Take Up the Cross:
Chapter 183: Become Your Sun ~ Part 2 ☆
The final shining, but the best one! Try, Ave, TRY!
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Take Up the Cross:
Chapter 183: Become Your Sun ~ Part 2 ☆
The final shining, but the best one! Try, Ave, TRY!
If the post doesn’t work or something happens, use alternate hosting.
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“I’m so glad that you and Steven made up. You’ve seemed so down since the pair of you stopped hanging out.” Mom declared as she served up a pre-bought casserole she heated in the oven.
It was supposed to be my job to have turned the oven on and tossed it in. That way, we would have been able to eat at a decent time. I had been distracted by the love letter and got home late, only to need to take a shower. I had forgotten, and my stepdad didn’t do anything to rectify that situation. As a result, by the time the casserole was done, it was already dark out.
I sat at the table with the invitation in my hands. Mom tried to engage in conversation since my stepdad never showed a single ounce of interest in anything I did. I wasn’t interested in talking, and I didn’t want to explain the situation to any of them. Thankfully, I was saved by the door opening. A girl walked in, my stepsister.
She was wearing a miniskirt and a blouse. The skirt was barely enough to cover her butt and the blouse was open enough to show a fair amount of cleavage. She also wore heavy makeup and had her hair up. It was pretty provocative, and her dad constantly chided her for wearing outfits like it, but she worked at a restaurant that hired provocative waitresses. I had never entered the restaurant, but I had seen her walk out with some of her coworkers. I’d say she dressed rather modestly compared to some of the other girls. The less they wore, often the bigger tips they’d get.
“What are you all doing up?” She asked.
“Jenna,” Dad smiled. “We’re having a late supper. Why don’t you join us?”
She made a face, clearly uninterested in his suggestion. “No thanks, I need to clean up.”
His smile diminished slightly, but he shrugged. “Whatever you need, sweetie. We’ll leave you a plate in the fridge.”
She didn’t respond, already heading upstairs with heavy steps. Even though she was eighteen and had no plans to go to college, her dad was still letting her live here rent-free. He didn’t even ask anything of her. Meanwhile, I had a list of chores a mile long. If I came home past dinner, there would never be a plate waiting for me. There would just be a lecture.
“I’m done,” I responded, not feeling like eating anymore.
I put the plate in the sink and rinsed it before leaving. I was going to go do my night crunches. I may not be as physically fit as I was when I was in sports, but I still maintained my body a little bit. I did crunches in the morning and the evening. It was enough it kept my stomach flat, with maybe the hint of muscle if I flexed hard. Despite everything that had happened, I still wanted to look my best, just in case my luck ever changed. I still combed my hair, ate reasonably, and showered properly.
“Make sure to do the dishes before you go to sleep.” Mom ordered.
I slowed down and sighed. “Yes, mom.”
It wasn’t my job today, but I knew if I argued it’d only get me a speech about being ungrateful. I left the kitchen and began walking upstairs. As I reached the second floor, I heard the faint sound of water running. I realized that Jenna was in the bathroom. At the same time, I remembered that I had forgotten to put on my deodorant. I didn’t want to do my crunches without deodorant on, or I’d smell like a goat tomorrow. I wouldn’t be able to live down smelling bad at school, especially after the prank they pulled earlier.
I began walking to the bathroom, intending to knock, but two things caught my notice. The first was that the door was open just a crack. The second was that there was a noise I could hear just under the sound of water. It was a vibrating sound.
“Haaah…” I heard a feminine voice come from the bathroom.
I leaned closer to the door, and I could hear an even more distinct buzz sound along with heavy breathing. What was she doing in there? Was she using a razor? It sort of sounded like one, but I didn’t get why she was breathing so hard. My curiosity got the better of me, and I gently touched the door, opening it enough that I could see the mirror. After tilting my head, a reflection of my sister appeared in the mirror.
She was standing in front of the toilet facing the mirror. She had a towel wrapped around her body, but she had one leg up on the bathtub and it caused the towel to lift. Her vagina was exposed, but she seemed to be doing something to it. She had some kind of long vibrating plastic thing which she was pushing in and out of herself. As my brain started to put things together, her eyes seemed to raise as if she had sensed something.
If I could see her in the reflection, that meant she could see me as well. Our eyes met for just a moment, and then she let out a scream. I let out a curse, running to my room and closing the door.
“What happened?” I heard her dad bellow, his feet thudding up the stairway quickly.
I turned and locked the door, and then tossed myself on the bed, putting the pillow over my head. I was trying to process what I had just seen. It had only been a second, but the image of my sister standing there naked was glued into my mind. Yet, that picture was a mess. I didn’t even look at her breasts. She had a hand up on her chest and my eyes had been focused on what she was doing down there. It’s not like I never had a health class, I knew that was a female vagina, it had just caught me by surprise.
She was putting something inside and outside. Wasn’t that some kind of sex toy? My sister was using a sex toy? What did they call those things that vibrated? Oh, duh… vibrators. She was using a vibrator. Holy crap, the first vagina I ever saw was my sister’s. That’s fucked up.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The door was struck so hard that it nearly broke open. I came out of my mental break and looked up at the door, feeling an ounce of fear.
“Open the damn door!” I heard my stepdad roar.
I had never heard him so angry before. What did she tell him? She was the one who decided to get naked with the door open! How was it my fault?
Bang! Bang!
“What’s going on?” I heard my mom coming up the stairs thanks to the commotion.
“It’s your son!” I heard him speak.
He didn’t yell at Mom, but he still spoke loud enough that I could hear him through the door, even with his back turned speaking to Mom.
“What did Lucas do now?” She asked with a sigh.
“He was peeping on his sister naked. She says he even had his dick out and was touching himself.”
What the hell?
I opened my mouth to shout that it was a lie, but then I realized it didn’t matter. It’d be her word against mine, and there was no chance that they would take my word.
“Honey… he’s a young boy…” Mom stated.
I wanted to feel good that she was defending me, but didn’t she believe everything he said? She did not doubt that I did something that was perverted, even though it wasn’t the truth. I shook visibly, my hands in tight balls. I wanted to punch something, but there was nothing in my room I could afford to damage.
“That little freak better stay the hell away from my daughter!” He snapped. “He’s a deviant.”
“Sweetie…” Mom sounded hurt. “Why are you saying this?”
I stood up and walked over to the door. I reached out, but I wasn’t able to grab the doorknob. My body just couldn’t put myself out there.
“It’s about time someone told you. Your kid is a sexual deviant. He’s looked at Jenna before, and he came home smelling like… like he just had a golden shower.”
What’s a golden shower?
“Ah… that. I had no clue…”
“Our only chance is to restrict his freedoms. Tomorrow, I’m going to remove that lock from his door. He must come home straight after school, and work until his bedtime.”
“That’s a bit extreme.”
“Do you want him to turn out strange?” Dad asked.
“O-of course not.”
“Then, just trust me. This is the last chance… otherwise, I won’t allow him in the same house as my daughter.”
“What do you mean?”
“If he fucks up again, I’m going to send him to military school. Starting tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow? But what about his friend’s party.”
“Naturally, he can’t go!”
“You don’t understand, he stopped hanging out with his friends. They were a good influence on him. It’ll be good for him.”
A moment of silence. “Fine, he can go to that friend’s party. Maybe, if he meets some girl his age, he’ll ruin her with that thing instead of my daughter.”
“Huh?”
“N-nothing! Ahem… I’ll do the dishes tonight.”
“Really?”
“Yeah, I remembered it was my night to do it anyway.”
I heard their voices trailing away, and then I turned and leaned against my door. It was hard to say where my mind was at. Military school? I suddenly wished my stepdad could go back to ignoring me. Meanwhile, by lying whore of a sister ruined my life, all because she was too dumb to close a damn door. I felt anger, frustration, and helplessness.
In the end, I went to bed without doing my crunches, falling into a fitful sleep. I woke up to the sounds of a screwdriver buzzing. It took me a few moments to realize that it was my door. My stepdad wasn’t wasting any time. He was taking off my doorknob and replacing it with a lockless variety. He had managed to get the door open. It wasn’t hard. If he had wanted to last night, all he would have needed was a paperclip. I sat up in bed, watching him.
He continued to work silently for a bit, but he finally paused, letting out a deep breath. “You heard everything last night?”
I nodded. “Yeah.”
“I meant every word of it. You’re not going to perve on my daughter anymore. I know boys like you masturbate constantly and look up pervy magazines, but when it’s gotten to the point where you hurt family, you went too far. She was so upset about it that I had to give her a hundred dollars just so she could get some mall therapy. You’re lucky she is so easy to please. As for you, you better stop having such wicked thoughts, or it really will be military school.”
He finished his talk with that. It was the closest I had ever gotten to a talk about the birds and the bees with either parent. It was too bad it was made up of a bunch of assumptions. First off, I didn’t own any pervy magazines. I didn’t even know how to go about obtaining them. My friends all had the internet, and when it came to porn, they got it from there. I had managed to avoid porn my whole life, and I certainly didn’t touch myself.
Honestly, until very recently, whenever I got hard, my head would get a little woozy, and I didn’t like the feeling. I had tried to touch myself a few times, but it usually resulted in me passing out. It had only been since my last growth spurt that an erection didn’t put me to sleep! As a result, I had avoided them most of my life. Plus, after being caught my first time by my stepdad and having that change our relationship forever, I had a bit of trauma when it came to that stuff.
My stepdad finished the installation, and without another word, got up and left me alone. Even though I couldn’t lock my door anymore, I still didn’t want to do anything. I remained there until around noon time when my mother called me down. I walked down, afraid that she was going to lecture me as well. I was surprised when she pushed a big wrapped present in my hand. It took me a moment to notice the label had my name as “from”, not “to”.
“It’s a gift for Steve.” Mom declared. “The party is an hour. You should go get ready. You’ll need your swimsuit too.”
I nodded and returned upstairs. My eyes fell on the bathroom, and the flash of my sister’s body appeared in my mind. I looked away. We’d be in a pool, so I didn’t need to shower to get ready. Instead, I went into my room and got dressed. I did my morning crunches, even though I had slept through the morning and it was the afternoon now. When I was done with that, I checked myself in the mirror. I wasn’t a narcissist or anything. I was just making sure nothing looked weird… well, anything except for my penis.
I pulled out my swim shorts and awkwardly put them on. It was harder to find a pair than one would think. I had tried a few others, and the tip of my dick seemed to always appear out the bottom. In the end, I had to get long basketball-shorts-style swim trunks before I felt like it was properly contained and I wouldn’t accidentally flash someone. I also had to get a dark black pair out of very baggy material, because anything else would show an outline of it. I wondered what other guys did. There had to be some kind of trick to it, but I couldn’t ask my stepdad, especially now, and I had no guy friends I could ask such a personal question.
When I was finished fixing up my hair with gel, Mom was already calling me to go. Since I had been grounded for everything, this was probably the last time I’d be allowed out of the house in a long while. It was a shame that it was to go to a person I hated’s party only to hang out with more people I hated. Then again, after I remembered the promise I made Steve keep, this might be a more entertaining party than I thought. A small smile formed on my lips.
With that, we left for the car and began the drive over to his place. On the way, Mom gave me a glance from the side.
“Honey, are you doing okay?” She asked while continuing to watch the road and drive.
“Yeah Mom, why?” I asked.
She shook her head. “I know, I haven’t been there much for you these last few years. It’s just, things have been difficult with work. I just want you to know that things will get better, eventually. You’ll get through this puberty thing, someday.”
“Mom…” I couldn’t help but roll my eyes.
She laughed as she slowed down and stopped the car. We were in front of his house. I hadn’t been over here in years. I felt a bit of excitement and anticipation. Mom told me to have her mom call her when I was ready to be picked up, and I gave her a wave and left with Steve’s present in hand. Part of me wanted to open his present and keep whatever Mom had gotten for me. I didn’t care about Steve at all, and I was only there to try to have fun at his expense. In the end, as I looked down at the present I shook my head. I wasn’t a thief.
I must have been waiting at the front door too long because it unexpectedly opened up. My eyes immediately fell on two large boobs. I looked down, instantly, feeling embarrassed that I had even accidently seen her.
“Hello, Mrs. Parker.”
Her red curly hair was tied back, and she was wearing a bikini that exposed a lot of her skin. She was a beautiful and mature woman with pale skin and freckles. She had a curvy mom’s body and a pretty face. Her chest was probably size D, definitely big when compared to most of the high school girls I’d seen.
“You’re a bit early.” Steve’s mom smiled. “Is that a present for my Stevey?”
“Ah, yeah…” I held it out, and she gestured to the table. “You can put it over there. Stevey is in his room playing video games right now. I’m getting the party ready now. Why don’t you go play with Stevey while I get things set up.”
Video games… that was right. I had almost forgotten about video games. Mom would never buy a system for me, so the only times I had ever gotten to touch a video game was when I went to Steve’s house. That was one of the many things I had lost when our friendship was destroyed.
I left Steve’s mom in the kitchen and started walking through the house. I was very familiar with this place. I had practically lived here for a few summers. Playing video games, and swimming in the pool, our friendship had been a lot of fun. Then again, those were things I got from him. As for what I could provide him, I had nothing but my friendship. In the end, that hadn’t been enough. I realized that no one gave something for nothing. It was a philosophy that I lived by.
I finally reached Steve’s room, and there I saw him sitting in the middle of his floor on a square carpet looking up at his thirty-two-inch television in his room as he played games. In some ways, it almost felt like things hadn’t changed. Yet, I knew deep down that everything was different.
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“She’s a minor!” After Misty revealed the identity of Guildmaster River, that was the first thought to strike my brain as soon as she pulled back her hood.
From the get-go, her body looked to be very short and not at all voluptuous. Even Diamond had a little bit of charm with her behind and long legs, but River just looked like a runt. When I finally got a look at her face, I was even more confused. River had baby white hair that was tied into pigtails, but her face was that of a twelve-year-old girl. There wasn’t a hint of age on her face. Her blade was a thin rapier, and some lumps suggested she might have other weapons behind her cloak.
“Guildmaster? I don’t know how old she is but she is been around a very long time. She built our branch of the guild, and that’s at least fifty years old.”
“She’s a loli baba! The legends were true…”
“What are you talking about?” Misty asked, making a weird fast.
“Nevermind! She’s entering the dungeon now. She didn’t even pray to a goddess. What do you think our chances are?’
Misty gave me a side look. “Our chances? About ten percent.”
“Ten percent survival? You know, ten percent isn’t that bad.”
“Oh, survival? No.”
“What! What do you mean no!”
“She’s already at the stairs.”
“What? The second level? Not possible!”
I turned back to the screen. She had practically run through the first level, easily jumping over the pits as if they weren’t even there. She seemed completely unconcerned about treasure. Rather, it looked like she was on a mission. She was skipping down the stairway, looking like nothing would slow down her momentum.
“Release the rats! All of them!” I ordered Squee.
“It won’t work…” Misty whispered.
You’re not helping!
I kept my mouth shut though and my eyes glued on the screen. Over two hundred rats flooded into the hallway. I didn’t leave any back for breeding. If I died, what was the point of holding onto a couple of rats? However, I did leave the rat king behind. He wasn’t a fighter anyway, and I didn’t think one more rat would make a difference. He could always capture more passing rats if we needed it.
River reached the bottom of the stairs only to see hundreds of red eyes staring at her from the darkness. If she had been any of the other heroines who had entered my dungeon, she would have spun around and fled. Even the likes of Diamond or Misty might have been frightened by such an overwhelming force. No matter how good someone was with a rapier, there was a power in numbers, and this flood of creatures could be considered a disaster even in a B-ranked dungeon.
Yet, River didn’t react at all. She didn’t even draw her weapon. She merely stared back at the hundreds of eyes as if they were no consequence to her.
“Attack!” I cried.
“Squee!” Squee ordered the attack, his voice filled with confidence.
The flood of rats emerged forward. Every rat was the size of a small dog at least. Once entering the dungeon and falling under Squee’s control, they all began to grow larger. Rats outside the dungeon weren’t usually this powerful, let alone be able to function as one single fighting force with a battle strategy. It wasn’t a great deal of strategy, but under Squee’s control, they were still far more dangerous than they would be on their own.
Given the rat’s size and numbers, they filled the hall, with rats standing on other rats as they all scrambled toward River. It was truly a horrifying scene, yet as they grew closer and closer, River continued to watch them without concern. Just before the first Rat reached her, her hand touched her hilt. There was the sound of metal being drawn, and then I didn’t see anything else. A moment later, she was gone, and the rats were falling toward the spot she used to be.
It took me a few more seconds to realize she was on the other side of the rats, standing there with her hand still on the hilt of her blade undrawn. However, she didn’t bother to look back. Instead, she started to continue down the hallway. At least, she was no longer running, but her stride was still confident and sure. I ordered the rats to turn around and chase her, but that’s when I got a message from Squee.
“Squeee!”
“What do you mean, they are all dead?”
It was only then that all two hundred rats fell into pieces. Every single one of them had been cut in half. I couldn’t help but shiver. What was this strength? This wasn’t even fair! I couldn’t help but glare at Misty. Although I had no eyes, Misty flinched as if she could feel my displeasure.
“She is likely coming here for me,” Misty admitted, lowering her head. “When the time comes, I will face her.”
“Can you… defeat her?” I asked nervously.
“I… don’t know.” She admitted. “In any spar we had, I never defeated her. However, now that I have become a demon, I am stronger than I used to be. There might be a chance.”
Although she said that, the tone of her voice suggested that she didn’t believe it.
My eyes returned to the progressing River. As she passed the crack where the Rat Emperor was hiding, she glanced at it. I tensed up, and I could feel the Squee shivering in his spot. He had grown a bit cocky since I had given him a name, but he quickly reverted to his former terrified and cowardly self after watching his entire army wiped out in an instant.
I could only watch as River continued. She reached the alcove with the tentacle monster in it. Her eyes landed on the armor left in the alcove as a tempting trap. She cocked her head in consideration, and for a moment I was hopeful she might fall into the trap. If the tentacle could bind her, even for a bit, it might be possible to defeat her. Yet, she only shrugged after a few moments of consideration and then continued to the next floor. This was the ice floor.
“Sandy, you don’t need to do anything.” I gave her a warning.
“Help, Master…” She looked away shyly.
I could feel the warmth in her heart. We naturally had discussed many contingency plans for adventurers that were more than we could handle. Sandy wanted to use one of these methods to try to restrain River. It was dangerous for Sandy, and she might even die, so I told her to forget it. After all, Sandy was one of my named monsters, and so I didn’t want her to get hurt. This caused her to feel even warmer and insist on helping.
River approached the ice and then frowned for a moment. She reached down and touched the ice. She lifted her fingers and sniffed.
“Schlick Jelly?” She muttered, looking confused.
I blinked. “What did she say?”
“So, it is the same.” Misty blushed.
I looked over at her. “What are you talking about?”
“The… slime innards you placed all over the ice cave. It’s a product some women use. I wasn’t sure because I never bought it before, plus it’s supposed to smell like flowers.”
I cocked my head, instantly interested. So far, I have already found the evil bone and the tentacle monster both produced products. It seemed like more stuff came from monsters than normal women were aware of.
“I could modify the stuff to smell good.“
“Right… well, women use it to… if they don’t get wet, they can use… what I mean is… they apply it, down below…”
I blinked. “Personal lubricant?”
“It’s called Schlick Jelly because women use it to…” Her face looked too embarrassed to continue.
To see a demon-looking girl look so shy and embarrassed, in another situation, I’d have my way with her.
“I understand… but wouldn’t it hurt them? I mean, it eats clothing…”
“It doesn’t hurt down there. I heard it tingles slightly, but that makes it more sensitive and enjoyable. As for clothing, it takes a lot to damage clothing. There is a common joke about women who have holes in their underwear being particularly horny.”
Her words seemed reasonable. The way I designed the dungeon, the women would be crawling in barrels of lubricant for four-plus hours. Plus, they were dragging their clothing and armor along the icy ground. It only made sense that holes and rips would form. How long would someone use this lubricant to touch themselves? It probably felt like the sensitivity lubricants. As for holes in underwear, how common did that happen? It probably only was a bit more common for those girls who used a lot of lube.
Either way, I now had another item I could produce. My poor slime would have to generate more. Maybe, I should give him a name to facilitate his new role. I shook my head. None of that would matter if Rive continued to progress.
She had looked at the ice briefly in disdain, then lifted her hand. Fire erupted from her palm, filling the hallway. It was super hot! I knew my consciousness was in the core, but the entire labyrinth was an extension of my body. Blowing fire down my halls didn’t injure me, but it wasn’t comfortable either. Her flames died and all that was left was a slushy mess. The hallway had seemingly grown about a foot in every direction, showing the black burnt walls beyond.
The ice would reform with time. That was the nature of these hallways. Even if a wall was blown up, as long as there was mana, it would heal. That said, the healing did cost, so my DP earning speed decreased slightly, but compared to what River added by her presence, it still went up rapidly.
Water dripped down from the ceiling and walls, landing on the floor and creating a mixed slurry with the lubricant about 2 feet high. When she stepped into it, there were no signs of slipping whatsoever. It was nothing but a wet hallway now. I wondered if there was anything I could put on the ice so that if someone else did this, they would face a different deterrent. For example, what if I put a pool of piranhas in an adjacent crack? When the ice melted, the piranhas could then swim into the hallway and attack anyone who chose this method.
Well, all of that was dependent on my survival, yet River seemed unaffected. She had sturdy waterproof boots on, so even her feet wouldn’t become wet or cold. I could only feel my fear increasing. When she reached the split in the hallway, she didn’t even hesitate before turning toward the accurate path. It was like the dead-end didn’t even tempt her, not that it would have slowed her down with the ice melted.
She had to make more fire to melt this hallway as well. A few minutes later, she began to move, her steps finally slow as she had to step through two feet of greasy slush. Yet, one step at a time, she conquered my third floor faster than anyone before her. That’s when the voice sounded out.
“Help! Help me!”
River paused and then took a few steps forward toward the next intersection. At the end of the side path, there was Sandy in the treasure room beyond. She had her foot locked to a chain, and she was wearing the rags left of a former heroine’s outfit. We had scored many of those by this point. This was ultimately the trap plan. Rather than the treasure and goblin combo, she would be the helpless heroine in distress again. The intent wasn’t to attack River like Sandy had once attempted with Misty, but simply to get her in the room. Sandy would escape while trigging a prison trap, locking River up for the time being.
Rather than racing to save her though, River’s eyes narrowed suspiciously. ‘Who are you?”
“My name is Sandy. I’m a heroine from Passion’s Summit! This dungeon captured me forcefully!” Her words came out far clearer than when she tried to communicate.
It turned out that when she was intentionally mimicking someone, her performance was greater than her normal cognitive abilities. Even I would have believed she was the real Sandy who desperately was looking to be saved after being captured by a dungeon. Even River seemed to relax slightly, her eyes opening and a sympathetic expression appearing on her face.
“I’m sorry you had to go through this.” She sighed. “I met the rest of your party. They are alive, although a bit traumatized. One of them denied assistance, while the others are currently rehabilitating.”
“Please, save me,” Sandy begged.
“I will, dear.” She nodded. “Let me just deal with all the threats first.”
“No!” Sandy cried out and then winced. “I’m afraid you won’t make it back.”
River tilted her head and then smiled. She started to move toward Sandy, and Sandy sat up, a hopeful expression on her face. She was preparing to make her move as soon as River entered the room.
“Have you seen a girl?” River asked. “A girl with green hair. She’s… ahem… very curvy.”
Sandy looked for a second, “I think I did, she left shortly after she arrived. My throat was sore, so I couldn’t call out to her.”
“Is that so?” River smiled.
River moved forward steadily, but I felt something was off. Only about halfway toward Sandy, she pulled out an axe hidden behind her cloak and threw it in a single motion. Sandy was already wound up to move, so as soon as River moved, Sandy did too.
She dived to the side as the axe hit her arm, cutting it off in a single motion. She let out a shriek as River leaped at her, her rapier already drawn. Sandy hit the trap button in a panic. The door slammed shut, but River had already crossed the rest of the hallway. She just reached the door as it shut. Even though she was moving with incredible speed, she stopped just as quickly, only a few inches from the closed door. Sandy had already fled the room while cradling her missing arm. It would grow back though, she was a mimic after all.
“You did the best you could,” I told her to comfort her.
She blushed slightly, looking a little less upset. As for River, she put her rapier up and then snorted.
“How boring.” She turned away and returned to the main hallway that headed to the exit.
I noticed that this side path didn’t have all the ice melted, but she had still run up it and left without slipping once. I couldn’t help but shiver again.
River ended up on the fourth floor. She passed the break room and went straight into the room with the bone.
“Take a rest. There is no rush.” Her mind told her.
She frowned. “Are you the dungeon?”
I immediately fled the bone in a panic. The bone was filled with sexual desire. It would only try to get her to succumb to her desires. I had no desire to watch a girl with that kind of body play with herself. Instead, I intended to possess the bone of corruption to delay her and possibly make her more amendable to the dungeon. How could I have guessed she’d not only know it wasn’t her voice but immediately predict it was dungeon deliberately tampering with her?
She didn’t say anything more after I fled. Instead, she read the riddle and frowned. She then walked up to the bone and pulled her blade.
“Open the door or I cut it off.”
“This…” I couldn’t even believe I heard this.
That was breaking the rules!
“Suit yourself.” She raised her blade slowly.
I opened the door immediately. I had put a lot of time into that bone. It had even evolved. I didn’t want to have to replace it. Thankfully, once she saw the door open, she put her rapier away and nodded to herself. She then headed to the next puzzle room. This time, she didn’t even bother to threaten me. She walked directly up to the gelatinous cube and then sliced it with her blade. Even though the blade shouldn’t have been long enough, the cube still split in half. The key fell out just like that.
The cube wasn’t dead. It could be put back together. The only way it really could die was by burning it. Thankfully, she didn’t do that. As she bent down and picked the key up, some of the cube slime got into her hands. It sizzled slightly, not even enough to cause a burn. However, it did cause a small aphrodisiac effect.
“Hmm, how interesting…” She muttered, “And dangerous.”
She stood up, unlocked the door, and was finally with the last puzzle. As she approached the wall of hands pathway, she drew her rapier. I sighed and had one of the hands toss her the key. Then, all of the hands moved aside. It wasn’t like it could stop her. I might as well let her face the next area.
“Cyclops, Misty, get ready. You two are taking her together.”
Misty glanced at me, but she didn’t say anything. She merely started sharpening her blade. Meanwhile, River unlocked the next door and headed to the fifth floor. This was no longer the boss room, but the goblin village. Unfortunately, no goblins were born yet, so it was mostly the barebones the goblin champion had built.
“Gobby, you need to get out of here!” A very pregnant Archer tried to push Gobby.
“No.” He grunted. “Gobby must protect Master. Gobby must protect the pride of the dungeon.”
River walked through the eerily empty village. It was constructed in a way she had to make a few loops before finally coming upon a goblin throne made of bones. Sitting on that throne was Gobby, and all around him were five pregnant girls chained at his feet.
“Are you the boss of this dungeon?” River asked.
“Mm.” He nodded. “Defeat me, and the spoils are yours.”
“I don’t care about your spoils.” Her face twisted as she drew her rapier. “Give me Misty, or die.”
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EAT SHIT!
Those were the words written across my locker. I let out a sigh, pulling off the sign and crumpling it up. This was the kind of stuff I experienced daily. Loneliness, fear, isolation… those words went synonymous with high school for me. These were the best years of my life. Whoever said that must have been a complete idiot. I hated my life, and almost everyone in it.
I got my stuff from my locker, but on the way, someone put out their foot and tripped me. My books went halfway across the hallway. I immediately got on my hands and knees to pick up the papers while I heard giggling behind me.
“Lucas! Stop messing around.” A saw two smooth long legs fill the peripheries of my vision.
I looked up to see Mrs. Smith standing there with her arms crossed. Three years ago, she had been Miss Smith and had been the most popular teacher in school. Then, she got a husband, and to many, half of her appeal was gone. She still liked to wear these black silk stockings and a plaid skirt. Where I was sitting, if I just moved an inch forward, there was a chance I could see up her skirt. I felt that thing between my legs shift in desire.
Her legs were so long and beautiful. Who cared if she wasn’t a virgin anymore? She was still a hot teacher. She wore thick black glasses, and even that stern look she gave the boys was sexy. Yet, no sooner had my dark desires risen to the surface than I felt the familiar shame. I dropped my head submissively.
“I’m sorry, Mrs. Smith.” I declared, desperately grabbing my papers.
It didn’t matter that someone had knocked them out of my hand. The teachers didn’t care about things like that. I was just a kid causing trouble in her eyes. Just once I’d like a woman like her to look at me as something other than a kid. However, I might as well ask for the sky to fall.
“Just, clean it up.” She responded, stepping away and taking that tempting scene away with her.
I finally got the papers in, but the bell rang at that moment. I cursed as I headed to my next class.
“You’re late.” My Spanish teacher declared.
“I’m sorry.”
“En español.”
I winced. “Lo siento.”
She pursed her lips, but then nodded and continued her lesson. At least I wasn’t alone in oogling the Spanish teacher. She had dark tan skin, with curly black hair, and her Latin accident was sexy. She wore her shirt low, showing quite a lot of cleavage, and she wasn’t above leaning over next to you when you asked for assistance with your work.
Many of the boys would ask her for help just so they could stare at her chest. She seemed oblivious to this, as well as the snickering. The other girls in class noticed, but most of them lacked Ms. Gonzalez’s particular dimensions, so they secretly were jealous of her. They spread rumors behind her back that she was a hoe who gave male students handjobs and felt she deserved any unwanted attention she got. Ironically, this backfired, making her even more popular among the male students, although it was anyone’s guess why the administration didn’t step in. Many secretly believed she must be doing sexual favors for them as well.
Next up was lunch, where I sat alone. I didn’t even sit next to the gamers or the losers. Those tables seemed to be too good for me. I got pushed into the far back, and any time I even considered finding another table, I’d get dark eyes from various people until I went back to my place.
“H-Here…” I was surprised to see a girl standing in front of me.
She dropped a note on the table before blushing, turning, and running away. I didn’t recognize her. She was a freshman, so she was a year younger than me. Wait, that might mean that she hadn’t heard all the bad rooms about me. As for the Sophomores, I had no hope. Every girl there treated me like a leper, but could I be so lucky as to find one who hadn’t been exposed to it yet? I reached out and opened up the letter, and my heart began to skip several beats as I read through her message.
Dear Lucas,
I’ve always been watching you from afar, and I really like you. If you don’t have a girlfriend, would you like to try going out? Please meet me after school behind the bleachers. I really look forward to seeing you there. XOXOXO
Cynthia
My mind went blank for a moment. Her name was Cynthia, and she wanted to be my girlfriend? Was there so much luck in the world? My only regret was that I couldn’t go home, take a shower, and dress into something nicer. Instead, I spent the next few hours ignoring my classes and daydreaming about Cynthia. My mind went to all kinds of places.
Why did she want to meet somewhere as seclusive as the back of the bleachers? She finished with ‘XO’. That was a girl slang for hugs and kisses, right? Maybe she was telling me what she wanted to do behind those bleachers. My lower regions naturally shifted again, and I started to grow excited until I reminded myself to cool down. If I came on too strong, I could scare her. That’s why I had to be smooth.
I snuck out during a free period and found a flower growing in the greenhouse. After picking it up, I just had to wait until the end of the school day. When the bell finally came, it couldn’t be soon enough. I naturally waited for almost everyone to clear out. When I wasn’t being bullied, I was being ignored like a ghost, so no one gave any notice when I remained behind.
When the halls were empty, I grabbed the flower and headed outside. I walked past the track and onto the grass. Two large stands behind the school could be wheeled into place whenever a sports game was happening. Although they could be retracted, I had never actually seen them that way. They had remained perpetually out as long as I knew. One of those bleachers was against a brick building that contained gym supplies, the coach’s office, and a bathroom. When the bleachers were out, it created a pocket space just behind it that was free from people’s eyes. It was a well-known secret that this was the place to go for people who wanted to make out or smoke weed.
I cautiously approached the bleachers. I honestly didn’t want to run into anyone dealing drugs there. Some of those guys didn’t like witnesses, and the situation could get a bit uncomfortable. I wouldn’t have chosen this spot to meet with Cynthia, but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have my hopes up. I didn’t hear any voices or sounds behind the bleachers, so I carefully poked my head around the corner. At first, I was relieved to see that it was currently unoccupied, but then that left me wondering where Cynthia was. Had she not arrived yet?
It was okay. I was too eager. Just five minutes after school ended? She probably would take longer to reach me. I took a few breaths trying to calm myself. I kept thinking about what I was going to say to her. I wanted to make a good impression. I wanted to come off as a cool kid. Yet, as soon as my mind started working, I started imagining her naked. I fantasized that right after the meeting, she was on her knees sucking it. I knew these thoughts were perverted, but my teenage mind couldn’t stop fantasizing.
That’s why I didn’t notice the steps only they were right overhead. Somebody wasn’t going behind the bleaches but was walking right up them. It wasn’t just one somebody, it sounded like a bunch of them. I tried to stay quiet, afraid of being caught by a teacher and accused of doing something back there. I hadn’t though. Did I smell like weed? I didn’t get time to think about it much though.
“Hey, Creepy Luke! In what world would a girl want to see your creepy ass!” A boy suddenly shouted.
The next second I felt cold liquid splash down on me. Someone dumped it through the cracks of the bleachers directly on my head. I let out a cry, my nose becoming assaulted by a foul-smelling odor. It smelled like piss, and I realized they must have dumped a bucket of toilet water on me. The bleacher shook as the people jumped off of it, laughing. I didn’t just hear the laughter of the guys, but several other people, including a few girls, who had been standing in front of the bleachers watching it happen.
I stumbled out of the back of the bleachers to hear clapping and laughing from at least a half dozen of my peers. “What the hell, man?”
Those were the only words I could get out. I went for tossing the flower on the floor. It was the only thing that was still dry.
The guy at the lead was one of the popular kids in school. He was a football player and had a body to match. The others appeared to be on the football team, while the girls were some of the school’s most beautiful cheerleaders. These were not a group I could get into a fight with. I mean, physically, they’d beat my ass if I tried, and with their popularity, everyone would side with them. It was the group of people I least could afford to upset.
“Ew… he smells like piss.” One of the girls made a face, pushing her nose into her boyfriend’s varsity jacket.
This led to even more laughter from the group. I could only stand there with the stuff dripping down my body. I couldn’t fight them or talk back to them. I couldn’t even run away because they were making a barrier keeping me there.
“Hey! What are you all doing?” A familiar voice shouted.
“C-coach Rex!” The football player cried out.
“Shouldn’t you be hitting the showers?” he asked, a sour expression on his face.
“Yes, coach, sorry coach!” The boys gave apologetic looks at their girlfriends, before turning and running to the locker room.
The girls rolled their eyes and walked off to their practice. Some of the keys even kissed or grabbed the girl’s butt before leaving.
“Lucas?” Coach Rex approached, then sniffed. “What is that smell?”
“They just dumped something nasty on me!” I declared, pointing at the tote they had carried which they had left behind in their haste as proof.
He looked at the tote, and then at me. “What did you do this time?
I blinked, my mouth open. “I didn’t do anything? They’re bullying me!”
“That’s a heavy accusation.” He responded. “You may have decided to slack off in sport, but that doesn’t mean you have the right to take it out on students who put effort into their physical education.”
“Are you kidding me?” I asked. “The only reason I dropped out is because you told me I couldn’t cut it.”
“Are you giving me a tone?” he asked. “I may not be your coach, but I’m still a teacher at this school.”
“N-no tone!” I held up my hands, trying to look earnest.
“Those are good kids. They wouldn’t bully you if you weren’t asking for it.” He sniffed and then made a face. “Go clean yourself off.”
I turned and walked away, mostly so he didn’t see how angry I was. My hands were shaking, but if I couldn’t do anything about the football player, one could bet I couldn’t touch the coach. Instead, I slipped into the bathroom and rinsed my body the best I could. Some of it had soaked into my clothing though, and short of washing them, I wouldn’t be able to get rid of the smell.
“Hey, beautiful. Where is that smile?” I heard a voice just outside the bathroom.
I looked to see the bathroom window was open a small crack. The voice was Coach Rex. I couldn’t help but be curious, so I jumped up and pulled myself so I could look over the edge. It was Ms. Barnett. If Mrs. Smith had been the hottest teacher in school before she got married, then Ms. Barnett was the hottest teacher now. She was an English teacher, and she spoke with a British accent.
“Coach Rex, must I remind you that those kind of comments could be construed as sexual harassment?” The woman herself, a young beauty with blonde hair and green eyes declared.
“You’ve never reported me so far.” He moved closer to her, his eyes filled with a lusty glaze.
“You have a good track record with the kids. I didn’t want to ruin your reputation or risk your job. However, if you want to insist on coming up with these ridiculous reasons to get me to come out to your office.”
“What ridiculous reasons?” he gave a wounded look. “You recently gave one of the guys on my team a D. He needs a C to keep playing on varsity.”
“Is that what this is about? I don’t play favorites, and I don’t give people exceptions.” She turned to leave.
“Come on.” He moved in her way. “Don’t be that way. The big game is coming up in a few weeks. He doesn’t have the time to fix his grades any other way. Can’t you give me a break? How about, if you do this for me, I’ll buy you dinner.”
“Dinner? Are you trying to ask me out?” She demanded.
“Not at all!” He gave a phony laugh. “I just heard you were interested in trying that new Italian place.”
“Geronimos?” She gasped. “That place is booked until December!”
“Well, I might no a guy in the kitchen, a former student. I can get us in within two weeks.”
She looked reluctantly around. “This is… highly inappropriate.”
“We’re just going co-workers.” He declared. “No pressure.”
“It’s also very expensive.”
“It’s on me. I said I’d buy you dinner, didn’t I?”
She tightened her lips, and then sighed, her shoulder slumping. “Fine… I will see what I can do, C-. No higher unless he does the work!”
“Yes!” He pumped a fist before grinning at her. “You won’t regret it.”
Her face turned red, but she said her farewell and walked away. Coach Rex remained there with a shit-eating grin. He seemed to sense something, and he started to look my way. I ducked before he was able to notice me, then I sped out of the bathroom and broke into a sprint.
My mind was a bit numb as I ran. Coach Rex was always like that. There were rumors that before Mrs. Smith married, he’d also banged her, and several other teachers too. His only saving grace is nothing ever suggested he did anything inappropriate with students. Furthermore, he fought for the guys on his team and they all loved him to death. I was someone who might have been on the team in another life, but he had stopped encouraging me just when I needed it most, and slowly I had lost interest in doing that kind of stuff.
That’s why my run ended before I was even a block away from the school and I was bent over with stitches. I forgot that I didn’t have the stamina that I once had. After recovering, I walked the rest of the way. It was a miserable walk. My clothes were wet and I still smelled. The only saving grace was that it was a Friday. I’d have the whole weekend to forget about school until I had to return on Monday once again.
When I arrived home, the house was empty. My stepsister had a job, and my stepdad worked late. Mom worked as well, so I was the only one at home. I was thirsty after arriving home, so I immediately went to get a drink. While I was doing so, my stepdad’s car parked and he headed in.
“Lucas, what are you doing?” He asked, staring at me with a carton of juice in my hands.
I wasn’t drinking out of it. I was getting glass.
“I… live here,” I responded blankly.
He grunted, putting down his keys and briefcase before sniffing. “What the hell smells like piss?”
I felt embarrassed, so I mumbled something about working out, and then ran to my room to get clothes and finally the bathroom. By the time I had shown and cleaned up with the messed up clothing rinsed and hidden at the bottom of the hamper, Mom was arriving home as well.
“Did no one start food?” She asked. “The first person who gets home is supposed to get things started for me! I told you guys, I can’t do all of this myself.”
“Luke was the first one home.” My Stepdad declared as he sat lazily on the couch with his feet up on the coffee table.
“I’m sorry, I was busy.”
“Lucas, this is about responsibility.”
“Mom…”
“Carl!”
“Listen to your mother!” My stepdad responded without looking up from the glow of the television.
I wanted to bang my head against a wall, but thankfully, I was spared by the doorbell ringing. Mom went to check it, but after a second, she looked at me with a smile.
“Lucas, your friend is here.”
Friend? I didn’t have any friends. I took the door from Mom and peered outside, only to see a short redheaded guy with freckles. My expression turned cold. This was the guy who I used to call my best friend before he stole my girlfriend.
“Steve.”
He winced. “What’s up, Lucas?”
I grimaced. “That’s what I want to know.”
He made a face. “Look, I don’t want to be here any more than you want me here.”
“Then why are you here?” I demanded.
“It’s… my mom.”
“Huh?”
He jerked his hand back, and I looked to see a car. The car window was opened and a curly red-headed woman gave a wave, smiling. I could barely make her out, but I did have a small impression of Steve’s mom. I frowned even deeper.
“She said she used to like us hanging out.” He declared.
“Okay…”
He took a breath. “She said she’d only pay for the present I want if I invite you to my birthday party.”
“Seriously?”
He shoved the invitation into my hands. “Just call her and tell her you’re not coming and that can be the end of this.”
I looked at the invitation, which appeared to be a pool party at his house. I remember his mom was pretty wealthy and they had their pool and even a jacuzzi in the backyard. It was tomorrow, so he didn’t give me the time to prepare. Had I had any plans that day, I more than likely would have refused to go.
“Maybe I want to come?” I responded, feeling contrarian.
“Noone even wants you there.” He spoke bitterly, and I felt the anger I had suppressed for two years rising.
“I guess that present you want isn’t very important.” I raised the letter in my fingers, about to rip it in two.
He let out a cry, throwing his hands out and trying to grab the invitation. I held it away from him. One nice thing was that I was taller than him.
“You bastard!” He growled, then winced, looking back before lowering his voice. “What is it going take?”
“What?” I grinned.
“What do I have to do, so you satisfy my mom?” he asked.
My grin increased. “Now that… is the question.”
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Another week passed by, and Gobby did his job getting all of the girls pregnant. However, I noticed that once pregnant, their DP generation slowed down by quite a bit. All five of them now only gave about the same DP as two of them did previously. They still gained some, but it was at a noticeably slower rate. The life force that I was extracting from the heroines must have been diverting to the babies.
Well, I guess no free lunch existed in this world. If I was going to breed goblins, there would still be sacrifices to be made. On top of that, the girls also ate a fair amount. I was shocked by their appetites, which nearly matched their horniness. All these girls did all day was eat, fuck, and sleep. I mean, I put them in cages, so it wasn’t like there was anything else to do but it still felt painful to see what should have been a fortnight’s worth of food gone in a mere week.
As soon as I had introduced my breeding plan, Misty described what happened to women who were bred by a monster. It wasn’t uncommon for heroines who were captured by a monster to then be forced into mothering their children. The outcome for these women wasn’t pleasant.
The dungeon guild offered survival classes that taught women to just let it happen and then use any opportunity to escape. After all, they could have it magically terminated once they survived. Yet, sometimes, the women failed to escape and ended up going full term before another party could come and rescue them. Those who survived were usually ill and emaciated. If their rescue took too long, they were usually dead before they could produce a second generation of babies.
I didn’t mind that too much. If the party was eventually wiped out, I’d still end up with twenty-some goblins. That was enough to start my goblin village. Plus, I’d get all of their DP too. It wasn’t like these women were able to return to polite society after everything was done to them. Yet, the more I looked into things, the more I suspected that their deaths were preventable. It was likely that the mothers died because they weren’t being properly cared for.
Those little goblin babies must have been sucking all the energy out of those girls. I supposed for them to pop out a half dozen babies in under a month, the mass needed to come from somewhere. I suspected this was why female breeders looked so emaciated and sickly by the time the babies came, and why they didn’t survive the pregnancies without returning to human society. The monsters who captured them probably didn’t feed them enough, so the monster babies sucked them dry.
It wasn’t depression or exposure that killed them. It was malnutrition! Of course, this was only my theory. I’d have to make sure these girls were sufficiently fed for the next few months if I wanted to test that theory out. That meant that I needed to come up with a cheap source of food. The mushroom farm couldn’t possibly produce results now. My only thought was to ask Misty.
“Food, Master?”
I nodded. “What do heroines do for a cheap and reliable source of food?’
Misty bit her lip thoughtfully, her red eyes glowing in the low lighting around my core room. She lived in there with me, partially because it was nice to have the company, and also because she was my last line of defense from any enemy. After her demonification process, Misty didn’t seem to need to eat and was completely loyal, having no problem waiting long periods in silence until I needed her for something.
“There is no reliable food when you’re a heroine until you become rich.” She sighed. “Most heroines under a B-rank are scavengers. The new heroines will invest in rations, but anyone more experienced wouldn’t waste their month. Often, the monetary gains at those low levels are barely enough to counteract the cost of food.”
“Really…”
“Mm… just look over at Unbroken Bond. They originally arrived with two weeks of food. Food and supplies for a party of four, for two weeks would cost half a gold coin, that’s fifty silver coins. In exchange, they usually only can bring back a potion, and maybe some steel weapon. The potion might be worth a gold coin, and the weapon might be another two. In short, you risk your life and spend two weeks to earn seventy-five silver, after splitting four ways.”
“It’s that bad, huh?”
“Mm… that’s why experienced heroines scavenge everything. We eat anything we can kill.”
“So, I need something that can be gathered easily or breeds quickly so that I can feed the girls.”
“Doesn’t Master already have that?”
“Huh? I do?”
“Isn’t the colony on the second floor growing quickly, and the Rat King can always summon more.”
“Urk! Ahem, sorry.” I threw up in my mouth slightly. “Did you say something?”
“Master, every heroine eventually has to eat a rat at some point in their life.”
“I see… although that gives me an idea.”
Without saying anything else to Misty, I appeared on the second floor next to the Rat King. He was hiding in an alcove, and as soon as I appeared, he jumped in fear. This guy was skittish.
“I have a question for you,” I told the rat boss.
“Squee?” It looked up at me.
“How many rats do you have under you now?”
“Squee!” He looked proud.
“I see,” Somehow, I understood he said 107. “Can you give the rats orders?”
“Squee?”
“If I wanted to send them out to do scavenging, can they bring back items… for example, berries?
“Squee…”
“They would struggle, bringing things back that might not even be edible due to their low intelligence… I see…” I looked a bit disappointed.
“Squee, squee, squee?”
“What’s that? If you evolved, you would have greater control over the rats, and their intelligence would also increase… Why do I feel like you’re trying to con me? Are you just upset that so many other monster’s evolved and you haven’t?”
“Squee! Squee…” He shook his head in protest.
I let out a long sigh. “I need you to expand your rat operation. Raid camps, and bushes, and even lure predators like birds and bunnies. Maybe we can set up some snares and your guys can lure them back to base to become our food.”
“Squee, squee, squee squee…”
“Alright.” I threw up my hands. “I bequeath you, Rat King, the name Squee. You are Squee the Rat King.”
[-5000 DP Deducted. Rat King has become the named monster, Squee.]
[Rat King has evolved into a Rat Emperor. Rat Emperor can control a greater number of rats. They have greater control of the rats, and can imbue upon them status buffs at will.]
“Pricey.” I made a face.
I was glad it evolved him. I have no other way of inducing evolution other than giving them a name. Evolution otherwise seemed to come from experience. After seeing Gobby evolve into a Goblin Champion, I had some hopes for the Rat King, but ultimately the system saw a Rat King as much more valuable than a Goblin and charged me more for naming it.
“Squee.” Squee seemed excited.
“Well, at least you didn’t learn language skills, start expanding your colony and send them out to collect food.”
Hopefully, I could ratatouille up some grub for those girls. If not, I’d feed them rats instead. Should I have told Squee his rats were scavenging for their lives? Nah, they’d figure it out soon enough. I didn’t like confrontation, so why threaten them until they gave me a reason to do so?
I headed back down, moving through the ceilings to drop back to the fifth floor. I could instantly transfer my spectator body, but I used to be human, so it felt strange teleporting everywhere. Plus, who knew what ideas or issues I might discover? Part of life is a journey or something like that. As a result, I ended up dropping into the goblin village.
“Please. Me next!”
“No, I want it…”
“I miss the tentacles…”
Gobby was giving the leader of the Unbroken Bond his meat. He was working hard, panting as he thrust into her from behind, his body covered in sweat. In the other cages, the girls who all just started showing were all looking at him thirstily. They were practically humping the bars of their cage as they watched them pleasure their friend. The only one who kept her cool was the crazy girl from Passion’s Summit, who was staring off in a daze, humming to herself while stroking her stomach. I realized she was looking at where the cyclops likely was in the boss room below.
I gave a fake cough. It seemed like even Gobby wasn’t enough. I didn’t know if it was the influence of the evil bone, if these girls were already mentally broken, or if this was all just a product of extreme boredom, but they all wanted Gobby’s cock, and while his flesh was willing, it seemed one goblin wasn’t enough for four thirsty sluts. Until their babies grew up and could help with the breeding, Gobby had too much on his plate.
Of course, since they were all already pregnant, Gobby’s real job was over and was now only being a good host, keeping the girls entertained. I could call it making the best of a crappy situation. That’s when I noticed another person in the room. Looking around the corner at the group of women was Sandy. She was doing her best to be inconspicuous, but she was watching them with some interest.
She had been like that before. When I had Passion’s Summit locked in cages under the Cyclops’s care, she’d often stare at them for hours on end. If they weren’t practically delirious, it might have caused them to become even more unhinged.
“What are you doing?” I asked Sandy.
Sandy glanced over at me calmly and then looked back at the group of women. “Help.”
“Huh?” I blinked. “You want to help those women?”
She nodded fervently. My thoughts went to all kinds of places. Did she want to help free them? Did she want to improve their life? Deciding I was a bit curious, I stepped back and gave her a nod.
She looked over at me, and then cautiously stepped out from behind the corner and approached the cage. Although she was out in the open, the girls were all too focused on their stuff to notice her approach. The cage she approached first was the cage of the mage. She unlatched the cage. I tensed slightly. The cages could only be unlatched from the outside. Thus, when the goblin was doing his thing, the door was open, and the girl could escape. None of the girls had attempted it, but a goblin champion was pretty strong, on the level of a D-rank adventurer, and unlikely to be defeated by an unarmed F-rank heroine.
However, Sandy was a mimic. Her only danger came in surprise. If the girl made an honest effort to escape, she might’ve been able to. Of course, escaping the cage didn’t mean she’d be able to escape the dungeon, but it still made me nervous. The mage finally seemed to notice someone else had entered her cage. She glanced at Sandy with a confused expression on her face. That’s when Sandy suddenly erupted in tentacles.
I jumped as dozens of tentacles came out and grabbed the mage. One of the other adventurers screamed. For a second, I thought Sandy was going to eat the girl, but then I started hearing moaning. The black mage resisted at first, but her body quickly fell into the rhythms that she had become used to shortly after coming to this dungeon. Her eyes became filled with excitement. Although she had settled for goblin dick the past week, it was clear that she missed the violations of the tentacle monster.
Of course, I couldn’t move the monster down here. It was an immobile monster from the beginning and already assigned permanently to that floor. However, I never considered that Sandy as a mimic could also copy the monster. Its body was mostly just pale flesh stretched over a lumpy form, nothing to be attracted by, but the mage didn’t seem to care as she became wrapped up in its defiling tentacles.
Although the tentacle monster did have some intelligence, it was mostly a creature that functioned on instinct. When it probed a girl, it was mostly moving randomly with cause. However, Sandy was a mimic and a named creature. More than that, she spent the majority of her time as a woman. I’d even had sex with her several times, making her aware of the parts of a woman that turned them on. Simply put, she was familiar with a woman’s body, so as she controlled the tentacles, her actions were a lot more effective than the poor monster on the second floor.
She knew how to play with a woman’s breasts, rubbing them, kneading them, pinching and twisting the nipples. She knew the power of licking and sucking on a woman’s pussy. She even knew to violate her ass as well as her pussy. Sandy knew what would drive a woman crazy and the mage was quickly reduced to a puddle of pleasure. Furthermore, her tentacles weren’t limited to their basic shape. She could change the ends to anything she wanted, from mouths to penises.
Sandy’s tentacles wrapped around the woman and she was soon suspended in the air. The tentacles held her tightly, leaving no room for her to squirm, or attempt to escape. The tentacles played with the mage’s body. Her hands and feet were left free, but the rest of her was completely immobilized. They twisted her nipples, rubbed her clit, and fucked her holes.
The tentacles that had been inside her mouth moved out and started teasing her, but the mage eagerly wrapped her lips around it and sucked. The mage was completely lost in her sexual fantasy, moaning wildly as Sandy brutalized her with extreme efficiency. The mage was quickly driven wild, squirming around the tentacles. Finally, her orgasm ripped through her body.
When it was over, the mage hung limply in the tentacles, exhausted from the powerful experience. Sandy lightly set her back down in her sheets and even covered her up with a blanket before turning back into her female form. Gobby looked over at her with a bit of awe. He was still balls-deep in the lead girl, still trying to bring her to orgasm. Meanwhile, Sandy didn’t look like she had broken a sweat.
She left the black mage’s cage and then entered the cage of the white mage. The white mage stared at her warily. She had been the one who screamed when she saw the tentacles. After getting over the withdrawals of her mana dosing, she seemed to be one of the more lucid girls. She had still accepted her situation but was a bit wary of the monsters.
“I don’t want… tentacles,” the white mage said nervously.
Sandy tilted her head, and then her body changed. Gobby’s dick slipped, plunging into the girl’s ass. This was because the cage next to his suddenly had a second Gobby there.
“Ah! Wrong hole! Wrong hole!” the girl cried, trying to get Mimic Gobby to pull his dick out of her.
The white mage looked at the goblin and made a face. “I don’t like… men. Can you… turn back to your other form?”
Her words caused the other girls to glance her way, but she kept her eyes on Sandy. Sandy went back to her pink-haired form.
The white mage blushed slightly looking at her. “Do you have… a dildo we can use?”
Sandy looked down at her crotch, and soon her pussy switched into the form of an erect penis. She then glanced back up at the white mage?”
“Okay?”
The white mage’s face reddened more, but she nodded. She even crawled up and started to suck Sandy’s dick like a pro. She didn’t like men? She was certainly gobbling down that dick! Did that mean she liked ladyboys? Well, whatever, I continued to watch as Sandy took the lead, plowing the girl with her dick.
While this was going on, Gobby and his girl took note and seemed to jointly discover their love for anal sex. The goblin pounded away at her ass, and she was moaning in pleasure. That wouldn’t do for breeding in the future. I’d have to make sure he knew where to dump his load before indulging in the other stuff.
While I was enjoying the show, I suddenly felt a shiver run through my back. It was an ominous feeling, like something bad was going to happen. I tried to ignore it at first, but the threatening feeling only grew stronger. Eventually, I headed back to my core room and then switched to my bird’s eye view. I looked all around, but I didn’t see anything out of place.
It was a day later when I finally realized why I’d had such a feeling. A person had entered my dungeon area. The moment they had must have been the moment that unpleasant chill had run through me. It was just a single heroine, but she wore high-tier-looking get up. She had two pigtails of gleaming baby white hair, but her face was hard to see. She held a thin rapier in one hand, but on her back, a few mounds suggested she was packing more firepower under her cloak.
However, the thing that terrified me the most was that the moment she stepped into my space, the DP generation spiked through the roof. I had never seen my DP climb this quickly before.
“Misty…” I showed the girl on the screen, hoping Misty would play down my worries.
Instead, her face turned white. “Oh no.”
“What? What!”
“It’s Master.” She looked at me with fear in her eyes. “The Dungeon Guildmistress, River!”
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Chapter 182: Become Your Sun ~ Part 1 ☆
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It may seem hard to believe, but I used to be the cool kid. At least, I saw myself as fairly popular at school. I had a best friend, a popular girl I was fairly sure was into me, and a core group of buddies I would hang out with and joke with.
My home life wasn’t perfect. My dad passed away when I was young and my stepdad had come along a few years later. Some kids are standoffish around their new dad, but my stepdad and I got along fairly well. He brought along an older sister, whom I got along well enough with too. I encouraged mom to marry my stepdad, and at their wedding, they made me one of the groomsmen even though I was barely in my teens. That’s how well we got along.
Then, one day, everything changed. It was a few months after they got married, and it was completely my fault. I was just starting to get used to my sexuality, and suddenly having a girl only two years older than me move into my family home felt odd. I wasn’t used to worrying about doing things like locking doors and maintaining privacy.
I suppose it all started at school. Three girls had suddenly gotten pregnant in my middle school. I grew up in a small country town, and for three out of the two hundred students to suddenly get pregnant, this became a giant phenomenon. It turned out the girls had made a pregnancy packed, all doing it to try to get back at their fathers. Rumors floated around about who the fathers were. Even my name was thrown around, although I don’t think tests were ever done.
As typical for a small town, the three girls went away for a while, and when they returned they were no longer pregnant. Their once outgoing personalities had become extremely refined. They kept their eyes down, barely talked, and went through school almost like ghosts. Since then, all but one of them moved away, not able to deal with the shame, teasing, and looks they got daily. The last was taken out and homeschooled. No one ever talked about it after that, and I don’t know if the babies were born and raised by family or something else.
Around this time was our school’s mandatory sex education as part of our health class. Yet, because of the pregnancies, the administration was terrified to teach us about sex. Everything was spoken in strange euphemisms. It didn’t help that we were in 8th grade and doing as 8th graders did, we tried to make the teachers as uncomfortable as possible. Boys would ask impolite questions intending to make their teachers blush, and girls would spread rumors about students hooking up. In the end, the sex education lessons were shut down with a strong emphasis on celibacy.
Unfortunately, I was a fourteen-year-old boy just starting puberty, and I suddenly found myself near a sixteen-year-old girl. I never had any interest in my sister, but my sister’s best friend was hot, and she would come over during the previous summer while wearing a swimsuit so she could jump in our pool. My mom was very traditional, and my sister had to wear a full one-piece, but her friend wore a bikini that showed a lot of skin.
I should also add that my mom was very strict. We weren’t allowed to have phones or access the internet. The only internet usage I got was at school, and that was usually limited. I had never seen a naked woman before, nor talked much about dirty things. The guys sometimes made jokes and I laughed along like I understood what they were talking about, but I had been depending on that sexual education to learn, and instead, I got my stepsister’s friend in a bikini.
One day, shortly after sex education was shut down and the 8th-grade year was in full swing, I got home early from basketball practice. As I was walking to my room, I noticed a picture on the floor outside my sister’s room. It was clear she had dropped it by accident. When I looked at it, my body immediately reacted. It was my sister and her friend. They were both in swimsuits. It was a picture from the previous summer. They had their arms over each other and they laughed, their bodies dripping wet after a dip in the pool. In particular, my sister’s friend was leaning forward in a manner that showed a lot of cleavage.
I had never done anything before, but I had hit a breaking point that day. I knew I was in the wrong, but I snatched the photo and then ran to the bathroom. For the first time in my life, I pulled my dick out for something other than peeing. As I touched myself, it started to grow hard. I had bent the photo in half, cutting my step-sister out. My focus was on her friend and her nice cleavage.
I didn’t know how long I sat there staring at the image and touching myself, but I must have blanked out because I didn’t hear anyone coming home. The next thing I knew, the bathroom door I had forgotten to lock burst open and my stepdad was looking in. I was so startled that I dropped the picture. It floated over and landed open at my father’s feet. My dick was in my hand, and I had been seemingly doing it to a picture of my dad’s daughter.
His eyes widened. I could never forget the shock and horror on his face as he looked at me. Then, he turned around and left, closing the door quickly. He didn’t even snatch the picture back up. I felt so bad. I felt like I had betrayed his trust. Plus, I had been doing something I shouldn’t have. As I result, I swore I’d never touch myself again. It wasn’t always easy, but I didn’t want to show something unsightly again.
My relationship with my stepdad changed that day. He became cold to me. He never looked me in the eye. He also became wary of me whenever his stepdaughter was around. He’d eye me suspiciously, and deep down I knew he had every right. It was the biggest mistake I ever made, but regrettably, that was only the beginning.
I was already stressed and embarrassed over what had happened with my stepfather, but I mostly kept it all down and ignored it at school. It was getting to the point where the popular girl was letting out a lot of signs I should ask her out, but because of my shame at home, I kept holding it off.
Then, the fateful day when my school life fell apart came. It was a fairly normal day, except that our gym class which was normally in the afternoon had to meet in the mornings. Our normal gym teacher was sick that day, so they asked the high school gym teacher to fill in. I can’t stress enough how this was a small town where these kinds of things happened. The gym teacher, a guy named Mr. Rex, was someone I knew. He had been my coach for basketball as well, and a lot of people liked him. He was a cool guy. A lot of the high school girls had a crush on him, and there were even rumors he might be dating one of the teachers.
Mr. Rex was tough but fair, and by the end of the gym session, the boys were all covered in sweat. He told us to hit the showers. I had never done that before. The middle school didn’t have a shower room, but the two schools were connected with a division between the upper and middle students. He sent us to the high school to shower. I had never been there before. Since my activities were at the end of the day, I usually just went home and cleaned up there. However, it was the morning and we had a day full of classes, and none of the guys wanted to be the smelly, sweaty one.
As everyone stripped and jumped into the shower, I became to feel my shame creeping in again. I didn’t know why, but I just wasn’t comfortable being naked around the other guys. It had never been an issue before. It wasn’t like I had never been at a sleepover, but I was always able to change quietly in a corner and it wasn’t like anything would be seen. The guys were already roughhousing in the shower, and I quietly wrapped a towel around my hips and put on shower sandals.
Since I wasn’t making a ruckus, the guys hadn’t noticed me at first, I quickly rinsed my body up and was just about to escape when my best friend must have realized I was being rather quiet and avoiding everyone else.
“Hey, Lucas, what are you doing?” He asked his hands on hips proudly.
I was deliberately avoiding looking their way. I didn’t know exactly why. Was I thinking that if I looked it was permitting them to look? I just remembered touching myself and being seen by my stepdad and then how cold he became, and I just tried to walk out of the room quickly.
“What’s with the towel?” One of the guys asked.
“Are you embarrassed about something?” My friend asked.
I couldn’t help but stiffen. Those were the worst words that could be spoken in front of a group of middle school boys. They were all looking my way now, and I could feel my back burning from their eyes. I didn’t want to respond. I was thinking to myself that if I could just escape to the locker room, then everything would be fine.
“I bet he has a small penis…” One of the guys laughed.
The others started laughing too. I didn’t think my penis was all that small. I didn’t know how large it was. I had tried to measure it a few months prior, but the ruler wasn’t long enough. It was a little more than 12 inches. I had tried to ask the sex ed teacher about it back then, but he had gotten angry at me, telling me not to mess around and all the other students had giggled and laughed as they had been doing through the entire thing.
The result was that I had never gotten the answer I was looking for. I reckoned that I was a bit on the large size. After all, there were all those jokes about “foot-longs”. That led me to believe that a foot was average, more was above and less was below. To me, a small dick guy was someone with six inches. I couldn’t even imagine having such a small dick.
I didn’t know what was going through my head, but I responded angrily. “I bet I’m larger than you!”
It was just the dumb things a kid says. There were oo’s and ah’s and the guys laughed. I turned and left the shower, relieved that I was over the ordeal. That was until one of the guys I had said had a small dick snuck over and ripped my towel off. The guys were all waiting as he did it, and when I saw the look on their faces, I’d never forget it.
It wasn’t too different from the look on my stepdad’s face. Shock… and then coldness. I would have been happier if they had pointed and laughed. Instead, they all grew silent. There wasn’t even a single smile. They put on their clothing as if nothing happened, and I hid in the corner and finished changing as well.
Since they didn’t say anything, I had hoped that nothing changed. However, my hope was unfounded. The guys immediately started distancing themselves from me. Whenever I walked to them, they would become silent and stare at me until I left. This continued through the rest of 8th grade. Their coldness seemed to permeate over to the girls as well. At first, I was still friends with a lot of girls, but one by one, they would all start coming up with reasons to avoid me.
However, it was when the popular girl, my school crush, ended up dating my best friend that I started to feel abandoned. At that point, he still grudgingly talked to me, but when I found out he asked her out and she said yes, I grew angry. We ended up arguing about school. No one else was there, but I was furious.
I came up at him and yelled. “You knew I liked her. Why would you do that?”
“Heh… like you don’t know.” He wrinkled his nose at me. “Don’t act like every woman isn’t chasing you. You can have anyone you want, so leave my girl alone.”
“I thought we were friends!” I snapped.
His face turned even more twisted and he spoke quietly. “You thought wrong.”
I was stunned by his words. I was hurt, confused, and isolated. Worst of all, I had no one to go to. There was one last person I thought to trust, Coach Rex.
“Hey, buddy, what’s with the long face.”
“The… um… the guys have been treating me strange lately,” I spoke, feeling desperate to find at least one person who had my back.
“Come to my office.” He gestured, and we ended up in an office adjacent to the very shower room where this all started.
There was a cramped desk, balls, and trophies scattered around a closet-like room. I was sitting across from Mr. Rex, who was wearing his typical polo shirt and tight shorts. I wondered a bit where he kept his dick. I had to wear loose and baggy pants all the time. I couldn’t wear anything tight or it would be sticking out. Times like that made me feel like a dweeb. Every other guy seemed to figure it out, but there was so much I didn’t know because of my strict upbringing.
“Now, Lucas, what is going on?” He asked. “I noticed you don’t hang out with your friends after school anymore.”
I calmed down a bit at his question. At least someone saw what I saw. It made me feel better reaching out to him.
“The guys stopped wanting to be my friend,” I spoke awkwardly, not sure how to sum up the last few months of experiences in a way my coach could digest.
“Really?” He blinked. “It’s probably nothing. Boys your age will get upset at each other over nothing. I don’t think you need to worry too much.”
“I see…”
“You’re going to do fine.” He laughed, basically dismissing my worries and standing up. “Is there anything else you need?”
Although his dismissal seemed abrupt, it was sort of what I needed. I needed someone to tell me it was no big deal and things would improve in a few months. He did make me feel better, but I still had a lingering discomfort, one that I had to get rid of.
“Um… I know this is awkward, but I don’t know who else to talk to about this.” I spoke strangely.
I definitely couldn’t ask my stepdad, not after what happened.
“What?” He covered his grin, looking serious.
“They… started acting strange, after seeing…” I felt my face redden, and I realized it was impossible to ask normally. “I-is there something wrong with my penis?”
He blinked, his expression turning a bit weird himself. “Ah… sorry, what did you say?”
I flushed. “I think… there is something wrong with my penis.”
“Alright.” He stiffened. “It’s possible. You’re telling me you need someone to take a look?”
I nodded, my face hot. “Maybe, I should go to the doctor…”
“No… no…” he shook his head. “I can handle it. Just show me.”
I pulled my pants down. At first, I was relieved that his expression didn’t change, but as I pulled my pants up and he didn’t react, I realized his expression was very stiff.
“Is… is there something wrong?” I asked.
“No.” He responded, but his voice sounded somewhat strange. “No, you’re normal.”
I let out a breath of relief. “Thanks!”
I was so excited I went to hug him, but he flinched, holding up his hands. I pulled back, realizing the situation was a bit odd to do something like that. I thanked him for a second time and then left, feeling a bit better. That feeling only lasted a few days. Although Mr. Rex didn’t say anything, his attitude toward me changed too. I used to be his favorite student, but he started picking the other students instead. He was giving me the cold shoulder as well, and it was a lot like my dad’s.
The rest of 8th grade passed like that, just a slow decline of isolation. At home, my stepdad wanted nothing to do with me. At school, every boy and girl avoided me. It was like I had contracted some kind of illness, and it all had something to do with my penis. Was it misshaped? Did I have a disease? I eventually concluded that it was small. I did have a micropenis.
I once overheard some guys making a joke where they called the penis a third leg. My penis was nowhere near the size of my leg. I had also heard someone call it a tripod. I must be really small. It makes sense if you think about it. A vagina was big enough to push a baby through. Girls must need something equally as large to enjoy sex. A baby’s birth length on average was 20 inches, with a 4-inch thickness. That’s what my googling at school taught me, where every term for penis was censored by the school’s software.
I figured my reasoning must be sound. A penis had to be the same size as a baby. That must mean a man’s penis size was 20 inches long and 4 inches thick on average. It was no wonder my 13-14 inches, with a 2-inch thickness was worthy of mockery.
As the isolation continued, I shut down. I focused entirely on my school work, avoiding anything to do with sex or the friends I once had. I was far too embarrassed to talk about it from then on. High school started, and what started as isolation turned into flat-out bullying. My biggest bully turned out to be my former friend, Mark. Meanwhile, the girl I used to like, Hailey, became cruel and spread rumors about me. Any new people who might have treated me nicely were quickly pulled aside and corrected.
My group of friends had become my worst offenders. When they weren’t going out of their way to embarrass or mock me, they would find other ways to make my life miserable. I had cried a couple of times, but that only got me labeled as a crybaby. I thought I could at least get out some of my frustration with sports, but I tried out for the high school team, but Rex refused to let me on the team. He said I was “too unbalanced”, whatever that meant.
Two years went by like this. It was a difficult two years. I thought about even killing myself. I had gone from the popular guy who everyone liked to the freak whom everyone avoided. I also had no clue what I had done that caused so much ire. Yet, the time was coming when I was about to find out. Well, I’m not the one who found out, it was my bully’s mom who made the discovery, and my life would never be the same.
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“Master…”
“Don’t say it.”
The pair of us were in the boss room while a naked pregnant girl looked on vacantly, a blissful expression on her face. I couldn’t be seen since I was in spectator mode, but the girl seemed to ignore the cyclops in front of her like she wasn’t talking to him. She waited patiently, not even remotely afraid at the appearance of one who could kill her with ease. It seemed like she could tell apart the cyclops from me. More than that, she was trying to say the baby was mine!
I had never gotten into this situation before. I started to freak out. I had never even touched a woman until I came to this world. I lived in my parent’s basement! How was I supposed to deal with becoming a father? No, this baby wasn’t mine. I used the cyclops’s dick, so it was his baby! How did someone take care of a cyclops baby? Would it even be a cyclops, or some half-human, half cyclops? How the fuck do you have 1.5 eyes!
On the floor were three freshly made corpses. These heroines would soon dissolve, their bodies becoming mana and their supplies becoming part of my treasure horde, which was much more than I usually got from the worn and broken-down parties I had previously repelled. Their armor wasn’t etched from slime goo and their food stocks weren’t completely depleted. I didn’t know the name of their party, but on the surface, they brought a wealth of dungeon points and nearly pristine supplies at almost no cost. However, my worry was whether someone would come looking for them.
“Master!”
“Ah! What? What!” Misty’s loud call finally snapped out of my panic.
“The best thing Master can do is mitigate the situation. We can figure things out as we go. That other party shouldn’t be allowed to escape.”
I blinked. She was right. What I needed right now was time. If the other party left the dungeon, then the news would get out into the world. Taking a breath, I entered the goblin. The cyclops really couldn’t speak well, even under my control, but now that Gobby was a named monster, his ability to speak was rather good.
“I don’t mean you any harm,” the crazed pregnant girl said. “If I stayed in the city and they found out I was pregnant with a monster’s baby, they would kill it. That’s why I returned. I even brought you an offering. These three are new heroines. They never even registered with the guild, hoping to avoid the taxes. No one will ever track them to you. Is this offering to your favor?”
Even if their deaths wouldn’t be tracked to me, could I really trust this crazy loon? I slowly emerged from the shadows as Gobby.
“What is it that you want?” I asked through the goblin’s mouth, though the voice no longer the shrill and unpleasant voice of a goblin, but surprisingly smooth and calming.
“Are you… him?” Her eyes snapped to me fervently. “I read that… monsters are all controlled by the dungeon. If they act in any unnatural way, it’s because they are acting at the will of the dungeon itself! That’s why it must be you, right?”
“You want to stay in this dungeon?” I asked.
She nodded excitedly. ‘Yes, daddy! I want to have your babies and stay with you! My body has already been molded to your shape. I can never return to normal society again.”
“Then, go fetch the women you parted with earlier. Do not kill them! Catch them all and bring them back down here. Tie the leader up next to the bone of corruption and let her become a bit more acclimated.”
“Yes, hubby!”
My goblin brow twitched. When did I upgrade to hubby? I let her leave anyway. I wasn’t worried whether she could handle it. The return journey for The Unbroken Bond was anything but unbroken. Despite their name, the girls quickly split apart to satisfy their desires. The archer crawled away on the ice to look for her goblin partner, and the mage naturally returned to her tentacled sex toy.
The only two who continued were the leader and the white mage. The white mage would have probably stopped at the bone of corruption, but she was too weak to resist, and the leader continued pulling her along. Up in a daze, she didn’t notice the other two abandoning them.
Standing in the room next to the cyclops, I couldn’t help to compare. Gobby wasn’t nearly as strong or muscular as the cyclops, but he had intelligence. I knew that he could ‘see’ through my eyes, and knew that I had taken over his body for the moment. I felt his fervent loyalty though. He had no qualms about me controlling him. I didn’t get any complex thinking or emotions from the cyclops. Gobby was about five feet tall, so he’d probably be considered a short king. He also had a proper six-inch cock.
I couldn’t help but feel slightly annoyed. When I asked Diamond about an avatar, she had come up with the cyclops. A goblin champion was far closer to standard human dimensions though. Then again, the goblin champion was a sentient creature, not a beast, so controlling it felt a bit odd. Although, like I said, Gobby was completely happy with me using his body, I could sense an undeniable trace of nervousness. No, a goblin champion wouldn’t work as a permanent avatar.
I sighed and left the goblin, giving him and Sandy orders to remove the dead bodies of the heroines the pregnant girl killed. They’d be gone in a few days anyway. I didn’t care where they ended up as long as they were out of sight.
“What is your plan, Master?” Misty asked as I returned to my room.
“I was just thinking,” I told her. “The Rat King can bring rats into the dungeon and make them part of the dungeon. This can be done DP-free, right?”
She nodded. “The Rat King has the power to control the rats.”
“Well, my goblin is now a Goblin Champion. That probably means he has the strength to control a goblin tribe, right?”
“Oh? Is that why Master made him a named goblin? You think ahead.”
“Of course.” I coughed, not daring to admit it was an accident, I decided to just run with it. “Anyway, that girl looks to be six months pregnant, but it’s not been a fraction of that time.”
“Monster babies do gestate much quicker than normal children. This is how the guild can determine if a woman becomes knocked up.”
“So, this kind of thing is normal?” I asked her. “Will they be halfbreeds?”
She shook her head. “Monsters can reproduce with humans, but you only get more monsters. Such instances happen. The dungeon guild has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy when it comes to such things. You can get a baby removed magically and discretely without anyone knowing.”
“And what do you make of her?” I had brought up the screen of the pregnant woman.
She had taken the archer by surprise and knocked her out, currently leaving her in a bag, ready for to collect. I sent Gobby to collect them and bring them back down to the boss room.
“She is… broken,” Misty spoke awkwardly. “Some end up like this, although it’s very rare for someone F-ranked. There are usually all kinds of safety precautions to protect new heroines.”
Such safety precautions wouldn’t work when it came to me. No one expected an F-ranked dungeon to have intelligence.
“She hasn’t become a demon though.”
“This… I do not know why. Perhaps, she doesn’t meet the conditions necessary for demonification.”
I nodded. “Perhaps, you have to be a certain rank for that too.”
As we watched Gobby bringing the archer back down, Misty glanced back at me. “What do you plan to do with them?”
“I’m pretty sure tentacle monsters can’t get someone pregnant, nor can bones. However, the archer has played with that goblin quite a lot. That makes me think there is a high likelihood she’s carrying a goblin junior. How do goblin pregnancies work?”
“Goblins grow incredibly fast. They only take about a month. The mother usually puts out a liter of five or six. Based on the availability of supplies, only one or two make it to adulthood.”
“Let’s assume I can provide for the goblins. They’ll all reach adulthood. In that case, how large is a goblin village?”
“Goblin villages vary in size. In an F-rank dungeon, never more than five or six. However, in higher-ranked dungeons, you can see villages with hundreds of goblins. These are some of the most dangerous levels to pass. They are even used as boss levels sometimes.”
“Then, that is my goal.”
“You want to make a goblin village, master?”
I nodded. “It’s about time I added another floor. I’m going to expand this floor into a goblin village. Those girls are going to be the mothers of my new tribe. Goblin villages have to capture humans for breeding, right? I was thinking this could justify having them.”
“Although a dungeon capturing humans is a sign of intelligence, the goblins may do this naturally, even in a low-rank dungeon.” Misty looked at me with surprise. “However, if anyone finds the captured F-rank adventuress, you won’t be able to avoid being seen as a D-rank dungeon.”
“That’s okay,” I responded. “I’ve been thinking about it a while and given the number of people who have been killed or repelled, the guild might get suspicious anyway. As long as we don’t get seen as a C-rank dungeon, they shouldn’t assign us for destruction. The presence of a goblin village would explain everything. As a dungeon, I might not have even been involved. How could I help a random goblin champion enter and set up residence, right?”
Misty gasped. “That is what people would assume. Normally, a dungeon can’t grow this quickly otherwise.”
I nodded. I had been wanting to come up with a justified way to keep heroines locked up as DP dumps for a while now. The cyclops proved to be a bit too much, but if I could build up a village of goblins, they would scavenge for food and water and thus be able to take care of the human breeders. Any heroine that arrived would just assume they stumbled into the village unprepared and were captured. Furthermore, they could free them, which would act as yet another reward.
I didn’t plan to leave it just with that. Upon reaching the end of the village, I’d keep a small treasury. If I could convince them this was the final boss room, they might just turn back here and not end up so close to my home. The stairway would be hidden in the goblin champion’s hut, and so Gobby would be the final boss they’d need to pass to continue to the sixth floor.
Of course, I wouldn’t have Gobby risk his life. He’d have a means of escape if defeated. I planned to alter the room so that the goblins could live peacefully in alcoves. Only a few goblins would appear at a time, just like the rats for the Rat King. This would keep the entire colony from being wiped out by one abnormally strong heroine. They could also depend on sneak attacks and attack strategies. I’d let Gobby figure all that out. This was supposed to be a village of his making, not mine.
One thing I would add though, is that wherever we put the captured women, I’d add another evil bone. This one wouldn’t be filled with sexual desire, but rather motherly feelings. I already had one crazy pregnant girl. I’d give her the bone for a while, and eventually, it would reinforce a feeling of motherly love from the women having babies. This would keep them there longer and make them more receptive to being breeders.
This was my short-term goal, but I was also thinking about the future. Eventually, I’d build up to level ten. Number ten would be my new boss’s room, and five would then function as the 5th level boss. The goblins could function as a servant class. Not only could they make forage for food, but perhaps I’d be able to make them mine and forge armor. The goblin village would become a source of extra treasures without spending a single DP!
However, that was just an idea I had. There was no saying it’d be able to come to fruition. Only time and effort would tell. The crazy girl knocked out each of the Unbroken Bond girls with ease. Even the leader who was the most coherent barely managed a struggle before she took a blow to the head and dropped like a sack.
Meanwhile, I began executing my plan. I couldn’t work on a level that had a heroine on it, so I made sure all the important stuff changed first. The unconscious girls were left on the fourth floor until the new floor was done.
With the help of the goblin champion, all of them were brought back down to the boss level, and placed within the bone cages that once held Passion Summit’s party. This time, I put the cages all together. Rather than giving them a feeling of hopelessness, I instead gave them a sense of familiarity. When one girl acted like a slut, the other girls would feel compelled to act like sluts, classic frat party rules. Of course, this also put them all next to the bone which was carefully placed out of their reach above the cage.
I also ordered the crazy pregnant girl into a cage. She didn’t resist at all, willingly going back in. This time, I had all of the camping supplies from the deceased team, so they were each given clothing, bedding, and food. I had expanded the size of the cages quite a bit, and they were more like small dormitories than cells. With that, I gave the goblin orders to get to work.
The new floor took advantage of the pillars from the previous boss room and then modified things. One would enter a zigzagging path lined with torches. There were several makeshift tents, also taken from the adventurers, which would serve as goblin homes, but they also served to hide small alcoves where goblins could hide. This would help me to build up and maintain their numbers and allow them to be quickly replenished in between dungeon raids.
There was a well-constructed well with a bucket to fetch water and even a central bonfire. I created a latrine too, which wouldn’t just serve as the place for the goblin’s waste, but also for anyone else who needed to use the bathroom inside the dungeon from now on. The goblins would eventually have the responsibility to sweep up and dispose of it there. The ceiling was fitted with a ventilation system to keep the air clean, and the fire served to warm up this area considerably. Of course, once the adventurer’s supply ran out, we’d need to worry about fetching wood. I had never been concerned about temperature before, but when I was inside the goblin, I realized that it was a bit chilly underground.
Food would eventually be a problem. I didn’t want to provide food for all of these budding goblins or their mothers. The supplies from the heroines would only last so long. Thus, I searched through the dungeon store for solutions. After spending everything to build up the goblin village, I still had a good 10,000 DP and rising thanks to my four guests. You had to spend money to make money, and I considered the goblin village a future investment so I was willing to be a bit more generous.
The best thing I could find was a rapidly growing mushroom. The spores were cheap, and it said it could grow in any damp, cool place. Thus, I created a small chamber to the side of the village through one of the hidden alcoves and then filled it with mushroom spores. I built a leach field for the latrine directly under the spore room, so it remained damp and the soil would continually be renewed. What? This is how every modern septic tank was designed. Look it up.
With all of that handled, I waited for the girls to wake up.
Once the girls were conscious and aware of their predicament, the goblin champion appeared. He entered the crazy pregnant girl’s cage first and then had his way with her. She enthusiastically took his dick but almost seemed disappointed that it wasn’t the cyclops ploughing her this time. Although the cyclops was technically her baby daddy, I had a strategy at play, and the cyclops might upset that strategy.
After the goblin had his fill of the crazy pregnant girl, he left for a bit. Once he recovered, he returned, and this time he advanced on the archer. She panicked at first, but when she looked into his eyes, she seemed to realize he was the goblin lover from before. He gave her a slight nod, and her resistance faded. Soon, the two were making passionate love right in front of the other girls.
This was the strategy I was depending on. In a way, these girls produced a good demonstration of their purpose and direction in this dungeon. The crazy girl was the late-term pregnant girl who already come to terms with her lot as a babymaker. The archer was the girl who craved goblin dick and might already be with child. The white mage was only obsessed with dick and didn’t care where it came from. The black mage was hopelessly addicted to pleasure, and although the species changed, she’d more than likely adapt. Then, there was the leader, who was the most resistant.
By watching each girl fall from most amendable to least, when the time came when Gobby stood before the leader of the Unbroken Bond, she would have accepted her lot in life. In that way, all of the girls would become goblin breeders.
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Chapter 181: Approaching the Shaded Shadow ☆
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Chapter 180: Duality of Moon and Star – Part 2 ☆
Part 2 of 2, Neesiette transforms into a seductress!
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