“Do you know what Goblins and Orcs have in common?”
Celia spoke in a gentle voice.
The target of the question was the adventurer Denver.
However, Denver could not answer.
“Wa-water….”
It had already been two days since he was trapped in the Dungeon.
His eyes were unfocused, and his body was desperately craving moisture.
Just in case there was even minute water vapor in the air, Denver stuck his tongue out toward the empty air.
But it only made his thirst worse.
Despite Denver’s appearance, Celia paid him no heed and continued her explanation.
“The answer is that both races have a very low probability of females being born. Usually, about nine out of ten are born male, and only one is born female, or so they say.”
Of course, there was a chance that not even that one would be born.
Celia muttered so and smiled sweetly.
“Because there are so few females, they couldn’t increase their numbers through normal means. So, in order to maintain their race, they chose a completely different method. Do you know what that is?”
Despite Celia’s continued questions, Denver gave no answer.
His complexion was already haggard to the point of being half out of his mind.
He couldn’t think of anything.
There was only one person visible before Denver’s eyes.
Jane was already lying on the floor with her clothes torn. Not only that, but unidentified liquids covered her.
Her body and mind had already been defiled by the Goblins.
“The answer is that they reproduce through other races. However!”
Celia shook her head and opened her mouth.
“I don’t know about Orcs, but Goblins occupy the lower levels of the food chain. For such Goblins to prey on other races is truly a difficult task!”
So the Goblins targeted easy Humans for racial reproduction.
“Of course! Excluding strong individuals like Knights or Magicians among Humans. Hehe.”
Even if they are Goblins, they can’t help it against strong Humans.
For a moment, Denver’s expression contorted.
It wasn’t difficult to infer what her actions and words thus far meant.
“From this, a question arose in my mind. I wondered just what kind of power a child born between a Human with mana and a Goblin would possess.”
They would all be no ordinary Goblins.
Therefore, she planned to verify this going forward.
Using Jane, who was captured here.
She was to become a broodmother carrying Goblin children.
Those beings would be born in this Dungeon.
And they would live as laborers working for the Dungeon in the future.
“Aah, I am so happy just thinking about it.”
Celia covered her face with both hands and assumed an ecstatic expression.
But to Denver, there was no sound more terrible than that.
Using people for Monster breeding….
It was something he didn’t want to think about, something that should not exist.
Denver barely spoke with a cracking voice.
“You think you’ll be safe after doing this!”
He squeezed out every last bit of strength, shouting with all his might.
“If we don’t get out of here, what do you think will happen! If there’s no contact within a week, other adventurers will swarm here!”
His words were true.
If an adventurer who took on a Dungeon commission goes without contact for a week, the Guild begins an investigation.
This was the Guild’s policy to manage Dungeons thoroughly in order to prevent Monster Waves.
“Then you and that arrogant master bastard are finished! Wouldn’t it be better to let us go right now?”
Keu-heu-heu-heu.
Denver laughed as if he had lost his mind.
Conversely, Celia’s expression hardened.
It wasn’t because of what he said about other adventurers possibly coming from the Guild.
“A bastard not even worth a bug dares to speak of the Master. How unpleasant.”
Celia grabbed Denver’s mouth with her hand.
She wanted to smash that face right away, but that wasn’t enough.
Tak—
When Celia snapped her fingers once, the resting Goblins began to move again.
Their purpose was solely pleasure.
And Denver was forced to watch such a spectacle.
“Oh dear… You mustn’t turn your head away. Please watch closely. You must pay the price for daring to invade the Dungeon of a supreme being, mustn’t you?”
“Uwaaaaah!”
He had already been watching the horrific scene for two days.
Denver’s body and mind were already at their limit.
“Just… kill me… please….”
He could no longer bear to see the girl he once loved suffering.
His head grew cold.
The Guild would need five more days to arrive.
There was no guarantee he would be alive until then.
Rather, it wouldn’t be strange to say he had no chance of surviving at all, only suffering.
That was why he had begged Celia to just kill him.
Please don’t humiliate us anymore.
“Hmm… Do you truly wish to die?”
Celia’s eyes met Denver’s.
Denver nodded desperately.
“Well, the Master should be satisfied by now.”
At her words, hope sprang up for a moment.
The hope that he could close his eyes comfortably without suffering anymore.
“Now, please look into my eyes.”
Celia’s gaze changed.
Denver’s eyes, looking at her, gradually began to unfocus.
Celia had used a skill on Denver.
It was Allure.
A Succubus’s Allure is fatal.
The higher the rank of the Succubus, the greater the skill’s effect, and males exposed to the Allure become unable to feel attraction to any woman other than the caster.
And every moment turns into a state of rut.
He would probably keep shaking his hips until his skin was all scraped off and die.
That was the final fate of a Human afflicted by Allure.
“Ce…lia-nim….”
And now Denver had become a faithful servant who looked only at Celia.
As he acted like an animal in heat before her, Celia scrunched up her expression.
“My body is for the Master alone to covet.”
Instead, Celia pointed at Jane with her hand.
“If you must, isn’t that girl right there?”
But Denver could no longer feel attraction to any woman other than Celia.
He despaired at the thought that he couldn’t hold Celia, but the boiling lust was something he could not control.
In the end, Denver succumbed to his lust and turned his steps toward Jane.
“N…no… please….”
Seeing Denver like that, Jane barely opened her mouth with difficulty.
But she couldn’t stop him.
The string of reason Jane had been barely holding onto.
The short-lived string of reason snapped in her mind.
“Hi…hihi.”
Jane began to laugh as if she had lost her mind.
Now this place had become no different from the world of animals.
It had become a filthy space where everyone pursued only their own pleasure.
“Tsk.”
Watching such a scene, Celia clicked her tongue.
It was truly pathetic.
At the same time, rage surged.
“Such worthless bugs dared to covet the Master’s Dungeon.”
Celia, scrunching up her face, soon turned her body.
There was no longer any value in watching.
And she opened her mouth, gesturing to the Death Knight.
“Kill only the man. The woman still has much to do.”
Jane had much to do.
Because she was a precious talent who would continue to produce laborers for the Dungeon going forward.
She would carry children until her body broke.
How beautiful and noble a deed that was.
That was the maternal love taking place in the Dungeon.
The Death Knight drew the sword at his waist.
The drawn sword immediately pierced Denver’s heart.
“Keuk.”
And so Denver—
While embracing the girl he once loved, his life came to an end.
Tears flowed from Denver’s drooping face, but whether it was sorrow or the joy of finally being liberated, no one could know.
But it had now become a meaningless matter.
Denver’s collapsed flesh began to move again.
It was a very unnatural movement, the effect of the Death Knight’s skill.
[Shadow of Death]
A skill by which those killed by a Death Knight are resurrected as Ghouls.
Denver, whose heart had been pierced, had been reborn as a Ghoul.
“Ce, li…a-nim. Lo…yal. Only… loyalty….”
However, it was no ordinary Ghoul.
“Ho….”
Celia too opened her mouth in surprise at the Ghoul’s behavior.
To think that her Allure from when he was alive was still maintained even after becoming a Ghoul.
“This is rather surprising. But your loyalty must be directed solely to the Master.”
Celia smiled and tried to send the Ghoul that was once Denver to Area 1.
But the Ghoul did not budge.
“Ha… If I had known such a troublesome thing would happen, I wouldn’t have used Allure….”
But it was already too late.
The Ghoul that was once Denver kept following Celia.
“It can’t be helped. I’ll just call you Denver from now on, so please don’t interfere with my work.”
Celia pushed Denver aside and clapped her hands.
“Now, there will be much work to do from now on.”
The Master had told her.
To manage the Dungeon.
And to bestow despair upon those who set foot here.
To do so, she had to move busily without rest.
She needed to trade with the merchant guild to procure necessities and manage the Dungeon’s overall affairs.
There would be a lot to do for the time being, but Celia showed no signs of fatigue.
“Now it is time to spread the Master’s will throughout the continent of Eldorad!”
Thinking of the future where the entire continent would be covered in the Master’s fame, the current hardships were no hardships at all.
“I hope that day comes soon.”
Only Celia’s mad laughter echoed throughout the Dungeon.
* * *
- You have successfully repelled the intruders.
- The condition to unlock the [Mid-Boss] has been met!
- [Mid-Boss] unlocked!
- When the number of monsters in an area exceeds 30, you may designate a ‘Mid-Boss’ for that area.
- The condition to unlock [Dungeon Support & Dispatch] has been met!
- [Dungeon Support & Dispatch] unlocked!
- You may support or dispatch monsters to other Dungeons in need of help.
- You have acquired the Unique Monster Denver (★★★).
Alarms continued to ring on the smartphone.
- The lock on [Facilities] is released.
- The lock on [Dungeon Expansion] is released.
- The types of monsters appearing in [Draw] will increase.
Unfortunately, I Ganghyeon was currently working as a porter in the Dungeon, so he could not check the alarms.
But the alarms did not end there.
- …….
- Calculating score….
- You have successfully completed the Tutorial.
- Binding I Ganghyeon’s soul to the Dungeon.
- This alarm will be automatically deleted after 5 minutes.