My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1653-1655

Chapter 1653

“Deek, don’t give it to her!” Eliana cried out, but her voice was cut short as Kaia pulled back her hand and grabbed Eliana’s neck.

“I will kill her!”

“Stop!” I held up my hands. “I’m working on it…”

“No games! Don’t even think of using some hidden skill. We’ve already accounted for them. The fey has been dealing with your kind, so-called heroes, for longer than you can imagine.”

“I understand…” I spoke slowly. “I need to just… detach the lore.”

It had been nearly an hour of work that I wasn’t having to backpedal on. I had barely scratched the surface of this lore, yet, I now had to pull apart and give the core away.

“Deek… don’t worry about me.” Eliana cried out.

“It’s not… just you…” I closed my eyes, feeling an extremely bitter feeling inside.

Eliana gasped as if she had forgotten at that moment, her hands reflexively protecting the baby. Kaia’s eyes looked down, and then her smile grew even larger.

“Oh, is it yours? How wonderful! To think, I would have one of your relatives in my hands like you had with mine. Should I give them the same treatment?” As she spoke, a cruel look appeared on her face and the knife dropped down to her abdomen.

“Stop. I will give it to you.” I held out my hand.

I could still barely move. I was doing everything I could to undo the lore. I had started to do it as soon as I saw things going south. Sweat was pouring down my face, but it was all I could do to stay sitting upright. The other girls were shooting Kaia a dark look. She merely shrugged, waiting for me. We remained in those positions for nearly two minutes.

“Deek… I can’t… I can’t heal this.” Anne sounded a bit surprised but also worried.

Cici was on the ground and the miasmic infection was still growing. It covered her stomach and chest now. Anne was doing everything she could to hold it back, but she didn’t seem to be able to stop it. It reminded me of the same difficulties I had the first time I encountered karmic infections. It wasn’t enough to just wash away the darkness. One needed to be able to manipulate the lore itself to fix the problem.

“It’s fine,” I spoke slowly. “Everything is fine.”

I reached into my soul world and slowly pulled out the orb. When it appeared in my hand, there was a gasp from several people. Eliana shook her head, a look of shame on her face.

“So, you can be reasonable.” Kaia smiled. “Roll it over here.”

“Master…” Alysia looked my way.

“My lord.” First looked uneasy.

“It’s okay. I know what I’m doing…” I put the orb on the ground. “Release her.”

“The orb first.” She declared.

I took a deep breath, and then tossed the orb. “Switch Position.”

Of course, Eliana was in my party. I thought about switching before I through the orb, but I needed them to be distracted. As their eyes followed the orb, I would… do nothing. Kaia caught the orb. Rather, it stopped and flew to her hand with some kind of magic or skill. As for Switch Position, Eliana was still in the same spot, and so was I.

“Were you expecting a different outcome?” Kaia raised an eyebrow. “I told you, Deek, there is nothing you can do we haven’t already figured out.”

“Release her!” I demanded, forcing my way to my feet as I slowly started to regain my energy.

“I did promise.” She responded. “But just her.”

“What?”

Her expression turned dark. “This is what it feels like to lose.”

She repositioned her grip on the knife and slammed it into Eliana’s stomach.

Chapter 1654

I let out a scream, racing forward. Her group had already been retreating through the portal. She kicked Eliana at me and then leaped back through the portal. I didn’t even watch as the portal closed. My arms went to catching Eliana, and I was healing her before her body even reached the ground. I immediately pushed my soul against hers, using it to stabilize her as I worked on the wound.

Eliana was much more vulnerable to miasmic attacks than anyone else. She might have been my slave, but she had spent almost no time around the dungeon. She hadn’t grown a defense to miasmic attacks, and more than that, she was half-fey, a species who was extremely vulnerable to miasmic attacks. That was part of the reason it was so surprising to see them using those weapons, although they were the only weapons a fey could use to effectively deal with invaders that had already grown acclimated to Gaia.

I could hear distant screaming and shouting. Occasionally, the ground would shake. The full invasion had started once again. However, I ignored all of it. My focus was on Eliana and her healing. I pushed it to the limit, and if I hadn’t given everything I had instantly, it was very likely she would have died. Thankfully, her face started to look better, and her complexion started to look better. I felt a hand grab my shoulder.

“Master! They’re all attacking at once. They’re breaking through. We need to get out of here.” First declared.

They had been waiting for this moment to attack. They had the lore now, there was no point in holding back.

“What is going on? There is some kind of beam in the sky!” The councilmen at some point had shoved his way into the room as all the security broke down.

“My soul… they’re doing it. They’re using the human core.” Anne gasped.

I ignored these words as well. My eyes were focused on Eliana. I finished the last bit of healing, and her eyes fluttered open. She was safe.

“T-the baby…” That was all she said before falling back unconscious.

I touched her stomach. It had been so frantic I hadn’t been focusing on that part first. I felt around with my magic, and I felt nothing there.

“W-where is it?” My hand moved up and down her stomach. “Where is it?”

“We need to go, Master.” Alysia tried to grab my other shoulder.

“Where is the baby? Where is it?” I demanded as I realized the world was turning blurry.

The blurry shape of Anne kneeled across from me. She touched Eliana and then sighed.

“She’ll be okay.” She sounded a bit surprised, and I could hear the other girls give sighs of relief.

“The baby! I don’t sense it!”

First and Alysia’s hands felt extremely heavy as if they were trying to hold me down.

“Deek… a lore that hasn’t even begun…”

I shook my head. “I’m not talking about lore. Where’s my child?”

“Unborn… can’t be resurrected. Their soul is too weak. For a soul that fragile, to be struck with a malacrum dagger. It’s already a miracle you saved the woman…”

“No…” I continued shaking my head. “No!”

The ground was shaking so much. No, I was falling over. The world faded as I passed out.

Chapter 1655

“Deek!” A faded voice seemed to be trying to call me, but I didn’t want to face it. “Wake up!”

I was alone in the darkness, hovering through nothingness. It was peaceful here. I didn’t have to face it.

“Deek!”

I was alone. You couldn’t lose anything if you never had anything.

“Master!”

My eye popped open. It was still bright and blurry. No, those were tears in my eyes. I blinked as the ground shook. There was yelling and screaming. I could hear fighting in the distance.

“We need you to make a portal, Master,” Alysia explained. “We can’t escape without you.”

Escape… was that even an option.

“Cici is still getting worse.” Anne declared. “You need to fix who you can fix.”

Who’s Cici? Why does she matter?

I shook my head slowly, sitting up. I hadn’t moved far. We were under the council room. We were in the dungeon, it appeared.

“There was a hidden path to escape. They’ve already taken the council building. Everyone who could have fled down here. It won’t be long until they find us though. That’s why we need to escape while we have the chance.” First explained.

I was looking around the room. It was cramped, with perhaps a hundred people huddled in the dark corridors and empty cells, fear painted on their faces. Every once in a while, there was a boom and then the dust would fall from the ceiling and rain down on the shivering people. That’s when my eyes landed on someone I didn’t want to see.

“What are you doing here?” I snarled, getting to my feet.

The fey tribe leader let out a cry, jumping behind the merchant councilman as I approached with murder in my eyes.

“It’s not my fault! I had no clue about any of this!” She cried.

I felt several people grabbing onto me, stopping me from walking forward. It was the members of Titan’s Fall as well as Carmine.

“They’re innocent.” One of them spoke.

“The fey are calling them traitors!” Carmine added

I slowed to a stop, but I still glared hatefully at her. “How can you be certain?”

“My lord, we don’t have time for that right now.” First explained. “We need to go now.”

“Are you so eager to flee?” I snarled at her, causing First to stiffen for a moment.

“Master, we don’t have a choice. Eliana is hurt. Cici is ill. We’re trapped and I don’t know how long we can hold on.” Alysia explained. “We’re depending on you.”

“You mean like how I depended on you?”

A flash of hurt appeared in Alysia’s eyes. First and Carmine looked down, and only Anne glowered back.

“Don’t take it out on others. There is no point in blaming anyone.” Anne spoke up defiantly.

“That’s rich coming from you. You’re the one who brought the inquisitor in. You’re the most to blame.” I snapped.

Anne remained defiant though. “If you want to sulk or whatever, do that on your own time. We still need to make it through right now. You can worry about revenge later.”

“Revenge…” My eyes dropped to Eliana, and I immediately felt a spike of pain.

I kneeled next to her. Eliana was breathing steadily now, but her complexion still look feint. She also had no clue that… it was lost. I reached down and picked her up. I then picked a familiar door and walked inside. The girls looked at me, but otherwise, let me go.

The cell I chose was the cell Calypso was in. She looked up at me from her restraints. A subtle smile formed on her lips.

“I see, it seems like history is bound to repeat itself.” She started to laugh.