My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem-Chapter 1635

“We’ve managed to set up defenses here and here.” A man who looked to be the head of the island’s security forces declared. “The pirates have lightened their attacks lately. I think we have started to wear them down.”

“They’re not pirates, they are fey.” I interrupted. “And the reason they’ve slowed down their attack is that they failed to acquire the award at the end of the dungeon.”

Before I could do anything, we had to discuss plans with those present. We have recovered Anne, Calypso, and the rest I had left behind when I charged into their town hall. After I appeared, the fighting did seem to back off, which would have coincided with the fey getting in touch with their forces. Unfortunately, this defensible position put me up against many irritating people, including the merchant council that ran this island, and the leaders of the tribes who had arrived to begin their peace talks.

“I take offense to that!” A woman with pink hair in a ceremonial robe declared. “The fact that you try to villainize our people because of past events, you’re trying to put us in a place of disadvantage during the peace talks!”

She was a representative of the fey who remained. They had a tribe of several thousand in the south of the Ost Republic. They seemed to be as clueless to the fey invasion as anyone else. Culturally, they believed that the fey that tried to go overseas all died. Since then, they had more or less integrated with the rest of the species that established themselves on Faerith, although their numbers never recovered.

I had come to learn that most of them weren’t even full fey. Since they couldn’t be resurrected, a lot of them sought partners with another species so that their children could have the same chances as the children from other species, without the fears of death. Ultimately, she felt like more of a nuisance, seeming to think that my words were an elaborate ruse just to spite the fey.

“This isn’t what Lord Deek means.” Eliana tried to soothe the bristly politician.

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“I also am not convinced of this so-called story.” The councilman who had been with us in the dungeon spoke up. “You claim to have beaten a dungeon in two days that couldn’t be conquered by even the best of us in centuries? You expect us to believe that?” frёewebηovel.cѳm

“That’s what happened.” I glared at him. “And we didn’t beat that last dungeon, but still managed to get the core.”

“Yes, this supposed species core.” He sneered. “Why have I never heard of such a thing? A core connected to every person of a certain species? One that can take away their resurrection? Bah!”

His words were dismissive, but some of the others present shifted uncomfortably. I didn’t know if that was because they were aware of such an artifact for their species, or were simply unnerved that such an artifact might exist and could be used against them at any time.

“You can ask Prelate Anne. She witnessed the entire event. She’s the leader of the church of the daughter!”

“She’s not the leader of my church!” A demon councilman cut in angrily. “If you claim that this human core can make you as powerful as the Demon King Aberon, then why don’t you use it and show us?”

It would be improper to call the demon colony down here part of the demons under Aberon. They were mostly outcasts. Some of them fled with Aberis, but after the Demon King fell, they weren’t welcome there and fled with the Osterians. I had Eliana probe them very carefully, and the Demon King Aberis had never reached out to these brethren of his, and they had no clue he was even reincarnated. They never would have accepted him anyway in his reincarnated form. Bloodlines seemed to be pretty important to these demons, and they didn’t breed with other species like the fey had.

“We need to deal with the fey threat before we can do anything.” I declared.

“Hmph, this is a farce.” The demon snorted and crossed his arms.

I rubbed my forehead. I was starting to understand why Eliana was so stressed out these last few weeks. These people were unbearable to deal with.