Chapter 1494
“They’ve breached the fort.” Elaya announced, even though I could see it myself. “They’ll be heading down to the 2nd story soon. They’re also reinforcing. Another five teams have entered the dungeon.”
“Won’t they grow a bit suspicious if we don’t attack?” Miki asked.
“Non necessarily.” Elaya shrugged. “A strong defense could be considered a tactic. He’s launched his weakest girls to begin the battle. He’s already lost a couple, and we’ve also lost several mobs. He could send out his best, and they would trounce through our traps with ease. Of course, they would reach the end exhausted. It’s an endurance game. Will he run out of harem before he reaches the bottom floor? He’s betting his offense is greater than our defense. If we can hold out, the entire battle would turn on its head.”
“Well, we’re not depending on that anyway,” I responded. “This is just a delay and distraction.”
Shao had used as much shadow magic as she could to obscure Celeste. She wouldn’t show up on any Sense Life. Our real goal was for Celeste to sneak down to the lower boss room. She had perfect control of the wind. Not only could she make herself nearly impossible to spot, but whether it was smell or sound, she wouldn’t be detected. Likewise, her capacity to detect others was strong as well, in particular, she could find her mother, Astria.
While we continued the battle on this side, she’d sneak into the enemy dungeon and get all the way down to the bottom flow. She’d rescue her mother and then get the dungeon lore. She’d then bring the orb back here, and I would absorb it, exponentially increasing the power of my dungeon while effectively destroying his own.
Celeste was determined to do as I asked this time. After failing me once, she felt extremely bad about it. However, I trusted in her. I had to. This all depended on her.
If she ended up getting caught by King Roth, we could also Portal down and all attack at once, side-blinding him. Elaya had revealed to me that what means they used to mess with Mapping didn’t apply to someone I was bonded to. In other words, I might not be able to portal or see anywhere around King Roth, but I could portal straight to Celeste. Well, even that had restrictions. I couldn’t portal to or detect Astria, even now, so they must have done something to restrain her. Plus, it was his dungeon, so if there was enough mana interference, even my blessing wouldn’t allow me to cut through that.
With luck, he didn’t know I could do such a thing, and wouldn’t prepare for it though. I never said it wasn’t dangerous, but it was still the best plan I could come up with. After all, if it failed, there was still my other plan. My eyes flickered to my own dungeon lore.
If Celeste failed to come back, we weren’t able to save her, and King Roth managed to make it to this room, I only had one last option. Other than trying to save Astria, it was the only other path I could come up with. I would use the same method as King Diorite and ignite the core with my soul. The explosion would destroy Chalm and incinerate the fairy spring. King Roth would never be immortal.
More than that, being as his dungeon was connected to mine, it would probably cause a cascade causing significant damage to him as well. If I had him in this room when I ignited it, then he’d likely die with the rest of us.
That was why I had sent everyone away from Chalm that I could. One way or another, King Roth would fail.