My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1187-1189

Chapter 1187

I ended up so busy getting the Osterians settled that another day passed by. Of course, I didn’t have the buildings or homes to give so many people. They were fine roughing it for a while, but I didn’t want to cause issues where it became us and them situation. If the Osterians were going to become a part of my territory, then they would be integrated with the rest. I could just let them build their own city. Truth be known, I only had two cities right now, the most human and slightly incestuous Deeksville, and then Chalm which was majority slaves.

I had feared that the Osterians wouldn’t fit in. Although Chalm was anti-slavery, the Osterians fought alongside the demon lord. For the longest time, Dioshin had sat as the barrier to keep them from claiming the entire south. It stood to reason that this was very difficult to forgive, and may lead to some prejudices down the line.

So, I ended up having many talks with the guild master, Elaya, and the mayor on this. Alysia refused to speak for the Osterian people, even if they would listen to her. In her mind, she stopped being Osterian when she became my blade, and her view would always be compromised because of her relationship with me. This ended up meaning that Draven was the one speaking for the Osterian people. It was an awkward situation and not one I considered an idea. Eventually, we realized we were probably going to have to draft a bill of rights. Well, that was my suggestion. I only knew so much about government. I probably should contact Prince Edward when I had the time to discuss this stuff further.

In the meantime, we created a set of temporary rules and regulations. The Osterian were open to enter the city and do commerce with Chalm. The one thing Chalm had been lacking was farmland. The wilderness proved to be too dangerous. Families refused to risk everything on farms too close to the wilderness. A few of the more daring citizens had started farms east of Chalm where they at least were protected, but they just started and it would be years before they produced a surplus.

The Osterians were much more daring. After all, they had the strength and stamina of three regular humans, so whether it came to running or fighting, they had an edge on the monsters emerging from the forest. They immediately began a reclamation plan that my girls had started by surveying the land. In short, they began cutting down the forest and taking the land that had been too unwieldy for Dioshin, Aberis, and even the demon king to conquer.

This task had originally gone to the golems, but they were inefficient and required constant upkeep. Furthermore, we had blown them up in the battle with Demon Lord Aberis and never got around to making more.

As I was watching the Osterians chop down trees, requiring half the time that a golem would need, I thought about the future of this territory. It was mine to claim, given by Lord Aberis. Dioshin might come to disagree with that when they reached their borders, but that was a problem for years from now. At the moment, we were merely creating a safety barrier around Chalm that hadn’t existed until this date.

Elaya also explained that my evolving dungeon was putting out some pretty strong signals that would keep the monsters and other dungeons at bay. Eventually, I was going to have to destroy the three remaining dungeons that made the wilderness, or in some way conquer them. Thinking about the benefits that come from tamed dungeons, maybe I shouldn’t aim to destroy them. Well, at the very least, I’d need the help of my girls.

That was right. What was holding Celeste up so long? She should have been back with Miki by now. Her focus was speed, and we knew where Miki was, so she should have been able to reach her in a day. I opened up my Slave Communication.

“Celeste?”

“Master! Help! Help Immediately!”

Chapter 1188

I leaped through a portal, coming out in any area where I couldn’t be certain what I was found on the other end. I had Alysia at the ready. It could be anything. Celeste could be in mortal danger at that moment. I should have known that something was delaying Celeste from returning. I should have spoken to her earlier. Now, I just hoped that I arrived on time.

{You have entered Matty’s Maze of Mysteries. Destroy the lore to break the curse, or complete the lore for extra dungeon points and a blessing!}

“Celeste!” I looked around worriedly.

I had all of my blessings, so portaling directly to Celeste’s location wasn’t difficult. That location turned out to be in a dungeon. However, I was a bit confused. If she was in a dungeon, she shouldn’t have been able to use Slave Communication. Also, Celeste should have been tracking down Miki, and Miki had gone to the dungeon that had an undead type. Was this a maze filled with the undead? I looked around, and couldn’t see anything that looked to be dangerous in our immediate area. Then, my eyes landed on Celeste and they opened as wide as pinpricks.

Celeste was on the ground, and she was covered from head to toe with milky white stuff. It soaked her body, making her clothing wet and partially see-through. Gobs of white dripped down her chest and body. It looked like… well, it didn’t look good.

“Master, you came!” Celeste cried hysterically. “This dungeon… this dungeon… it violated me.”

“What… who did this?” I snapped, feeling extremely angry.

“T-that!” She pointed down the hallway.

There was a long hallway in front of her and a stairway coming up from the side.

“I’ll show them!” I lunged forward down the hallway, expecting to see an enemy.

“W-wait!”

As I touched the first light, the ground suddenly gave out. It was a trap I hadn’t noticed! I used Create Step, planning to jump back. However, when the ground gave out, the ceiling opened up. Something large and slimy fell on my head. I let out a shout as I was dragged down, collapsing into the hole. Before I could react, I fell into a pit of white, immobilized.

It was dark, cold, and I couldn’t get a single breath. It was liquid, but it had a gelatin-like quality that completely immobilized me. I couldn’t even swing my sword. Just as my lungs started to burn, I felt someone grab me and pull. I was yanked out of the suspension where I landed on a nearby concrete platform. I let out a breath, gasping. A moment later, I lifted my hand and created a light spell.

I could better see the pit I had fallen into. It was as long as the hallway, and it was filled with wriggling white. It took me a few moments to realize what these things were.

“It’s… slimes?” I asked in wonder before doing a Monster Identify. “Ghost slimes?”

Celeste nodded tearfully. “They’re so wiggly and gross. They wiggled in all kinds of places! If I couldn’t change my form at will I definitely would have died the first time I fell in!”

“So, this is a dungeon filled with traps,” I muttered. “Did Miki succumb to one of these traps? Ah, what do you mean, first time? How many times have you fallen?” I asked.

“M-master…” She turned teary-eyed. “Fifteen times… this is the 1st level!”

Chapter 1189

I had Celeste clean herself up. I looked just as bad, but on a girl, the ghost slimes were pretty bad. If I had to guess, the ghost slimes were non-combative. They simply immobilized you like quicksand. When your body died, they would then feast on your soul. A normal slime was caustic to the flesh, so it made sense that a ghost slime would devour souls. At least, that was my hypothesis.

However, this was only the first level and the first challenge. A dungeon that focused on challenges might be Celeste’s biggest weakness. She was fast, but once she got slimed, all of her ability would be nothing. I’m sure there was some kind of trick to the challenge, but I didn’t care to figure it out. So, she had not been able to make any progress or get any deeper. Also, the Slave Communication didn’t cut through into the dungeon. Instead, Celeste had left a spell at the dungeon entrance to automatically beckon me when I connected. That wasn’t even something I was aware she could do, but if anyone could, it would be someone like Celeste with such high level wind magic. That she could figure out how to do that, but not pass this dungeon’s easiest trap… well that was expected of Celeste.

“Alysia, let’s destroy this.”

I lifted my blade and it began to glow. Will Celeste realized what I was going to do, a dangerous glint appeared in her eye.

“Let me help.” She waved out her hand and went began to blow in a circle around Alysia.

I raised the sword in the air and then did a massive attack. Innumerable wind blades exploded off of the sword and then worked their way across, chopping and incinerating the ghost slimes. A wave of spiritual destruction also resonated with the blade, further causing them to disintegrate. With time to prepare and with Celeste’s help, we managed to vaporize the majority of the slimes.

“Stick with me!”

I jumped forward, walking down the pit and slashing my sword. The last of the slimes were destroyed between me and Celeste. After days of trauma, she nearly gleefully destroyed monster after monster. When we reached the end of the pit, I used all of my leg strength and jumped up. I then created a Step and jumped again. With a swing of the blade, I destroyed the trap door from the other side. Celeste sent a wind blade up, and as a slime tried to fall on our heads, it was chopped apart.

In two leaps, with Celeste flying behind me, the pair of us emerged at the other end of the hallway. As I glanced back down the hallway, I could see that the lights were moving in a particular pattern. It probably had to do with how the trap worked and was bypassed. I didn’t care though, and I didn’t have time to waste on some dungeon master’s idea of a good trap. I would fight my way to the bottom of this dungeon and find out what happened to Miki. If she died, I would make this dungeon cough up her soul or else.

Thus, we broke through this trap by going under it and continued to the next floor. It was a room with four chalices on four pedestals.

“I wonder which chalice we need to drink… or do we drink them?” Celeste asked.

“I solved it,” I stated.

I walked up to the door leading to the next floor. It was closed, but it was just a door.  Dungeons only seemed invincible by depending on tricks. For example, you could have a physical door supported by spiritual energy. No matter how powerful your blade was, if it could only physically attack, it would be blocked no matter how strong it was. I had Alysia, who could cut through every type of substance, so I didn’t hold back. I immediately ignored the puzzle and attacked the door. It exploded open in a single violent strike.

“Ah? Master figured it out!” Celeste exclaimed excitedly.

I didn’t, I just broke through it. Celeste was happy to be making such quick progress after being stumped for two days. Her opinion of me seemed to be increasing, but I was just cheating at this point. Whatever, it was fast.

Of course, I didn’t know that deep at the bottom of this dungeon was a dungeon master who was watching us, a vein popping out on their forehead.