My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1656-1658

Chapter 1656

Anger, rage, and fear seemed to twist in my stomach. I had never experienced an emotion like this. I had experienced loss before, but it had always been hot and sudden. Nothing had felt so cold as the moment that Kaia stabbed Eliana. I had even managed to save her, but in the end, I couldn’t save our child. I knew Anne was right even before she had spoken. I knew it the second Eliana was stabbed. There were things I could do, and things I couldn’t. This was something I could do.

I put Eliana down, and then closed and locked the cell. I then lifted my hand and began to cast a spell. A few short moments later, the familiar blue light appeared as a portal opened. After Calypso had stopped chuckling to herself, she had watched silently with some interest. When the portal opened, I pulled out the blade that Sapphire had given me and cut off Calypso’s restraints.

“Those eyes… I’ve seen those eyes before.”

I kneeled and picked up Eliana. “Come.”

I said nothing else as I stepped through the portal. Calypso rubbed her wrists but didn’t say anything as she stepped through. I heard some shouts of confusion from the other side of the cell, but I shut the portal closed before anyone could ask where I was going or what I was doing.

I was standing in a familiar hallway, the hallway of the fey Champion Gauntlet. Specifically, I was in front of the final door, the one leading to the dungeon boss. It had resealed itself since the last time I was there. I brought Eliana’s unconscious body close to the door, and it immediately started to glow. Her half-fey body was enough to trigger it.

“Oh, so is that your plan? If you defeat the dungeon boss, then the orb will reset. The dungeon will pull the human core back to the pedestal and present it to you. That’s an interesting theory. It might even work. I don’t know, though, can you defeat an SSS boss by yourself?” She asked.

“That’s why I brought you,” I responded, walking into the dungeon boss room as soon as the door finished opening.

“I may have the ability to deal with such a boss.” Calypso continued to speak as she followed me casually. “But, why would I help you?”

“You helped me before,” I answered as we walked into the boss room.

The pedestal had been reset, and standing in the middle was the sabretooth tiger. It turned to us, letting out a low grumble.

“You think that because I gave you the core once and you lost it, that I am in some way indebted to you?” She let out a laugh, crossing her arms. “Tell me, Deek. What will you do if you had it?”

I cautiously put Elaya down in a corner, looking down at her and gently stroking her cheek before I stood back up and faced the tiger. “I would absorb it, and then I would use it to kill them all.”

“The last person to do that became a monster.” Calypso sighed. “Like this, I have no intention of helping you get the human core.”

“I know…” I pulled out my blade.” That’s why I plan to take it from you!”

Just as the tiger went running forward, I spun around and slammed the blade into Calypso, stabbing her directly in the heart.

Chapter 1657

Calypso didn’t move. Her eyes only widened for a moment, before that same smile returned. She stumbled back down. I had a hand on her shoulder, and I kept the sword in her as I guided her to the ground.

“So… you figured it out after all.” She spoke through labored breaths, seemingly completely calm.

“The sabretooth tiger is just a decoy.” I didn’t have to look to know that the sabretooth tiger was turning to smoke, disappearing without a word. “You’re the true Dungeon Master. The human core was the core of the dungeon that the humans came from, the same dungeon the fey destroyed with a meteor. The Champion’s Gauntlet came after, and it formed a different core. When your animal gauntlet was finished, you’d give up the human core, but your dungeon’s core would remain safe.”

“When they summoned me from my world to this one, the job I had selected was Monster Tamer. I always had an affinity for beasts. They were far easier to talk to than people. Can you guess what my class was?”

“You were some kind of language arts person…” I muttered.

“Communication, of all things.” She chuckled. “What do you think you’re going to do with my core?”

“It’s a dungeon. The human core is only lore. You said it yourself. I couldn’t take it with me, I was copying and translating the contents. You’ve had the lore in here for centuries. A translated copy of the lore already exists in your core. All I need to do is absorb that!”

Calypso lifted her hand, and as I heard rumbling behind me, I panicked for a second, only to see that she caused the walls around the saferoom to open up. This allowed me to see the final mural, the one that I hadn’t looked at before. It was the image of the blond champion, and she was in the arms of a man with a crown!

“I was summoned to this world against my will. The fey spoke of evil demons and demon kings, and they earned my sympathy. It wasn’t until later that I realized that these so-called demons were humans. They had pitted me against my species. Of course, they didn’t know I was human. They thought my yellow hair was a special color. The King even… had me give them heirs to strengthen the noble line. By the end, I was little more than their slave.”

“Then, you understand…”

“That’s when I met him.” She continued, her eyes looking at the mural in the distance with tears in them. “The human king. They ordered me to kill him… but I fell in love instead. He wanted to save me. Instead, I betrayed him. They told me if I played along, they’d end this war. They said that the only reason they feared humans was because of the resurrection problem, and once it was resolved, they would use it to make peace for both sides.”

“Calypso…”

“So, I did it. I led the man I loved into the trap. I got him to show me where the orb was, and the fey too. Then they stabbed him in the back, they killed him in front of me.” Her body began to shake, and I could see the fury in her face. “I got the last laugh though… I took the orb, and I used it, and I killed them all. I killed and I killed until they fled this continent for good! I didn’t just kill one side. I used the humans up. Had the dungeon not formed around me, I would have killed everyone. I would have killed the world.

“Calypso.”

She grabbed onto my armor. “Do you understand? If you do this, you’ll end up just like me. You’ll become a monster that kills indiscriminately. Do you get it now?”

“Calypso.” I reached up and gently pulled her hands from my armor. “I don’t care.”

I grabbed the sword and then pulled it out of her. With the blade no longer blocking the wound, blood began to pour out quickly under her. Her eyes fluttered closed, and for a moment, maybe she felt peace as she died. As for me, there was no peace. A hole in the ceiling opened, and a familiar orb floated down from the ceiling. It was time to end this.

Chapter 1658

“I’m giving you this last chance to surrender.” Kaia’s voice echoed out across the island. “Put down your weapons and accept your slave collars, and you won’t be harmed… for now.”

“Look at you now… I wonder if you were ever a good person.” Carmine retorted.

“Abandoned again?” Kaia shot back. “Your lord and master has already run away with his tail between his legs. It’s no use continuing to fight.”

“You…”

Her words did sense shockwaves through several of those who were still hiding. They had used a spell that had blown apart the stairway leading down to the dungeon. There was a crater where the dungeon was supposed to be, and the dungeon hallway was completely exposed except for the rubble that the occupants were hiding behind. Carmine was at the front, using an impressive shield to block any spells they sent their way and keeping the hallways from collapsing on top of them.

They were at a standstill for the moment, but it was only a matter of time before they were all defeated, the last pocket of resistance in a nearly flawless journey. The politicians mostly looked like they wanted to surrender. The only reason they hadn’t immediately held out their necks was because of the particularly dangerous look the lionesses were giving them.

“Prelate Anne!”

Anne’s body suddenly went rigid, and then she collapsed. Her body started to glow with white light. She wasn’t the only one. Numerous others suddenly went rigid and started to glow as well. It was specifically all of the humans. Seeing all of the humans suddenly pass out and start glowing was enough that Kaia started to panic. Carmine seemed to be a notable exception.

“A-attack!” She raised her hand, but before she could drop it, a portal opened right in front of the entrance.

The soldiers all tense warily as foot gingerly stepped through. This was followed by the rest of the body, ending in a tail.

“Lydia?” Carmine blinked.

More portals began to open, and more girls began to appear. There was Miki, a massive golem, Shao, Celeste, Astria, Elaya… each one stepping out into the crater, looking around with worried expressions on their faces.

“Who are you?” Kaia demanded angrily.

“Reinforcements.” Lydia declared, turning to Carmine.

“Hah… do you think your silly little reinforcements will make a difference? You’ve already lost!”

“We’re not here for you, idiot!” Shao shot her such a look, that Kaia’s mouth flapped in confusion.

“What’s happened?” Lydia asked Carmine. “I felt… pain.”

“Master needs us.” Miki nodded.

“That… despair…” Shao shivered.

“That… Master…” Carmine didn’t know how to even respond.

“He’s… hurt.” Alysia barely managed to finish.

Kaia shook her head, seeming to recover from that moment of being stunned. “How did you even get in here? We’re in a dungeon?”

“Eh? The portal led us right here though?” Celeste cocked her head thoughtfully.

Cr-cr-crrraaaack. Everyone looked up as the sky itself started to form cracks across it.

“What are you doing?” A flash of panic appeared across Kaia’s face. “Whatever you’re doing, you can’t stop the ceremony! It’s not even here. It’s too la-”

Boom! A distance explosion many times larger than the spells they had been using in this battle caused the ground to shake. A fireball erupted into the crack-filled sky. A few moments later, there were more explosions. Each one seemed to be getting closer and closer. It was finally clear that some of those fireballs were ships that exploded and then were swallowed by the sea with almost no fanfare.

“Report!” Kaia lifted a magic communicator.

“What is… no… ah!” The response cut out and she switched to another.

“Princess, we need assistance! Wait, nooo!”

There were more and more shouts filling the eerily quiet city.

“The sky is cracking.”

“Haven’t you noticed, the sea has turned black too?”

“Is the sea bubbling?”

“There is something under there.”

“Ahhhhhhgghhhh!!!”

The ground started rumbling and the see looked like it was a boiling black pit.

Kaia’s expression turned to fear. “Y-you can’t stop me!”

“We already said, we’re not here for you.” The golem spoke up and then pointed toward the dock, although she couldn’t see it.

At that moment, a form began to rise from the murky black water at the shore of the main island. That form was me.