My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

After the attack began, I brought up a screen that showed the entrance to our dungeon. I could see enemies flowing in. They were all women. The leaders appeared to be mostly other animalkin warriors. The lionesses weren’t leading on this. If I had to guess, they were sending in the lower-ranked girls first. There were five groups of five women, making twenty-five in all. This could be called a scouting party, although you could also call it a sacrifice. I was still surprised to see that true to his word, all of those sent were essentially harem.

Elaya had warned me that it was better off if I continued to play fair. His pride would keep King Roth from cheating. It was the same reason he had given us a week to prepare instead of a surprise attack, didn’t punish Celeste when she attacked him, and why he had agreed to the dungeon battle even though he could have won the war. He didn’t just want victory by any means. He wanted to be seen as the best and the greatest.

Therefore, all of the mobs I had created were women. Tamed monsters in the form of women were close enough to a harem that they got a pass. If King Roth had a problem with that, the fact he outnumbered my girls a hundred to one would just be bullying.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

With the dungeons connected, I could feel King Roth’s dungeon. I didn’t know exactly how large it was or anything like that, but there was pressure, and I could feel that his dungeon was likely larger than my own by a great deal. Once again, had this been a normal dungeon battle, I wasn’t confident we’d have a chance. However, he was going to play fair, and I intended to do so until the moment we’d turn everything around.

“Celeste… go,” I ordered.

“On it!” Celeste shrank down to her small fairy size, and then disappeared in a flash, moving as quickly as she could.

“Shao, pick off girls one at a time. Don’t take risks. Only when someone is vulnerable.”

“Yes, Master!” Shao melted into the shadows.

“Everything is going according to plan,” Elaya announced. “They’ll be encountering the bandit surprise attack first.”

Every level was themed off of previous dungeons I had defeated. Every blessing attached to me was a lore, and that lore could be used to recreate aspects of defeated dungeons. For the first level, I had used the Bandit’s Respite. It was an open green space, and there were bandits everywhere. Of course, the bandits happened to all be female.

The stairway down was smack dab in the middle of their fort. That meant that for these girls to continue to the second story, they’d need to fight their way through a barricaded wall covered with archers, all while avoid bandit sneak attacks in the forest. For me with my Map, Portal, and Sense Life, this wouldn’t have been difficult, but for the first dungeon of anyone else’s dungeon, this would be outright cheating!

We had to buy as much time as we could.