A look of triumph appeared on her face. All of this was happening with miasma within my body though. The girls, as focused on the battle as they were, weren’t able to see what happened. Calypso had sent all of her Bandits into the ring now, and while Lydia and Terra were still landing blows on the barrier and it was covered in cracks, it might be another five minutes before they were finally able to breakthrough. Considering they were breaking through the laws set out by the Dungeon Master using the full strength of her dungeon, even getting this far could have been considered impossible.
As quickly as Calypso smiled in triumph, her smile dropped, and a look of confusion, and then horror painted her face. As the knife went into my soul, rather than cut it, it merged with it. Combining my affinity with miasma with Absorb, I had managed to directly convert her miasma, and use it to nourish my soul. She tried to pull it back, but now a stream of her miasma was seized by my soul. I began to consume it. Miasma began to flow out of Calypso, into me.
“No!” She cried out, feeling her power growing weaker.
She was pulling her miasma from the dungeon itself, and now I was stealing that power and making it my own. This was the newly created skill, Soul Eater! In other words, this was a new combination skill, modifying Absorb with the mana derivative, miasma.
Strength flooded into my body, and I finally peeled myself from the wall. As the miasma flooded into my soul where it was consumed, my soul force exploded. My damaged soul, which had only been a sliver of its previous size, was now growing at an astronomical rate. However, as it grew, it was also changing. I was nourishing it with miasma, not mana, which meant my soul was becoming a karmic soul! I didn’t care though. This was the ultimate sacrifice I had to make. I wouldn’t allow Calypso to win now.
Sweat ran down her face, and she was panting as she desperately tried to sever the connection between us. However, doing this would be like cutting apart her soul! Who would have the resolve to do such a thing?
“Stop!” She cried out. “You can’t do this! I won’t let you!”
As my strength grew, so did the power of suction as I slowly consumed Calypso. At the moment, I hadn’t gotten to the point where I was eating her soul. Rather, I was munching down on the thick miasma of the dungeon. This quickly weakened the dungeon as a whole, and the new Bandits were being created slower and slower, and could no longer have the same strength as before. The pressure was taken off the girls at this point.
As the miasma of the dungeon started to weaken, I was able to get glimpses of her soul. I saw flashes of pain and suffering, memories of times long ago. I also saw something else that instantly caught my interest. It looked like some kind of source or connection. I instinctively reached for it through the bond. Feeling this, Calypso let out a shriek.
“You think you’ve won? Salicia! Kill him!”
Salicia had stood to the side so silently that I had almost forgotten she was there. As soon as Calypso shouted the order, she pulled her weapon and attacked.
.... First it said she had to cut a part of her soul to stop his absorbing, but then next time it's that he's absorbing the dungeons miasma. Kinda confused here, since couldn't she just have cut the flow of miasma instead then?
Also, it'd have been better/smarter to do this so she could retain more power, imo.
Btw, what happened to that cursed knife?
Btw, what happened to that cursed knife?
She ate it.
@torvn77 Wasn't that the one Calyp made w/ miasma, rather than the one that sunders/infects souls?
@Yamemai
I agree that this moment is not spelled out clearly enough and you can think in any direction.
THEORY BUILDING TIME!!! Yayl!!! Gather around everybody and let's think this through even though it'll probably be explained in the next chapter or two!!!
Becoming a dungeon master allows you to use the power of the dungeon you conquered but to use the dungeon master job skills, IIRC, you have to use the dungeon core to connects yourself to the dungeon so you can use and control it and Calypso was controlling and using the dungeon miasma to empower and strengthen herself so she could destroy Deeks soul.
So I'm guessing that what she wanted to empower and strengthen with the miasma was her Dark Priest abilities since it's the Dark Priest job skills she has that allows her to mess with others souls and so the connection that she made to power herself up is established at the soul because that's what she needed to strengthen to make her Dark Priest job stronger and since the a dungeon is powered by miasma, her soul is connected to that as well.
So when she plunged the miasma dagger into his soul and he absorbed it, their souls became connected. Because she's connected her soul with the dungeon to make herself stronger with its miasma, when he absorbed it, his affinity for miasma kicked in allowing him seize it and absorb even more at a much higher rate. Since the dungeon, Calypso, and Deek became connected at that point, the only way to stop him from absorbing anymore was to server her soul which would have severely weaken her and put in her tight spot with everything going on and it wouldn't have been long till she lost.
I hate admit it, but this took way damn longer to think about, then to write and edit while I'm still thinking about it, and then word it all together correctly enough to sound right and f*cking edit AGAIN, than I thought it would. Way damn longer. I'm about spent now. I just about need to take a minute to have breather and have a "refresh" cast on me No wonder writers turn to alcohol, drugs, and suicide------
Also, I can't believe I made a story with blob emojis telling how I was laughing at my dark sense of humor with that stupid joke I made because I thought know one was listening. BUT THERE WAS ONE!! Just behind a corner was a cat burglar who got angry and called the "You can't say that" police who then passed a message to "the important men who wear suits" who I can't stand because they ain't really that important and they know it. But since i know this and they know that i also know this, they can't stand me either because they can't have anyone knowing this. Not even themselves! So, they came together and plotted plans of evil. They organized a sensitivity awareness group and told them what I said which made them really mad at me for some reason. So, as soon they worked them up into a frenzied s*x deprived ball of blaming the world for their problems, they sent them to me. They caught me by surprise when they kicked down, I was just enjoying some nice cold blue ice cream when my world went cold and black. I watched them congratulate themselves as I floated off to heaven where everyday is party. Then I reincarnate in a different world as a super awesome big d*ck ninja devil wielding a super cool magic sword that contains the ghost of Santa Clause from my world!!! But that's a story of emojis for another time my friends. So come with me lads BECAUSE ADVENTURE IS WAITING FOR US AND IT WAITS FOR NO ONE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA NOW PUSH THAT BUTTON AND FIRE THAT CANNON!!!!! NOW!!!
This took longer than I thought as well😅 it was fun writing though and greatly enjoyed doing it😁 No wonder writers turn to alcohol, drugs, and suicide🤣🤣🤣