My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1626-1628

Chapter 1626

There was only one reason that the Fey fell to the humans, and that was because of resurrection. Human souls diverged enough from the native lore that they could be resummoned after an unnatural death. In some ways, they had to be like an army of intelligent zombies, storming forth from a dungeon and continuing to take land away from the Fey. It wasn’t particularly surprising that the Fey reacted so violently.

The first thing they tried to do was annihilate the lore of the White Mage, keeping them from resurrecting their own. Even with this, the humans were too far, and the dungeon they came from only acted as an open gate allowing more and more humans through. Thus, they summoned a great and powerful meteor down on their continent. The damage had to be brutal, and it would have hurt the Fey too. I couldn’t imagine a situation where it didn’t. Generations must have passed under the cold and brutal winter created by the Fey.

I also theorized that this was the point when Faerith started to become overrun with dungeons. It wasn’t just the humans anymore, but beastkin, osterians, elves, dwarves, esmore, and probably other species that had never managed to get a hold on the land. While the Fey were recovering from the backlash of their attack, the humans did the same. However, they fell onto faith, created a church, and began resurrecting once again. Despite being at ground zero and being cut off from their origin, the humans didn’t just survive; they thrived.

They began to take over and settle the Fey lands. They probably weren’t the only ones at this point. While this was happening, the Beastkin were taking over some of the land, the Osterian took over others. Eventually, the Fey felt they had no choice but to flee. They attempted to do one last thing before they fled though. At some point, they must have realized how to finally end human’s ability to resurrect. Maybe, they had always known, but at the time, they didn’t want human lore to merge with Gaia. That would mean humans were part of Gaia’s lore. Such an act probably felt like a sacrilege for them.

Either way, they finally decided to merge their lore, but they had stupidly buried it and put a dungeon on top of it to keep it away from the humans. I had my theory that by doing this, they were keeping another human king from being born. Whatever human got control of the human core would become the human king. Much like the demon king in the demon lands, this person would have the power of the human lore behind them. They would be extremely powerful.

The champion who had defeated the previous human king had to fight their way through a dungeon of the Fey’s own making to acquire the human lore. Unfortunately, that was where the story ended. I was missing the final piece. One of the murals had shown the champion making it to the core, yet I didn’t know what happened next. The final mural was out of my reach too. I had no choice but to enter the boss battle without that last piece of information.

“Calypso…” I started.

“What are you doing in here? I thought we were in a hurry?” Anne seemed to have recovered her old demeanor a bit after her crisis and was now glaring at me with her hands on her hips.

“Time is running out.” Calypso’s words came out playfully, despite the severity of the situation.

I had questions I wanted to ask her, but I had a hunch she wasn’t going to answer them.

“Let’s go.”

The answers would be in that final boss room.

Chapter 1627

The second to last blessing formed on my arm, and I started to grow a bit more cautious about it. Up until this point, I had been following along that this dungeon was a simple dungeon designed to challenge someone and offer a gift. I was learning that the dungeon’s origins were far more complicated than that. I could understand that the dungeon was designed to keep humans from reaching the human core, but why did they save it in the first place?

Why did they give people a blessing that strengthened them each step of the way? If the goal was to keep them from surviving, this blessing seemed counterintuitive. There were just far too many questions. Every answer only created another question. The biggest question of all was Calypso. What was her involvement in all of this? At first, I had just assumed she was knowledgeable, but her knowledge went above what was normal.

I pondered these things as we moved at a brisk pace for the last boss room. We couldn’t afford to take a break or think about it. Our only choice was to get to the dungeon before the other party. Thankfully, this last stretch was no worse than the previous paths. From beginning to end, the dungeon hadn’t given off any surprises for a change. There would be no mobs or traps on this hidden side path. As we approached the door to the boss room, it immediately started to open.

“We made it!” one of the Titan Fall girls cried out excitedly.

I frowned as I looked at the door. It opened as we approached like it was expecting us. However, in the past, Cici had to first touch the door. It was only after she touched it that the door read her fairy magic and then opened it for us. This time, it happened far too quickly.

“Be ready for anything,” I whispered.

The group of us walked up into the boss room. We emerged into a large savanna-like plan. Lying dead appeared to be a massive sabertooth tiger. It was dead, and standing around it was a group of people. The one I recognized immediately was a paladin in white armor.

“Carmine!” I cried out before I could stop myself.

The people across from me, all Fey, immediately drew their swords, turning to us aggressively. As that happened, I began to realize the truth. The door had opened because they had just defeated the boss. We were too late. The two groups faced each other silently for a few moments, taking each other in. That’s when someone stepped out in front. She had long yellow hair, and she immediately pulled out a sword and pointed it at us.

“You! When we found the paladin, I should have known you would show up soon enough.” A woman grinned darkly. “I didn’t expect us to meet so soon, but now I’m glad that I have. It’s time for you to face your fate.”

I blinked, feeling like the girl was somewhat familiar, but it wasn’t quite clicking. “Who are you?”

“You dare!” She snapped. “I am the princess of Fey emporer, Kaia! You killed my sister. Now, die!”

Chapter 1628

Over time, I had annealed a lot of memories to my soul. Countless blessings, jobs, and information had attached to me, and I had even had my soul cut in half. It shouldn’t have been too surprising that during that time when my soul was ripped in two and I had two memories from two different places, then some of those memories wouldn’t be the clearest.

As she announced herself, I started to remember my trip to the Faerie Plains in more detail. I had been trying to avoid the Fey after realizing that they were hostile toward humans. We were hiding in a cave when a group appeared and attacked us. It was a group of escaped slaves, and they were being led to freedom by a Fey. That Fey was this woman. This confused me though because she was sympathetic to humans.

“Why are you here?” I asked blatantly. “I thought you wanted to help the human slaves?”

“Help?” She let out a laugh. “Help? You killed my sister and started a rebellion that killed thousands, and you want to speak of help?”

“I had nothing to do with them,” I answered warily.

“You encouraged them!” She pointed a finger hatefully. “The Waterfield Rebellion had just ended. Demetri just wanted to live on a farm for the rest of his life. He wanted to have a family and live in peace. Then, you came along, and you filled him with the idea of a Human King. You told him about the humans here, and a society where humans could live free. He began a new rebellion… one that lasted for two months. The Waterfield Rebellion was a drop in the bucket compared to what you did.”

“Okay… they had the right to be free…” I was trying to think as quickly as possible to de-escalate the situation.

“What do you know of it?” She snarled. “You came, killed my family in front of me, and then started a war. A thousand Fey died, and we had to purge ten times that many humans to put an end to it.”

“You… killed them?”

Her expression turned haunted for a second, but then she shook her head like she was trying to convince herself of something. “You killed them! This was your fault. I was just letting them live free… but you turned them into weapons. You turn the innocent into weapons. I see that hasn’t changed.”

Her eyes flicked to the two girls next to me, who quickly dodged behind, hiding their faces.

“I never asked Demetri to fight for me. What he’s chosen to do…”

“He’s dead!” She snapped, stopping my words. “I… killed him with my own two hands.”

“You… what?”

“I had to… I had to stop it. No one asked him to trust me to a peace talk.” She laughed. “He thought I would act fairly and that we would come to peaceful terms, but why would I be fair? How can there be peace between Fey and Humans? Were you fair when you beheaded my sister? You’re a murderer, and every human is a virus. All humans deserve death!”