My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1665-1667

Chapter 1665

I began my approach once again. Other than the Inquisitor’s labored moaning, it was dead quiet as I approached, my feet crunching on the ground. First and the other lionesses had their heads down, seemingly unmoving. Meanwhile, the Paladins had put themselves defensively around Anne, keeping her from seeing anything. I had backed the remaining fey into a corner. Kaia was on the ground, her back against a wall, still glaring at me hatefully.

“Time to die-”

“Please, Master, you need to stop this now!” A form grabbed onto me.

I shoved Lydia aside. Her pain-wracked body was unable to put up much of a resistance.

“Master, stop.” Shao gave a desperate attack, but I knocked her aside.

My focus was entirely on Kaia. She would die, and then the rest. I took a step forward, and another one got in my way.

“Move.”

“No! I won’t move! I won’t move!”

“Chance, don’t!” One of the lionesses cried out. “We obey our lord.”

Standing in my way was a little girl. Her ears were wilted, and she was shaking, but she stood between me and my prey, her arms outstretched defiantly.

“I am!” She declared. “I’m doing what my lord asked me to do!”

“Move,” I ordered.

“I won’t! My lord said… I must help him be calm. I have to be at my lord’s side at all times. I have to help him emotionally. My lord isn’t calm right now. That’s why… I absolutely won’t move!”

I took a step toward her. She flinched for a moment, but then straightened. I took another step, and then another. I ended up right in front of her, about ten feet in front of the woman I needed to kill.

“Move!” I shouted.

Her body was shaking, but she shook her head. “I must… support my lord!”

I reached out and pushed her aside. She fell to the ground with the thump. I then took another step forward. I was struck in the side, two arms wrapped around me. I went to push them, but then I saw Cici looking up at me, her blackened face marring her looks, but even in that state, she was holding me fiercely.

“Let go.”

“I won’t! Chance is right. This is my job!”

“If you don’t let go, I’ll kill you.”

“Even if I die… then I’ll do it by Master’s side!”

I took a step forward, but that was when something else grabbed onto my leg. Chance had grabbed onto my leg completely. I picked it up and shook it.

“Oi.” I frowned. “Get off.”

“I won’t!”

I lifted my leg with her holding onto it, trying to take a step forward, only to run into Lydia. She grabbed onto me too, wrapping her arms around me and hugging me. Each one of them that wrapped their arms around me suddenly caused the pain in my chest to amplify. It became difficult to move.

“We found his weakness! Get him!”

I was slammed in the side by a fairy, her chest wrapping around one of my arms just over the head of Cici. I felt another soft form slam into my back, and another grabbed me from the front. Each girl grabbed onto me one after another.

“S-s-stop!” It was my voice this time, cracking with emotion.

“We won’t!” All of the girls cried out at once.

I ignored them, focusing instead on my prey. I tried to level my look on Kaia, only for the view to be blocked by Elaya’s impressive chest.

“My my… Master once stopped me with his body. It’s about time I did the favor.” Elaya grabbed my head and shoved it into her chest.

“This isn’t the same thing!” Shao snapped from behind.

“Ahhh!” I let out a roar, trying to shove through the girls.

They all clung to me, and the result was that we all fell forward. I was on my knees, and Elaya ended up under me. The other girls were holding my arms and legs back.

“Oh, my…” Elaya flirtatious pursed her lips under me.

I ignored her, looking up with a furious look at Kaia. However, the person standing in front of me blocking my view of her was the last person I wanted to see at that moment. It was Eliana.

Chapter 1666

Of anyone that I didn’t want to see in that moment, Eliana was the top. I had come on this journey to protect her, and I had failed to do so. I didn’t just fail to protect her, I failed to protect the thing that was most precious to her. I had put Eliana in some place safe before I had started this. I was too afraid to face her. It hurt too much. How had she returned like this?

I didn’t have to look far to see the answer. Alysia was standing a short distance away from her with the Titan’s Fall girls. They were somewhat beaten up. They must have fought their way through the SSS island. Alysia would have known where I had gone. The monsters were being destroyed as I consumed miasma to power my current state, so they were able to fight their way in. It was still impressive they were able to move so quickly.

At that moment, I saw Kaia grab onto the inquisitor. She lifted something and broke it in two. I had a sudden spike of worry, but as I tried to move, I found myself completely immobile. Eliana kneeled in front of me, reached out, and grabbed my face.

“Deek, let it go.” Eliana’s voice was weak.

She had still just come back from near death, and I knew just kneeling before I took everything she had. What was she saying though? I had them? I had the person who had murdered our child. I could just reach out and kill them.

“Deek, I need you.” Tears formed in her eyes.

My eyes met hers, and I couldn’t look away again. There was a flash of light behind her, and I knew that Kaia had used some kind of teleportation. It would have been a short distance. I still go and find her. I could still leave. Yet, I couldn’t. My body shook.

“I failed.”

I didn’t even know what failure I was talking about. Was it failing to kill Kaia, or was it failing to protect Eliana?

“Deek…”

“I lost…” I could bring myself to say anymore.

It was getting harder and harder to think, but it was different than before. It wasn’t that my mind was being slammed with lore that I couldn’t handle. It was like my mind was collapsing in on itself. I could feel my connection to the dungeon lore quickly breaking. I was no longer able to control it, and just like when I tried to merge souls with Alysia, the incompatibility started to become too much.

“We lost,” Eliana responded.

Her words were like a knife being slammed into my heart. I heard a deep and powerful sob, and the world around me became blurry. Eliana reached out and wrapped her hands around my head, and it was at that point I realized the sob was coming from me. I began to cry wailing cries, my tears drenching Eliana’s dress.

I was the one who had messed up. I was the one who had failed to protect her. Eliana lost her child. Eliana almost died. Yet, she was comforting me. She was holding me. They all were. They were all holding me tightly, and all I could do was cry. I felt more pathetic than I had ever felt in my entire life, but I couldn’t stop either. I could only stay there, being held by all of them, crying, until all of the energy was sapped out of me.

Chapter 1667

I didn’t really know how much time had passed, but I finally pulled my head away from Eliana’s chest. She rose slightly. Her eyes had been half-closed, and she looked like she could barely stand.

“I… showed a really ugly side of myself,” I spoke softly, but it was still heard by all of the girls there.

“No…” Eliana shook her head. “You gave me exactly what I needed. To see you so angry on my behalf, made me very happy.”

“Eliana…”

“Deek.”

“Celeste!” Celeste declared, still hugging my right arm.

“You did well too.” I smiled weakly. “I’m better now. You can let go.”

“Don’t wanna!” She responded stubbornly.

Eliana looked at the woman still dogpiling me, and then put her hand to her mouth, covering up a smile. “Although I am happy Deek got mad on my behalf, perhaps the other girls will be more difficult to satisfy.”

“I’m not angry. I just miss holding Master.” Lydia declared, snuggling me.

“We haven’t gotten Master’s attention in forever!” Shao looked over my shoulder, nodding in agreement.

“Well… someone has to move!” Alysia frowned, an expression like she was regretting not getting in there.

“Hmph! If no one else will move, then I will!” Anne declared.

“What? Anne is holding me? Where is… what is your hand doing there?”

“D-don’t get any wrong ideas! I was doing for Sapphire! Sapphire!”

“That still doesn’t explain why your hand is on my crotch!”

“I-it was the only place not covered by someone!” She defended, trying to pull her hand. “Now my arm is stuck!”

“No one had Master’s crotch covered?” Terra asked. “That seems unlike us.”

“I’ll have you know that Master’s crotch is always covered.” A voice came from my crotch.

“Mom? Are you in Master’s pants again!”

“Hahah… while you were all slacking, I was supporting Master where it matters most!”

“I don’t think that’s how it works.” Miki frowned.

“Get out of my pants, Astria!”

“Tcht! Spoilsport.”

“Fufu, as fun as this is, perhaps it’s time to give Master some room.”

“Aren’t you just saying that because you’re an old lady and holding onto Master in your current position is too taxing?” Miki declared.

“O-old lady! Y-you dare…” Elaya growled.

“Don’t get angry just because you were too slow to get a better grip.”

“What the heck? Am I a car you guys are trying to win a reward from touching long enough?”

“You heard Master, whoever lets go last gets him tonight?”

“Huh? Who said that!”

The Titan Fall girls who had been watching this whole thing suddenly started giving Alysia pitiful looks. She started to notice, shooting them a questioning look.

“What is it?”

“We have been in the team leader’s way!” Marice cried out.

“Normally, since Boss is used to being handled by Deek all the time, you would have the greatest chance of victory, but since you went with us, you gave up her chance to put a hand on Deek. We’ve caused you to lose before you even started!” Faith explained.

Alysia’s mouth opened and closed. She hadn’t even thought about such a competition. As they said, she was normally by Deek’s side at all times, so it hadn’t even occurred to her that she was the only one apart from him. Even Carmine had managed to get a hand on him after Kaia was forced to let her go! Such a thing caused her to suddenly grow enraged.

“Everyone off of Deek!” She cried out.

Her body turned back into her soul spirit form, but instead of returning into my hand, her body merged into my armor. The other girls seemed to all get a bad premonition and jumped off just as a few dozen spikes emerged, turning me into a porcupine.

“Alysia!”

“Ch-cheating!”

“Eh? We have victors?”

I didn’t even know she could do that. Was that the so-called power of such armor? Alysia hadn’t seriously tried to hurt anyone. Eliana who couldn’t move away, for example, didn’t have any spikes around her. However, two girls hadn’t flinched when I turned spikey. This was because they were both unconscious. Chance was asleep with her body still wrapped around my leg, and Cici had passed out where she stood, the miasma having nearly blackened her entire face. Both girls had been at the center of the pit and had been smothered to unconsciousness by their aunties!

I immediately started healing them while the aunties panicked searching for water of life. Suffice it to say, things had returned to normal at a breakneck pace.