My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1629-1631

Chapter 1629

When I had ended up on the Faerie Plains, I had been half of a man. I was filled with anger and loneliness. I had fought for my life in the Twilight dungeon and had been deprived of my harem of girls for a long time. I was possibly at my lowest point, and when the fey started to advance on me while treating humans like trash and slaves, I had grown angry. I recalled the name of the woman I had killed. It was Nerissa. She wasn’t the first person I had ever killed, and she wouldn’t be the last.

At the time, it had seemed like the best option. I had feared Nerissa would cause trouble for me if I left her alive, so I had killed her. I had left her sister alive though, never thing that the tame and peaceful Kaia would change so much. It had only been a few months, but she had hardened a lot. Her once naïve eyes that sort of reminded me of my own when I first came to this world were gone. She was a hard woman, the kind of person who would stab someone in the back whom she had promised to negotiate with.

The human rebellion on the Faerie Plains had ended so pitifully, that it was kind of sad. Demetri, who had once been saved by Kaia, had trusted her to talk peace with him honestly. Meanwhile, I was sure her family told her that this was her last chance to fix the mistakes she had caused. It was abundantly clear which choice she had made.

“Great Human King, we await the day of your return!”

Those were the last words that Demetri had left for me. Yet, I hadn’t even made a single attempt to return. I had almost completely forgotten about the fey. On the list of things, I had to do, it was so far back on my list that it might as well not exist. Had they not invaded, I might not have ever honored that promise. Yet, that man had died believing in me, and this woman had become a monster becomes of my actions. Was this entire invasion my fault? Was I the reason they were here?

It wasn’t like I had any more time to ponder this question. It was only a moment after we finished talking that a slot opened in the floor and a pedestal began to raise out of it. On top of the pedestal was a shining orb, the dungeon core. No, it was the human core.

At the same time, Carmine began to glow with light. Most of her armor was in pieces now. The majority of her body was exposed, the undergarments filled with cuts and bruises. She hadn’t looked at me once, even when I shouted her name. Her eyes were blank, staring ahead. This was some kind of puppetry magic. I was certain of that.

“Let her go!” I shouted, taking a step forward.

“Hehe… will she even go with you?” Kaia asked teasingly as the glow stopped, and I could see a completed blessing on Carmine’s arm. “Carmine, go fetch the orb for us.”

“No! Carmine, stop!” I called out. “It’s me, Deek. I’m here.”

Carmine did stop for just a moment, but then she started walking toward the orb. I cursed, using Phase shift to lunge for the orb. When I got close to it, I felt a burning in my arm. A powerful strike shot out and I stumbled back. It was the girls from Titan’s Fall that caught me.

“Oops…” Kaia laughed, lifting her arm. “It looks like you didn’t complete the blessing.”

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Since we weren’t the ones to defeat the final dungeon, I didn’t get the completed blessing. I now realized that the blessing wasn’t some powerful enchantment, but a key. You needed all six parts to be able to touch the core on top of the pedestal. That led to one confusion for me. Why did they have Carmine? She might be a good tank, but there was no way they’d need her that bad. Unless…

“They need a human to touch the lore!” I cried out. “A Fey can’t! We need to stop her!”

Kaia’s face couldn’t help but turn ugly, telling me everything that I needed to know. The standstill between the two groups broke into chaos. The fey flooded forward at the same time as our people. My target was clear. If I could reach the pedestal, then I had to reach Carmine. They seemed to realize that, and they were all on me. As I raced forward, numerous spells and attacks were aimed in my direction. I desperately blocked or dodged them as I maintained my momentum toward her.

The pedestal was on a staircase in the center of the room that had seemingly risen from the floor. She was taking each step one at a time as if she was in a daze. I couldn’t imagine the state of mind that she was in. She would have thought I had died. She had come here to try to clear her mind of me, only to be pulled in and used as a crony for their plans.

They had been trying to capture a human with the appropriate blessings. They needed someone strong enough to reach the end. It likely seemed like perfect karma for Kaia to find that person as Carmine. Carmine was with me in the Faerie Plain. They would have recognized each other. Cursing at my luck, I dodged another attack.

“Carmine! I’m here!” I yelled out as I leaped toward her.

I took several painful hits, but I just managed to get my hand on her. I was on the ground next to the pedestal, while she was standing and reaching for it. I immediately used Enslavement. Even if she was under puppetry control, there was an authority that defeated that. I blew through Kaia’s control and took over my own. Carmine stopped inches from grabbing the orb. She blinked a couple of times and then stepped back.

Her confused eyes fell on me. I looked up at her, giving an awkward smile.

“M-master?”

“Hey…” I groaned, still feeling the effects of being hit with a few nasty spells.

“Master!” She lowered down and grabbed me, helping me to my feet.

“Carmine, it’s been a while,” I said as we finally were looking at each other directly.

Her eyes started to grow wet. “I… thought you were dead.”

“Never…” I forced a smile on my face.

“Master!” She reached out and grabbed me, hugging me tightly.

Since she no longer was wearing much of a breastplate, I could feel her large soft things pressing against me nicely. It was a feeling that I was sure Anne would find blasphemous.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve held this.” A voice seemed to cut through all of the fightings going on.

Everyone had stopped fighting and was now staring at something that had happened right next to us. Calypso was standing next to the pedestal, and in her hands was the human dungeon core, no longer under the protection of the dungeon.

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“Calypso?” I grabbed Carmine and took a few steps back down the platform.

“You… you look familiar…” Kaia asked.

“Am I?” Calypso asked. “I wonder.”

“I see your chain,” Kaia licked her lips. “You’re not an ally of these humans. If you give me that, then you’ll be freed.”

Calypso glanced at Kaia, and then threw back her head and laughed. “To be freed, I would have had to be imprisoned in the first place. Don’t you think?”

As she spoke, her chains disappeared like smoke. Kaia’s eyes widened, but she otherwise made no move.

“We can still make a deal, can’t we? I don’t know how you removed the core without the dungeon’s blessing, but we can give you money and power if you hand it over.”

I hadn’t looked away from Calypso since I had seen her take it. I watched her very warily. The one thing about Calypso is that I never knew what direction she’d go. She was truly a wild card. One moment, she was a pirate, and the next moment she was saving your life. I had never had a good read on her. I did realize that she was probably right. She had never truly been imprisoned. She could have escaped at any time.

“I should destroy this lore.” She declared. “It has very little use anymore. The humans have long since broken away from it, and it only serves to be an inconvenience for them… and me.”

“Then, hand it over,” Kaia asked hopefully, although her voice still held a bit of arrogance and demand that only could come from an emperor’s daughter.

“Now, that would be self-destructive.” Calypso let out a laugh. “I am human, after all, or at least I was once human. This lore has allowed me to live up until now. If I destroy it now, I will die, and if I give it to you, I will also die. This is quite the conundrum.”

“Live up until now?” Kaia asked. “What does that… you’re the human king?”

“If a person becomes master of the core of their race, then they become that species king,” Calypso spoke calmly. “They are granted an immortal life and given power equal to the strength of the entire species. Of course, their soul is tied to the core, and if it is destroyed, so will they be. A new core may be born in time, but in the meantime, the species will be without a true king. I suppose that describes me. How is the immortal empress doing?”

Kaia made a face. “To think, the human king was you all along. I had feared it was that Deek person. We had hoped he hadn’t taken it and that we’d finally be able to finish the purpose the champion failed at centuries ago.”

“Failed…” Calypso repeated that last word, looking into the lore. “Yes, perhaps their life was nothing but failures. In that case, shouldn’t we leave it to another to decide our fate?”

With that, Calypso suddenly tossed the orb. I reached out instinctively, and the orb landed in my hand.

“Wh-what?” I was shocked that she suddenly threw it at me.

“If you merge with the orb, you will become the human king.” Calypso declared. “The choice is now with you.”