Dungeon Builders Harem Book 05 Ch 13 14

Chapter Thirteen

Mrs. Zoe Baldwin ran towards where the dragon had landed. With her were three rock elementals--Valuna, Hraniti, and Kremie--three goblins--Klitorsa, Hipera, and Atri--and three hellhounds--Perra, Mordera, and Estellara. The dryad ran through the empty village as she realized where the dragon was heading.

"She's going for Siwang's dungeon, Leo!"

she cried to her son as she burst on the green and raced across it. Then she sent,

"Siwang, she's coming for you. I'm leading monster girls to attack her. Can you help us? We'll catch her out on the open on the green."

"I can, Mrs. Baldwin!"

Siwang cried.

From his dungeon, seven cockatrices spilled out. The Level 1 Thunder monster girls had green-scaled bodies with bird feet. Red hair spilled in feathery waves down their backs. They spread out, staring at the dragoness, cutting her off from the dungeon.

"The dragon is going for Siwang's dungeon?"

Leo asked. He sounded horribly confused.

"Yes!"

Mrs. Baldwin cried to her son.

The dragoness whirled around to face Mrs. Baldwin's force. She spread her wings wide as the hellhounds took the lead, ready to pounce as they ran on all four. Then the dragoness inhaled. Black death exploded from her mouth.

* * / *

Why was the dragon heading for Siwang's dungeon?

That thought roared through my mind as I gripped my Void Crystal and found Kassie. She appeared beside me, momentarily disoriented. It made no sense that the dragon would go for Siwang's dungeon. Wasn't the dragon attacking Astovin?

How would the dragon even know that the entrance to Siwang's dungeon was in the town? Or was it just a coincidence? What the hell was going on.

Either way, it was going badly. Monster girls were dead. I needed to get strong monster girls in Siwang's dungeon right now. So I snagged Vilkas, Baaghi, Paanee, Esclava, Lana Fulmine, Garnet, Nina Naughty, Alizee, Maya, Terra, Morana, Ms. Trueno, Crystal, and Hagane. All the unique and strong monster girls that were in my dungeon.

I even thought of grabbing Usiku from the embassy at Sharithin, but...

Her job was to guard that spot.

I moved all those monster girls to the border with Siwang's. The tunnel that ended at his dungeon. As far as I could send them.

"Kassie, I need you to get me to Siwang's dungeon," I growled and released the Void Crystal.

"Right!" she gasped as we ran out of the Vault. I had to get to the teleportation hub now.

Chapter Fourteen

Mrs. Zoe Baldwin shuddered in horror as the dragon's black flames splashed down on her force of monster girls. Valuna, Klitorsa, Hipera, and Estellara all vanished, consumed by death. The flames swept to the right and caught three of Siwang's cockatrices.

They screamed only for a moment before vanishing into motes of light.

The dragon landed on grass that grew black and blighted with decay. Perra and Mordera launched themselves at her. The two hellhounds leaped. The red cracks of molten heat that covered their black bodies glowed brighter. The dragoness whirled. She caught Perra by the throat, while her other hand slashed.

Mordera hit the ground and rolled with a scream. Her guts spilled out, disemboweled. Perra thrashed in the dragon's hand. Blood spurted as claws tore into her throat. Perra vanished into motes followed by Mordera a heartbeat later.

The remaining cockatrices all screamed. The air rippled from their sonic attacks. The dragon staggered and whirled as they assaulted her, pelting her with high-pitched screeches. More flames belched from the dragon's mouth and swept over the cockatrices. One managed to jump clear, rolling on the ground and leaving the entrance to Siwang's dungeon unguarded.

The other cockatrices vanished.

"Kill her!" Mrs. Baldwin cried, her roots growing from her toes and surging at the dragon.

* * / *

Siwang swallowed. Only Madara was left. All his other cockatrices had perished. He sat on his skull throne with his three companions. His mother stood beside him, her hand resting on his shoulder. Guang and Lei stood before the throne.

Fear swelled through Siwang. This monstrous force of destruction easily handled his lowly monster girls. He needed more power, but he lived in the shadow of Leo. That was one of the reasons he'd sworn his allegiance.

Protection.

That was why Siwang had moved his dungeon entrance into Astovin. It was supposed to be protected. And now there was a deadly monster, a dragon, heading into his dungeon. A third of his defenders were dead without doing a thing.

Fear flooded his veins. After spending a lifetime wasting away, much of it in bed too weak to leave, he had a new chance. A new body that was strong. He was free of that dying husk that had been his last few years of painful existence.

He wasn't ready to die again.

"Leo, she's killing my monster girls"

he sent.

"I know,"

Leo answered, his voice composed.

"On my way to you. Teleport me to your throne room when I enter your dungeon."

That made sense.

And I can revive my cockatrices. I should be there instead of here.

Feeling stupid, Siwang bolted from his throne and hurried towards his Vault. It was through his living quarters. He had to reach it now before the dragon entered his dungeon. His mother called to him, but he kept running without answering.

* * / *

Mrs. Zoe Baldwin's roots surged at the dragon as the rock elementals rushed in to attack. The tall and busty monster girls, made of gray stone with stria of white and black, swung fists grown into boulders. The dragoness twisted out of the way of Kremie's punch then slashed. She tore the rock elemental's head off.

"You black bitch!" Hraniti snarled at the death of her sister. Her punch slammed into the side of the dragoness's head.

The bitch staggered to the right from the blow. Atri, one of the short and petite goblins, darted in and swung her iron sword. The dragon took the blow on her arm and kicked, claws ripping the goblin open from belly to breast. She flew back and crashed into the entrance of Siwang's dungeon and burst in a blast of motes.

Mrs. Baldwin's roots seized the dragon's feet as black flames erupted from her mouth and engulfed Hraniti as the rock elemental swung a second time. She screamed as the power of that umbral fire stole her life.

The last cockatrice gained her feet and screeched with fury and rage, her face twisted with the loss of her sisters. The attack struck the dragon. She swayed from it, rooted in place by Mrs. Baldwin now. The blows were affecting her.

"Get her!" Mrs. Baldwin cried. "We have her!"

Solodada and Infierna charged up on all fours, the fiery cracks that covered the hellhounds' bodies burning bright. They snarled and jumped on the dragon's back. They bit at her neck. Hope surged in Mrs. Baldwin as the hellhounds savaged her.

The dragon roared and swung her arm. She threw the two hellhounds off her as she breathed again. Her flames engulfed Mrs. Baldwin's roots. She screamed in pain as they withered beneath the decaying flames. The dryad staggered. The dragon swung her mouth and sent the flames into the last cockatrice.

As Siwang's monster girl died, the dragon threw herself at Mrs. Baldwin. The staggering dryad barely got her feet planted beneath her when the dragoness's claws buried into her throat. Mrs. Baldwin gasped at the pain.

The dragon smiled, cruel delight gleaming in her eyes.

She ripped out Mrs. Baldwin's throat. The dryad collapsed into motes. The last thing she heard was the hellhounds roaring in fury.

* * / *

My mother died.

"Fuck," I growled as Solodada and Infierna followed her.

"Leo, she just entered my dungeon,"

Siwang shouted.

"Shit!"

I sent back.

"My monster girls should be in your dungeon already. I sent the best. I'm coming, too."

"Right,"

Siwang answered. He sounded scared.

His first raid. I understood that terror.

I reached the teleportation hub with Kassie and stepped onto the correct circle. She glanced at me then drew in a deep breath.

"Asud Gu!"

We appeared outside of Siwang's dungeon. The monster girls had already entered. Kassie and I darted in after them, hoping to catch up with my group and head towards the fight together. Fear swept through me for my friend.

Siwang was the only other dungeon builder I trusted. The only person that could be my friend. Not one of my lovers. Not my servant. But my friend.

And I was not about to let this dragon kill my friend. I had taken down a dragon before. I could do so again.

I entered Siwang's dungeon. My monster girls had already flooded through it. I hit the maze, though. I stopped. I had been through here once, but that was when his dungeon lay farther to the north. His maze layout was probably different now. And I didn't remember it.

Then a monster girl rushed around the corner. She had golden, glowing skin and white angel wings. A petite monster girl with small tits and sapphire eyes. A choir, one of his Level 1 Light monster girls.

"I'm Litay, Lord Leo," she said, her voice melodic and sing-song. "This way!"

* * / *

Siwang returned to the throne room and his map of the dungeon. The dragon was a terrible, a black dot of an enemy monster girl that moved through his domain. Four of the blue dots, his monster girls, winked out in a moment. Crna, Sjaj, Kandzi, and Rajot, four of Siwang's lemures, died. They numbered among the first monster girls he'd created.

"Leo is coming," Guang said. Made of pure and shining light, she pointed to the map. Her hair spilled on her back like sunlight piercing the clouds. She had blue eyes that stood out from the rest of her. His teacher from when he was a child. She had read to him during recess when the children played outside while he was too sickly to do so. "Believe in him."

She pointed to a green dot and a silver dot. Ever since Siwang had sworn to Leo, the man stopped having a green dot, a guest, and now had a silver dot. A lord, Siwang supposed. Other green dots were in the dungeon, too. Leo's servants.

Litay's blue dot reached Leo to guide him.

"We'll see if we can trust him," Siwang's mother said. She came up beside Siwang, a tall and busty woman with black skin, white hair and long needle fingers. A trail of mist followed her. She often didn't feel real and could even pass through walls. Siwang took comfort from his wraith.

"He has given us no cause for this doubt, Madam Xiongbu!" boomed Lei, his cyclops. She was a busty, one-eyed woman with bronze skin and blonde hair. Right now, she had clad herself in silver armor that made her look like the warrior woman from that Conan movie. She held a matching hammer in her hand that would boom like a thunderclap when she hit something. She had been his neighbor who always smiled at him when others looked away from his sickly flesh.

Siwang nodded. But he had to ready himself. If she made it to the throne room, he would have to fight and survive. He didn't have much defense, but he had something he could do. He drew in a deep breath and spoke the words to Endure pain.

"Pain retreats, let the chill of Lady Ereshkigal sustain!"

Any pain he took would not touch him. He could fight even with a badly broken body. A danger.

"Use Disguise to hide yourself," his mother insisted.

As she spoke, Belo and Senka died. The last of his lemures. Then Anhel, Neba, and Pisnya rushed at the black dot and vanished. Three of his choirs left. He watched the map as the last three of his blue dots moving to attack rushed at the black dot. Svitinnya winked out. Then Kryla. Lastly, Pera died.

Siwang's stomach tightened. His only monster girl left alive was Litay guiding Leo who had caught up with his forces.

But they were behind the dragoness as she rushed through his dungeon, ripping through traps with ease. She was getting here too fast. He had moved his throne and vault beneath Astovin from where it originally lay in the hills to the north. A lone tunnel thrust off in that direction to keep the one Mana Vein he possessed in his dungeon.

She rushed through the last trap room. A death room designed to sap the life from adventurers and leave them withered. Then four green dots caught up with her and attacked her. Hope surged in Siwang for a moment. They were Leo's monster girls but not with his big group.

They died just as fast as his did.

With that last obstacle out of the way, she ripped through the exit of the trap room and ran down a hallway. Siwang lifted his eyes to the metal doors that led into his throne room.

BOOM!

She had arrived.