My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1638-1640

Chapter 1638

“I will give you the knowledge you seek, Deek.” Calypso began, not giving any particular attention to her previous reveal.

I wasn’t that surprised though. I wasn’t a descendent of the humans that came from that dungeon. I was inexplicably brought there through some kind of teleportation. I never really understood why I ended up in Faerith, but I understood why I wouldn’t be one of those connected to the human core. From the moment the fey mentioned getting rid of resurrection, I wondered if such a skill would even affect me. After all, I had my unique mana signature. Most of my girls weren’t human, and those that were had been altered by my dungeon to the point where I didn’t think they’d be hard to pick out during a resurrection.

“Alright…”

“However, there will be a cost.”

“What’s the cost?” I asked suspiciously.

“This power… pushes you into a position above others. You will have governance over all humans. This is something you shouldn’t abuse.”

I gave her an incredulous look. “You’re one to talk about abusing power!”

“I’ve done a lot of things, Deek, but I have never abused the power that came from that core. I have never declared myself a ruler of men, or tried to enslave the human race. I could have done many things, and yet I stepped aside for most of history.”

I wanted to argue with her, but she had a point. If she was the human king for all of these years, she could have been in a far greater position than she was. Instead, she remained rather low-key. Perhaps, she played at being a bandit and played and being a pirate, but that was rather minor compared to the power she could have used and abused.

I also started to wonder what had brought her north to the demon realm. She had eventually been forced to become an incubator to the child Aberis. Was she up there trying to end the war between demons and humans? She had only become the bandit king in hopes of fighting against the demon lord Aberis, and she also happened to become a pirate on the seas just as an invasion began. Perhaps, I had never understood her true intentions from the beginning.

“I will never abuse or try to control the human race,” I swore.

“It’s not the humans that I’m worried about.”

“What?”

“The fey are your enemies…” She once again looked a bit uncertain. “Things always happen in war, animosity is created, and both sides begin to hate each other. When you have that power, you will be tempted to use it to wipe out your enemies. It might have the ability to destroy your enemies, but it will happen at the expense of yourself.”

Once again, I wanted to come up with some argument, but the words sounded reasonable. I knew about the animosity that Kaia had formed for me. I still worried that I might have been the cause of this entire invasion. If I hadn’t gone to the faerie plains, would they ever have sailed across the sea? At the very least, I didn’t think it’d be happening now.

“What are you asking from me?”

“No matter what happens, you must keep hold of yourself.” She declared.

“I don’t…”

“Promise me!”

Calypso’s words felt strange, and they left me wondering more about her lore. Just what had happened to the woman that she gave such a strange demand? Even though I wasn’t sure I understood, I was always going to be me. There was nothing that could change that.

I nodded. “I promise.”

Chapter 1639

The method for taking dominion over the core wasn’t anything that I hadn’t already guessed. It was done sort of like how I made Alysia my sword. It was a cross between binding the energy to my soul and using a binding enchantment on it. The only reason I had gone to Calypso first was to make sure there wasn’t any trick or catch. Perhaps, I wouldn’t be able to become king while she was the king or something like that. If Calypso was to be believed, this wasn’t an issue.

Normally, I’d have trouble believing her, but her attitude had been strangely solemn, and I didn’t think she was lying or trying to manipulate me this time. For perhaps the first time since I had met her, she seemed as wise as her age should have made her. She seemed like an immortal tired with life and ready to pass on the mantle. I didn’t know why she chose me to pass it on to. I was the only person who wasn’t connected to this source of humanity, so why would she pick me? Maybe, it was because of that separation that she picked me.

Either way, I had to do this ceremony and bind with the orb. This wasn’t something that could be done in a few minutes. Like when Twilight needed days to bind with King Diorite, this was a similar type of connection. In essence, I was becoming the avatar of the human race on Faerith. I didn’t want this responsibility, but I didn’t have a choice. This was the only way I could get the power to deal with the fey invasion and protect the people. Prince Edward had thought that I might have the credentials to become the King of Aberis, and wanted to include me in his selection. I guess neither of us expected that I would be becoming a king in my own right, and so soon.

“You are going to begin tonight? Is that safe?” Eliana asked.

After meeting with Calypso, I had sat down with Eliana, Chance, and Cici and explained the plan. I didn’t include anyone else, as the least people who knew about it, the safer things would be. I was very aware of how important this was, and how vulnerable things would be while we did it.

“I don’t understand.” Eliana frowned as she spoke. “Do you need to do this here? Wouldn’t it make more sense to do the ceremony in Chalm where we’re safe?”

I shook my head. “According to Calypso, if I took the core out of this dungeon, the dungeon would reclaim it. If you haven’t noticed, the dungeon hasn’t started to fall apart yet. That’s because the core still exists and remains present. For me to successfully do it while maintaining the integrity of the core, I have to absorb it while in this dungeon, transferring from one to the next.”

That was one thing Calypso had told me that made me glad I spoke to her first. My first inclination had been to leave immediately and take the core someplace safer. Technically, the core was in my soul world, but my soul world was in the dungeon, so I guessed it counted. If I had portaled out of the dungeon, though, the core would have begun to break and perhaps it might have even shattered. In essence, it was being maintained by the dungeon in the same way the dungeon was being maintained by it.

“This still sounds dangerous,” Alysia spoke up. “Calypso also said that once the ceremony began, everyone in the dungeon would be aware it was happening. I believed she said something like you’d light up like a town square? Even with Titan’s Fall and Eliana’s guards, once you start doing this, the attacks will surely redouble and also be brutal.”

“I know… that’s why I made a call back home. I’m bringing in support.”

Chapter 1640

The portal opened leading all the way back to Chalm. Of course, I wasn’t leaving, but waiting for people to arrive. If Kaia and the rest knew I was able to open this portal at any time I wondered how they would react. Actually, forget the enemy. If any of the council members in this building knew that I could just open a portal and leave, would they be willing to help?

We had ended up telling a bit of a fib to the tribes of the Ost Republic. I needed their armies and their defense for when the fey began their attack, and I couldn’t afford to have them refuse to defend or worse, demand to leave. I had hidden the fact I could open a portal out of the dungeon, and Eliana had finally managed to convince them to work together on defense. We didn’t tell them exactly what we were doing in the dungeon, but they knew that we had some plan we were going to use.

“Let me in! Hmph! Get out of my way!”

“I’m sorry, Deek…” The Titan Fall girls had been at the door blocking entry, but Anne was so tiny that she managed to slip under their reach and break through the door with the Inquisitor falling closely behind.

“You can let them in.” I sighed.

I figured it’d be more trouble trying to keep them out while I did something in secret rather than just explaining what was happening. While I didn’t want the council to know that I could leave at will, I didn’t feel like Anne would be the type of person to just run away when she had the chance.

“A… portal? What are you transporting?” Anne demanded as Titan Fall quickly closed the door to keep any other prying eyes from looking.

“Me…” A young-looking and short girl took a step in.

“Rubee!” Anne’s expression went from a questioning one to a look of pure delight.

She immediately ran past me and then threw her arms around Sapphire, who seemed to be expecting such a thing.

“Anne… it’s been a long time. I call myself Sapphire now.”

“Sapphire? That’s a pretty name too! I’m glad you continued to pick a name that ended in ‘e’ instead of a name that ended in ‘y’, like some big, ugly cows…”

“You know Sapphire?” I couldn’t stop myself from asking.

Anne turned, giving me a huff. “Of course, I know her! I’m the one who found her! Sapphire saved my soul.”

“You’re exaggerating.” Sapphire looked slightly embarrassed.

“How could I be exaggerating?” She sniffed, wrapping an arm around Sapphire like they were close friends. “I was just once a lowly peon in the church of the mother. Then, one day while investigating a new dungeon, I encountered this beauty. I found a woman with a chest smaller than mine, and that’s how I found my path to the church of the daughter. When I saw how cool big sister Sapphire is, not like that fat, flappy cow woman, I knew that flat-chest is justice!”

Was it just me, or did Anne’s backstory somehow make Sapphire’s backstory less dramatic?