something…”

I ignored Titan Fall too. I wouldn’t be able to bring anyone with me in this jump. With everything moving like this, I wasn’t even certain I could get myself over. Plus, I was going to do one more thing. After all, I didn’t want to be struck by magic on the way over. I brought out my hand, sending out several hot waves of fire into the water.

I kept shooting, each shot causing a splash and then a rise of steam. The water vapor started to build up until a massive screen of it came out from the side of the ship and in front of the other ship. With the water vapor in the air, their visibility had been blocked, and so the firing had ceased.

“Ohhh… Look, Faith, he’s making it so they can’t see!”

“Stop poking me, I see it!”

I took several steps back, trying to gauge distance. I also didn’t want to shatter the wooden deck when I pushed off so that only made it trickier. I waited for the right moment, and then with a cry I ran and leaped off the ship. Planting a step with magic, I pushed off of it, the force causing me to fly out. I couldn’t use all of my strength because they were far too close, and that made it even more difficult. As I flew through the air, I did my best to use the wind to make sure I wasn’t off-course.

As I became more certain of where I was going to land, I pulled out Alysia. She instantly appeared in my hand.

“Ah! It’s Alysia!”

“She is a sword!”

“I want to be a sword…”

“S-sorry, Master, my friends can be a little…” Alysia sounded a bit embarrassed as her friends watched them leap to the enemy ship.

“It’s fine, we’re going for the canon first!”

As soon as I landed on the deck of the enemy ship, I headed for the canons. At this point, the vapor was passing the ship by, and while half the ship was covered in mist, some of it had started to clear. As I did a swipe with the sword, causing the front-facing canons to fall to pieces, someone had finally noticed me and let out a cry of alert.

It was time to capture the ship on my own.

Chapter 1562

A group of five pirates attacked at once. I had feared that they would be difficult, so I was a bit surprised when a single swipe had caused all of them to collapse to the ground. They weren’t dead. Alysia had done a soul strike. That wasn’t to say she killed their soul. Instead, she did an attack that shocked their soul and caused them to fall unconscious. Alysia was learning more and more tricks the longer she was a sword.

“These guys are pretty simple,” I said in a slightly surprised voice.

Given how boldly they attacked us, and also how much trouble they had given us with blocking my spells and sending out their own, I had been expecting a far more powerful enemy.

“Master, I’ve been meaning to ask this, but are you not aware of how powerful you are at this point? I know that we’ve been encountering powerful enemies of late, but few people are as strong as a demon lord, the soul of a planet, or even a hero and dungeon master at the height of his power.” Alysia explained.

I coughed lightly. “Ah, it’s not that I’m unaware. It’s just that I thought pirates would be stronger for some reason.”

When you played a game, monsters were supposed to get progressively stronger. I had found myself versing increasingly more powerful enemies. Yet these guys were probably at the same level as the bandits my group had defeated back when we were making out the first trip to the capital.

“Don’t get too comfortable. Just because the majority of the crew is weak doesn’t mean that the captain isn’t more powerful.”

As Alysia was saying this, several more pirates attacked, and they were dispatched as easily as the first batch. As I was fighting them, I was also starting to notice something that was off about them.

“Alysia…are they all-”

“Women… yes Master.”

“Is that common?”

“Not particularly. There are female pirates as much as there are female bandits. I’ve not heard of any all-female crews though.”

I nodded. It was strange to keep encountering women only. Some of them even looked genuinely offended to see a man on board. Even though I was overpowering them with ease, none of the women hesitated to attack me. They seemed to move with an almost fanatical devotion.

“How dare you sully this ship with your presence!” One woman cried as she lunged at me with a dagger, even though she had seen me just knock out three other women, who could have been dead for all she knew.

I decided to capture the woman. With the flick of my wrist, I sent her dagger flying and I pulled her into my grasp.

“Where is your captain?” I asked.

“You dare lay your hands upon me?” She shrieked. “You filthy man! Let go of me!”

I was about to ask her again when I felt a surge of power. I managed to just dodge aside before a wave of magic attack. I instantly could tell that it was darkness magic. I had to grab the woman and jump to the side or both of us might have been struck. She continued to struggle, apparently unconcerned that she almost died until I had Alysia knock her unconscious. I then stood up, looking to the source of the attack. A woman was standing there that I recognized immediately.

“Well, well, we meet again.” Calypso raised an eyebrow.