My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1674-1676

Chapter 1674

“You did it… you released that horrible spell. You’ve killed… millions.” Calypso glared hatefully. “Humans were the only ones who died. Just as many fey perished in the aftermath. More will die when the winter comes.”

It was another scene. It was hard to tell where they were, but Calypso was once again facing the fey king.

“Hahaha… when you didn’t come back, you forced my hand.”

“You can’t possibly be saying this is my fault,” Calypso responded.

“The fey had no choice. The ability of humans to resurrect is too great. Our only option was to destroy them in such a way that they wouldn’t be able to resurrect their way out of it. Even if they had connections to every person who died, they wouldn’t be able to resurrect a quarter of them before the time limit is passed. Resurrection is truly a hateful ability.”

“Your children can be resurrected,” Calypso responded defiantly.

“Yes, the noble line is safe, but you don’t plan to become the mother of all fey, do you?”

“…”

It seemed that the king had never figured out Calypso’s deception. She was a human, so the nobles should be half-fey. It seemed like it’d be a pretty easy thing to discover. Maybe, in some of the memories, she wasn’t showing me, there was an explanation for that as well. I seemed to recall her using some kind of magic to prevent the king from having any more children.

This was likely done in retaliation. It fit Calypso’s character perfectly that she would prevent him from ever having any more kids to punish him for forcing himself on her. This was why the yellow-haired fey eventually became synonymous with the noble line. It wouldn’t be so hard to believe similar magic prevented the king from realizing these children were impure.

“We will never stop this war. We will never back down. Until the humans give up the ability to resurrect, there can never be peace between us.”

“Why have you contacted me?”

“I wish to propose a way to end the war.”

“You…”

“It’s true! I had hoped that the destruction of that dungeon would have ended the human resurrection cycle, but it appears that the lore was being protected by its master.”

“Lore?” She looked a bit interested.

“The lore that brought humans to this world, the original human dungeon, it contained a spark of humanity’s origin in it. If we can get the core from its master, we can finally remove resurrection from the equation.”

“Master… what Master?”

“You already know who it is…”

“N-no!”

“Perhaps I should let you know a secret.”

“Wh-what?”

He leaned closed to her. “The &*^(&^ ^&**&^% %^%&^% (*&((&*.”

“No!”

“If you don’t help me do this, then you’ve given me no choice!”

Calypso’s mouth opened and closed a few times. It was clear that she was facing indecision. However, I had already seen enough of the dungeon to know how this part went.

Flicker.

“My love, the human core isn’t safe. I’ve discovered that the fey knows its whereabouts. We have to fetch it and move it before they go after it. Please, we have to go.”

“Humanities already on the run. They destroyed our country, and kill 90% of our people. When will the fey cease this carnage?”

“I… don’t know.” Calypso looked away, hiding the guilt on her face. “Hopefully, soon.”

Chapter 1675

The human king took Calypso to the Teardrop isles and brought her down to where he had hidden the orb. Of course, the fey were following Calypso, and when they arrived, the fey popped out and took the core. I watched as the hurt human king looked on at Calypso, shocked by her betrayal. I watched even more as the fey king used the opportunity to stab the human king in the back with a malacrum dagger.

I didn’t know why, but the dagger gave me the feeling like it was the same dagger that Kaia had used. Either the noble line of the fey had held onto the dagger all of these years, or the Champion’s Gauntlet had done so instead, and Kaia had run into it while breaking through those challenges. It seemed like history really did repeat itself, just as Calypso said.

She grabbed onto the human orb, and she forced herself to merge with it. Then, the slaughter began. She started with the fey king, skinning him alive. Her hair became as black as midnight, and her eyes became dark orbs. She killed everyone there, but when everyone was gone, she wasn’t satiated.

Her rampage didn’t last for a few hours like my own. Hers went on for months. At first, she fought alongside the humans, helping them get vengeance and push back the fey. She used massive hordes of monsters to do it. Champion’s Gauntlet wasn’t original built as a trial; it was built as an army breeding ground. In the same way Calypso used the Bandit’s Respite to create an unstoppable bandit army, she had done the same with the monsters.

With the Bandit’s respite, she had built it horizontally, covering as much land as she could to spread out the influence of the dungeon. After all, if monsters got too far from their dungeon, they would end up losing their strength and dying unless they had the strength to convert into mana creatures. Calypso had gotten around this by using humanity. In a sense, she used the human armies as her personal miasma generators, feeding them to the monsters to fuel her war machine. Suffice it to say that humanity quickly stopped being her alley, and she became a tyrant.

Yet, she had succeeded in her goals, destroying the already disordered fey who had lost their leadership. Some fey hid, while other fey fled. Her children, the surviving noble line, were smuggled onto ships and eventually sent overseas. Her rampage only ended with a certain person in her arms. That person was none other than the white mage. She had killed her own lover, and that was the act that finally broke her from her rampage.

Heartbroken and having lost everything, Calypso retreated into her dungeon. She only emerged again many years later, a completely different woman. This new woman didn’t trust anyone, and didn’t care about human life. This was the Calypso I was familiar with, a dark woman with a soul of miasma, a love of female harems, and distrust toward humanity. Over the years, she’d be known for many things. She’d be a sorceress, a demon lord’s incubator, a dark priestess, a bandit king, and even a pirate king. Yet, this was where it all began.

Chapter 1676

The lore ended there, but I knew bits of her story after that point. At some point, she ended up in the demon realm. Maybe, she felt that she could mitigate the demons and humans in a way that she failed with the fey. However, that only ended up with her pregnant with Aberis.

At some point later, she met with the Bandit Hero. He wasn’t supposed to be in the Twilight dungeon. The Bandit Hero was a rebel who fought against Aberis during those years of control. He was born in the Imperial Cloud Meadow, but she had convinced him to go south with her and raise hell in Aberis. This ultimately ended with his destruction and the formation of Calypso’s Tower Dungeon. Calypso fled from that and presumably continued to act as a bandit queen, where she continued to antagonize her “son”.

Her actions did pave the way for the Maid Hero, the Hero King, and the Princess Hero to combine and eventually overthrow Aberis.

When she realized Demon Lord Aberis had once again avoided death, she decided to take a more proactive attempt to destroy him through the use of a second dungeon, just like the one I had conquered and built in the Deep. That would be Bandit’s Respite. She must have wanted the Clockwork Dragon as a trump card to finally deal with Aberis once and for all. Meanwhile, she left Champion’s Gauntlet in control of her monsters, and even let it build into a tourist attraction.

That was all I could put together of her history. It was likely longer and more complex than even that. After all, she hadn’t lived hundreds of years as I had originally thought, but thousands. There was no telling if the Champion’s Gauntlet she had sacrificed was even her only dungeon. Just how many side-dungeons did Calypso have mastery over? How many lores would have clones of her past self?

[Calypso’s Blessing has evolved into the Human Heroic Mark!]

[Humans in party or harem will gain additional experience.]

[Humans will be more trusting and have a better impression of you.]

[Dungeon Master has increased by 10 levels!]

[True Hero has increased by 10 levels!]

[For satisfying the harem lore, you have gained 30 dungeon points.]

[Lydia has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Astria has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Miki has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Celeste has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Carmine has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Terra has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Shao has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Elaya has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Eliana has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[First has gained 10 dungeon points.]

[Anne has gained 10 dungeon points.]

Rather than gain another blessing, this one also seemed to evolve like the last one. As I absorbed lore along the same story thread, rather than from a new blessing, it seemed to alter the preexisting ones. When I checked out the mark on me, it had grown more complex, wrapping around my arm and even overlapping itself like it with three-dimensional.

Although the blessing was inconvenient, their benefits were not. Plus, I could always use more dungeon points, and my girls having them was a kind of strength too. It was good that the little ones didn’t get points. I wasn’t sure my heart could take that. First getting it was a bit surprising, but I guess I could accept that. Wait, what the heck was Anne doing getting points! That’s it, this system is broken. It can’t even differentiate harem from non-harem. If Anne was considered my harem, then why not Calypso?

Remembering Calypso, I looked up in a panic, only to see what I expected. Calypso was no longer there. However, I had the feeling that it wasn’t the last time I was going to see her.

With a sigh, I returned to the residence we were staying at. In the morning, I brought Eliana back to the capital of the Ost Republic, and the rest of us returned to Chalm. The threats in the east and the west were finally handled. For once, things felt calm. I could use a vacation.

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