My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1623-1625

Chapter 1623

It wasn’t necessarily fair to call each boss an C through SS rank. This was ultimately an assessment invented by people based on their difficulty. There was nothing specifically that made the S rank less or more difficult than the SS rank. Maybe their levels would be a bit different, but then again, maybe they wouldn’t.

Usually, a dungeon was built in a way that the miasma came from the bottom of the dungeon and slowly spread to the top. The top of the dungeon included a far lower amount of miasma than the bottom. This meant that the lower dungeons were more difficult. More miasma fed the monsters and bosses so that they were also at a higher level and more difficult. However, when it came to these islands, such a structure wasn’t necessarily the case.

The miasma was kept high in this corridor where monsters were summoned, and low on the surface where they were released. These monsters wouldn’t continuously be fed by miasma. The only thing that kept them there was the geographical fact that they were on an island. They were essentially produced to be experience for challengers and killed. Where monsters born in other dungeons slowly grew more powerful over time, the only monsters in these dungeons that had such a setup were the bosses, and even then there was no particular focus that wasn’t artificially created by the dungeon.

The difficulty of the monsters and the bosses were all sorted by the dungeon itself, designed to create this gauntlet. Therefore, although we had defeated the T. Rex, I wouldn’t necessarily expect all future bosses of the so-called SS-ranked level to be that easy to defeat. The difficulty was an arbitrary thing, and no sooner did you think you had fought a difficult boss until you have to deal with one completely underwater or maybe in burning lava, or some other environment that would be impossible to fight in normally.

“Prelate, what should we do now?” The paladins asked their leader after the T. Rex was vanquished.

It did have a drop, by the way, but I didn’t dwell on it and allowed Titan’s Fall and the Paladins to decide on it themselves. It was some kind of blade that resembled a T. Rex tooth.

The Prelate’s face turned pink and she pushed her fingers together, suddenly looking a bit shy. “I think we should follow Deek.”

“Ehhhh?”

It seemed like after saving her life, she had become a bit more bearable. The paladins seemed to be greatly dismayed by this though. Thankfully, I didn’t need to be a part of it, as I was checking the last mural as quickly as I could. I considered just doing a mad jump to the boss room and intercepting our enemy before they entered.

The fog-filled SSS class island should be in full view now. However, I wasn’t confident even all of us together could handle the onslaught of an island full of such creatures. They were at a level that Aberis as a country couldn’t handle. Every single one of them would be a country-wide threat that could destroy cities in the blink of an eye. They would mobilize their entire army to stop it, and even then, there would be no guarantee.

Thoughts about the upcoming fight seemed to leave my mind as I looked at the mural.

“The weapon… that can’t be!”

Chapter 1624

I glanced over the mural for a third time, trying to make sure that the vague pictures were saying what I thought they were saying. This wasn’t a scene that existed from the moment the champion pulled the light. Rather, this was a scene showing it being buried.

“This… can’t be…” I repeated, still in a state of shock.

“Is it so surprising?” A voice came from behind. “You had to be curious… where you all began.”

I looked back to see Calypso standing there. Throughout this entire trip, she had been like a taunting ghost, knowing something that I didn’t. Even now, she was standing there without anyone holding her chains. In their excitement, the foolish paladins had let her go, and she had wandered over here while they were still checking on Anne.

The image showed this country, accept that there had once been more of it. Aberis was more like the center of the country, and there was much more to the south of the Ost Republic. That was the location of a dungeon, and from that dungeon came the humans.

If the mural was to be believed, the humans came out of the dungeon and slowly started to form their own country, not unlike the demons. When the war began, the Fey used a weapon of mass destruction on the land. They blew up the human lands and sunk them into the sea with a powerful weapon. It showed some kind of meteor, one many times larger than the meteor I summoned. It was a meteor summoned with the efforts of hundreds of Fey, and the target of it was the dungeon of the humans.

The meteor landed, killing all of the humans and sinking their lands. All that remained were those 7 islands, the Tearfall Islands. That was where the name had come from. It was named after the horrible destruction that was wrought on the land to wipe out the humans. It seemed that after wiping out the white mages, their next step was to wipe out the source of all humans. They tried to purge them from this land.

The Fey had assumed that their mass devastation would finally end the threat of humans, but they hadn’t accounted for one tiny little thing, the rise of faith. The remaining humans turned to religion to protect their feelings of loss and hopelessness. The first churches rose, as did the priests. The priests began to resurrect the people, and soon humanity exploded… but before they had their land, and now all they had was the remains of Faerith.

I had always thought humans were the enemies in this situation. They had selfishly come and kicked the Fey out of their land. This changed everything though. The Fey had attacked first, wiping out the human lands, and so the humans had no choice but to take over the Fey. There were no good guys and no bad guys in war. It was hardly so simple.

“You understand what they are after now? What they dug for all those years ago?”

I gave a slow nod. “The human dungeon lore. They want humanity’s core!”

Chapter 1625

I was only working off a few mural mosaics etched in tiles on a wall. It was hard to say that every conclusion I came to was the absolute truth. The more I learned about this world, the more I could guess, but in the end, it all was a guess.

“This gauntlet… it’s not just there to pass on a champion’s award, is it?” I asked quietly.

“It is not.” Calypso sighed.

“It was there to block off and imprison the human dungeon.” I finished.

In the same way that the deep dwarf king had created a dungeon to restrain Twilight, the Fey had created a dungeon to block the human dungeon. Intrinsically, Fey hated dungeons. Dungeons were a corruption of Gaia, and it stood against everything they cared about. It never made sense that the Fey would turn around and create some dungeon to pass on some champion’s gift. However, that wasn’t the original reason the dungeon came to be.

“At the time, their goal was to stop the humans from growing. They had already settled the untamed parts to the south, and with their tendency to resurrect and tensions growing on the border, the Fey feared that one day they would fall to the humans.” Calypso explained.

“They made the first strike?”

“It’s hard to say. This all didn’t happen at once. It was countless wars, scattered across countless centuries. It only escalated more and more. Sometimes, they were at peace. Sometimes, they were at war.”

“Like the humans and the demons…” I suggested.

There had been at least three all-out wars between demons and humans, and still, they sat at a standstill. Some say the demons gained a bit of ground every year. The entire country of Imperial Cloud Meadow seemed to exist specifically to fight in this battle. We were down south where it didn’t touch us, and even then, we felt the effects of it from time to time. If the demon and human war were allowed to keep going on, would it eventually end up the same way? Would we use some kind of dangerous attack attempting to wipe them off the face of the Earth?

Would we even have a chance, or would the fight be between Feys and demons instead? They could ally to wipe us out. Would they do that? They feared us like we feared demons. The enemy of my enemy was my friend. Wasn’t that the saying?

“It was only after the humans recovered, using the power of the church to overthrow the war, that the Fey realized the human dungeon they had worked to bury was the only thing they had that could help them win. They had built the trial… the first trial, to block off access to the human dungeon, but it was that very access that they needed.” Calypso continued.

“So, they summoned a champion from another world, and sent them to conquer the dungeon and recover the human core.” I finished. “Why? What can they do with human lore? Can they wipe out all humans?”

“The lore from the human’s original dungeon contains a trace of mana intrinsic to all humans,” Calypso explained. “If they get their hands on that, they can force it to merge with Gaia… thus causing humans to finally fully merge with this world.”

“Merge with this world? Why would that-” I stopped in mid-question because the answer finally hit me.

Resurrection. They planned to take resurrection away from the humans.