My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1632-1634

Chapter 1632

Calypso was the human king? This orb allowed someone to take on the mantle of the world’s king? There was so much information to process, and I had almost no time to do it. I had the orb in my hand. This had been what I had come here for. Should I absorb it? Should I destroy it? Or should I protect it? All of those things were spiraling in my head as Kaia stared darkly and hatefully in my direction.

“You’re done, Kaia.” I declared. “You’ve lost.”

I threw the lore into my soul world just in case. I then took a step away and began creating a portal back to the main island. I made sure to put some of the paladins between myself and Kaia’s group. At the moment, the two groups were standing off against each other, and at any moment that balanced could be tipped. There was no point in staying any longer though. I had gotten what I had come for.

If we stayed there, we were only looking to end up in a battle with Kaia. The truth was that I didn’t know how powerful Kaia and her fey army were. Typically, the fey had higher levels than humans. This was because there was more free mana on the fairy plain than didn’t have as many dungeons. In the same way, a dungeon creature could grow stronger faster when there was more miasma, a mana creature did the same. A normal citizen there might have been a strong as a guard, a standard guard might have been as strong as an elite, and so on. I had barely touched on the elites from my continent. I couldn’t imagine how powerful the elites from the fairy plan were.

They had defeated the SSS-ranked dungeon boss, the master of this entire dungeon, and they didn’t look to be particularly beat up in the process.  If we came to a fight, I wasn’t confident we could even put up a fight, let alone win. The good thing was that they didn’t know any more about us. We had made it there and in record time. As far as they knew, we were just as powerful as them. Rather than let them figure out they had the upper side, it was best to escape quickly.

As the portal started to form, Kaia sneered at me. “You think this is over? This isn’t over. That was merely one of our plans. While you were busy here, we already made our move!”

Her words were immediately backed by the sound of an explosion. I could smell smoke and blood as soon as the portal opened, as well as the distant screams of people seemingly in battle. Kaia wasn’t lying. While we had been making our way through the dungeon, she must have timed her invasion to be about the same time they completed the dungeon. The island was under attack!

“Let’s go!”

I didn’t need to give the others a look before they were jumping through the portal. I dragged Carmine and Calypso with me. Behind us, Kaia held off her attack, allowing us to retreat. I could hear her laughter. I seemed to recall she had once been sweet and polite, if not a little snobby. Now, her laughter sounded almost insane.

“There is nowhere to run, Human King. We’ll find you! We’ll find you and destroy you!”

Chapter 1633

I made sure that the portal closed behind us. I felt a little better to not have the pressure of her party bearing down on me, but that only lasted a moment as I looked out over the bay. I hadn’t teleported into the city, but to the shoreline where the dungeon entrance had formed. It seemed like the safest place, as I didn’t want to startle anyone. The sea was filled with ships sailing in. Some were in the midst of battles with other ships. A few were acting defensively, trying to prevent them from landing, but the majority were trying to flee, only to be shot down with magic spells.

“No fog…” one of the girls from Titan’s fall commented.

“The fog would only get in the way,” Alysia spoke up, causing the girls to all glance at me. “They want to stop word of this from getting to the mainland. They’re aiming to take over the islands completely.”

It wasn’t a particularly bad idea. Their plan had been made without expecting me to be there. There was no particular reason the fey would believe I could make a portal into and out of the dungeon. I had only used that ability once in front of Kaia, and that was using my dungeon as a power source to make a portal I normally wouldn’t have had the mana reserves to cover. This place was isolated, and compared to the pirate’s cover, it was a step up.

Anyone who died in the dungeon was still trapped by the rules of the dungeon. They couldn’t be reincarnated outside of the dungeon, so as long as they could create an impenetrable blockade, it could be months before anyone found out. With all of the heads of the Ost Republic trapped here, the southern continent wouldn’t be able to respond to the invasion at all. Aberis would be completely clueless as the fey invaded a little bit at a time.

“The dungeon should be collapsing soon with the core gone.” Anne sniffed. “They won’t be able to hide for very long.”

“I wonder…” I responded quietly.

“Hmm?” Anne glanced at me.

“Ah, just having a thought.” I shook my head. “Were the fey aware that the peace talks were going on?”

“How could they have known such a thing?” Anne immediately dismissed it. “You’re giving them too much credit.”

I wasn’t so sure about that either.  Looking at the plumes of smoke rising in the distance, various fires spread over the dark landscape of the main island, and the sound of screaming in the distance, I wished I had portaled much closer.

“Deek!” Eliana’s Slave communication which had been mostly quiet up until now suddenly went activated, and I could hear her distressed voice.

The only reason I had been able to survey the situation calmly was that Eliana hadn’t called on me. I had hoped she and the rest of the council were in a relatively safe position on the island. The invasion had only just started, so it stood to reason they hadn’t made it too far yet.

“Alysia, we’re going. Chance, keep up!” I didn’t wait any longer, instead of pushing off the ground and leaping toward the city and the center of the battle.

Chapter 1634

I sent Elysium through a pack of men. As they died, I was able to get a better look at them. They were fey, but a variety of different species. They were pirates. The fey had seemingly captured the pirates Calypso and was forcing them to fight on their behalf. It made sense. Pirates could be resurrected, while the fey could not. Why would they waste their people on a battle that could be dedicated to others? Perhaps, that was why they were willing to start the invasion rather than wait for the outcome on the SSS island. No fey was even at risk.

I heard several people shouting pirates as they fled. If they weren’t looking closely at the boats, they might have thought this was just some massive pirate invasion. However, those boats were far too orderly, large, and plentiful to be pirates. Still, if anyone did manage to get the word out, the word would be that the Tearfall Isles were a part of a sudden pirate attack. The fey had truly planned out this invasion on several levels.

I quickly honed in on Eliana on the map, using the red marks to help me discover when I was approaching enemies. I came up to the main building, where there was a group of men marked with red trying to break inside. I didn’t waste any time cutting them all down. It was unlikely anyone would resurrect any of them, but I couldn’t spare any sympathy for those who not only attacked their own but betrayed them to an enemy. These pirates must have known who they were working for, and what the consequences of following them would be.

I thought about breaking through the barricade, but that would only startle them and remove some of the defenses they were using. That felt counterproductive to what I was trying to accomplish. Thus, I decided to open another portal and step directly in. Maybe, I should have done that as the first thing after coming out of the boss room, but it was too late now.

As the portal opened, a panting Chance finally reached me. “My lord… you’re hard to keep up with.”

I raised an eyebrow, and she immediately blushed. The other bodyguards would be ashamed if they were caught complaining about such a thing. I didn’t want to give her a hard time though, so I left I at that, taking her with me through the portal. Eliana was there on the other side. When she saw me, she let out a sigh of relief.

“Deek… you’ve returned. I was really worried I might not be able to reach you.”

“How are you guys holding out?” I asked.

“Not well.” A familiar councilman walked up to us. “We’re not equipped for such a battle. We’re outmanned. I’m drafting a surrender now.”

“Surrender?” Eliana’s response showed that she hadn’t been consulted about this decision.

The man seemed to stiffen even more than he already was. “They’ll leave once we give them some compensation.”

“Do you think this is just a pirate attack?” I asked in disbelief. “This is an invasion! We’re at war.”

“Well, what are we expected to do about it?” The councilman spoke in exasperation.

“If you had just joined with the mainland like I had asked…” Eliana began.

“Don’t you start! Even if we did get annexed by one of your mainland countries, you wouldn’t be able to provide us support on short notice. It’s hopeless! Surrender is our only option.”

I shook my head. “No, I might have another.”