My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

“Master, we need to go!” Terra warned.

I pulled out my blade and slashed the closest shadow wraith, only for my sword to slide right through it.

“Right…”

Without Alysia, it was just a sword capable of doing physical damage. These shadow wraiths were like ghosts. That meant that they weren’t something that I could fight that way. However, I also didn’t have Miki or Celeste.

“You said that White Mage would be effective against them, but they aren’t undead,” I said while backing up.

“I don’t know, I was just repeating what Gaia told me,” Terra responded worriedly.

Unfortunately, these wraiths weren’t Terra’s forte either. She was a physical fighter and had almost no soul protection. In a lot of ways, she was the exact opposite of Miki. If she couldn’t block it or punch it, then she was rendered useless.

“I wouldn’t suppose Gaia gave you any tricks up her sleeve?” I asked hopefully. “Perhaps you can conjure Gaia?”

Terra shook her head. “I can’t do it here. This is Twilight’s domain. I can only summon Gaia when I am close to her.”

Of course, it wouldn’t be that easy. I tried to think about how White Mage would be useful. The pair of us were backing away, but the shadows were coming from all sides and there was nowhere to run. More and more wraiths were appearing every second, seeming to crawl out of every shadow.

“Shadows… that’s right, she turned off my light!”

I used Orb to create a light orb and then tossed it down the path. The darkness immediately responded to the light, sizzling like it was being burned. The shadows near the light immediately retreated, and the shadowy corner the light struck no longer spawned any more enemies. My relief was momentary when the darkness closed in on the light. It lasted for a few moments, before sputtering out like the miasma had just eaten away all of the mana. That was probably what had happened.

I created another orb, and then another one. I started tossing them in one direction, forcing back the shadow creatures as I grabbed Terra’s hand and fled. This entire place was a maze though, and figuring out how to get out was near impossible. We turned a corner, only to find a hallway filled with shadow creatures.

“There are too many of them!” Terra cried out.

“Let’s see if they can handle this.” I pulled some fairy dust out of my soul world and lifted my palm toward the crowd. “Create Waters of Life!”

A stream of water shot out, and whatever it struck sizzled and cried out. The pair of us began to move forward, the area the water fell becoming ground the shadows wouldn’t walk. Our movements were slow, and the shadows from behind were catching up, but we managed to slowly make our way through the hallway as I spurted water everywhere. The hallway was thick with smokey miasma, which seemed to be released from the burning black stuff, only confirming my belief it was congealed miasma, the karmic equivalent of waters of life, which rather than resembling a liquid, instead had a mucous-like consistency.

When we reached the end of the hallway, I suddenly grew a bit dizzy. Terra grabbed me, keeping me standing.

“Master, you shouldn’t use up mana so fast.”

I shook my head, pulling out a vial of water of life and drinking it, making what was doing feel a bit redundant. However, the vials I made came from the fairy spring and were much more concentrated than what I made on the fly, so even after dumping gallons of liquid, the vial helped. Yet, it shouldn’t have been needed. While waters of life did use a lot of mana to cast, I was in an environment rich with miasma. It might be that a normal person would struggle with a low mana regen deep in a dungeon surrounded by miasma, but I had a god soul. I could absorb miasma too, and convert it into mana.

“This is her miasma…” Terra seemed to understand what I was thinking and gave an unfortunate answer. “She can deny you access to it. You can forcibly refine it, but…”

“But… it would be a slow and grueling process.” I finished.

In other words, in Twilight’s space, this was a low regen area. I felt like I was at the bottom of a mega-dungeon. The difficulty level was just way too high.

We turned to run again, and then my foot hit something and I stumbled. I glanced down to see a body. At first, I had feared it was Garnet, but I realized this body had been here too long and was nothing but a skeleton now. I stopped as something in the back of my mind stirred.

“Master, we need to go!” Terra encouraged me again. “It’s just a body… they’re everywhere. This place is a graveyard!”

“A graveyard?” I raised an eyebrow. “Just what I needed!”