My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1563-1565

Chapter 1563

Of all the people I had thought I might run into; Calypso was probably low on the list. Then again, wasn’t Calypso’s tower near a harbor city? As someone who regularly ran with bandits, and had even been the bandit queen who had nearly united the west, was it so hard to believe that she’d be responsible for the pirates and the recent attacks on the east.

“Oh, my… you’ve grown since we’ve last met.” She quirked an eyebrow.

The last time we had met was immediately before I joined back together. After that, my appearance had changed a bit. She had taken off while I was busy fighting the demon lord. Even though she had a desire for vengeance, she hadn’t done particularly much to help. She had given up the malacrum dagger, but I had come to find that soul weapons weren’t nearly as much the sure-kill method I had thought they would be. Demon Lord Aberis had been able to shake them off completely.

Well, it wasn’t like having a god soul made you immune to malacrum or silvthril. These were still weapons that could damage the soul, possibly to the point where you couldn’t be resurrected. However, they wouldn’t act like a poison that would kill someone with just a nick like they were for most beings of the opposite alignment.

“I should have known it was you,” I responded, raising my sword menacingly.

“Who’s this woman? She looks familiar.” Alysia asked.

“Remember Calypso’s Tower?” I asked, gesturing to her. “This is Calypso. She’s an old sorceress who has managed to extend her life long past the point she should have died, much like King Roth hoped to do.”

“Old!” She made a face. “Tsk… you were cuter as Deedee.”

“What are you doing here, Calypso? I destroyed Demon Lord Aberis. You have no reason to be here.”

Since Calypso had made her appearance and the steam cloak I had created had dissipated completes so that everyone could see, the remaining pirates were waiting at the side, ready to pounce at Calypso’s order. I was prepared to get to Calypso before she tried to slip away again. Twice, she had escaped from me. I wasn’t going to let her get away a third time. Since she was leading this pirate attack against the eastern shores of Aberis and the Ost Republic and increasing tensions, I was doubly determined to capture her.

“Yes, I’m aware you succeeded in destroying him, both halves even. When I saw him attempting to make himself a god’s soul, I became worried that he might have split his soul in two. If you recall, I had believed he was in the south and was caught unaware when he showed up in the north too.

“I defeated that one too,” I responded.

She gave a nonchalant shrug as if it was no consequence. “I also heard you killed the King of Osteria. He was also Demon Lord Aberis? Are we certain there isn’t a third version of him? People like Aberis are very hard to kill.”

“Even if there was a surviving part of him in some dungeon somewhere, it doesn’t have anything to do with ransacking the shores.” I declared. “Surrender now, or I will make you surrender.”

She gave a melodic laugh and then held up her hands, various wristbands and bracelets jingling as they fell down the length of her arms. “Very well, I surrender.”

Chapter 1564

I watched Calypso suspiciously since she claimed she surrendered while making no move.

“What are you playing at?”

“Playing?” She blinked. “The last time we fought, I was barely able to escape. That was with the power of a dungeon. I currently lack a dungeon to pull power from. Furthermore, you’ve grown much more powerful, even defeating the demon lord who plagued my dreams. I don’t have a blue mage like Siti or a world-ending distraction. I have no means of escaping, so I surrender.”

Her words sounded as logical and well-thought-out as always. When I shot a look to the pirate women, likely all lesbians and her harem of lovers, if I guessed correctly, ready to race at me with their weapons drawn, Calypso shook her head, and every one of them dropped their weapon and got on their knees. Even then, I kept them all under my eye and had the women tie each other up. I waved my ship over, bringing the reinforcements.

“Oh, my, so Deek does know how I like it.” Calypso purred teasingly as I made two of her servants hold her down while a third tied her.

I checked the restraints, and they had done the job as ordered. By the time everyone was restrained, the other ship had come around and moved alongside this one. Titan Fall and the paladins all leaped on board and then started to take all of them into custody. I could have built another prison in my soul world like I had done with King Roth’s harem, but with only Alysia to watch them, I felt it was too much risk to my soul. I definitely wouldn’t allow Calypso in there, and since she could control other people, I couldn’t let anyone she controlled in there either.

I didn’t know if these women were under her control or not. I had checked their souls when I was checking their restraints, and they showed no signs I could tell of being in a mind-controlled state like she had done with Siti. She was charismatic and beautiful, so I supposed it wasn’t that hard to believe that she could amass a group of young women and lead them astray.

The paladins slowly brought bound pirate after bound pirate into our hold which they had turned into a temporary cell. I quickly noticed that they were only grabbing the flat-chested women though, leaving the more robust ones for Titan Fall to handle.

“Cici… Chance?”

“Yes.”

“Master?”

I breathed out in relief when I saw them near Anne. That’s when I realized how much I had been worrying about them. I didn’t understand why. I supposed I had brought them on this journey on a whim, so they were my responsibility in a way. At least, they made it through the battle unmolested, and by that, I was talking about the paladins. I only let them be because I trusted Anne to protect them.

“This woman is filled with darkness, she should be eliminated!” Anne suddenly snapped as Calypso was being brought on board by one of the Titan Fall girls.

Calypso looked Anne up and down and then sneered. “I’m not into children.”

“Y-you! Guards, kill her immediately!”

Chapter 1565

“You won’t touch her!”

As the nearby paladins reached for their swords, and the clueless Osterian stood there holding a bound Calypso, I reached out without thinking, ripped her from the girl’s arms, and then pulled her against me, while brandishing Alysia defensively. Reacting to my words, Cici and Chance jumped in front of me, which in turn caused the paladins who were ready to charge on Anne’s order to hesitate. They would happily cut me down, but with those two in the way, they could no longer decide.

“You may still have a chance for your soul, but this woman’s soul is shrouded in darkness.” Anne declared. “She should be destroyed immediately.”

I had almost forgotten that the church had a strong reaction against miasmic creatures. Destroying dungeons was considered their top priority, although that priority was filled with hypocrisy. First off, their entire order formed because they were invaders that came from a dungeon, and they exploited their ability to resurrect to push back the original inhabitants. Secondly, they constantly made exceptions, such as Dirage Labyrinth, the Mirror Labyrinth, and even this King’s Selection dungeon in the castle.

I was pretty certain that Calypso wasn’t a miasmic creature though. She wasn’t a god soul either. Instead, she was someone who once had a mana soul, but had spent so much time using miasmic magic and living in dungeons that her soul had become completely dark. In most people, this would have caused a person to lose their free will and become little more than a monster controlled by a dungeon, but Calypso had managed to remain sane. That last part was a bit questionable.

“What is the meaning of this?” Eliana had heard the commotion and came out on the upper deck.

“This woman should be destroyed!” Anne declared to Eliana, sounding at least slightly like a petulant child tattling to a parent.

“She was the bandit queen who had gathered the bandits on the west and gave Aberis so much trouble,” I explained. “I find it likely she’s also the pirate who has been causing trouble on the east.”

“All the more reason to end her!”

“We need her for information,” I responded. “If she dies, it’ll just mean someone else is in charge. She can give us their locations, their numbers, and their goals. She’s too valuable alive.”

“Oh, Deek, I didn’t know you cared,” Calypso smirked, looking up at me with pursed lips.

Eliana frowned while looking at Calypso, who after I had grabbed her, had pressed her body against me, seeming to have no issue acting extremely comfortable snuggly against my chest.

“Deek is right. If she has information, then we need to get it from her.” Eliana announced.

“But…” Anne lifted a finger angrily.

“No buts,” Eliana responded in a voice filled with authority.

I admitted that even I was surprised by her ability to take charge. Could it be that Eliana was a pretty decent princess? At least I was smart enough to know if I ever voiced such words, it would only bring me pain.

“Don’t worry, I’ll personally watch over Calypso.” I declared.

Anne looked between Eliana and me, and after a moment gave a sniff, which was as much acceptance as she would give. At least the paladins were happy putting their weapons away.

“Deek, my love, perhaps I could get used to this.” Calypso lifted a long-lacquered fingernail and then stroked it down my chest.

“Aren’t you supposed to have your hands tied?” I frowned.

“Oops.” She put her hand back down, and when she lifted them again, the restraints were still in place.

Oh… this was going to go just fine…