Chapter Five
I stood in my Vault. It was beyond my personal quarters. Through the door behind me, which only I could open without brute force, lay the most valuable object for all of us. My Void Crystal. A black gem on a plinth that hummed as it slowly drew in energy.
I had a maximum capacity that I could expend in two ways. One was a permanent lowering of it. Every bit of my dungeon, plus every one of my monster girls, was a permanent use of that power. Most of it, in fact, was tied up between the two. But it did leave me a small fraction I could use on my own personal magic.
Spells that I could use to heal or to harm, enhance or weaken. That fraction of power didn't seem like much, but my magic didn't take much to use and replenished fast. Every adventurer I defeated gave me a little more
maximum
power. Dungeon builders even more. On top of that, I needed mana veins to
strengthen
my magic. It didn't give me more to use, but more power. I needed one more mana vein to get me to the third tier. Better magic and monster girls. After that, I would need to find
twelve
more to hit the top tier.
It was exponential. One mana vein for the First Tier, two mana veins for the Second, four for the Third, and sixteen for the Fourth. Maybe there was a Fifth Tier, but that would require two-hundred and fifty-six mana veins.
And they were damned hard to find. And there were ways to expend them. Permanent teleportation spots that I had yet to learn. Fuegin had one to visit my dungeon. I could burn them to make Isatu from a monster girl to a full-sized dragon.
A weapon of last resort.
Dungeon builders dammed up these mana veins. Part of why we were hated. But just a small reason.
"What's next?" asked Souleen. She was my Soul of the Void Crystal, a piece of the Incarnation--Queen Puabi, the ancient Sumerian woman who had summoned me to this world. "Wind monster girls? And you have those three claimed companions from Sulanga to deal with. They're willing to serve."
Three out of four. The treant had refused so now I had a second type of Level 1 Life monster girls to make beside Satyrs.
"I'll let them serve," I said. "But the Wind monster girls first."
Kassie was at work on the teleportation circles. I gripped my Void Crystal and sank into its interface. It was sort of like a video game in that way. A sims game where I had different menus to build or create different things. I could lay out my dungeons, install traps, create specialized rooms, furniture, fixtures, and more. Or I could make monster girls.
First, I pulled Alizee into the room.
My latest companion, summoned from my world, appeared. She blinked as she looked around. "Wow, that is so disorienting, Leo."
"Sorry," I said. "I should have warned you." Guilt flushed through me. It was so easy to treat my monster girls as pieces. "I'll ask next time."
"It's fine," Alizee said, a bright smile on her lips. Back in our world, she was a blonde and beautiful cheerleader at my college. She had a flawless face and perky tits. Well, as a sylph she still had both of those, only her hair was pure white and fluttered in a wind that only touched Alizee. Instead of pale-beige skin, like my own, she had a light blue. Her cloud-gray eyes twinkled at me as she sauntered towards me, her round boobs jiggling. Dark blue nipples topped those. "So, what's up? Need me to cheer you on."
I smiled. "I wouldn't mind that."
"Let's go Leo!" she whooped and did a high kick that flashed her hairless pussy at me. Her pink folds parted, her labia gleaming. "Do that thing with the Void Crystal and lead us to the big V!"
She made a V with her fingers and thrust it up in the air.
"Woohooo!"
She bounced up and down, her tits jiggling in such a distracting way. I smiled, glad that I had brought her here. I sank into the monster girl section of my Void Crystal, Souleen quivering atop my crystal. The miniature, motherly woman had a big smile on her tan face. I found the Wind section. Level 1 monster girls were pixies. I thought about those for a moment.
I had an idea for them.
But I moved to the Level 2 monster girls: harpies.
One appeared in my mind's eye. An ebony-skinned woman with black-feathered wings instead of arms. She had large breasts that jiggled as she breathed and curvy hips. Her legs were long and sleek, her feet becoming bird-like talons as black as her wings. She had a gorgeous face with golden eyes. A short bob of black hair framed her ebony face.
"Damn," I groaned. "They are beautiful."
"Who?" Alizee asked.
"Pihatu," I said, the name rising out of the depths of my soul, "I call upon you!"
The Word, her name, gave shape to the potential that was Pihatu the harpy. She spun out of shadows on the other side of my Void Crystal. The figure I had seen stood there, her breasts swaying from side to side. She unfurled her wings and stretched them, her head darting around in the quick, jerky movements of a bird. Her talons clicked on the floor.
"Lord Leo!" she said, her voice melodic. "Am I yours? Your flock? Your monster girl? Your wanton slut?"
"Slut?" I blinked. I had never had a monster girl just call herself that after appearing.
"Slut," said Pihatu. "Yes, yes, I want to be your slut, Lord Leo. Ooh, will you let me. Huh? Huh? Huh? I'll be such a good slut."
"Oh, let her be a slut, Leo," Alizee said.
"Of course you can, Pihatu," I said, releasing the Void Crystal I shrugged out of my robes. "Mmm, why don't you come here and kiss me."
"Sure thing," she said and darted around my Void Crystal. Then she slapped her wings and jumped.
I was not prepared for her to nearly hit her head on the ceiling. Nor for her to land on my shoulders. Her hairless pussy pressed right against my lips. Her wings flapped to keep herself from falling backward as her sweet juices soaked past my lips.
"Kiss!" she said and humped her pussy against my mouth. "Mmm, I love kissing!"
"I meant with our lips!" I groaned.
"Yes, yes, my pussy lips on your lips, Lord Leo," she said. "What other sort of kissing is there?"
"It is the best type," said Alizee. "Though Nina showed me pussy lips kissing pussy lips. That was hot."
"Oho, that sounds like a fun form of kissing," Pihatu gasped, her voice echoing through the air. "We can try that later."