Chapter 1631
“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 me 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 moment, she was a pirate, and the next moment 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 time.
“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 me.”