Dungeon Builders Harem Book 04 Ch 37

Chapter Thirty-Seven

I paced along the side of the room as the light flared. Another group of halflings vanished.

"Let's go!" Kassie shouted. "On the circle."

I stared out at the halflings watching me. They were staring at me with hope. Shock. Awe, even. I nodded to them, trying not to look worried, but my monster girls were dying. The halflings were still choking the tunnels.

Until every last one of them was out of here, this could go so badly.

"Hurry, hurry," Kassie shouted. "Let's go. No, no, you can go on the next one. That's enough."

The light flared and the group vanished.

I drew in a deep breath, gripping my spear. Gaiste died. The last of my arachnes killed. Sulanga's dungeon was too close to the city. Too damned close.

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Ms. Rosa Trueno screamed her fury at the sky, her thigh throbbing from the arrow embedded in her.

The air rippled from her shout and slammed into another of the damned hippogriffs, knocking her out of the sky. The numbers were thinning, but it didn't feel fast enough for the teacher. They were losing too many monster girls. The arachnes were gone, and the other monster girls were flying higher and higher to pick them off.

Skamianiela and Vielmi breathed another wave of their petrifying breath into the air, striking a phoenix. She turned to stone and dropped like a brick out of the sky. Vielmi jumped to the right, but Skamianiela wasn't as fast.

The stone phoenix struck Skamianiela and carried her off the side of the building. Pink hair whipped around Skamianiela's face as she plunged to her death. Ms. Trueno winced as the scream cut off with a loud crunch and a burst of rock.

On the other roof, Baaghi leaped into the air and bit a hippogriff in the leg. She screamed as the rakshasa pulled her out of the sky. Feathers burst from the enemy's wings and ripped into Baaghi's body. A dozen teal missiles buried into her chest and stomach. They landed on the roof, the hippogriff slamming on her back. Baaghi collapsed on her side.

Bhaaloo was there and snapped her jaws down on the hippogriff's head, crushing her skull. She vanished. A moment later, Baaghi disappeared, too. Ms. Trueno shouted in fury at the sky, missing a thunderbird.

A ball of fire struck Bhaaloo in the back as Hagane stood on the roof in a fighting stance. A firewhirl hurtling for her. Above in the skies, a whirlwind surged for Lana Fulmine. Ms. Trueno sucked in breaths, fear pumping through her veins.

She knew they wouldn't win. But was it enough to buy Leo time to evacuate the dungeon?

Screaming, Bhaaloo vanished in a burst of motes, the flames burning across her body guttered out.

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Then the firewhirl engulfed Hagane.

She slashed at the flames as her body grew hotter and hotter, but her blades did nothing to the fire. They were ethereal. Plasma. The heat poured into her body. She was made of metal. She drank it in. The pain grew in her. She screamed as she could do nothing against the fire burning around her.

Hagane melted and died.

* \ * / *

Garnet laughed as the thunderbird crashed to the street below, struck down by Dark Succubus Naughty Garnet's mighty Penetrator.

Enemy monster girls surged at her. Two hippogriffs and a pair of phoenixes closed in on her. Fireballs and razor arrows hissed through the air at the little succubus. Her scarlet wings flapped, black pigtails streaming behind her.

She climbed fast, her wings pumping away. She beat at the sky as she rose higher and higher. She climbed towards the heavens, weaving, dodging. She had to do something or she was dead. Her head whipped around as a ball of fire crackled by.

There, on the streets, was something amazing.

Garnet dove for the ground, sending,

"I got something for you, big sis!"

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"I see you,"

Crystal thought back and slid to a stop. "Yuki-onna, get ready!"

The two hippogriffs and two phoenixes chased after Crystal's bratty little sister. She formed her ice dagger, her three yuki-onna doing the same around her. They raised their shards of ice as Garnet dove for the ground. Her wings flared wide.

She swooped over.

They threw.

Crystal's dagger took a phoenix in the throat. Blood spurted. The enemy monster girl screeched and careened to the right, slamming into the side of the building, She shattered a window sill and burst into motes.

The yuki-onna attacks surged up. Two icy daggers slammed into the second phoenix's pale belly, ripping through her flesh. She screeched in pain and vanished in a burst of energy. The last dagger struck one of the hippogriffs. The blade buried in her wing near her shoulder.

The wounded wing folded. The hippogriff spun and struck the ground feet before Crystal. The body bounced, head twisting, and flew at the ice sprite. Just before slamming into Crystal, the hippogriff vanished into motes that sprayed around the ice sprite.

Crystal formed another dagger and spun as the last hippogriff climbed after her little sister. Throwing her weapon, the ice sprite grinned as she struck the hippogriff between the shoulder blades. They stiffened and collapsed, tumbling for the ground and hitting the pavement a half-block away.

"Thanks!" Garnet called. She waved her club which was actually a big, floppy dildo. "You are the—"

Three bolts of lightning struck Garnet from three directions. She screamed, spun in the air, and vanished.

Fury exploded in Crystal's icy breast. A raging blizzard howled in her.

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The howling whirlwind chased Lana Fulmine through the skies over the city.

The lightning sprite beat her wings. They cracked with her power as the roar of the twister flying after her grew louder and louder. Lana threw a look behind her, golden hair streaming behind her. From the top of the whirlwind, the top half of a dusky-skinned woman with black hair and large breasts appeared. Gold bracers adorned her wrists and golden rings pierced her nipples.

A genie?

Lana thought.

The enemy monster girl slashed her arm before her. A blade of compressed, white air hurtled at Lana Fulmine. She banked to the side. The attack whisked past her. Lana Fulmine's wings crackled. Then she fired a blast of lightning back at the genie.

The genie's whirlwind bent to avoid the attack. The lightning streaked by her. The genie raised her arms above her head, hands acting like she spun a plate or something over her head. Air swirled between them. Then a smaller whirlwind flew from the genie and hurtled at the lightning sprite.

Lana Fulmine's wings beat at the air as the vortex rushed at her. The currents around Lana changed. The whirlwind sucked the air towards it. Lana fought against it, but the closer the whirlwind came to her, the stronger the suction became.

"Shit!" Lana cried as the winds seized her and dragged her into the vortex.

The winds beat at her. The world spun around her. She tumbled around inside the vortex, her crackling hair whipping around her. She screamed, the roar of the whirlwind swallowing up her fear. She spun around inside of it, her stomach churning.

She couldn't escape it.

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The firewhirl landed on Terra's roof and sent a wave of fire rushing at her.

The golem dove to the side, rolling across the roof. The flames hurtled by, the heat washing over Terra. She gained her feet and sprang into a charge, rushing at the burning mass. There had to be a monster girl inside those flames.

The firewhirl burst with more flames. It hurtled at Terra. Charging forward, she had closed the distance too much. She tried to dodge it, but the fire struck her and threw her back. Pain burst across her body. She felt her clay hardening from the heat.

She landed, whimpering from the pain. Her malleable body cracked in places. A piece of hardened clay broke off. She trembled on the ground, eyes squeezed shut against the agony that tore at her body. Her back arched as she struggled to get up.

Her left arm shattered into a dozen pieces.

Terra howled in pain.

"Are all of Leo's monster girls as weak as you?" the firewhirl asked in a malicious voice.

"I am not weak, bitch!" Terra snarled, glaring at the enemy.