My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem - My Dungeon Life – Chapter 1325-1327

Chapter 1325

My horde moved forward, and the queen’s horde had no choice but to fight back or risk being invaded. As soon as a zombie grabbed another, I tried to send out my karmic infection, but I was surprised to feel some kind of resistance. It looked like there was a limit to my takeover. As I took over more zombies, my soul power was spread out into controlling them, making my overall strength weaker. Meanwhile, every zombie she lost allowed her to condense her soul power, increasing her strength.

We reached a standstill where I couldn’t force my karmic infection forward anymore without risking losing some zombies to her attacks. Yes, she had attacked as well and managed to reconquer several of the zombies I had acquired before I could reason out how she was blocking them. It became a delicate balance of power as we fought for control of the horde. While this was happening, the hordes were battling each other, and this is where my disadvantage truly showed.

An undead necromancer was far more suited for controlling undead than I was, so when it came to her game, I was only able to conquer about 1/3rd of the zombies, leaving her the majority. On top of that, my zombies were the only mindless drones I could send out with orders. It was clear the difference between a necromancer and an undead necromancer, as her side all moved with technique, purpose, and strategy to quickly subdue one undead after another.

I had to come up with a new strategy, as I’d be overwhelmed shortly if things kept going in this direction. If I was going to continue to fight the zombie on their terms, I had to use my advantages to change the situation in my favor. What was my greatest advantage in a battle of the souls? Wasn’t that the god soul? How could I use my god soul to fight the enemy?

As I considered this, I realized that I had been using purely karma and miasma in this fight. I was using darkness against darkness. However, the undead was extremely vulnerable to white mage magic and healing magic. What would happen if I injected my mana into the zombies too? I had a god soul, and that unique disposition had, from time to time, allowed me to give a certain degree of protection to my allies. Usually, it was protection in the case of them not being hurt by miasma, but what if I protected them from mana?

I decided it was worth a shot. I began to infuse mana into the zombies under my control. The blue light in their eyes turned brighter and whiter and I felt like I was infusing them with strength. Rather than be harmed by the white magic, they were able to absorb it cleanly. Considering they were just bodies with no souls other than what I gave them, that made sense.

I waited patiently for an opportunity, leading one of my zombies vulnerable while the other took on a defensive ring to protect me. Since the other zombies were smarter and faster, I had been on the defensive since we reached the point that I could no longer steal more zombies. Yet, I made it seem like I had to sacrifice some to keep the defensive line. The queen jumped on this, trying to snatch her zombies back. I felt the darkness invade them, but as soon as it reached their mana enclaved souls, I heard a small scream.

“Chance!”

That scream came from none other than the Queen. I now knew where she was hiding.

Chapter 1326

I had some concern that the zombie queen was hiding in another room, but I didn’t believe that she did. Rather, she was hiding deep within the crowd of zombies, using them to protect herself. As soon as she touched the light trap, she had been injured directly and let out a cry. I immediately took the opportunity, sending all of the hordes toward her, and then leaping up. My eyes turned to pinpricks as I scanned for anything that might be them.

In reality, I had no clue what I was looking for. What did a zombie queen look like? It theoretically could look like any of those down there. I also wasn’t above finding out the zombie queen was a guy. I had already been fooled with bandit kings, so I wasn’t going to assume sex at this point. However, I was focusing on searching for a girl.

I was imagining a zombified version of Elaya, bloodied, rotten, and missing chunks of flesh. I should point out that this look didn’t appeal to me in the slightest. I had experienced the undead many times since coming to this world, and I had never met an attractive undead. A few ghosts could be cute, but never the undead.

My eyes caught just a flash of silver hair.  “That’s it!”

I didn’t know why I was certain of it, but when I saw the hint of someone hiding in the crowd, I knew it was them. With a roar, I kicked off a midair step and then slammed into the zombies below.

“Don’t hit her!”

“Y-yes!”

It probably wasn’t a fair request on Alysia, but I was also trying to avoid hitting her. Just in case, I wanted Alysia there as backup. This boss would end up being the seed I’d use to build my dungeon. Frankly, the idea of a zombie queen interested me quite a bit. Their ability to control a large horde made their potential as a boss extremely alluring. It meant that they could directly control the creatures in the dungeon.

Usually, a boss only could control the dungeon so far, and the dungeon itself could respond too in ways counter to the boss. This created a lot of limitations. For example, once a monster left the dungeon, it was free from the dungeon’s control. This put the dungeon in a hard spot where they are expending energy in the hopes that it will pay them back, usually by protecting them, as Mina’s Dungeon had done once.

However, if the zombie horde could be controlled directly by the boss, it might be possible to send them out to capture and bring back other creatures for harvest. In short, I could create a means of dungeon production using a zombie horde.

With that thought in my mind, I realized I had to catch this boss alive and tame it immediately. Any other boss would potentially be too difficult, and likely wouldn’t be able to help me fulfill my goals as efficiently as a zombie queen.

I chopped through a dozen zombies, and as soon as I saw that silver hair again, I reached out and snatched them. The zombies naturally reacted, lunging toward me, but I pushed off, ripping them out of the crowd of zombies.

“Gotcha!” I cried out, leaping up into the air and activating my monster taming skills. “You’re mine now! Submit to me-ahhh!”

In my arms was a little girl, perhaps no older than ten. She looked up at me with terror-filled eyes, and then she burst out into tears wailing. The zombie queen was a little girl… and I made her cry.

Chapter 1327

“Scary! Meanie! Jerk! Baka!” The little girl was punching my chest while crying.

My exuberance and excitement and been instantly dashed. See, this was why the naming of this world was a joke. This was supposed to be a zombie queen, not a zombie toddler. Even when I had prepared myself, I hadn’t prepared for this. I was standing on the chandelier once again while holding a loli who was throwing abusive language at me.

Her hair was silver and her eyes were red. Her skin was white, paler than even Miki. Other than that, nothing would indicate that she was a zombie. Other than being a bit cold to the touch, she had no indicator that she was some powerful boss from the Deep.

I had been preparing myself for a backlash after grabbing her, but the backlash ended up being her crying and pounding on my chest. Somehow, this felt worse than if she had used some kind of ultimate weapon. As for the zombies below, they were all looking up at her, but they had stopped their attack and weren’t trying to save her either.

“Oi… stop hitting me.”

“Bully! Dummie! Tall fleshy human!”

“Will you stop!” I tried to cover her mouth in irritation.

What? It wasn’t like she needed to breathe or something.

Chomp!

She bit my hand. I was fortunate that I had a strong disease resistance. She didn’t even get through the skin. Besides, this wasn’t one of those situations were being bit by a zombie made you turn into a zombie. Although, she was a zombie queen. Just to be sure, I cast Cure Disease and then tried to pull her off. She didn’t come off.

“Hey! Let go!”

She looked up at me, but her eyebrows lowered in a challenge. Her teeth remained unmoved. I shook my hand, but her head went with my hand. I let go of her. Once she fell, I was planning to grab her again, but the fright of falling twenty feet would show her. Yet… her body didn’t move. She hung there, not even using her feet or hands, her teeth still clamped on my hand.

“Hey! Get off! Get off my hand! Get off my hand!”

“Grrrr… Grreee… Ggmmmm…” She growled as she hung from my hand.

Her jaw strength was shockingly powerful. “Alysia!”

I lifted my hand. If she didn’t want to come off, I’d chop her off. Rather than the feel of a hilt, I felt a hand grabbing mine. I looked up to see Alysia had materialized her human form. She raised an eyebrow at me, and I couldn’t help but blush slightly. Maybe I was getting a bit carried away.

The zombie queen glanced at Alysia with interest, but when I tried to pull my hand away, her eyes darted back to me and she growled again. Was this a zombie queen or was this a dog? I had already attempted Relax on the girl several times, but she didn’t let go at all. This is why slaves were better. I could just use Enslavement on her. Then, I could make her do whatever I want.

What? I wasn’t the bad guy here! She started it!