“Calypso?” I grabbed Carmine and took a few steps back down the platform.
“You… you look familiar…” Kaia asked.
“Am I?” Calypso asked. “I wonder.”
“I see your chain,” Kaia licked her lips. “You’re not an ally of these humans. If you give that, then you’ll be freed.”
Calypso glanced at Kaia, and then threw back her head and laughed. “To be freed, I would have had to be imprisoned in the first place. Don’t you think?”
As she spoke, her chains disappeared like smoke. Kaia’s eyes widened, but she otherwise made no move.
“We can still make a deal, can’t we? I don’t know how you removed the core without the dungeon’s blessing, but we can give you money and power if you hand it over.”
I hadn’t looked away from Calypso since I had seen her take it. I watched her very warily. The one thing about Calypso is that I never knew what direction she’d go. She was truly a wild card. One mont, she was a pirate, and the next mont she was saving your life. I had never had a good read on her. I did realize that she was probably right. She had never truly been imprisoned. She could have escaped at any ti.
“I should destroy this lore.” She declared. “It has very little use anymore. The humans have long since broken away from it, and it only serves to be an inconvenience for them… and .”
“Then, hand it over,” Kaia asked hopefully, although her voice still held a bit of arrogance and demand that only could co from an emperor’s daughter.
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“Now, that would be self-destructive.” Calypso let out a laugh. “I am human, after all, or at least I was once human. This lore has allowed to live up until now. If I destroy it now, I will die, and if I give it to you, I will also die. This is quite the conundrum.”
“Live up until now?” Kaia asked. “What does that… you’re the human king?”
“If a person becos master of the core of their race, then they beco that species king,” Calypso spoke calmly. “They are granted an immortal life and given power equal to the strength of the entire species. Of course, their soul is tied to the core, and if it is destroyed, so will they be. A new core may be born in ti, but in the anti, the species will be without a true king. I suppose that describes . How is the immortal empress doing?”
Kaia made a face. “To think, the human king was you all along. I had feared it was that Deek person. We had hoped he hadn’t taken it and that we’d finally be able to finish the purpose the champion failed at centuries ago.”
“Failed…” Calypso repeated that last word, looking into the lore. “Yes, perhaps their life was nothing but failures. In that case, shouldn’t we leave it to another to decide our fate?”
With that, Calypso suddenly tossed the orb. I reached out instinctively, and the orb landed in my hand.
“Wh-what?” I was shocked that she suddenly threw it at .
“If you rge with the orb, you will beco the human king.” Calypso declared. “The choice is now with you.”
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