Our goal was simple. We had to ender the hidden champion’s gauntlet and beat the Fae to the end. With the challenge and difficulty lower than the surface dungeon, plus the combined efforts of several paladins, a prelate, an inquisitor, an osterian S-class party, and myself… I had the confidence that we’d be able to defeat it. With luck, we’d be back just in ti for the peace talks. As for those talks, Eliana was confident she could unite the Ost Republic. All it would take was exposing the threat from overseas, and most of the Ost Republic would unite instantly.
I said most because there was one group that was in a hard place. The fae that lived in the Ost Republic had managed to remain there for generations. They had believed their brethren had fallen, and the feeling was mutual. I hadn’t even known the fae still lived down here until I had co down here. They had done a good job keeping their tribe lowkey, as did most of the tribes of the Ost Republic. If a war was brewing, Eliana didn’t want the fae who was from the Ost Republic to feel like they were enemies.
I recalled many wars in history where people were treated poorly simply because they were the race of the enemy invaders. That hadn’t been the case in Chalm when Dioshin attacked, and I hoped it wasn’t the case now. This was the other reason it was so essential that Eliana stayed behind. Once word of the Fae invasion ca out, people from Ost would start panicking. So might even lash out at friends and minorities. Humans might flee to Aberis, where they would feel safer. It could potentially divide the Ost Republic completely, and create the perfect place for the fae to conquer and start their invasion on the mainland.
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Thus, we were both fighting this battle in our way. Eliana would be preparing people and making alliances, while I would make sure they couldn’t get their hands on this weapon. Unfortunately, this was just the start. If this was an invasion, we had a long way to go. I had a feeling I would need to call on all of my girls, and maybe even my dungeon’s strength, but the ti this was all over. I would give them as much ti as I could before then, and that’s why we had to give it our best.
Chance and Cici followed close behind as we crossed the rock path. The paladin and church girls ca second, and the Titan Fall trailed in the back. Calypso was in chains, and she was placed behind and in front of the paladins. I took the lead because I had Map and all of the danger senses. I guess Titan Fall also had dungeon diver jobs, as Alysia had explained to , but I was more comfortable taking the lead until we had a better sense of what this dungeon was about.
As soon as we passed the entrance, there was a long stairway heading into the dark. I started moving down it, but I could not see the bottom. The Titan’s Fall had only just started heading down the stairway when the rumbling began again. The cave was lowering back into the depths. This ti, Cici could feel it and grab onto frightfully. I readied a Portal just in case water started coming down, but the water didn’t enter the cave.
When the rumbling stopped, I looked up at the others, who were all in various states of alarm, all except Calypso who was still grinning mysteriously.
“Let’s get this over with,” I spoke out loud.
We continued down into the depths of the dungeon path.
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