NOVPUB“I will give you the knowledge you seek, Deek.” Calypso began, not giving any particular attention to her previous reveal.
I wasn’t that surprised though. I wasn’t a descendent of the humans that came from that dungeon. I was inexplicably brought there through some kind of teleportation. I never really understood why I ended up in Faerith, but I understood why I wouldn’t be one of those connected to the human core. From the moment the fey mentioned getting rid of resurrection, I wondered if such a skill would even affect me. After all, I had my unique mana signature. Most of my girls weren’t human, and those that were had been altered by my dungeon to the point where I didn’t think they’d be hard to pick out during a resurrection.
“Alright…”
“However, there will be a cost.”
“What’s the cost?” I asked suspiciously.
“This power… pushes you into a position above others. You will have governance over all humans. This is something you shouldn’t abuse.”
I gave her an incredulous look. “You’re one to talk about abusing power!”
“I’ve done a lot of things, Deek, but I have never abused the power that came from that core. I have never declared myself a ruler of men, or tried to enslave the human race. I could have done many things, and yet I stepped aside for most of history.”
I wanted to argue with her, but she had a point. If she was the human king for all of these years, she could have been in a far greater position than she was. Instead, she remained rather low-key. Perhaps, she played at being a bandit and played and being a pirate, but that was rather minor compared to the power she could have used and abused.
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I also started to wonder what had brought her north to the demon realm. She had eventually been forced to become an incubator to the child Aberis. Was she up there trying to end the war between demons and humans? She had only become the bandit king in hopes of fighting against the demon lord Aberis, and she also happened to become a pirate on the seas just as an invasion began. Perhaps, I had never understood her true intentions from the beginning.
“I will never abuse or try to control the human race,” I swore.
“It’s not the humans that I’m worried about.”
“What?”
“The fey are your enemies…” She once again looked a bit uncertain. “Things always happen in war, animosity is created, and both sides begin to hate each other. When you have that power, you will be tempted to use it to wipe out your enemies. It might have the ability to destroy your enemies, but it will happen at the expense of yourself.”
Once again, I wanted to come up with some argument, but the words sounded reasonable. I knew about the animosity that Kaia had formed for me. I still worried that I might have been the cause of this entire invasion. If I hadn’t gone to the faerie plains, would they ever have sailed across the sea? At the very least, I didn’t think it’d be happening now.
“What are you asking from me?”
“No matter what happens, you must keep hold of yourself.” She declared.
“I don’t…”
“Promise me!”
Calypso’s words felt strange, and they left me wondering more about her lore. Just what had happened to the woman that she gave such a strange demand? Even though I wasn’t sure I understood, I was always going to be me. There was nothing that could change that.
I nodded. “I promise.”
